Russia Recognizes New Territories And That's Far More Aggressive Than It Sounds
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🗓️ 22 February 2022
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Summary
The Russia-Ukraine crisis ramped up this past weekend, and in a controversial address on Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized the independence of two Russian-backed territories in eastern Ukraine: the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics. In response, the White House announced sanctions on Ukraine’s separatist regions but not yet Russia, as there had been hopes of further diplomatic solutions. Michael McFaul, the former U.S. Ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014 and professor at Stanford University, joins us to discuss his view of the situation.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, February 22nd. I'm Gideon Ressick. |
| 0:08.7 | And I'm Josie Deffy Rice, and this is what a day. |
| 0:11.1 | Coming to you after a restful night, only multiple clearance mattresses be bought on |
| 0:14.6 | President's Day. |
| 0:15.6 | I got the Franklin Pierce deal. I got the John Tyler deal. I did not get the Andrew Jackson |
| 0:21.8 | deal for reasons that you can assume. |
| 0:24.9 | Yeah. On stage show England and Australia are the latest countries to end certain COVID |
| 0:34.6 | restrictions, plus the late winner of the Kentucky Derby has been stripped of his metal. |
| 0:39.7 | But first, quite a lot to talk about on the Russia Ukraine front. So we'll go through |
| 0:43.6 | where things stand as of our recording at 9.30 p.m. Eastern. Yesterday in a controversial |
| 0:48.8 | address, Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized the independence of two Russian |
| 0:53.1 | back territories in Eastern Ukraine. The Danetska and Luhang's Peoples Republics. |
| 0:58.2 | Here he's saying that Ukraine isn't just a neighboring country, but an integral part |
| 1:05.8 | of Russian history. Along with that recognition, he signed decrees to send military forces |
| 1:11.8 | into those regions in Ukraine for, quote, peacekeeping functions. It was not immediately clear |
| 1:17.7 | afterwards whether there would be a further military incursion from those separatist regions. |
| 1:23.0 | Yeah, but the action prompted a flurry of responses, including an emergency UN Security |
| 1:27.4 | Council meeting that began just as we went to record. Though Russia shared that meeting |
| 1:31.9 | and has veto power here. Here is some of what US Ambassador Linda Thomas Greenfield said. |
| 1:37.2 | Russia's clear attack on Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity is unprovoked. It |
| 1:43.2 | is an attack on Ukraine's status as a UN member state. It violates a basic principle of |
| 1:50.2 | international law and it defies our charter. What is more, this move by President Putin |
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