concerns. the kremlin committing today to talks with washington and the west as early as next month. a military response has been threatened by russian president vladimir putin if his demands are not met. >> we hope substantive and meaningful talks clear result reached by a certain deadline which provide equal safety for. >> everybody the demands include ukraine not joining nato and the u.s. and nato pulling back troops, offensive weaponry and military gear from ukraine and other eastern european countries. russia has been massing some 100,000 troops near ukraine prompting fears of full scale invasion. >> i'm sure the russian military has plans for invasion of ukraine. so you have to take it very seriously. and you have to deter them from making mistakes. >> president biden says severe cons' short of a military response. the u.s. is willing to talk with russia. it's saying red line item like a ban on u.n.-nato membership are