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Any substantial evidence that stands any type of scrutiny to prove that. but thats been the narrative. putin will be sort of playing into that. i think we can still look at this from the perspective that president putin is still trying to do what he does usually, which is to try to sort of break things down, make them go in small steps. make each step seem as if hes legally doing the right thing. hes signaled hes going to soon recognize the independence of these two republics, donetsk and luhans...

The likelihood of a summit like that happening at all. theyre waiting to see how this meeting on thursday between secretary blinken and the russian foreign minister goes. as this is going on today at the white house, weve not seen president biden but hes getting briefed by the cia director, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, top national security officials who have been here at the white house. >> all right. kaitlan and jim, dont go far. well get back to you if and when -- not if and when, w...

Sanctions against russian elites. and perhaps as well these export controls, cutting russia off from key western technologies. president biden is set to discuss all of these measures alongside u.s. allies at a g-7 virtual meeting that is set to take place around 9:00 a.m. eastern time. and then later in the day, around noon, we are expecting to hear directly from the president of the united states on these attacks that russia has been carrying out overnight. we know president biden has been gett...

An incursion being imminent. >> information war, if you will, at the moment right now. nic, thank you so much for that. so with the threat of a russian invasion looming, the u.s. military and nato are ramping up their presence along the border between ukraine and poland which is where we find cnns nick peyton walsh. they have stressed the u.s. will not fight in ukraine if russia invades so whats the purpose of increasing the troop levels there? >> reporter: in short, they are here just in case...

Strident and we heard him yesterday again in munich saying, listen, if your intelligence really does tell you that this is happening, why arent those sanctions already being levied? why arent those heavier sophisticated weapons already being given to us? and if the intelligence isnt as decisive as you claim it is, then please stop using this type of language because its panicking the ukrainian people, its destabilizing ukraines economy and that of course plays exactly into president putins playb...

Going to meet secretary blinken in geneva on thursday and the foreign minister saying hes going to meet with the french foreign minister with paris on friday and that that would be a step for president putin to have a meeting with president macron. so a lot of things in flux at the moment, but the country of russia is being prepared for the potential of russia to recognize that bit of ukraine with the pro russian separatists to recognize their independence and that changes everything. kristin? >...

Mariupol. no matter what, ukraine is ready to defend themselves. their military is much stronger. at the same time we have heard from multiple ukrainian forces who say the current russian force is not big enough for a large scale successful invasion of ukraine. christine, laura? >> alex for us in ukraine. thank you so much for that. as we mentioned, russia has claimed it is pulling those forces out making several different announcements over the past 24 hours. cnn has yet to confirm if thats t...

No authorization for an anti-war protest. its illegal to protest. if you protest you can get arrested. if you get arrested you can be charged. if you get charged, that could count against you for the rest of your life. the message from the police here is, go away. despite that, there are still protesters coming out here. its not a big gathering of protesters. its individuals. and thats how were seeing them get arrested. picked up as individuals, jake. >> in russia, opponents of putin tend to end...

Killed or sent to camps if there is a full invasion. weve got our cnn correspondents covering all of the developments on the ground and around the world. jim sciutto is in ukraine. kaitlan collins is here in washington at the white house. nic robertson is in moscow. and i want to start with you, nic. what do we expect to hear from vladimir putin when he speaks shortly? >> yeah, he spent the afternoon on television having a big national security gathering of all his top officials, his security of...

They will either resist and the russians for whatever reason, because russians go to the streets or theres someone within the kremlin, theres a palace coup or whatever it is, that could be the resistance succeeding. or if he is able, if president putin is able to get to kyiv and president zelenskyy at the end has to move to the southwestern part of the country or whatever. he will continue to lead this. and that, don, is what im talking about is the long grind. thats the long resistance that ukr...