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Laying the predicate for his broader strategic grievances, particularly around nato in large, obviously, and potentially ukrainian membership in nato, making demands that he knew the united states and other countries could not adhere to, and then even putins comment that he was going to de-escalate a few days ago, inevitably he would seek to do that before launching a pretext for a potential invasion and it was always going to be the case that we would be entering a really intense period as the ...

Ukraine is the largest territory—wise country in europe. we have 40 million people. so its very difficult to control such a country when the whole population is hostile against, for example, an invader. we proved it, for example, during the second world war. so, from that perspective, again, putin is fighting for some pretext. he wants ukraine first to become weaker and with all these economic difficulties that he inflicts on ukraine, hes trying to make ukraine difficult... ..erm, vulnerable, ...

Administration, for fundraising, for all sorts of things. and there are a number of immigrant advocate groups that are big parts of the democratic coalition that are pushing hard for the biden administration to keep doing what its doing. they are not disturbed by these numbers, they would not mind if they went even higher, so, biden has pressure from the left as well as the right. >> sandra: and fascinating to hear casey stegall talking about recruitment for patrol, tough to get anybody to do th...

Two teachers were injured, no children. pewens foreign minister sending a written response, flatly rejecting proposals for a diplomatic path forward and on his way to a security conference, secretary blinken detouring to tell the security council russia is in effect lying. >> we dont know precise lee how things will play out. but heres what the world can expect to see unfold. russia plans to manufacture a pretext for its attack. this could be a violent event that russia will blame on ukraine or ...

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. a dozen nations including the uk have told their citizens to leave ukraine. our correspondent paul adams has been speaking to some of those affected. do you want to go to spain? how best to leave? stuart mackenzie is looking for flights with his sons, robert and stuart. after 28 years of life here, h...

>> reporter: this is where the ukrainian military says that one of the artillery shells hit. you can see this is a room where children would be playing. fortunately, there was no one in this room at the time. but according to local authorities, three people who worked here -- >> reporter: the concern is that russia would use instability in that region, trading of artillery fire and so on, as a pretext to say things are getting unstable. we have to send our russian forces in to stabilize the situ...

There is some common ground here and this will improve the security of all nato allies, but also the security of the people of russia, so they should sit down and engage in the diplomatic talks and prove that they are serious about their language, about de-escalation. >> you have been warning for some time as have u.s. officials about the possibility of russia concocting some situation including in eastern ukraine, perhaps a false flag, but a pretext for further military action. this morning, we...

I do think that russias looking for a pretext. i thought it was a very, very strong speech by tony blinken, who i have known for years. however, now the next step. what isnt being done by the administration is the equivalent of almost like a berlin airlift of bringing supplies to ukraine. help ukraine -- give ukraine the tools to defend themselves, whether its more anti-tank munitions or more anti-air and missile defenses. that would be very helpful also. so in addition to calling out russia, as...

Ukraine accused russia of using the separatist it controls to provoke the ukrainian military into responding with force. thereby, giving russia an excuse to send its troops across the border. >> with all of that is a backdrop, secretary of state, anthony blinken, made an unscheduled stop at the un today, on his way to meet with u.s. allies in germany. he laid out, in stark and chilling detail, how russia might create a pretext for an attack. >> it could be a fabricated so-called terrorist bombin...

New reporting on large clusters of miami voters mysteriously switching to republican without their knowledge. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, im chris hayes. tonight, at this, hour we are closely watching developments and ukraine and along its borders. as it appears, more and more likely that russia plans to invade that country. that imminent threat is the reason why the u.s. secretary of state, anthony blinken, appeared before the united nations to lay out in striking detai...