i commend immense efforts of u.s. diplomacy led by tony to mobilize the global coalition of allies and partners to stop russia. the entire word stands today with ukraine and rightly so. putin wants much more than war torn piece of ukrainian land and people leaving there. what stops him is only our unity and resolve. and we can still stop him. ukraine continues the engagement with the united states, eu and nato with diplomatic attempts to ease efforts and yet we also stand ready for any possible development. we had a focused discussion today with secretary blinken on steps to protect ukraine and our multi-dimensional resilience. one of the proposals that we put
a if russian troops will move forward or start intense artillery fire hitting ukraine, on your understanding what will happen next and what will america do? thank you. with regard to the normandy format, i think the question is best directed at president putin. as far as we can see by the actions he s taken, he s rejected it and he torn up in effect the minsk agreements, which the normandy format was designed to advance. so if russia is at all serious about resolving the conflict that it created in the donbas pursuant to the agreements it signed, the minsk agreements, it s of course showing exactly the opposite. so the question is really for president putin. we supported the normandy format
the complete abdication of russia s commitments under the minsk agreements is just the latest demonstration of russia s hypocrisy. since the beginning of this russian manufactured crisis, moscow has insisted that only legally binding agreements could satisfy its security concerns but the minsk agreements now join a long line, many legally binding, that president putin has broken. these include the hensinki final act in which countries including russia pledged to respect integrity. the charter of paris, which further established countries responsibilities to honor those pledges. the conventional armed forces in europe treaty which limits the deployment of military equipment in europe. the vienna document in which countries agreed to security
complimentary actions. president putin s deeply disturbing speech yesterday and his statements today made clear to the world how he views ukraine. not as a sovereign nation with a right to integrity and independence, but rather as a creation of russia and therefore, subordinate to russia. it s a completely false assertion that ignores history, international law, and the tens of millions of patriotic ukrainians who are proud citizens of a free and independent ukraine. now that we ve heard it directly from putin himself, it confirms what we ve been saying that he did not send more than 150,000 troops to the ukrainian border because of benign military exercises or to respond to threatened aggression from ukraine or to stop a fabricated genocide by ukraine or any other manufactured reason. his plan all along has been to invade ukraine, to control ukraine and its people, to
all along with france, germany, ukraine and russia working to implement the agreements. and throughout ukraine has worked very hard to make good on its commitments. russia s done just the opposite. but what we ve seen now in the last 24 hours would seem to be the final repudiation of minsk by russia. but again, you would have to ask president putin. with regard to what comes next, as i said a moment ago, and as we ve said all along, if russia pursues its aggression against ukraine, it will face the massive consequences that not only the united states but virtually all of our allies and partners have made clear would follow. you ve heard this from the g-7, the leading democratic economies of the world, you ve heard it from the european union and you ve heard it from nato. and that includes what we ve