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As president putin appears poised to invade, despite diplomatic talks between russia and the u.s. this week designed to lower the temperature. >> we united in our commitment to finding a way forward through diplomacy and dialogue. >> reporter: later warning -- >> if russia wants to begin to convince the world that it has no aggressive intent toward ukraine, a very good place to start would be by de-escalating. >> reporter: and again vowing a swift and severe economic response if the provocation ...

Days. if there is money in the line or somebody said do you want to do this and get a big promotion and big raise. by the west, no, cant happen. >> shannon: you have to make it worth our while. lets discuss some good news. people needed. we have a coming out. >> and a really good one about a young athlete. stick around for that. >> shannon: thank you, kevin. the u.s. issuing a written response to russia as putins troops a mess on the border with no attempts at de-escalating. how should the u.s. ...

Why? lets go outfront. good evening, im erin burnett. outfront tonight, on the brink. president biden holding a call with key u.s. allies for roughly 80 minutes tonight over growing fears russia is on the verge of invading ukraine. the president saying everyone is on the same page. the call comes as 8500 u.s. troops are now on heightened alert to possibly deploy. as president putin shows no sign of backing down. >> as their presence on the border enlarged or changed in a qualitative way that i...

Developments with eastern europe. peter alexander is at the white house, richard engel is in eastern ukraine, courtney kube at her stint at the pentagon. and evelyn was at the department at the time. annexation of crimea in 2014. lets talk about new steps that russia is taking. what more can you tell us about that? >> so worn intelligence official told me that far from de-escalating, russia is continuing to escalate. it is continuing to bring more forces to the border, that there are now 60 batt...

Absolutely. they continue to adeyeye tallian tactical groups to the western -- to their western border, to the border with ukraine and in belarus as well. numbers there are increasing so they have not only shown no signs of de-escalating but they are in fact adding more force capability. >> ukraines leader is trying to calm nerves inside of the country telling citizens theres no need to panic as authorities work for full deescalation of the situation. we are also learning the marines has bolst...

Some small arms, so a various amount of both lethal and non-lethal aid are in that $200 million package thats now being delivered to ukracht its also very important to point out where we are in this situation, craig, and that is that russia continues to flow more forces in to the border area around ukraine, so they are not de-escalating, but, in fact, they are escalating the situation just in the past few hours and days. we heard a little bit about that from press secretary john kirby yesterday ...

Are you a christian author with a book that youre ready to share with the world? get published now, call for your free publisher kit today! hello and a very warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and right around the world. im isa soares in london and just right here ahead on "cnn newsroom." >> its very clear the russians have no intention of de-e de-esc de-escalating. >> if one nation is attacked all of them will come together to fight the attacker. >> were on the brink o...

Do we know about whether or not to send u.s. forces to eastern europe? >> its a decision that could come as soon as this week. what we do know, as of today, president biden hasnt made a final decision about that. behind the scenes they are getting the specifics ready in case he makes call to bolster u.s. forces in eastern ooum to increase the troop presence as they are playing behind the scenes for what that would look like. the concern in the administration is that an invasion could be imminent...

Allies if it comes to that. hopefully, it will not come to that. nobody wants to see that. conflict is not inevitable. theres no reason for there to be armed conflict in ukraine or anywhere else on the european continent. mr. putin can go a long way to serving that and by taking seriously the proposals that we have put forward diplomatically and by de-escalating by moving some of those trips away. >> is there any evidence that anything you are seeing that suggest the troops that are outside of u...

Kirby was saying yesterday that even as all of this is happening, putin is show nothing signs of backing down. take a listen. >> theres been no sign that russians are interested in de-escalating or moving troops away or taking tensions down. quite the contrary. you can see an increased sense of concern by the administration and by our nato allies. >> reporter: now, look, there is a lot of heightened concern. obviously, president biden had that meeting with nato allies yesterday. he came out of i...