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Only cnn can, from kaitlan collins at the white house, clarissa ward in kyiv, and nic robertson in moscow. caitlyn, i want to start with you. president biden said the u.s. has not yet been able to verify that russian troops are leaving positions near the ukraine border. what is the white house hoping to see that would indicate clear de-escalation, and how like do they believe at this point that an invasion is likely? >> well, when we talked to officials about what this would look like if they th...

Convoy protest. his decision as demonstrators block bridges and borders, bringing canada trade to a halt. truckers have been parked in the middle of ottawa for 18 days now. political activist ezreal says there is no justification for his actions. >> these acts were not even invoked after 9/11, when there was terrorist attack on canadas parliament itself. he is deeming the truckers to be terrorists, you heard the deputy prime minister, who by the way, happens to be a governor of the world economi...

Blinken is going to address the gravity of the situation. what russia does not want them to do is to further put forth false information. that is something that we have seen russia doing in a number of ways in recent days, and the senior administration official said that they view this meeting as something that russia could try and use as part of creating a pretext for an invasion into ukraine. and they wanted to make sure that the united states had a senior official there, the secretary of stat...

Used as a trigger for military action. new details about what the us calls a false flag operation were discussed in an emergency meeting in the white house situation room two nights ago. they say it could involve russian operatives with explosives carrying out attacks on russian forces that would then be used as a pretext for an invasion of ukraine. so tonight, the us says it has not ruled out the possibility of further talks, but they are now also planning for a worst—case scenario. ukraines ...

Him try to pursue with russia. >> richard haass, tell us what you think about the administrations strategy of really publicizing every piece of russian -- every russian move, every russian plot that they uncover, you know, that they may be -- they may match a pretext for war by claiming that the ukrainian government is tracking down on insurgence in eastern ukraine. this strikes me a very considered strategy and very different from what happened in afghanistan where they were accused of having b...

Than nord stream. and while those other sanctions are important, i think whats more important is recognizing the fact that we ought to give putin what he doesnt want. he wants the u.s. out of europe. he wants nato to not exist. and certainly out of eastern europe. i think we ought to threaten him beyond just this nord stream issue with the real threat he doesnt want, and thats nato at his doorstep. >> theres been a lot of talk over the past couple days about the possibility of a false flag opera...

To the capital city of kyiv. they also say they have suggestions that including the way russia configures its forces and plans false pretext for invasion and the truth is that no one really knows what is intended but the white house issued a stark warning on friday. we are in the window and an invasion could begin at any time should vladimir putin decide to order it. with me now is vadym prystaiko — ukraines ambassador to the united kingdom. those comments making a comparison with what happene...

Thinking about negotiations. on the other side, its important to note the russian parliament just voted to recognize the two peoples republics. thats a non-binding resolution. and putin in one of his press conferences today well, theres genocide happening and that to me is a very dangerous sign because remember, when he invaded ukraine is last time and annexed crimea, the argument for that, the pretext for that was that he was protecting ethnic russians in crimea, protecting them from military t...

Position. theyre now saying that more than half of the battle groups that putin has assembled along the ukrainian border, sort of a horseshoe around ukraine, belarus, russia, and crimea in the south, are now all within 30 miles of the ukraine border. positioned for attack. and secretary blinken laying out very clearly how this will go, that first theyll be the pretext that alisyn mentioned and then the russian government would get involved and say there was a crisis, then the attack would begin,...

To think putin will actually invade, but that if he expects an easy, quick victory, they say that he is very, very wrong. thanks so much for joining us. ac 360 starts right now. president biden offers russia a way out of the ukraine crisis, along with the clearest warning yet of the price to be paid for not taking it. john berman here in for anderson. the president spoke at the end of a tense and somewhat confusing day with mixed signals at every turn. on the one hand, vladimir putin claimed a...