As President Biden condemns Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and publicly threatens Moscow with escalating punitive measures, his administration is quietly collaborating with the Russians to revive the Iran nuclear deal and undermine future U.S. presidents who might withdraw from it, according to experts and former U.S. officials
George Stephanopoulos: "The world is seeing civilians being killed in Ukraine by Russian bombs....The world is uniting to contend those attacks & those lies. How can you defend them?"
Russian FM Lavrov: "I cannot comment -- conjectures & there is a great deal of these now." pic.twitter.com/971rjcyjQ3— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 3, 2022
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov whines about the west shutting down Russian media outlets, such as RT: They're "trying to close down all of the outlets...broadcast from Russia on how...the Ukrainian army & neo-Nazis behave. They behave like...marauders" pic.twitter.com/AN0J9j2U2N— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 3, 2022
Russia's Sergey Lavrov on ABC's @GMA: "I don't have enough time...to enumerate...the facts. Please visit our website...You will be able get a detailed description of what the Kyiv neo-Nazi regime is now doing. You like the word killer...Killers are siding with the Kyiv regime." pic.twitter.com/Z2ikl5MONs— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 3, 2022
ABC's George Stephanopoulos to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov: "Do you believe that President Zelenskyy, the first Jewish president of Ukraine, whose famil[y] [was] killed in the Holocaust, is a Nazi?" pic.twitter.com/CynhNcH5d4— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 3, 2022
Russian FM Sergey Lavrov says Zelenskyy is a Nazi: "I think that the Nazis & neo-Nazis manipulate. Otherwise, it is hard to account for how [he] can preside over a society where neo-Nazis make strife... How can not a neo-Nazi president support laws banning the Russian language?" pic.twitter.com/J5pem6mWCD— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 3, 2022
Russian FM Lavrov to ABC's George Stephanopoulos defending why he (falsely) calls Zelenskyy a Nazi: "I can numerate facts for...a long [time]....[Y]ou don't have time to read the facts & spend half an hour visiting our website...Please learn more facts. Don't try to pretend[.]" pic.twitter.com/lPj94iZ4j7— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 3, 2022
ABC's George Stephanopoulos on his interview with Russia's Sergey Lavrov: "You get the sense there why the...Treasury Dept. calls him Putin's propagandist. I mean, calling Zelenskyy...a neo-Nazi, denying what the whole world is seeing w/their eyes on the killing of civilians." pic.twitter.com/2OdSqm2LXS— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 3, 2022
ABC's George Stephanopoulos on why Russia's Sergey Lavrov said he "like[s] the word killer," noting "[h]e was pretty clearly responding to this interview I had with President Biden last year" in which he asked him whether he thinks Putin's "a killer." (8/8) pic.twitter.com/rGgUhdGeb2— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 3, 2022