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Hey, good morning, playbookers and Brooklyn Fallen. It's Monday. And with Congress out of town this week,

Washington will be dominated by Ukraine-Russia News. This is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

Three major developments on Ukraine broke over the weekend.

Number one, early Monday morning, NATO announced that it'll send fighter jets and ships to Eastern Europe.

Number two, the State Department ordered all U.S. family members of U.S. government employees at the Embassy in Kiev to leave the country immediately, and it authorized the departure of some other embassy personnel.

State also issued a new travel advisory for Ukraine, quote,

do not travel due to the increased threat of Russian military action.

Americans in Ukraine, quote, should consider departing now.

And number three, per the New York Times, Helene Cooper and Eric Schmidt,

top Pentagon officials presented President

Joe Biden with options to send, quote, several thousand U.S. troops as well as warships and aircraft

to NATO allies in the Baltics and Eastern Europe. The Times calls us a change in thinking by the

president. The White House views the Times piece as a little overwrought, noting that last week

at his press conference, Biden said, we're going to actually increase troop presence in Poland or Romania, etc.

If in fact he moves.

A senior White House official told Playbook, quote,

The president has publicly said that he deployed troops to Eastern Europe if the Russians invade,

so I don't really get how the New York Times story advances that.

Still, the details of Biden's

Ukraine briefing are striking. Officials, including Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and General

Mark Millie, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, quote, presented Mr. Biden with several

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