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The top u.s. defense ministry spoke for an hour on friday, their first since the war began. the pentagon said that lloyd austin appealed to keep the lines of communication open. in the donbas, ukrainian forces claimed to have stopped a russian advance across a key river. >> reporter: this tank has come from a scene of intense fighting over the last few days. 60 civilians were killed in an air strike hiding in the basement of an abandoned school and the ukrainians are claiming they killed a large number possibly many hundreds of russian troops who were part of an attempt to cross the river us...

That europe could face some sort of retaliatory measures, diplomatic energy security measures in the meantime, should those type of draconian sanctions be put on the table by the united states. but essentially, the problem here is that both sides have to keep talking. otherwise, what they can't afford, at least from the west's perspective, is for these talks to end up being a failure, and if that being a pretext to vladimir putin to take action in a place like ukraine. as you said, the backdrop to all of this that has been unexpected in the last couple of weeks is the strife in kazakhstan, and...

Reuters. saying that us president joe biden on friday will hold a call at 1600 hrs gmt with transatlantic leaders to discuss russia�*s ongoing military build—up around ukraine. this is from the white house. on the call will be the leaders of canada, the eu, france, germany, italy, poland, romania, britain and nato. that is coming from the white house. what do you make of that? i that is coming from the white house. what do you make of that?— what do you make of that? i think it is a very positive — what do you make of that? i think it is a very positive message. - what do you make of t...

Communication open for other purposes. >> we've seen videos of residents expressing opposition to russia's invasion of ukraine, risking their own safety. hundreds have been arrested. between the internet, social media, russians in touch with family and friends in ukraine, how is this all playing out in russia right now? and in any case, whatever gets done on the streets, on social media, what's the likelihood it has any impact at all on vladimir putin? >> reporter: thank you, chris. this is an interesting question. it is more and more clear that there is at least a significant portion of the p...

Them out of the united nations. i don't think we're at that point, nor should we be. what we can do however in other sectors of society, sports, exchanges of museum directors, economics obviously, that's where we ought to be turning off the taps. ultimately we want to keep the diplomatic and military lines of communication open, because what we really ought to worry about here is a miscalculation. some young russian pilot launches a missile that flies over the polish border inadvertently but hits a command post. some young sailor on an american destroyer launches a missile against an incoming ...