emboldening and embolizing this real shift of strategy from the white house when it comes to russia heading into this critical week. >> thank you so much. laura? eu foreign ministers are meeting in brussels to discuss the crisis in ukraine. cnn's melissa bell joins us on that. melissa, what can we expect out of this meeting? >> reporter: well, we're going to be looking to see what unity europe has managed to achieve on this question. of course, laura, what we have been hearing from antony blinken, secretary of state, was the need for unity, a unified response from nato. that unity in nato depends on the european union and the unity that it manages to find on this question. we know this is a bloc severely divided on the approach to take toward russia over the months and years. some favoring dialogue, some favoring strength. that's going to be at the heart of the discussions. we'll look at what would trigger