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Attack ukraine, russia will bear the responsibility and it will face swift and severe consequences. what do you think, susan? >> you know, first of all, i think its an important effort to call russia to account in public and force them to come and answer what exactly they think theyre doing. you see in nics report the sort of gaslighting youre hearing from russian officials. how dare they ask us, that reflects this is an important tool in the tool kit of the biden administration. i think its int...

We believe that russia would produce a very graphic propaganda video, which would include corpses, sand actors tht would be depicting mourners and m images of destroyed locations as well as military equipment at the hands of ukraine or the west. >> reporter: so while russia is continuing its build up around the borders of ukraine in the north, the east and the south, on state media here, what are they doing? theyre trolling the state department spokesperson ned price when he was asked the qution...

Space going so you can build up forces? it seems to be trying to test out the russian position and just say look, we think you might be about to invade, if youre not deescalate and have this conversation. thats the path, trying to get some commitment there. when i say the diplomatic dial hasnt moved, russia is not giving visibility on that at all. >> fascinating. nic, brinksmanship, no question about it. kylie, the u.s. made clear americans need to evacuate, telling embassy staff to get out as w...

Lets get to cnns nic robertson in moscow and cnn national security correspondent kylie atwood at the state department. nic, first to you. the kremlin says it wont rush to judgment. it is going to digest these letters and make an informed decision in terms of their next move, but clearly the u.s. is not giving putin what he wants. what are you hearing? >> yeah, we heard that from the kremlin spokesman. we heard it from the foreign minister sergey lavrov saying on the core issue, whether or not uk...

Open skies. these are agreements that existed in the past, spy lanes and russia without notice and he was leaving space for those things, perhaps to find agreement but the central issues not addressed. so diplomacy seems open, but a direct answer from president putin, we havent had that unless its quite literally been given it since weve been speaking here and doesnt seem so far to be the case. >> nic, thank you so much for that. we also know that british prime minister boris johnson is in ukrai...

Ukrainians are thinking and feeling? >> we were. we were able to go out and meet with ordinary citizens, chat with folks. and they understand the potential threat. theyre also very, you know, they reminded us theyve been at war with russia since 2014 when russia occupied crimea. they continue to have daily loss of life and weekly loss of life in the donbas region. so theyve been fighting with russia for the last eight years and are ready to escalate that fight should russia choose to invade or u...

To instruct people about evacuations and there will be emergency power sources. there hasnt been that sense of concern perhaps because as the president here is insisting panic serves only to reinforce the power of the russians just across the border there. >> and, nic, in moscow what are we hearing from the kremlin about what the kremlin feels about the call today, what they want us to know about the call and the overall message coming from blinken, the secretary of state for the u.s. saying tha...

Include close high level exchanges and spoupporting each other in sovereignty and interests. its vital to look at how both countries look at ukraine and even taiwan right now. the two also not so subtly referring to the u.s. and vowing to respond to external clearance and security threats jointly. china and russia not only signaling this closeness and defiance of the west. this is also and perhaps more importantly, a message to nations and democracies that rely on the united states for global pe...

Explain why it has amassed thousands of troops along the ukrainian border sparking fears of a possible invasion. russia has denied those claims, saying the u.s. and nato are to blame for stirring up tensions. well, for more, we want to bring in cnns milk ronic rober. good to see you, nic. weve seen the reaction across western media. what about the reaction across russian media? >> reporter: russian media landscape is very different to western media landscape. quite simply, the kremlin here has...

Flight. theyre still saying theres plenty of space still for a diplomatic solution here. they are very much focused on some of the efforts being made by the french president whos due to speak with russia president vladimir putin later on today. this may be a degree of hoping against hope because, of course, ultimately teen 200,000 troops that ukrainians have here will be overmatched by the sheer firepower potentially of the russians should it come to that. >> nic, sam gets at this, but the contr...