John Burman here in Foranderson and we are coming to you with the situation in Ukraine

changing almost by the minute and there is simply no way to overestimate the gravity

of it or the dark places this could lead.

Vladimir Putin has ordered troops into eastern Ukraine and according to a senior government

official familiar with the latest intelligence, the expectation is they could move in as soon

as tonight, but would be the early morning hours there.

Once more and it is underscored by the enormous array of Russian forces you see on the map,

nearly a dozen American and Western officials now tell CNN that what we've seen so far

today appears to just be the opening salvo of a larger possible military action.

Just moments ago, we saw a video being played on the Russian outlet RTVI as you can see,

it shows trucks pulling field artillery down a road, apparently through the city of

the Nets.

To be clear, we don't know who this belongs to.

It follows Vladimir Putin this afternoon, signing a decree, recognizing two Moscow-backed

chunks of eastern Ukraine as independent republicates, republics, and significantly ordering troops

into the territories, an invasion or an occupation despite the propaganda that Putin uses, calling

it peacekeeping.

Even more ominous, what he had to say, and a lengthy, incompatible speech, his remarks

began with a twisted history lesson distorted to Russia's point of view.

He ended with a threat to all of Ukraine, in fact, a sort of denial that Ukraine even exists.

I would like to reiterate that Ukraine is just not our neighboring country.

It's an integral part of our own history, culture, and spiritual space.

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