That live if the eastern part of the country. there is valid expectation. if he s not going to do a full-on invasion of the country, might he try to lop off another part of it. of course he lopped off crimea. maybe he wants to do the same with donbas so not committing himself fully militarily but causing problems on the ground with ukraine and their partners. how does it look outside? you re joining us from connecticut, right? i am. it looks like siberia. i ve been there. oh, my gdness. be safe. i m glad you re inside. me too. hopefully you have no reason to go out. no, i do not. stay warm and safe. thank you so much, steve hall. we ll be right back. my head got my brains got my ears got my heart got my soul got my mouth i got life
On the verge of ordering an attack on the separatist areas, something president zelensky has denied. matt bradley is in eastern ukraine less than 30 miles from the russian border, not far from those separatist regions. matt, what s going on? reporter: yeah, we just heard this from the head of the russian self-declared don ting people s republican. these are two place where is russia invaded back in 2014 and cleved off crimea, these places were essentially the site of an uprising of what moscow tried to portray as, you know, just russian-speaking people who were opposed to the ukrainian government in kooech. in reality, we saw very clearly actual russian military
United states that ll also embarrass him at home whether that s sending troops into poland or sending weapons in to poland or whether it is if he moves towards kiev, possibly sending troops to western ukraine, absolutely the worse case scenario but is this a confrontation that vladimir putin wants to have? does he want 100,000 troops sitting in poland? remember the last two times putin has done this when he bid off crimea, there was a lot of rhetoric that you can t do this that our loyalty friendship to this country are unwaivering. when it actually happened, we did not do much. we impose sanctions, we had u.n. security resolutions but we didn t do that much. so i suspect both xi and putin s
At six: a close encounter between russia and the royal navy in the black sea off crimea. russia says it s fired shots and dropped bombs in the path of hms defender a claim the ministry of defence has denied but our correspondent on board says the situation is tense. this russian coast guard vessel has come up right close to this british warship and is trying now to force it to change course. if you don t change the course, i will fire if you don t change the course, i will fire. . . . if you don t change the course, i will fire. ,, ., , if you don t change the course, i willfire. ,, . , ., , , will fire. russia says the warship was violating will fire. russia says the warship was violating its will fire. russia says the warship was violating its waters, - will fire. russia says the warship was violating its waters, britain | was violating its waters, britain says they were sailing in international seas. we will be asking why this happened and how serious this encounter could
Uphold international law. but it is a high risk strategy. james landale jonathan beale, a high risk strategy. james landale jonathan beale, bbc news, on board hms defender. our diplomatic correspondent james landalejoins me now. dramatic scenes, what is behind this and what does this mean for relations with russia?- and what does this mean for relations with russia? both sides were clearly relations with russia? both sides were clearly ready relations with russia? both sides were clearly ready for relations with russia? both sides were clearly ready for this, - relations with russia? both sides were clearly ready for this, hmsl were clearly ready for this, hms defender were in action stations and russia had lots of aircraft in the region and it was a deliberate decision by hms defender to go that close to crimea, it could have taken a longer route outside but it chose not due to a set is freedom of navigation and what britain seizes international waters. one source said, def