in march of 2014, russia annexed crimea, and out thomas peninsula in ukraine with strong russian loyalties. this was on the pretext that it was defending russian interests. moscow sees this growing support from nato in terms of weaponry, training, and personnel, as a threat to its own security. it has claimed that ukraine has boosted its own troop numbers. in the south bay, a woman faces charges in a crash that killed a passenger in her car. she was driving yesterday before midnight when her car left the road and hit a tree. the man inside the car did not survive. she was taken to the hospital. police say she will face vehicular manslaughter and dui charges. this is the 13th fatal traffic collision in san jose this year alone. cyclists came together in the south bay to remember one of their own. she died in a collision last sunday. she was taking part in a ride with a touring club from san jose. several riders joined the memorial ride. they set out in san jose this morning. the fatal collision remains under investigation. family and friends held a community vigil in san bruno today. he was

this is the kind of land link up to mainland ukraine from russian illegally held crimea, the peninsula they took in 2014. now this is the main town that you have to go through in order to move up north. yesterday, we arrived here and saw heavy fighting for the bridge that helps you get from the side where no russian forces have got to the river bank, to this side still held by ukrainian forces. it appeared yesterday that russian forces had indeed gotten over the bridge and crossed to this side. we heard gunfire on this side of the ridge. we heard a bit more small arms fire after dark last night. it's unclear whether russian forces have gone. reports are they may have head west or east. that's essentially odessa or the separatist areas depending on what direction they've taken. but overnight we've heard persistent low-flying jets here, three, four times, distant air strikes and another low-flying jet this morning. it's clear the fighting is still continuing to some degree for this vital river. it's important, as you know, because the dnieper river runs from the black sea through mainlan

. >> reporter: a key place on the way up from russian controlled crimea. the peninsula at the south of ukraine heading up towards the capital of kyiv. now there's always been a thought that the isolated peninsula was totally inconvenient for the russians to supply with goods, utilities, et cetera and they may have wanted as part of this maneuver to push out from crimea and possibly connect it to territories in the east and whatever wider scheme they have. that seems to be certainly occurring. this morning, we saw images of troops moving out from crimea essentially towards this city where i'm standing. we've been down to the key bridge that connects this city with, across the river, where we do know the russians have made significant gains, essentially up to the bridge. we think the fighting may have gone to our side of the river at this point but it is hard to tell, frankly, given the use of heavy weapons and hard to tell what's landing where. so as i say, it certainly is a tense situation and held by the ukrainian government. we did not see a particularly

un nÚmero mucho menor al que han caso putin en el 2014 cuando anexionÓ la penÍnsula de crimea y recibiÓ el apoyo del 89% de la sociedad rusa en ese entonces. hay menos apoyo y no tan abrumador como en 2014. patricia: sin embargo, un 53% es un porcentaje importante. gracias por el reporte. vamos ahora con la madre venezolana que perdiÓ a su bebÉ en un tiroteo contra la embarcaciÓn en la que viajaban con varios inmigrantes en trinidad y tobago. la madre fue dada de alta. darielis quedÓ malherida y detenida tras ese incidente. hablÓ en exclusiva con vilma sobre su dolor y los recuerdos de su pequeÑo hijo fallecido. vilma: en exclusiva acompaÑamos en el momento en el que fue dada de alta del hospital en trinidad y tobago. la policÍa la recogiÓ nuevamente. ¿cÓmo te sientes ? >> me siento mÁs o menos. vilma: la sacaron en silla de ruedas y se la llevaron a la misma estaciÓn de policÍa donde colapsÓ el viernes pasado ando intentaron interrogarla aÚn convaleciente. esta vez no hubo interrogatorio. la acompaÑamos cuando saliÓ de la estaciÓn de policÍadonde fue dejada en liber

the peninsula. and ukraine has always been very clear that the only way for us to take this territories back is diplomacy. is political solution. we will use weapons only to defend ourselves from potential military aggression by russia. >> bret: what makes you say it was never about nato membership for russia? you said that today? putin always talks about the threat of ukraine being a member of nato. are you convinced that that's not driving some of this action? >> no. it's an excuse that he found to legitimize his view, his narrative on the ukraine. you see, it's dangerous for president putin, who runs regime to have a successful democratic country next to him. and ukraine because if the russians see that democracy is possible in ukraine that market economy without corruption can work in ukraine, then why shouldn't it work in russia? and this is the fear that he has. and this is in the last 8 years ukraine has made a lot of success in the reforming itself. in aligning with europe. in trade. and int

, the peninsula that vladimi putin invaded and stole from ukraine in 2014. there are also new militar deployments on ukraine's eastern front. you can see all the housin that's been set up for the truth. and there is new and significant activity just 14 miles north of ukraine's border, at an airfield in belarus. the ex soviet republic is close russian ally proxy state. it's within close striking distance with in kyiv, ukraine's capital city russia has been pouring troops fighter jets, heavy artiller and missile systems into tha country. the kremlin claims it's fo only joint military exercises, which are underway right now new video also shows russian amphibious landing warships in the black sea, not far fro ukraine's shores the u.s. deputy secretary of state says the timing of russia's recent military moves is both suspicious and alarming she says the u.s. is ver concerned that the russian president, vladimir putin, might make the wrong choic after all. this is what a full scale mult front russian invasion o ukraine might look like. according to u.s. military

, a peninsula that russians believed should be part of the country. ukraine, most would accept as an independent country. putin is taking a domestic political risk at home. that's why he has to gin up that we have to do this in defense of russians. he needs some narrative to sell his people about why to take that risk. i think the whole thing is complicated, too, though, by the fact that look, the united states has a commitment to go to war to defend any nato member who's attacked and that would include poland, lithuania, latvia and estonia. one of the reasons it's hard to envision ukraine coming into nato in the near future is we have to be honest about whether or not americans would send american troops to go to war against russia for ukraine, and so ukraine is stuck in this kind of gray space where russia cares about it a lot, we care about it a lot, but the question is who's going to fight and it looks like it's going to be a ukraine fighting against a much stronger russian army albeit with this economic support, weapons coming from nato, but not

crimea que fue anexada a rusia en unconflictivo y problemático referéndum. ... donetsk y lugar en que estas semanas fueron declaradas como independientes por putin. durante años esta región se ha visto inmersa en conflictos entre su soldados ucranianos y ciudadanos separatistas que han sido apoyadas por el kremlin. la situación se fue agravando hasta llegar a donde estamos ahora. al inicio del año pasado rusia aumentó el número de tropas con sus fronteras con ucrania y esto hizo que el presidente de ucrania pidiera asistencia a la otan que una alianza militar de países de europa y estados unidos. ese es el principal problema que tiene rusia. el conflicto se recrudece en noviembre y diciembre enmoscú cuando se despliegan más tropas a la frontera. biden le dice que no tiene que invadir a ucrania y el presidente ruso que tiene hartas condiciones y la principal es que occidente garantice que ucrania nunca será parte de la otan. en las últimas semanas esfuerzos diplomáticos trataron de evitar esta invasión rusia pero rusia siempre pidió que ucrania no f

in 2014 when putin invaded the crimea peninsula and eastern ukraine, president obama put sanctions on russia. now, i wasn't here as a senator then, but i supported that. russia then retaliated in terms of sanctions in 2014. and here's one of the things they did. they banned all seafood exports from america, whether it's alaska, massachusetts, into russia. so that was about nine years ago, mr. president. that ban still exists today. let me repeat this. if you're a big fisherman in massachusetts or the great state of alaska, as the senator from massachusetts knows, we both have thousands of great fishermen, you cannot export one fish to russia. nine years of a ban. and guess what? the united states let's russia seafood into america almost duty free. let me repeat that. a ban on russian exports -- i'm sorry. american exports to russia, nine-year blockade. not one massachusetts fisherman or alaska fisherman can export his great american seafood product to russia. russia gets to import russian seafood into america duty free. that is called unfair by any measure, by any measure. and it's ce

u. rushes armed forces responded by annex in the crimea in peninsula and backing the separate rebellion in eastern ukraine. russian and bella, russian forces have been exercising close to the ukrainian border. i want to bring in publish lincoln. he's a visiting fellow at european council on foreign relations and he's also a farmer brothers diplomat. he's joining us from the very in ukraine. good to happy with us or on algebra. i'm going to talk about these russian troops that are coming out drills in bell. it was how likely is it? do you think that after 10 days of drills they're going to go home? the highly likely there were a lot of previous military drills with this to confess, even on the touch of melodies, they are regular. those one that we're talking about there you go, your regular and creation, but on the board, much higher. they have increase, but feel i don't see any goods perspective are russia to just keep them in balance. i would say that this would be seen as a part of an aggression against independence, even though the battery is not independently ready in the past presi

russia annexed the peninsula of crimea and a few weeks later, pro-russian rebels seized these regions. vladimir putin argues crimea was rightfully part of russia and now is acknowledging the independence of donetsk and luhansk. pro-russian rebels sees these areas and have been controlled by them ever since. they have also hosted fighting beeen those rebels and ukrainian government forces. 14,000 people have died in the conflict. there have been attempts at a cease-fire. but was signed into be 14, second and 2015. they were negotiated by putin and european and u.s. leaders, but they have never been fully implemented by either side. the uss president putin has effectively nulled the agreement. >> president putin has borne the minsk agreement to shreds. we have been clear we do not believe he will stop at that. ros: one of the key things here is president putin says these regions in eastern ukraine are aligned with russia and disputes ukraine's existence as a modern state. he said modern ukraine was entirely created by russia, a result of russia's calmest revolution in 1917. this echoes

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canal to the crimean peninsula. it was built by ukraine in 2014. for specifically that purpose after crimea had a referendum to join the russian federation, and the ministry defense has said that soon i, full of water supplies will be restored to crimea, because since 2014, since the construction of this damn there have been severe. water shortage, is there another thing we have to pay attention to is the fact that other chernobyl area where the of course, the new chernobyl nuclear disaster happened in the 1980s that has come under russian control, came under kent russian control 2 days ago. and since that happened, the ukrainian forces who were stationed there have agreed to jointly defend the area with russian forces. now that means that staff are still working on site their radiation levels are at a normal level and there hasn't been any fighting around there. so those are basically the main takeaways from the updates, from the action that's happening quite close to the russian border. well, thank you for those u

was not ready when russia put its little green men in crimea and annex the peninsula. so president biden doesn't want to get caught off guard. he's done a great job of telling everyone about the threats, and he's basing it off of our intelligence assessments. the ukrainians disagree, but they, i'm just back from kia peter and that the ukrainians are upset. that biden is making so much noise. they don't disagree with the actual intelligence assessment. they disagree with the interpretation of it. and i think that's a thread this worth pulling on. it's possible that vladimir putin is going to sit at the border. he's at the north, the east in the south border of ukraine, and just continued to menace ukraine. it will drive ukraine's economy into the ground. that could be his play. he doesn't want sanctions. i so he can probably get what he wants, by sitting on that border and just being a royal minutes. the police are clear, the remaining protest is an vehicles from a bridge on the canadian border with the united states. for that crossing is not yet open to tropic mass was

was not ready when russia put its little green men in crimea and annex the peninsula to president biden. doesn't want to get caught off guard. he's done a great job of telling everyone about the threats, and he's basing it off of our intelligence assessments. the ukrainians disagree, but they, i am just back from here theater and that the ukrainians are upset. the biden is making so much noise. they don't disagree with the actual intelligence assessment. they disagree with the interpretation of it. and i think that's a thread this we're pulling on. it's possible that vladimir putin is going to sit at the border. he's at the north, the east in the south border of ukraine, and just continued to menace ukraine. it will drive ukraine's economy into the ground. that could be his play. he doesn't want sanctions. i so he can probably get what he wants, by sitting on that border and just being a royal minutes. what will we get to think out of the 2 key note visits in the next 48 hours from the relatively new german chancellor. mister schultz. he has been roundly criticized around the diplomatic

and of course, in the south here we have crimea. crimea is the ukrainian peninsula that russia in 2014 illegally annexed. there's been a naval base there for quite a long time in russia's, using that as a point to go into points further south. now what exactly is happening in these areas? let's have a quick look. first of all, of course, the all eyes are on key if the capital of ukraine, the big prize for russia they're moving in from the north. we can see from the map how close key of is to beller is, is not a long drive for russian forces to get there. we've been hearing that there's fighting, at least in the northern part of the city, possibly moving into the city right now. and the defense ministry, the ukrainian defense ministry, has said that they want civilians there to stay indoors and prepare molotov cocktails for possibly fighting and fighting those russian forces as they come in. if the ukrainian military is not strong enough to do it on their own. now of course, then we have the east, this is where most ukrainian forces are because they've been fighting this insurgency, thi

was not ready when russia put its little green men in crimea and annex the peninsula. so president biden doesn't want to get caught off guard. he's done a great job of telling everyone about the threats, and he's basing it off of our intelligence assessments. the ukrainians disagree, but they, i'm just back from kia peter and the, the ukrainians are upset that biden is making so much noise. they don't disagree with the actual intelligence assessment. they disagree with the interpretation of it. and i think that's a thread this worth holding on. it's possible that vladimir putin is going to sit at the border. he's at the north, the east in the south border of ukraine, and just continued to menace ukraine. it will drive ukraine's economy into the ground. that could be his play. he doesn't want sanctions. i so he can probably get what he wants, by sitting on that border and just being a royal minutes. then all integrating people are trying to get on with their lives, but talk of war is never far away. natasha butler's falling developments from give there is a lot of unpre

, and canal to the crimean peninsula. it's been actually a source of severe water shortages in crimea since the ukrainians built it in 2014 . but the russian defense ministry says that a full supply should be restored soon. now, as for the chernobyl exclusion zone, it was taken by the russian forces just 2 days ago. and the ukrainian forces that were there actually afterwards agreed to jointly defend the area with russian forces. and because of that, staff are still working there. radiation levels there are normal and there is basically no fighting going on there actually no fighting at all. so those are really the main updates from the war a closer to russia's border. well, dawn, thank you very much for those of day, thus ortiz, donald culture reporting from southern was to thank you. that's all for this. all. my name is peter scott, and i'll be back with all the latest developments on the situation in ukraine in around 30 minutes. oh, ah, he lied to soviet republic for you. trained today, declared insulin dependent with

, and canal to the crimean peninsula. this has been a source of severe water shortages in crimea since the ukrainians built it back in 20. 14 and russia's ministry of defense now says that water supply should be soon fully restored to normal. now, in the tor noble exclusion area that was taken by russian forces 2 days ago and after it was taken, the ukrainian military, that was station there actually agreed to continue to defend the area with russian forces. and because of that, staff are still working. there are radiation levels are still at a normal levels and there hasn't been any fighting around there. so those are basically the main updates from today's, from, from today's events in the war near russia's border or dawn. thank you for bringing those, those developments, the thoughts ease donald culture reporting from southern ocean talking about thank you. and out to the latest news from ukraine's capital. this video, which we can't yet verify appears to show cross fire taking place. just columbus is from the hearts o

crimea is a distant peninsula and easy geographic area for russia to move into but crimea is majority ethnic russians and many russians did believe crimea should be part of russia. there weren't body bags coming home. ukraine is a large country of 44 million people with a distinct national identity and russians know that. despite the propaganda fed to the russian people on broadcasting channels, there is social media in russia. many ukrainians are using telegram, the russian created social media app to communicate directly to russians and send videos not playing on russian television saying this is what you're doing to our people and the ukraiians including president zelenskyy are saying get on the streets and stop the war. i don't think this is necessarily going to stop the war. i don't think this will stop vladimir putin in the short term but it does suggestion underneath the surface of vladimir putin's kind of total control under russian decision making, the russian public uneasy what he's done and pockets of opposition what he's done in moscow and st. petersburg and watch over tim

it runs from crimea, a southern peninsula down in southern ukraine, which is being controlled by the russians since 2014. the bridge goes over the river and then heads up towards kyiv. as we've seen, we think in the last 24 hours russian convoys heading both east and west from that particular point. so this is obviously a key route for russian forces moving into the country. there appears to be some resistance into the country and applying some focus here. the bigger issue for people in this town, anderson, who have heard rockets landing on the outskirts, there were two substantial blasts near the center recently. they heard air raid sirens going off. the question is, does a russian convoy simply pass by the town of cher and no head towards kyiv? or as they're worried about, are they going to wake up tomorrow in a matter of hours, two or three hours, to russian troops walking in the streets? the russian government claiming this is now part of russia and a whole new way of life. i mean, localized locals we have spoken to are terrified are seeing masked men with guns, not clear what's

of crimea. this is totally illegal, from the point of international law. and also there is the regional war that is still going on in the ukrainian territory so ukrainians are not new to the situation of uncertainty and pressure and direct danger, direct threat. this war is fought between the ukrainian army on the one hand and the russian—backed separatist forces on the other hand. russia supports its proxies, so they are proxies in eastern ukraine, by weapons, by money, by officers, by professionals in the military field. so, you are saying that ukrainians recognise this is a dangerous moment but they are used to this kind of tension and the sense i'm getting from you is that they are feeling that they must sit tight and in the meantime life carries on as normal, is that about the size of it? yes, that is also pretty true. what i observe and what i hear from my friends and family is that on the other hand people really are getting on with their everyday lifestyles and it is also part of, you

it is one thing to have the crimea peninsula taken and another to fight for your home. this isn't 2014, this is different situation, they have help from nato states and other people contributed with other countrys with weapons and resolve is different than 2014, russian promised, ukrainians promise will not have an easy time taking over the country. >> peter: right tchlts does look like a normal day, our report is lviv has seen air strikes, so far vladamir putin has targeted it appears critical infrastructure and military targets, military installations for civilians for now, they feel like they r out of the cross hairs? >> you know, you hear reports so far of civilian injuries. there was report of a child injured down to the south of the country and it is impossible to confirm the information that comes at you so fast and furious right now. reports we have are in the dozens at this point, this is fresh and all needs to be confirmed and we see usually with start of a war, numbers will change rather rapidly. thus far it seems like everything is strategic target thus far,

of crimea. this is totally illegal, from the point of international law. and also there is the regional war that is still going on in the ukraine's territory so ukrainians are not new to the situation of uncertainty and pressure and direct danger, direct threat. this war is fought between the ukrainian army on the one hand and the russian—backed separatist forces on the other hand. russia supports its proxies, so they are proxies in eastern ukraine, by weapons, by money, by officers, professionals in the military field. so, you are saying that ukrainians recognise this is a dangerous moment but they are used to this kind of tension and the sense i'm getting from you is that they are feeling that they must sit tight and in the meantime life carries on as normal, is that about the size of it? yes, that is also pretty true. what i observe and what i hear from my friends and family is that on the other hand people really are getting on with their everyday lifestyles and it is also part of, you kno

peninsula, and also in the east, perhaps enveloping the bulk of ukraine's forces which are currently deployed in the southeast along the line of control opposite the donbass, the separatist territory. you're anything to see a fairly sizable russian incursion potentially across the eastern regions of ukraine looking to develop or cut off a large number of the ukrainian military that's basedhere. >> now, senior u.s. officials who i talked to ar as concerned as they are, given the things that you're describing and the capacities of russia that are on the border. but they do say that vladimir putin has not made a final decision yet. and certainly, the u.s., the west, in what they say is the united way, are trying to come up with a russian off ramp. but those things that the west are offering russia are far from what russia's core demands are. so do you see any possible diplomatic off ramp in this moment? >> i mean, i've slightly been pessimistic all along, and i've seen the likelihood for diplomacy to succeed is not very good, fairly slim. of course i agree, we don't know whether putin h

of crimea. this is totally illegal, from the point of international law. and also there is a regional war going on in the ukrainian territory is so ukrainians are not new to the situation of uncertainty and pressure and direct danger, direct rate. this war is fought between the ukrainian army on the one hand and the russian backed separatist forces on the other hand. russia supports its proxies, so they are proxies in eastern ukrainian, buy weapons, by money, buy offices, by professionals in the military field. i. by professionals in the military field. ., ., field. so, you are saying that ukrainians _ field. so, you are saying that ukrainians recognise - field. so, you are saying that ukrainians recognise this - field. so, you are saying that ukrainians recognise this is l field. so, you are saying that ukrainians recognise this is a dangerous moment but they are used to this kind of tension and the sense i am getting from you is that they are feeling that they must sit tight and in the meantim

peninsula, and also in the east, perhaps enveloping the bulk of ukraine's forces, which are currently deployed in the southeast along the line of control opposite the donbass, that is, the occupied separatist territory. so you're likely going to see a fairly sizable russia incursion, potentially, across the eastern regions of ukraine, looking to envelop or cut off a large number of the ukrainian military that is based there. nick: now, senior u.s. officials who i talk to are as concerned as they are, given the things that you're describing, and the capacities of russia that are on the border, but they do say that vladimir putin has not made a final decision yet. and, certainly, the u.s., the west, in what they say is a united way are trying to come up with a russian off-ramp. but those things that the west are offering russia are far from what russia's core demands are. so do you see any possible diplomatic off-ramp in this moment? michael: i he sadly been pessimistic all along looking some months out at this. and i have seen the likelihood for diplomacy to succeed is not very good, f

the occupation of ukrainian peninsula of crimea. and we also discussed in european and saw your integration all operations of ukraine who are with, which are fully supported by an estonia, so on our way to the e. u and a few future way to night. and you create needs make decisions. we also discussed such as different steps on the accusation of mutual on the corporation in vestments and the trades of directions. and i'm sure the price of you sonya will discuss things talking to that ukrainian prime is the schmiel. we o b o c, a happy to see if sonya business in ukraine were interested in the increments. and i invite id sonya, investors of take a more active thought in the infrastructure and jesse cool and the i t, a sector development i teach actually in ukraine a separately with spoke about that a inviting in sonya investors to the ukrainian of different foundations regarding the i t, we also discussed at cyber security will to have time t alva, affective directions for our corporations ukrainian, estonia. they have full desire to t

canal to the crimean peninsula. since it was built back in 2014, since then, it's caused a lot of water shortages for the peninsula, but the russian armed forces now say that water supply should be written fully restored. as soon now, as for the 2 noble exclusions own, it was taken by russian forces back 2 days ago. and after that happened, the ukrainian military, that was there also defending it. they agreed to jointly continue to defend the area with russian forces. and because of that friendship, that the joint defense of this area actually staff were still working there on normally the radiation levels. there are a fine and there isn't any fighting going on there now. asked for the reasons they're asked for the regions in which there is fighting going on, be russian defense ministry has said that neo fascist arms grew armed groups are taking tactics from the syrian terrorist playbook. they're using so called ben dera, cars and the fighting. let's take a listen muslim physically but the you are on the, the nation

as you know, since crimea peninsula was taken over it, became a base for russian military. the ukrainian forces knew that they had to stop that russian army from coming north into the country at least slow it and bridge that connected the crimean peninsula to the mainland. the russian forces blew that up. but short of time. one of the ukrainian soldiers, whose name is vitaly morovich knew there wasn't enough time to. he sacrificed his own life. really for the purpose of just slowing the russian advancement. he is being hailed as a hero today. back here in lviv, there is evidence that the mayor of lviv here suspects infiltrators and that is evidence with a couple of things. now established checkpoints around the city in which i.d. has to be shown and people will be questioned. also, in a message to the population here, as he was establishing martial law, he sent out a warning that people need to be on the lookout for suspicious or unusual markings that show up on buildings. if they see them, they are to paint them over or destroy them. a clear indication that he thinks peopl

of crimea. he's got options north, center and south. >> the latest satellite images, general, they show new deployments, talking about new russian deployments within ten miles of ukraine's border, just 50 miles or so from the ukrainian city of kharkiv. the u.s. warning raced specific concerns about that specific city. what does that tell you about how russia may move in? >> kharkiv is the largest city closest to the border. so it's about 1.4 million people. i think that if he chooses a massive multifront approach, kharkiv will be one of the early objectives. so that's a point to watch. >> general lute, we'll watch it all very closely and stay in touch with you. thanks so much for joining us. >>> just ahead, donald trump's revealing response to the ukraine crisis. he's staying true to form and actually praising vladimir putin. eds. even with repeated combing hair treated with dove shows 97% less breakage. strong hair with new dove breakage remedy. nunumber one beauty brand not tested on animals.

of crimea, there was some mvb's landing fo eight we don't know if that happened. but my question to you is they seem to have this area surrounded. it seems to be going perfectly on plan save for a couple of blunders possibly at the airpor outside of ukraine. this seems to be going accordin to hoyle. your thoughts? >> i don't even think you need the amphibious forces at this point. this is a very diabolical and complex campaign. it's the biggest type of campaign that russia has ever tried to pull off. what they want now is to be abl to link all these pieces together taking out command and control and now the ground forces moving to their territor objectives in the terrain, they are supposed to taken hold. it is really complicated and although russia has done big word games, they've never done it for real. they've got some experience in syria, but this is not quite th same. i think they have a pretty complex piece coming together. it's clear that putin wants to make this a rapid strike like the u.s. strike against baghdad back in 2003. he's got to achieve a couple o

and of course, in the south here we have crimea. crimea is the ukrainian peninsula that russia in 2014 illegally annexed. there's been a naval base there for quite a long time in russia's, using that as a point to go into points further south. now what exactly is happening in these areas? let's have a quick look. first of all, of course, the all eyes are on key of the capital of ukraine. the big prize for russia they're moving in from the north. we can see from the map how close key of is to beller is, is not a long drive for russian forces to get there. we've been hearing that there's fighting, at least in the northern part of the city, possibly moving into the city right now. and the defense ministry, the ukrainian defense ministry, has said that they want civilians there to stay indoors and prepare molotov cocktails for possibly fighting and fighting those russian forces as they come in. if the ukrainian military is not strong enough to do it on their own. now of course, then we have the east, this is where most ukrainian forces are because they've been fighting this insurgency, thi

eight years ago, in 2014, was when russia waltzed into ukraine and just took over the peninsula of crimea without firing a shot. fred, i want to read you part of this rousing statement that we heard from ukraine's foreign minister earlier today. he said everyone who has looked into the eyes of our soldiers at least once is sure that there will be no repeat of 2014. do not doubt that the armed forces of ukraine are absolutely ready to fight back and will not give up ukrainian lands. in terms of the population, fred, we've been driving across this country in the center of ukraine and eastern ukraine over the course of the past few days. you don't see any military bui buildup, signs of panic, people going out and buying all they can at the grocery store to stock up. there really is calm. this is the weekend. people are out and about in these cities. i've spoke on the ukrainians who said they're not worried, they're not thinking about it. someone said to me this is not something that i'm thinking about or that i'm worried about. so, fred, for now, that message of calm is being received. that'

of the crimea tatters. since 2014, more than 64000 ukranian citizens have had to leave crimea and moved to mainland ukraine due to fear persecution for political and human rights. activism, discrimination on ethnic and religious grounds. political persecutions continue unabated among many others. mister and not modul. alice david, head of the mentally of the crime me and thought there are people participant of the international crimea platform, summit remains behind bars. he's one of the, of this one more than 100 political prisoners of the kremlin. on february 16 at court and seem federal sentence, jordan was a lot of love us had been go on trumped up charges to 6 years in prison. he's one of 14 ukrainian journalists kept by russians in prism. russia may continue to pretend it doesn't violate an international norms and principles, yet reports by the un security secretary general office of the high commissioner for human rights, or see their missions as well as the report of the international criminal court

built this dam to cut off water supplies from the north, crimea, and canal to the crimean peninsula. it's been the source of many severe water shortages throughout these 8 years since then. but now the ministry of defense is saying that water supply should be restored to normal any day. now, very soon on the other. and we've also got more news from the chernobyl exclusion zone that was taken by russian forces just 2 days ago after which ukrainian forces that were stationed there, agreed to jointly defend the area with russia. so that's me. that means basically that staff are continuing to work, their radiation levels have remained at normal levels and, and this is just a good thing. i mean, this, this means that there hasn't been really any fighting there at all, and everything's okay around the chernobyl station. there will dawn. thank you very much for those old days. i hope you keep us up to date with the latest information . awesome. when you get to the se, dakota reporting from saga rog, insulin was to thank you now moving to the newly recognized dom bus republics where intense

and in 2014 we saw russia occupied crimea, and take that peninsula. now we're seeing when we come to eastern ukraine, declare the independence of these regions and potentially they may annex them as well. so, it's anybody's guess what russia is going to do five years from. now if there's not a strong forceful reaction that actually does serious damage, that deters future action from russia, we should just expect this whole place to replay itself down the line. >> it's proving to be a winning strategy, being able to do this with impunity. i wonder for the punitive part of this. sanctions, the white house has talked about this a second ago. it's holding on to this larger package of sanctions if and when putin takes more aggressive action. does that do anything to putin? he's already spoken explicitly, he's expecting them, he know that they're countering attacks to the west. does this have any kind of cooling effect on what he's planning in the next couple weeks, or months, or whatever the timetable is? >> well the white house's is playing its part is pr

essentially it's the route up from the long russian-occupied peninsula of crimea. we've seen since this morning's invasion began those armored columns moving north. they moved north through here very fast actually. there's an ambulance just rushing in the dark around behind me here. those air strikes seemed to drop -- those aircraft seemed to drop bombs. we heard some thuds in the distance after they have flown low over this town which is trying to enforce a blackout. it's sort of startling to go around a town looking for the hostels that we understand have taken in injured and they have closed their outer doors so they can't be spotted from above. quite a chilling scene here. as we came into the town it seemed that the russian forces that were initially south of the river that this town sits on were fighting hard for a key bridge across it, but they had in fact crossed over north to the side where we're standing here. there were clashes certainly on this side here and the discussion is they were for a period on the outskirts of this town. quite what their next mov

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first they annexed crimea, say it peninsula on the black sea, weeks later pro—russia rebels seize ed two regions in eastern ukraine, russia already divided ukrainian politics, now putin was divided the country itself but the turn towards the west that frustrated him then remains now, one recent poll shows 68% of ukrainians in favour of joining the eu. putin sees russians and ukrainians as one people, a single hole. he says ukraine is ancient russian soil. that perception may explain this invasion, but perhaps there is something else too. because the �*90s border surge of democratic optimism to ukraine's current president, this invasion is showing us what putin thinks of that. translation: , ., ., ., translation: putin started a war auainst translation: putin started a war against ukraine, _ translation: putin started a war against ukraine, against _ translation: putin started a war against ukraine, against the i against ukraine, against the democratic world. he wants to destroy my country, he wants to destroy my country, he wants to destroy our country. everything we have built. .,