Stay updated with breaking news from 2014 russian. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
On the other. the ukraine army has amassed here since 2014. russian separatists on the map in control of this area. overnight tanks and trucks on behalf of the russian army and vladimir putin move into these two areas. fundamental question is this. does putin and his army stop at this line of contact or does he go further? if he goes further that will be the war will be engaged on behalf of the ukraine army battling the russian army. many thought over the past two weeks of coverage here that putin s intentions were to go well past this area here. at the moment these are the two areas that putin and russia has moved into. by the way since 2014, at least 14,000 soldiers have died in that area as they ve fought this disputed line there. the other thing that putin talked about yesterday during the hour news conference. he went back in russian ....
And two weeks later, putin ordered the annexation of crimea and started a civil war in eastern ukraine and sounded alarms to use a russian missile system to shoot down american flight 17 recally here s obama s director of national intelligence james collarer. do you believe there should have been stricter sanctions in 2014? yes, i wish we as a nation had been more aggressive in 2014. russian jets using cluster bombs to attack hospitals to kill. civilians, in many ways, ....
Reserves. when sanctions came in in 2014 after the annexation of crimea, russia changed its approach to foreign reserves. can you just help us understand how that fits into this? , , :, ., , us understand how that fits into this? , :, , :, this? this is a really important ruestion this? this is a really important question because this? this is a really important question because russia - this? this is a really important question because russia has i this? this is a really important - question because russia has actually been preparing for a more western sanctions since 2014. russian central bank started off loading risky currencies from its perspective, most primarily the us dollar, to a certain extent the euro as well, and replacing those foreign reserves with gold. the japanese yen and the chinese currency is as well. but what has happened not because of the new sanctions, it is still about 40-50% of the new sanctions, it is still about 40 50% of those foreign currency reserves wen ....
The other thing is that, you know, we saw this before in the summer of in july of 2014. russian-backed separatists with the help of the russian military and special services accidentally shot down malaysian airlines flight 17 which was full of civilians. nearly 300 people were killed. this was right over eastern ukraine. and the eu led by the netherlands, which had the most citizens onboard, led a thorough investigation that took many years that really laid out the evidence extremely convincingly, like there was no bones you could pick there. russia had its own investigation. they did their own presentation that showed all kinds of other theories. they put on a defense, you know, a defense argument that muddied the waters and nobody went to trial for that. nobody was punished. and russian people, according to ....
0 security council and participated in a virtual g7 leadership meeting to talk about all that is going on. we expect to hear from the president on what he calls and unprovoked ms. by russia. more than 90 minutes later than what he was saying. so it will be interesting. what will he say, and will he take questions? keep it here on fox. sandra: fox news alert as war breaks out in ukraine after russia launches a full-scale attack, hitting cities and military bases with more than 100 ballistic missiles. large explosions could be heard across the country has russian forces moved in from three science. at least 40 ukrainian soldiers were reportedly killed so far, and a number of casualties is expected to rise. john: world leaders are ready to respond to hammer moscow. covering this from all of the angles with our expert lineup. bret baier, general jack keane, stephen moore, robert wolf, daniel hoffman, brett bruen will all join us, coming up. sandra: and that s where we began this hour ....