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In russia and they can reach almost halfway across ukraine with their weapons. this is important, just like it is with the airplanes, because bear in mind if youre attacking in this fashion, and ukraine responds, and strikes any of these units in russia, that gives russia the pretext it needs to say, theyre trying invade us, now we have the full green light to take over the whole country. beyond that there rohr weapons out there, tanks are used a little bit differently in russia than in a lot of...

And the anger was clear to see. russias clear attack on ukraines sovereignty and territorial integrity is unprovoked. it is an attack on ukraines status as a un member state. this move by president putin is clearly the basis for russias attempt to create a pretext for a further invasion of ukraine. will any sanctions - change putins mind? this morning, ministers met in emergency session to discuss the crisis and agreed an initial package of sanctions against russia. this, i should stress, is the...

Into donbas, and move forces into combat ready 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, send your troops and tanks and planes back to their barracks and hangers. and send your diplomats to the negotiating table. back away from the brink, therefore it is too late. last week the united states and formed this council and the world about what it expected to see unfold. we said that russia would manufactur...

Here in the center of mariupol which could be potentially right in the line of fire. according to vladimir putins understanding that he needs to protect the people of donbass. we are not seeing much. just now the light is starting to come out in this city, the day is beginning. very few people are on the streets, people are nervous, they are watching their television, television is the, long power is still on. they are trying to gather news. but what we can see and our eyes this morning is just ...

I think its very important for us to shine a light on what we see. >> vice president kamala harris and other western leaders are meeting in munich where the focus is squarely on this. the russian threat. lets begin our coverage this hour with cnns alex marquardt live in eastern ukraine. alex, whats the latest there? >> well, kate, the russian disinformation campaign has really been increasing over the course of the last few days and weeks, and now aeppears to be kicking into a higher gear. exact...

Audience to russia if russia does this this is the decision of one man vladimir putin. what would he do if hes lost that capacity to control the information space? he wants to create the impression of i was pulling the troops back but then the incident happened and then we saw ethnic cleansing happening against ethnic russians and a pretext of invasion and why this announcement of de-escalation is spoishs. he will lie and with ease and wants to signal a de-escalation before a pretense that force...

Everybody here at the munich security conference, the largest of the security conferences and probably the most important one held each year is whether president putin will use it as the pretext that the united states has been warning about. the other big debate, though, is if he does decide to go into ukraine, would he go in this region in dispute for eight years now and hope that an incursion that is limited to that area divides the allies, western allies and doesnt trigger those massive sanct...

Chief correspondent, andrea mitchell. what is the sense on the ground there how close ukraine may be to war here? >> reporter: theres a real crisis sense here and this is the annual gathering, not last year because of covid, but now the gathering of all national security officials, leaders from europe and, of course, the u.s., canada, and the nato gathering here as well as those on the front lines because president zelensky is expected, is that this could be several days away but it is really ur...

Today, and, again, making very clear how concerning, how dire the situation is, but the president here still saying that he is holding out hope for diplomacy. but warning at the same time that it appears russia is perhaps putting into place this false flag operation that the u.s. has been warning about now for the last couple of weeks. >> yeah, that important because the u.s. believes a false flag could be used as a pretext for russia for further invasion in the country. jeremy diamond, thank yo...

Need, they need mass construction equipment, bulldozers and equipments for communication and medical supplies and perhaps most disturbingly, they say they need machines to detect radiation and chemical attacks which now we have to contextualize that request with what secretary blinken said, which is that it is very possible that the russians as a false flag attack could stage a fake or real chemical attack to blame on the ukrainians as a pretext for invasion. so in an that context, requesting th...