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That is in a russian hold. there have been calls by the nato military alliance for restraint and russia says this is a provocation. russian media says its all about derailing the meeting between president trump and putin scheduled to take place later this month. we are back with john avlon and -- is that phil mudd? >> yeah. >> he is so secret, he doesnt let me know in teleprompter. good to see you. on the day the russian military seizes three ukrainian ships, and president trump tweets europe ...

Between russia and the ukraine. tensions escalating with ukraine saying that russia attacked three of its vessels. the kremlin claims the ukraine war ships were in russian waters illegally. john avalon is back to discuss. but also with me now floebl affairs analyst kim dozier. how dangerous is this moment, though? where could it go from here? >> its an escalation thats been building because the sea of azov supposedly russia and ukraine have an agreement from 2003 to have shared use of this area....

And things must change fast. is that the right message? >> well, if you are vladimir putin you take some comfort in that. this provocation on the part of putin and his views generally, going back to 2014 about ukraine are linked to how he feels about the nato and the expansion of nato and how it compromises russia territorily, so he likes to see president trump start to question nato members, whether they are paying their fair share. it doesnt project a share of unity. its the last thing that an...

By the united states and by u.s. allies, as well, in the european union, for instance. and while thats had an impact on the russian economy, its led to a downturn in economic growth in this country, what it hasnt done is done anything to limit or change russias policy and its territorial ambitions. and so it seems that russia has emerged as very resilient to any kind of action that the west has taken so far. now, that doesnt mean there wont be more strong action and that more strong action wont ...

Vessels. they havent fired on vessels before, but they have been stopping commercial vessels, inspecting, et cetera. so its been building ever since -- really you could say for quite a while but i would put it back in april, may. may, really when the russians built a bridge across that strait connecting crimea and russia and, in fact, choking off the ukrainians. >> trying to make it part of russian territory, in effect here. we did have a reaction today from the administration special representa...

To stay the course directly towards ukrainian tugboat. in the russian ship rams the ukrainian boat head on. with. the incident escalated further a russian tanker blocked a tight underpass between the black sea and the sea of us of a vital trade route for ukraine it was later announced that the russian coastguard had shot at three ukrainian ships the ships were seized by russia with authorities saying the boats had illegally entered russian waters but the ukrainian navy says it had announced the ...

See if indeed this is the case and then obviously at the end of sixty days if they extend it over to you nick in moscow ukraine says that russia has committed an act of aggression is considering imposing martial law as we just heard what is russia saying about all this. good morning terry well the line from moscow has been fairly consistent and yesterday a provocation from the ukrainian side is what the russian security service is a calling this they say that the strait was closed they had close...

Release the ship and the crew after all from the russian point of view what they did capturing the vessel and the crew was absolutely legal weve heard from the commissioner for human rights here in russia who said that twenty four people were arrested and that several members of the crew were being questioned at the moment and that they were also being treated medically at the moment in russia and judging from russias reaction thats it seems unlikely that theyll comply as they said russia said t...

It had announced the ships transit in advance. in kiev ukrainian president petro poroshenko called on parliament to introduce martial law. this doesnt mean we are declaring war. ukraine is not planning for a war with anyone it is implemented solely to protect ukrainian land our territory territorial integrity and sovereignty of. russias foreign minister sergei lavrov accused ukraine of deliberate provocation. principles of the international law were violated including the united nations charter ...

Six so neither side really disputes that what is happening but it is the interpretation is different and so how do these interpretations play into what kind of escalating conflict there might be in the coming days. well the obviously the both sides accuse the other side the russians have said that the ukrainians unlawfully entered a temporarily closed area of russian territorial sea and theyve called this a provocation ukrainians are taking this very seriously indeed they have called this are th...