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Assurance to americans, but the u.s. is not going to war with russia. >> we have no intention of fighting russia. >> reporter: biden signaling full support of american allies, announcing sending additional troops to fortified nato presence in europe. >> the united states and allies will defend every inch of nato territory, and abide by the commitments we made into nato. >> reporter: u.s. allies are responding to russias latest incursion into eastern ukraine. united kingdom announcing sanctions o...

Interest in retaking. yes, and we have heard within the last hour. interest in retaking. yes, and we l have heard within the last hour or two of this apparent separatist appeal to russia which could be the pretext that obviously i wonder if these from pages will actually change because this is clearly moving at the moment, but honestly we also had to be very careful about the information thats coming out. yeah, and if you say is difficult to know _ yeah, and if you say is difficult to know exact...

Shows the kindergartners evacuating the building. three kindergarten employees were injured in the incident and power to their town, half their town was taken out by the shelling. now, in turn, the russian-backed separatists are alleging that the ukrainian military was firing on their positions, although they provided no visual evidence that that was, in fact, the case. we know that the ukraine military is under order not to fire on the separatists except for self-defense because there is this p...

Continues to sound the alarm. both secretary of state antony blinken and nato says despite putins assurance, there are no signs of russian troop withdrawal, on the kraer, russia continues to mass troops at the border and we have more detail on that point from a senior biden administration official, that official notes that russia has added as many as 7,000 troops to the ukrainian border with some arriving as recently as today. that official tonight rejecting russias insistence that theres been a...

Pretty common. this was pretty ugly. these were shells landed on a and a school. no children were injured. three teachers had shell—shocked as a result of the attack. and of course it raises the spectre at least of a kind of escalation across that contact line, as its called, between government —controlled territory and separatist controlled territory. they could into something much more serious and western officials and a warning about this, they may warning that the russians might try and ...

Was a terrorist attack on canadas parliament itself. hes deeming these truckers to be terrorists. you heard the deputy prime, minister who by the way, happens to be a governor of the world economic forum. hes using this crisis as a pretext for goingng after the banking information of all of his political opponentsli. o there is no revolution in the streets of canadast. you see for yourself, its a festival environment. theres no violence. its happy moms and dads and kids. trudeauuudea is claiming...

Substantial military build-up look for a pretext, not least sell that to their own people, particularly their army which may not be altogether keen con n unprovoked of a neighbor. >> lets go to moscow now where russia is expelling the number two american diplomat at the u.s. embassy there and putin is now preparing to address parliament. cnns nic robertson live in moscow for us. nic, whats happening there? >> reporter: gorman, the number two mission here at the u.s. embassy in moscow expelled un...

>> hi again, everyone, its 5:00 in the east, a stark message there to russia from secretary of state tony blinken. today, in front of the entire world. speaking at the u.n. security council, a detour he made en route to munich to showcase the united statess increased concern that an invasion of ukraine is imminent and to forcefully challenge russia to end its aggressions. blinken and president biden today warning that russia is trying to create a false pretext for an attack. earlier, we saw what...

The self—declared peoples republics of donetsk and luhansk have been fighting the ukrainian army in the east for the past eight years, in a conflict thats claimed more than 1a,000 lives. the west fears president putin couild use an incident in the separatist republics as a pretext to invade ukraine. our correspondent orla guerin has been to the frontline village of trudivske, and sent this report. an increasingly grim horizon in eastern ukraine. we headed for the front lines, where shelling ha...

Hit a preschool in ukrainian-controlled territory. thankfully no kids were in there. its not clear who is to blame. could this be a russian false flag operation? >> well, jake, these are the types of things the russians would contemplate and put into place as a false flag operation. in this case i think that they probably need a bigger pretext. so you might remember they were talking in moscow, the defense minister was talking about chemical weapons and how the americans were going to bring chem...