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Antony Blinken, US Secretary of State, participated in the Munich Security Conference, where he was convinced that Ukraine will win the war.
He United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken said this Saturday at the Munich Security Conference that the US estimates that 200,000 Russians have been killed or injured as a result of the invasion ordered by Vladimir Putin almost a year ago. In addition, the diplomat was convinced that Ukraine will win the war.
Blinken added that “we have over a million Russians who have left their country because they don’t want to be a part of this war and they also don’t share the direction the country has taken.”
Likewise, more than a thousand companies stopped doing business with Russia for fear of seeing their reputations damaged, according to the representative of the Joe Biden government.
“Look at what has happened, what Putin has done to his own country,” added Blinken, who also expressed his conviction that Ukraine will win the war.
“We have no doubt that Ukraine will win the war, Ukrainians are fighting for their country and their future. Not the Russians, ”she said in the framework of a round table that he shared with the German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and her Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba.
Also, Blinken said that the day will come when Russian leader Vladimir Putin will have to answer for what he has done.
“There has to be a day when Putin is called upon to respond. Putin has led to everything he wanted to avoid. Ukraine is united, before February 24 there was a positive attitude towards Russia in Ukraine, now they hate Russians…. there is support for joining NATO,” he said.
The head of US diplomacy stressed the importance of the Russian invasion failing, otherwise it might be a stimulus for other aggressors or also for other Russian aggression plans.
“If not, others will believe that since the Russians succeeded, they too can try. And we have to discourage the Russians from trying it elsewhere,” he explained.
