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The seemingly lack of movement from the lack of significant air attacks is not strategy. its the absence of strategy. its commanders on the ground and the staff want to go look like they are doing something while minimizing risk of casualty, captured and killed. thats concerning the kremlin. so they are plodding along out of what the british would call bloody mindedness. its a mistake to call this strategy. its just inertia. jon: the "wall street journal" dan henninger wrote this. he says ukrain...

Tonight, major breaking news as we come on the air. new reporting, as the urgent threat of war is intensifying in ukraine. u.s. officials tell abc news russian commanders have been given orders to plan to invade. today, president biden convening his national security team in the situation room. what were learning as new satellite images show multiple new deployments of armored equipment and troops. and russia tonight extending its massive military drills just beyond ukraines northern border. she...

The situation was radically different. it was quiet. now im about one mile from the separatist held conclave in ukraine. there are intensifier fights -- intense firefights here. now since weve been here for the last several hours, the ukrainians are also firing back at the separatists. one commander i spoke to here says he does fear these could be the opening shots of a wider war. >> richard, there was a clearly frustrated president zelensky that met with the vice president in munich over the la...

The shoulders of the ukrainian regime the ukrainian government has not been carrying out a genocide, but wars can be launched by lies. russia today claimed ukraine has begun directly attacking russian territory. it offered no proof except for what looked like a shack russia says was targeted by ukrainian forces in the trenches over the past 48 hours, we have seen absolutely no evidence that ukrainian troops are in the midst of an offensive against russia or are preparing for one. instead, comman...

These ukrainian troops are still holding off russian forces. their president calling on the invaders to lay down their arms. translation: drop your weapons and get out of here. _ do not believe your commanders, do not believe your propagandists, just save your lives and go. and in a kyiv childrens hospital, a young victim of europes newest war lies between life and death. he is just 13 and doctors tell us his family came under fire as they tried to flee. its unclear by who. the smallest brother ...

Forces, he has been there for a week to ten days overseeing the exercises out there, watch the commanders. all of that. if putin successfully rolls across eastern ukraine, we need to be ready with plan b. how do we get the zelenskyy government out of the lawn of fire. -- where do we put a ukrainian government in exile if not within their borders outside, in warsaw, or london. like charles de gaulle in world war ii. how do we?. -- these are all next order considerations that the pentagon is grapp...

To enforce an advantage. cumulatively, what is all that mean? >> i am one of the few analysts, maybe because like i said, i spent a month there studying the russian forces the invasion routes. with the ukrainian army, as commanders. who are in the fight. and just with the ukrainian people. i am one of the few analysts that think that they can beat the russians. i really do think that. yeah, i do. because this! >> what is that look like malcolm? what does it look like? >> it would look like -- pe...

>> reporter: so the u.s. has been working with allies to craft the sanctions package should russia invade ukraine, and they are not bending to pressure from some to unvam the sanctions before an invasion takes place. secretary of state antony blinken is set to speak and meet with his russian counterpart, foreign minister sergey lavrov, on thursday. but that meeting will only move forward if russia who is not invaded ukraine by that moment. so the white house is hoping that the u.s. along with it...

Take. ive been to the local commanders here. theyve been saying they were using western antitank missiles to attack these columns. this vehicle is still smoking. theres still smoke coming out of the back of that. theres unexploded grenades, like pineapple grenades everywhere. a real scene of devastation along this bridge. according to the local ukrainian military ive been speaking to, there may be as many as ten. obviously somebody brought a memento from home and its scorched and lying with the

And heres another. russias military did this to whole communities in syria as well as chechnya. their commanders have form. chernihiv lost 22 of its citizens in this attack. the governor says two schools were also hit. make no mistake about vladimir putins desire to colonise this land. ukraine says russian targeting is indiscriminate. welcome to the town of borodyanka, population 12,500. parts of it are wasteland now of destruction in an increasingly dirty war. translation: god forbid, if we are...