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Outside of russia. tho now of course, that means when he gets that permission, he can use them in the separatist areas and in ukraine as well but this is what s happening behind the scenes. the sense of ambiguity but the british prime minister today boris johnson reading the ambiguity and saying what is happening is very clearly russia moving forward towards a fuller invasion. this is boris johnson speaking. by denying ukraine s legitimacy as a state and presenting its very existence as a mortal threat to russia, putin is establishing the pretext for a full scale offensive. so i think what we ll see, unifying of the european u.s. position and likely more and stiffer sanctions to come. kate? nic, thank you. one of the strongest responses from germany. halting its approval of the ....
That certainly seems to be the message from the european union. expect more of the same. what we have heard from the nato secretary general in the last half an hour or so is a very clear analysis of the situation of what s happening in those separatist areas. we ve heard russian officials today trying to create a level of ambiguity as clarissa was saying, putin authorizing the use of russian forces in those separatist areas and officials saying, no, they hadn t been called for, they haven t gone in. the nato secretary general saying nato has clear evidence that russian forces have now gone into those separatist, have now gone into those separatist areas and at the same time here in russia, you have president putin asking his federation council, a legalistic move here as putin is, does often to get permission to use his forces ....
Belarus is essentially a vstate of russia, would love to establish the same type of relationship in ukraine and the countries we need to be concerned about are estonia, latvia, poland, hungary rorks mania. in 1999, three countries three additional countries joined nato. then over the course of the next 20-plus years beef gotten it up to 30. that includes slovakia, slovenia, et cetera. so we ve got this great expansion from putin s perspective, this is encroachment. this used to be my buffer zone. this is how i protected myself from all these hated european countries that, for years, abused me. that went away and he wants to reclaim that. one other thing while we re looking at this map. the pentagon has confirmed that u.s. special forces who had been in ukraine, they d been in ukraine training the ukrainian counterparts. they have now left. this was a question of, if they ....
Pipeline between russia and europe. that is a significant sanction against russia. the uk has also come out with a raft of sanctions they have announced and now all eyes here in ukraine are on the u.s. to see what sort of sanctions president biden may be planning to announce later on in the day, kate. all right, clarissa, thank you so much on the ground in kyiv for us. as clarissa was talking about, world leaders are condemning putin s latest actions. the u.s. security council accusing russia of violating international law and the u.s., uk, european union already new sanctions. nic robertson tracking for us. the west is trying to punish putin. what are you learning? reporter: european union is sanctioning a number of russian oligarchs, rich russian businessmen in europe, the uk have sanctioned five russian banks and three russian oligarchs. they say more sanctions to come. ....
Th these sanctions are a response but will not deter russian action. they are a response to it, not anything that vladimir putin didn t anticipate. steve, i want to get your take on that as well. what was it about putin s speech yesterday that is so unsettling considering indifferent, i guess, he s made very inflammatory speeches so many times before. well, i think one of the things that is difficult for westerners to understand with regard to putin is, first of all, he s always been like this. you were alluding to previous speeches he s made. he has said horrific things and ridiculous things and made ahistoric speeches in the past but i think one of the things that is so striking, that strikes a lot of americans, i imagine, is that we, the west, have been pushing back and saying, look, this is against international law. you can t just annex parts of a country. first crimea and now these two little parts in the eastern ....