Linda Thomas-Greenfield: “Their success depends on our continued withdrawal. That will not happen on my watch.”

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.

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 country.

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.

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.