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Separatist area. overnight, what happened was there was an escalation, and there arent that many escalations along this border. they happen maybe once a week, twice a week depending on what happened. last night, there was a significant escalation, and according to the ukrainian military, the separatists fired dozens of artillery and mortar rounds at multiple locations into ukrainian territory, and in one of those attacks they damaged a school. and according to local police, no school children, n...

To bases close to ukraine. western officials say they want to see other units being moved much further away before there can be any meaningful talk of de—escalation. although russia has announced that it is moving its forces back to garrison, we have yet to see that. in fact, we see more forces moving into that region, that border region. in eastern ukraine, a potentially dangerous escalation. ukrainian soldiers inspecting the damage from yesterdays explosion at a kindergarten. exchanges of fi...

Seriously. >> have a great weekend. >> thank you. you too. i am laura coates, and this is "cnn tonight." weve got a big show for you tonight. yet the white house warning americans in ukraine to get out right now. theyre warning that russia could attack its neighbor with bombs and missiles at any moment. the threat is now, quote, immediate. so what exactly is putin up to? is this provocation? is this going to be backed up? well have fresh insight ahead from a former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, ...

The kind of provocation, the kind of false flag operation that ukraine is facing that could be a pretext to some kind of russian invasion of ukrainian territory. so, they welcome that and they agree with it. on the other side of the dispute, if you like, with the russians, well, theyve -- as you might expect -- distanced themselves from any kind of operation like this. theyve also said that they have no plan. theyve said this again and again. they have no plan to invade ukraine, and certainly wo...

Security and stability for europe if europeans dont have the ability to defend themselves and deter. also if we dont have the ability to build a common solution with all of neighbors. >> the u.s. has already sent additional troops to eastern europe. a move aimed at demonstrating natos unity and strength. france has also offered to send troops to romania. >> i dont think we can say this a provocation. the responding to commitments that we have made in the frame work of our nato presence. i dont s...

Think peter is correct, its his final decision whether he wants to move, but its clear given all this time, given all this buildup, given all the warnings by the west, the west is ready. the united states is ready. it doesnt mean that they will necessarily deter an invasion, but whatever comes next, washington and our allies and transatlantic alliance are fully ready for this and his next phase. >> the question that was rolling around washington, d.c., as you will know, jeremy, its should action...

This as united states officials continue to assess whether russia could invade ukraine at any moment. >> it looks like everything we said was likely to occur in the lead up to the actual invasion is happening. were seeing false flag operations taking place. in eastern ukraine. the manufacturing of provocation and justification for russia to go in. >> united states intelligence has learned russian military officials have been given an order to go ahead with an an vaccination of ukraine. vice pres...

Now for the provocation and have sanctions spelled out very clearly, wraps to the rruple an his oil and gas economy. thats whats missing. were talking way too much and were doing way too little. >> if its a deterrent and it happens before the aggression is made or the transgression is made, you lose your deterrent effect. if you punish somebody for something event done yet, they might as well go ahead and do it. >> your thoughts on the timing of sanctions at this moment. >> my thoughts on the ti...

It would escalate the situation almost beyond repair. i heard the comments of president biden that almost blings it to a level of a world war. we dont want that. we are doing everything to reinforce ukraines troops. we are making sure our eastern allies are in good shape with our support. i do not want to see u.s. troops sent into ukraine. i dont think thats a wise worse or going to happen. >> that is the military piece of this. we heard opposing views whether sanctions should be placed on russi...

We release new information so russians create a false flag, a false provocation that says this is ukrainians, i think the world will realize it is not ukrainians, it is russians acting to try to set off a potential russian invasion. >> dana: has it been interesting for you as the intel chairman? not usual the united states would release much classified information but do you think that has been helpful in keeping putin a little on edge that we apparently we seem to have information about what th...