Necessity, to defend its democracy, its sovereignty, and its citizens. but the stakes are reach beyond ukraine, and even beyond europe. russia s invasion is baseless, reckless, and lawless. it is an affront to the rules based international order, it is a challenge to free people everywhere. as we see this morning, nations of good world will from around the world stand united in our resolve to support ukraine. my trip to kyiv, rainforest my admiration for the way that the ukrainian armed forces are deploying these capabilities. ukraine clearly believes that it can win, and so does everyone here. ukraine clearly believes they can win, so does everyone here. that was defense secretary lloyd austin, speaking today in
Europe. russia s invasion is baseless, reckless, and lawless. it is an affront to the rules based international order, it is a challenge to free people everywhere. as we see this morning, nations of good world will from around the world stand united in our resolve to support ukraine. my trip to kyiv, rainforest my admiration for the way that the ukrainian armed forces are deploying these capabilities. ukraine clearly believes that it can win, and so does everyone here. ukraine clearly believes they can win, so does everyone here. that was defense secretary lloyd austin, speaking today in germany, i think the most important thing about what he said there, is that when he said so does everyone here, the everyone that he is talking about is a really big everyone.
Of dozens, literally dozens of countries from all around the world in support of ukraine. we all start today from a position of moral clarity. russia is waging a war of choice to indulge the ambitions of one man. ukraine is fighting a war of necessity to defend its democracy, its sovereignty and its citizens. but the stakes reach beyond ukraine and even beyond europe. russia s invasion is baseless, reckless and lawless. it is an affront to the rules based international order. it is a challenge to free people everywhere. and as we see this morning, nations of goodwill from around the world stand united in our resolve to support ukraine. my trip to kyiv re-enforced my
Democracy, its sovereignty and its citizens. but the stakes reach beyond ukraine and even beyond europe. russia s invasion is baseless, reckless and lawless. it is an affront to the rules based international order, it is a challenge to free people everywhere. and as we see this morning, nations of good will from around the world stand united in our resolve to support ukraine in its fight against russia s imperial aggression. and that is the way it should be. this gathering reflects the galvanized world. since russia s invasion on february 24th, more than 30 of our allies and partners from across the globe have joined the united states to rush security assistance to ukraine. and together we have committed h more than $5 billion of equipment to support ukraine s self-defense and that includes
The power and the purpose of american diplomacy. any second now we could hear from secretary of defense lloyd austin in germany. he s been hosting a meeting of nato defense officials. he wants russia weakened, his overarching message, ukraine can win with the right support. nations of good will from around the world stand united in our resolve to support ukraine in its fight against russia s imperial aggression. we re going to keep moving heaven and earth heaven and earth. hanging over all of this russia s foreign minister warns the threat of nuclear war, quote, should not be underestimated. also developing, democratic senator joe manchin of west virginia who chairs the senate energy committee just organized a climate meeting with progressives and moderates. ahead i ll talk to actor and environmental advocate mark