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Few diplomats have so clearly embodied the ideals for which our country stands, or done more to project them around the world.

But we also said at the same time that we would make sure that we, and the Ukrainians, and the world, were prepared if Russia went through this aggression; and we have been.

That is Ukraine's goal, and as a result that that is our goal as well.

We support and welcome the fact that the ICC has opened an investigation.

This is, as Chairman Leahy said, a very, very dramatic problem that already existed of course, and has been exacerbated by Russia's aggression, by the invasion.

President Putin's war of choice has achieved the exact opposite of his objectives.

I think a number of factors came into play. I think he saw Ukraine moving inexorably to the west, to Europe, and he saw nothing that was going to interrupt that process.

Always championing the vital importance of investing in diplomacy and development, always insisting that human rights be at the heart of our foreign policy.

I do not. Senator I think he looks at these things on their own terms when----

He has already failed, because those objectives were to eliminate Ukraine as an independent and sovereign country, to subsume it back, in some fashion into Russia, we know already, as a result of the extraordinary courage of the…

I am talking about the circumstances that we all face in regard to the invasion, the evil invasion of Ukraine.

We are back on the Human Rights Council we were able to actually lead in the creation of this Commission of Inquiry for Ukraine.

Moscow's brutal war of aggression against Ukraine has brought into sharp focus the power and purpose of American diplomacy.

We are deeply grateful to our allies and partners who helped in this effort to bring him home.

Ukraine can win this war if they have the right support, and we want to give them the right support.

I think it has more to do with the psychology of Putin, and Russia. And he needs to assure his own people, Parliamentarians, he was talking to, and for that matter, himself, that Russia is still a great power.

The frequency with which they are occurring, tells me that they're kind of in - they realize they're kind of in a jam.

I think this reflects Russian insecurity. And it's almost like, Putin needs a rhetorical security blanket, of making threats, like this.