Ned Price: “We want to see accountability for the violence that has been inflicted on these Americans.”

We have made very clear to Moscow in no uncertain terms from the State Department, from the Defense Department, in military channels as well, that this is unacceptable, and it's dangerous.

If we don't stand up, to what the Russians are trying, to do, in Ukraine, we will undermine that international system, that international order.

President Biden likes to say that big nations don’t bluff. President Putin now knows that the United States wasn’t bluffing.

We have communicated very clearly to Beijing, that we won`t stand by if -- we will not allow any country to compensate Russia for its losses.