Linda Thomas-Greenfield: “President Trump echoed a call he made in his 2018 State of the Union to only provide foreign assistance to 'our…”

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.

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.

We plan to have solid support for it. And then we will move it to the General Assembly if we have to, as we did in the past.

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