Marie Yovanovitch confessed Tuesday that even she’d been surprised by Russia’s all-out battle on Ukraine.
“Truthfully, I by no means imagined such a wholescale invasion,” the previous U.S. ambassador to Ukraine advised MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell.
“I assumed that preserving a low-level battle going within the east, destabilizing Ukraine in that means with cyberattacks, assassinations, disinformation, financial warfare; I assumed that was adequate for Russia to appreciate its goals of making an attempt to destabilize Ukraine and thwart Ukraine’s needs to hitch NATO and the EU,” she defined.
“This can be a wholesale invasion of Ukraine,” continued Yovanovitch, who served as ambassador from 2016 to 2019 when she was recalled amid a smear marketing campaign from Donald Trump allies through the former president’s first impeachment for Ukraine misconduct.
“It’s a brutal battle of aggression,” she added. “And I’ve to say, despite the fact that we all know what (Russian President Vladimir) Putin is able to, given his previous actions, I by no means anticipated to see this in Ukraine.”
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