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Separatist areas. indeed, use them outside of russia, which leaves the door open to use them in other parts of ukraine as well. >> nic robertson, important live reporting from moscow. lets go to kyiv. matthew chance, here in the united states they say at the beginning of an invasion. what does it look like on the ground? what do we know about russian troop movements inside ukraine? >> well, big concern here in ukraine tonight, john, is that this recognition by russia yesterday of those two sep...

Some serious allergic reactions and lung inflammation can occur. lasting remission can start with stelara®. janssen can help you explore cost support options. right now the russian president vladimir putin facing widespread condemnation around the globe for invading a peaceful ukraine. world leaders slapping his false pretext for this attack describing the invasion as, quote, barbaric, unprovoked, without a credible excuse. >> ukrainian president wladimir zelenskyy is calling on people inside...

>> well, i think its the potential. kyiv is symbolically important to russia and the arguments that putin made. he has the pretext to get all the way to kyiv. the ukrainian people are not asking for american soldiers. we are not sending them and they are not asking for them. these guys are tough people. they will fight. this be like eating a porcupine. it wont be fun for putin. >> sean: senator, i dont understand why our nato western european allies this build-up has gone on for months. they had...

Denazify, invade. to defend european security, you watch from the sidelines as your�*s second largest nation is invaded by the largest. during this week, agnes and powell and justin rowlatt. welcome to all of you. think you have been with us. start with you first, pawel? what is vladimir putins conception of historic russia and to what extent do you think this has driven the actions he is contemplating and taking? hello. the concept of historic russia made by vladimir putin as a pretext to lau...

This worthwhile? >> certainly, some sort of cognitive dissonance there. because those two data points dont matchup, but he needed some pretext, some reason to go after the cradle of slavic civilization. the shared history, dating back 1000 years between these two peoples, separate nations but a shared history. and he needed some sort of pretext, under the most powerful pretext he could come up with, he hit the right one, he is a case officer. he knew what would kind of effect of the population m...

Threat to russia, putin is establishing the pretext for a full—scale offensive. but establishing the pretext for a full-scale offensive.- establishing the pretext for a full-scale offensive. but how much im act of full-scale offensive. but how much impact of these — full-scale offensive. but how much impact of these economic - full-scale offensive. but how much | impact of these economic sanctions have come at the question being widely discussed. russias being working towards sanctions, sinc...

Ukraine never had a consistent tradition of being an independent nation, and not rooted in its history and culture. these are, of course, very concerning things to hear in the context of all the warnings we are hearing from the united states and the western allies of what putins intentions might be. we will have to see where he takes it from here, aaron. >> so much of it seems like an airing of grievances as i have seen translations coming out of the speech that the president of russia is giving...

Have not, creating a reason for russian troops to go in, and third theyre creating the legal pretext by annexing these provinces and basically saying well, were invited in, we have a legal right to be here, thats an effort by blunt international criticism because there has been universal condemnation by the west, by the united states and by our allies in europe against these very aggressive moves by putin. i think putin has made the decision, biden made that clear, putin made the decision, the o...

I would probably add mr. putin to the unhappily surprised list there. i think for the administration, the bigger proshl i would care about anyone who thinks this is it. basically what has happened, mr. putin has done what he has done. you are already talking about russia wanting to expand its foothold not just east of the east, but they want to get the entirety of the provinces. that means theres a high likelihood of within days we will have direct conflict, armed clashes between russian and ukr...

The u.s. has about 10,000 u.s. troops in poland, and on the today of the invasion the u.s. deployed 7,000 additional troops to germany. the biden administration was carefully calibrating sending defensive troops that would reassure the eastern flank of nato and not give putin a pretext to go into ukraine. so there was a delicate balancing act, but they had tens of thousands of troops on standby and already in europe. a u.s. defense official overseeing the delivery of weapons to ukraine spoke to ...