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On its border. to try and use, essentially, public communications by calling out putin saying, we know youre going to do. our intelligence is exposing your plan, falsifying operations. in this case, going to united nations and putting the pressure on it saying, you are threatening world peace. united nations should be treating this is a grave emergency. the stakes here are high. what are you going to do? i thought most interesting was he called on the russians to, basically, say de-escalating, j...

So-called small nuclear weapon as a way to escalate on the path to de-escalation. thats another very, very bad judgment if its correct, if its true. because a nuclear use has much more probability of escalating than of de-escalating. >> i covered all of the nuclear noegations between ronald reagan and mikhail gorbachev and saw multiple agreements on long range and intermediate range and short range weapons as well, theater weapons. so that we thought we had the u.s./soviet and now u.s./russia pi...

European security. but only if russia did not invade ukraine. now that we see the invasion is beginning and russia has made clear its wholesale rejection of diplomacy, it does not make sense to go forward with that meeting at this time. i consulted with our allies and partners. all agreed. today i sent foreign minister lavrov a letter informing him of this. the united states and i personally remain committed to diplomacy if russia is prepared to take demonstrable steps to provide the internation...

Nation. and even if he were interested in de-escalating, which he doesnt really seem to be, there dont seem to be many off ramps so far hes been offered by the u.s. and uk and europe to try to back down. we already saw yesterday in response to the sanctions that were already in and some of the things that nato leaders had said, the increased weapons supplies to ukraine, he ordered his nuclear forces on alert. i think we can all be in for a very, very trying fraught and uncertain time now. >> yea...

Needs to stop this senless brutality against the people of ukraine, against the government of ukraine, against the territorial integrity of ukraine. that is very clear to president putin. when it comes to this diplomacy, we of course support our ukrainian partners, but just like they do, we also know that diplomacy doesnt have the best odds of success when its done at the barrel of a gun or a turret of a tank. thats what weve seen so far. president putin needs to choose the course of genuine, go...

Hello, im maryam moshiri. youre watching context on bbc news. no let up in the bombardment of ukraine but britain says little sign of military progress. destruction continues, russia sheds parts of eastern ukraine should be allowed to break away in america says there no sign of moscow de—escalating. president putin suggests hes willing to hold a face—to—face meeting with president zelensky but can there be any progress? i could not remain on the sidelines. we hear from the russian journali...

Hello, im maryam moshiri. youre watching context on bbc news. no let up in the bombardment of ukraine but britain says little sign of military progress. destruction continues, russia sheds parts of eastern ukraine should be allowed to break away in america says there no sign of moscow de—escalating. president putin suggests hes willing to hold a face—to—face meeting with president zelensky but can there be any progress? i could not remain on the sidelines. we hear from the russian journali...

Hours the repositioning of a small percentage of troops that -- and the battalion tactical groups that russia had against kyiv, probably in the neighborhood of 20% of what they had. some of the troops we assess are repositioning into belarus. we dont have an exact number for you but thats our early assessments. none of them -- we have seen none of them reposition to their home garrison, and thats not a small point. if the russians are serious about de-escalating because thats their claim here, t...

Assessment is less than 20% over the last 24 hours. they have seemed to start to reposition. i want to hit it again, because i think its an important point. if russians were serious about de-escalating and wanted to take the pressure off, and if thats the case, send them home and thats not what they are doing. >> there was basically three lines of advance, northwest -- >> i would say from the north and northwest. those groupings are the ones they are drawing from now. >> does that include cherni...

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