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Russian capitals. cnns chief international correspondent clarissa ward joins us from kyiv and cnn international diplomatic editor nic robertson is here with us -- is with us from moscow, my apologies. nic, let me ask you what does the state of play look like? we all understand there is a military escalation, but in diplomatic terms, what are the flurry of counterproposals and counterproposals telling us? is there a growing diplomatic gap? worried that gap is unbridgeable? >> reporter: it does fe...

Better. >> putin appears to be reaching the peak point of his leverage and try to push the ukrainian leadership in the direction he wants to go. they withstood it so far. and the alternatives, perhaps thats whats beginning to build up on the borders, these exercises, these evacuations of civilians in the east right now. >> nic, thank you so much. we really appreciate it. lets go to munich with vice president kamala harris with high level talks with allies on this exact thing at the munich securi...

Membership. that was brought back very quickly. we f we heard from the foreign minister who said we are ready to go forward with membership. and from president zelensky himself who reaffirmed that commitment to try to push for nato membership. but behind the scenes, in private conversations, it does seem that there are many people pushing to have some kind of a concession made. some kind of an extraction that the russians can claim as a victory that will allow an off-ramp for everybody to de-esc...

Running on the air, particularly pictures of young children, very emotive pictures of young children being hustled away, media officials saying now the border area from the russian border into the separatist part of eye crane has been controlled by the russian security services, and theyre allowing people to leave the area of donbas but not go back into it. the image here from russia is one of deny being what they are being accused of. >> colonel layton, i want to get your perspective on this co...

Currently around ukraine has more than half of its combat forces deployed. hes saying its your aggression. this is why you must give in to our demands that ukraine cannot become a member of nato and nato forces need to go back to 1997 positions and levels. this has been his message at the beginning. it continues to be his message. of course, the british foreign secretary today liz truss who is meeting with sergei lavrov, the russian foreign minister, is urging russia to take a diplomatic path an...

That. lets go to nic robertson standing by in moscow. nic, what is your read on the supposed troop pull back by russia, small as they are? u.s. and ear nations say nonsense, troop numbers are going up, not down? >> reporter: yeah, british secretary of defense ben wallace has said they want to be out of the area is handling its information campaign here. its accusing the russians directly of lying. what we heard from the russian embassy in washington yesterday was that this was more self-hypnosis...

Elena is now at the front line for a visit there. there will be more warmth between zelensky and macron than there would have been. macron praising president zelensky before he left moscow yesterday, laura. anyone who found himself with is bo,000 people. clearly the french believe some progress was made. urging people to get back and talk about the normandy talks. in the meantime as nic was just saying, we heard from president putin. pretty difficult words accusing of president zsa lynn ski who ...

Essentially trying to call russia out. youre on a diplomatic path and de-escalate or youre not. thats where we seem to be. >> thats fascinating, nic. arlette, from the white house point of view, how far is it willing to go if theres some real doubt here, universal doubt that putin really is genuine about engaging in these diplomatic calls? >> reporter: well, right now, fred, you are seeing the biden administration and president biden really engage in this full-court press to try to deter russia ...

Cnn international diplomatic editor nic robertson has the latest from moscow. nic, what more are you learning at this hour? >> reporter: jim, were getting again another satellite look at just how things physically would go crazy quickly. the latest satellite imagery were seeing shows several locations around ukraine where there are movements, significant movements of russian forces. take that area in the southern end of ukraine, crimea, annexed by russia. they have tents for troops on it, hundre...

Just now where he talked about them setting up a rationale to take more territory by force. of course, as president putin had earlier said talking about those two breakaway separatist republics and recognizing them by their own self-declared borders, which as youve heard from michael and nic, go beyond the areas that they hold right now and go into large city centers, youre talking about maropol, a port city, half a million people, people gathering in the streets tonight carrying ukrainian flags...