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Humanitarian corridor, putin cant seem to agree to a ceasefire so they can get to safety. so how does that happen? and what more, you know, account u.s. do? -- account u.s. do? everybodys expecting the u.s. and nato to be the zaevion -- savior in all this. is that possible? >> it is possible in some ways. the polish-ukrainian border must be kept open. if you look at the map at where the russian forces are, theyre in the east, the south, the north, and theyre in the central portions of ukraine. b...

Expect given all the talk of invasion. tatiana has seen a lot in her 7a years. she doesnt buy it. "the invasion isjust in our heads," she told me. "nobody is going to invade, not everyone is a fool. "nobody will attack their brothers." perhaps, but their slavic brothers remain within striking distance, just 30 miles up this road. its now a dead zone because pro—moscow rebels have been at war with ukrainian troops for the past eight years. up ahead is territory controlled by russian backed sepa...

Confronting that zone. there will be a huge fight if that happens. i anticipate that is what putin will do. at that point, hell have to decide, now, am i going to go to the whole effort? will i plunge from belarus down to kyiv? yes or no? thats less likely. its still a massive strategic error on his part if he does it. but looks to me were on the verge of a serious battle in the donbas region, as the peacekeepers try to complete the annexation of the two provinces. >> you were in munich for this...

Is secrecy. and conducting your advance in a short period of time trying to meet all the criteria required to establish a safe environment, but do it with the highest level of secrecy to ultimately protect and prevent those looking to do you harm, the ability to know what your plans are. >> what you are getting at here,ed the fascinating point, i didnt think of the disaster stop analogy. ill footnote it. the disaster stop, because we dont have the full portfolio of things available to us. if you...

At the plant with respect to the operators. some say the operators are being held at gun point. other reports say they allowed a shift change this morning. moscow time, in the evening. so were keeping our eye on whats going on there but we think thats a very high priority, to make sure theres a safe zone to get operators and shift changes in and out of the facility, ukrainian operators. so were watching that closely and that is a concern. the whole world would prefer not to have tired operators ...

That means forces would have to fly to enforce that zone. that would put them in direct conflict with nuclear armed russia. that is simply why that no-fly zone is not happening at this point. because if it was there, obviously and patrolling over ukraine, that convoy could be gone in a matter of seconds, trace. >> trace: but of course that would be a declaration of war. jonathan, your way toward lviv, which is the western part of ukraine, people must have been trying to make their way out. how i...

Divider, and i feel very safe, and -- but with our guests, its pretty close, especially in the shampoo bowl, were face-to-face, were shampooing, and we are with our guests sometimes two hours, two and a half hours, so i would like to have some cover. >> reporter: now, all that said, heres where the state is going with the strategy that governor newsom has dubbed s.m.a.r.t.e.r. because everyone has to have an acronym when youre in politics. it stands for shots, masks, awareness, making people awa...

Noted, is only part of the area of donbas and the two states there. so this is his way of inching in. but hes not, i dont believe, going to allow those 190,000 troops or whatever it is on three sides of ukraine to just sit idle or not use them. so hes going to do more, and thats when he gets into what i would call the zone of unintended consequences. right now hes controlling the script. but when you start pulling triggers and dropping bombs, things can go bad, and he wont be in such control. so...

We agree that the uk is not going to join native for the foreseeable future and in return for that they get the eu and i would be something the ukrainians i think would jump at. i think also the chinese could example say that they want peacekeepers, may be un peacekeepers, may be un peacekeepers, to take over from the russian occupying forces and of course look at the chinese peacekeepers and this would give even a great foot on the door and ukrainian agility so i would be watching the china ang...

Nato response force, which is tens of thousands of soldiers, sailors, airmen, tanks, kroops, warships. theyre going to flood the zone along the borders of russia really for three reasons, chris. one is to send that symbol, that signal to vladimir putin. two is to reassure those allies who are along that border that nato stands with them. and thirdly, very practically, to deal with the consequences if there is a massive refugee flow out of ukraine, for example. so the alliance will be very active...