Eric Schmitt actually said...

"Most average Russians are still on the side of President Putin right now."

"It can be very hard pill to swallow I think for the rest of the world to be lifting sanctions at a time when Putin is basically destroying this country before our own eyes."

"This very brutal campaign that he thought was going to go very quickly. Instead, it has been bogged down."

"The cruelty can bring even more resistance, and resistance any form of compromise at all."