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moscow where putin spent this morning trying to justify his war in ukraine to the russian people. you know, keir, for his part, president biden seemed to speak directly to the russian people, saying putin chose this war. the west was never planning to attack russia, but my understanding is russian tv didnt air bidens speech. so what did the russian people hear from their president? >> reporter: for president putin, it was an uncompromising and at times, hard to comprehend speech, chris...

Attack -- -- go after nato. he doesnt stand a chance on fighting nato. were too big, too powerful. that wont happen. im not sure why were pulling up forces. hes not going there. so the big issue is the ukraine. >> sandra: we did learn the u.k. is now warning its citizens to get out as well. just a final thought to you on the implications that this has for the rest of europe. as boris johnson says, this puts europe on edge. >> look, my frustration with europe and parts of nato is theres partners ...

Un. always good to have your wisdom and experience here. can you explain, if you were to sit down with president zelenskyy about his request for nato no-fly zone, what would you tell him why its not possible and what you think is possible? >> however hard it is to the ukrainian people hear this, if nato ends the conflict bringing in a no-fly zone which what involved fighting nato and russian air units, that would lead to a worse situation, a figure confrontation and ultimately lead to more peopl...

Shiites. and there was an american pilot shot down during that time, everyone will remember scott -- colonel scott ogrady who was shot down by a war plane, a third war plane and was on on the ground, marines had to be sent to find him and in 2011 a no-fly zone over libya but these were not nuclear powers but the problem with nato going setting up no-fly zone they would be face to face with russian war planes. arthel: indeed. jennifer griffin reporting live from the pentagon, thank, jen. >> if na...

Clearly, president putin is not shy from talking about those weapons, so i think it falls on us to send a very clear, strong signal that there is no talk of nuclear weapons and nuclear war, because nato is also a nuclear alliance and the use of nuclear weapons will have a devastating consequence for all parties. and the fact that nato has not pushed back explicitly in this manner is, i think, setting a dangerous precedent. deputy foreign minister, is the russian federation up to fighting nato or...

Is also a nuclear alliance and the use of nuclear weapons will have a devastating consequence for all parties. and the fact that nato has not pushed back explicitly in this manner is, i think, setting a dangerous precedent. deputy foreign minister, is the russian federation up to fighting nato or could it resort to extremely dangerous methods, nuclear weapons? thats precisely the symmetry. of course, nato as an alliance is stronger than russia. russia is nothing but "the upper volta with nuclear...

Second, indeed, on the paper, there are more nato soldiers than russian soldiers, but russia also has some weapons that can cause devastating effects and, clearly, president putin is not shy from talking about those weapons. so i think it falls on us to send a very clear, strong signal that there is no talk of nuclear weapons and nuclear war because nato is also a nuclear alliance and that the use of nuclear weapons will have a devastating consequence for all parties. and the fact that nato has ...

Pushed back explicitly in this manner is, i think, setting a dangerous precedent. deputy foreign minister, is the russian federation up to fighting nato, or could it resort to extremely dangerous methods — nuclear weapons? thats precisely the symmetry. that, of course, nato as an alliance is stronger than russia. russia is nothing but, to quote, "the upper volta "with nuclear weapons." to look at its economy and structure of its governance and so on and so forth, it is a corrupt, backward stat...

And the fact that nato has not pushed back explicitly in this manner is, i think, setting a dangerous precedent. deputy foreign minister, is the russian federation up to fighting nato, or could it resort to extremely dangerous methods — nuclear weapons? thats precisely the symmetry. that, of course, nato, as an alliance, is stronger than russia. russia is nothing but, to quote, "the upper volta "with nuclear weapons." to look at its economy, to look at the structure of its governance and so on...