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.
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Speaking in Vietnam, former U.S. secretary of state John Kerry says Russian President Vladimir Putin made a "disgusting" choice to bully Ukraine. (Photo by Lien Hoang)
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