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At all, so that might be why it's taking a little bit of time. the eu who disagreed on things were very firm with its allies and today announced further military help for ukraine, pledging more military support. bianna. >> phil mattingly, anna stewart, thank you. we should note many of these officials in russia that have been sanctioned have been sanctioned before, and they say before a russian audience that they wear it as a badgeful honor. how they feel personally, one could only guess. >> we'll see if putin himself is next. bianna, thanks so much. moments ago i had the chance to speak to ...

Including any other european country. >> there the latvian prime minister, thanks very much to him. bianna, a notable headline there confirming that it is his information that he has seen that russia has already moved new forces into the occupied donbas area into eastern ukraine which, as he described, constitutes an invasion. it may explain, may help explain, why we've seen all these sanctions coming through in the last 24 hours. >> yeah, a really different world in the past 42, 78 hours, jim. i think what we've seen, especially with members of these baltic members, they're not responding to ...

Now, what options are left? >> sanctions are one of the tools, bianna, and i think we should do them particularly in a targeted way. you saw some of na yesterday going after institutions, certain banks, going after certain individuals as opposed to broad-based sanctions which many fall into putin's narrative. you have to raise the costs of what likely is to come. you've got to strengthen nato. you don't want mr. putin tempted to do something even worse. i think you also want to keep getting out of the narrative. i think it's important to explain that this is a war that vladimir putin is bringi...

Additional sanctions on russia, saying even if russia were to take no further action in ukraine, the u.s. and its allies will continue to impose costly sanctions on that country. >> senior white house correspondent phil mattingly is in d.c. and anna stewart is in london. phil, first to you. the u.s. has already leveled several sanctions on putin's inner circle and notably their children, this is a different approach and one president biden warned he would take in crimea and russia. break this down for us all. >> reporter: they are going after targets that are perhaps out of play and that they'...

Own narrative. >> ambassador haass, is it possible that we at large are under estimating putin's chances of winning, however brutal from his perspective, his last four military entanglements in chechnya and in syria, from his perspective, he won. is it possible here he gets what he wants? >> it is possible, and i think you're right, too many people, jim, have been too sanguine about the so-called porcupine advance, we're going to turn ukraine into afghanistan. that ought to be our goal but we shouldn't be sanguine about it. the russians were talking about