U.S. Defense Secretary: "Putin can end this war today."
Putin has occupied illegally occupied sovereign Ukrainian territory. He is not in any position to dictate to Ukraine what they must do to to bring about peace. I think you know it. That's exactly the kind of behavior that we don't want to see, we don't want to see. A leader of one country wake up one day and decide that he wants to erase borders and annex the territory of his neighbor. That's not the world that any of us want to live in. And so I think, I think, you know, he is not, in the, in my view, not in a position to dictate to Ukraine what it must do to pursue peace. Putin can end this war today.