in western europe and america. since the end of the cold war, countries have applied tojoin nato, expanding the organisation and pushing it eastward. ukraine has long wanted to join, and now the west believes russia, may be willing to go to war, to stop it. so, what s motivating the kremlin, in these next crucial hours? steve rosenberg reports from moscow. eight years after russia annexed crimea, is moscow on the brink of another invasion of ukraine? the west seems to think so, but what s the kremlin s view? western leaders may be warning of an imminent russian military escalation in ukraine, but moscow dismisses all of that as hype, hysteria. and if you look at the way the state media here has been covering the ukraine story, you ll see that the picture presented to the russian public
in part by ukraine s desire to be part of nato, a defence alliance of countries in western europe and america. (ani)since the end of the cold war , countries have applied tojoin nato, expanding the organisation and pushing it eastward. ukraine has long wanted tojoin, and now the west believes russia, may be willing to go to war, to stop it. so, what s motivating the kremlin, in these next crucial hours? steve rosenberg reports from moscow. eight years after russia annexed crimea, is moscow on the brink of another invasion of ukraine? the west seems to think so, but what s the kremlin s view? western leaders may be warning of an imminent russian military escalation in ukraine, but moscow dismisses all of that as hype, hysteria. and if you look at the way the state media here has been covering the ukraine story, you ll see that the picture presented to the russian public is the polar opposite of how the west sees things.
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assumption of your question is absolutely right. the greatest danger right now to global security and u.s. security is moscow s invasion of ukraine. we should not let whatever interest we have in reaching that nuclear deal with iran enable moscow to complete its invasion successfully. and you re right, that the iranian deal is just not worth it, we d be foolish to pursue a relatively minor interest and give up a major interest and that s makes no strategic sense. neil: ambassador, we re hearing from vladimir putin, and maybe this is a warning to european governments, that any who consider any third party declaration, just a mere declaration of a no-fly zone over ukraine as a participating in this armed conflict? what do you think? i think that putin is a
here to be in moldova. that s why so much focus is on the large port city of odessa. for me, just as somebody who had been born there, to digest what is going on and the division within this tiny country, i was born if we want to pull that map up in a city of 3,000 people, this is the capital right here, a city called chisinau. my family lived here. this area now pro-russian, this area now moldovan leading towards the rest. it has a deployment of russian troops that has just been there. before there for a matter of decades. is moscow, as i mentioned earlier, going to do what they initially did before sthan vaeded ukraine and recognize this region as they did with those two breakaway regions in donbas. and the fear, obviously, that putin won t stop.