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Friday and make that eyebrow raising declaration that he believes putin has already made a decision to invade. at the time president biden simply suggested, look, the u.s. has significant intelligence capabilities, but now two sources tell myself and our pentagon correspondent courtney kube that president biden made that declaration informed by very recent u.s. intelligence that showed that russian military troops and units had already been given an order to proceed with plans for an invasion, a...

Do underscore the capabilities that they have. when you look at the two banks that were sankctioned, it is a step the u.s. hasnt taken up to this point, cutting off russian sovereign debt markets from the rest of the world, russia is largely insulated based on economic actions over the course of the last several years, when it come s to sovereign debt it significant step. individual sanctions, to are years the u.s. and european allies have slapped individual sanctions on president putins inner c...

>> we have made serious proposal and talked about changing the scope and scale some of our exercises in europe. being willing to talk about offensive military capabilities in europe and put forward other proposals to try to convince mr. putin were serious. >> sandra: that was john kirby yesterday saying the administration still is open to a diplomatic path forward with russia as president biden agrees in principle to meet with vladimir putin if russia does not invade ukraine. but satellite image...

Reading about russias arsenal of thermobarak weapons. they could launch explosive warheads so powerful they can melt an exposing army. explode the lungs of his enemies in ukraine. that was from the sun. then sources are also saying they shared videos of convoys of these weapons. so deadliest weapons on battlefield heading to the ukrainian border. what do you know about these weapons and the capabilities that russia has? >> well, i would say i dont know specifically about those weapons. but i wil...

Russia appears to be ramping up its military presence, once again, along the ukrainian border. our cnn team in southern russia reports seeing large numbers of military vehicles in the area, including several columns of armored vehicles and trucks, personnel carriers. cnns tom foreman joins us now. tom, give us a sense of what russias military capabilities are that are now arranged around ukraine. i reported this weekend, it is three-quarters of russias conventional forces now postured against uk...

(laughter) ( ♪♪ ) as the russian invasion of ukraine intensifies, we have yet to see russia unleash its full cyber warfare capabilities andrea mitchell explains. >> reporter: before russia mounted its ground defensive in ukraine, the leading edge of its assault was detected thousands of miles away. alarm bells went off at microsofts threat intelligence center in redmond, washington, over a new piece of malware aimed at ukraines government and financial institutions microsoft jumped into th...

Responsible, its vladimir putin. lets be clear. >> you used the analogy of vladimir putin having trouble getting a soda out of a vending machine. does that reference the idea some have raised of cyber attacks by the u.s. or allies against russia itself? >> well, thats certainly a capability that we have. and i have personally encouraged the administration to be willing to use it. the challenge with our cyber capabilities is every time you use one of those tools, you essentially give it away. you...

Importance of counter pressure to soviet expansionism. we need exactly the same counter pressure, significant military capabilities to defend our allies in eastern europe. an economic decoupling strategy were well on the way of implementing in just a week now and the political isolation of russia which we see in the u.n. general assembly. and that should lead to internal pressure for change. its not about us going in and invading russia and doing regime change as weve done in the last 20 or 30 y...

Above normal, but we are keeping it monitored. we call upon the russian president to absolutely cease attacking sites such as that, it is incredibly dangerous notjust for ukraine and the russians but for europe and it is playing with fire, that really is beyond anything to do with logic or necessity. in the strongest possible terms we ask him to stop that. if it is being turned deliberately then it must be stopped, if it was done by accident than i ask his leaders to make sure, his military lead...

You sure, are you feeling positive about america covering its own vulnerabilities to russia at this point? >> thats certainly two different things. >> sure. >> cyber operations led by cyber command and intelligence community agencies are very, very proficient. they are very good, very sophisticated and they have been at this fame for a very long time. but i would be surprised right now to see anything thats overly offensive or aggressive against russian capabilities in order to not escalate the ...