the territorial defense forces. so there definitely will not be the russian forces only out there. hanna shelest, ben rhodes, andrea kendall-taylor, mick memoli, richard engel. courtney kube at the white house. thank you all so much. hallie jackson brings up the breaking news coverage. she ll be joined by the chairman the senate foreign relations committee bob menendez. relatios committee bob menendez only at applebee s people everywhere living with type 2 diabetes are waking up to what s possible. with rybelsus®. the majority of people taking rybelsus® lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than 7.
the press secretaries of both respective buildings. since we ve learned about a couple of key developments in the crisis in ukraine. specifically, the president biden is ratcheting up the sanctions on russia, now targeting the nord stream 2 pipeline. and over they pentagon, this very urgent warning from a senior defense official telling nbc news russia is literally ready to go with a large-scale invasion of ukraine. so, there s a lot. we re going to learn a lot in the next 30 minutes depending on when both of these briefings start, mike covering the white house, bill taylor and andrea kendall-taylor former deputy intelligence officer at the national intelligence council. first of all, thank you both very much for your patience. we ve been juggling a lot this hour. i m sure we re going to do that for the rest of the afternoon. andrea, to you, you have extensive experience in this field. we ve talked about the sanctions. talk about the warning coming in
them. recognizing an area that russia already controls where there are no ukrainian troops is one thing. after saying ukraine doesn t have the right to exist but recognized in large areas that are heavily populated, heavily militarized, where russia does not control to many people in the city, put a significant degree of fear in their heart. it was a fiery speech and, as you said, he did try to say ukraine does not exist but should not exist. deputy national intelligence officer for russia, current lip with the center for a new american security. andrea, thank you so much for joining us. putin s end game. we hear president biden saying he s going 10 shore up nato forces in nato countries. what is the concern this is going to bleed over ukraine and perhaps threaten a nato aligned
hello, i m nuala mcgovern. you re watching context on bbc news. ukraine s port city mariupol continues to face heavy shelling by russia. the city s deputy mayor says at least 1200 people have been killed there with some buried in a mass grave. the uk introduces a new streamlined visa system for ukrainian refugees from tuesday, after growing criticism that not enough was being done for ukrainians trying to reach britain. uk foreign secretary says russia is committing war crimes in ukraine amid growing calls for an international war crimes investigation. tonight with the context, andrea kendall taylor, former deputy national intelligence officer for russia and eurasia, in the office of the director of national intelligence and paul waugh, chief political commentator at the inewspaper.
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