definitively given on toward to proceed with the invasion. and you vn been shown any intelligence that speaks to that we have not seen anything come to us that said a final decision has been taken, and the go order has been given. what i will say and talking to american citizens and the reason we re taking the various actions that we re taking, the reason the president convened our closest allies and partners from across the nato alliance and the european union is because we believe he very well may give the final go order. that is a very distinct possibility. but we are not standing here before you today and saying that the order has been given, the invasion is on. it may well happen, it may well happen soon. but we are not saying, i think the way that you ve just characterized it, i have not seen the pbs report yet, but that does not capture the communication that we are making to our nato allies, nor what we understand internally.
already said. we encourage all american citizens who remain in ukraine to depart immediately. we want to be chris critical clear. any american should leave as soon as possible and in the next 24 to 48 hours. we obviously cannot predict the future. we don t know exactly what is going to happen. but the risk is now high enough and the threat is now immediate enough that this is what putin demands. if you stay, you are assuming risk with no guarantee that there will be any other opportunity to leave and no prospect of a u.s. military evacuation in the event of a russian invasion. if a russian attack on ukraine proceeds, it is likely to begin with aerial bombing and missile attacks that could obviously kill skcivilians without regardo their nationality. a ground invasion would involve the onslaught of a massive
liebermann and nic robertson editor in moscow for us and kylie atwood joins us from the state department. there is so much to go over. spider, let me start with you. what did you hear there? what i heard was frankly what we have been talking about for the past couple of days. which is russia is poised, with its milt forces to conduct an invasion at any time. it could be imminent. what we heard in greater detail was jake sullivan laid out the possibility that kyiv could come under assault, but he did he did indicate that an invasion of some sort would take place. again, what we have discussed, that is probably more likely in the donbass region because if putin wanted to occupy and absorb ukraine, he does not have sufficient force deployed to do