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Expect from vladimir putin this weekend and whether or not what youre seeing in eastern ukraine is as the u.s. fears and is warning, a pretext for an invasion. >> reporter: we could be seeing the pretext for an invasion right now. this is a separatist area controlled by russia where the people speak russian, they use the russian rubl and they are claiming, their leaders are claiming that theyre under attack. that theyre being besiege bide the ukrainian military; that the ukrainian military is pl...

Day that the russians had more than 150,000, now it looks like theyre getting increasingly closer to 160,000 troops. what does that say to you? >> well, weve been told all along 100,000 and then 75,000 more troops that we come in from moscow. i think that is what were seeing right now. and it is deceptive. they are lying. it is a disinformation campaign about a de-escalation to negotiate when in fact their escalating. the other thing i find of interest is their parliament, passed a resolution to...

Whats in putin es mind. the general view, no one knows if hes made the decision to invade or not, but we do know general clark that secretary of state tony blinken laid out very clearly how russia could, in his words, manufacture a pretext for its attack. i want to play kind of the detail that he offered. >> 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 tak...

Because your signal isnt great here but you can see the aftermath from where that shell hit and three people who worked at the school, according to local authorities, were treated for concussion. they have subsequently been released from the hospital. the children were all safe, as i said, but, really, what this goes to show is an escalation of incidents here on this front line. there had been regular cease-fire violations along these front lines but you might see two or three a day. ukrainian a...

Separatist leader denis said the operation was arranged today, friday the 18th, because ukraine would soon attack. but a bbc analysis of the metadata shows this footage was recorded two days ago. tonight, 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, eastern ukraine. us...

Always. what we learned in our national security subcommittee hearing this week is that putin has been trying to lay a pretext for invasion for months now. they have been planning misinformation and deploying misinformation and disinformation all the while amassing troops as youre seeing on the screen now, all around the borders of ukraine while the united states and our allies led by president biden have been coming to the negotiating table and trying to engage russia in diplomacy. the vice pre...

This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. as russian drills continue near ukraine, the us says russia has built up the most significant military force in europe since world war two we see additionalforces going to the border, including leading edge forces that would be part of any aggression. after a second day of shelling in eastern ukraine, western leaders — meeting at the munich security conference — again warn that the clashes there could be u...

Developments, particularly whats going on in eastern ukraine? well, four days they have been warning that moscow is looking for a pretext to manufacture a crisis. what we are seeing now looks very much like a manufactured crisis. first of all the sudden emergency evacuation of civilians, the car bombing in donetsk, another shelling, and tonight russian tv reporting about the separatist. is this starting to feel scripted to cause tension? vladimir putin continues to demand things the west has alr...

Playbook to -- to lay down a foundation for these military action with cyber operations. >> we also saw a vehicle explode in the city of deneks. the statement department calls it a false flag operation. the fear is something like this might be used as a pretext to invade. >> russia plans to manufacture a pretext for its attack. >> and weve seen renewed shelling in the donbas region. the area is technically under a ceasefire agreement and has been a key focus of the russian misinformation machine...

Credible. now, remember, i think it was extremely important that the united states government shared with the public the fact that we saw this pretext, this pretext that ukraine was going to attack some of the russian sort of patriots there in ukraine as a pretext so that we would be prepared for it and not, you know, submit to a lot of conspiracy theories. for the intelligence to have put that information out, that this is what theyre going to do, and its not a surprise to us, i think that pres...