"We cannot afford the world where Russia is allowed to succeed in Ukraine," Latvian Foreign Minister Krisjanis Karins warns reporters, alongside his Estonian and Lithuanian counterparts, as they urge Washington to aid Kiev. "You cannot stop tanks just with your bare hands," says Lithuania's Gabrielius Landsbergis during a visit to Washington, DC. "We have to win. There can be no plan B because if the plan A doesn't work, then this is it," he adds during an event at the National Press Club after meeting with his US counterpart Antony Blinken. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES