could repeat the second question. just around the confidence that the intelligence world has around whether this will happen before the olympics. the intelligence community has sufficient confidence that i could stand before you today and say what i have said. which is that there is a distinct possibility that vladimir putin would order a military action in an invasion of ukraine in this window, in this time period. and that could include the time period before february 20th, before the beijing olympics have been completed. and so they believe that everything that i have just said is well grounded in both what they are seeing on the ground on what they are picking up through various sources. now to your question about what type of action it would be, we would be clear it could take a range of different forms. but i want to be equally keir that one of those forms is a rapid asaul on the city of kyiv.
world including the two you just mentioned. so let me just leave it thank you. well, that was a sobering press conference. just given there by jake sullivan, the national security advise adviser who was updating americans where the biden administration believes ukraine and russia stand right now. and basically the headlines are there are signs of russian escalation and new forces arriving at the border and a russian invasion could begin any time. he said even during the olympics, during the next nine days. also that the u.s. stands at the ready to respond to either way. and also that they urge all americans to depart immediately. any who are still in ukraine should get out now. they said he said, quote, the rick is now high enough, the threat immediate enough. let s talk about this. let s bring in major general spider marks, also cnn military analyst kim doetschyer oren
would you could delve into why would russia risk provoking china in an action during the olympics and secondly, you could speak more broadly to the china/russia, it looks like an emerging alliance here on certain issues hoiw much does that concern you? i would say three things about this. first, you know, russia s calculus, vis-a-vis china, will they ll make beijing upset, that is between russia and china and putin will have to decide what he wants to do on that front. and china has its own decisions to make. and to the extent they are giving a wink and a nod or a green light to a russian invasion of ukraine for no justified reason, i believe that china will come to suffer consequences a result of that in the eyes of the rest of the world, most notably in the eyes of our european partners and allies. and then finally i would just say that we do not believe that china could compensate russia for the economic losses that
targeted. for a fifth straight day protesters have halted traffic on the ambassador bridge. that is the busiest international crossing in north america. workers in the michigan auto industry stand to lose $51 million in wages this week alone. after several major auto plants are cutting production and shifts. and if you think that the cost of new cars was bad before, the blockade is making it worse. this is an illegal blockade and while people have the right to protest, they don t have a right to illegally block the largest land border crossing in north america. hundreds of millions of let s get right to the white house where jake sullivan, the national security adviser is giving an update on ukraine. in the situation on russia and ukraine and then i would be happy to take your questions. we continue to see signs of russian escalation including now forces arriving at the border. as we ve said before, we re in the window when an invasion
will get. the ukrainians are getting weaponry and training on it like the turkish drones that they used in syria, in libya and in and the ground is getting softer. if he wanted to do a blitzkrieg seizure of kyiv, his tanks but they could do it later, but the mud in ukraine in the spring makes an invasion harder. kylie, is that what prompted coming out so vocally today and telling americans get out, gist to make sure that they have given americans enough of a heads up and to alert them that the plmilitary will not be ableo save if you if you don t heed this warning. that is right. you heard more information about what americans could potentially expect if they decide to stay in ukraine. the national security adviser saying that it is a risk if they stay is there. specifically saying that they