the forces at their disposal to break our resistance. while crawl and inhumane, tonight, they will storm cruel. we must all understand what awaits us. we have to persevere tonight. the fate of ukrainians being decided right now. but was ukraine being decided right now. but was ukraine ambassador to the un speaking a few hours ago and in his latest televised speech, to me putin called on ukraine s military to abandon the government in kyiv, who he described as terrorists, addicts and neo nazis. personal addicts and neo nazis. personal sanctions addicts and neo nazis. personal sanctions have been announced against mr putin and serco lavrov i several countries. steve rosenberg. has the kremlin s plan become any clearer? for months, putin kept the world in suspense. then, invasion of ukraine.
have responded to the invasion more decisively. james landale reports. this is what the defence of kyiv looks like. soldiers with guns and armoured vehicles, ready to take on the might of russian tanks and warplanes. little wonder there is a debate about what more the west can do to help. but these american fighter jets will not be coming to theiraid. they arrived in romania today as part of nato s decision to beef up its presence in member states close to russia. so, too, these british forces, arriving in the baltic state of estonia. they are there to deter potential russian aggression against nato countries. at the headquarters of the military alliance in brussels, world leaders agreed to go even further, making what they called significant additional defensive deployments in eastern europe. we are deploying elements
in defiance of putin. 50, something is going wrong there with his relationship to the military. and if they genuinely think he s out of control, they will move against him, and i think it s important to understand that even though he is a ex kgb man, the kgb will be confident that they can get in with the next guy too, so i don t think putin should be overly confident about his situation now. i think the second scenario that s worth looking at is your cyprus scenario. i think it s going to be difficult for them to take the whole country and i think they are getting bogged down and, obviously, it is the eastern bits of ukraine which are traditionally the bits with the strongest connection to russia, with the most russian speakers, and in terms of what s happened since 2014, he s taken chunks of that in effect anyway. i don t think it s going to be afghanistan because it feels very different to russians than the soviet invasion of afghanistan. as i say, it feels more like a civil war. uk
i think the second scenario that s worth looking at is your cyprus scenario. i think it is going to be difficult for them to take the whole country and i think they are getting bogged down and, obviously, it is the eastern bits of ukraine which are traditionally the bits with the strongest connection to russia and the most russian speakers and in terms of what s happened since 2014, he s taken chunks of that in effect anyway. i don t think it s going to be afghanistan because it feels very different to russians than the soviet invasion of afghanistan. as i say, it feels more like a civil war. ukraine, for all of the reasons, bad and good, that putin has gone in there, does feel very much as though it s something very close to russia. it would feel more like it is a student analogy it would feel more like, it is a stupid analogy, but it
not be safe for u.s. interest. regional powers have a habit of becoming global threats especially when they work in concert as russia, china and iran are already doing. now, we have russia, mark, in ukraine. we have china acting, you know, flying sorties over taiwan. and have you iran sitting at the table in vienna close to a deal, it seems, with u.s. and western powers. yeah. you know, it s interesting. russia did china a favor by delaying its invasion but they may have done taiwan a favor by screwing it up so badly. this war has not gone any stretch as vladimir putin planned it. in fact we know the ukrainians have captured the russian warplanes and they were supposed to be done by march 6th. three days from now. they are not going in kyiv three days if at all. and if they do succeed in getting kyiv. there is going to be insurgency in ukraine going to last years. going to be sending russian soldiers back in body bags. going to make the soviet