CNN CNN Newsroom With Pamela Brown February 13, 2022 00:29:00
Putin? why do you think that is? >> i think that he has a number of motives. he's stated for a long time that he want ukraine to be neutral, not to be in nato, not to be on the side of the west. i think he feels like he was holding out a certain amount of hope, perhaps for the biden administration that that could be achieved through persuasion. that didn't work over the summer. so he's put this massive military build-up on the border of ukraine, and i think that he's close to making the decision that only through force can he achieve his truest objective. >> is the 2022 version of vladimir put...