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The russian president. this is about borders, sovereignty, a world order that existed for decades and decades. jim sciutto in lviv. thank you. putin s escalation drew a quick response from the white house. president biden planning to impose new sanctions on the two eastern ukrainian territories where the russian leader is sending in forces. but the white house, as bermen mentioned there, has stopped short of calling this an invasion. let s go to jeremy diamond who is live for us at the white house. what is biden prepared to do, jeremy? and why stop short of calling it an invasion? reporter: yeah, brianna. as you just said, the white house has so far has had a pretty measured response to what we have seen from russia thus far. yesterday we saw president biden signing an executive order, issuing these limited sanctions prohibiting new investment trade and financing by americans into those two regions in eastern ukraine, which president putin has now recognized as independent states ....
Die ya tribe, one hour diatribe last night where he attacked the ukrainians, he attacked the united states, everything that s happened since the fall of the soviet union, he is laying the ground for a much bigger invasion. and maybe the white house still thinks that there s time for more diplomacy. but, one really has to question how much more diplomacy there can be given what putin said last night. yeah. angela, he didn t say these territories in eastern ukraine are originally created by russia. he said ukraine was created by russia. to your point, angela. yeah. he did. he said ukraine never existed as a state. these are things he said before, but he said with it a venom last night. yeah, it s an artificial state and really denigrated the ukrainians and said they were corrupt, vessels of the united states. they were trying to acquire nuclear weapons. i don t know where he gets his information from. ....
Have heard from the un, we have heard from ukraine, where it russia fit into this? fit into this? well, the russian ambassador fit into this? well, the russian ambassador to fit into this? well, the russian ambassador to the fit into this? well, the russian ambassador to the un, - fit into this? well, the russian ambassador to the un, he - fit into this? well, the russian i ambassador to the un, he spoke, fit into this? well, the russian - ambassador to the un, he spoke, he repeated a lot of what we have heard the russians saying from the outset. this isn t an invasion, it isjust in response to what they called genocide happening of ethnic russians in eastern ukraine. again, something the secretary general has rejected that description. ukrainians have called that absurd. the russian ambassador also responded to the ukrainian ambassadors claims that russia was targeting civilians. he said that they weren t. so a lot of his speech was, as i said, repeating a lot of the russian rhe ....
The sea of a solve, he has joint and combined capability to provide support were this to be a decision of invasion. he has the capability. this is another area where you can push in here. what can ukrainians do about this? the ukrainians obviously look at a map in detail, the ukrainians have forces that are in this area. this is the separation line. so there s been fighting across this line, but this is controlled by russian forces and separatists. the ukrainians are throughout this area. if putin was to push like this, or just simply in this area, he is going to face ukrainian forces. this is where a fight will occur. and again, i want people to know. this is where they are right now. the next stage would be here, the areas of separatists claim. another stage would be trying to connect it with crimea here. these are the different stages. i want to pull out to the overall situation here. when we talk about a large scale invasion of ukraine, what would that be? well, a large sca ....
In december. so making that move in december ahead of this move. it is also diversified trade partners. the eu is still russia s biggest customer, but it s expanded trade with china, including opening a major gas pipeline between those two in 2019 and moscow has been trimming its debt, according to the journal. that could help the government keep funded if these big sanctions are imposed. and remember, as energy prices rise here, russia makes money. the majority of its exports of course are oil and gas. christine romans, look at that chart right there. appreciate it. so the ukraine crisis, the russian invasion sending troops into ukraine. it marks a pivotal moment for the biden presidency. how will he respond? it s verdict watch in the murder of ahmaud arbery, the case these three men are found in. will the jury find these men guilty of hate crimes? i put my armor on, show you how strong i am ....