Ukraine ‘was and will continue to be a free and independent country’ the secretary of state tells US senators
Ukraine “was and will continue to be a free and independent country”has told US senators, reflecting on his weekend trip to the country with the defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, which he says “left an indelible impression.”
It’s also impossible not to believe that they will keep succeeding because they know why they fight. I have to tell you, I felt some pride in what the United States has done to support the Ukrainian government and its people and an even firmer conviction that we must not let up. As we took the train across the border, and rode westward into Ukraine, we saw mile after mile of Ukrainian countryside, territory that just a couple of months ago the Russian government thought that it could seize in a matter of weeks, today firmly Ukraine’s.
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