Pentagon spokesperson fights tears describing Putin's 'depraved' invasion of Ukraine – video

Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby fought back tears and said it was 'difficult to look at some of the images' of Vladimir Putin's 'cruel' and 'depraved' invasion of Ukraine.

Kirby stated that the US had underestimated the level of 'violence and cruelty' that Russian forces would undertake, and described it as 'brutality of the coldest and most depraved sort'

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