for nato to step back and allow moscow to establish a new sphere of influence across eastern europe. in eastern ukraine, they know what that might mean. pro russian separatists have been fighting government forces here since 2014, and the scars are all to see. the question now is whether all these exercises might soon become the real thing. james landale, bbc news, geneva. jamesjoins us now from geneva. good morning. there is definitely a ramping up of rhetoric, isn t there? internationally. and it seems to be at a very tense moment. is there hope of a breakthrough in those talks that we are going to see in geneva later today? talks that we are going to see in geneva later today? well, naga, good mornin: to geneva later today? well, naga, good morning to a geneva later today? well, naga, good
already a separatist movement, pro-russian separatists battling the military of ukraine for years and russia to maybe do something in that region, limited toward eastern ukraine, far more pro-russian activists there than there are the rest. we re talking about not threatening or not trying to push further towards kiev, looking at the denepa river as a sort of marking point and you look at the cyber activities that vladimir putin has already started, so there are different levels that you could see. it s not necessarily we re looking at huge tanks coming over the border and pushing all the way to kiev, but there is but you are probably going to see some type of, probably won t be, analysts now say they doubt it will be limited only to cyber, but at this point we
from klimovo to the north to soloti on ukraine s eastern border, and novoozernoye in the south near crimea. the diplomacy now moves to geneva where mr blinken arrived for talks with his russian counterpart. but the discussions at this hotel may be difficult because the gap between both sides is so large. the americans want to talk about avoiding war in ukraine, but the russians want to talk about their demands, for nato to step back and allow moscow to establish a new sphere of influence across eastern europe. in eastern ukraine, they know what that might mean. pro russian separatists have been fighting government forces here since 2014, and the scars are all to see. the question now is whether all these exercises might soon become the real thing. james landale, bbc news, geneva.
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because the gap between both sides is so large. the americans want to talk about avoiding war in ukraine but the russians want to talk about their demands for nato to step back and allow moscow to establish a new sphere of influence across eastern europe. in eastern ukraine they know what that might mean. pro russian separatists have been fighting government forces here since 2014 and the scars are all to see. lives close to the front line. it is a miracle we stayed alive, she says. we could have died many times. russia denies that that is its intentions.