what s the latest on the ground? reporter: there s been so much focus because there s long been speculation putin would want to attack crimea. there has been these two russian-backed breakaway enclaves in the eastern part of ukraine that have been out of the reach of kyiv also for the past eight years. there has been a real spike in some troubling activity over the course of the past few days. here in the east we have seen an increase in the cease-fire violations along what s known as the line of contact, which is just about 15 miles, 25 kilometers behind me, where ukrainian fighters are facing off the russian-backed fighters. some of the biggest number of incidents in the past four years. wlerned today there were some 40 cease-fire operations and one ukrainian service member was killed when he was hit by
warned about, this concern over potential operations and false flag attacks that russia could create and russian supporters could create in order to justify an invasion. so the russians are now saying some 10,000 people have fled e eastward into russia. there is a significant level of concern we re seeing in the east, the cease-fire operations combined with these accusations of disinformation and false flag attacks coming from the east could provide president putin with that pretext to invade ukraine. amara, boris? important to point out as alex did, the difference in the choreography we re seeing on russian state media and what s actually unfolding on the ground at the border between ukraine and russia. in the meantime president biden is getting updates on the situation in ukraine.