forces could arrive in eastern ukraine, at any moment. now, this video from russian media shows a military convoy, already, moving through separatist-controlled donetsk even though it is unclear who the equipment belongs to, precisely. now, mr. putin s order came just hours after he signed a decree recognizing the breakaway regions donetsk and luhansk as independent republics. separatists there have long had backing there from the kremlin. u.s. and nato officials say moscow supplies them with advice and intelligence, even embeds russian officers in their ranks. now, it is hard to tell if russia s moves are a prelude to a full-scale invasion of ukraine. but mr. putin appeared to cast doubt on ukraine s very statehood on monday. translator: it is essential to understand that ukraine has never had a tradition for genuine statehood and since 1991, it has taken the path of mechanically copying foreign models, torn off, both, from
president biden added sanctions. they were ordering troops into those regions. we are running this video here of a military convoy moving through the city of donetsk. unclear if this is russian or belongs to the separatists horsebacked by russia. both use this type of weaponry. meantime, world leaders are condemning this. u.s. ambassador said putin wants the world to travel back in time. this was an attempt to create a pretexts. ukraine s president said his people will not concede anything.
even in the fog of war, that you feel when you are there, not knowing what is happening 100 miles away or gnat nearby nearby town. the reality the one thing we dough no is there a lot of weapons already in ukraine that don t appear yet to have been used even with the horrors we are seeing, and more coming in. you can see a russian military convoy in this satellite image, consisting of armored vehicles and tanks. that line stretches for 17 miles outside of kyiv and it comes as chaos is on consuming ukraine s went border. it is a country of 44 million people, okay? and when it happened, none of them thought it would happen on this scale, and now you have millions leaving everything behind to flee ukraine. in a moment, i am going to show you firsthand the struggle to get out of the country. you are going to see the people and what they are going through. it is unbelievable. it took us 20 2 1 hours to get to the border with hungary and going to show you the suffering we saw on wait. that
washington, you are live in the cnn newsroom, welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. a day of triumph and tragedy in ukraine, capitol city of kyiv remains free and bracing for a full-scale russian invasion for a fourth night. these are troubling images taken this morning, a three-mile long russian military convoy on a road that heads to the capitol. the technology company maxar says the convoy includes tanks, artillery and infantry vehicles and on ukraine s southern coast, a city has fallen, with a population of 100,000 in a small naval base, cnn video from november shows some operations as tensions were rising with russia. and the grim news comes as ukraine s ministry releases the number of civilian casualties since russia launched attack on thursday. 352 civilians including at least 14 children killed so far.
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