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Again, it should be notice that the separatists do not control the entirety of those to regions. but putin is now unilaterally said that it all belongs to them anyway. in an hour-long speech putin said that ukraine a former member of the soviet union was creating by russia, he essentially delight the notion of russia as -- he accused ukraine without any evidence of carrying out a genocide against russian people. he said that ukraine poses a threat to not just the russians living in ukraine to all russians. and he said because of that threat he had no other choice today but to recognize those t...

Regions. but putin is now unilaterally said that it all belongs to them anyway. in an hour-long speech putin said that ukraine a former member of the soviet union was creating by russia, he essentially delight the notion of russia as -- he accused ukraine without any evidence of carrying out a genocide against russian people. he said that ukraine poses a threat to not just the russians living in ukraine to all russians. and he said because of that threat he had no other choice today but to recognize those two separatist-controlled regions as independent. to try and protect russians. immediatel...

He goes for war, he has to do it fast and then start preparing for peace negotiations. >> so perilous hours tonight, to be sure. jill, so putin has signed these decrees regarding eastern ukraine. what exactly do they say? what do they authorize? >> reporter: well, they recognize, number one, and that is a violation of the territorial integrity and the sovereignty of ukraine. recognizes these two breakaway regions, donetsk and luhansk people's republics and then they have a friendship cooperation and mutual assistance part of that. and within that part, the president, president putin, authorize...

We have said will be swift and severe. >> all of this comes one day after russian president vladimir putin signed decrees recognizing two areas in eastern ukraine held by russian-backed separatists, as independent state. there you see them right there. russia now says that recognition also includes territories held by ukraine forces. putin also announced in a speech he was sending russian troops in for what he called a peace-keeping mission. those moves effectively killed agreements aimed at ending the conflict in eastern ukraine. earlier today, the russian parliament backed putin's actions. t...

Allow further expansion, and that, i think, is what ukrainians are worried about and why they're saying that sanctions need to come now before the situation escalates and escalates in a way that they think is predictable. >> richard, there's a "washington post" headline right now, just a few minutes old, that reads, putin orders peace keeping troops to separatist regions of ukraine. russian president vladimir putin signed decrees as moscow recognized the breakaway regions' independence. we talked about that already but the notion of peacekeeping troops being ordered into the separatist regions...