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Keeping functions. it was seen by the u.s. and allies as a provocation and part of a pretext to invade ukraine. at an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council requested by ukraine late last night, the u.s. and its allies sought to isolate russia, calling the kremlins actions a blunt, defiance of international law. >> russias clear attack on ukraines sovereigty and territorial integrity is inprovoked. in essence, putin wants the world to travel back in time, to a time before the united nati...

Week in the united nations security council come to pass. a major increase in military provocations and falsifying events along the line of contact in the donbas. dramatically staged venal on camera meeting of putins security council to grandstand for the russian public. and now political provocation of recognizing sovereign ukrainian territory in so-called independent republics in clear violation, again, of international law. president putin has sought authorization from the russian parliament ...

More significant thing, although it didnt seem to be really going anywhere. >> no, except open the door to military technical measures which seem to be intentionally vague. clarissa, if the logic for lack of a better word is that any military response from the ukrainians to the shelling could be used by the russian government as a pretense to begin an invasion, how then does ukraine respond? if at all? >> well, this is the conundrum that ukraine finds itself in, on the one hand, huge uptick in s...

Focused less on the border and more on the self-declared republics in the east worried they will be used to stage some provocation by russia. >> translator: theres a great danger that the representatives of the russian federation who are there will provoke some certain things. they could do things that have nothing to do with our military. >> reporter: a ukrainian official have said theyre not going to respond to these attempts to kind of lure ukraines military into some kind of conflagration of...

Million people. youre there right now. tell us whats going on. >> reporter: well, wolf, you know, for a long time weve been hearing that an imminent -- an invasion might be imminent, an invasion might not be decided upon yet, it might be a small invasion, it might be a large invasion. but to hear in those stark terms that the president believes a decision made by putin and kyiv itself itself might be targeted is pretty shocking. certainly were starting to see some of the other pieces fall in lin...

To spread confusion, almost for its own sake. even now there are plans being laid for stage events, spinning a web of false hoods, designed to present any russian attack as a response to provocation. we have already witnessed a fake military withdrawal, combined with staged incidents, which could provide a pretext for military action. we knew this was coming, we have seen it before. no one should be fooled. we have to steel ourselves for the possibility of a protracted crisis. with russia mainta...

Indeed, very high, because we have more troops, 150,000 troops on our borders, yes, indeed. thats a big risk. but a very big risk if we respond, if we to respond to one provocation or the other. on the other hand, i think that russian federation, and when we are talking about russia, this is the people, the whole people of russia. so i think that they will not be able to start to go to war against ukraine. and although on the temporary occupied territories, we have a lot of provocations and we s...

Ukraines foreign minister has been speaking at the united nations general assembly, calling for swift, concrete and resolute actions. we are currently at the middle of the largest security crisis in europe since the second world war. this crisis was created and is being escalated by one side unilaterally, by the russian federation. russian accusations of ukraine are absurd. ukraine has never threatened or attacked anyone stop ukraine has never planned and will not plan any action. ukraine has ne...

Immediate consultations. the meeting of the un security counter and the special meeting of the oh ac -- >> joining us now is timothy sanders. timothy snyder, sorry, a professor of history at yale university and author of the road to an freedom, russia, europe, and america. professor snyder, i want to get your reaction to the situation as it is breaking at the united nations tonight. what we just heard from ukraines ambassador, coming after this very historic day for this country. >> i will start...

But secretary blinken said the u.s. and its allies are doing everything to continue diplomacy with russia and they hope to continue on that path in the future. natasha bertrand, cnn, brussels. now, the attack on europes largest nuclear power plant by russian forces earlier on friday has brought international condemnation unsurprisingly. the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. says disaster was narrowly averted. ukraines president calling it nuclear terror. luckily radiation levels have remained stable...