Victoria Nuland

From the U.S. perspective, the end game is the strategic defeat of President Putin in this adventure.

I worry that they will become more brutal as they become more desperate that their vicious military campaign is slowing.

There is zero pivot in our Venezuela strategy, Senator.

The way this conflict will end is when Putin realizes that this adventure has put his own leadership standing at risk.

The last thing we need on top of Putin's bloody war is a nuclear-armed Iran.

We are not done with sanctions if he is not done with this war, and we will continue to escalate.

It is clear that Russia will lose this conflict. Whether they lose it quickly or whether they lose it extremely slowly, it is only--it is a matter of time.

we have been counseling Europe for almost a decade now to reduce its dependence on Russian energy.

Our support for Ukraine's sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity is unwavering, and we have not and will not push Ukraine to make concessions that could compromise these fundamental principles.

This is a moment of testing, and I believe that both autocrats around the world and our friends around the world will watch extremely carefully what we do...

As Lukashenko becomes more and more dependent on the Kremlin and gives up more and more of Belarus' sovereignty, something that he told his people he would never do, that Russia could actually use Belarusian territory to march on Ukraine.

I think the sanctions that we imposed in a steadily increasing fashion in 2014 and in 2015...did have the effect of stopping the Russian forces and President Putin from going further.