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russia's war rhetoric gets concrete backing. president putin is given formal approval to deploy forces outside of the country. and your response after moscow recognizes to break away regions in east and ukraine. the north stream to gas pipeline project is suspended. also coming out this hour, putting politics aside, pakistan allows india to transport much needed aid for afghanistan through its territory and sport. the us women's soccer team have reached a landmark equal pay settlements. the multi $1000000.00 agreements ends a 6 year legal battle with our sports national governing body. ah, welcome to the news out. well, you as president joe biden has announced in the past hour or so fresh sanctions on russia. a day off to president vladimir putin recognise the independence of 2

separatist held areas of east and ukraine. oh, president, buying that out. measures against banks, oligarchs, and russia over in debt, a move which will cut the country off from western financing. why didn't said he believes russia has begun its invasion of ukraine and said more sanctions are to come. he said in upper rationale to take more territory by force in my view. and if we listen to his speech last night, and many of you did, i know he's, he's setting up a rationale to go much further. this is the beginning of a russian invasion of ukraine, as he indicated and asked permission to be able to do from his duma. so let's begin to so i'm going to begin to impose sanctions response. far beyond the steps we and our allies and partners implemented in 2014. and if russia goes further with this invasion, we stand prepared to go further. as with sanctions, who in the lord's name, this prudent thing gives him the right to declare new,

so call countries on territory the belonged to his neighbors. this flagrant violation of international law and demands a firm response from the international community. well, you know, their international reaction, germany is suspended. russia's new major natural gas pipeline. the north stream 2 in response project was supposed to double russia gas supply to europe. russia is parliament, meanwhile, has also approved a request by president putin today to allow the deployment of russian armed forces abroad in immediate conference put in place ukraine for breaking the minsk agreements should to push because we recognize the expanded version of the 2 ukranian breakaway regions including their constituents, their boarders were stated in their constitutions when they were part of ukraine. and we hope to have the breakaway republics can work out their differences on the border issue. so we'll bring you the reaction from moscow. and just a moment,

1st though, we want to get the latest from our fisher who is at the white house and has more on that's tranche of us sanctions. and out earlier there was calls on both sides. both republicans and democrats saying that joe biden had to be strong with flood a mere put what he's done is left himself a runway to impose even more sanctions. if these do not what we thought he would do, what he has done, 1st of all, imposing sanctions on to big financial institutions in russia. cutting access that russia has to wester markets to service it state and also targeting at the oligarchs and those of high net what close to vladimir putin himself. but he didn't go after putin and those are really close to him. so that gives them some more options. he also talked about the possibility of still being a diplomatic solution to this crisis, which suggests that he isn't about to pull antony blinking away from his meeting in geneva, which is scheduled with sergei lover of the russian foreign minister that he's

going to let that take place and see if there is the possibility that there can be talks. although he did add the caveat that there would be talks if he thought the could get something out of it. if, as the russians were serious, if he perceives that they are not going to talk in good faith with the idea of coming to some sort of diplomatic solution that could well change in the next 72 hours. but it seems that joe biden is cranking up the pressure on vladimir putin. the problem they've got, of course, is that the russians thing to hold all the cards that the economy is insulated from . anything that the west can do, that there are, have good local support in russia and beyond for what they are doing. the vladimir putin portrays this is just trying to enforce international agreements that were signed, notably at the minsk agreement. where is joe biden believes that he holds all the cards and that he could essentially cripple the russian economy if he put more sanctions in place. and there was clearly a warning that he was going to do that earlier today,

president putin was given parliamentary approval to play trips abroad dosage of ours than fall in these developments from moscow. while the russian president vladimir putin was ass at apricot press conference, following his meeting with the president of azerbaijan, earlier on tuesday. and he said that he has not ordered any troops to go in at the moment, his whatever for now at. but let me know that the abs, russia rushes upper houses, parliament approved unanimously a request from the president for him to be able to deploy troops anywhere at any time and to carry out any tasks that i see fit courses. the commander in chief is in this country, so he really now has the final approval officially from all levels of government government to do as he sees credit reporting to president putin. there are no deployments of any russian troops at the moment officially in those newly declared

independence states in eastern ukraine. this, of course comes at a time when everybody's watching what is happening alongside the border between russia and ukraine. there's a lot of concern that the heavy military presence is just making the situation much more complicated and dangerous. well, these are the 2 easton regions on the board with russia at the heart of this current tom. while the hans and don, yet, they encompass the don bass region where separatists have been fighting ukrainian forces since 2014 algae there is at bonnet. smith brings us more now from the russian capital moscow. 3 doors. on tuesday, the russian military appeared on the streets of de netscape. it was just hours after vladimir putin had recognised 2 new republics which are in easton, ukrainian territory. but ukraine is a country the russian president thinks shouldn't exist. a country this soldier died defending. putin's decree recognizing bennett's and le ganske as 2 independent

states is according to cubes, defense minister, an attack on its territorial dignity. i hope that leaders so different countries which promised us that the sanctions will be starting off today. and we think that that paper invasion began a lot of ukraine's president says he doesn't believe russia will launch all out war against his country. but he wants the international community to react decisively against what he calls a new act of russian aggression. much, i must sure somebody see him or lee believe that by taking this decision, the russian federation creates a legal basis for military aggression against ukraine, for violating all bilateral and multilateral agreements. mostly the volleyball had to start, you missed that, that's not how russia's parliament sees it, but he got him in to teens decision. welcome. it was the writing of an historical

wrong. just unexceptional. crimea done. you know, this is an historic day just like 7 years ago. when crimea returned to the phone, which became part of the russian federation, today now and forever, they will be to new somebody on the political math and then ask and people's republics. but separatists internets can le ganske only control about a 3rd of the territory, they claim where they were celebrating on tuesday. the other 2 thirds is held by ukrainian forces. who now find themselves on land. the russia recognizes as to new republics, was about to sell it. should we find agreements with both to done? yes. going to hand people's republics that contain article saying will provide helga including military so far as this conflict going on there. we're making it clear we will fulfill our obligation with mac up, which is the currently says, recognizing as independent the to break away ukrainian regions will help restore,

come adding that it remains open to diplomacy with the u. s. and other countries. russia also dismisses allegations that extend its forces into eastern ukraine. the crime in says whether it does or not. depends on how the situation develops. bernard smith, i'll just 0 moscow. the other day sanctions are also rolled out against moscow by western countries, among them, a decision by germany to put on hold a major gas pipeline project from russia. the north stream to john hall has more on that. now there's that don't, isn't, as president vladimir putin ordered russian troops into eastern ukraine, western sanctions were issued in response. today. the u. k is actually the following. 5 russian banks, rossier. i asked, bang jim, but general bank a property as bank and the black sea bank and were sanctioned in 3 very high net worth in individuals. kanadi, tim jenko, boris rothenberg and eagle rosenberg. the british prime minister called it

a 1st barrage, promising more if put in advance is deeper into ukraine. e. u sanctions were also restrained, targeting members of parliament and limiting russian access to european capital markets and washington has banned us business dealings with the to break away regions in eastern ukraine. germany did go further calling a halt to the $11000000000.00 nod stream to pipeline project, highly prized by russia, and built to deliver gas to europe, bypassing ukraine. but russian investment experts say none of it will trouble the kremlin. the to banks that have been mentioned are, are all state banks that are funded domestically. i don't not rely and european markets have not for years because they have been subjected to a u. s. sanctions and the individuals have, you mentioned are certainly are heart african putin's

a circle of friends. but they have also been subject to us sanctions are for many years or so really what day you can, you, you are doing now is simply catching up with sanctions. they've been in place by the you asked for many years, the threat of full sanctions. retaliation is being held in reserve depending what put in does next. measures dubbed sanctions from hell by the u. s. senate would in theory, target whole sectors and industries with crippling economic effect. it is a threat that one prominent criminal critic believes lacks credibility. he invaded georgia, no sanctions from hell. he took crimea, no sanctions from hell. he shot down a passenger plane with, with 298 innocent people know sanctions from hell. and all of a sudden worked worth reading sanctions from hell. and what do we do? we make a, a minor tepid addition to the us sanctions list. basically coming up to where they were 4 years ago. that's not credible that doesn't scare poor. he doesn't believe

were for real. part of the problem is western resolve, stiff sanctions against russia would hurt europe in return with strong ties in trade and energy. and other is russian resilience, holding the world's 5th largest financial reserves built up, especially to cushion the blow. ultimately, the calculation is putins alone to make. he's got away with it so far. he may feel this insufficient reason to turn back now, but he's my jonah how al jazeera. my name is. alex details is an author in lecture and more in europe, in history, specializing in russia. he joins us live from belfast by skype. so we see western powers, european union, and just recently president joe biden, announcing sanctions today. what is president cushions, pain threshold on ukraine? well, i mean if you look at his speech yesterday, it seems to be almost unlimited in a sense that he says it's both terms of

a geology, but also in terms of existential matter of security. keeps referring to ukraine, developing military weapons of nuclear weapons. and so forth. so i think if he really means business i here will. busy go in and i think you know, in his mind, i mean you can see the logic so far. so from his point of view of that no sanctions will stop him to do or, or what is a post a historical wrong with also existential security threat to russia? and so, yeah, i think it's, we're his, the threshold is quite high on this question. does that mean that nothing we've heard today is likely to a change russia's behavior or deter a deeper offensive into ukrainian territory? i think are those sanctions arm ubs? quite mild, but again, the rotten actions themselves were relatively mild, just recognizing that the existing status quo. yes,

it would be question if they go in are the it will be very painful for us. there's no question. the problem is, is that the most painful sanctions of for us or would be against it's or energy sectors, but thus would also have a collateral effect on the imposing side, on particular europe in union, e and m, and you k, but also united states because russia is the main, ga, supplied to europe, but also the 2nd largest oil producing the world. so the, the knock on effect would be tremendous across the markets or so. yeah, those sanctions and that's also something it enters his calculus and i'm sure that something the young. busy earth policy makers in the west also world. so it's, there's not, there are no easy options. all these sanctions, which were harmless to the imposing cyber harmful garage have been broadly already imposed. those which would really work would, you know, would also have collateral damage to the west, and that's really with m. y insult often to,

to deal with them. oh i some politicians already dealing with this trend of higher inflation that's affecting our food prices, energy prices, and that's effectively a tax on, on people's income. and then this reaction and global financial markets with brand crude oil approaching $100.00 a barrel for the 1st time since 2014. if this gets any worse, is it a cost that europe and the u. s. and not going to want to, to bear? or it's certainly will have to enter their good relations. and of course ross is making me money now because of ohio oil prices and high gas prices and they reserves, which are really enormous, are just being constantly increased. so the problem is here is that when the weather impose sanctions against the run, for example, it's already wind itself off iranian oil for several years beforehand. now with

russia, europe is completely dependent on some countries completely dependent on our russian gas. i won't, mike is actually quite dependent on russian oil is whoa, which is already high. so. busy this is not going to be easy. i move against russia because it's just such a beak and integrated blair into in walter gwynn, the mit rosabelle, sophomore, but it's certain out to be paper. it's, it's, it's, there are noisy options here. if you're really looking balls, sanctions, which will really, ah, worse, which in the will also warrior lots of people in washington and, and brussels. i'm curious what you just said about the, that creation from the russian president just reinforcing the existing reality on the ground. and before, before biden's statement, i think we had something very similar from a u. s. official. he said that this is not a new step because russian forces have already been in the region since 2014 is thus still some hesitation or confusion and western capitals about whether this

defines an invasion. well, i think if you look at their arrange of sanctions or all dr. but from the germany, by the way, they have not stream service of some to is a, is, is a major development. but all of the ones are pretty mild, something which would not worry button, bud. but the problem with the don't bus the way which just come from today that they recognize them in the old boulders. and the moment the break away republics just come troy, 3rd of those old borders. so the potential for escalation in this region is is is huge so basically visits like a hang sold or were you grand that they of the raja, went through its process. can i start them a major conflict whenever it suits it? it's, it's a, it's a very unsettling situation. so yeah, i would imagine they were keeping the, you know, real sanction for that. i'm in charlotte here, but we don't know how long how long we have to wait before finding out where they are. we'll also not. but of the moment yesterday,

the sanctions are quite mild and for, for a reason that it's just hasn't gone beyond already control the line of separation. thank you very much, alex. teach all for now. appreciate your thoughts on the story. of course, there is a great deal of nervousness and uncertainty for residents, for people who are living in the dumbass region. actually you as humanitarian human rights offices, of called for the protection of civilians. in ukraine's breakaway regions, we are deeply concerned that any significant escalation in military action creates a heightened risk of serious human rights violations, as well as violations of international humanitarian law. at this critical juncture, the priority above all must be to prevent further escalation to prevent civilian casualties, displacement and destruction of civilian infrastructure. we call on all sides to

seize hostilities and to pave the way for dialogue. instead of setting the stage for further violence out as heiress charles stratford is following developments from the front mindset of mary awful. in southeast in ukraine. the big thing on people's minds in the city this evening is this announcement by vladimir putin that russia recognizes the dpr and the l. p. r. according to the 2014 constitution in those self declared republics, that being the case, any kind of recognition of that air, it would indeed, potentially take into consideration include cities like mary awful and big cities, big towns like slavery, ants, cremmit tools. it is a huge, expansive, a larger area. danny is currently controlled by the, the separatist, russian mac separate his forces. so a lot of people overseas thinking about that am in general,

this area that we've been visiting today along the frontline village is there. we've heard sporadic shelling and i should say, heavy shelling throughout the dade and be concern amongst people in these villages of a potential of people concerned because they are aware of an evacuation that is ongoing in the separatist controlled areas of people close to the frontline. no such evacuation plan has been put into place here and, and this comes at a time this evening as well after a statement made in the last hour or so by the ukrainian military that from tomorrow's 6 am local time. they are going to make the area from the front line 10 kilometers back from the frontline right. the way up, that's 420 kilometers. they're going to restrict access to that area on a temporary basis. they don't go into great detail, but they say that the only people allowed in that area will be international, humanitarian aid organizations delivering aid. now that area has literally hundreds

of thousands of people living in 8 am. and as i say, as this shelling has continued to day and one would expect, will continue sporadically as throughout the night. so these kind of statements being made from russia about recognizing an area that is considerably larger pushing further into ukraine. yet there are increasing concerns by, by hundreds of thousands of people living in this region this evening. still had for you on the news out from london, and be covering other stories that are making headline, south korea. it continues with a plan to live with covered despite a surge in only wrong doubling the country's cases in a fortnight. argentina is battling to contain wildfire that have been devastating rich agricultural land in its northern cory enters region. and then late will have all the latest sports news for you, an amazing recovery. the mexican opened from the tennis player. we look to the absence

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believes russia has started its invasion of ukraine and said more sanctions are to come. meanwhile, russian military vehicles have been seen inside the break way. republic of danielle, shortly after the russian president, putin recognized the independence of that region. percent has since been given parliamentary approval to deploy troops abroad or estimates do very but it's all there about 85290000 russian troops surrounding ukraine. european council on foreign relations. please, or about 10250000 trips on russia's border with ukraine here believes there are also about 35000 russian back separatist fighters and danielle. can the hans thought there a further 32000 troops in russian annexed crimea. 30000 and better route, and also a 1000 soldiers in moldova. at least 13 russian battleships have been conducting life. i exercise in the black and as of seas. the head of nato against oldenburg says, there is evidence that russian troops are moving into combat formations to attack

ukraine. every indication is dr. rashaw continues to plan for a full scale attack on ukraine. receive the ongoing military buildup. they promised to step back, but their hard continue to step up. we'll see that some more a moral their forces are moving out of the camps, are in combat formations and ready to strike. and we'll see the ongoing publications in don't boss on the different the false flag operations where they tried to create the pretext for an attack. alex t 12 is an author, electro modern european history specializing in russia, joins me live from belfast by skype. so you just listening to that statement there by the head of nato, against dalton bug. does the russian president's decision to authorize military support while at the next time,

while at the same time endorsing claims by separatist to the entire dumbass region suggests that he might try and move beyond the territory that is already controlled by this, that protest beyond that line of control yes, i think there is certainly am or with use of speech yesterday. there's a broad ideological foundation forum attack against ukraine and the real kind of practical issues in terms of recognition of republics and the old borders. authorization of im, movements are deployment of troops abroad, so it's entirely bull bull. plausible and it does feed the picture of also concentration of troops in their ready, but position and so forth. the only thing which still meeting is the am oh, the actual objective and overall aims. what he can possibly achieve, even with invasion of your grain. the costs will be enormous. not so much defeating the ukranian army,

but actually holding the territory providing for the population while still living with rick extremely harsh. may have been american sanctions and so forth. so yeah, there is a possibility but are the that the cost us to an enormous i'm not sure if he is are ready to to, to face those ghosts. ringback right, and despite some of these definitive remarks you've been guessing from the native sector, general and others, your analysis is it, there is still that element of ambiguity about whether russia will launch a fan or invasion. yes, i do. i still could, can understand what they would and how they would hold the territory of what they would achieve from it. and most importantly, how they would achieve a long term goal, ukrainian neutrality, demilitarization, non expansion of nato. through those things, i mean it is just the game, doesn't were the candles soul to say in terms of occupation, but having said so there they certainly are the, the, the plans been laid out and it can happen at any moment. so we, we, we,

we just have to see what's the button good. good galatians are there, but i was very skeptical about submitted to invasion before yesterday. but since your speech, i'm much more i believe i will be. it's much more believable now to me, to be honest off of the, his speech and other things including withdraw of all the diplomats, for example, from russia or from ukraine, russian diplomats been being accumulated now as well. yeah. yeah. it's so it's, it's, it's looks pretty plausible that diagonal, although the missing piece is to over what, how it under, if it would achieve the long term objective. which russia seeking is the russian president still willing to engage in diplomacy and negotiations? i wo, i mean the black bar lover often blink and meet meetings should still happen on thursday. i think it hasn't been cancelled yet. so there is

a paternity. a he made new demands the day saying that he will accept it. ukraine declared itself. um situationally in the neutral and they'll be what you say demilitarize in the sense of us stopping off of natal. busy country supply of weapons more than weapons to ukraine. so that's kind of his ally. now i think a ukraine is not going to do that, of course, but ah, there is something to discuss with me to as to balls. and i think the longer you delay, the actual invasion of the less likely become. so i think it's certainly worth trying diplomatically do. i think there is, there is a chance. and if there is a movement on key demands, particularly nato expansion, bit it, in some ways, is already sort of achieve that. i mean, for a long time, it's been obvious that ain't ukraine. ukraine's nature membership is not

necessarily going to happen. it's not imminent. and this whole crisis makes it, tim, perhaps much less likely, at least for now it's prevented any sort of process from it starting well that's, that's right. and it's never really been on the agenda. i mean, i know they were formerly offered them a membership plan in april 2008 to judge in ukraine. but it's really to go went nowhere. so everybody in including the german chancellor shore saying, you know, it's not an agenda. i don't know why we've been concerned about it, but putting things that he needs, i'm glad guarantee that it would never happen. and that's very hard to do in the sense because. busy it, it can help it attacks the parental principles, nature that it has its own right to decide who the member ah, and so, so there is this, this flush it so it's, we're talking about some very abstract issues, but with

a very real possibility of war and it's, it's really puzzling why put in is, are preparing to raise this thanks so much for such, um, well, remote disability or so we are there with the must be something else and do it. and as i guess, the issue of general drift of ukraine towards a much more kind of on to rotten up all this is yesterday he mentioned the prosecution of a russian orthodox church of the moscow place where a guide you mentioned issue of a russian language in schools in the other things. so the plus the making benito engagement in ukraine so. so there is a whole range of issues about from major membership, which is very happy about. i mean, he's unhappy by the whole kind of drift of your grain towards this and to russian position was it on to rasa. and that he is seeking to change. but again, like an invasion ah, that's would just exist, obeyed those drams and,

and you ration ah, youth in ukraine which are predominant now since 2014. thank you for now. alex t tough will ukrainian president as he is calling out, resolved this in response to rush as reason action is not in his landscape, insisted that he is also still pursuing diplomacy as a way out of the crisis. malloy. yeah. good horner? roland local mondo chums. bruner sill grainy as the commander of the armed forces of ukraine. i made an order to call upon reservists. you know, we training exercises for reservists of the territorial defense. and while our army is protecting us, we have to work to invest in the economy of ukraine and provide for the existence of our powerful army. what the patriot is, a person who fights for his land and who invests and creates jobs. and we are launching a new program which will support industries, but this will help to attract funds into the economy and banking system in that we have to fight for our energy independence and all our politicians should be

statesman. but we have to abandon our ambitions in favor of the independence of our country. 0. believe that we have met with all the leaders of the parliamentary factions. and everybody understands that we need to day to adopt economic decisions which increase our defense capabilities. boy, today we have all the parties with the same color, yellow and blue. to morrow, we'll have a meeting with 50 top businesses in the shop. those businesses have to protect our economy in order to have to strengthen our country as well. natural, dear citizens, dear ukrainian ceramic, we are a peaceful nation. we would like to have silence. but if we are silent to day, we will disappear to morrow to stimulate we have difficult work every day in front of us, but we are sure of ourselves. our country lives and our victory were glory to ukraine, dizzy. let's just take a look at some more global reactions, the crisis than in india, which has good relations with russia. there's been increasing concern about the repatriation of its nationals in ukraine as well as the non effects of

a conflict domestically poverty. metal has more on that now from you deli, when the diplomatic enclave in new delhi. and that building is the russian embassy . it's an important ally, which is last week, welcomed in the us position of calling for a diplomatic solution to the crisis with ukraine in just urgent concern, though, is there preparatory asian of indian national, more than 20000 students study in ukraine? it's one of the largest groups of international students there. and to night, one of the 1st of many repair creation flights is expected to land from here. the government says it will add more flight and has all the ease. other travel restrictions from ukraine that were in place because of course, 19. now, india has maintained a neutral position. and the concern here is largely economic trade with russia is what? $8000000000.00,

annually. half of all weapons in india come from there. russia is also an important strategic ally when it comes to countering china. not said with ukraine, ease at a much smaller scale, but most of the cooking oil that india imports does come from there. so the concern is that an escalation of a price is debt. good push up prices of cooking oil and other essentials at the time when the indian economy is struggling to recover and inflation is high. ah, focused on as political differences with india aside to allow a large shipment of food for people in afghanistan to go through its territory. india is sending 50 tons of wheat in response to humanitarian crisis in afghanistan . it's around moment of the 2 countries working together. elizabeth pran him was with the convoy as it left india ahead

b atari wild ab border between india and pakistan as the 1st of the trucks carrying wheat, all 50 of them begin to pass. now this delivery has been months in the making. india 1st said the proposal to pakistan in october last year. talk a sound approved it in the van, but the transportation had been a sticking point, loma bob wanted the weight to be transported and pakistani talks, india wanted to said it's trucks. the compromise has been to use afghan trucks with afghan drive is now. this delivery is really significant because they have been no trade or travel relations between india and pakistan. and 2 and a half years since india suspended bilateral trade pakistan bothers suspended bilateral trade with india after new deli revoked. indeed, and minister pish, musical autonomy in 2019 both of emissions and delia. islam above have been significantly downsize to low, high commission is present and either and so the world food program has also played

a part in programming this deal, which is so very important for the afghan people. the w. s. p says, 9000000 afghans are just one step away from famine. with the you when saying that have got on the font has the highest number of people in emergency food they emergency food need. with more than 24000000 people in humanitarian needs. and algae, there is come on, hider is on the pakistani side of the border incentives. this update. i'm just a few 100 meters from the international boundary. redwin, india and budgets dawn or the wall got our daughter a border today over on drivers are going to be drawn boarding week from india, which was a right. so just to get to hear from your secretary state, antony blink, an update on the russia. ukraine crisis yesterday president couldn't recognize the

so called independence of the dentist. lou haskell regions of ukraine were violent russian back shepherdess had been fighting a war since 2014. a few hours later, he gave authorization to russian troops to enter those regions. for weeks, we been warning the world that russia was mobilizing for military aggression against ukraine. we've made clear that if russia invaded the united states and our allies and partners would impose swift and severe consequences, now that russia has moved against ukraine. so 2 of we moved on our strong and unified response. this afternoon. the president announced the 1st round of sanctions on russia in response to its actions. these have been closely coordinated with our allies and partners will continue to escalate our sanctions if russia escalates its aggression towards ukraine. today we're implementing full

blocking sanctions on to large russian financial institutions. the b and primacy bank, both of which have close links to the kremlin and the russian military. collectively, they hold more than $80000000000.00 and assets. these measures will freeze their assets in the united states. prohibit american individuals or businesses from doing any transactions with them, shut them out of the global financial system and for close access to the u. s. dollar. we're expanding our existing sanctions on russian sovereign debt. we've already prohibited u. s. financial institutions from trading in russian sovereign debt in the primary market. now, we're extending that prohibition to the secondary market. these prohibitions will cut off the russian government from a key avenue by which it raises capital, to fund its priorities and will increase future financing costs. they also deny russia access the key u. s. markets and investors. starting today,

will impose sanctions on members of the russian elite and their family members, all of whom, directly benefit from their connections with the kremlin. other russian elite and their family members are on notice that additional actions could be taken against them. these steps are, in addition to these, i could have order president biden issued yesterday to prohibit new investment trade in financing by americans to from and in the so called the in r and l in our regions. and just as the president said, we would do today, the department of defense announced that we would be sending additional forces to nato's eastern flank, to deter and defend against any russian aggression directed at our allies. we also made clear that if russia invaded ukraine, we would act with germany to ensure that the north stream to pipeline does not move forward. to day, chancellor schultz announced the german government is suspending that pipeline indefinitely. we been in close consultation with germany throughout this process.

we welcome the swift and decisive action, and we're executing a plan in close coordination with allies and partners to secure the stability robel energy supplies, which is in all of our interests. the united states and our allies and partners are united in the face of russian aggression. this morning the european union and the united kingdom announced a series of strong complimentary actions. president putin's deeply disturbing speech yesterday. and his statements today made clear the world how he views ukraine, not as a sovereign nation with the right to territorial integrity and independence, but rather as a creation of russia and therefore subordinate to russia. it's a completely false assertion that ignores history international law and the 10s of millions of patriotic ukrainians who are proud citizens of a free and independent ukraine. now that we've heard it directly from president

putin himself, it confirms what we've been saying. that he did not send more than a 150000 troops to the ukrainian border because of benign military exercises or to respond to threatened aggression from ukraine. or to stop a fabricated genocide by ukraine or any other manufactured reason. his plan all along has been to invade ukraine to control ukraine and his people to destroy you kinds of democracy. which offers a stark contrast to the autocracy that he leads to reclaim ukraine as a part of russia. that's why this is the greatest threat to security in europe since world war 2, ukraine is in danger. president putin is blatantly and violently breaking the laws and principles that have kept the peace across europe and around the world for decades. yesterday, at an emergency session of the un security council requested by ukraine. the united states and many other countries condemned brushes, renewed attack on ukraine,

sovereignty and territorial integrity. as a violation of international law and the united nations charter, usm bastrop, linda thomas greenfield underscored, the president putin has now torn to shreds. the minsk agreements which sought to end the conflict in the don best region of ukraine peacefully through diplomacy. president putin, himself essentially declared those agreements null and void. the complete abdication of russia's commitments under the minsk agreements is just the latest demonstration of russia's hypocrisy when it comes to the agreements that claims to seek and to uphold. since the beginning of this russian manufacture crisis, moscow has insisted that only legally binding agreements could satisfy its security concerns. but the minsk agreements now join a long line of agreements many legally binding. the president putin is broken. these include the helsinki final act in which all always see countries including russia, pledge to respect, national sovereignty and territorial integrity,

and refrain from the threat of the use of force. the charter repairs, which further establish countries, responsibilities to honor those budgets. the conventional armed forces in europe, treaty, which limits the deployment of military equipment in europe. the vienna document in which all a c countries, including russia, agreed to confidence and security building measures to increase transparency and predictability about their military activities. and of course, the budapest memorandum in which russia promised to respect ukraine's independence and sovereignty in its 1994 borders and refrain from using force against ukraine. in the past 24 hours alone with his actions toward ukraine, president putin has violated all of these agreements. he is undoing more than 30 years worth of painstaking diplomacy by russia and the countries in institutions of europe and the north atlantic region. to preserve stability and security for the sake of hundreds of millions of our citizens. every time russia brakes,

one of these agreements, it not only endangers the country that is threatening at the time. but nations everywhere that have made, made safer and more secure by the international rules based order. last week, i agreed to meet brush and foreign minister sergey lover off this week on february 24th to discuss our country's respective concerns about european security. but only if russia did not invade ukraine. now that we see the invasions beginning, and russia has made clear its wholesale rejection of diplomacy. ah, it does not make sense to go forward with that meeting at this time. i consulted with our allies and partners all agreed, and today i sent for mister oliver, off a letter informing who this the united states and i personally remain committed to diplomacy of rushes, prepared to take demonstrable steps to provide the international community with any degree of confidence that it's serious about the escalating and finding

a diplomatic solution. we will proceed in coordination with allies and partners based on russia's actions and the facts on the ground. but we will not allow russia to claim the pretense of diplomacy at the same time. it accelerates. it's march down the path of conflict and war. there is no question. what has happened here? we've all seen how russia has relentlessly mobilized for war, despite intensive efforts by others, including the united states, to engage them on a diplomatic path. we seen through their false flags, we predicted their lice in the hours and days ahead. any further escal tore steps by russia will be met with further swift and severe measures coordinated with allies and partners. on top of those announce to day we'll continue to stand with our allies and partners to support ukraine as it faces russia's threats with courage and strength. and will continue to defend the international laws that keep

every country in the world save from the kind of aggression that russia is now inflicting upon ukraine meter. i'm grateful to secretary blinking for welcoming me in d. c. today. a we, i think we spoke, this is our 3rd or 4th encounter in the last 4 days. and this speaks for the dynamics and the quality of our relationship, but also for the urgency of the current crisis that needs to be handled. we meet at a very tense and responsible time for ukraine, for the united states and for the world. we all are at a critical juncture for the security of europe, as well as international peace and security, more broadly. russian aggression has brought the world to the age of the largest catastrophic since world war 2. yesterday, president pigeon moved to recognize 2 pieces of ukraine in land. as independent

entities. ukraine does not and will never recognize this absurdity. neither will the world recognize it. in fact, what putting the recognized is not to the so called dawn, his people republican lugens people republic. he recognized his direct responsibility for the war against ukraine and an unprovoked and unjustified war. on another silver in state, in europe, which russia now intensifies, proves it president fujen killed means agreements. and more broadly, he attacked the world order. needless to say, russia's move is a grave breach of international law and a new act of aggression against ukraine, sovereignty and territorial integrity. therefore, ukraine strongly believes that the time for sanctions is now. and in this context,

we welcome today's announcement of sanctions by president biden. the world must to respond with all its economic might to punish russia for the crime scene has already committed and a head of the crimes. it plans to commit hit russia's economy now and hated heart. i commend immense efforts over the u. s. diplomacy led by tony to mobilize the global coalition of allies and partners to stop russia. the entire world stands to day was you crate and right you. so put in one's much more than a war torn piece of ukrainian land and people living there. what stops him his only our uni king and the result. and we can still stop him. ukraine continuously engagement with united states, e. u and nita,

in diplomatic efforts to ease tensions. yet, we also stand ready for any possible development. we had to focus discussion today was secretary blinking on steps to protect ukraine and our multi dimensional resilience. one of the proposal that we put forward today is designing a program similar to the lend lease implemented during the world war 2 to support the war efforts of the allies in eastern, in east, in, in europe. this program will help to ensure sustainable sustainability and will improve efficiency in the in strengthening the capacity of ukraine to defend itself. the last point that i would like to make today we discussed some very specific ideas and bridge. we appreciate very concrete steps made by the

united states. these days we received for proposals from some countries to condemn, ah, russia's behavior, to condemn but not follow. the condemnation was action. and i would like to say that condemnations are important, but it's actions that really matter now these days. and i am grateful to our strategic partner, the united states for its iron clad support, including military economic and political diplomatic systems provided to ukraine. the ukrainian people will surely remember the united states standing with ukraine at this decisive moment in history. thank him. will now turn to questions and will take 2 from each delegation. i will start with vivian solomon, the wall street journal. thank you very much. and mister

secretary, as president biden said 3 days ago that if russia invade, they will have chosen war and the door to diplomacy will be closed today. however, he seemed to have left the door open for diplomacy despite labeling what russia has done as an invasion. and so, even though you've now cancelled your meeting with a minister oliver of can you say what the circumstances would entail to justify talks at this point? absent, say, a full withdrawal and does the actions in dunbar kind of open the door for potential negotiations that on that quaint, if you'd with both indulge me with 2 questions, president putin today also said that the crisis could be resolved, if kept promised to abandon future efforts to join nato, and so that's been a non starter for the west. so what needs to happen then for any of these talks to actually be entertained? i minister clave, i could see again

a question quick questions for you. i'm does the ukrainian government have any plans to evacuate? maria pull or heart give in, in the coming days, just given that the events that we're, we've seen and on bass. and secondly, the united states has informed the united nations of a credible of credible information, showing that moscow has compiled the list of ukrainians to be killed or sent to camps following a military occupation. were you informed of this list? your government? was it informed of this list and have any actions been taken out to respond to it? thank you. thank you. i'm happy to start 1st, i'm the further renewed russian ah, invasion of ukraine that has now begun. ah means clearly that the, the, the idea of having a meeting this week with foreign minister, elaborate to pursue diplomacy, diplomacy, not rejected by russia. ah,

does not make sense. ah, but having said that, to the extent there is anything that we can do to avert, ah, an even worse case scenario and all out assault on all of you, frank, including it's capital that would inflict or if it costs on the ukranian people, we will always pursue that, so we are partners are remain open to diplomacy. but mos counties to demonstrate that it's serious. the last 24 hours has demonstrated just the opposite. ah, it hasn't been serious to date including with regard to the meeting that was planned for thursday, we made clear that in the context of a rush invasion, we would not go forward with that meeting. if moscow approach changes, we remain, i remain very much prepared to engage with regard to a president, putin statement about nato and the open door. it's very clear what we've seen of in the last 24 hours. that this is never been

about ukraine in nato, per se. ah, what president putin has made clear is that this is about the total subrogation of, of ukraine to russia. it's about.