Blinken: There will be independent Ukraine 'a lot longer' than there will be a Putin
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives for an extraordinary EU foreign ministers meeting at the European Council building in Brussels, Friday, March 4, 2022. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets Friday with his counterparts from NATO and the European Union, as Russia's war on Ukraine entered its ninth day marked by the seizure of the strategic port city of Kherson and the shelling of Europe's largest nuclear power plant. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

Blinken: There will be independent Ukraine 'a lot longer' than there will be a Putin


“One way or the other, Ukraine will be there and at some point Putin won’t,” Blinken told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on “The Situation Room.”

His comments come as new satellite images show widespread destruction across Ukraine, including damaged houses in a village near Kyiv and smoldering homes in the besieged city of Mariupol, where more than 2,500 civilians have died, Ukrainian officials estimate.

The top US diplomat said Tuesday that the US is trying to prevent as much death and destruction as possible.

“The real question is how much death and destruction is wrought by Russia’s aggression in the…

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