presenting its new its new national security strategy which called russia a rival along with china and putin said that the strategy was quote aggressive so this decision along with that strategy sees a hardening of of the kind of positions between russia and the u.s. and that can be good for ukraine. rival sides the rival sides in the conflict directly have been have agreed as you say to a holiday ceasefire began today but we know that these things have been tenuous at best in the past what have we seen so far is it working well both the ukrainian side and the pro russian separatists side have have already been claiming violations in the cease fire and there has been an escalation in violence recently according to monitors and also this this week a mechanism which is supposed to guarantee peace and help facilitate peace the
genius and putin has called the president bright. the question this morning, though, is the relationship souring even against even after mutual admiration of the two in the past week because this morning, vladimir putin is slamming america s national security strategy as aggressive. this comes after trump called russia a rival power earlier this week, but hesitated from going further in his public statements. our senior international correspondent frederik pleitgen joins us with more. the two leaders had the phone call within the last ten days or so, mutual admiration shared, and now this. what sparked vladimir putin to say this? that s a very good question, poppy, and certainly something that people here are asking as well. as you said they had that mutual admiration, heaping praise on one another last week, with the russian president even thanking president trump for the cia helping to give russia information to prevent a terror attack in st. petersburg, but really just a couple
presenting its new its new national security strategy which called russia a rival along with china and putin said that that strategy was quote aggressive so this decision along with that strategy sees a hardening of of the kind of positions between russia and the u.s. and that can be good for ukraine. rival sides the rival sides in the conflict directly have been have agreed that say to a holiday ceasefire began today but we know that these things have been tenuous at best in the past what have we seen so far is it working well both the ukrainian side and the pro russian separatists side have have already been claiming violations in the cease fire and there has been an escalation and violence recently according to monitors and also this this week a mechanism which is supposed to guarantee peace and help facilitate peace the