Linda Thomas-Greenfield: “It means that President Putin is continuing to escalate this war in a manner that is totally unacceptable.”

We are prepared to have an open dialogue with the North Koreans without preconditions. We want to pursue diplomacy.

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.

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

Hunger is caused, often intentionally, by conflict.