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Forces flooding the zone and putting a lot more forces up in the eastern nato countries. the u.s. has put significant forces on the ground as a political trip wire. so final question, will the ukrainians fight or not? to some extent they already are. the jury is out on whether this will be a serious resistance, yes or no. >> some embassies have been moved from kyiv to where you are. what are you seeing on the ground. talk about the safety of where you are right now? >> lviv was always the backup plan. it's unfortunately the backup plan for civilians who will be on the move in great numbers. it...

Demarishes, if you will, if he recognizes the independence of the russian speaking provinces of ukraine that that is a violation of the previous accords, all of the previous agreements, the so called minsk agreements, that's a trip wire, and belarus, the exercises did not end as they claimed they would, the forces are moving closer. so how are you seeing the situation on the ground? >> well, it's hard to read this. every element for an air, ground, sea attack on ukraine is in position, and from the highest levels, we're having secretary blinken and the president of the united states saying an ...

Emergency committee. not usual for them to meet this early but that gives you a sense of how quickly things are moving. first of all they will want to get a collective picture agreed about what they think is a chilly happening on the ground near where caroline is. then i think they will want to decide what the prime minister does today, what calls does it make to world leaders, downing street is not ruling out a maybe international travel later on. they will also look at domestic implications of all of this uncertainty for things like the energy industry and cyber security, but i think the mai...

Insulin, looting by russians and locals too desperate to get some kind of food in the collapse of the society there and also, a chilling video that's emerged backing up a statement by local officials showing trip wire mine laid on one of the roads there. they're unclear who laid it. they suggested it was russian troops but another sign of how dark it's frankly getting for residents there, as well too, further east on the other side of the crimean peninsula in the sea of ersov, appear to be encircled at this point and giving an equally chilling quote, the scum have found no other way to break u...

Our president must take the lead for the alliance to work. >> let's talk about the broader picture here. you talked to me about possibly broader ambitions for putin. if he occupies much of ukraine. i'll use the green here for that. he can use that possibly as a base to establish a land route to -- where they have a big naval presence. >> that's a trip wire. i don't think he'll want to do that. but there is a chance he wants to reestablish the former warsaw pact countries, lithuania, romania, bulgaria, hungary, et cetera. he want s all of that to be bac in the fold as we call it under russian c...