Putin Moves News Today

He says private militia ‘simply doesn’t exist,’ as Kremlin woos its troops to continue fighting in Ukraine

The Kremlin assured nations in Africa and the Middle East that it would manage Wagner forces, which have spread Russian power at little cost to Putin

It. part of it is the approaching end of the olympics because people have speculated that putin might wait until after that, but theres no guarantee that he would wait. so youve got the call this morning between the president and nato leaders. both the amassing military resources or military preparations and the information operations people across the political spectrum are giving the president credit for being forward leaning on that and reiterated that in his interview with lester holt that v...

Deal with doesnt seem to be impacting americans and reassuring them the way it should. the president talked about foreign policy, specifically the brewing crisis between ukraine and russia. and was asked about americans in ukraine and what this administration would do if in fact russia invades to rescue them. listen to what he said. >> i have spoken with putin, ive spoken with every nato leader. ive brought them together like i think theyve never been, as coordinated in modern history, nato lead...

Bluster and things will be fine. thats not what u.s. officials are increasingly saying with increasing clarity and concerns. >> the hype is 140,000 plus troops on different parts of the border, does not seem like thats a light issue. the fallout vladimir putin could face if he were to attack ukraine, here is what president biden said. >> i have spoke with putin and other leaders, i have brought them together like they have never been coordinated in modern history if putin moves. he has to know i...

Theres disagreement if they should wait until after an invasion or ahead of time. this is what he said. >> we dont believe that sanctions are intended to deter. in order for them to work, they have to be set up in a way if putin moves, then the costs are imposed. >> so the president has left the white house now for camp david. he will remain there over the weekend. he did not take an opportunity to speak to reporters or relay a message to president putin. were told that we can expect a conversat...

States is stepped up alongside other nato allies to deter and reassure and reinforce our presence along the eastern flank. >> what about the preinvasion sanctions. you didnt answer that part of my question. is the president looking at sanctions ahead of an invasion any differently than he has up until this point given the escalation were seeing from russia. >> the president believe thats sanctions are intended to deter and in order for them to work to deter, they have to be set up in a way where...

Me. >> did the u.s. wait too long to arm ukraine especially with respect to weapons that could defend against an air strike? did theyd wait too long to move u.s. forces to nato countries? does the president still view the idea of preinvasion sanctions as a stupid question? >> as to the question of waiting too long on arming the ukrainians, over the course of the past year, the united states has provided more than half a billion dollars, $650 million in assistance for defense of the ukraine. >> h...

>> the president believes the sanctions are intended to deter, and in order for them to work to deter, they have to be set up in a way where, if putin moves, then theyre imposed. >> the purpose of the sanctions has always been and continues to be deterrence. maria: coming up, gop leader and member of the gang of eight who is briefed on classified intelligence, gop if leader kevin mccarthy just back from a trip to israel. plus, congressman michael mccaul also on that trip, ranking member of the h...

The same space. i cant imagine what putin is thinking and what he thinks is going to get out of it. >> dana: john ratcliffe was on earlier with martha and he said something very interesting. he said we are all bnss questions, what will putin deal, rather than what should a putin do because we are in a position of basically waiting to see what he does rather than telling him what he should do. speak of the white house continues to be -- if putin moves, we will also move. they are following from b...