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Get underway this morning between secretary of state tony blinken and his russian counterpart, foreign minister sergei lavrov, blinken has already warned russia there will be severe consequence if it invades ukraine. meanwhile vladimir putin is suggesting nato and ukraine pose a growing security threat to russia. let's go live to stockholm and bring in cnn's alex marquart. alex, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, laura. that's right, this meeting between the russian and american foreign ministers due to get underway any moment now. it could hardly come at a more tense time between russia...

Very, very concerned. but blinken making clear that there still is time for a diplomatic solution, a diplomatic off-ramp to de-escalate this entire situation, isa. >> yeah, its historical context is very important. alex marquart in stockholm, sweden there when the meeting kicks off 30 minutes from now. thanks very much, alex. now, the secretary of state also announced the u.s. is preparing new sanctions against belarus using migrants as political weapons. belarusian security officials used dirty tricks to fuel the crisis at the poland/belarus border. damian sullivan has this for you. >> repo...

Crimea. with things like disinformation campaign. blinken saying over the past 24 hours, there has been a tenfold spike on social media pushing anti-ukrainian propaganda, pushing ukraine as the aggressor in all of this. but blinken making clear there is still time to de-escalate and use what he called a diplomatic off-ramp. laura? >> all right, we'll see where this goes. alex, thank you so much for being there for us. all right. almost two full years into the covid economy and america's top business leaders are, drum roll, please, bullish, really bullish on the u.s. economy. in fact, a surve...

To send military forces or missile systems to ukraine. he says russia has no intention of invading ukraine, but warns moscow would be forced to take action if it's threatened. meantime, cnn has just learned that u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken will meet with the foreign ministers of russia and ukraine thursday to discuss these growing tensions. cnn's alex marquart has more now on blinken's diplomatic efforts, including his meeting with nato in latvia. >> reporter: secretary of state tony blinken warned there would be severe consequence for russia if there is, what he called, renewed ag...

To de-escalate. >> we stand united in our aim to deter russia from any further aggressive actions. we call on russia to be transparent, de-escalate, and reduce tensions. any future russian aggression against ukraine would come at a high price. >> reporter: from here, secretary blinken travels to the swedish capital stockholm to meet with other european allies as tensions between russia and the west heat up. alex marquart, cnn, latvia. donald trump's chief of staff agrees to cooperate with lawmakers investigating the january 6 capitol riot. what this means for mark meadows and the insurrectio...