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We know the russians have been targeting fuel depots. making sure there's enough helmets, body armor for the ukrainian soldiers. they are looking at how you fight the coming war with russia because putin lost around kyiv because he was overextended. his forces were picked off by the ukrainians using those javelin missiles. nato's next assessment is it may not be as easy as putin regroups his forces and uses them in a less overextended way that will be tough for the ukrainians. to fight that they will need things like tanks, armored fighting materials, they are giving them armored vehicles. we ...

Today escalating sanctions on russia. the united states now banning all new investments in russia tightening the squeeze on russia's largest financial institution and promising to freeze or seize assets of russian government officials and their family members including vladimir putin's two adult daughters. with me to share their reporting and insights, jeremy diamond. so new sanctions including putin's daughters, which makes it personal, some people always question why do you keep -- how can you keep escalating? why don't you do it all at once? how do they do that at the biden white house? >> ...

And so i hope there are things going on behind the scenes probably technical things to make sure that information gets through. i wouldn't rule out the possibility of young, tech-saatchi russians who want to get at the truth, who perhaps don't want to make a big deal out of it but are trying to find ways around the firewalls erected around the internet. >> one of the things other countries are trying to do is put nick pressure on putin, stir up dissent. today sanctions on two of putin's adult daughters. obviously it sends an important symbolic message. does it do anything to get under vladimir...

Oligarchs. the senl ior official saying if putin were to change course some of the sanctions could be reversed but not all of them are permanent. when we see from our very own colleagues on the ground reporting on some of the things going on in ukraine, you have to acknowledge the idea of putin drastically changing course, on many days that seems like a faraway possibility. >> mj lee at the white house, thank you very much. today the white house secretary of state antony blinken in brussels for an important nato meeting. nato secretary-general says weeks of battlefield losses have not -- hav...

About, but i think the critical thing would be obviously that couldn't be just a russian guarantee. it would have to be other credible ukrainian partners. >> also on the diplomatic front today after just winning re-election the hungarian prime minister, mr. orban, a friend of putin, though he's a nato member, he's more friendly with putin, he says he spoke to putin and has invited putin, zelenskyy, the chancellor of france to come to budapest. do you see that as any possibility? and should putin be invited? everyone wants an end to the conflict. negotiation is the only way even with bad actors...