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Members of russias powerful security council. "i will let you all speak," he said, "then we must decide what to do." and one by one, they spoke, all urging president putin to defy kyiv and the west, and officially recognise the pro—russia rebel republics in eastern ukraine. "we must recognise these republics," the interior minister says, "but within their earlier, larger boundaries." the president listened, but looked like a man whod already made up his mind. later, he addressed the nation. tr...

Areas now controlled by russian backed forces or try to take the broader territories? the head of the region in donetsk said the decision would come later. we now have this report from our diplomatic correspondent james landale. is this the start of things to come? a column of unidentified military vehicles moving into donetsk, just hours after vladimir putin signed a decree ordering russian forces to the region. a region that the west says is part of ukraine, a region that the russian leader no...

Sovereignty of ukraine. since during the day he has decided that he will recognise the breakaway rebel regions of donetsk luhansk in ukraines east as independent states of the guard he describes this as a pivotal decision that scuttles an existing peace agreement, which i think refers to the minsk agreements came it was clearly now is void and could clear tough new sanctions from the west. could trigger another pretext to invade ukraine and it seems that this is already happening since i think t...

To recognize or offer russias official, quote, unquote, recognition to two breakaway republics on the territory of the ukraine, and now he can send troops to those republics on the logic that these are existing sovereign entreaties, which they are not. that muddles the picture, but the fundamental story, the point of international law is, russian troops, russians say more russian troops are illegally entering ukraine. youre right from the point of view of concerns of russian media, this may not ...

To see now who our real friends and partners are. the uk prime minister, borisjohnson, told president zelensky the uk had already drawn up sanctions to target those complicit — alongside the us and eu — to implement imminently, and they will explore sending further defensive support to ukraine. so what could that be? we have now enough rockets to cover all the tanks which can cross our border. we have some troubles with the sea and air. thats where our efforts are concentrating right now. ky...

Where the front line has been pretty much fixed, but now there are a significant clashes at several points along that line. the russian backed forces that have been fighting there for all these years are now being supported by the russian military openly, who have been invited in to those republics to fight and take on the ukrainian military. so the fight is that they are trying to push forward and take much more territory in the east of ukraine. we found people pretty worried in that area about...

Russia for protection, and the ukrainian government is going to go have to decide if they will let it be or attack. to me the bigger question is whether if and when the russians go into the eastern republics, whether thats a prelude to something much larger, and thats bad, and in this case, it could get much, much worse. >> what is the next course of action for nato and for the biden white house after the announcement from russia if things play out the way you suggested there, what happens next ...

Around the world. he talked himself yesterday too about falsely ukraines desire to get nuclear weapons. something ukraine voluntarily gave up in exchange with a deal that they would guarantee ukraines security building this russian narrative of how an invasion of ukraine would essentially be in russias self-defense interests. of course that is false. the big question now being what has changed on the ground since vladimir putin said he would send troops into the separatist republics. we do not h...

To cover all the tanks, which can cross our border. we have some troubles with the sea and air. thats where our efforts are concentrating right now. kyiv�*s long feared russia would create a pretext for war. in the past few days, russia evacuated thousands of civilians from the separatist republics to russia. russian tv claimed ukraine was shelling the area, claims vigorously denied by kyiv. president putins final act was to effectively sign away the minsk peace agreements intended to calm ten...

The world. at the time, if you look in history in the way things have unraveled, there was such euphoria at that time from the president down to the people so happy they were turning weston being embraced by the western nations and they were to believe the letter of the law the letter that they signed was supposed to look at their sovereignty and respected. obviously that is not happening. obviously were back in the bad days of the cold war when russia and moscow ran things , run the entire repu...