Speaking at the State Department one week after foreign ministers from Russia, Ukraine, the U.S. and European Union penned an agreement designed to de-escalate the crisis there, Kerry accused the Kremlin of “a full-throated effort to actively sabotage the democratic effort” in Ukraine. “Russia has put its faith in distraction, deception, and destabilization,” Kerry said. “For seven days Russia has refused to take a single concrete step in the right direction.”