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Most significant thing, fredricka. in a way, we're looking at this kind of split screen, the military side and the diplomatic side. at least from here in moscow. and as you said, those major military exercises that have been going on for quite awhile were supposed to be over. people would be sent back to their bases. and maybe even equipment sent back. but that isn't happening. and the explanation for it is that they are going to continue readiness checks. that's how their mission is described. and why are they doing that? because of what is going on in the donbas region. and the instability. ...

Camps because they say that they are afraid of attacks by the ukrainians. ukrainians say we are not attacking and we have no intention to do that. and i should mention also that the men have been mobilized in those two breakaway regions in the donbas. then finally on the diplomatic track you went over that. from the moscow perspective, we have president macron of france speaking with president putin and president zelensky. and then tomorrow, monday, we expect the foreign minister, mr. lavrov, to speak with the french foreign minister. but on that track, it does not seem as if there is much bei...

The hours late we should have been doing many things weeks and months ago, but there's still time to ramp up new sanctions to make putin feel the cost of his aggression now. not later. now. >> right. in fact, that's what the ukrainian president is saying. deterrent is putting the sanctions in place now. after the fact, there is no, you know, deterrence for putin. so is there time for president biden, his administration, to put sanctions in place right now before an invasion is under way? a more full-throated invasion is under way? >> right. well, it's not simply the sanctions that they've thre...