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The isolation prison. and now donetsk is the symbol of huge rights violation. and in november the two new crossing points that we opened have not been put into operation. and we see this and there is an obstruction under false pretext that ukraine is doing its best to push this discussion for political questions as well. and the tcg and minsk process, we have submitted the proposals and drafts of law, but everything is blocked and no one is talking about them. ukraine demands urgentry to unblock...

Basically the court takes it and its not on the public record. all of this stuff is under seal. this judge has already seen this. theyre going to be able to look at the documents, too. so any judge that looks at the documents that the a.g.s office has pulled together will realize its not animus, its not racism. its receipts. theyve got the evidence. and now they have to get the testimony. thats the way this works. so i dont see where they do have a defense. >> drip, drip, drip. you just never kn...

>> we begin with a fox news alert, secretary of defense is visiting troops deployed in poland as president biden says threat of invasion into ukraine is very high and u.s. and nato push diplomacy, kremlin is conducting massive military drills right outside its neighbors borders. you are watching "fox and friends first." im todd piro. >> carley: im carley shimkus. both ukraine and russia separatist are exchanging information. manufactured accusations from russia could be used as pretext for an at...

Invade ukraine. is that what you just said a few moments ago? >> yes, i did. yes. >> so is diplomacy off the table then? >> no. until he does, diplomacy is always a possibility. >> but white house officials quietly admit the prospect of avoiding invasion is slim. russian allegations of shelling and missile deployment setting the false flag pretext officials warned about. plus, the white house now says the hack on ukraines critical military and infrastructure network was russians doing. >> the sp...

Invasion. >> its not just whats in place. its whats already, and were already seeing take place on the ground and how it fits with frankly the russia playbook. first the white house now blames russia for a massive cyberattack. ukrainian banks were hit this week. finances were hit this week. its a move the pentagon warned could actually be but a first step. >> its a piece of the russian playbook to -- to lay down a foundation for these military actions with cyber operations. >> we also saw a vehi...

About 500,000 to 600,000 of the separatists have russian passports. they use the ruble. this is a russian-speaking area. so they are very much connected to russia, backed by russia. there are about 3,000 russian troops inside the area and that number may have gone up. there is an open border between russia and the separatist areas and in addition to about 30,000 local fighters. and if there were to be a conflict here, that separate areas would very likely be involved or used as a pretext, which ...

Providing a pretext for him to invade? >> i think its been smarted by the biden administration to make clear from the beginning that the russians were going to create this pretext, an excuse for their invasion. i think the world knows to view skeptically any events being blamed by russia or allies on ukraine. i think all youre going to see, over the next 24 hours some of these pretexts, excuses for russian invasion and as long as the west calls them for what they are, it makes it harder for puti...

And disrupt ukraine from within. and tonight we are hearing from the military ukrainian intelligence accuse the russian security services to plant explosive devices throughout a separatist controlled area. so far to recommend that people living in those areas stay home. that they dont board public transportation. earlier today there was an explosion. separatists claim a car bomb went off outside of a government building. see the picture of chaos created which ukrainians say is a fabrication is a...

The roads and the bridges. those are the traditional powers of any city. or province or government. instead they went to the nuclear option. and at the same time, weve seen this crack down the freezing millions of donations. blacklist out that government gave over to banks to freeze accounts. people that were doxed appeared on fox news, we had a woman who was in tears about her cafe being shut down after being harassed when her name was released from being hacked at one of these sites. all of th...

The russian financial institutions that do business with europe, with the united states, with the rest world. i also think youll see export controls that will prevent russian industrial capacity from manufacturing high technology capabilities, so i think youll see these economic sanctions. i think youll see our troops in our nato ally countries go on high alert. i think youll continue to see us arm, train and equip the ukranian forces so that they can impose costs on russia if russia further adv...