Linda Thomas-Greenfield: “Russia has repeatedly, repeatedly accused other countries of the very violations it plans to perpetrate.”

We absolutely support Israel's right to defend itself from this brutal attack on its own territory that we all witnessed at over the weekend.

Ukraine is not theirs to take. It’s not theirs to have elections in. They have attacked a sovereign, independent country.

They have been isolated in the international community. And this is a desperate action by a country that does not have confidence in itself.

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.