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Said that east of kyiv many ukrainians that she met there said they hadnt watched the news since 2014 to protect their nerves. well, ukrainian media are largely behind the government there. theyre obviously saying ukraine is the victim and russia is the aggressor. the rebel republics in the east are terrorist organisations, according to them. but, of course, theyre really having to play thisjuggling game between statements from the west — western governments are saying that russia is imminentl...

And the diplomatic efforts to avoid armed conflict in ukraine. in the last hour, president biden has spoken with his russian counterpart, vladimir putin, in an effort to diffuse tensions over ukraine. he told the russian leader that any invasion into ukraine would produce widespread suffering and diminish russias standing globally and that there would be a "decisive and swift" response. russia has denied any attack is imminent and accused the us of waging a propaganda campaign. earlier, my colle...

That we now have to talk about the difficult situation regarding security in europe. i have spoken about it with my french colleague. im glad that it is possible to talk about it. the most important thing is that states talk to each other to solve it. but in a different part of moscow, russias state duma voted to ask putin to recognise the separatist held areas in ukraine as peoples republics. if he does, relations would sour even further. in moscows cold sunshine, signs of warmth can be decepti...

Thinking about negotiations. on the other side, its important to note the russian parliament just voted to recognize the two peoples republics. thats a non-binding resolution. and putin in one of his press conferences today well, theres genocide happening and that to me is a very dangerous sign because remember, when he invaded ukraine is last time and annexed crimea, the argument for that, the pretext for that was that he was protecting ethnic russians in crimea, protecting them from military t...

Stream two had anything to do with emboldening putin? >> no, its not just to build a pipeline, putin wants to constitute the former socialist republics. what we need to do n.a.t.o. needs to be united in shoring up the defenses. what n.a.t.o. has begun to do, get weapons to the ukrainians and helping them defend against it and being prepared to put the sanctions in place that are going to be an economically devastating impact on putin. one. things thats happened in the last couple weeks, putin re...

Especially through the eastern republics, a lever to influence ukraines development. and basically prevent ukraines orientation towards the west through this level in which if ukraine becomes a more federalized state. so for ukraine, this is domestically a very heated debate, the minsk agreement is for many people in itself a sign of capitalisation towards russia — which makes in turn the challenge for president zielinski and kyiv to make progress so difficult. do you think weve _ make progres...

So really, were in this really bizarre impasse, this sort of through the looking glass moment, where we just cant understand what exactly is going on. >> right, and certainly russian provided images are not fully to be trusted and just as commercial satellite photos have come out in the last day or so and showed field hosts being built and a new bridge by construction troops and speculation there is maybe for tanks. and then theres this. u.s. officials have warned consistently now about intel re...

Sent over to the u.s. today. where do you think putins head is at, in terms of what he might except diplomatically at this stage in the game? >> it really is difficult in the head of president putin. certainly, number one, his playbook has been, in many ways, to keep people guessing. and that way, he creates the sense of insecurity, of uncertainty. the one diplomatic off-ramp, which might be possible for moscow, is implementation of the so-called minsk agreements. these agreements, which first c...

Determined to see fulfilled. this minsk agreement was a cease-fire agreement that was enacted in 2015, in addition to a cease-fire, one of the main aspects of this agreement is that the donbas region of eastern ukraine, the two breakaway republics, donbas and luhansk, they basically get some kind of special status, and then that would allow them to kind of have a measure of independence but also have a say in how the ukrainian constitution is organized and have some kind of influence over govern...

The pictures as you can imagine is completely different. any accusations of an imminent russian invasion are being roundly dismissed as anti—russian hysteria, or simply complete nonsense. and these deliveries of apparently defensive weapons by the us and uk to ukraine are being described as actually whipping up tensions in the region. and actually theyre saying that the west are simply pumping the ukraine full of weapons and preparing it to attack the rebels in the east — the donetsk and lug...