Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that Russian President Vladimir Putin has already lost his invasion of Ukraine, which Blinken says he remains confident will come out victorious in the war.

“And the reason that I remain very confident in Ukraine’s ultimate success, which is that they’re fighting for their country, for their future for their freedom, the Russians are not. And keep in mind, Putin has already lost in what he was trying to achieve. He was trying to erase Ukraine from the map and its independence, subsume it into Russia. That has already been a failure”, - Blinken told ABC’s Jonathan Karl on “This Week”.

Blinken also said that he has seen “no indication” that Putin wants to engage in “meaningful diplomacy”: “It takes two to tango and thus far, we see no indication that Vladimir Putin has any interest in meaningful diplomacy. If he does, I think the Ukrainians will be the first to engage and we’ll be right behind them. Everyone wants this war to end, but it has stand on just terms and on durable terms that reflect Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity”.