then those words about wanting to do not defy demilitarized ukraine were alarming. there is a sense that it s been fabricated by many people here as well of course. the state propaganda and ctv has been building this case for a long time now. russians and ukrainians fought side-by-side against the nazis in world war ii and president zelenskyy himself is jewish. it doesn t make sense. zelenskyy said he had tried to call putin last night, understanding this was about to happen. putin wouldn t take his call. putin wouldn t take his calls we decided to address the russian people directly in russian. he normally states in ukrainian, saying that we are two different nations but that does not mean we don t need to be enemies. we respect the russian culture. we don t want any of this. ukrainians on some russians, some of the dissidents and
democratic country at his borders, has moved in 190,000 troops and may at any minute unleash carnage on innocence. the president of the united states has worked with our allies in europe, with nato, with the e.u., has worked with ukraine in order to try to mount a defense to dissuade putin from doing this and these people are praising putin. the president, the former president of the united states trump is calling him a genius. you showed mike pompeo fawning over him before i came on i just noticed that mike pence is going on another network in a little bit to talk about the weakness of biden. nikki haley talking about the weakness of biden. this is outrageous behavior, and it would be more shocking if the russians didn t help elect donald trump in 2016, if donald
targeted here. banks, financial institutions in russia. the much bigger institutions which were missing from that initial list. so really, essentially, cutting off the major russian banks from financial markets across europe and in the u.s. freezing assets for many of them, and btb, which is russia s second largest bank, is facing full sanctions from the u.s. and the uk. we have just had the eu sanctions list overnight. lacking some detail. we should get more of that hopefully later today. other companies also being targeted now for sanctions within russia, particularly those i think, in the defense sector. so, russian companies which make tanks, ships, missiles, aircraft, that sort of thing. individuals. the oligarchs. those within putin s inner circle. those sanctions have been expanded considerably. so, many more people on that list, many of their families, as well. essentially, making it really hard for them to live their second lives in europe and the u.s. so, freezing assets, im
weak. yeah, even ted cruz figured out that the right thing to do was to stand down on blocking those state department nominees and praised biden for at least being strong in the face of putin. i want to ask you quickly, ambassador mcfaul, germany is having to have resolve here because they will be helped economically. they stood strong. we have sanctions against people on the russia side that did it. dimitri tweeted snack saying well, i guess europe will have to get used to really expensive gas and thinking that europe won t hold because their economic interests will eventually over take their understanding of good and evil. what do you make of the potential fortitude of our nato allies of europe, of the e.u.? well, i think if what everybody thinks is going to happen, putin goes in big and there is a massive war, there will be comprehensive sanctions and i think they ll stand together. i think the biden administration
russia-friendly proxy government, i think the big question then for officials here is does russia seek to maintain military forces in ukraine? does it seek to sort of occupy the country over the long-term? so that is one of the big, i think, unanswered questions going forward, michael. indeed. one of them. yeah. katie, at the pentagon, appreciate it. thanks so much. now, alexander is a senior fellow at the carnegie moscow center. he is with us from the russian capital, and thanks so much for for doing that. now, the u.s. and europe everyone really saw this coming for months, and couldn t stop it. putin knew that the u.s. and nato wouldn t step in. he judged he could handle the sanctions. what did the west do wrong? and what could the west do now to preserve ukraine s independence if that s even possible? well, the list of mutual grievances, missteps,