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Theyve said a lot of things, as brianna has pointed out, that have not come to pass. so, for example, just last week they said they were withdrawing troops. turns out they werent. putin wouldnt recognize these break away republics. he did. if anything, sometimes the kremlin saying what theyre not going to do is a clue about what they are going to do. >> what does this look like if julia -- i mean, its one thing if russian troops go in to the area that is controlled by russian-backed separatists....

The russian parliament last week appealed to the president, calling for him to recognise the two rebel held republics, self—declared held republics, self—decla red republics held republics, self—declared republics in eastern ukraine. and today, as you said, both of the leaders of those two republics told him that they wanted russia to recognise them as independent from kyiv. in practice we are not sure what this might mean but it could potentially allow the kremlin to place troops on their...

More. and one thing ill say, there is supposed to be that meeting between lavrov and blinken, also on friday by lavrov and his french counterpart. those had been on the table before the russian president announced the recognition of those two breakaway republics in eastern ukraine. its now up for debate whether that will change. one thing i do want to note here, it doesnt come at no cost for putin, even the announce such that it is. he announced it, and russian stocks fell as much as 17%. down 1...

Have just... the chancellor has been, one week ago, and moscow talking about some possibilities to escape the trap of war, invasion. one week after this meeting in the kremlin, he declared openly that hes going to war, and i would say to acknowledge the so—called republics, this is a kind of declaration of war. looking more generally. _ declaration of war. looking more generally, germany _ declaration of war. looking more generally, germany perhaps - declaration of war. looking morel generally...

These break-away republics where they have been staging what ukrainian and u.s. officials are calling sort of false-flags or staged provocations. they have been bussing people, who have been allegedly coming under heavy fire to the border, to russia, trying essentially, it appears, to create some kind of an elaborate manufactured refugee crisis, again, as been speculated many, many times before, that this could give president putin some kind of a pretext with 600,000 russian passport holders in ...

Russian occupation? >> yes, i was defense minister and i was also war correspondent and it does look like all the pieces are in place for a massive invasion, a completely unjustified act of aggression against a democratic member of the u.n. in good standing. >> and does it look to you like -- you know, people thought there would be -- the strategy would be go into the donbas, quote, unquote, liberate those places, recognize them as independent republics like georgia, or do you think the strategy...

Forces could arrive in eastern ukraine, at any moment. now, this video from russian media shows a military convoy, already, moving through separatist-controlled donetsk even though it is unclear who the equipment belongs to, precisely. now, mr. putins order came just hours after he signed a decree recognizing the breakaway regions donetsk and luhansk as independent republics. separatists there have long had backing there from the kremlin. u.s. and nato officials say moscow supplies them with adv...

Former soviet union allowed its former republics to leave so easily. of course, he was talking about ukraine, but that encompasses other former soviet republics like yourself that are now independent democratic states. did you hear from putin a challenge, in effect, to estonias independence? >> well, first of all, it has to be reminded that we were an independent republic before the soviet aggression. so we are actually celebrating this thursday our 104th anniversary of our country. so this year...

Allies in nato and across the world, would stand together in full support of the people of ukraine. we are calling out russias plans constantly and pla ns co nsta ntly a nd repeatedly, plans constantly and repeatedly, because we want to remove any reason russia may give to justify to invade ukraine and prevent them from moving. ukraine and prevent them from movinu. a ~ ukraine and prevent them from movinu. ~ ., ukraine and prevent them from movin. -m ., , .,~ moving. make no mistake, if russia p...

Footage of children being molested that was a pretext for the russian duma to give consent to the russian peasant to use of force in ukraine. this remains me very much of what was happening —— russian president to use force. in order to stage an invasion further into ukrainian territory by blaming ukraine of the provocation. and we have seen a similar story in 2008 with a georgian war. so there is a very much looks like a substantial escalation with a possible military operation. escalation ...