to start every day and how do you live their life? do you send your kid to school? the reports are the ukrainians are resisting. at what level and in what kind of organization. the reporting is still very spotty. and i hope to have more information by late tonight. what is your understanding of president zelenskyy and any potential exit plan out of the country if putin does do what you fear he may do? i think a week ago the sense was the ukrainian government might move to leave in the far western part of ukraine where our diplomats and other nation diplomats have already moved. whether the russian forces will or some sense start and stop around kyiv and split the country two-thirds by russia and one-third western ukraine where russians are even more unpopular. but we re seeing, well not direct attacks but seeing
we are coming on the air at 3:00 eastern here in washington, 10:00 at night in kyiv with continuing breaking news coverage of what is now an all-out war in europe. this hour we have white house press secretary jen psaki set to brief reporters for the first time since we heard about the tough new sanctions from president biden targeting some of russia s biggest banks close to vladimir putin. u.s. troops in europe after that overnight attack on ukraine by russian forces. putin s aggression against ukraine will end up costing russia dearly economically and strategically. we will make sure of that. right now in ukraine a new curfew is just going into effect in kyiv. you re looking at it live on your screen right now like i said. couple hours from midnight there with multiple u.s. sources
two. my gut reflex when i heard this because this is beyond the pale this invasion. no matter what, there is no justification. was to kind of say, no, we have to go maximum on the sanction, no, i m going to pull back and i m going to trust the administration. we ve been playing this hand very carefully and they have a strategic thing, objective also to keep europe together. europe is horrified by this. i m going to pull back my initial impulse that sanctioned them and all and, last, i am against putting the talk about putting u.s. and nato boots on the ground, which will give, it will be like putting a red flag in front of the russian and given the justification to really, really get crazy. this is pretty crazy. so, i think now it s anaconda and sanctions stifling sanctions and political isolation and how
do they create a second front in the far east, which would be a huge, gigantic for everybody in the world or do they try to work away to pull russia back from the brink? it s devilishly complex and potentially quite dangerous. da courtney, andrea asked a question about clarification on nato troop deployments. do you have a clarification for us? andrea is right and started when president biden talked about he made it sound as if this additional troop deployment is for the nato response force but nato met specifically nato atlantic council met this morning and had a readout not talking about it being activated and defense officials have said there s no response that the force the activated and the
between the united states and russia and europe and russia. as to which is stronger, it s hard to say. but because it s hard to measure because of the backlash that you would have from isolating russia from s.w.i.f.t. the sanctions that have been announced today are very tough. when people think of sanctions, they shouldn t think of the actual measure taken. what i mean is when the united states sanctioned today vtb bank, yes, assets in the united states is frozen and u.s. cannot do business with that target any more but what it does is unleash market forces and financial institutions and banks and businesses around the world that aren t in jurisdictions that sanctions will question whether they want to do business with them. they ll question whether they want to take capital outflows. so, market sources are unleashed and around the world you see this effort because they prefer to maintain relationships with new york. because they prefer to do