so to mike hanner in washington and mike, it appears that the 2 leaders spoke for about an hour or so. and there's been no breakthrough. indeed, yes. well, 62 minutes is the exact timing given by the white house. president biden reportedly told vladimir putin that the u. s. still preferred at diplomacy as an option. however, he warned the russian president, that there would be an i quote, a swift and severe response. i should russia invade ukraine? no sign of any real breakthrough already. although significant that the 2 leaders are still talking at believe that the french president spoke to me putin earlier in the day. and it's understood that president biden will be speaking to the french president later on in the course of the day. so, diplomatic efforts carrying on. meanwhile, the u. s. has announced that it's withdrawn, it's military advises to ukrainian defense force that some $150.00 per se now who've been pulled out of ukraine and deployed elsewhere. and meanwhile, the troop deployment troop deployment of the u. s. to join nato forces is continuing some $6000.00 us troops are

mike hanner is there for us. mike, president zalinski of ukraine and president biden spoke by phone earlier. what do we know of that call? for the call hath and that exactly the same time that president putin was speaking had lasted some 35 minutes. we are told by the white house the leaders discussing matters of mutual concern. of course, the latest developments in this ongoing crisis. what would have been discussion to though is at what stage the u. s. would introduce it's fool sanctions package. it has repeatedly said that it would only a trigger such a package. should russia actually invade ukraine, arguing that sanctions are a deterrent, and to preemptively apply them would remove that to tyranny? no doubt that was part of the discussion between the 2 leaders, although it was not confirmed. the ukrainian president being adamant that the u. s . should be invoking sanctions before the invasion, not afterwards, but president biden has just signed an executive order applying sanctions on individuals and entities

let's go to washington, now talk to mike hanner about list of elements this phone call between the 2 ladies . does anything come out from that yet? well, as he had not to began about 45 minutes ago, sorry one or 15 minutes ago. but as you get, we have not been told what transpired or in fact, even whether the call has ended. certainly they would have been a lot of the to lead is to talk about the view of the current crisis, not belief. the degrees of difference in terms of how each of the leaders sees what's happening. that bite and administration has been absolutely adamant that an invasion is imminent, saying that all the signs of their, that russia is going to put its troops across the ukraine border. however, sources and ukraine have expressed the degree of confusion about this. they don't appear to be receiving the same intelligence that the u. s. is receiving. and certainly in the course of the morning on the sunday, new shows, bite and administration, spokespeople continue to press and up the rhetoric in terms of imminent action. we heard from both the national security adviso

cyber attacks and bomb threats designed to so fear to correspondence to keep has covered this al mike hanner in washington dc. i'll be with you shortly. mike. want to start in care of itself with natasha butler, the air space remaining open, but gosh, things must be tense. well, there, a lot of things are happening at the office of the ukrainian president followed him . is lensky says lensky will be speaking to the u. s. president joe biden on the phone, you'd expect the biden. i would a brief zalinski on the conversation that he had a, with the russian president vladimir putin on a saturday. and of course, i'll be talking about the security concerns. it will also be, you'd imagine, an opportunity for the lensky to perhaps once again a, some of the frustrations that we seen here with the government in the capital up. but the frustrations because there's a sense that with, with the a rhetoric, the narrative coming from the u. s. saying that an attack is imminent on ukraine. there is a feeling here that, that is just whipping up a lot of anxiety. a lot of fear we heard from ukrainian present o

mike hanner in washington. first this report from step boston, though she's at the appropriate field in beller. it's a russian troops have been conducting drills near the ukrainian border at the starbucks field rush and helicopter gunship stake through the air near by dozens of russian trucks. these the training grounds armored personnel carriers are transported towards the border with ukraine. the south of barrows looks like a rush and military zone is abandoned in the field and above guy, near the city of homo, is one of the 12 areas of russia and bella was conducting, joint drills known as allowed to resolve. this is not allowed in the local people tell us it rip is in bad shape and has recently been used for sports competition. footage, released by the russian ministry of france, show state of the art military equipment in action near the border between bellows and ukraine. and nato, several divisions of $400.00 missile defense systems and dozens of so called fighter jets taking part in the exercises. in re