The American diplomat assured that the Russian army is destroying vital infrastructure for Ukraine and that Russian President Vladimir Putin seems ready to intensify the invasion.
“President Putin continues to escalate, putting Russia’s nuclear forces on high alert, threatening to invade Finland and Sweden. Every step of the way, Russia has betrayed the United Nations. Russia’s actions go against everything that this body represents. he said she.
In her remarks, Thomas-Greenfield also praised Russian citizens protesting against the war and urged Russian soldiers to lay down their arms, blaming the war solely on Putin.
“The truth is that this war was the choice of one man and one man only: President Putin. It was his choice to force hundreds of thousands of people to put their lives in backpacks and flee the country. (…) Those were the elections of President Putin. Now is the time to do ours,” he assured.