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Weapons into belarus. what would that mean? >> well, both of those, the first that he mentioned nuclear weapons in that speech, that was scary to me. that felt very unhinged to me, and i've been falling putin for a long time. i met him in 1991, i followed his career. for five years i, worked in the obama administration, i used to deal with him. he seems a lot more disconnected from reality than ever before and, that scares me. especially when he starts talking about nuclear weapons. with respect to belarus, i don't know exactly what he means about that. but i think the other thing you're seen ...

About the passportization, another person who did that, musellini. what is driving putin here is this desire for safety, this desire to revive a version of the soviet empire, so that leads him to do this imperialist things. the other thing that is interesting here, putin's other big play is to make other countries implode from within, enemy countries, just like happened to the soviet union. recognizing the independence of these republics inside ukraine creates not only a staging ground to be very easily have

Long military convoy of russia stationed around 20 miles north—west of the capital. these images show that it of the capital. these images show thatitis of the capital. these images show that it is 60 kilometres long, that's a0 miles. it could be used as a staging ground for an attack on the capital. a similar tactic could be used in ukraine's second city of kharkiv where around 1.5 million people live. i need to warn you we are about to show you some very distressing images of an explosion in kharkiv. these pictures have been verified by the bbc and they show a massive explosion on a govern...

Earlier today, there were also air sirens going off, these raid sirens basically warning the ukrainian people they need to go underground because there could be a russian air offensive at that time, but tonight, there is some significant fighting around the ukrainian capital as reports indicate, and president zelenskyy of ukraine himself said this could be the major push into this capital city. it is not just here in kyiv that we are seeing this fighting, though, across ukraine, i want to show you some video here of a fire earlier today in a ukrainian city where a security service building was...

Provide a provocation. what is your read? >> my view and analysis of the situation has been like we have discussed before that don bass the parts of the occupied eastern part of ukraine is the staging ground for a new military invasion. what is important to understand is russia was always denying there were troops in don bass. it was arming directing the militant information that it created there. and in this russian play book for the occupation is very simple. they grab pieces of land and call them the peace keepers to keep the pieces of land. they issue passports to the civilians. and stage ...