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In an attack launched by these separatists against ukrainian regs. the ukrainian soldiers are under strict instructions not to fire back. they cant really defend themselves. if they do, the ukrainian government in kyiv worries that could give vladimir putin exactly what he wants. which is a pretext to invade. were seeing something like that happening. this is exactly what the white house has been warning for weeks. we saw a car bomb that allegedly was supposed to have targeted the leader of the ...

No -- there is not a lot of good options for putin, but he is acting tonight. >> actually, i thought the music was better than his analysis. my analysis is sir. pler which is when your enemies confess, you should believe them. and what he is saying is he wants to return to the soviet union. what he perceives is the glory days. so anything else he does as a pretext. we know what his motivation is. and i am dumbfounded as we sit here tonight. bret, the only folks who have been sanctioned have been...

To do, meaning reveal the intelligence that the plans are in the works for sure from russia. do you think that was a good move? >> i think the president has been very effective at denying the russians the ability to have 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 internat...

You will, its a pentagon phrase i know, but nonkinetic tactics and procedures used by the russians to begin to sow the seeds for potential armed conflict, to include creating some sort of pretext that the ukrainians would react to that then they could claim was a threat to their national security. so i cant speak with specificity today of anything that is glaringly obvious, except to go back to what we said before about the things we have seen in the intelligence about their preparations for tho...

Pretext given fraction us and also the ukrainian foreign minister treated in the last ever seen that moscow has no limits for further aggression. we will keep you up—to—date on bbc news that had a look at the weather now. hello. well, today was a very welcome and drier day across the southern half of the uk with sunshine and a few showers. but further north, things were turning more unsettled, thanks to this swirl of cloud on the satellite picture, it is sentient in showers and missionaries ...

Responding to what russia put forth in a written response, the secretary of state saying that they are still reviewing that but as far as we can tell from what is in that response right now, not a whole lot of substance that russia is digging into, so the secretary of state wants to make very clear that russia is escalating things right now, not deescalating things. >> you each have talked about how tony blinken has laid out what the pretext for an invasion could look like. i dont want to lose t...

Defense. in 2014 when they annexed crimea, they claimed that ukrainian nazis were blocking the area and russian separatists shot down an airliner over eastern ukraine in 2014, they claimed that the ukrainians shot down the plane. right now as we have in the report, they are suggesting that potentially genocide is happening against the ethnic russian population in eastern ukraine. so i think the scenario that the biden team is worried about is that by saying that theyre open to diplomacy, by sayi...

Facebook, as you can imagine, is pushing back that -- saying it wont stop fact checking information because of russian objections. now, that news came a day after ukraine called on twitter to remove russias official account from that platform. twitter come from today that russia has now limited, if not completely restricted, twitter access within its some areas of the country. and at the heart of the matter, is the misinformation and the disinformation that russia has spread in recent weeks lead...

In the dnr and lnr regions of ukraine. is that strong enough, karl? youre putting sanctions on the break-away regions and leaving russia alone. >> no, its not strong at all. its laughable. this is a moment -- i hope this isnt all theyre going to do. i hope theyre agreeing on a set of sanctions that they can announce that if vladimir putin does sign the document, recognizing this break-away region as an independent region and committing to russian peacekeepers, that some serious sanctions will be...

Now and they have the will to fight back. >> colonel, what do you think? >> hi, brianna, first of all, it is amazing to watch the ukrainian people withstand this state of siege for the past eight year, unflinching in the face of constant belligerence, constant hostility. they should be applauded. that explains why they have been so stoic in the face of this massive buildup on their border. i think were still in a very, very acute phase where the russians can respond with a major military offensi...