if you read out, get some read-outs from what happened saturday you actually had the ukrainians talking about the possibility of peace, talking but then sunday we wake up, horrific news. you wrote about how much more difficult this was going to make it for the world community to come to terms, not with the vladimir putin, as biden said, with vladimir putin being a butcher, being a war criminal. how exactly do you get this guy back into the g7, g8? yeah, there had been some talk of even some momentum towards a zelenskyy/putin summit. this had been enough progress, they thought it was in the offing. that now probably has changed and it would be that much more difficult. white house officials i talked to wonder how could zelenskyy negotiate the ending of this war if it meant giving up an inch of territory to vladimir putin.
Ukraine's foreign minister on Monday welcomed a French initiative for a summit between US President Joe Biden and Russia's Vladimir Putin, saying Kyiv hoped it would result in Moscow pulling back its troops.
It's clear that the Biden Administration remains divided over what to do but that some members within it are dangerously flirting with the possibility of provoking what they mistakenly think might be a 'manageable crisis' with Russia. US.
dial this back, if anything? reporter: well, you know, it s interesting. this is like a very more alarmist version, a rerun of the scenario that we saw in the spring before the first biden/putin summit. remember, they had an early summit. there was at that time a kind of ukraine war scare. thousands of troops sent to the border. that is much more significant, i think it s almost twice the size of a potential invasion force that russia has sent to the border due to increase hostilities and there s a question when you have 175,000 troops on the border. i was there in the run of kuwait in the run-up to the iraq war and it s hard to build up a force, ran enormous amount of money. not an option that vladimir putin can take out of his crib at one point and the question is why now? is it because he s demanding joe