as through one week point or another day after ukrainian president vladimir zelinski announced the threat of a crew. an anti government protest has been staged in key if thousands marched to independent square and surrounding streets shouting slogans, calling zelinski a traitor and waving flags and banners, demanding to be investigated for treason the claim. he violators the constitution by centralizing power on the president's office. since he took over in 2019 last fridays, lensky said a plot had been uncovered to topple his government and that it was orchestrated by russian individuals. ukraine has also got russia in its sights over concerns beyond its borders. as nato summit convened in latvia, kiev called for backup with military cooperation and sanctions against moscow in order to protect the country from purported russian aggression and flying the flag for britain. foreign secretary list truce was riding high aboard a military tank and nearby estonia, just miles from the russian border in something of a declaration that britain is leading the way against what she called russia mali

as tensions were over russia's military buildup on the ukrainian border, president vladimir zelinski with his troops on wednesday. kevin corke tracking the developments. >> u.s. officials believe russia is planning a multi-front military invasion of ukraine involving as many as 175,000 troops, perhaps as soon as early 2022. u.s. officials have reportedly been putting together a tough sanctions package ahead of that video call that you mentioned between mr. biden and vladimir putin which has you know is scheduled for tomorrow. >> what i am doing is putting together what i believe to be -- will be the most comprehensive and meaningful set of initiatives to make a very, very difficult for mr. vladimir putin to go ahead and do it people are worried he may do. >> however, the white house's plans could well prove to be a bit more bluster than bite. critics point out that just last month, the biden administration quietly exempted from mandatory sanctions a russian backed vessel involved in the process to win regulatory approval of the nord stream 2 project, to -- head of a russian attack. a

zelinski. after after talking to vladimir putin, after talking as close as dallas, and he called ukraine. and he says that the united states is going to provide ukraine with the sort of weapons it needs to fight back. this is in their latest film called just just now release. just now, whatever weapons those will be is anyone's guess. the united states and various european nations have already provided ukraine with an arsenal from, from boats to vehicles, to artillery to night vision equipment, javelin, very advanced, very expensive anti vehicle missiles. they have provided a whole host of weapons. the united states, i believe, has just approved hundreds of millions of dollars more worth of military aid to ukraine until the end of 2020 was over december and in its new military budget. is there anything that could have on well to night with any kind of russian response of the ship had continued its charity and gone up to that important a borderline? i'm. is there anything that happened that would have drawn in america nato, the west or not? would they stay out of it? look, they have said t

zelinski on russia is growing forces in ukraine's eastern border. >> foreign-policy is put to the test. >> reporter: being put to the test in a major way. vladimirin has 100,000 troops on the ukrainian border with the reported goal of 175,000. president biden says if he invades there will be severe economic consequences but he's rolling out the prospect of putting us troops on the ground to stop it. >> president biden:. the the united states is going to unilaterally use force to confront russia invading ukraine is not in the cards right now. >> vladimir putin spoke at a press conference calling the accusations of the planned invasion provocative claiming his troop deployment is out of concern ukraine will be allowed to join nato but republicans who see president biden's foreign-policy is weak say putin is seeing how far he can go. >> the reason these troops are on the border is they are testing biden after afghanistan. he put in place, put in motion bad guys trying to test him at every turn. >> meanwhile there is no doubt china is watching closely to see how biden response to putin's aggressive moves with an eye on target and taiwan which republ

pipeline if vladimir putin wants to see guests flow through that pipeline, he may not want to take the risk of invading ukraine. on thursday, president biden will speak with ukrainian president zelinskycials say there is no discussion of sending us troops to ukraine. china is reacting to the united states has diplomatic boycott of the upcoming winter olympics. china says the decision violates the olympic spirit. yesterday the biden administration announced the boycott of the beijing games over human rights concerns. a chinese ministry spokesperson said the us is attempting to interfere with the beijing games out of quote, ideological prejudice and based on lies and rumors. late today, australia joined the u. s in its diplomatic boycott in an about face. former white house chief of staff mark meadows said he will no longer cooperate with the house select committee investigating the january 6th. riot meadows attorney sent the letter sent the committee a letter outlining that decision. the letter said meadows believed he would be asked about issues considered to be protected by executive privilege. last week, meadows reportedly shared thousands of documents with the panel and previously