we know about the hospital in the city of mariupol, the maternity hospital. there have been blood lines and many other civilian targets that have been hit. we also addressed during that press conference the issue of finland and sweden now being on a fast track to joining nato. he says that russia does not have a problem with this. although, he did attack nato s quote imperial ambitions, saying that the west is trying to impose plenty and saying that the west does not have a real vested interest in ukraine s well-being, but is only engaged with this issue as a conflict in ukraine because it s seeking to further its own interests. he did, however, add one caveat on the subject of not caring about finland and sweden joining nato. he said that if nato moves any weaponry or military installations to either of those countries and they have a war 800 mile long with finland, that
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two otherwise intertwined nations. there s a lot of business that goes back and forth between ukraine and russia, a lot of blood lines, travel that goes back and forth. manufactured hostilities, really, by russia over the course of a decade. this would be the second invasion we should note of ukraine by russia going back to the invasion of crimea in 2014 but one, if russia follows through on all the military capability it s put around this border here that would be potentially much bloodier. it s a sad moment if what u.s. intelligence shows and u.s. officials are warning about comes to be, a sad moment for europe and for the world. it could happen in the next few hours. we re watching it very closely. everybody stand by. there s more breaking news we re following. cnn, as you know, is on the ground near the front line on the russia/ukraine conflict where residents are facing escalating shelling right now and fear of an imminent full-scale invasion.