Linda Thomas-Greenfield: “Its statements, its meetings, its calls, have helped reinforce that message to the South Sudanese leaders that it is…”

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.

It means that President Putin is continuing to escalate this war in a manner that is totally unacceptable.

I can tell you that the Russians were making every effort to intimidate and press those countries away from supporting this General Assembly resolution.

But 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.