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Russian president vladimir putin says he will recognise two breakaway regions of east ukraine, and he's sending troops there. the un secretary general describes the russian move as a blatant violation of international law and the un security council is meeting in the next few hours. more now on our top story. steve fish is a politics professor at the university of california, berkeley. he told me monday's development�*s have made putin's well, the mask is off today, isn't it? many of the west hope that all vladimir putin really wanted was security assurances that the ukraine would notjoin na...

Professor at the university of california, berkeley. he told me monday's development�*s have made putin's intentions clear. well, the mask is off today, isn't it? many of the west hope that all vladimir putin really wanted was security assurances that the uk would notjoin nato. that's always been a hollow hope. ukraine is part of russia. all of ukrainian territories part of russia and vladimir putin has to spend talking this way for some time for the last decade, he's been talking about the russian world, which kind of encompasses the ukraine and other territories of the russian empire and t...

Blinken. he's touring former soviet states coping with the refugee crisis.th they're seeking security assurances, we should say, from the u.s. he visited moldova just this morning. that is a militarily neutral country. that just three days ago formally applied to join the european union. so how do you view the bolstering of the alliances between the west and russia's neighbors at this very moment, and how might vladimir putin view this? >> yes, so the challenge for the west now is to counter moscow without escalating to nuclear war. now, that is a huge challenge, but the good news is we have d...

You look at president trump, most recently, who did two things, one, weaken european and nato alliance, and withdrew america from the nuclear deal. when you look at the side effect or residual effect of what has happened, they have allowed russia to use the argument that no agreement with the united states is worth the paper it's written on because american presidents can come in and change it. when you go further back and look at american decisions, withdrawing american from strategic arms treaties, the agreement that the united states gave ukraine after the collapse of the soviet union to sa...

Security assurances are not being met. russian forces invaded georgia 4 months later and ukraine 6 years later. nikita khruhchev gave crimea to the russians. catherine the great said the only way to make the country better is expand the borders. president putin seems to be doing that. >> tucker: what is happening in ukraine whatever its scale, it's a tragedy because war always is a tragedy. the closer you get to tthe more horrifying it seems. it's the ugliest thing that men do. vladimir putin started this war. so he fired the first shot. he is to blame for what we are seeing in ukraine.