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Go in and protect his people and by the way, interesting that were hearing today, not just president putin saying to the government here in kyiv that you need to negotiate with the separatist leaders, but also we hear from the separatist leaders themselves who are saying that they are now evacuating because of the kinetic incident, evacuating civilians from these two separatist republics into russia. its kind of, a lot of people here are assuming thats more theatre than anything else. one of the...

>> thats how i took it, too. >> this morning, putin berated the head of the intelligence service. he seemed to be hesitating over the matter of whether the separatist-led regions and the donbas in general should be incorporated into russia. take a listen. >> translator: i would agree that our western partners should be given one last chance. otherwise we must make the decision we are talking about today. >> translator: what do you mean otherwise? do you propose to start the negotiation process? ...

Russian republics that are now nato members that therefore enjoy the article 5 guarantee an attack on one is an attack on all. >> neil: you think its inevitable that he will invade ukraine? >> i dont, no. i think he has very clearly positioned his forces -- if you listen carefully to what president biden, national security adviser jake sullivan, tony blinken have said, theres always a qualifier. they say he has order forces to prepare. or they have plans to invade or they have positioned those f...

What are you hearing from diplomatic officials about what biden will say about what he should day? >> well, the biden administration, it seems, is going to issue its chapter, right, in which has been a day of multiple steps by the allies. it began with a really remarkable up with, right, that is germany saying that it was suspending nord stream 2, that is no small thing, it has geopolitical implications and economic implications for germany. thats a big step and a big loss for vladimir putin and...

Playbook has been in many ways to keep people guessing, and in that way he creates a sense of insecurity and uncertainty. the one diplomatic off-ramp which might be possible for moscow is implementation of the so-called agreements from 2014 and 2015 call for a cease-fire, but they also call for the disputed -- i say disputed, or the break-away regions of eastern ukraine, the self proclaimed republics to have some kind of special status. if they were to gain that special status, this could mean t...

Social media posts, according to reuters who are there, some form of military convoys moving through donetsk. as you stated, and it is a really important clarification to make, we cannot be sure if this convoy is russian military or pro russian separatists. what we do know is that this friendship and security agreement that president putin signed earlier between russia and the republics of donetsk and luhansk, as they are now calling themselves independent republics, that this basically allows f...

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Theyre saying that theres shelling of these regions by the ukrainian army, which is false. they are showing these kind of false flag operations. there was this report the other day on kremlin tv that the donetsk peoples republic discovered a map, ukrainian military map that showed plans for an invasion in the donbass, the separatist republics. another report today showed camera footage ostensibly from what it said ukrainian saboteurs, trying to cross into the separatists territory, to blow up fo...

Autocratic belarus lukashenko is with him today, and he sees democracy as an existential threat to his system, essentially a corrupt autocracy, and he doesnt want a democratic success story in ukraine that could spill over into russia and he wants to undo the humiliation that he felt with the collapse of the soviet union and the loss of russian domination of ukraine and keep in mind, ukraine was the biggest and to russia most important of the former soviet republics it lost when the soviet union...

Any substantial evidence that stands any type of scrutiny to prove that. but thats been the narrative. putin will be sort of playing into that. i think we can still look at this from the perspective that president putin is still trying to do what he does usually, which is to try to sort of break things down, make them go in small steps. make each step seem as if hes legally doing the right thing. hes signaled hes going to soon recognize the independence of these two republics, donetsk and luhans...