What It's Like In Ukraine, Under Threat Of A Russian Invasion
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🗓️ 27 January 2022
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State Department spokesperson Ned Price tells NPR what leverage the U.S. has to prevent that from happening.
Mary Louise Kelly reports from Kyiv, where some people are preparing for an invasion, even as the Ukraine government urges calm.
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| 0:00.0 | Tensions are going up, not down. |
| 0:02.8 | Urgent talks to prevent a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:06.3 | Talks between the U.S. and Russia did not get very far last week, and then |
| 0:10.7 | the State Department ordered the families of all American personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Kiev |
| 0:16.1 | to leave Ukraine. |
| 0:18.1 | The latest memo stating that the security conditions are unpredictable and can deteriorate with little |
| 0:23.6 | notice. Then the Pentagon said it was putting thousands of troops on alert for possible deployment. |
| 0:29.8 | Not to Ukraine itself, but nearby in Eastern Europe. |
| 0:33.4 | 8,500 U.S. troops are being put on alert, and today we saw live pictures of U.S. military |
| 0:39.1 | equipment heading to the Ukrainians today. |
| 0:42.0 | And then President Biden again warned that an invasion of Ukraine would trigger enormous |
| 0:47.6 | consequences for Russian President Vladimir Putin. |
| 0:50.8 | Not only in terms of economic consequences and political consequences, |
| 0:55.9 | but enormous consequences worldwide. |
| 0:58.4 | This would be the largest if you were to move in with all those forces, |
| 1:02.4 | the largest invasion since World War II. |
| 1:04.7 | It would change the world. |
| 1:05.9 | Thank you guys. |
| 1:06.7 | Thanks guys for the help. |
| 1:07.9 | Thank you guys. |
| 1:09.1 | Consider this. |
| 1:10.1 | The world is watching, waiting, and wondering. |
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