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The independence and sovereignty... of the donetsk peoples republic and the lugansk peoples republic. i asked the federal assembly to support this decision and to ratify the treaty on friendship and mutual assistance with both republics. this afternoon, mr putin presided, almost tzar like, over a special session of the kremlin�*s security council. after which he called olaf scholz of germany and frances emmanuel macron to inform them he was effectively giving up on the 2015 minsk agreement. im...

Military response might be to this. and thats because there is now after a long time of taking the attitude of keep calm and carry on, there is a sort of grim reluctant awareness of the fact that putin very much has the possibility to launch a further incursion. because when they talked about recognizing throws two independent breakaway republics, those two republics as being independent, putin today clarified that he looks at their borders, not as being the current front lines but being their d...

It is the clumsy choreography of the request for assistance with vladimir putin saying, we have to save from you whatever crimes we believe are being commit against you. >> thank you. good to see you again. were following the breaking news. what could be vladimir putins pretext for a full-scale invasion on ukraine. were live on the ground. thats next.

Self-proclaimed donetsk and luhansk republics that are about a third of the area, they have requested help from the kremlin in quote, unquote repelling ukrainian forces from the area. youve been to donbas more than any other cnn journalist. explain to us the significance of this possible pretext? >> it provides for better russian assault in areas controlled by the ukrainian military under the pretext of them coming in and being peace keepers to respect the newly recognized donetsk and luhansk pe...

Less, while maintaining a strong national defense we retain the opportunity to apply for membership. its the sovereign right of each nation to make decisions on its security policies. in other words, russia can take a hike. >> yes. this is the central issue. it is what is really at the threat for the western world and thats the freedom of the nation to make its own decision, how it joins, when it joins, what security rates itll make. not up to moscow to dictate or veto what happens in helsinki o...

Spreading disinformation as a pretext to launch an invasion, so-called flag operations. theyre focusing attention to the donbas reason. a very different story playing out on russian tv. after live-fire demonstrations in belarus, ukraine plans to showcase its ballistic and cruise missiles but an fushl downplayed the exercise calling it quite regular. >> our correspondents are covering this fast-moving story from multiple angers from the security council meeting and developments in ukraine and the...

Any pretext created or to use misinformation to try to get any international legitimacy. i think the transparency from the biden administration has been a good thing. i think the russians would love to have the element of surprise or at least to try and get some kind of international support for what theyre doing. i think hes denied that by talking openly about what we have. >> susan glasser, you lived in russia, you reported from there. you certainly mow the mind of vladimir putin better than m...

Families began to flee the scene, even one mother left her child in hollow for treat of protection. and over the course of the next several days, white liners began to flood into clinton, and then systematically, round up those, and organized the rally, and then killed killed them, sometimes in front of their own family members. >> so this is a group of white democrats killing the black republicans? >> correct. it was the plan of the white democrats to keep african americans from voting. no viol...

This has been very calibrated because of the concern that putin was looking for a pretext to go in. now you will start seeing more permanent basing of nato forces but there were very limited options at this late stage in terms of the last six months of preventing putin from this using this massive, massive military force that he arrayed on the borders with ukraine. >> harris: he is a dictator. late stages of dictatorship he will act and do unpredictably. when youve laid out we have to throw ever...

Jon: new video of russian troops guards territory of one of two territory in eastern ukraine. >> vladimir putin using that move as pretext to begin invading ukraine 5 days ago, fight on ground in ukraine has already been devastating, but vladimir putin escalating it further by putting in his deterrent forces on high alert, some analyst call it deescalation by escalation, others not so sure. here to weigh in former intelligence officer with dia, matthew shoemaker. a lot of people are wondering wh...