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Full-scale invasion and that what we are seeing this morning in the early-morning hours here in ukraine are the first steps in that full-scale invasion. so again, just in the last few minutes here, air-raid sirens, sustain air-raid sirens in lviv. and i will tell you as i have been watching from the balcony down in the central part of the old city, folks are walking to work. the cars are still going: buses are still going here. remarkably calm. given this seems to be, yet, one more ukrainian city potentially under attack this morning here. one quick point. when last we left you, when last we spoke, jim, we talked about troops on the ground. we have gotten the report, and we saw the the live-stream of the troops entering through belarus. the u.s. department of bdefense is tracking the incursion of troops in belarus according to reporting here into ukraine. u.s. defense official said ....
For that thank you, matthew close to the situation is our fred pleitgen. fredrick, thank you joining us this evening. frederick, listen. matthew said partially what we had here through live-stream, troops atop a column of military vehicles entering ukraine from a border crossing with belarus. it was taken in ukraine crossing the border to belarus. column seen entering ukraine around 6:48 this morning. you have video. you have the information on this. take us through it, please. frederick? okay. apparently, we don t have frederick but let me read to you what we have here and i will read it again. what you are looking at on your screen this is through livestream. if you can put the video up. are you there, frederick? ....
End well for me? will there just be light sanctions? or just beginnings of sanctions? but it is very difficult to maintain that position and say i am only going into donbas when you see not only the forces that are surrounding ukraine but now you have got actual we have reporting of forces coming from belarus into ukraine. so this is no longer just the donbas. this is something much larger now and i think that is also what s triggered the more robust we would hope economic and other type savgzs against russia. there may have been initial thought it was going to be limit perhaps but now that it is happening all over ukraine, i think it s become more and more clear it is more of a worst-case scenario. he is actually going in from multiple different angles. do you think this galvanize galvanizes um nato or u.s., our allies, or people around the country who are opposed to what is happening in ukraine? i am not sure, you know, beyond very heavy sanctions, what can be done. but doe ....
So, um, this sort of bolsters what you were saying about those troops and whether they are belarusian and what exactly is going on. the two men spoke not long ago. yeah, absolutely. i think it certainly bolsters that, and one of the things we have to keep in mind is that, um, both putin and lukashenko they are very, very close to one another. definitely, alexander lukashenko, after some of the protests that happened in belarus, in 2020, is pretty much dependent on vladimir putin to actually stay in office. and one of the other questions actually i asked lukashenko last week when we were at those large-scale military drills whether he show upd is whether or not he would actually support a move by vladimir putin to invade ukraine. the very question the very scenario that we are seeing right now. and he simply said, um, that the two countries are obviously are very close to one another, and that he would support vladimir putin in pretty much anything that he does. that the two count ....
Yeah he. can you hear me? i can hear you. so we have these images up. okay. perfect. take us through what we are seeing. yeah. so yeah, so, it s live-streamed video. what you can see on that live-stream video, don, is you can see several tanks and armored vehicles across the border, really, of through a large amount of time for at least a minute or minute and a half of those vehicles going across the border. then, we have that information that is that very border crossing, um, between ukraine and belarus, and that these troops are now coming in from belarus. and it really is remarkable because i was with those very troops just last week when they were conducting large-scale exercises, together, with russian forces inside belarus. and the possibility of an invasion from belarus was always something that the u.s. had warned about and i asked that very question, don, to the belarusian strongman alexander lukashenko, just to give you an idea of some of the lies and misinforma ....