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This playbook is too familiar to us all. russia will plead ignorance and innocence, it will create a false pretext for invasion and it will amass troops and firepower in plain sight. we now receive reports of what appears to be provocations and we see russia spreading disinformation, lies and propaganda. nonetheless, in a deliberate and coordinated effort, we together art when exposing the truth and to, speaking with a unified voice, as presidentjoe biden has made clear, the united states, our n...

At the same time, we hear diplomacy. at the same time we hear him calling it a quote, unquote genocide whats happening in eastern ukraine, which would be the pretext for russian involvement. we have massive numbers of troops on the border and nato officials saying no sign of actual significant de-escalation yet in terms of the military footprint. so its one of those days it will be very interesting to hear what president biden has to say. im sure hell be encouraging an actual diplomatic track re...

Attempt by putin to lay what he considers to be a quasi legal predicate for the invasion of ukraine. this is extraordinary measure. he will recognize two break-away republics that nobody else in the world recognizes, that dont control all of the territory and theyll ask for russia troops to come in and the russians will be in essence invading the territory of an independent country, ukraine. if we dont recognize that for what it is, which is an invasion and take tough steps in response, we will ...

Left on its ground in 1994 in return for an agreement with russia, the united states they would ensure the countrys territorial and border integrity and security. they were saying, whats going on here? the russians were making up -- or putin was making up this story that they were making nuclear weapons. they dont have the capability of doing this. and the third fantasy was the united states was ready to move nuclear weapons into ukraine. and within easy each of moscow. well, we can reach moscow...

Positions. this is a perilous moment. and we are here for one reason and one reason only, to ask russia to stop, return to your borders and send your troops and planes back to their barracks and hangers. and send your diplomats to the negotiating table. back away from the brink before it is too late. last week, the united states inform this council and the world about what we expected to see unfold. we said that russia would manufacture a pretext for an attack. we have since seen numerous false ...

Even without any formal pretext, just because we exist. we will never give up our sovereignty, national interest, and our values. what was your reaction to that? >> russia is the biggest country in the world. the west does not threaten russia in any material way. the problems that russia has with this development have to do with the fact that its wealth is highly concentrated in the hands of a few man who happened to be the same men who run the country. those are the problems that russia actuall...

As a pretext for an attack on ukraine. it looks like the stage is being set for something. orla guerin, bbc news, eastern ukraine. mary beth long served as us under secretary of defence from 2007—09. and shejoins us now. she is also the head of the nato nuclear committee. president biden says an attack on the coming days in kyiv, is that an assessment you agree with? yes. assessment you agree with? yes, eseciall assessment you agree with? yes, especially with — assessment you agree with? yes...

Border themselves. the consistency of the u.s. message here, which has outlined a very detailed plan. they believe they have intercepted or obtained of what vladimir putin wants to do here. and then, of course, what were seeing in the separatist areas of the east. it is important to see that in the wider narrative because many believe the allegations coming out of there are force, shelling by ukrainian forces and evacuees leaving in large numbers towards russia. so russian-backed separatists cla...

Tactics based on what the white house said. they believe theyve caught the russian leader off guard with how public theyve been, creating a false pretext for invasion, having theatrical meetings in the recently staged video and now when it comes to the actual incursion and what this is going to look like, we know theyve warned about a full-scale assault. they wouldnt say today whether or not they agreed with the characterization from the australian prime minister that this is likely to happen in...

>> that is right, eric. much of the attention is in the east of ukraine prints their ukrainian shoulders are battling against russia backed separatists. the fighting in the shelling back and forth there, mortar fire has increased dramatically over the past two days free to ukraine killed on saturday five wounded in their real concerns that area could be a flashpoint for possible larger invasion from russia or else perhaps a pretext for russian invasion. now the russian separatists have accused u...