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Adviser yesterday who said that the security situation is not yet at a level where countries need to issue travel advisories or drawn down their embassies, but pam, that is exactly what is happening. hour by hour we're hearing from more and more countries warning their citizens not to come to ukraine, pulling back personnel. as you mentioned, the u.s. embassy drawing down nonessential personnel, moving others to the western part of ukraine and telling american citizens now is the time to get out. pam? >> all right. thank you so much, alex. u.s. lawmakers are considering sanctions on russia o...

Unlike other european countries. joe biden spoke with mr. zelensky. cnn's alex marquart is in eastern ukraine with details on that phone call. >> reporter: when presidents zelensky and biden spoke on sunday, the ukrainian president made a request of his u.s. counterpart, that he come to the ukrainian capital as soon as possible to help calm the situation down. we are told by u.s. officials that is extremely unlikely, but this is what president zelensky's office said that he told president biden. i'm convinced that your arrival in kyiv in the coming days, which are crucial for stabilizing the s...

A pretty good job of it. both in kyiv where many of our colleagues have been for many weeks. i'm told the streets are calm, people are out and about. i'm here in central ukraine. it is 3:00 in the morning, but this was friday night. and all night long, john, people were out. they were in the shops. they were in the cafes. they were walking around. people are acting as if everything is normal. i spoke to a number of folks who said that they are not thinking about russia. they asked me why would i even be thinking about something like that. so it is not top of mind. but, john, that could, of cou...

Ended. prior to this the intelligence coming out of the u.s. was that it was unlikely russia would invade ukraine while the olympic games was happening, and then we heard the dire warnings from jake sullivan direct at americans still in ukraine. they essentially said, look, you need to get outright now because we cannot guarantee your safety. we're certainly not going to be sending in american troops to rescue you if you're still stuck there. so we have certainly seen here from the white house over the last 24 or 36 hours or so, a very, very increased sort of urgency in the tone that we have h...

Southeastern ukraine with cnn's alex marquart. >> we are were seeing large-scale preparations for a war that the pentagon says could be horrific. we're not seeing panicking or military build-up in the streets. we're not seeing people going to the grocery stores to fill up cupboards in advance of that possible incursion by russia. it does speak to this difference in tone, difference in attitude that we have seen for weeks between ukraine and not just the united states but really the rest of nato. n w the united states now showing the most dire warning yet, that an invasion could come before the...