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To force kyiv to do what russia wants, but i dont think that anybody is going to cave there and for that reason, i think this is going, you know, in a very bad direction. and feels pretty quickly. >> feels pretty quickly, i think, is a great way to put it. we focus on what is the president of the united states saying? what is vladimir putin saying for russia? president zelensky inside of ukraine. obviously his country is under the imminent threat. hes traveled of late to see the troops. now a co...

President biden is preparing to hold talks with transatlantic leaders on friday to discuss the ukraine crisis, according to the white house. mr biden�*s said the threat of a russian invasion of ukraine remains "very high" and could take place within days, despite moscows claim to be pulling troops from its borders. in a heated un security council meeting, the us secretary of state warned russia may be trying to engineer a pretext for an invasion — there have been reports that pro—russian f...

This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. as russian drills continue near ukraine, the us says russia has built up the most significant military force in europe since world war two we see additionalforces going to the border, including leading edge forces that would be part of any aggression. after a second day of shelling in eastern ukraine, western leaders — meeting at the munich security conference — again warn that the clashes there could be u...

Parties in the united states, that effort has failed to this point. in fact, the opposite has happened. the other element is the president really echoing what weve heard from his secretary of state, from his secretary of defense over the last day or two, laying out in detail what the u.s. knows about potential efforts for pretext of invasion, false flag operations, perhaps mead reports that are false to lay the ground work for an invasion, but how would it play out. the president detailing thoug...

Last-minute speech to the united nations and detailed several scenarios the kremlin might use. >> russia plans to manufacture a pretext for its attack. it could be a fabricated so-called terrorist bombing inside russia. the invented discovery of a mass grave, a staged drone strike against civilians. or a fake, even a real attack using chemical weapons. russia may describe this event as ethnic cleansing or a genocide. i am here today not to start a war but to prevent one. >> president biden echoe...

President putin earlier this week declined to do, and this evening speaking to people in kyiv and they are growing increasingly concerned that this could be the pretext for war that the western officials had been warning about for sometime now, aaron. >> lets talk about the warnings erin just referenced there. we had urgent warnings from the u.s. about what russia could do. what reaction are you hearing in moscow? >> reporter: it has been a fast-moving day. early this morning we saw the usual di...

Long conflict. >> reporter: instead, ukraine accuses the separatists who are armed, and firing on ukrainian territory in an attempt to bathe ukrainian army into a response. tonight, ukrainian officials accused russia of using the separatist to create a fabricated pretext for an invasion. >> on saturday, vladimir putin is set to personally oversee large-scale drills involving russia strategic nuclear forces. the u.s. army says about 150 american troops, and additional fighting vehicles will be mo...

Ben, you were deputy national security advisor. this is very much influx. what are you hearing from washington and what would your advice be? >> well i, think first of all what were seeing is precisely the scenario the biden administration and people have been concerned about in terms of creating a pretext. the difficulty with president zelensky leaving the country is we may enter a phase where its going to be hard to get back into ukraine if russia is mounting an air assault. we dont know thats...

Russian separatists accused of staging the incident. no evidence any of this is true. and today, as expected, president putin doubling down. without evidence claiming the situation in eastern ukraine is escalating. but even now saying russia was still open the further diplomacy if all his security demands were on the table to negotiate. the now very real fear is putins forces amassed at the border will invade under the pretext of protecting the russian speaking population there. the ukrainian go...

Personnel, the so-called little green men, who were pushing this insurgency in eastern ukraine. that insurgency is still going on. we just heard earlier today from theminister of interior, that there were some of the largest number of shelling back and forth that weve seen for several years. this is the largest increase in hostilities in this low-simmering conflict thats been going on since that fighting back in 2014. and this is exactly what we heard from the u.s. government over the past sever...