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Back to the crisis over ukraine, and after days of fast—paced developments in the crisis, ross atkins has been taking a look at some of the key moments in the build—up of russian troops along the border with ukraine. on monday evening, president putin gave a televised address. he also signed russias recognition of the independence of donetsk and luhansk in eastern ukraine, and ordered troops into the territories. within hours, unidentified military vehicles were filmed near them. and vladimi...

Lizinski, how he achieves that is consequential. >> build-up, nearly 100,000 forces near the ukrainian border but i want to play something else secretary austin said last week. >> weve seen some of the troops inch closer to that border. we see them fly in more combat and support aircraft. we see them sharpen their readiness in the black sea. we even see them stocking up their blood supplies. and i know firsthand that you dont do these sort of things for no reason. and you certainly dont do them ...

Reaction as well as from russia and ukraine. we will also look at the russian troop build—up over the last few months. detail the key moments all the way back from november to what is happening this week. lets begin with comments from the head of nato who says there is evidence that russian troops are moving into separatist held areas of eastern ukraine. latimer put in order to his military into the regions after recognising as independent states. that move has been condemned. president biden ...

Just words, but i will be honest, if not for my daughter and my family, i would be there. with this situation, if i have this opportunity to ask for my country, for the people who are surviving over there, if you can donate something, i would be really appreciative. great britains neil simpson put in the performance of his life to clinch paralympic gold in the mens visually impaired super g event in beijing. the 19—year—old scot, guided by brother andrew, is only gb�*s third ever winter ga...

Military convoy stationed just 20 miles from the outskirts of care. the build—up suggest that russia may choose to intensify its assault in an effort overthrow the pro—western ukrainian government. under russias offensive reaches deep into ukraine. these are pictures of what is claimed to be a russian air strike on the ukrainian city around 80 miles west of kyiv. rescuers are searching for survivors. in a southern city with a population of a quarter of a million, from their windows, local pe...

That is it from us. now on bbc news, its time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. im stephen sackur. hour by hour, vladimir putin intensifies the scale and the violence of the russian military assault on ukraine. civilian buildings hit by rocket fire, towns and cities encircled. and the capital, kyiv, now facing a vast build—up of russian firepower. hundreds of thousands of ukrainians have already fled. more are trying to do so before its too late. my guest is david miliband, boss of the intern...

Who is on the scene for us in ukraine. you have new information. tell our viewers what youre learning. >> reporter: thats right, wolf. with russias recognition of these eastern provinces, but also, declaration that russian peace keepers will be going in. the u.s. military believes that russian forces will enter donbas as soon as tonight into tomorrow. this would be the first movement of russian forces into ukraine since this build-up that weve been talking about for a number of weeks now, crossi...

Country and a very frightening reality. and there isnt a clear sense of what people here in the city of kharkiv, 1.4 million people, are supposed to do. are they supposed to evacuate? because this city is actually uniquely vulnerable. you have a huge build-up of russian forces just on the other side of the border. you heard our fred pleitgen whos been reporting from there hearing a sort of steady stream of outgoing artillery. and we know that troops have continued to mass along with heavy weapon...

Captains and miracles on the ground when conditions are right they will begin to inch into the areas that putin wants. in eastern ukraine in particular. >> steve: right. >> we have been down this road before with obama, biden. we had the crimea in 2014. then trump came in and it was peace through strength and really fortifying nato. and then, you know, recently, we have had the afghanistan debacle where we abandoned nato and i think putin saw and this saw how fractured we are. and in november he...

We see the ongoing military build-up. they promised to step back but they have continued to step up. we see that more and more. the forces are moving out of the camps and are in combat formations and ready to strike. >> so were also hearing this from officials in the biden administration. how does the intelligence committee make this assessment? is it solely based on satellite? >> no. one of the thing im looking at is not just that the troops are in combat formation which is really important, be...