offers them a fairly direct pathway to kyiv, to the ukrainian capital. and what we understand from a senior lawmaker senator marco rubio, who has been receiving intelligence briefings on what the russian publicing for this invasion entails, tweeting just in recent hours that that incursion in particular suggests russian planning to try to cut off kyiv from ukraine s own forces operating in the east of the country, sort of butting up against the separatist-held republics in the east of the country. so the defense department intelligence community looking at how the ground campaign is going to unfold and what sort of air support might be brought into bear in order to facilitate that ground campaign. big question right now i think is will russia attempt to hold territory. russia has obviously said it doesn t intend to occupy
and in some cases they re following this in real time. they re piecing together some of the same trying to verify some of the same open source reports that you and i and the rest of our colleagues at cnn are watching. one thing we do know that defense officials are closely watching is this movement of russian troops across the border from belarus into ukraine. this is particularly significant because of course this provides them with practically a straight shot to kyiv to the nation s capitol. and what we have heard from at least one senior u.s. lawmaker. senator marco rubio, who is the senior republican and has been receiving briefings on russian planning, he said that movement is part of russian planning to try to isolate kyiv from the rest of the from a large number of ukrainian forces that are operating on the country s eastern flank kind of butting up to these separatist controlled regions in the east. bottom line right now, u.s. officials closely tracking how
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well, now to brussels for the latest on the trio of emergency summits. kevin liptak and natasha bertrand are both there covering the meetings. let me start with you, kevin. what is joe biden coming with in terms of new ideas, new sanctions to put more pressure on russia? because they ve really almost played every card they have in that regard. yeah, and you really do see the west kind of butting up against the limits of what they re willing to do in order to punish vladimir putin and also provide support to ukraine. and when you think about these types of summits, normally organizers have months and months to prepare for these so-called deliverables. u.s. officials and european officials have only had the last couple of weeks or so to come up with this package of announcements that they are expected to unveil today. when the president goes to nato, he is expected to discuss ramping up nato s force posture along the eastern flank of the alliance, both the short-term,
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