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About that in a moment lets bring francis scarr from bbc monitoring with us from moscow in this discussion. im guessing as you watch the news in russia, one story is dominating. yes, you are right. really up until friday, russian state tv, which is the main source of information for people here for around two thirds of the population, it was very dismissive of any kind of anything happening really with ukraine for seven that really began to change as soon as the two leaders of the rebel republic...

Lithuania. the foreign minister was part of the talks today with antony blinken, how should a review of his comments of how much protection nato is giving republics such as yours. you feel quite vulnerable. we are discussin: you feel quite vulnerable. we are discussing very — you feel quite vulnerable. we are discussing very hard _ you feel quite vulnerable. we are discussing very hard matters - you feel quite vulnerable. we are discussing very hard matters of l discussing very hard matters of...

Mind. what is next? what are the ambitions of vladimir putin? >> i think we just listen to mry things. he is said -- he has threatened the former soviet republics that are now a part of nato. when he was justifying his operation on ukraine, he threatened those states. and he wants to bring them back in to his sphere of influence. i think we take that seriously and nato has to outgun themselves in terms of having an effective deterrence on the ground. not on paper with article 5. im talking about...

Luhansk— so—called authorities of the luhansk and donetsk republics requested assistance from the russian — requested assistance from the russian federation. also today the ukrainian authorities declared a nationwide state of emergency and announced other defence — emergency and announced other defence and security measures including — defence and security measures including the mobilisation of reservists. throughout the day, we have — reservists. throughout the day, we have seen dis...

U.s. intelligence about where this is going. they are not done! the russians are not done. its a matter of two independent republics in eastern ukraine. they want this democratically elected administration and regime in ukraine out. and they want somebody more like in belarus. pro russian military -- which you have seen in the last 20 years. thats right, it is also something that ukraine, more than, ones has already overthrown. this is something, i think, that vladimir putin has probably been sp...

Predominantly. where the russian general consulate shut down a couple of days ago, shows exactly how wide this is. it is sort of nightmare situation when western g intelligence officials first started talking about it, seemed preposterous russia would have the resources, the goal to attempt taking over a nation of 40 million. we are not necessarily seeing that scale of occupation but the initial moves of troops from the north, possibly from crimea in the south and from the east, as well, speak t...

Committings ethnic genocide against russians. remember, those people in donbas are ethnic russians. number two, the leaders of these break-away republics, have called onbr their citizens to lead. theyreti telling women and children, go to russia, and theyre even offering money for them to leave the territories. that is another -- theyre getting ready for war.tt the disinformation part of that, as theyre saying, well becausee ukraines about to attack, think about how absurd that is. 150, 190,000 ...

Against russia which hell announce in parliament later. the first of our reports comes from mark lobel. this is how independence looks in the rebel republics now recognised by russia. but president putins provocative move has been condemned by the west as a clear breach of international rules. the question is whether these columns of military vehicles spotted hours later on the outskirts of donetsk are a worrying sign of bigger things to come elsewhere in ukraine, with its sovereignty under thre...

Former cia chief of operations and retired army major general and author of hunting the caliphate. let me start with you. you heard fred pleitgen over the border from the two break-away republics. i can see the images he had, the massive tanks along those dirt, muddy roads, he saw the massive military presence along that border. what do you think when you see his report? >> good evening, erin. its very concerning. its great that the russians are going to reenforce the two break away provinces of...

1945. theres an echo of that. then went on national television. i havent had a chance to listen to it. a long speech. i listened to a lot of it in russian. it was a very, very angry speech. this is a man who feels agrieved, justified and sounded like much more to come besides recognizing the two republics as inspected countries and then he sat down with the two leaders, figurehead leaders and signed two agreements with each of them. one recognizing their independence and then two agreements abou...