Ukraine "preparing for everything" as Putin plots next move, ambassador says

Washington — Ukraine's ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova said Sunday that the country is "preparing for everything" as Ukraine's military goes on heightened alert ahead of Russia's "Victory Day," with officials warning of possible escalation in the ongoing conflict.

"We know that there are no red lines for the regime in Moscow, so we're preparing for everything," Markarova said in an interview with "Face the Nation." "They said they will not go into — that they were not going to attack us, and they did. They said that there is no war in Ukraine for the past eight years, and we know [there] was. They said they didn't take the Crimea and they did. They said they're not killing civilians, and yet we see everywhere the deaths of women, children. They torture them, they rape them, they kill them. So we can count that Putin and imperialistic Russia will do everything bad they can possibly try to do."