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Itself. >> the russian president used quite a strong word in his press conference in moscow today, accusing ukraine of, in his words, genocide in eastern ukraine and areas populated by russian speakers. we've also noted that the russian dumont today talking about recognizing some of the eastern areas as independent from the state of ukraine, though they are within ukraine's sovereign borders here. do you see, in those rhetorical points there and the movements in the duma, short of a full invasion but an attempt to slice off another piece of ukraine instead, as it did with crimea before? >> fir...

Areas within ukraine. 0ne recognised these two rebel held areas within ukraine. one of the interesting things, if we show you a map of the areas, one of the things, if you look closely, the grey area is controlled by the separatists, the yellow area by the ukrainians on the question is, is president putin claiming that the yellow area is also going to be protected by russian troops if and when they roll in. this was the answer from president biden who thinks that he is saying that that is the case. that he is saying that that is the case-— the case. he asserted that these regions _ the case....

Ukraine. it's about there'd of the donbas region. with the backing of the kremlin, just behind us there is the other two-thirds of the donbas region. controlled by the ukrainian government. putin, however, is declaring the entire donbas independent. he went to the duma to get permission for russian troops to operate outside the country. do you think biden's sanctions today will stop putin from this very first step in annexing the entire donbas? >> probably not. i think what he's trying to do is a tit for tat here and i think the initial sanctions, i don't know. i don't have a laundry list of w...

To ukraine but we should commit troops to poland because we have made them promises we should keep. there is a lot of... i get the fact that there is turmoil in europe, i understand that and i am sympathetic and to the polish situation and the baltic states, the same way but it doesn't mean i don't think we shouldn't send troops into ukraine when we have sanctions that we haven't undertaken yet.- when we have sanctions that we haven't undertaken yet. let's bring in alexander vindman, a retired us army lieutenant colonel who oversaw the trump administration's ukraine policy. he is of some ukrai...

Beginning of a russian invasion of the ukraine and as he asked for permission from the duma and we — for permission from the duma and we will impose sanctions as and we will impose sanctions as a response _ and we will impose sanctions as a response far beyond the steps we and — a response far beyond the steps we and our allies and partners did in— we and our allies and partners did in 2014. we and our allies and partners did in 2014-— did in 2014. that is when crimea was _ did in 2014. that is when crimea was annexed. - did in 2014. that is when crimea was annexed. if. did in 2014. th...