i consulted with our allies and partners. all agree. we re going live to ukraine in just a moment for the very latest there. and cnn s fareed zakaria will join us with his expert analysis. also ahead this hour, the three white men convicted of killing ahmaud arbery in georgia found guilty of all charges in their federal hate crimes trial. jurors concluding the defendants actions were racially motivated. they chased and killed arbery because he was black p. but i want to get right now to our big story here. cnn s michael holmes is live for us in lviv, ukraine. michael, hello to you. president biden came out very strongly against what he is now calling russia s invasion of ukraine. what has the reaction been in ukraine? reporter: hi, don. yeah, good morning from lviv in ukraine. ukraine has always taken a less strident position, let s say, than the u.s. and the west in general when it comes to the chances of full invasion. president zelenskyy, he still
here we are. so president biden scathing in his assessment of putin s actions in his speech, announcing new sanctions. listen to this. if russia goes further with this invasion, we stand prepared to go further as with sanctions. who in the lord s name does putin think gives him the right to declare new so-called countries on territory that belonged to his neighbors? this is a flagrant violation of international law and demands a firm response from the international community. david, hearing biden there asking who in the lord s name does putin think he is, it s a very biden thing to say. did he hit the mark with sanctions because there s a lot at stake. yeah, look, i think i agree with what fareed said a couple of minutes ago. i think he s been very deliberate, careful, tough but careful about how he s approached this. he s done very well in keeping the nato allies knit together, which is something that putin
are those the only likely things to hurt putin most? look, the biden administration faces a difficult challenge, and they re handling it carefully, deliberately, systematically, and i think basically intelligently. you are trying to punish putin for what he has done but also deter him for what he might do. both your previous guests pointed out the crucial issue is that putin has recognized these independent republics in a larger area than they currently control. so right now the reality is russian forces already occupy part of the donbas. the question is are they going to try to now control the entire donbas, which is well beyond what they control now, which would mean fairly bloody combat with ukrainian government forces. so you re trying to deter them
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so i expect that he s got a state of the union next week and this will be a part of that as well. and it should be. this is a really serious thing. i spent my life writing about politics, involved in politics. so it s a weird thing for me to say. but sometimes you have to be you have to sort of set the politics aside. this is one of those issues. and however the politics nets out for biden, what you sense from him is that he understands the gravity of this moment and the historical import of this moment and he s proceeding apace, deliberately and i think wisely to try and confront the moment. well, politics aside. but you know politics, they re always at play here at home. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is blaming weakness by the biden administration for russia s invasion of ukraine. here it is. i don t believe vladimir putin would have a couple