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And i think he got himself into this situation thinking, okay, i'm going to be able to do whatever i want, invade or not and it turns out that the unyun is much greater than he thought but the interesting thing is the duma, the russian equivalent of our congress except a rubber stamp to do whatever putin says, recommended that those areas in the region which is where russian supported separatists are working, they'd be reasonabl recognized as actual countries, which is the same thing he did in georgia, recognizing two breakaway regions in georgia, tus turning this into a frozen conflict. he kn...

Just about 25 miles away from the russian border. it is one of the places that would likely be the first to know if there was any kind of a russian' incursion, especially if they were trying to create some sort of land carter between russia and the crimea peninsula. but let's be very clear here. ukraine fully understands what russia is capable of. i think they see a lot of the ominous signs, not just in it he remembers of the troop buildup, but in terms of the rhetoric about a genocide taking place in donbas. the duma putting forward this bill that would officially recognize pro-russian separa...

The significance of that, how much pressure does that put on putin? >> well, basically it would be shaving off another piece of ukraine, russia already did that in 2014 by invading, occupying and then annexing crimea. and then it has been fighting this kind of insurgency campaign in the east, and basically occupying and controlling those territories there. this would formalize this as russia formalized its annexation of crimea. it is a reminder that putin has a whole room servicemen you, right, of options here, short of a full scale invasion. he has the capability, according to the u.s. and na...

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 do. medicine, shooting, anything. i love my country, i'm not afraid. let's hear now from someone who is close to the centre of power in russia. sergei markov is a forme...

Have gone up to assessing, there are approximately or more than 148,000 troops in total ground air and sea from the russian armed forces, poised near that border region. that brings it more in line. we have president biden said, yesterday, it was 150,000 there. so it seems they have got the same intel on that issue. >> the question, perhaps not yet if they're on the same page, 150,000, we're aware, we saw the pictures of the various capabilities, do ukrainian officials say at some point in the near future they have the capability for a broad invasion? >> no one in ukraine is ruling out, of cou...