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Security and cooperation in europe is meeting in vienna. it will host the third round of talks this week aimed at solving the ukraine crisis. it follows talks on wednesday between russia and nato that ended in deadlock. you are looking at the moment at live pictures out of vienna. meantime, the u.s. says it has finalized sanctions options should russia decide to invade ukraine. one senior u.s. official saying they are ready to be issued as soon as tanks cross that border. let's get more on the story. cnn's nic robertson joins us now from brussels. nic, when you and i spoke this time roughly ...

Vladimir putin. those are the people that can potentially convince putin not to take certaining shuns. what the u.s. and allies are hoping, by targeting these oligarchs, threatening to freeze their assets, target their families even, they can hopefully pull strings with russian president vladimir putin and try to get him to pull back from the border. there's a range of other sanctions options that the u.s. is looking at, not just sanctioning the inner circle of the kremlin, to include sanctions on russia's major banks and tight export controls over russia. this is something experts had been ca...

Not start now. >> one more question on france, jake. they are -- they have suggested a hefty eu-wide tariff should be imposed as opposed to a blanket ban on russian imports into the eu. does the u.s. support that and is that what you're planning to do next in terms of sanctions? >> we are having conversations as i stand here at this podium with senior officials in the main european capitals as well as in brussels on the full range of sanctions options, including sanctions options or pressure options that relate to energy. i'm not going to negotiate that out of this podium. we want to make sure...

Up these sanctions options, with the nse, with the treasury department, look at a whole host of options as biden administration officials have been saying, things that the united states hasn't done in the past, to economically impinge on russia. the key here, however, is that they do want to act as phil was saying, alongside allies, so it's figuring out what the options are here that the united states has its disposal, that allies will do alongside them. two significant things that the national security adviser said there is that he's not willing to publicly detail what those economic sanction...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has plenty of options to make good on its...