Who captured the dramatic story live inside the crisis. Im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. Tensions on both sides of this crisis only worsening this hour. Members of the media now the latest targets of the growing backlash. This is dramatic Surveillance Video of a bulgarian journalist in crimea being wrestled to the ground and assaulted by unidentified masked men who put a gun to his head. At least two ukrainian channels have now also been shut down. Here are some more latebreaking developments. The Russian Foreign minister sergei lavra warning the planned sanctions could inevitably boomerang on the United States. Cnn is there exclusively as gunmen block observers from entering crimea, and russians storm a Ukrainian Military base in crimea. Smashing the gates with a truck. Were covering this increasingly volatile situation as only cnn can. We begin with our chief National Security correspondent. Were more than a week into the crisis, and i think you can say were at a diploma
Im wolf blit zer. Youre in the situation room. Lets begin with the situation in ukraine. Its getting very, very tense. Is putin pulling back or pulling a fast one . The russian leader vowing to move Russian Troops back from the border but the United States is saying, show me. Daniel behr is standing by. A top diplomat in the area. First, to jim chusciutto for th latest. Their own the good news. But theyre skeptical. They have heard similar promises before. Theyll wait to see clear, hard evidence. They struck back at the description of russian troop movements as round teen, calling them, the u. S. , menacing. All looking for the sign that this sundays election can take place freely. Lots of challenges on the ground. Daily life in Eastern Ukraine. Interrupted yet again by explosions and gunfire. [ explosion ] these are the sounds of y ukrainian troops trying to retake towns overrun by separatists. Today, news that putin has ordered his own troops to return to their bases. But nato and u.
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