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Of ukraine. and they have posted this officially now. the border force of ukraine say that their forces on the ukrainian border, obviously, to the north of the country so bordering belarus have come under attack. the border forces of ukraine have come under attack. this is according to to them. their official posting. um, by russian troops and by belarusian troops, as well. troops from belarus, as well. so, a combined, um, force of russian and belarusian troops have apparently attacked, according to the border forces of this country, those border at post that control the northern border of the country. that is obviously massively significant because it is not just russia, it seems, according to this statement, that is involved in this assault on ukraine but it may, also, be if this is accurate and this is what the border forces in this ....
Hall, thank you. we appreciate it. steve, stick around. you stick around as well. do we have a live picture of what is happening in ukraine? i would imagine, kyiv is somewhere up there. and this is what is happening now. um, it is 7:41 in the morning in kyiv, ukraine. we have heard some we have heard air-strike sirens. we have heard explosions. some of them are saying that it is it is, indeed air strikes. some of our folks on the ground. and it is a full-scale according to the u.s. and as you can see, one would surmise a full-scale invasion of russia by ukraine and possibly belarus at least the we see military forces crossing the bofrder belarus. strask on the streets. peemt are waking up to what is a full-kale invasion of their country. we ll be right back. ....
Country say, it may be belarus that has also joined with its ally in russia to take part in this assault this attack on on ukraine. it is also significant for another reason, as well. which is, that that northern border with ukraine and belarus is not far from here. it is a very short distance from kyiv. and of course, over the past couple of weeks, there have been extremely big-joint military exercises between the russians and the belarusians inside belarus. now, our fred pleitgen actually went there to see those military drills take place between those those two those two allied countries and the big concern, of course, is that these weren t really military drills. they were just preparations for a grand assault on kyiv. and the fact i am not saying that is happening but the fact that, you know, that has now been apparently an attack on ukrainian border gafrds by a joint russian and belarusian ....
Appear to be two armies right now, thousands of miles of border. i traveled part of that just today. and it was a very, very big distance that you need to travel. this is something that where you really see ukraine essentially getting bullied by by russia and and and with belarus, obviously, in many ways, being the comaccompl here. it is certainly hard to overstate just what difficult a position ukraine is in with that extra caveat now of forces moving from belarus, don. thank you, frederik pleitgen. appreciate that. i want someone who can help us sort of get a synopsis of everything here, steve hall joining us, former chief of russian operations for the cia. just as you have been sitting here very patiently for the last couple minutes, you have seen, um, the the live stream of troops arriving through the border of belarus. the president of belarus. vladimir putin speaking. zelenskyy and biden speaking. there is a lot blasts at the ....
Thursday it was not clear if troops were only russian or also belarusian. the importance of that, jim? it would mean that ukraine s under attack from two countries now. remarkable, really. now, we should note belarus is essentially under moscow s sway, has been for months now. since it s been alleged they stole an election there to keep their man lukashenko in power. but it also speaks to these big-military drills, as they were called, exercises that russian-belarusian forces bury do were doing jointly in the last week. there had been suspicion on the u.s. side those drills were not really drills or exercises but preparation, amassing of forces, to enter ukraine. and if it is, indeed, confirmed that it is both russian and belarusian forces comes kroog from the north, that would seem to indicate ukraine is now under attack by two countries. um, and as we we look at that picture if you put it up again there, don, of those tanks ....