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Intelligence that russian president vladimir putin has made a decision to attack ukraine and target the capital kyiv. biden says the attack is expected in the coming days or sooner, but he says the door is still open for diplomacy. vice president kamala harris steps on the world stage today to address the world crisis. she spoke at the munich security conference moments ago and warned of severe consequences if russia does invade ukraine. >> let me be clear. i can say with absolute certainty if r...

Ukrainian armored vehicles. ukrainian officials have strongly denied this ever took place. there was no crossing, no ukrainian casualties, they insist. all this is just a pretext, they say, to ratchet up tensions. earlier, there was more kremlin theater on state television. a carefully choreographed session with a normally closed russian security council discussing eastern ukraine. and then, called on, one by one, to tell the russian leader what he wanted to hear. the situation there is tense, t...

Defense under president clinton, william cohen. so much of what this administration has been doing is trying to front run this information. trying to take away the chance for putin to have a pretext like he has in the past. do you think that might work given how tense things seem to be right now? >> i think it may. there is still a chance as president biden said, theres an off ramp in this particular case. it was important i learned today through cnn that the chinese foreign minister or ministry...

Defend ukraine against any invasion by moscow that could start a world war. do you think about that? >> we do. one of the questions ive been asking a lot is if putin goes forward, what comes next? we need to be talking about that more. understandably most people right now are just focused on trying to determine if hes going to invade and how well ukraine will be able to stand up to that assault, but we all have to be asking what happens next? what does it mean for the future of security in nato ...

Today that just ended by the way. there are territories and i quote here, an attempt to create a pretext for a further invasion of ukraine. a russian media outlet posting help captainers going through the u.s. we identified them as russian though. the russian president addressing the nation at 2:00 in the morning local time saug that were not afraid of anything or anyone. we wont give away anything to anyone. that as sources tell u.s. officials had private conversations and theyre going to the b...

That appears to to be hit with a shell that was fired by russian-backed separatists. that according to the ukrainian foreign minister who did say heavy weapons were used on this village. now shellings were reported in a number of other locations as 29, vials were recorded by observers. now analysts do fear this escalation could act as a pretext for russia launching a larger invasion into ukraine. satellite images released yesterday show additional russian troops arriving at the ukrainian border....

Reporters spoke on condition of anonymity and did not provide any underlying evidence for the alleged troop buildup but it is jet another data point in what is an incredibly complicated situation that we are all desperate to make sense of. joining us now on this day to make sense of what is happening, ben rhodes, former deputy security adviser to president bpa, in that post when -- president obama, in that post when russia invaded in 2014. contrary to what the russians are saying, we are seeing ...

Quickly with, you know, a lot of people believing that the russian side is looking for a pretext to launch some kind of an incursion, and i should say, while were here on the ukrainian side, looking at this aftermath of a pro-russian separatist shelling, on the other side of the border, theyre claiming that ukrainian forces have been shelling them as well, and i dont know if you could hear that. there is some shelling in the distance there that we can hear. as i mentioned, less than three miles ...

Of heavy artillery flying back and forth, you could be moments away from a very serious escalation, because president putin has said over and over again, not just in this conflict but other conflicts before and 2008 with georgia, has said he will always protect russian people, russian speakers, ethnic russians, been handing out passports like candy in those russian-backed separatist regions, 600,000, so it would be very easy for him to use something like this if it did escalate further. if there...

Minders are asking us to move because of that shelling. well check in with you as soon as we can. thank you. >> lets go. >> reporter: on an average day there might be three or four major cease-fire violations around here. today, the military says there have been more than 30. >> lets go, guys. >> reporter: theyre telling us we have to go now. it is a steady stream of artillery we can hear in the difference. were getting on to the bus to leave. in the hours after we leave, another shell hits a ho...