Former Vice President Mike Pence said he welcomes President Donald Trump’s decision to resume military aid to Ukraine this week, adding that he hopes Trump now recognizes that Russian President Vladimir Putin “doesn’t want peace.”

Pence made the comments in an interview with CNN on Thursday.

“While I had concerns and expressed them in those first 100 days about the president’s kind of ongoing hope and desire for a negotiated settlement, I welcome his decisions this week and his rhetoric,” Pence said.

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