ABC News’ Martha Raddatz Joins ‘The View’ From Ukraine To Discuss Russian Invasion: “Just Devastating”

Following Russian leader Vladimir Putin‘s invasion of Ukraine, ABC News correspondent Martha Radditz called into The View live from Lviv to discuss the “devastating” news.

“People are lining up at banks, they’re lining up at pharmacies, they’re lining up for water,” said said. “It is that heartbreaking part of war… [All] the explosions are aimed at military facilities right now. But there have been casualties, there have been deaths, and the people here are truly concerned.”

Radditz went on to debunk Putin’s claims that this is a “peacekeeping operation,” calling it “just a land grab.”

“They are not keeping any peace. They are waging war here in Ukraine,” she said. “What Vladimir Putin wants is to expand his empire, to have it like the old days… He wants to decapitate the government.”

The ABC News correspondent also disputed former President Donald Trump and right wing commentators’ claims that the Biden administration is to blame for their response to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

“I got red flags months ago about how concerned [the Biden administration was] about what was happening in Ukraine. They revealed all that intelligence. They never do that,” Radditz said. “They thought that by revealing to Vladimir Putin that they were onto him, they knew what he was doing, that it might stop him… But that moment has clearly passed.”

Radditz closed things out with a message for Russian apologists in the US: “Their cause here, and what they’ve done, is simply inexcusable. We are talking about lives. We are talking about history. We are talking about the worst conventional war on the European continent since World War II… I hope people look up and listen to see exactly what [Putin is] doing, and how horrendous this truly is.”

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