What Have Western Leaders Done About These Atrocities?

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What's really politically explosive is the ramifications of what we've seen. And this will galvanize western public opinion, but especially western leaders to do more to help ukraine in its fight against russia. What have western leaders said about about these atrocities? Tony blinkon, the us Secretary of state, said that the picture city he'd seen were a punch to the gut. In europe, germa s economy minister, robert harbeck, has said that his country was working towards an embargo on russian energy,. And emanuel makron, the french president, has called for further sanctions targeting russia's coal and oil exports. But i've seen it with my

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