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Tense standoff with russia along the ukrainian border. that is our broadcast for this thursday night, with our thanks for being with us. on behalf of all of my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, goodnight. >> tonight on all in -- >> plans to manufacture a pretext for its attack. we dont know exactly the formal. >> a historic appeal from this familiar seat. >> i am here today, not to start a war, but to prevent one. >> tonight, can americas radical transparency keep russia from starting a wa...

We cannot allow vladimir putin to get away with the first invasion of a major european democracy since world war ii. we have to impose consequences on them. i think the biden administration is doing a good job of going out there and putting out this intelligence about the false flag operation because it takes away his pretext. they keep putting it out. maybe he uses it maybe he doesnt. its smart policy to try to do it. they are doing everything they can and we need to be united behind them. >> b...

House. guys, good to see you both. matt, to you first, what are you hearing about the shelling taking place in eastern ukraine. how are people there reacting? could this be part of a false flag operation, the kind of thing that the white house has been warning about? >> reporter: alex, you know, a lot of this, talking about these incidents, its sort of the death by a thousand cuts sort of thing here. i dont know that any particular incident up until now is going to create that pretext for war th...

And to strengthen nato itself, both its resolve and its military capabilities. the fact that he sent troops to poland, the fact that he is shoring up the baltic nations, i think is indicative of his resolve to demonstrate to putin that you will not jeopardize nato members. i also believe that his strategy of calling out putin in advance is taking away tools putin traditionally uses. its hard to engage in disinformation when were calling out what were up to. its hard for putin to use a false even...

Claims tonight that theyre actually retreating from the border with ukraine. but the biden administration and nato dont believe that to be true. in fact, the intelligence shows the opposite, with some troops moving closer to the border, and this just in-- u.s. officials now say 7,000 more russian soldiers have arrived near ukraine, with some arriving as recently as today. crisis in ukraine keeps growing by the hour, and the united states keeps warning that a russia invasion could happen at any m...

De-escalation pointing to intelligence that shows that russia has actually moved 7,000 additional troops to the border with ukraine. heres president biden earlier today. >> we have reason to believe that they are engaged in a false flag operation to have an excuse to go in. every indication we have is theyre prepared to go in to attack ukraine. >> behind that warning by president biden that russia is looking to create a false pretext to invade a series of attacks this morning that include the sh...

Fell in ukrainian territory. but that one of the explosive rounds hit a kinder garden. the students in the kindergarten were upstairs voing a meal at the time. none were hurt. but at least kindergarten staff members were injured according to ukrainian accounts. and what ukrainians are saying and theyre describing this multiple location assault as the biggest assault from separatist-held areas into ukraine since 2018. what you yanian government is saying is that the separatists, backed by russia ...

Again time disclosing significant intelligence on russias plans. watch. >> we dont know how things will play out but heres what the world can expect to see unfold. russia plans to manufacture a pretext for its attack. this could be a violent event that russia will blame on ukraine or an outrageous accusation that russia will level against the ukrainian government. may describe it as ethnic cleansing or genocide. russian media is spreading the claims to maximize public outrage, to lay the groundw...

Russian officials in recent days. the russian president accusing ukraine yesterday of crimes against ethnic russians and the douma, the parliament, has given the russian president the power to declare donbas, recognize it as independent. the fear, the concern, russia might use that as a pretext to further invade eastern ukraine, a participate of the country were walking closely tonight, ana. >> thanks for all your hard work, jim sciutto. to the white house and kaitlan collins. secretary of state...

Luhantz. the concern this is a pretext, erupting violence this part of the country, to turn into a larger invasion launched by weve seen the troops along the border. today belarus, announced the military exercises taking place with russia will continue for an indefinite amount of time. this is a major indicator that the tension in the region reached its highest point. what happens in the coming days? that is the big question. the military and soldiers we spoke to on the front lines yesterday sai...