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Secretary cites U.S. leadership for keeping Ukraine sovereign, urges durable deterrence in any ceasefire
Summary
The secretary said U.S. leadership helped rally about 50 countries to assist Ukraine, credited sanctions and export controls for constraining Russia, and warned that any ceasefire must include effective deterrence to prevent renewed Russian attack.
The secretary said U.S. leadership helped assemble and hold together an international coalition of roughly 50 countries to help Ukraine defend itself from Russia’s invasion and that those efforts helped Ukraine retake territory it had lost.
He said the United States and partners imposed ‘‘the most ambitious sanctions and export controls ever on Russia’’ and that those measures, together with battlefield losses, have imposed severe costs on Moscow. The secretary described steps that cut Europe’s reliance on Russian energy and said recent…
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