It's Russia that attacked us. It's Russia that illegally occupied Crimea and other territories since 2022.
Oksana Markarova
The Public Record
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the United States
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August 10, 2025
The front line in the east and south of Ukraine is the front line between evil and good.
— Oksana Markarova
Well, that's something that all Ukraine prays for President Trump to be effective and to have great results.
We want Putin to stop. And we really are hopeful that this push from President Trump and the sanction packages... will convince President Putin that this is time for him to finally stop his aggression.
He is a threat, not only to Ukraine, but also to anyone who believes that nations should live peacefully.
We are defending freedom in Ukraine. We are not the ones who started this war.
Putin is a threat, not only to Ukraine, but also to anyone who believes that nations should live peacefully.
When you run out of ammunition, even the best soldiers cannot defend the country without the ammunition.
By providing the so much needed assistance to us, America is not funding the war. It's actually funding our defense and efforts, which will lead us to peace because its very clear Ukraine was always peaceful.
Iran, together with North Korea, already for this axis of evil, of not only attacking and killing Ukrainians, but also we see that this technologies are then used against Israel and against anyone else. So we have to stop all of them.
We have heard so many lies by this war criminals and they do not deserve to be called anything else.