Linda Thomas-Greenfield: “What you have just described is absolutely sickening and horrible.”

They will hear from the president of the United States at the podium of the General Assembly tomorrow a rebuke of their unprovoked actions against Ukraine.

We`re not going to let Russia get away with lying to the world or staining the integrity of the Security Council by using this forum as a venue for legitimizing Putin`s violence.

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.