Putin last seen yawning.

Via Washington Examiner:

President Obama gave Russian President Vladimir Putin a May 25 deadline for suspending efforts to destabilize eastern Ukraine, lest the United States and the European Union impose broad economic sanctions on the Russians.

“The next step is going to be a broader-based sectoral sanctions regime,” Obama told reporters during a joint news conference withGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday. “If, in fact, we see the disruptions and the destabilizations continuing so severely that it impedes elections on May 25, we will not have a choice but to move forward with additional, more severe sanctions.” […]

“The goal is not to punish Russia, the goal is to give them an incentive to choose the better course, and that is to resolve these issues diplomatically,” Obama said.