building measures to increase transparency and predictability about their military ak tifts and the budapest memorandum. in the past 24 hours alone, with his actions in the 24 past hours alone, president putin has violated all of these agreements, undoing 30 years of painstaking security. every time russia breaks one of these agreements, it not only endangers the country it s threatening at the time but nations everywhere that have been made safer and more secure by the international rules-based order. last week i agreed to meet russian foreign minister sergey lavrov this week on february 24th to discuss our countries respective concerns about
the kremlin when asked said they just didn t watch biden s speech. president putin was busy with a working meeting, so not too much there, but we know the russians expected this. they ve been open about that. it s something putin and various other officials have been repeatedly bringing up. and they ve kind of told the russian people that sanctions will happen no matter what. it s important to look at that. the fact they re saying sanctions will happen no matter what because it does feed into the domestic narrative we see here as being sold to the russians about a hostile west kind of being behind all of the things they re being told are happening in ukraine. so that s just kind of where we re at now with the sanctions. we ll obviously hear probably a little bit more tomorrow from the kremlin at the daily briefing and possibly some of
unprovoked and unjustified war on another sobering state in europe which russia now intensify. president putin killed minsk agreements and attacked the world order. it is great breach against the law and sovereign integrity. the u.n. strongly believes the time for sanctions is now and welcome today s announcement of sanctions by president biden. the world must respond with all its economic might to punish russia for the crimes it has already committed and ahead of the crimes it plans to commit. hit russia s economy now and hit it hard.
putin and other officials. very quickly, you ve pointed out this has been unfolding since october. do you think people at the administration, president biden and others who are really running the show, are surprised to find themselves where they find themselves today? i think from the beginning, they had intelligence that said this is different. this isn t just an exercise. they had something. we still don t know quite what it was, that told them this was operational planning. this was for real. and that there were orders from the top to move forward. putin, in the summer, had published this extraordinary manifesto about his personal grievance, his sense of anger toward ukraine, that it wasn t really a real country. it was part of russia. he laid it out in the summer. cia analysts took it very
efforts to consolidate what he sees as his borders and russian security. so i think avoiding that frozen conflict situation, that unresolved poisonous move by putin is crucial and i m not sure the administration has a clear plan yet for how to deal with that. they want to make russia feel the pain. make this difficult. make it hurt enough that putin has to give it up, but as we ve seen, putin s not a leader who gives up easily and the russian people have shown in all the wars they ve fought, that anybody bets on them quitting because the going gets rough makes a bad bet. we re losing our connection, david. we re about to see the joint news conference in washington. that seems like it should be imminent given that we gave the