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Artillery shell after shell at ukrainians and them sayingngng cant respond because they see it as provocation. >> its a downside as an option for vladimir putin. if he chooses to recognize the republics and put peace keepers in there. theres a risk russian troops come under fire. and russia would be forced into having to respond in some way. is this an escalation step? the first of many. or is this it. and if it is it, it is certainly a lesser response from moscow. theres talk of whether or not ...

Outside observers there reporting a sharp escalation in cr sees fire violations along the front line. this is where many fear a russian provocation could take place. for its part in a document sent to washington today moscow denied that russia was planning to invade but warned it would be forced to take, quote, military technical measures if its demands on rolling back nato expansion are not met. so there is that. there is moscows expulsion of the american chief of mission, the bridge that was t...

That news breaking literally minutes ago. as we wait for details, we want to show you these pictures from ukraine, damage from new shelling in the pro-russian part of the country, both sides accusing the other of firing the first shot. mortar attacks overnight that included an attack on a kindergarten. ukrainian president zelensky is causing that incident a major provocation. the british foreign secretary said it looked like a blatant attempt by the russian government to fabbri kate a pretext fo...

He was rather hoping, remember that presidents putin is a kgb colonel, unfortunately what he hoped to see was disharmony amongst nato but his actions have produced a unified voice. 0n actions have produced a unified voice. on that level, he hasnt achieved one of his objectives. i believe he has achieved something, thatis believe he has achieved something, that is the distancing of the likelihood of ukraine joining that is the distancing of the likelihood of ukrainejoining nato. i dont think it i...

He proposes to do, capturing the ukrainian capital, it is absolutely vital that that effort, that conquest of another european country should not succeed and that he should not succeed and that he should fail. that is what we will be exerting ourselves to ensuring as the outcome. lets talk to our chief political correspondent adam fleming. the health secretary talking about the situation in ukraine a little earlier before the prime minister spoke said that the invasion of ukraine had begun. is t...

Is it just easier to say these are russians that are bombing the ukraines at the moment? >> these are russian-backed separatists and theyve been at war, ongoing war in eastern ukraine since 2014, and they wouldnt be fighting were it not for the material support and some of the-- and some of the russian troops who have joined in that fight. and theres no question that this is a deliberate provocation on the part of the russian government designed to induce some reaction from the ukrainian side an...

Recognized us. now we want military support in. so some troops from russia will come in. theyll blow up something else, and say theres another provocation, and thats what they need to launch the whole strike against ukraine and go for the capital. i would be very surprised if putin is just happy to just stop here. i know its possible he could do it. but its more likely, with all the troops in the field, that he goes for the whole, big bang. hes going to think like a maccma machia machiavelli. >>...

Its that it might be considered by russia to be a provocation and excuse for them to invade. so, the administration has been very, very careful, as have the europeans, to not signal or to not give a provocation that russia could then use as an excuse. whether the sanctions are imposed now or shortly or immediately after an invasion really doesnt make much difference in the impact on russia. other than the provocation issue that i just said. i would expect that the united states congress, when we...

Happening in eastern ukraine today united nations qt council has, is conducting emergency meeting right now the request of the ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky. this is -- france of course from the united states is there. the security council is at the moment shared by russia and theres been the scene of some very intense arguments in the last few weeks. we of course very keep a very close eye under what happened at the security meeting thats underway at new york in the -- covering the bre...

Vehicles. your leadership has improved their step forward on to the territory of another country. this step could become the beginning of a big war. the cause could come up at any moment, any provocation, any spark, a spark that could burn everything down. you are told that this flame will liberate the people of ukraine, but the ukrainian people are free. you are told we hate russian culture. how can one hate a culture? neighbors also enrich each other culturally, however, that does not make the...