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In the wars that hes previously launched in places like chechnya and aleppo and syria and you are seeing increasing military pressure, indiscriminate attacks on civilian targets, on civilians. its likely he will increase rather than decrease that and, remember, putin started this war not only with a ridiculous pretext but with maximalist demands, demands that never meant there was a serious conversation before hand. part of the reason the sanctions couldnt have made a difference before hand beca...

Raising alarms about booming russian aggression, declassifying and sharing intelligence in nearly realtime and exposing president putins lies we were ready. in fact, one reason why we are seeing the unified response now is because we made the decision late last year to publicize to the world what we knew was underway and the play book we were convinced russia would follow. i went to the u.n. security council two weeks ago to walk through step-by-step the pretext for war that we were sure preside...

Good to see you, my friend. welcome to "the beat," im ari velshi, in for ari melber. vladimir putin has ordered russian troops into separatist areas of ukraine, as a peacekeeping force. these are the regions in the eastern part of ukraine, in orange. biden quickly responded, saying the united states will impose sanctions on the two regions, although it didnt hit russia itself with any new penalties. nato also condemned putins move. the concern, experts say putin, and the peacekeeping troops hes ...

Taken. the cleansing or genocide against russians in eastern ukraine followed by the political formal recognition of these republics, that basically gives putin whatever pretext he wants to say that he has to invade ukraine to defend these territories and to frankly avenge and the reality is that putin has followed a play that he frankly could have designed months ago. hes not altered his playbook because of those declassifications. what he tones to accomplish is by our ability to rally our alli...

About specific cases like that. have you heard anything on that case and more on the false flags? >> i havent heard anything about that particular one. im happy to see if we have anything on that. thats the first i heard of this particular report. we did see false flags, car bombings and that kind of things before we launched his invasion, not just to mentioned the ridiculous claims that they were making about ukraine being a danger to their security. so we did see them run that play on false fl...

Demarcation borderline where there has been shelling. so, alex, what are you seeing where you are tonight? >> reporter: well, erin, we spent much of the day in a tiny village right on that line of contact where there has been so much fighting for the past eight years. and that violence has spiked. were seeing some of the biggest shelling in the past four years, which many fear the russians could use as a pretext to invade ukraine. this village was largely empty. but we were taken around by a res...

That russia makes about the treatment of russian minorities in a lot of countries. i suppose there is a danger of saying they claim into the country so therefore its a fictitious claim but is it possible there is some truth in this idea the ethnic russians are mistreated? i5 ethnic russians are mistreated? i3 actually not, and its been looked up actually not, and its been looked up very carefully. russia is trying to build a case that is grounded in a pretence that it takes international law ser...

You saw — is part of russias sovereignty. if you saw on— is part of russias sovereignty. if you saw on the new york times alongside — you saw on the new york times alongside the other piece, richard haas, _ alongside the other piece, richard haas. the — alongside the other piece, richard haas, the president, makes it clear that the _ haas, the president, makes it clear that the pretext that has been created. — that the pretext that has been created, whether its nato expansion or russia...

We saw this and they saw this coming and why that was still the only strategy deployed? >> i need to follow up on that because what you are talking about if its more than sanctions you are talking about sending u.s. troops to ukraine. >> harris: no, you hear general -- we can monday morning quarterback now its thursday and trying to look forward. he said we can still do the things in terms of military bases permanently. >> thats what were discussing today at nato headquarters what they heard fro...

It were doing it to prop up these much larger narratives. for the pretext of this invasion. it didnt work. when you see the actual stuff coming out of ukraine. people who had their homes shelled. i personallys faces misstep because they were created by a computer if you weeks ago. i think most people can see with the reality is here. the reality is the pictures you are seeing right now on your screen. [inaudible] in the face of this object brutality. >> weve heard stories about people in ukraine...