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Russia has given out thousands upon thousands upon thousands of russian passports to residents in donbas. there is in essence you can see the creation of a narrative in russia of a reason to go to war across the border. >> well, a false one, right? russia has been arming those separatists for eight years in eastern ukraine. speaking of arming, they gave them a missile that shot down mh-17 over europe a number of years ago. do they have any answers to their eight-year presence in eastern ukraine? >> they deny, deny, deny, deny, deny, deny. that's what love ravrov said to. he said to the duma, i...

Lavrov was speaking to the duma. not only did he say that if the united states isn't constructive and continues in its aggressive lines, that there would be an appropriate response. he didn't say that they would go to war. but that's the sort of language they used before a military response. there was a big round of applause in the duma. this all comes on the same day when the russian ministry of foreign affairs, his office has been tweeting out that those weapons systems the united states supplies the ukrainian government will end up in the hands of what they -- the russians describe as terro...

Yesterday the duma, russia's parliament announced the formal annexation of the two russian provinces. that doesn't sound to me like someone who is backing off. that sounds like someone doubling down, still. if what putin says is true, that's great news. but we'll believe it when we see it. >> can he get, nina, can putin get what he wants without military action? >> well, as we say in the united states, you need means, motive and opportunity. we see the means. i don't see the motive. i mean that whole kind of story that he's going to go into kyiv just doesn't gell with anything we know about ru...

Because we have a threat of a russian invasion, and that's why we show this to each other, the whole world that we are ready to fight and ready to defend our motherland, our country, that's the reason, actually. i'm here because i want to show that i'm not. terrified by the threat. we are ready to oppose i putin or anyone who wants to invade our country even more because you know some regionsi already don't belong to us, - so we are ready to fight by any means that we have. i'm getting some training, but i will fight with any. means i have in my hands. i will do anything my. country asks me to...

That that could take two to three years, that russia would be forced to send in reserve troops, and that there is a potential minimal option and to watch february 14th, the date for -- a tentative date for a vote in the russian duma on recognizing an enclave in ukraine which is controlled by pro-russian separatists, that if that vote goes ahead and russia decides to officially recognize this separatist enclave, then putin, russia, could decide to move into an area in ukraine it already effectively controls, moving in under the guise of being peacekeepers which fits the russian narrative that t...