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Another side moscow was planning to use the shelling as pretext for a war. now, the escalating concerns of a russian false flag operation come as a top u.s. diplomat in europe says that russia now has up to 190,000 military personnel in and around ukraine, nearly doubling its total in just the last two weeks. putin will monitor a vast portion of the countrys nuclear exercises tomorrow. president zelensky, meanwhile, is scheduled to leave the country to meet with world leaders in munich for a sec...

Translation: we cannot engage militarily side by side with de facto authorities with whom we do not share a strategy or objectives. that is the situation in mali today. the fight against terrorism cannot justify everything ad must not by using a pretext as being the ultimate priority turning into an exercise of indefinitely maintaining power. they cannotjustify an escalation in violence by using mercenaries whose violent acts are documented in the central african republic and whose use of force ...

Administration to work with europeans to try to fortify the rest of ukrainian democracy against russian aggression and impose sanctions in response. what is different this time, is that there has been this ramp up. this deployment of 150,000 troops circling ukraine. threatening an invasion, a military operation, that is far more significant and substantial than anything that was traced in 2014. now when i think the biden team has done very well with that time, is number one, warn people about wh...

Evidence, recognition of independent, everything that putin has said, that theyre still building a pretext for a potentially much larger military invasion. david? >> ian pannell leading us off again tonight from ukraine. ian, thank you. and of course, president biden imposing those first sanctions last night after putin announced he was recognizing those two separatist regions in ukraine as independent. and then today, tough new sanctions. the president declaring putin has now begun an invasio...

Steve harrigan in kiev where theres now reports of shelling in parts of eastern ukraine. we begin with steve. >> charles, the tension definitely picking up over here. russia expelled the u.s.s number 2 diplomat. russia has threatened to use military technical measures. they say the u.s., the west, nato has ignored russias security concerns. russia says the west is lying about withdrawing with forces. they say the opposite is actually true. that russia is building up its forces, putting them into...

States is being so transparent and adamant, insisting that vladimir putin is planning its invasion, besides the true fact that there are 150,000 troops circling this country, is because they want to make clear that he is the aggressor, and that no matter what his excuses, no matter what his false line is no matter what his pretext is, that this will be entirely his choice. that means that to the russian people, he bears all the responsibility for the cost that would come to russia, whether that ...

Backin solidarity with ukraine —— tblisi. back in 2008, it fought a war with russia, and just like in ukraine, president putin recognised two of georgias breakaway cities as independent states. he invaded this country under the pretext of defending people in those territories. georgians are saying their struggle with ukraine is won. they want to be part of european family... cheering member of nato. that is why they were punished by vladimir putin in 2008, and ukraine is being punished today...

If putin makes the call, whether the u.s. calls him out or not. at this moment, it appears pretty likely, although who knows. but this was interesting to. kevin what lincoln said. given his talk about the pretext. given his story about why this war would have to be shaped as defensive in some way, or justify by russian authorities. russia disseminated of 45 document -- 45-page document at the un extort eight -- two of its own cities. possibly laying the groundwork for the exact kind of protect t...

Closer to the ukrainian border. the u.s. also remains concerned that russia may attempt to create a false pretext for invasion by staging attacks on its own territory or forces which would then blame on ukraine or the west. our reporters and kcorrespondens are following every angle of this story across the region and back home. we begin with cnns natasha bertrand in munich where the vice president, kamala harris and secretary of state antony blinken will holding a series of critical security tal...

Looking for signs indicators that russia would be taking the final steps entering the final phases of a preparation for invasion of this country. that would include loading amphibious ships but also as were seeing down south, the possibility of carrying out some sort of false-flag operation. that is, as you were saying, something -- an attack that one side stages but then blames on the other side as a pretext for further military action. they are also watching closely for more russian forces and...