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Intelligence sources, including this so—called false flag operation, the reported request for russian help by separatists to the east of ukraine, in the face of what they called ukrainian aggression, that, serving, she said, as a pretext for the sort of military action that we are seeing now. there are unified calls from the un security council members to step —— for russia to step back from the brink, but any statement condemning russia for its actions tonight is likely to be vetoed, not ...

Disinformation campaign that casts ukrainian soldiers as standing back and surrendering, when thats not actually happening. creating the idea that they are surrendering so it is out there so it then discourages the ukrainians to surrender. a round about way of getting them to surrender with disinformation. >> the cemkremlin is saying, everything they say we need to think about the fact that they lie as a professional purpose. but the kremlin is saying theyre ready to talk with ukrainian official...

Separatist-controlled warning citizens inside donbas. ukrainian government officials to not leave their homes, to stay at home, to not board public transportation because of these alleged explosives, and separatists were claiming that a car bomb went off near a government building earlier today, and ukrainian officials are pointing to that as an example of these explosives being planted. were hearing from the defense minister here pleading with the people of donbas to ignore what they argue is f...

Said weeks ago he did not know or believe putin made that decision. that has changed. meanwhile defense secretary lloyd austin reiterated the same thing. he said he agreed with president biden, that they believe putin has decided. this comes as the u.s. has gotten more intelligence to really form that decision or that consensus rather, the president said yesterday, and he pointed out the uptick of russian disinformation we heard alex talk about, that officials have said for weeks that russians c...

That, i should say alleging, theres no back-up and verification. that ukrainian forces, they say, have been attacking civilian industrial complexes. theyve been attacking schools, they say, hospitals. and if you watch the litany of, if you will, propaganda videos that have been playing out on russian tv over the last couple of evenings, you will have seen russian state reporters reporting on an explosion at a tv station. an explosion out on a road. an explosion at somebodys house, an explosion a...

Back to moscow. now lets advance one time on this. come up to 2022, map changed quite a bit since 1989. they have not gone back entirely to what his vision was in the early 1990s. >> sean: took georgia in 2008 and crimea in 2014 and belarus and moldova became satellite states. he uses that as a pretext to go in as a peacekeepers and surrounds the country and now he is bombing the capital. in every major city he is taking over the entire country. it was all on a pretext of a lie, correct? >> yes....

Republic, to help the government put down an uprising. however, when it came to supplying troops to invade ukraine, kazakhstan is not returning the favor. u.s. officials have confirmed to nbc news that kazakhstan has officially denied a request from russia for their troops to join the offensive in ukraine. kazakhstan is also not recognizing the independence of the russian-backed eastern ukrainian regions which sently undermined vladimir putins entire pretext of invasion. would kazakhstans troops...

50,000 troops, 100,000 troops, 150,000 troops. more recently, we told the world exactly what putin would do according to the playbook. he would manufacture a pretext. claim in a theatrical meeting of his national security council that he had no choice but to go into ukraine. he would deploy those forces. those forces would terrorize a civilian population. we have seen that play out very clearly and in many ways, nicolle, i wish we could, i wish i were sitting here with egg on my face saying we h...

Concern. over the past several weeks we have seen russian officials and russian media plant numerous stories in the press. any one of which could be served to elevate as a pretext for an invasion. >> ukraine announcing a day of unity. russia does not have enough troops near its border for an effective full scale invasion. what more is ukrainian intelligence saying about the russian troop levels? >> they are saying that the russians are not pulling back at all. they concur with what you heard ned...

That news breaking literally minutes ago. as we wait for details, we want to show you these pictures from ukraine, damage from new shelling in the pro-russian part of the country, both sides accusing the other of firing the first shot. mortar attacks overnight that included an attack on a kindergarten. ukrainian president zelensky is causing that incident a major provocation. the british foreign secretary said it looked like a blatant attempt by the russian government to fabbri kate a pretext fo...