[WATCH] Hillary Clinton: There’s a direct line to Putin and commanders in the field

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There’s a direct line to Putin and commanders in the field

PUTIN'S DIRECT LINE. Hillary Clinton at the screening of The Cranes Call, a documentary on war atrocities in Ukraine

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'Anyone who tries to claim that you can stop Russia by conceding to Russia in Ukraine is ignoring the history of war criminals from the Kremlin to the ground'

BERLIN, Germany – Former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said there is a “direct line to Putin in the Kremlin and a direct line to a lot of commanders in the field.”

Speaking at the screening of The Cranes Call in Berlin, Clinton said that “anyone who tries to claim that you can stop Russia by conceding to Russia in Ukraine is ignoring the history of war criminals from the Kremlin to the ground.”

There’s a direct line to Putin and commanders in the field

The documentary The Cranes Call seeks to tell the story of “a mission to secure accountability for the mass atrocities in Ukraine.” The film is directed by Laura Warner and produced by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton’s HiddenLight Productions, commissioned by British network Channel 4 in association with Minderoo Pictures and Cinema for Peace.

The film comes at a precarious time for Ukraine, which is being pushed into a ceasefire deal amid Russian aggression by the Trump-led United States. Ukraine, which has counted on US support since Russia invaded three years ago, finds its fate in limbo with US President Donald Trump seemingly more sympathetic to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In a separate event in Berlin at The World Forum, Clinton said, “Autocracy is on the march and we now have a government in the United States that has thrown in its lot with the autocrats, which has made a choice to support those who wage war, not peace, who has all pledged allegiance to the continuation of algorithms that not only addict us, but poison us with hatred and fear.”

There’s a direct line to Putin and commanders in the field

She quoted Rappler CEO and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa who was onstage with her, “Because as Maria said, where there are no facts that are agreed upon, that happen right before your eyes and you have leaders telling you to ignore it, that Putin did not invade Ukraine, that Ukraine somehow brought it upon itself, where there are no facts, there cannot be truth, and where there is no truth, there cannot be trust, and where there is no trust, there cannot be democracy and peace.”