Linda Thomas-Greenfield: “Every day Russians should be asking themselves right now, how many Russian lives Putin will sacrifice for his cynical…”

We certainly should look at what he`s doing in the same way. We saw the beginnings of what Hitler was doing. He has built a strategy around destroying a country, destroying a people, human rights violations have been committed, sexual…

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.

We have used the Security Council, we have used the General Assembly to isolate Russia, to condemn Russia, to kick Russia off of the Human Rights Council.

We are stronger than we ever were before in terms of the European Union, NATO. All of this was not part of Putin`s plan. I think he thought that we would start to fray around the edges very, very quickly.