jets to the region and they will reduce staff at the american embassy in kyiv, because of quote, continued threats of significant russian military action. so let s begin with kaitlan collins. so what is the plan for the video call next hour? well this is a call that has about nine leaders on there from europe. ukraine is not on this call. we just asked the white house about that. they poipnted to other conversations the biden administration has had with them, and including tony blinkent, but this is not on this call that will happen this afternoon from the situation room and a call scheduled as we know president biden is considering sending more u.s. troops in the sense of deterrence as they wait to see what the russian president is going to do and they don t know what move the russian leader wants to take next and they are watching. there was a report over the weekend after they believe russian was trying to install a pro-russian leader in ukraine. all of that is on agenda
economists. sandra: and the ukraine, a russian invasion could come at any moment. the state department is warning americans in ukraine to get out now before it is too late. sandra smith in new york. hello. john: good to be with you another week, sandra. state department says families of u.s. diplomats at the embassy in kyiv need to leave now and other americans in the country should go as well. the u.s. military sending nearly 200,000 pounds of lethal aid to ukraine over the weekend and fox news confirming president biden has been given options for u.s. troop deployment in support of nato allies in eastern europe. sandra: comes as the russian troop build-up continues. 137,000 russian troops are posted at a dozen points along the border. a former state department spokesperson will join us. john: greg palkot has a view from the ground there. we are in the capital of kyiv, and it is on edge. looking at the russian troops around the borders, and neighboring belarus, les
it warned americans not to travel to ukraine or russia citing, quote, increased threats of russian military action. they ran military drills over the weekend. and a new report from the british foreign ministry says the kremlin s end game could be to install a pro-russian regime in ukraine. sources tell nbc news that intelligence comes from the united states. a second delivery of american wep importance has been delivered. antony blinken met with sergei lavrov over the weekend. that did not result in a major breakthrough but secretary blinken tells nbc news an agreement is still possible. even as we re building up deterrents, even as we re building up defense for ukraine, we re also engaged in diplomacy and dialogue. that is preferably the preferred path. that s the responsible thing we ll do. we ll pursue it. we ll at this point to build up the defense and deterrence that is necessary. lawmakers are calling to sanction russia as soon as possible hoping that an economic
price, the state department spokesperson talking about the diplomatic push to try and de-escalate the extremely tough situation. as we re coming on the air, president biden scheduled to start a video call with the european allies any minute to determine what to do regarding the massive russian troop buildup on ukraine s border. it s all deterrency and defense. all of this spooking the markets, too, in the final hour of trading. at one point, you saw the dow plunging 1100 points before recovering just a little bit, i m hallie jackson in washington. we re going to cover all of this and tense situations with nbc reporter frank call lynn. frank, what going on. a bit of a recovery, but we ve got an hour, still, until close. yeah, you know, it s a mixed bag of things. thanks for having me on the show. mixed bag of things putting pressure on the markets. you mentioned national markets. tenure 1.7%. anything over 1.5% put a lot of pressure on tech stocks, as we know, during the p
border. zelensky telling the senators, it s very important for ukraine that you are with us today. cnn s matthew matthew, let s start with russia s latest moves, including sniper drills. what s the latest? reporter: look, russia has tens of thousands of troops that have gathered can matthew is talking. let s listen to matthew. reporter: yeah. so to answer that question, russia has got tens of thousands of forces that it has been gathering near the border of ukraine. there are sniper drills that have recently been announced. there are tank drills. there are infantry drills. all of that sending a very powerful message, that at any moment, if the kremlin gives the order, vladimir putin and the kremlin says so, they can go in and invade ukraine once again. obviously, that s created an incredibly tense situation here in kiev, with all sorts of speculation about russian moves. the issue you mentioned about the evacuation of the russian embassy in the ukrainian capital.