russia's and took credit for partnering with german to hope for the moment stall nord strea. and to formally invade two separatist regions of ukraine long under the control of so-called kremlin proxies. >> who in the lord's name does putin think gives him a right to declare new so-called countries? to put it simply, russia is carving out a big chunk of ukraine. this is a flagrant violation of international law and demands a firm response of international community. >> now for his part, mr. b's hit the mike putin said there's a few things if you want to de-escalate these things, recogs sovereignty over crimea and hope to join nato and while you are added, partly demilitarized. good luck with that. meanwhile the pentagon will deploy u.s. forces to the baltic