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Ukraine, attack ukraine. e prepa ukraine, attack ukraine. >> just a few hours ago, the secretary of state tony blinken echoed the presidents warning telling the u.n. security council in very stark term what is u.s. intelligence suggests russia is planning. >> first, rush plans to manufacture a pretext for its attack. in response to this manufactured provocation, the highest levels of the russian government may theatrically convene emergency meetings to address the so-called crisis. next, the att...

More. not to maintain the democracy that is ukraine. ukraine is not a democracy. it has never been a democracy and its history and its not now. its a client state of the biden administration. its a place in which opposition media and opposition political candidates are completely shut down by the government. its not a democracy at all. its insulting they would suggest otherwise. people like that in many people in washington are pushing ukraine toward war. so we are sending them weapons and then ...

Western leaders — who have been meeting at the munich security conference — said again that the clashes in eastern ukraine could be used as a pretext for a russian invasion. our chief international correspondent lyse doucet is in munich and sent this report. the closest the war in europe for years. the closest to war in europe for years. these shots being fired in russias naval exercises in the black sea. but so close to ukraines southern coast, and much bigger than ukraines home fleet. a sh...

They say they are following the protocols and that it is the russians backed forces you here in in the distance there more explosions, but are violating this agreement. >> two ukrainian soldiers have been killed so far in the renewed fighting this as separatist in the eastern part of the country continued to stage an evacuation of civilians claiming without evidence that it is the ukrainians who are planning to attack. they also today ordered all men ages 18 -- 55 to stay and fight for this is r...

Are of withdrawing troops from along the border with ukraine. a white house official quoted as saying, far from withdrawing forces from that region, the russians in the last few days had added 7,000 more troops, including some who have arrived today, that is wednesday, here in the united states. that echo, allegations made by the nato secretary general, jens stoltenburg, earlier today, he made the point that instead of actively withdrawing troops, russia was accumulating them along the border th...

Own forces as a pretext for launching some sort of invasion into ukraine. white house officials say that in recent days there have been reports in the russian media of the discovery of unmarked graves of russian soldiers, the development of chemical and biological weapons by the us and ukraine and other such claims all of which they say are false, but there will be more to come, american officials believe, in the next few days, as russia seeks to sow confusion in this regard. strong words from t...

Within the next few days. a senior u.s. official tells cnn the assessment is, quote unquote, bleak. another u.s. official said russia amassed nearly 200,000 troops in the region. most significant military since world war ii. increased shelling in the donbas region. 50 violations of the cease-fire agreement so far today. this is as russia builds pretext for an attack, just something secretary of state tony blinken is warning about again. >> everything that were seeing, including what you describe...

>> but evelyn farkas, if putin is still in the drivers seat right now, he could decide in this very moment, because of the very coverage of this very speech that we heard from president biden, that, im just going to prove him wrong and not invade ukraine and still cause all sorts of problems by having 190,000 troops there, by undermining ukraines economy with this whole effort of suggesting that it is russias responsibility to take care of russian-speaking people in countries that are actually n...

Convinced hes made the decision. >> that remark represents the most blunt assessment yet that vladimir putin will indeed launch an unprovoked attack on eastern europe. president biden made it clear the united states will continue to call out russia for their deception including fabricating a pretext for a full scale invasion of ukraine, but most importantly, he emphasized the kremlin can still advert disaster. >> were calling out russians plans not because we want a conflict but because were doi...

So they�*re preparing to resist here any way they can. this was self—defence for women for a wartime scenario. pretty extreme, but so are the predictions of western governments in this crisis. sarah rainsford, bbc news, kyiv. the ukrainian government has said there�*s been more shelling and mortarfire in the east of the country — where separatists backed by russia have held two areas for the last eight years. the ongoing conflict there has claimed 14,000 lives — and there are fears mos...