Fleeing Donbas News Today

Point, seems at the very list that vladimir putin would want some sort of autonomous nation or nation state carved out of the existing ukraine for those russian speakers. you saw donbas will be pivotal there. to walk away from it, you know, his bravado, his swagger, his ego doesnt seem to fit. >> yeah, you can still walk away from this saying that he got what he wanted. all along the russians have said near not going to invade. it clear that they wanted to go through a dress rehearsal. they went...

Look, theres no evidence of these assertions and defies basic logic to believe the ukrainians would choose this moment with well over 150,000 troops on its borders to escalate a year-long conflict. russia state media continues to make phony allegations of a genocide taking place in the donbas. push fabricated claims warning and ukraines attack on russia without any evidence. just what ukraine is thinking of doing, attacking russia. all of these are consistent with the playbook the russians have ...

Possible from whatever negotiations take place. remember, he is still arguing that georgia and ukraine should never be allowed to join nato. nato troop deployments should revert to what they were in 1997. so vladimir putin is doing a lot of things at the same time. were getting mixed messages from him. we have shelling in the donbas. we have still roughly 190,000 troops on the border of ukraine. certainly enough to take -- to conquer ukraine. we have military exercises in belarus, which are goin...

European union and nato. i can affirm the division in nato has not happened. the overwhelming message on both calls was one of unity, determination and resolve. i shared with all of those on the calls what we know about a rapidly escalating crisis in ukraine. over the last few days, weve seen reports of a major uptick in violations of the cease fire by russian backed fires attempting to provoke ukraine in the donbas. for example, a shelling of a ukrainian kindergarten yesterday which russia fals...

Warning but we want the latest. >> i think the latest now is keeping a very close eye on the donbas region. theres been some reports that are unverify of an uptick of violence there some mysterious explosions. the warning earlier today from the separatist leader, the russian proxy telling all russians to leave the area and start lining up at a certain hour for buses out of that area. we always expected to start seeing that uptick in these hours and days before a potential invasion. what were see...

Up the russian reserves. we were told to look at that as an indication that he would need an occupation force if he went with the invasion. we see him standing next to lukashenko of belarus. theres indication that putin will move military equipment behind the exercises, the so-called exercises that were supposed to end with 30,000 russian troops in belarus, 60 miles from kiev on the border in belarus. we saw that pontoon bridge that was -- that appeared in satellite images on a river that is nea...

The russian separatest leader for all russians to leave the area. putin will make room for the russians fleeing donbas in to russia, that he will have payments for them, setting up housing for them. this is all part of the disinformation inside russia to make it looks like theres a pretense, a reason to go in to ukraine. you heard president putin talking about genocide, targeting russians in the donbas area. there were some reports of mass graves that were told were fake in recent days. this upt...

0 being with us for this hour today. look forward to seeing you back here monday at 3:00. have a good weekend. watch this story closely over the weekend. well see you back here monday. "your world" starts right now. >> charles: youre looking live at the white house. president joe biden expected to deliver an update any moment on the situation with russia and ukraine. an invasion could be imminent. the president holding crucial call with nato allies. is there any chance to stop an attack? welcome...