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With all eyes on ukraine as we have said all along, there is a playbook of russian aggression and this playbook is too familiar to us all. russia will plead ignorance and innocence. it will create false pretext for invasion and it will amass troops and fire power 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 are one exposing the truth and t...

The us says its a pretext for an invasion of ukraine. russias their attack on ukraines sovereignty and territorial integrity is unprovoked. its an attack on ukraines status as a un member states. this move by president putin is clearly the basis by russias attempt to create a pretext for further invasion of ukraine. ~ , ., ., ukraine. we should reiterate, russian denies _ ukraine. we should reiterate, russian denies it _ ukraine. we should reiterate, russian denies it wants - ukraine. we should ...

0ur lead story is... this is outside source. this the united nations chief has warned that the world is facing a moment of peril as fears grow of a russian invasion of ukraine. weve heard the phrase false flag. this is what false flag incidents are. political or military action carried out with the thing that the western and ukrainian officials have accused russia of faking provocative incidents, to create the appearance that russian troops are responding to ukrainian attack — to give russia t...

And expleasitly saying what the united states has seen russia do in the last few weeks, last few months with this military build up of more than 150,000 troops along ukraines border. being very clear, that the united states has not seen any of those troops pull back, despite the fact that russia has said that they are pulling back some of those troops. the secretary of state also being very clear about what russia could do next. right? in order to manufacture a crisis. in order to manufacture a ...

For a wartime scenario. pretty extreme, but so are the predictions of western governments in this crisis. sarah rainsford, bbc news, kyiv. meanwhile the ukrainian government has said theres 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 1a,000 lives — and there are fears moscow could use any escalation as a pretext to invade. our international correspondent ...

To bin in poland but first to steve harrigan who is many kyiv with the very latest from there. steve? >> reporter: eric, thats the real area of concern that you mentioned, in eastern ukraine. its there that ukrainian forces are fight against russian-backed separatests. two ukrainian-soldiers were killed on saturday, five wounded and a lot of shelling, which has increased dramatically over the past 48 hours. there are concerns that may be a pretext for a major russian are invasion. the russian-ba...

The georgian nation because back— the georgian nation because back in— the georgian nation because back in 2008, it fought a war with— back in 2008, it fought a war with russia and just like in ukraine, _ with russia and just like in ukraine, vladimir putin recognised two of georgia poffenberger way territories as independent states. and he invaded _ independent states. and he invaded this country under the pretext— invaded this country under the pretext of defending people living — pr...

Trey yingst is live on the ground. >> good asp. we know vladimir zelensky spoke with president biden on a secure line for about 35 minutes following this announcement by president putin of russia that he would sign a decree to recognize these two break-away regions in the eastern part of ukraine. theres a lot of questions right now about this country and what comes next. in the coming hours, president putin made clear that hes not afraid of sanctions and they wont have a harsh effect on his econ...

Shelling attack by pro-russian separatists in the conflict eastern region of the country. they fear it could be used as a pretext for invasion. president biden said friday he is certain will come. the white house backing that up with a statement including russia could launch an attack against ukraine at anytime. vice president kamala harris met with ukrainian president zelensky in munich. talked about consequences for russia. here is what she said moments ago. >> the purpose of the sanctions alw...

And andrea, thank you for your patience with us. we wanted to bring you in because of your expertise. given everything with the school, ramp up in rhetoric, the troop movements that u.s. officials are reporting seeing, do you believe that senator warner when he says that this could be perhaps the most tense moment for europe since the last world war is an accurate assessment of where we are? >> yeah, i definitely agree with that. and i think what weve seen especially in the last 48 hours obvious...