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Because of russias aggressive posture toward ukraine. >> all of this as the u.s. says it has intelligence that russia has plans to amass thousands more troops in belarus and could develop elaborate, fake video that they could use as a pretext to invade ukraine. >> reporter: one thing they announced was a new deal for russia to provide china with more russian gas. russian gas, russian energy has been a central topic of discussion. there have been mountingers can that russia could cut off its ener...

Pretext to invade. so weve heard very specific things. there is no dispute already that the shelling that we saw in -- thats believed to be one of these. officials are talking about the potential for protests, for riots. theyre talking about the potential for assassinations. we heard about potential strikes or manufacturing strikes from drones. ukrainian drones. killing russian speaking citizens and ukraine. but that is one audience. the international community. the other one is actually the rus...

Addressed the crisis this week and comes after holding a call with western ally this is afternoon. the administration over past 24 hours has been expressing concern that russia is walking away from any possible diplomatic solution, concerns that are fueled by a steady buildup of russian forces on the ukraine border. u.s. intelligence suggests that russia deployed up to 190,000 military personnel. what one american diplomat said is the most significant mobilization inup since the second world war...

So ukraine waits and watches. mrjohnson warned a lightning russian war might initially overwhelm these defences. but the west, he said, could not tolerate the destruction of a democracy and would, even if it took time, ensure such aggression did not pay off. damian grammaticas, bbc news. lets speak to our correspondent in ukraine, james waterhouse. james, there has been lots of talk about the russians looking for a pretext to launch an invasion, looking for a sort of false flag opportunity in th...

Donbas, weve seen incident after incident that the russian government and their proxies in donbas are trying to blame on the ukrainians. the ukrainian government is saying this is a pretext, this going to provide cover for putin to send his troops over the border. i got to tell you, joe, it is exactly what secretary of state blinken laid out before the u.n. security council just recently. what he was saying again yesterday on "meet the press" and other shows, this is going exactly in following t...

This is newsday. president biden has said the threat of a russian invasion of ukraine remains "very high" and could take place within days, despite moscows claim to be pulling troops from its borders. his message was echoed at a nato summit in brussels, where western leaders said that far from withdrawing, russia had in fact added troops. and in a heated un security council meeting, the us secretary of state warned russia may be trying to engineer a pretext for an invasion. thereve been reports ...

On how to deter russias military action here. this as vice president kamala harris plans to meet with volodymyr zelensky tomorrow. so much happening right now. were doing our best to cover it. our reporters and correspondents here in kyiv and around the region. we begin this morning with our senior international correspondent matthew chance who is here with me in kyiv. lets talk about whats going on in the eastern part of ukraine. a great deal of attention on that by the u.s. and nato officials ...

Evacuated to russia. separatist leader denis pushilin said the operation was arranged on friday the 18th, because ukraine would soon attack. but a bbc analysis of the metadata shows this footage was recorded two days earlier. video has emerged showing small numbers boarding buses, apparently bound for russia. the west has long feared that president putin would use the separatist areas as a pretext for an attack on ukraine. it looks like the stage is being set for something. orla guerin, bbc news...

White house to monitor the situation in ukraine. bret? >> bret: jacqui heinrich live on the north lawn. thank you. a pro-russian separatist leader in eastern ukraine says civilians are being evacuated to russia amid the invasion threat. videos surfaced on social media that the evacuation was underway. videos u.s. officials now say were made two days ago. so what is true and what is not? what is an attempt by vladimir putin to have a pretext to go in to ukraine? correspondent trey yingst is on th...

You in on this. the point is there are things that it seems putin has done to build up enough reserves in case sanctions happen. lets look at options that are there. there is the option to cut russia off from society for worldwide interbank telecommunications called swift, limit access to u.s. made technology, freeze assets of high ranking russian officials. there are things that could be done and looks like sanctions will happen. if theyre lying enough about what is happening in ukraine to clai...