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U.S. pledges to put Russia on defensive at UN Security Council
By Jim Heintz and and the other council
Ellen Knickmeyer members on ABC’s “This
Associated Press Week.” ”We’re going into
(AP) — The U.S. worked Sun- the room prepared to lis-
day to ramp up diplomatic ten to them, but we’re not
and financial pressure on going to be distracted by
Russia over Ukraine, promis- their propaganda.”
ing to put Moscow on the Ukraine’s ambassador to
defensive at the U.N. Se- the U.S., Oksana Markaro-
curity Council as lawmak- va, warned that Russian
ers on Capitol Hill said they President Vladimir Putin is
were nearing agreement bent on waging an “at-
on “the mother of all sanc- tack on democracy,” not
tions.” just on a single country. It’s
The American ambassa- a case that some senior
dor to the United Nations foreign policy figures have
said the Security Council urged President Joe Biden
will press Russia hard in a to make, including at the
Monday session to discuss Security Council.
its massing of troops near “If Ukraine will be further
Ukraine and fears it is plan- attacked by Russia, of
ning an invasion. course they will not stop in
“Our voices are unified in Ukraine,” Markarova said
calling for the Russians to on CBS’s “Face the Na-
explain themselves,” Am- tion.” U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield speaks to reporters during a
bassador Linda Thomas- news conference at United Nations headquarters on March 1, 2021.
Greenfield said of the U.S. Continued on Page 2 (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)