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And number two, make sure we continue to maintain the economic sanctions which over time -- and we're beginning to see it -- are devastating their ability to move forward. the most important is to maintain unity. so far, so good. >> president biden with a lengthy explanation of sanctions and decisions he's taken to support the people and the government of ukraine in this war that russia has carried out, saying that there is no evidence, according to him, that mariupol has fallen to the russians and a lot more. let's talk about this. joining us now our nbc news correspondent carol lee from wash...

Kyiv still stands. president zelenskyy and his democratic elected government still remain in power. and ukrainian armed forces joined by many brave ukrainian civilians have thwarted russia's conquest of their country bolstered by a supply of weapons, ammunition, armor, intelligence from the nations of the free world led by us, the united states. as russia continues to grind out the military advances, and their military advances and the brew talts against ukrainians putin is banking on us loseing interest. you heard me say this from the beginning. he was counting on nato, european union, allies...

Overrunning the country, number one. and number two, make sure we continue to maintain the economic sanctions which over time -- and we're beginning to see they are devastating their economy and ability to move forward. most important thing right now is maintaining the unity. so far so good. thank you very much. >> mr. president. [inaudible question] >> thank you. >> bill: hard to hear that last question and answer. >> dana: he would ask the defense department to get the list of all the things he just said. >> bill: the major headline $800 million more in aid and more coming now that puts the ...

Politics, but including german politics. one of the really difficult diplomatic tasks of the biden administration in the case of invasion would be to try to keep the western alliance or even just the european alliance on board. the british, the poles, the collection, french, balts, other countries have given weapons to ukraine and said they will help ukraine deter an invasion but we don't know what germany would do and it's important that biden continue to work on them. >> david, i want you to quickly weigh in on this issue of western unity but then i want to ask you about afghanistan because ...

That this comes to nothing and putin doesn't engage and sort of backs off, in the face of western unity and western resolve, but at the moment as i say, i think we're in a very perilous instance in international diplomacy in which war is a realistic outcome in the coming days if not weeks. >> ominous words to be sure. putin no doubt has enhanced russia's standing in the world and his relationship with xi jingping of china something to watch. we appreciate it and hope you come back soon. still ahead, the wild ride on wall street continues. we'll go live to cnbc for a look at the markets ahead...