He accused Russia of unwillingness to negotiate.
“Our Ukrainian partners do not need any pressure in order to motivate them to end the war,” RIA Novosti quotes Price as saying at a briefing.
According to him, no one wants the end of hostilities more than the Ukrainian people.
The diplomat added that the United States and its Ukrainian partners do not pursue the goal of “regime change” in Russia.
Earlier, the office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Kyiv “did not refuse negotiations” with Moscow.
At the same time, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that he did not want to conduct a dialogue with the Russian authorities regarding the settlement of the situation in Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin noted that Kyiv refused to negotiate, but Moscow would be open to dialogue if the Ukrainian regime "matured".