Analyst John S Kavulich says US promises to Ukraine often sound positive but are followed by the harsh reality of Russian attacks.
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00:00Well, I guess the most visible way or visual way to mention that is that my last stop in Ukraine was in Sumy, which, as you know, recently, you know, just got hammered by the armed forces, the Russian Federation.
00:15And when you're there and when you're on the ground and you see the destruction and I was there in Kharkiv on the 24th of February 2022 when the war started and going back continually and at the same time into the Russian Federation, into Kursk this time.
00:36And I was in Belgorod. So and they've been the targets of the Ukrainian armed forces.
00:41So it you know, it's it it's incredibly stressful for the Ukrainian people because, you know, they're just looking at this now for years.
00:56And, you know, where where is it? Where is it ending?
01:01And every time they hear, particularly where there was the Biden-Harris administration, now the Trump-Vance administration, that they're making progress or they'll hear statements by officials that we've had good meetings.
01:13And then their meetings take place in Istanbul, the bilateral meetings with Russians and Americans or the Ukraine, U.S. meetings in Saudi Arabia.
01:24And so there's this positiveness. And then these missiles strike and these people get killed.