HO CHI MINH CITY -- Former U.S. secretary of state and Vietnam War veteran John Kerry on Friday stood minutes away from the jungle marshes outside Ho Chi Minh City where he once fought as a soldier to denounce, half a century later, another unpopular conflict: "It's grotesque, it's disgusting," he said of Russia's invasion of Ukraine led by President Vladimir Putin.
Now the U.S. climate envoy, Kerry is visiting Vietnam with a wide-ranging agenda from trade to coal, but could not avoid the matter of Russian aggression on the European continent.
