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To spread confusion, almost for its own sake. even now there are plans being laid for stage events, spinning a web of false hoods, designed to present any russian attack as a response to provocation. we have already witnessed a fake military withdrawal, combined with staged incidents, which could provide a pretext for military action. we knew this was coming, we have seen it before. no one should be fooled. we have to steel ourselves for the possibility of a protracted crisis. with russia mainta...

Past couple of days. is this the beginning, though, what were seeing now in eastern ukraine, of the invasion? >> well, david, excuse me, as trey reports, indicators continue to point toward an invasion and, frankly, these are the early stages. weve got russian-backed troops that are firing at positions of ukrainian soldiers in the donbas region. thats simply to draw fire from the ukrainian forces to act as a pretext for engagement. we see that russias been stocking up on hard currency in anticip...

From the east and cross over into russia. u.s. and allies feared the rising tensions in eastern ukraine will be used as a pretext for russia to attack. now, lets go straight to the white house on cnns ar arlett signs, what more can you tell us on president bidens meeting today with the national security counsel? >> president biden spent more than two hours in the situation room with the national security counsel earlier today as the administration continues to chart its next steps when it comes ...

Concern that russia may be about to launch a major war in europe is dominating talks between western leaders at the munich security conference in germany. the european commission president ursula von der leyen accused moscow of a "blatant attempt to rewrite the rules of the international order". russian—backed separatists in eastern ukraine have declared a full military mobilisation, after two days of heavy shelling across the ceasefire line with the ukrainian army. ukraine says they are tryin...

As europes second—largest nation is invaded by the largest. joining us this week, agnes poirier, who explains the uk to readers of the french weekly lexpress. pavel bandakov, senior editor of the bbc russian service. and justin rowlatt, whos the bbc�*s environment correspondent, who is here in the studio. welcome to all of you. thank you very much for being with us. pavel bandakov, can i start with you first, what is vladimir putins conception of historic russia and to what extent do you thi...

Charges that they have repeatedly denied. the main concern russia will fabricate a fake attack here and use it as a pretext for a full-scale invasion. there are signs that may already be happening. a car bomb yesterday that allegedly targeted a top rebel leader yielded no casualties. ukraine said it was staged and this morning, an escalation from separatist leaders calling their people to arms. "i appeal to all the men of the republic who are able to hold weapons in their hand, stand up for thei...

Shelling intensified today, not far from the spot where cbs charlie dagata is embedded with ukrianian forces. >> reporter: this is kind of a no-mans land between the last area, the the last territory thats safely being held by ukrianian forces and russian separatists who they have been fighting for a number of years. as far as theyre concerned, the battle against russia and ukraine is already under way. but importantly what they told me is the intensity in fighting, the reskalation in the kind o...

Arranged for separatists in georgia just like the separatists in eastern ukraine to fire artillery just as the separatists have been doing at the ukrainian military and we fired dont fire back, they said we are trying to withhold fire until it got to a point where they said, look, we are elected to democratic process. our duty is to defend our territory, restore our territory, integrity and we have to fire back. the georgians fired back and that triggered the russian -- the pretext for the russi...

False flag operations really is growing. weve seen the leaders of these breakaway enclaves claim they need on evacuate their citizens. thousands of people pouring into russia because of what they claim is a ukrainian offensive that we really have seen no evidence of. so this agreement now between president putin and these two breakaway areas really raising fears that this really will act as an excuse as that pretext for russia to further invade ukraine. >> yeah. that it is just the beginning. th...

That the conflict that russia he believes is planning could be the worst since the second world war. some very strong language from boris johnson, hes been at the munich security conference over the weekend, his mind and attention, as with all western leaders, is focused on the prospect of a conflict breaking out in eastern ukraine. he believes, he says, that in many respects the russian plans to invade have already begun with those clashes that we are seeing in the east of ukraine already with ...