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A um of some kind of, you know, further air attack as well. but obviously, extremely tense. the ukrainian leader, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy has declared martial law but he s also urged ukrainian citizens not to panic at this stage. the defense minister of the country has issued a statement as well, saying that the military is fighting back effectively against the been handed something that might be a bit more information. um, yeah. so that s the that s the same thing as i was just talking to you about, about troops apparently and military vehicles entering ukraine from belarus. cnn has now witnessed, through live-streamed video, troops in a column of military vehicles entering ukraine from a border crossing with ukraine. the live-stream video and i am reading this alert. we want to get to that video, um, matthew, so if you will stand by. and the person we want to go to ....
Laughed at me. he said, hlook do you really believe we are going to invade ukraine? obviously now, only about a week, or little more later, we are seeing that apparently is exactly what is going on. still unclear, at this point in time, whether these are russian and belarusian forces. it could very well be the case because these two militaries work very closely with one another. and they have been practicing with one another for for a large amount of time. and just to give you an idea, don, about the possible size of the force that we are talking about. there were about 30,000 just lugz troops inside belarus, allegedly for those drills and then of course you have the entire belarusian army, as well. so certainly, this is an extremely dangerous development that we are looking at, and certainly broadens, also, the assault that is going on against ukraine at this point in time because, of course, these are two very formidable forces. belarus, small country but nefrlts, very powerful mil ....
Airport. there is a lot going on. yeah. what is your assessment of what you are seeing? is this is this a bigger-scale operation than anticipated? well, don, where we are right now i think is sort of literally in the fog of war. i mean, we re we re hours into this, so there is a lot that remains clear but i think there is a lot of things that are actually unclear but there are a lot of things becoming more clear very quickly. i think there may have been a question, initially, as to whether or not putin was gonna go basically simply into the donbas region. or into parts of the donbas region, which are controlled by his pr proxies, that, of course, has begun to happen. we have seen softening of military targets in ukraine in preparation for that. but the thing that got my attention most was what s happening further north and west in the belarusian border because it could have been a scenario, whereby putin may have gone into the donbas region and said, okay, i have got what pre ....
Russia s response should be immediate and will lead you to such consequences as you have never experienced in your history. we are ready for any development of events, all necessary decisions in this regard have been made. i hope that i will be heard. now, that is extraordinary. i mean for eight years we ve seen this conflict in ukraine on the sort of slower, lower-level boil. we ve seen denied reports of russian troops going into crimea. separatists who clearly were being run by moscow making their own regions in the east. but today we are seeing an overt invasion by russia across borders with troops, possibly with the assistance of belarus as well, on a scale of which i think anybody who has been observing this conflict thought was utterly unimaginable. and then these comments from vladimir putin, essentially threatening consequences that nobody e seen in history before. utterly chilling and a different day for european and global security this morning. don. nick paton walsh, joini ....
Saw forces that certainly looked like russian-special forces. and those, in many cases, would be the first to go into an area to then set the stage for a larger invasion of ground forces, of some of the many armored forces that we have also seen here. so certainly, some worrying developments. and the and the cctv video definitely, remarkable to see that apparently there are, on audio large scale now, foreign forces invading ukraine. don. frederick, i want you to respond to this because we are getting information that russian president vladimir putin and belarusian president alexander lukashenko spoke by phone thursday. belarusian state news agency belta reported the morning russia launched military strikes against ukraine at about 5:00 a.m. today. a telephone conversation took place between the presidents of belarus and russia, during which vladimir putin informed his belarusian counterpart about the situation on the border with ukraine and donbas. cited the presidential press serv ....