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Every indication we have is they're prepared to go in to ukraine, attack ukraine. >> reporter: sir, this is going to happen? >> yes. >> reporter: when? >> my sense is that it will happen in the next several days. >> this will happen in the next several days, said the president. his comments came after ukrainian officials said a kind guarden school in the eastern part of the country was shelled with heavy artillery weapons by moscow-backed separatists. the separatists accused the ukrainian army of firing on the territory they control. nbc news could not independently confirm the details of the ...

For a strike on a kindergarten in northeast ukraine. >> we've said for sometime that the russians might do something like this in order to justify a military conflict. >> reporter: defense secretary austin warning that despite talk of de-escalation, russia is only moving forces closer to ukraine's border. >> we see them fly in more combat and support aircraft. we see them sharpen their readiness in the black sea. we even see them stocking up their blood supplies. >> reporter: with diplomacy on thin ice, the state department is revealing that the number two at the u.s. embassy in moscow was exp...

Cyberattacks will shut down key ukrainian institutions. after that, russian tanks and soldiers will advance on key targets that have already been identified and wrapped up in detail plans. >> the state department said tonight that the blinken will meet with sergei lab rob in -- provided there's no russian invasion. this comes as the u.s. says russia expelled its second most senior official of the american embassy in moscow, gorman. the state department calls it unprovoked and escalatory step. on the domestic front, the senate passed a short term funding bill, avoiding a government shutdown tha...

Joyful, hoping they might even be able to go back home, but i think the rest of the world is very concerned that this has been an escalatory step, not a step in the direction towards peace, this could be towards something far worse. the earlier reports spoke about how it was mainly women and children who were taken out, and if that is the case, many of the people you are speaking to would have sons, brothers and husbands still in the area, that must cause concern, perhaps creating a fear that there could be some military activity? yes, many people are very worried. we spoke to one woman recent...

Unprovoked and an escalatory step. bart gorman was ordered out and left russia's capital last week. cnn's erin burnett is in ukraine. the u.s. is detailing these types of false flag operations russia could use and quite vivid pictures. what can you tell us? >> reporter: they are offering this level of detail and this is the consensus view. as senator tim kaine said there are some allies who don't fully agree putin is eminently going to attack. that is firmly what the u.s. government believes.d tantony b could blame the ukrainians, could say they find mass graves, for example, in the donbas reg...