Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Wednesday that Russia’s rocket attacks against civilian targets in Ukraine reveal “the malice and cruelty of Putin’s war.”
At least 26 people have been killed in the bombardment that targeted civilian centers and utility stations."Russia's latest assaults have only deepened the determination of the Ukrainian people, and further united countries of goodwill from every region on Earth," Austin told officials.“And that’s exactly what we are doing. Because our support for Ukraine’s right to defend itself doesn’t hinge on the outcome of any particular battle.
Austin’s raw language describing Putin’s “malice” comes in stark contrast to President Biden, who described Putin in a CNN interview Tuesday night as ““The whole world has just seen yet again the malice and cruelty of Putin’s war of choice,” Austin,” said during a NATO meeting.Later in the interview with Jake Tapper, however, the president said Putin was “irrational” in believing that he needed to unite all Russian speakers by attacking his western neighbor.
“So if he’s not rational,” Tapper began to say before Biden cut him off: “I didn’t say he’s not rational.” “I think the speech, his objectives were not rational,” the president said. “I think he thought, Jake, I think he thought he was going to be welcomed with open arms, that this was the home of Mother Russia in Kyiv, and that where he was going to be welcomed, and I think he just totally miscalculated.”
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