the u.s. has just suspended upcoming bilateral trade and investment engagement with russia over crimea. they ve suspended that, whether or not there are further actions to come in the next 12 to 24 hours, we ll certainly be covering that. i want to take a look up next, at military options. russian forces on the ground in crimea, and ukrainian forces. we ll be right back. when it s donut friday at the office i use my citi thankyou card to get two times the points at the coffee shop. which will help me get to miami.and they ll be stuck at the cube farm. the citi thankyou preferred card. now earn two times the points on dining out with no annual fee. go to citi.com/thankyoucards.
groups, russian army, pro russian militias, have been going to various military bases around crimea, and issuing these ultimatums, saying that you ve got to surrender or defect or face a storm, as they call it. this has been taking place throughout, as i say, the last several hours, last day or so. there s not a general deadline, according to the ukrainian authorities, as far as they understand it, that would mean, you know, beyond this point, there will be a general attack on your military installations. but certainly, it s a threat they re taking seriously. they regard it as a psychological sort of sense of warfare, these ultimatums being issued. but yes, very delicate situation. the ball is very much now i think in the russian court as well, because they have established control over crimea. will they now look at other areas in the east of ukraine that are also russian-speaking and also ethnic russian majority areas. and say, you know, these are our
colleagues called this a bit of a low-key invasion in crimea, which is a very unusual description for what s going on right now, especially since we just had this very frightening ultimatum issued by russia. the reaction right now in ukraine is that the calm before the storm or the calm before the inevitable? reporter: i think it has been very low key, indeed. i mean, in fact, not a shot has been fired, really, in anger, as russia established its grip militarily over that region of crimea. they have now essentially either surrendered or occupied the key installations, both civilian and military inside crimea. they have deployed thousands of their troops inside crimea, as well. and now their military forces far outnumber the numbers that the ukrainian military in crimea would be able to muster. so they would essentially establish their de facto control over that entire area. throughout the course of the past 24 to 36 hours, various
whether president trump would [inaudible] how could he stop? it obama s attitude crimea was softer than melting ice cream in the sun look what he told the atlantic and the 16th. if there is somebody in the sound claim that we would consider going forward russia over crimea and eastern ukraine should speak up and be clear. yet the talking tough or engaging in military action that is tangential to that area is going to influence the russia or china is contrary to the evidence we ve seen all the last 50 years. let s check the fact obama
transition to say they would take a softer approach than bush did. regardless, look at the allegation as he cozies up to russia versus the obama administration relationship with russia. hillary has attempted warming relations with russia, handing over a corny reset button that was actually misspelled. hillary allowed access to the re-untran uranium deposit after her husband bill was paid $100,000 to speak and moscow. president trump watched russia take over crimea and large portions of eastern ukraine never sending assistant to our ally. but he was caught with bring on a hot mike, president obama allowed that to run circles around them in syria. he dropped the embargo in cuba. the swap narrative is trump is a traitor. please. president obama was the one