justified on the basis of threats that haven t been made and aren t being carried out. there is no evidence, for example, that churches in eastern ukraine are being or will be attacked. the allegation is without basis. there is no evidence that ethnic russians are in danger. on the contrary, the new ukrainian government has placed a priority. president no one has to explain the need for recent communications, not only with leaders of the ethnic minority in the crimea or elsewhere but also with its neighbors. that s why the former defense went to diffuse the situation. a second emissary was prevented from entering the crimea and it s why reporters have reached
i think putin is determined to do something about the ukraine. he will hold on to crimea no matter what the international pressure is. there a couple of things he is after. one, he is extremely scared that a totally independent ukraine would join nato, but more importantly that he intends to protect russian citizens. it s a clear doctrine with them. if russians should end up dying, he will move troops in further. but the argument being made by putin and by russians who support him, russian speaking people in crimea were under attack and in danger for their lives. there is not evidence of that. anderson, there is no evidence of it. i spent a couple of years with the russian military and watched
that s right. initially this report first came from russian media and said that putin, the russian military forces in crimea set a 5:00 a.m. deadline to put down weapons, otherwise they would place a form of russian military force. when we spoke to the officials, they confirmed that and told a detailed story where by the russian commander of the fleet, they boarded a ukrainian vessel that is blockaded in the harbor and gave the personnel three options to swear allege yens. they said there is no ultimatum and there never was. it didn t happen. the military official said that deadlines have been a regular feature of their dealings with russian military forces ever since they started moving
media. conflicting information on the ground coming out of crimea and adding to the tension here. we now got the report that president putin according to his official facebook page had a conversation with the president of kazakhstan and no real news, just repeating the russian that putin s public statements that the lives and the well being and russian speaking people in crimea and eastern ukraine are under threat and that is why russia has acted as they had. it certainly rocked economic markets around the world and just a stock market and the united states. particularly russian economic markets. for that i want to go to our global economics analyst. how bad were they in moscow and russia hit as well as the united
is a cnn military analyst. we hear these conflicting reports about whether the russian military or the black sea naval commander has said look, you need to surrender here in crimea to ukrainian forces. do you read this as a sign of confusion or perhaps reading this as a sign of calculation? like most military operations, there is a lot of confusion on the ground. this chapter on the ground.n - they virtually control everything they needed in crimea. i hope they are not going to ratchet up the situation by starting the conflict. that would be number one unnecessary because they have what they want. number two, it would lead to senseless loss of life and possibly escalate the situation. so whose move is it now. talk specifically about the u.s. when it comes to president obama?