Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman warned Sunday night the Russian invasion of Ukraine “looks like it ends very badly for Ukrainian people,” during an interview on “Fox News Sunday.”
“Right now it looks like it ends very badly already for Ukrainian people. I think we all spend every day just horrified by the suffering…” Sherman said. “As your reporter on the ground discussed, it is just awful, particularly in Mariupol where people are either going to starve to death or freeze to death or die because they don’t have their medicine. It is truly horrifying.”
Sherman said President Joe Biden’s administration has put $1.2 billion in security assistance to help Ukraine defend itself. She also said the U.S. needs to put “enormous pressure” on Russian President Vladimir Putin to persuade him to stop his aggression in Eastern Europe.
“That pressure is beginning to have some effect. We are seeing some signs of a willingness to have real serious negotiations, but I have to say, as your reporter said, so far it appears that Vladimir Putin is intent on destroying Ukraine. We need to help Ukrainians in every way we can.”
Ukrainian officials announced Sunday that a Russian airstrike hit a military base approximately 20 miles from the Polish border, killing at least 35 and injuring 135 people. The base is west of the city Lviv, which has been a crucial location for supplying weapons to the Ukrainian people.
Russia has launched airstrikes in the western Ukrainian cities Lutsk and Ivano-Frankivsk. The forces’ continued aggression has led to at least 579 civilian fatalities, including 42 children, though the United Nations Human Rights office reported Saturday the actual figures are much higher.
