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Ukrainians are blaming everything on russia, even their bad weather. >> but the timing does receive unusual right at the time when the talks don't seem to be going anywhere, the russian government has suggested they would take some military and technical actions against ukraine if the talks didn't go well. is it just a total could incompetence dense that somehow hackers from somewhere decided to target ukrainian government offices? >> you know, it's very dangerous coincidence, extremely dangerous. >> for more on this growing standoff, cnn's fred pleitgen is live in moscow. look, tensions clear...

Troops amassed near the ukrainian border, several ukrainian government websites were targeted in a cyberattack. the u.s. has blamed russia for crippling hacks against ukraine in the past. but it has not directly accused russia in the latest incident. still national security adviser jake sullivan did issue a warning to moscow. >> there will be severe economic consequences. if russia is pummelling ukraine with cyberattacks, we'll work with our allies on the appropriate response. >> as this goes on, the pentagon now says they have information that russia has operatives in place to make people bel...

Actually bolstering the number of troops it's sending to saudi arabia. announcing 3,000 over the course of the past month alone to help bolster saudi arabia's defenses in its growing standoff with its regional rival, iran. but, i mean, everybody in this region, the saudi arabians, the kurds as well, know full well now more than ever that u.s.st alliances don't necessarily last forever, george. >> matthew chance, thanks for the reporting. now to ecuador and the violent protests that rocked that nation for almost two weeks appears to be over new. the government has reached an agreement with in...

Now, we've got several days of this signal so it's not going to switch off overnight, after seven days of it. and that will be a good indicatien indication. it wouldn't be easy. i'm not for a moment sitting here saying it is. they will find the plane. i promise you this. everything we've known so far they will also find what happened because planes do not fall out of the sky at 36,000 feet without somebody wanting to get to the to the bomb of why. >> all right. richard quest. thank you. if of course in the south china sea we understand that it is shallow so that ping could make a difference. w...

Somewhere in the south china sea. now, of course, that's according to state media, but here in china and in vietnam and from those eyewitness accounts seen from the vietnamese military planes. but at this stage, they don't know definitively what happened. people coming past us really stone faced mostly, not really talking to the press, but certainly some tears in their eyes and one woman shouting out in chinese, my son was only 40 years old, so those agonizing hours that they've been waiting here, since the plane vanished over vietnamese air space much earlier today. >> all right. david, keep ...