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>> michael, good to see you. thank you. right now, critics say russia is using that disinformation campaign we were just talking about in order to justify a possible attack on ukraine. cnns nick paton walsh breaks down that strategy for us. one that, of course, russia has used in the past. >> reporter: wars come with their own fog. chaos, phone lines down, panic sowing confusion. but in eastern ukraine, that fog has long been found. amplified with false narratives critics say part of moscows s...

Jake, for them to say that they are removing troops when we have satellites and can see where the troops are. in fact theres more people in belarus doing these drills now than there were a week ago. and were not going to play the sucker punch thing. but you look at one part of the country and say were pulling out a few people there and adding others and equipment somewhere else, whether. were not going to fall for that so the president of the united states is doing the right thing and threading ...

Jake, despite the warnings from the united states and a spike in violence between government forces and russian-backed rebels, there are still hopes for a diplomatic path with secretary of state blinken proposing to his russian counterpart to meet in europe next week nolin order to try an have discussions to discuss avoiding an all-out war. >> matthew chance in kyiv, ukraine, thank you so much. the united states is threatening severe consequences for belarus if an attack on ukraine is launched...

Hysteria and releasing more defense ministry images of russian troops returning to their bases after completing drills near ukraine. our military has camped on its own territory, says the russian foreign minister, held drills, took down their tents, boarded the trains, then loaded their hardware and started leaving, he says, but the hysterics are still going on. this is where the real escalation is, he adds. but there is dangerous escalation on the ground as well. this is what ukrainian official...

Think he is indeed going to pull the trigger and invade ukraine? >> look, i still dont know what putin is thinking. i dont know if putin has made that decision yet or not. i know weve got to be prepared either way. keep the lane open for diplomacy. keep the lane open to give him the opportunity to pull back those troops and de-escalate. but dont be fooled, be ready for him to cross. and if he crosses, as the president has indicated, the devastating sanctions will take place that will be unified ...

Way, there will be huge consequences on russia that will be put forth in a multilateral way. and ive been confirmed of that when i went to brussels also to talk to our nato allies there. i had a chance to talk to a number of the ambassadors from our allied countries and they are in lock-step with the intelligence and in lock-step and working in unison should russia decide to invade the sovereign country of ukraine. >> all right, the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, congressman gr...

Attack ukraine. >> reporter: it was a dire warning repeated at the u.n. security council by the u.s. secretary of state. u.s. officials seem to have made a strategic decision to go public with intelligence as russia in secretary blinkens words steps down the path to war. >> first, russia plans to manufacture a pretext for its attack. this could be a violent event that russia will blame on ukraine or an outrageous accusation that russia will level against the ukrainian government. we dont know ex...

You could for the first time see these russian forces up close. of course the u.s. is threatening to see the military hardware that they have and how they work together with the bel belarusian forces. the exercises going on are dangerous because theres tens of thousands of russian forces here and of course belarus is very much in the corner of the russians. some of the weapons systems that we saw, jake, were very sophisticated. fighter jets, strike aircraft but the esconder missile system which ...