Everything we`ve seen is that Putin is not yet on a path to an off ramp and that he will double down. And the Ukrainian people are the ones that are going to pay the price. But so are the Russian people. And I think that`s important to remember.
Marie Yovanovitch: “Everything we`ve seen is that Putin is not yet on a path to an off ramp and that he will double down. And the Ukrainian…”
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Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch discusses the consequences of Putin's actions on both Ukrainian and Russian people.
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I think this is absolutely essential for all government agencies, because we are the continuity of government and we need to be able to serve every president that`s elected in a nonpartisan way.
American leadership and, frankly, American values, democratic values, indeed democratic values, when we choose to support Ukraine in this really important war of, frankly, liberty versus tyranny.
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?
Honestly, I never imagined such a whole scale invasion. When I was ambassador in Ukraine, I thought that keeping a low level war going in the east destabilizing Ukraine in that way with cyberattacks, assassinations, disinformation…