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Full-scale way. there are growing concerns tonight, wolf, that with the recognition of the rebel republics in the east of the country by russia, the problem is they only control a tiny amount of the area they claim as their territory. vladimir putin, the russian president recognized their claim to the entirety of the ter territories and the big concern now is the rebels emboldened with recognition will use this as an opportunity, backed by russian tanks gathered near the borders to push outwards...

The paper says the kremlin has declared talks are "at a dead end". the ft also leads on putin recognising those two breakaway republics, with a picture of a decree being signed. meanwhile, the metro says, "its now over to you", as prime minister borisjohnson laid out plans to scrap all legal covid regulations. the daily mail say that the prime minister has thrown off the shackles of restrictions. the i reports on the new plans to live with covid and says "pay for your own test". the telegraph sa...

Your eyes can deceive you. >> reporter: yeah, brian, its a difficult story to cover for exactly that reason. i will give you a most recent example in the far eastern part of ukraine and these sort of break away pro-russian separatist republics, they have been describing scenes of carnage with incoming shells from the ukrainian military. we have not seen anything to back that up in any way. and on friday one of their leaders actually released a video saying everybody needs to evacuate, theres goi...

Putins mind tonight this is way bigger than a peacekeepers mission for 2 independent republics? then his comments about the baltics sound similar to the ukraine. he is suggesting that ukraine doesnt even exist as a country? are the baltics next? they are nato members. >> right. he argued consistently he is defending ethnic russian in ukraine. there are plenty in the other baltic states. he is fighting ukraine and the u.s. led nato alliance and delivering a stark message to china. russia and chin...

Lets first talk about him recognizing the eastern provinces. when we say russian-backed separatists, that did not arise spontaneously. it arose after eight years of russia backing, financing, and encouraging them. thats how we got to where we are today in terms of what has been going on in that region. but what struck me is that his at the same times went beyond ukraine. because he lamented the breakup of the soviet union, as he has before. said it was madness, in his terms, that the former sovi...

Speech, and he was off the rails in this speech talking about how ukraine didnt exist as a country and he talked about how he regrets all the former soviet republics were allowed to become independent countries without obeying terms from russia. what they did is self-determination and explored democracy. they had every right to do that. when putin talked today, he talked not just about his aspirations for ukraine but his aspirations to put all of these former soviet states under his thumb and uk...

That much. >> tom foreman, thank you. congressman a democrat from california and a member of the house arm ed services committee. well talk about why you are in brussels in just a moment. first i want your reaction to this breaking news that the president will sign an executive order soon that will prohibit new investment, trade and financing by u.s. persons to, from or in the so-called now separatist republics as they are acknowledged by president putin. >> i think it is a step. i think its a...

Heres our breaking news. russian troops could move to ukraine. as soon as tonight. putin recognized two pro moscow territories as independents. good evening, secretary. where are we right now. >> theyre calling it something else. >> where are we right now. he call it whatever he wants to. the reality is its an invasion. to say that we now have the new republics that i just created. and if they invite me in, well, thats not an invurgs. i think its an invasion. i think the administration has to mo...

He had had eight years to recognize the breakaway republics. choosing to do it at this moment. the big question is, what will the reaction be? right before this big announcement, he called the french president and the german chancellor. the french president is still in a national security meeting that he urgently called. we dont know what the response was, but they were quote-unquote disappointed. so the question is, what will the response be? this is not a technical invasion. hes not sending ta...

This as imminent. now that it may be happening, what are you hearing? >> reporter: it is really interesting to see. theres an unmistakable shift. for days weve been talking about going out on the streets of kyiv. finding people very relaxed. generally talking to people saying we dont believe putin would actually do this because it doesnt make sense. and i think after that speech, and again, it was less even about recognizing those two republics and more about the rhetoric that president putin wa...