U.S. Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski on Friday called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “thug” on a “killing spree,” who is committing “mass homicide” in Ukraine in order to further a decades-long goal of expanding Russian influence and power.
in Poland that has seen over 1.5 million Ukrainians pour into that country. What follows is an edited transcript of Brzezinski’s Zoom interview from Warsaw with “Skullduggery” co-hosts Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman and Victoria Bassetti.As you know, the Ukrainians and President Zelensky have been pleading for more security assistance. And one proposal that was on the table just five days ago was for the Poles to send MiG fighter jets to the Ukrainians to resist the Russian invasion.
You mentioned my service on the National Security Council, Michael, in the late 1990s, and also when I was there, President Putin emerged out of nowhere, [he] came in from St. Petersburg, a former KGB agent, to replace Boris Yeltsin. My fear is something of a pacification program that [Putin] might pursue in Ukraine. We’ll see what happens. But this is a guy, tragically, who we know.
And this is the story that I want to convey: It’s a story about young people in Poland organizing, primarily on social media, and saying, Let’s go to the border. Let’s go to the border and help people we do not know. Let’s bring them into our apartments. Let’s get them food. Let’s get their kids into schools. That is happening thousands upon thousands of times.
How can the United States help? What are we specifically going to do to try to ease the burden on Poland?Vice President Kamala Harris was in Poland to reassure and to bear witness, to hear stories from Ukrainian refugees, to consult with the Polish government on what it is that we can do together on the humanitarian piece. And during her visit, [she] deployed $53 million in humanitarian assistance through USAID. ... At the same time, it’s the early days of this crisis.
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