blinken will meet with his russian counterpart in kiev this week. joining us now is white house reporter natasha bertrand and we have senior national correspondent matthew chance with us in ukraine. natasha, tell us more about this potential military boost and why the biden administration is considering this step. reporter: yeah. ana, what we re seeing is kind of a shift in mentality by the biden administration from a focus pry marivel on deterring a russian invasion to actually supporting ukranian forces in the event that russia does invade and then implements kind of a long-term occupation of the country, so what we re hearing is that the administration has started weighing options to provide support to ukranian forces to push back on that occupation in order to allow them to sustain a longer-term resistance to russian forces being in that country and that including additional items like