griff: good morning, carley and todd, things are rapidly moving now. last night emergency meeting of the un security council, u.s. ambassador linda thomas greenfield denouncing putin s actions. he calls them peacekeepers, this is nonsense, we know what they are, an attack on ukraine s status as un member state. it violates basic principle of international law and defys our charter. griff: across the atlantic u.s. allies echoing greenfield s condemnation. russia is recognizing breakaway republic again and this is in breach of international law, sovereignty and integrity of ukraine. griff: this as president
the whole world that they can be beat. he s proven it today. last hour you are with me, general kellogg, and we were talking about the southern border. one of the things bill hemmer pointed out is that if the russians could take one part of that country in the southern side heat they can connect the breakaway republic, which gives them more of a wall and the base. you know reports their soldiers being hungry, you have to have access that s what belarus has been for them. it s an access to supplies. it seems like belarus is really the only winner here. they are up a puppet state of russia, they are now the go-between the propaganda arm and russia is using them as a mediator. but really they are truly an extension of the crime then. and also not to be trusted. but it s interesting, because if somehow this all works out and vladimir putin does in fact have
been targets over these many, many years, many of them coming from russia or, certainly, russian sympathizers. the fear is that the russians are going to sort of up the cyber ante going after not only financial institutions in and around the nato sphere, so to speak, in europe, but well beyond that. they do have a history of that. remember that vladimir putin waged a cyber attack on estonia back in 2007, a breakaway republic, is now, of course, a nato member. would that be, if until be triggered again, article v of this agreement that nato has that an attack on one would be an attack on all and would a cyber attack represent such an attack. chad wolfe, the former chad wolf, the former acting director of homeland security, kind enough to join us now. what do you think of that and what the russians might be planning next and how we might want to counter? well, what we know is the
jim, and those breakaway republic, pro-russian separatist areas. russians said today the ukrainian military fired a shell that destroyed a russian border crossing guard post. that s actually inside russian territory in a place called rustov, the ukrainians categorically denying this and the russian military said they have been engaged in clashes with five ukrainian saboteurs who tried to cross the border. there was some kind of a clash. all five of them, they said, were killed and they also said ukrainian military vehicles came in to try to rescue the so-called saboteurs, and we saw a really fiery response from ukraine s foreign minister, demetrio, saying there was no attack on the breakaway republics and finishing it with, i demand the russian federation stop the fake factory but this
ukraine. take back a listen. we all agree on what needs to be done. we are not going to impose a no fly zone. however, we are prepared, 100%, to make sure that ukraine has the planes that it needs. and as ministers of latchkey pointed, out tara, this is a concern about europe. and this is a concern now about moldova being the next country that russia puts in its sights. he pointed out the breakaway republic that already has russian troops on the ground. talk about that big picture concern, if you well, and how that fits into the decision-making of the united states. i think the with the defense department last week. there s two concerns right now. the stability of putin s health, and whether he would seek a nuclear option. and secondly, what is true intentions are.