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Many really arrive is the sort of pretext russia used in the past to justify assisting separatist rebels. this video is quite dramatic and separatist said it was the clash with polish saboteurs trying to blow up a plant on friday morning. the videos meta data shows it was created about ten days earlier. another technical fact that doesnt fit the narrative. a separatist news crew was at hand, too, to capture this. another blast at a pipeline. the camera man could have miraculous timing or it coul...

Blinken also laying out in detail how he says russia could manufacture a pretext for an invasion. >> first, russia plans to manufacture a pretext for its attack. this could be a violent event that russia will bring on ukraine or an outrageous accusation that russia will level against the ukrainian government. we dont know exactly the form it will take. it could be a fabricated so-called terrorist bombing inside russia. the invented discovery of a mask raid, a staged drone strike against civilian...

Cyber attack since this administration has taken office. theyve been accelerating. >> reporter: russian forces vin creased by about 7,000 troops in recent days meaning the new estimated total sits around 150,000. shannon? >> shannon: ashley thank you very much. good to see you tonight. >> reporter: you, too. >> shannon: lets dig in a little deeper into the state of the russia/ukraine standoff with a member of the house foreign affairs committee. republican congressman from new york and uless tha...

Increase number of violation of the cease-fire. and the -- and this is the type of -- and events or it was situations that may be used as a pretext. so i cannot comment on that specific violation this morning. but what i can say is that one of the reasons why nato and nato allies has exposed the russian plans and the russian disinformation activities is to make it harder for them to create the pretext that can be used as an excuse for on attack against ukraine. >> you said earlier today that the...

President biden is preparing to hold talks with transatlantic leaders on friday to discuss the ukraine crisis, according to the white house. hes 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. in a heated un security council meeting, the us secretary of state warned russia may be trying to engineer a pretext for an invasion — there have been reports that pro—russian forces have...

Lynch tell us about the nfls defensive strategy. its way too early for this. fo. good morning. and welcome to "way too early." the show thats got a special announcement coming up later in the hour. youll want to stick around for that. im jonathan lemire on this thursday, february 17th. thanks for joining us. lets start with the news. russian troops have not been withdrawing from the border with ukraine. despite moscows claim to the contrary. according to u.s. officials last night. we now know ...

Forthright about what we know in terms of pinning the blame for this where, frankly, it rests, which is with the decision of vladimir putin. thats the pretext for biden of all the responses that the united states will try to lead when it comes to sanctions and diplomatic isolation going forward, so its not just putin that he is trying to obviously deny that information. its the audience that hes trying to reach globally and the message that this is going to be entirely russias responsibility, no...

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Adviser to president zelensky here in kyiv just a short while ago. he says that it is a russian negotiation tactic, to escalate a situation prior to going into a negotiation, though its unclear at this point why the shelling is happening now, jose. >> peter, how does the shelling and the accusation that russia is adding troops instead of pulling them back change things, and specifically with the white house, the diplomatic efforts to try and resolve this issue diplomatically. >> reporter: obviou...

These break-away republics where they have been staging what ukrainian and u.s. officials are calling sort of false-flags or staged provocations. they have been bussing people, who have been allegedly coming under heavy fire to the border, to russia, trying essentially, it appears, to create some kind of an elaborate manufactured refugee crisis, again, as been speculated many, many times before, that this could give president putin some kind of a pretext with 600,000 russian passport holders in ...