Yesterday, everyone heard the signals from Russia’s leader. Putin put on a performance, particularly for the United States too. He wants all of Ukraine, and had wanted it not just for four years, not since 2014, but long before that.
When Putin speaks about Ukraine, and something else about Russian soldiers’ boots on the ground, he’s also speaking about Belarus, the Baltic states, Moldova, the Caucasus, countries like Kazakhstan, and every place on Earth that Russian killers can reach.
Russian forces burn cities and villages to the ground, leaving only ruins. Anyone can see what Putin has deliberately done to Donbas. It has been essentially destroyed. In Moscow, they once claimed they’d bring protection to Donbas. What they actually brought was death, and this is the only thing they know how to deliver.
We are grateful to everyone advancing diplomacy. But it is Russia that rejects peace proposals — American, Chinese, European, Brazilian, African, Indian. It is Putin who speaks openly to the world about which cities he threatens and which nations he claims don’t exist.
We hope President Trump hears this and sees how Putin is now trying to prolong even the Iranian regime’s survival just to buy more time for his own madness and the murder of thousands. A response is clearly needed.
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