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But with the tension ratcheting up in eastern ukraine, these military drills have certainly taken on a much more threatening character. >> reporter: meanwhile, last-ditch diplomatic efforts continue. president macron of france talking to vladimir putin for two times today. france saying they had a long conversation about how to calm things down. later, macron speaking with ukrainian president zelensky. and then president biden. another day of heavy shelling in the east of the country, where russ...

This could be a pretext for an incursion, for an invasion. does it feel to you like the fact that these troops have now been ordered in, that this marks another turn of the screw, as ive said to richard, towards where were headed, which is a full-scale incursion? again, another thing we discussed in the last hour, which is, will putin go in all the way in a major blitzkrieg or will he try to nibble away at ukraine on the ground there right now, whats your sense of it at this hour, and whether th...

Conservative mp and chairs the uk defence select committee. hejoins me now from the munich security conference how would you characterise the mood in the circles of people you are speaking to their because you are in the prime position, at the place where many of the decision—makers of europe gathered this weekend? yes. i europe gathered this weekend? yes, i mean, europe gathered this weekend? yes, i mean. theres — europe gathered this weekend? yes, i mean. theres a _ europe gathered this we...

Administration official within the last hour or so. they say they based that assessment on the evidence they have and new evidence theyve received about at potential for a false flag effort by the russians that would be the justification, a lie basically to justify or serve as a pretext for any invasion to take place by russia there. so the u.s. clearly on a heightened state of alert right now. the president noting that he still believes there is the potential for a diplomatic solution but also ...

The u.s. believes theres a false flag. what are you hearing and seeing? >> reporter: the stage is set for potential conflict. you have 150,000 russian troops, air craft, missiles positions around ukraine. the question is what will start this potential war that the president thinks could start in the next several days. itselfs a pretext. russia has been building a case that this is all hysteria, that its russia that faces a real threat, and that it is the russian speakers in this country who are ...

Break away regions. and the un held an emergency security counsel meting to discuss all of this. with the u.s. ambassador accusing russia of creating a pretext to invade. >> he has since announced that he will place russian troops in these regions. he calls them peace keepers. this is non-sense. we know what they really are. in doing so, he put before the world a choice. we must meet the moment and we must not look away. >> european union leaders are meeting this hour in brussels to discuss vlad...

Countries not a part of ukraine. of course the ambassador to russia is saying that would precipitate, of course, zelenskyy has to respond and that could precipitate the pretext for russia to cross over. >> i recognize the separatist regions is certainly something very worrisome, more worrisome would be a russian effort to annex those territories, which then they would bring in the military forces to protect luhansk and donesk, if hes going to recognize them, that could be the first step toward a...

Sovereignty of ukraine. since during the day he has decided that he will recognise the breakaway rebel regions of donetsk luhansk in ukraines east as independent states of the guard he describes this as a pivotal decision that scuttles an existing peace agreement, which i think refers to the minsk agreements came it was clearly now is void and could clear tough new sanctions from the west. could trigger another pretext to invade ukraine and it seems that this is already happening since i think t...

Cease fire monitors, but to come help them in the fight as they say to repel ukrainian forces. this is the moment, agency you say, jake, that many people have been warning might come. >> to note, the west, including president biden but other western leaders, have been warning that russia would stage fake attacks, so-called false flag attacks on themselves so as to create this pretext that youre alluding to possibly being by themselves, that they are using to justify this. stick around. i want to...

Europe. i credit donald trump for fortifying nato at a time when they needed to be fortified. i wish nato had done more. sean, the biggest problem here is vladimir putin. despite joe bidens weakness and the mistakes joe biden that encouraged vladimir putin, the first person americans need to blame is putin. he created this crisis. >> sean: i think it does have to go with him am the history is what it is starting with georgia. belarus. kellyanne conway, now he is talking about the baltics as if i...