russianis troops in belarus practicing urban combat. u.s. officials say this week is critical. declaring russia is now able to attackia with little or no warning. o so the u.s. is now moving its embassy personnel out of the capital to western ukraine, a move criticized by ukraine s president zelensky suggesting it showed weakness and zelensky was dismissve of u.s. intelligence which russia could soon invade which causes panic, february 16 will be thewh day of attack ande will make it a day of unity and he was referring to recent media report. presidentri biden spoke with president putin. no break throughs. todaywi russia s foreign minist met the russian president at the end of yet another long table. telling him there sno still roo for diplomacy. putin in a tight covid bubble has met leaders at what seems like social distance, plus. russia says it won t invade.
ukraine s president zelensky suggesting it showed weakness. and tonight zelensky was dismissive of u.s. intelligence that u.s. could soon invade, which he says causes panic. translator: they tell us february 16th will be the day of the attack. we will make this a day of unity, he said. his aides later said he was referring to recent media reports. moon while, ukraine s ambassador to the uk is walking back comments that ukraine might forego it is fwoid join nato a key russian demand. this week, president putin spoke with president biden. no break throughs. today russia s foreign minister met at the ends of yet another long table telling them there is still room for diplomacy. putin has met leaders at what seems like social distance plus. russia says it won t invade but in ukraine some families are getting ready for war. training to handle an ak-47 is valentina, a
are preparing. the russians showing up in ties and suits. the ukrainians showing up in military fatigues. no major break throughs from the conversations. also, a talk between vladimir putin and french president emmanuel macron. the russians have laid out unreasonable demands. they want ukraine to recognize an area of land called crimea that they took in 2014. they also would like ukraine to give up their weapons, two things that won t happen amid this war. neil? neil: thanks very much, trey. to jennifer griffin at the pentagon right now. how they are responding to the latest developments and indeed threats from vladimir putin. jennifer? u.s. defense officials say the u.s. and its nato allies are still analyzing and reviewing putin s announcement that he put his nuclear weapons on high alert adding the wording that he used does not fall under russian military doctrine. he said they have been moved to
order for russian forces and it may take them quite some time, but certainly this development, seeing russian forces making that push to the east, is significant. and for the people of kyiv, deeply concerning, jake. clarissa, in a meeting between the foreign ministers of ukraine and russia ended not surprisingly with no real break throughs, russian foreign minister lavrov even made the deranged lie that russia did not attack ukraine. so what s next on that front? reporter: well, you know, no one had been expecting a major breakthrough, but i think people were even more disappointed than they had expected to be, because what became clear from foreign minister lavrov s comments was that there was no possibility within the context of these talks to even really discuss something like a cease-fire. he said that those negotiations have to take place in the sort of belarus format that we ve seen those ukrainian and russian delegations discussing in, and
there is a high level meeting between the foreign ministers of ukraine and russia lavrov. in turkey tomorrow. and also some significant moves if you listen closely on the negotiating positions. the ukrainians now saying that they would not insist on nato membership. and saying all they wanted was ukrainian neutrality as ukraine took knowledge the independence of drop bass, donettes and crimea. we are seeing shifts on both sides certainly watering down of their demands. no major break throughs are expected tomorrow. nevertheless, there is still that hope of some negotiated settlement. the question is can they meet in the middle. again, right now, here in kyiv, there is certainly you can hear planes in the sky out of nowhere. defense system coming out shooting into the sky they clearly are very on edge nervous as they have heard today might be the day they finally make that assault on the capital