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Would take that away. but, of course, it would mean the russians, too, had to withdraw weapons. in the meantime, ukraine hasjust received from the us 90 tonnes of what america calls lethal aid, including ammunition for ukraines front—line forces. washington says its helping ukraine bolster its defences in the face of growing russian aggression. russia denies an invasion is on the cards, but has 100,000 russian troops near ukraines border in potentially threatening positions, as this map shows....

But does putin even want to de-escalate? has he gone too far, does the united states think? >> i think thats a wide open question at this point. if russia is using diplomacy essentially as a pretext for the military action it wants to take or if russia is open to a diplomatic path to de-escalate the situation, we have put real serious ideas on the table, concerns that we have about russian behavior and steps that we could take we think would improve the broader security environment in europe in ...

Additional nato troops sent to romania in the baltics to send a signal to russian president vladimir putin not to try to move into any neighboring countries. putin has not made it a direct threat to nato country and ukraine is not a nato member. all of this comes a briefing from uk intelligence over the weekend that putin is planning to install a progression president and ukraine and orders from her state department the families to evacuate ukraine. joining us with the latest national security c...

If they had won and getting together anyway and going through the motions as if everything had happened with trump winning the state so as to send these electors on to washington dc and maybe talk a little bit about, i mean, whats crazy here is as far out as this plan might be, the idea of disputted electors is contemplated in electoral count act, theres american history and would have given mike pence a kind of pretext to do the things donald trump was prevailing on him to do. >> yeah, and i do...

Overthrow them are the people who took part in the smash and grab violent part of the scheme that took place on january six last year. now we know there are ongoing investigations into another part of the plot. into another part of the plot that didnt unfold violently on the capitol grounds on january 6th. remember, this thing appeared to operate at three basic levels. at least, these are the three levels -- i find it easier to sort of keep the whole thing in mind. if i think about it in terms o...

Between russians and ukrainians. that crack was painted on by activists in a few on by activists a few years ago as relations between the two countries deteriorated. and as talks intensify about a possible invasion, the hope is things dont break down completely. tensions are still rising on the border. today russian jets made their way to joint military drills with neighbouring belarus. ukrainian ministers have welcomed the delivery of us military equipment, and now a call for the uk to step up ...

A lot of the ukrainian assets just like that. just as we have done. hes watched us. he has got about the same technology now. maybe he wants to do that. the demands he put forward are demands that he knew nato would never agree with. so maybe all along hes been looking for pretext to fight. but its important that we keep open the opportunity and the effort to reach a diplomatic solution. we do not want conflict in europe. >> we heard secretary milley, general milley that is, talk about, it feels...

Nato ally but a u.s. ally. >> richard, thank you. >> nato member, but a u.s. ally. >> right. right. >> ambassador, what do you make of that? is this the typical bluster from putin, or are these demands designed to be as richard suggests, a poison pill, a pretext for starting the war of the invasion that he wants? >> thats a good question. richard is right. this is what is the potential is there. and ukrainians as he indicated, are taking it very seriously as they should. i mean, putin has invade...

Responsible for setting lockdown rules repeatedly broke them. ben wright at westminster. now, washington and kyiv have accused russia of preparing to carry out false sabotage operations to create a pretext for an invasion of ukraine. the pentagon said moscow had sent a group of trained operatives into eastern ukraine. they could then carry out acts of sabotage, against russias own proxy forces there, which are concentrated in the donestk and luhansk regions. ukraines defence ministry said russia...

But speaking at a news conference, 0ur washington correspondent barbara plett usher reports. well, the statement is that the americans have said that they have intelligence that the russians are preparing a pretext for innovation, and this involves, as you said, they have pre—positioned operatives to carry out sabotage attacks against russian proxy forces in eastern ukraine, which they would then blame on the ukrainians. the americans also say the russians have stepped up disinformation campai...