EXCERPT:
SULLIVAN: "Well, first, no appointment of any general can erase the fact that Russia has already faced a strategic failure in Ukraine. They thought that they were going to be able to conquer the capital city and take other major cities with little resistance, that they'd, in fact, be welcomed with open arms. And what we have learned in the first several weeks of this war is that Ukraine will never be subjugated to Russia. It doesn't matter which general President Putin tries to appoint. But, as you noted, this particular general has a resume that includes a brutality against civilians in other theaters, in Syria, and we can expect more of the same in this theater. But it's not something that we need to anticipate looking forward. As you have noted, we have already seen it, and we can expect more of it. This general will just be another author of crimes and brutality against Ukrainian civilians. And the United States, as I said before, is determined to do all that we can to support the Ukrainians as they resist him and they resist the forces that he commands."