working with 30 countries across four continents to levee an unprecedented set of financial sanctions, export control measures. other steps to have an impact on the russian economy and to bring russia to the negotiating table as well. we are looking at every authority, every tool that s available to us we have pulled many of those levers. if there s another authority, if there s another tool that is available to us and effective, we won t hesitate to use it. how about the declaration of a state sponsored list. these tools are stachtorially defined. we statutorily defined. we re taking a closer look at it.
we decide we have to do more? we appreciate hearing from senator coons. he takes a keen interest in foreign policy. he has close relationships with the secretary in this building and the president too. there are two elements of our strategy. the first is to continue to provide security assistance to our ukrainian partners. we provided more than $2.5 billion since the start of the russian invasion. it s empowering our ukrainian partners to defend their country and defend their rights at the battlefield. at the same time the second pillar is to continue to do what i mentioned a moment ago. that is to impose costs on the kremlin through additional sanctions, through additional export control measures, through other steps. as we empower ukraine, we re
borders. really the u.s. is hoping they can find some way to move forward with russia in a collaborative process that will diffuse tensions and hopefully get them to move those forces back from the ukraine ian borde but it s still a long way from what the russians want which is that commitment nato will not expand further east, will not include ukraine as a member ever. a commitment the biden administration bilaterally can t actually make given the fact nato is a large group operation. administration officials you walked through potential carrots here. there are definitely real sticks, too. officials telling cnn they re prepared to impose harsh economic sanctions if russia invades ukraine. they ve been detailed about the scale of these. what specifically are they talking about? yes, so they want russia to know what exactly the u.s. and its allies are prepared to do if they move forward with that invasion. those include really harsh export control measures, things like blocking the
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consideration? we are mindful of what we think is the most effective deterrent and the severe economic sanctions packed this something that would go far beyond what was done and what was on the table in 2014, including the consideration of imposing unprecedented export control measures, that would hit hard president putin s ambitions. unprecedented export control measures that go far beyond what was done and what was on the table in 2014. as russian president vladimir putin enjoys keeping the whole world in suspense as to when and whether he s going to start another war by invading the neighboring nation of ukraine. white house press secretary jen psaki today said the biden administration is considering an unprecedented economic measure as a tool to deter russia from doing just that. now, it sounds boring, but it could be a really big deal. it s an export control measure, as she said, it s only been used once before by the united states. and it would effectively cut brush-off frump