Samantha Power: “In Ukraine, for example, USAID has helped farmers withstand Putin's attempts to destroy the agricultural sector.”

For the first time in decades, human life expectancy is on the decline-- while extreme poverty is on the rise.

Fundamentally, there has to be a political agreement. We are not going to humanitarian aid our way out of this humanitarian crisis.

I think we are, you know, spending somewhere around $250 million in, I think, we have 80,000 females that we have brought into mediation roles, peace building roles, you know, through that programming.

We cannot abandon freedom, and we cannot leave Ukraine to be the victim of aggression at a time like this.