Linda Thomas-Greenfield actually said...

"They have been isolated in the international community. And this is a desperate action by a country that does not have confidence in itself."

"This is part of their playbook. They have done this before. They did it in 2014, and it was not accepted."

"What they hope to hear and I think they will hear from President Biden is a reaffirmation of our commitments to the United Nations, our commitment to the U.N. Charter."

"The truth is that this war was one man`s choice, and one man alone -- President Putin. It was his choice to force hundreds of thousands of people to stuff their lives into backpacks and flee the count..."