Right to it because the tanks and the military trucks are rolling in after vladimir putin ordered russian troops into eastern ukraine how far will he go how will the u.s respond what will nato do in turn we're expecting a lava announcement today as we get underway i'm bill hemer live here in new york city and dana good morning good morning to you i'm dana parino this is america's newsroom we're gonna have a lot of discussion today about what all this means,
Because the semantics that are being split hairs at the white house over the night leave a lot of room for discussion we'll have mike pompeo on that in a moment new video shows that russian tanks are on the move despite the appearance of heavy artillery moscow claims that these are just peacekeeping forces the troops are infiltrating a pair of so-called breakaway territories both of them have seen years of fighting from russian-backed separatists so all this happening in two territories one called donetsk one called dulhansk putin signed a decree yesterday deeming both of them independent from ukraine,
Now the west calling it a pretext for a full-scale invasion of that country the white house responding to that decree with a very narrow executive order it prevents americans from doing business in those areas but nothing about russia the president taking a lot of heat his critics accusing him of moving the goal post so meanwhile germany going a step further a few hours ago that country halting the certification of russia's nordstream 2 pipeline and breaking just moments ago the white house saying it welcomes that announcement from germany and that it will follow up with its own measures today,
We have team world news coverage former secretary of state mike pompeo is here mark meredith is standing by at the white house but first let's get to lucas tomlinson reporting live from live in ukraine hi lucas dana i'm here in this western ukrainian city where u.s diplomats have fled over fears of a russian invasion vladimir putin has sent ground troops into eastern ukraine he's calling them as you said peacekeeping forces the u.s response came late last night during an emergency session of the u.n security council he has since announced that he will place russian troops in these regions he calls them peacekeepers this is nonsense,
We know what they really are while russia was kicked out of the g8 it still has a seat on the u.n security council with veto power and actually hosted last night's meeting as the rotating president of the security council dana an address to his nation last night putin essentially read from a 5 000 word essay he penned last summer about ukraine and posted on the kremlin's website in english for all the world to see a blueprint for where we are today putin wants to put the users back together this year marks the 100th anniversary of the soviet union's founding putin thinks ukraine and russia are one people ukrainians here disagree a majority want to be closer to the west ukraine's president responded to putin beginning here last night at 2 a.m local time,
We won't give away anything to anyone we are confident in this it is not february 2014 but february 2022. in 1999 nato expanded to the former warsaw pac countries of hungary poland and the czech republic nato bombed serbia three weeks later putin feared moscow could be next i interviewed the mayor here in la vie ukraine's cultural capital and asked him what's putin's objective here in ukraine completely destroy ukraine you must know russia was is and will always source of threat for ukraine and democratic countries in ward u.s officials tell me they're seeing increased fuel supplies to those front-line russian forces more concerns on the ground here in ukraine dana lucas tomlinson thank you,
So mark meredith from the white house going to be a busy day there north lawn let's get it underway now mark what's happening well bill good morning to you the white house says russia's actions will trigger significant sanctions but we're still waiting to see exactly what those will be we expect we'll get some more details later this afternoon on monday hours after president putin made his speech in moscow we saw president biden issue an executive order an early set of sanctions targeting the areas that russia says are now independent prohibiting americans from investing trading,
And banking with people and businesses in those areas that lucas was just talking about that russia sees as separate from ukraine in a statement the president says the u.s will not hesitate to use its authorities to target those supporting efforts to undermine ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity we have not seen the president speak on camera about all of this since i believe friday evening but it's certainly possible that the white house could add an event onto the schedule given how much the world is watching we did however earlier today hear from the president's deputy national security advisor russia is taking significant steps away from diplomacy,
We are not going to be the ones that close the door but all signs are not encouraging about the path they seem to be choosing up on the hill republicans say neither president biden nor the u.s can afford to show any signs of weaknesses here we heard this morning from tennessee republican senator marsha blackburn who tweeted i'll say it again it's far past time for the biden administration to immediately impose severe sanctions including on the nordstrom 2 pipeline and remove russia from the swift international banking system the president must not sit back and allow putin to have the upper hand you guys mentioned it up off the top but the german chancellor earlier today announcing that his country will take steps to halt the certification of the nordstrom 2 pipeline that is the natural gas pipeline that runs from russia underneath the baltic sea into germany there's been a lot of discussion about this pipeline for months.
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