AIR DATE 1/31
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THIS MORNING, MIXED MESSAGING FROM THE KREMLIN.
RUSSIA SAYING IT’S RETURNING SOME OF THEIR TROOPS BACK TO THEIR BASES AFTER A PLANNED COMBAT READINESS CHECK … WHILE THOUSANDS MORE STILL LINE UKRAINE’S BORDER.
WHAT IT MEANS FOR RISING TENSIONS IN THE REGION – REMAINS UNCLEAR.
AND RUSSIA CONTINUES TO SURGE MILITARY EQUIPMENT TO THE BORDER… IN THIS NEW VIDEO WE SEE RUSSIAN MILITARY VEHICLES BEING MOVED TO BELARUS – NORTH OF UKRAINE WHERE RUSSIAN TROOPS HAVE BEEN POSITIONED FOR NEARLY 2 WEEKS.
THE PENTAGON WARNING RUSSIA COULD ATTACK UKRAINE WITH VERY LITTLE WARNING.
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Gen. Mark Milley / Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
“This is larger in scale and scope and the massing of forces than anything we have seen in recent memory”
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AND OVERNIGHT, THE UK SAYING THEY WILL CONSIDER A MAJOR MILITARY DEPLOYMENT TO SUPPORT NATO ALLIES ALONG EUROPE’S BORDER with russia.
SINCE UKRAINE IS NOT PART OF NATO, IT’S UNCLEAR HOW THE US AND THE ALLIANCE WILL SUPPORT THE COUNTRY IF IT IS ATTACKED BUT PRESIDENT BIDEN SAYS HE PLANS TO SEND SOME TROOPS TO THE REGION SOON.
nats zelensky
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UKRAINE’S PRESIDENT CRITICIZING THE WHITE HOUSE … claiming it’s OVERSTATING THE CRISIS.
but A US OFFICIAL TELLING ABC NEWS, ZELENSKY IS QUOTE “DOWNPLAYING THE RISK OF INVASION.”
Army Lt. Col. (Ret.) Alexander Vindman / Former Director, European Affairs for the U.S. National Security Council
there are internal factors within the U.S., the Ukrainian political system that are driving President Zelenskyy to reduce the rhetoric around war.
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FOR THE PEOPLE OF UKRAINE THERE ISN’T A SENSE OF PANIC JUST YET BUT PEOPLE ARE PREPARING FOR A POSSIBLE INVASION.
THIS WEEKEND WE GOT AN INSIDE LOOK AT A CIVIL DEFENSE TRAINING CLASS teaching PERSONAL DEFENSE TACTICS… AND SURVIVAL TIPS IN THE EVENT OF AN INVASION.
Sot: instructor
“The main idea of the course is how to organize themselves together with different people // like with your neighbors // because it’s much easier to survive if you are doing it together with, with other people.”
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