As of this writing, the people of Ukraine are locked in a life-and-death struggle with the invading Russian military in the most significant warfare seen in Europe since World War II.
ukraine. expressing some reservations you might call it or at least realization that a russian military campaign, a renewed invasion would be costly bother in terms of material and personnel than they originally thought. now has this risen up to the highest level of vladimir putin? no indications that it has caused him pause. but at that level, concerns perhaps a reaction to the western lethal military assistance going in there which, wolf, and we ve talking about this before, has been designed to do exactly that. raise the cost for any russian military invasion. both in terms of equipment, but also russian military personnel. now, despite that, and perhaps this contributes to that, russian has been building, not taking away, forces in and around the border. and it is the numbers well north of 100,000 as you mentioned but it is also the composition of those forces, wolf, a whole host of ground artillery, armored
diplomatic resolution. at the same time warning that the prospects of a russian military invasion remain very, very high. and they haven t they tried to avoid getting any more specific than that. there is a sense that this is a white house that has tried to project this united front among nato allies with russia and has been struggling to do so lately, particularly yesterday after that meeting with the german chancellor, we saw president biden repeatedly saying that there is no need for germany to win back trust, as he was responding to a question saying that there is complete trust between the united states and germany, insisting there is no daylight between the two, and at the same time we heard president biden say clearly that nord stream 2 pipeline will not move forward if indeed there is a russian invasion of ukraine. the german chancellor would not go that far. he wouldn t say specifically and directly that that pipeline wouldn t go forward, despite repeated questioning. we did
johnson and joe biden. that hope seems to be based on the idea that may be the ukrainian government could clarify the timeline for their membership ofjoining nato and could they clarify the timeline in such a way that reassures the russians and then vladimir putin can climb down. at the same time, they are making scary sounding warnings that a big russian military invasion could only be something like 24 hour is the way, because that is what american intelligence suggested at the weekend. , ., ., , weekend. let s find out if that is likel . our correspondent in moscow, caroline daviesjoins us now. what sense do you get from the kremlin? we have not heard from the kremlin? we have not heard from the kremlin this morning but in terms of the papers, a lot of them focus on the papers, a lot of them focus on the meeting between sergei lavrov the meeting between sergei lavrov the foreign minister and president putin during which sergei lavrov reassured president putin it was worth continui
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