This was stated by

in an interview with the Ukrainian newspaper "European Truth".

According to her, now the United States and its allies are trying to convey to the Kremlin that in this case, the consequences for Putin and Russia "could be absolutely catastrophic."

Nuland assured that in any event, the Western allies "will not leave Ukraine alone."

The American diplomat, however, acknowledged that any use of weapons of mass destruction "will take the situation to a completely different level."

Russia's war against Ukraine

• At 5 am on February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the start of a military operation against Ukraine in the Donbas at the request of the DNR and LNR groups.

  He said Russia did not plan to occupy Ukrainian lands, and called on the Ukrainian military to lay down its arms and "go home."

• Earlier, on February 21, during a televised address to the Russians, Putin called the so-called "DPR" and "LPR" independent states within the regions.

  On February 22, the Federation Council ratified the decision.

• On the first day of the war, the Russians captured Snake Island, where they captured 13 Ukrainian border guards.

  Then they were exchanged for Russian prisoners.

• All the days of the war are shelling Ukrainian cities with missiles, flying aircraft.

  For more than a month of active hostilities, Russia has managed to partially control only Kherson, Melitopol, Energodar and surround Mariupol, the latter is almost completely destroyed, the city is abducting journalists.

  At the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which was seized by the Russians, only 600 hours of work allowed the rotation of personnel, and on March 31, the Russians began to withdraw from Chernobyl.

• On February 10, Belarusian-Russian maneuvers began near the Ukrainian border, ending with Russian troops remaining in Belarus, contrary to Moscow's earlier promises, and attacking Ukraine from the north, using Belarusian airfields, bases and roads.

  Representatives of the Lukashenko regime justify the war, the opposition considers the territory of Belarus occupied and calls for resistance to Russian invaders.

• On February 27, the illegitimate leader of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, admitted that rockets had been launched from the territory of Ukraine.

  On the same day, in a telephone conversation with Vladimir Zelensky, Lukashenko promised that there would be no attacks from Belarusian territory, but after it, missiles flew from Belarus to Ukraine again.

• On February 27, the International Legion of Territorial Defense was established in Ukraine, and foreign volunteers were encouraged to join.

  Belarusians, in particular the White Legion, also joined it.

  As of March 31, three Belarusians were killed, including volunteers, one with the call sign Litvin, the other Dmitry Apanasovich, and Tour, who served in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

• On March 20, 11 pro-Russian political movements and parties were banned in Ukraine.

• On March 30, the UN approved the composition of an independent commission to investigate Russian war crimes in Ukraine.

  It includes people who have worked in conflict resolution in Rwanda and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

• Contrary to Putin's claims of attacks exclusively on military facilities, the Russians are bombing schools, kindergartens and residential areas of Ukrainian cities.

  The Russians are using banned weapons, including cluster bombs against civilians.

• The number of refugees from Ukraine has exceeded 5 million people.

  Poland received the most refugees from Ukraine - almost 3 million, Romania - about 800 thousand.

  Russia is listed on the third line with more than half a million people, but in Ukraine, based on conversations with the population of the occupied cities, they claim that people are taken there by force, actually kidnapping and often separating families, taking children.

• In response to support for the war by ROC Patriarch Kirill, Ukrainian parishes of the Moscow Patriarchate began to move en masse to the autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

• On April 1, Lithuania became the first EU country to completely abandon Russian gas.

  Latvia and Estonia followed suit.

  Germany has promised to completely suspend the use of Russian oil by the end of 2022.

• On April 2, after the liberation of the city of Bucha near Kiev, photojournalists published dozens of photos showing hundreds of the dead, victims of massacres committed by Russian troops.

  Many are buried in natural mass graves.

  The Russian occupation and Borodyanka brought great destruction.

  A number of rapes, including infants, are also known.

• In April, the Russians launched a large-scale attack on the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, winning about 80% of it, according to the head of the Luhansk regional administration Sergei Gaidai.

  Fighting is also going on in the Kherson region.

• On April 21, Moscow announced the capture and capture of 1,478 Ukrainian soldiers who had surrendered.

  The Ukrainian General Staff did not report anything about the fighting in the city.

• Independent verification of information about hostilities provided by officials of various parties is not yet possible.