Sen. Mike Rounds: Russia ‘can't handle the Ukrainian armed forces’



ABC News’ Linsey Davis speaks to Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., about Russia targeting civilians in Ukraine, the threat of chemical weapons and NATO’s efforts to arm Ukraine with fighter jets and drones.

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41 comments

  1. What an idiot, there is nothing left of Ukrainians armed forces. Please president Putin, nuke these stupid people and rid the world of their stupidity.

  2. Mr. Rounds would probably tell you – off camera, of course – how desperately the US needs another Ronald Reagan. You millennials and other clueless freestuff voters can go look up the reason why. It'll be good training for the massive lament you'll be crying in about 30 years. <chuckle>

  3. War Crimes…..??? 🤔 What about the indiscriminate killings of Black People in America by the White police officers ? Was that not criminal? You races muthafugas be funny as hell….😂🤦🏿‍♂️

  4. 14,000+ (3,000+ children) murdered in the Donbas since 2014 BY THE UKRANIAN GOVERNMENT! WAKE UP TO THE TRUTH!!!

  5. THE PROPAGANDA IS JUST SICK. A LITTLE BIT OF TRUTH WOULD BE NICE JUST ONCE.

  6. Be journalists, not war propaganda, or blood is on your hands. Talk about peace, not about war!

  7. The senators want to damage Russia, they don't care about Ukraine. They send more arms to kill more russians and ukranians. ABC – talk about existing peace conditions, speak up why Zelensky can't sign peace with Russia to save people lives? Ukraine needs peace, not ammo !

  8. Really? Send tons of ammo, support ukranians to kill russians, admire citezens willing to kill and burn – cry that it is unfair, when russians shoot back.

  9. A message to the people of Ukraine – JUST KILL ONE EACH … and victory will be yours. Slava Ukraini ! 🇺🇦 ✊

  10. NATO, support Ukraine immediately with aircraft and weapons!
    The World Union joins the Russian sanctions
    Russian people have to Putin and get him out of power!!!

  11. Son: Russia has now been involved in the last 2 Cold Wars one with America in the 80s and now Ukraine, genocide and slavery is now the cultural threat posing Ukraine their people there is no stopping these Russian juggernauts from this training drill they’re in!

  12. Mike Rounds is a moron. An old moron who still lives in fear of Russians like it’s true Cold War. We have more in common with Russians than the left our own nation. Worry about that.

  13. It will be ww3 for sure if they send jets…give them anti air …s300….

  14. When did war stop including civilians as fair game? The U.S. fire bombed residential neighborhoods in Tokyo at night. It was captured on video for all to see.

  15. what is this guy thinking? he's clueless. they've all but got Kyiv surrounded.

  16. The Migs may be too much. One, we don’t want to just waste good jets getting them destroyed immediately and two, it may very well be the line that Putin has and idk about you but as bad ass as the USA is, I don’t want to see a major modern war, nuclear or not. It would be bad for everybody.

  17. In 2014 the Ukraine government was overthrown and a new government was installed: they immediately began attacking East Ukraine, which is mainly ethnic Russian, and these attacks led to the war that followed. A peace deal was signed and a new elected government formed. But the attacks on East Ukraine continued and intense shelling of East Ukraine began over 2 weeks ago: this is when East Ukraine mobilised and, with the help of Russia, began pushing Ukraine govt forces out. These facts are all a matter of record: I'm shocked that so many people are believing the same media taht has lied to us so many times before. I would urge anyone to just look further into what's going on there and what has led to this.

  18. they cant handle russia.that the truth.with some cheese on it

  19. No damages done to Russian infrastructure at all (especially to the tunes of billions of dollars), Russian soldiers aren't the ones enmeshed with the Ukrainian citizens in order to hide from enemy combatants, Russian forces aren't the ones firing artillery weapons from civilian locations (i.e. hospitals, schools, residential apartment complexes, no Russian civilians are dying in this war, Russia is not the one begging for help from Western nations & NATO, Putin isn't the one hiding in a bunker, Russia didn't impose martial law, & lockdown it's own citizens in a war zone putting them in the direct line of fire, Putin didn't urge Russian citizens with no military experience to take up arms & die senselessly in a war started by a comedian & his Neo-Nazi puppet masters, Putin isn't the one on tv begging to join NATO! It's all Zelensky & his Nazi comrades. Zelensky has the blood of innocent Ukrainians on his hands.

  20. A lot of western politicians still on Putin’s Payroll. Don’t forget that.

    Putin has done everything what West allowed him to do. Even today.

    Stop talking, help Ukraine now!

  21. We don’t want more pipelines. If so put them in your back yards.

  22. They can't beat the Ukrainian military in a fair fight. That's why Russia will use chemical weapons.

  23. Vietnamese U.S. bombs war crime? If it walks like a duck…

  24. WOW, Hell has frozen over, I just liked a Republican.

  25. russian drones are already flying over nato; turket certainly knows what they want to do

  26. Something isn't reading right on this. Why hasn't Zelensky sent out a team to destroy the pipelines and other critical financial infrastructure of Russia? It would be a fairly easy target and he wouldn't have to wait for other European countries that have become Putins bitches to make a decision of banning Russian energy. Perhaps NATO doesn't want to facilitate him with planes.

  27. https://youtu.be/Y7NVxAMQn_I

    This is for the dictator!! Love n peace to Ukraine 🇺🇦 ❤️

  28. WHAT A LIAR PRESIDENT ZELENSKY IS.. HE REPEATEDLY SAID THERE ARE NO BIO CHEMICAL LABS IN UKRAINE AND NOW THE
    U. S. A UNDER SECRETARY FOR STATE VICTORIA NULAND CLEARLY STATES ON OATH THERE ARE SUCH LABS IN UKRAINE.. WHY ARE WE SUPPORTING THIS MAN

  29. Vladimir Putin already asking Syrian president Bashar Hafez al-Assad sending Syrian troops to protect and save Russians troops in Ukraine

  30. START WW3 NUKE ALL OF RUSSIA, EUROPE & AMERICA ASAP!!!!!!!! LEVEL IT ALL TO THE GROUND, SLAVA UKRANIAN!!! ONLY UKRAINE WILL STAND ALL ELSE WILL LAY IN RUINS!!!

  31. What USA and UK mother fuking bustard Don to Muslim world Allah is with Russia

  32. Get ready to bomb and stop Putin's nuclear chemical weapons before he release it.

  33. Ukraine's war, Don't be a SHEEP, wake up and watch this in its entirety. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRJLPwlbypM

  34. Putin is acting like the old horrific killing murdering horrible murdering the old war criminal Japan !!!
    Putin is really crazy !!!

  35. Ukraine is attacked by Russia all western countries say pray for Ukraine. Ukraine takes up arms against russia all western countries say ukraine defend themselves but when palestine fights israeli army use stones all western countries say palestine are terrorists..all western countries are hypocrites they only defend white people like them..amarican, israel and nato are terrorists has actually killed millions of iraqis, afghanistan. There are no economic restrictions on them..The United Nations does not use hypocrisy👎👎👎

  36. turn all world currencies into Bitcoin the easiest way to control Russian economy and military , and their friends , and outcome of the war in Ukraine