Linda Thomas-Greenfield: “If confirmed, restoring U.S. principled leadership, promoting active engagement and valuing partnerships will be among…”

We have held the doors open for meaningful diplomacy and we remain open to dialogue, real productive dialogue without preconditions.

Putin wants the world to travel back in time to a time before the United Nations, to a time when empires rule the world. But the rest of the world has moved forward. It is not 1919. It is 2022.

It’s very difficult to take any of the five permanent members with veto rights over anything that goes on in the Security Council, it’s hard to get them off.

So, now, let me be clear, the United States will never recognize any territory Russia attempts to seize or allegedly annex, as anything other than parts of Ukraine. We reject Russia's actions unequivocally.