U.S. Envoy To OSCE: "Ukraine Will Win This War, And Russia Will Ultimately Lose"

The U.S. ambassador to the OSCE on Tuesday condemned Russia’s latest crimes in Ukraine, including the targeting of critical infrastructure, causing pain by cutting out the lights, heating, and electricity, and as he put it, "making this winter a miserable winter for Ukrainians,"  TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.

"That appears to be the strategy that General [Sergey] Surovikin is leading right now, but it will fail," Ambassador Michael Carpenter said during a special online briefing organized by the State Department's Brussels Media Hub.

"I predict that Ukraine will win this war and that Russia will ultimately lose because it is clear that what is right is on the side of Ukraine and what is in violation of our fundamental principles of international law is on the side of Russia," he said.

"And so I think that the world has rallied around Ukraine and therefore Ukraine has both the determination, the will, but also the moral high ground to prevail in this conflict," Carpenter added.

Asked by TURAN's Washington correspondent whether Washington was ready to call out Russia's genocide in Ukraine by name, Carpenter said they "do that pretty effectively every week" at the OSCE permanent council.

"If you go back and look at my statements, you will see that I do not spare any words when describing Russian atrocities inside Ukraine. We do believe it’s very important to speak the truth, to bear witness to what is happening now, which is something that hasn’t happened really on this scale since World War II."

He went on to add, "We have seen of course there was the tragedies that unfolded in the former Yugoslavia in the ’90s and there have been – there was genocide in Rwanda and there have been other atrocities, mass atrocities, committed in various parts of the world. But to see a military conflict this big involving this many troops with a nuclear power involved is rather unprecedented... I think President Biden spoke to the question of genocide when he was asked about it, and I completely agree with the President on this and have said so numerous times in public and happy to say it again today."

Alex Raufoglu

Washington D.C.