takes. it comes as the u.s. is accusing russia of committing crimes against humanity. the declaration marks the strongest accusation yet from the u.s., as it seeks to punish moscow for its invasion of ukraine. we declared from day one that they were committing war crimes. we have announced that they re committing crimes against humanity, and we re looking at the facts on the ground. i had an opportunity to visit a forensic lab that we re supporting in helping them to gather the evidence that they will need and we will need to hold the russians accountable. we have correspondents covering this for us at the white house and on the ground in ukraine. let s begin with coverage from priscilla alvarez at the white house. what are the expectations for the president s trip to poland? white house officials have made clear, paula, this is a crucial moment not only because of that one-year anniversary which is just around the corner but also as u.s. and western officials warn of a
tomorrow night, joe biden goes to poland to deliver that message himself. this comes on the heels of the munich security conference where the u.s. state will have hard nosed positions on several fronts, warning china not to provide lethal aid to russian troops to ukraine. let s go to the white house. priscilla, tell us about the new emergency funds for earthquake relief before we get to what s been happening on the foreign policy front. reporter: secretary of state blinken announced that they are going to provide $100 million in disaster relief aid to turkey and syria, which have been devastated by the earthquake. that money is going to be split between emergency response, as well as humanitarian assistance. now, secretary blinken was able to survey the damage himself, and he said the efforts to recovery are very, very challenging. but, again, the u.s. is bringing more aid into this country. it would bring it to a total of $185 million that the u.s. has provided so far. jim
the drone attacks, we showed one in the last hour, inside russia. there was that one more recently in moscow. what do they tell you? what do we know about them? these very important, poppy. you look at two different areas. you re really close to the ukrainian border, you have a town which was attacked by a drone, not a big surprise. it s very close to the ukrainian border, but moscow. that is about 800 kilometers away from the ukrainian border. so a bit over almost 500 miles. the ukrainian drones that are probably being used are something like this. this is a model attack drone, built by the ukrainians. they are able to use this, it has the range to go from ukraine to moscow, and it has potential payloads of weapons that could potentially cause the damage that we saw at that high raise in moscow, so these are very,
More what the end game of putin is bring in a former cia operative and author of a book the unexpected spy. tracking down some of the world the most notorious terrorists. talk to us about putin s motivations. what he wants out of a conflict with ukraine? thank you for having me on. i think, really, he wants two things to over simplify it. a completely neutral ukraine or a ukraine that is sovereign to russia. i believe he s leaning towards the latter. they wants it sovereign to russia. a nor report indicating he has people to go, ready to reinstate a parliamentary government back into ukraine and most are those who fled ukraine to moscow in 2014. i think putin already knows, knew months ago, how he wanted