I think we need to ask ourselves, as the international community, how do we help the Ukraine, how do we support Ukraine, how do we save Ukraine without expanding the war in ways that nobody wants to see?
Marie Yovanovitch: “I think we need to ask ourselves, as the international community, how do we help the Ukraine, how do we support Ukraine…”
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Yovanovitch discusses the need for international support for Ukraine while avoiding escalation of the conflict.
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