at least 10 russian su-34 strike bombers. general, what do you make of this, satellite images coming out on a day where we re going to pull troops out where they have done their military exercises. it s like the magician, wash both hands, it s the hand you don t see that s got stuff going on. what s happening in cry imea, a an intel guy i would go to the boss and said, i don t want to try and confirm this and only look at this course of action we need to worry about but i want to worry about this for a second. we need to do something about it. he s got strike bombers, the sus in crimea. they weren t there before. he s got hero helo, transport and attack, and the naval task force in the vicinity of crimea in the black sea. what that tells me is this reinforces the notion of increasing the presence in the dombas, and expanding it into the direction of the river.
ordinary people, no celebrations after annexation of cry imea in 2014 and hundreds and hundreds of people being arrested every day and thousands coming to the streets protesting knowing there will be beaten, detained and most likely spend long time behind bars. but it s also for many russians that don t believe the ukrainian relatives, it s not just the fact that russia is showing fakes on television and they believe everything we show is a fake. it s a psychological rejection of truth. if they accept the truth, they have to act and not so many people have courage because those protesting rational will be treated very harshly by putin s regime. what do you believe nato should do? at a minimum, no fly zone. absolute minimum.
russian president vladimir putin announced the successful construction of a bridge and train connecting cry imea to russia. it connects the port to moscow. the eu and much of the international community did doh not recognize russia s seizure of crimea. they have claimed over 10,000 civilian casualties in this internationally displaced nearly 1.5 million people. and staying here on russia, yesterday secretary of state mike pompeo tweeted a photo of the new u.s. ambassador to russia, john sullivan, swearing in to take that up critical role. ambassador sullivan was previously the u.s. department secretary of state and has also served as a lawyer in past republican administrations. the pick comes as president trump has been impeached by the house for withholding military aid to ukraine which, of course, has been fighting a war with russia. let s take a quick break and switch gears for a moment and
putin. we re all fascinated by him. when you look at him with the n knowledge of russian history, does he seem like another zar? yes, he s a master of asymmetric warfare. of course, he s a successor of the soviet state. but the third strand to him is is definitely zar. he as a great concept of the grand mrussian empire and much he s doing in cry imea and syri is from the playbook. he has a great sense of history and though he s not a great reader, he is fascinated by the division, the ideological division like peter the great and probably starlin and bad
others call it what aboutism. weaver seen it from president putin actions in cry imea. look at the divisiveness of the u.s. election. as for an official reaction here in moscow, nothing as of yet. it s around lunchtime on a sunday, so fairly quiet. but just to give you a sense of the feeling here about the russia/u.s. relationship there are comments today from the foreign minister. he said they re waiting to see how the key members of the trump administration are going to define it. they are watching and waiting how things unfold. watching and waiting as well is the ukranian president, the ukrainian people want to see the