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Is speaking right now. president biden said the threat of an attack is quote unquote very high. >> we have reason to believe that they are engaged in a false flag operation. every indication that theyll attack ukraine. my sense is that it will happen in the next several days. >> natos secretary general says that russia now has the capabilities to launch a full scale invasion with little or no warning. these dire warnings come as shelling breaks out in the historic donbas region where shells hit ...

United states would help ukraine to defend themselves against these capabilities? >> we are providing lethal and nonlethal assistance to ukraine. they have expressed their gratitude for that. i will remind you a couple of things. 650 million just this year alone. were still in discussions about what kind of support that they might need going forward. were in constant consultation with them about their needs and what they can provide. its not just us. other nations are as well stepping up to prov...

>> short range, long range, cruise missiles. midrange. all of them. today, we took some video of ukrainian tanks leaving the military base that had been hit by two rockets and thats why we were out there. one of these convoys that were going on with some equipment, this one you can see the tank. the tank appears to be sort of soviet era. what do you know about the capabilities of ukraines military and their ability to fight back right now? >> definitely has been fighting back. the reality is tha...

Question? >> sure. >> poland, lithuania, latvia, estonia, are we expecting to send more forces in there just as a show of support? >> well, president biden has already ordered more than 10,000 troops just from the united states to go to europe to bolster that eastern frank. we certainly wouldnt take off the table there could be additional deployments of u.s. troops to nato territory. the other thing is we have moved things around. we have taken troops out of germany and moved them to the balkans...

Trying to keep track of everybody who is trying to protest and come out against this unprovoked attack by russia on ukraine. first lets go to mike memoli at the white house for us where administration officials are reacting to the dramatic escalation from vladimir putin. as we promised, keir, well be talking about this. mike, what is the white house saying about it? >> reporter: alex, as you can imagine, the white house is monitoring every comment coming from the russian president and every ru...

Come what may in kyiv. i strongly believe that zelensky will survive, that we have enough capabilities to defend him, and there is a clear—cut constitutional line of succession, just to answer the question directly, you asked me. you mean speaker stefanchuk will take over in the event there is a problem with mr zelensky and his ability to continue? i believe that the commander—in—chief zelensky will be alive — period. and in terms of what your government should do if, and weve discussed ...

He utterly failed to take kyiv and decapitation strike against the government. resorted to standoff efforts to shell, bomb essentially carpet bomb civilians, to hit apartment buildings and schools and hospitals and engage in whats parent to the world. aer is why is of war crimes and the west and nato allies continuing to arm the ukrainians to fight off the russians i think now focusing on this counter rocket, counter artillery, counter missile capabilities. the migs to help the ukrainians preven...

Delay. to say that just happened. do we need to change or delay our response because putin is pushing the line out even further. >> so much has happened in the past hour and all day, in fact. for a long time there were incremental moves and today a lot has happened and the president just addressed it. thank you very much for all of that. president biden authorizing additional movement of u.s. forces and military movement into europe. what more do we need know about this move? >> reporter: presid...

There. barbara starr joins us now. barbara, we would like to talk about and we have seen tremendous defiance and resistance from ukrainian forces. but when you look at the map, russian forces are advancing, particularly in the southern part of the country. what is the pentagon view of the progress of the russian invasion? >> they are keeping a very sharp eye on this entire southern flank as you say, jim, because here seems to be the one area where the russians are making clear progress, one of t...

Press secretary jen sack toe discu psaki to discuss the latest on the invasion in ukraine. hackers deploying malware and warning executives to be vigilant and shore up their defenses. abcs chief white house correspondent pierre thomas with a look inside nsa efforts to combat potential cyber attacks. >> with the uk crisis the threat of all-out cyber war perhaps has never been greater. >> if russia pursues cyber attacks against our companies, our critical infrastructure, we are prepared to respond...