that crisscrossed europe, from geneva to brussels and vienna. at the end of it, the russian foreign minister, sergei lavrov, appeared to throw in the towel. 0ur patience, he said, is at an end. but here we are, four days on, and the process is actually shifting up a gear. mr lavrov and antony blinken are due to meet on friday, once again in geneva. the talking, it seems, is not quite over. but the tremors of this crisis are being felt right across europe. 0n the baltic island of gotland, sweden is beefing up its presence, concerned about nearby russian activity and what it calls russia s direct threat to europe s security. paul adams, bbc news. president biden having some rather strong words in that news conference earlier. 0ur north america correspondent gary 0 donoghue is at the white house for us this evening. what did you make of the language
to deter this activity from moscow. last week, we saw a diplomatic trail that criss crossed europe from geneva to brussels and vienna. at the end of it, the russian foreign minister, sergei lavrov, appeared to throw in the towel. 0ur patience, he said, is at an end. but here we are, four days on, and the process is actually shifting up a gear. mr lavrov and antony blinken are due to meet on friday, once again in geneva. the talking, it seems, is not quite over. but the tremors of this crisis are being felt right across europe. 0n the baltic island of gotland, sweden is beefing up its presence, concerned about nearby russian activity and what it calls russia s direct threat to europe s security. paul adams, bbc news. in a news conference, marking his first anniversary as us president, joe biden warned russia that the consequences of a large war would be heavy, but implied
the territorial defending forces, 130,000, we have 400,000 veterans of the ukrainian russian war. so i m sure that we have the capacity to deter this activity from moscow. last week we saw a diplomatic trail that crisscrossed europe from geneva to brussels and vienna. at the end of it, the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov appeared to throw in the towel. 0ur patience, he said, is at an end. and for days on the process is actually shifting up a gear. mr lavrov and antony blinken are due to meet on friday, once again in geneva. the talking, it seems, is not quite over. but the tremors of this crisis are being felt right across europe. 0n the baltic island of gotland, sweden is beefing up its presence, concerned about nearby russian activity and what it calls russia s direct threat to europe s security. paul adams, bbc news.
we have the options to have territorial defending forces, 130,000. we have 400,000 veterans of ukrainian russian war, so i m sure that we have a capacity to deter this activity from moscow. last week, we saw a diplomatic trail that criss crossed europe from geneva to brussels and vienna. at the end of it, the russian foreign minister, sergei lavrov, appeared to throw in the towel. 0ur patience, he said, is at an end. but here we are, four days on, and the process is actually shifting up a gear. mr lavrov and antony blinken are due to meet on friday, once again in geneva. the talking, it seems, is not quite over. but the tremors of this crisis are being felt right across europe. 0n the baltic island of gotland, sweden is beefing up its presence,
last week, we saw a diplomatic trail that criss crossed europe from geneva to brussels and vienna. at the end of it, the russian foreign minister, sergei lavrov, appeared to throw in the towel. 0ur patience, he said, is at an end. but here we are, four days on, and the process is actually shifting up a gear. mr lavrov and antony blinken are due to meet on friday, once again in geneva. the talking, it seems, is not quite over. but the tremors of this crisis are being felt right across europe. 0n the baltic island of gotland, sweden is beefing up its presence, concerned about nearby russian activity and what it calls russia s direct threat to europe s security. paul adams, bbc news. in a news conference, marking his first anniversary as us president, joe biden warned russia that the consequences of a large war would be heavy but implied that may not occur if moscow stopped short of full invasion.