helen respects ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, russia orders its troops to enter, sent protest, provinces in east and ukraine, unmarked military vehicles are on the move. president vladimir putin calls the deployment of peacekeeping mission, after recognizing done yet at the once as independent. ukrainian, president soleski says his country won't give up territory and is seeking support. western countries have condemned russia and are expected to announce sanctions. and germany blocks russia's north stream 2 gas pipeline. chancellor olaf showed says

the project can't be approved following russian operation in ukraine. ah, i've been fizzle and welcome. russian president vladimir putin has ordered troops to enter 2 separatist regions in eastern ukraine. he's calling it a peacekeeping mission now after he recognized on yet skin tuan sc as independent republics, ukraine's president says his country won't give up any territory and his calling for international support. western governments have condemned russia's move and dismissed hooton's peace keeping claim as a pretext to invade ukraine. unmarked military vehicles have already been seen in john yeske. bmw troops mobilize in the dead of night. early on monday columns of military vehicles was spotted approaching the outskirts

of dawn yeske the capital of one of 2 separatist regions of eastern ukraine, while no insignia were visible, the vehicles appeared just hours after russian president vladimir putin ordered russian troops to deploy the way to the women, the move represents a significant escalation, but moscow is calling it a peacekeeping operation with today. we will only hours before bruton recognized the separatist regions as independent states. but this way it took us make it was a historic moment up at his none with just a few strokes of his pen rushes. leda made a diplomatic solution to the crisis more difficult than ever midday when using it as for those who seized power in kev and holding on to it, we demand that a stop military operations immediately or otherwise all responsibility for the possible continuation of bloodshed will be fully on their conscience, anybody who claim that asian on the streets of rebel held done yet,

a small group of people was seen celebrating the announcement. ukraine's president called an emergency session of his security council and made a renewed plea for tough sanctions on moscow. not sure what made it well, we expect clear an effect to support from our partners or will now look closely to see who our true friends and partners are and who will continue to try and scare of the russian federation with mere words, little, or dorshek, legacy or she school for that. ukraine says it will not give up its territories and accuses russia of tearing up the minced road map to peace. oh, he w correspondent, economy is in cave. make what have you been hearing from the separate us regions in easton, ukraine, in the yet? scant once. well, obviously there is a lot of worry that this is just the beginning. this is not the end of this crisis

that this is the 1st step towards further escalation. we've seen increased shooting and increase conflict along that front line between ukraine government troops and those russian backs up just in the last few days. now, with this recognition of these self proclaimed republics, there's worried that russia could potentially even support those publics and taking the rest of the nets, gallano regions that are still under ukrainian government control, and lots people without water, without electricity, because of the shooting, destroying critical infrastructure. a sense that that speech bothered him approaching that, rumbling our long speech about all the grievances he saw russia having suffered not only from the west since the full of the end of the communist regime in the soviet union, but also over the 20th century, a sense that he has lots more scores to settle. nick, let's take a closer look at those break away regions in ukraine. they're russia has now recognized as independent reminders of war are everywhere and

done yet. and new hunts. the 2 provinces lie an eastern new crane on the border with russia. both declared independence after the revolution in 2014, which most in the region did not support separatists voted to join russia and have fought ukrainian forces for control ever since. around 4000000 people live in what's called the don bass region. it's known for heavy industry and coal mining, and it's large, russian, and russian speaking population. in the main city, daniel banners read, we are russian. moscow has handed out hundreds of thousands of russian passports. but life is tough, caught in the middle. many who can have left most pensioners are stuck. others fight ukraine estimates. there are around 35000 separatist troops and accuses

moscow a filling up their ranks with brush and soldiers in 2015 a ceasefire. signed in minsk helped and full scale fighting but the conflict has dragged on, leaving more than 14000 people dead. yet, nick, tell us more about how ukrainians are reacting to these latest moves by russia. whiting. there was a lot of consternation and had sketchy henkie of after that speech by blood and putin that was watched by mostly by no here. they couldn't really believe what they were hearing. and that the ends of president russia was complaining about high water prices for civilians in crane about a certain factories that had survived caps, communism only to go bankrupt under ukraine's independence. so kind of crazy range of topics for a russian president to be talking about in prime time. it took quite a long time for us to hear from ukraine's presence lensky. m v. u. s. germany had

already commented on this as lensky went to speak to his top officials and then only came out speak to the ukrainian population deep in the night. he gave his speech in front of an a map of ukrainians. international record recognize borders. with the crimean of c dumbass there said that ukraine would never give up on those churches, never accept russian control or independence or of those regions. he said this was a time now for ukraine's allies to show that they were really on ukraine side. that was, i guess, a kind of not very well veiled, dig at germany with which commander in for lot of kristen ukraine for not supplying defensive weapons ukraine low. i guess that announcement from all actual today that sir, no structures being put on ice will be welcomed here and give as a sign that jimmy is willing to sacrifice economic interests to support ukraine in this conflict with russia. but at a sense here that they are very worried that russia is looking for cause for war. the rushes can try and provoke them. crate may be false. flag operations, some kind of excuse to and send those russian troops that are now flooding into the

separatist. held areas across the front line into areas that are under ukraine, government control. nick, can you give us more clarity as far as a maps go? as you mentioned, um, what borders we're talking about and whether or not russia will limit its deployment to these 2 separatist regions. i mean, but isn't that an extra restoration to be in that we're talking about a territory of shifting maps and shifting borders in the 21st century. i don't think even a few years ago anyway, was, would have really believe that this was going to be a regular occurrence in europe in the 21st century. i think that it's a very brave analyst who will try and give you any kind of clear prognosis on where this is going on. but for now, it does seem like russia is only going to recognize those as supper came republics in their de facto boards where they are now. although the leadership of those rubbish says, say that they claim the full area of low hands continued st. regions which for the

most part, austell controlled by ukrainian government troops so that they would potentially, you know, try and regain control of those areas that have been, are controlled by ukraine since 2014. that never went on to separate controls. it has that kind of potential flash point there is miss justin's that vladimir putin still thinks that a lot more of easton ukraine is what he would see as historically. russian territory has been talk of maybe trying to establish a land route to crimea to take a lot more churches so that russia can access crimea, not only across that bridge they built, but also by land through territory that is ukrainian all the options seeming on the table at a very scarce duration, where it seems like these decisions have been taken in moscow by vladimir putin on his own. his top officials yesterday in those pup filmed, publicized meetings looking like kind of school children are giving that can exam results to their teacher who was taking them off and not being quick enough. and not being a resolute enough in their, in their statement. so really scary time in a sense that this is a crisis that isn't going to an end to this is actually just the beginning of

a new and more dangerous phase and a very fluid situation full of uncertainties. and thank you very much for trying to bring some clarity for us on the situation. on the past, our german chancellor will have shows his announced a stop to the north stream through gas pipeline approval process. the major russian build pipeline has been awaiting german certification. but schultz said the process has been suspended, definitely following russian aggression in ukraine. due to the latest developments, we need to assess the situation, not least, when it comes to know it could be 2. i have asked the german ministry of the economy to give us the report that it has on the server to, to get for both energy supply for the grid. i know that you authority so that there is no certification of the pipeline possible. now this sounds a bit technical, but without this certification are extreme to cannot go online. we now joined by

eastern european expert. so gates millennium, berlin, german chancellor, all of sholtes. oh ting, north stream. what's your reaction? well, it was like really surprising to hear that the, the chancellor there either party that stick to the non stream to, from the very beginning like like ex chips or rather, and all the politicians that he council said, or at least post and what is important here is what, what is needed to be sat like, you know, get correspond, the economy was perfect and gave a perfect analysis of what is in the ground. but the pre, the pretext of the, of the conflict which was broadcast externally. to get like it was just terrible. it is not as the purchase republics, it's russian troops. we should be on the ground. it's not like conflict between separatist and key is rational patient, which had been only now officially acknowledged by in moscow. by the doesn't mean

that atheist long russian troops on the ground and russian troops must be called russian troops. and russia invasion must be called fresh invasion independently owned on what could you say? no. but regarding to north street, yes, it's surprisingly. and we'll see what happens and we'll see what russia will do, but still like the economic sanctions, they steal over the what we have, what we see from the, from b s. s has proclaimed sanctions against the occupies parts of crating, which is even weaker than those we have seen. we say korea and we don't see anything regarding like russian companies, russian banks, russian oil sector, russian gas sector. and we need to sanction, rushing now very hard because what russia dos, russia, russia, on the war on ukraine and russia brings the incredible losses to recreate in

economy. and now actually and next, another part of the green and territory. and this is the start. and it sounds like you, when you were now speaking with one voice, what will that encourage vladimir putin to do next? well, putting is all the rage mode a very perfectly described as you describe the speech of why you were put in the 14 minutes of talking all about fantasy trauma. he or his nation had suffered from bad west back to you as the bad common is best bet ukrainians, et cetera. right? was, it was like a delusion the speech of routine. and of course he still has all his army on the border. i don't believe that he will attack right now like full scale full scale attack, because now he will be most probably are working on the for the integration of the

already occupied regions. and he has already gotten a small victory over the west and will present it to his nation. but it does mean that the army has disappeared, and the army is like in 100 kilometers from t, like in maybe 5 hours, 5 hours for a 10 column to reach you from from the russian territory. the danger is still there . all russian problems is to pull troops back. they will lie, as we see russia brings new troops to ukraine. ukraine in a territory which russia has already occupied. and the danger is there, the west must continue to support you. crane was weapons, deliver weapons, deliver on time, or systems, deliver troops to ukraine, liberal, nate troops. because this is the only thing which can stop to teen from, from a further attack. the only language understands the language of brutal force. we

must sanction essential russia and who must bring to your crane more true to know where, how we can stop the war just briefly with what he wanted. what's vladimir of a threat of cutting ties with russia? going to do when kathy ties with russia is not a threat. it's security mechanism, as long as your economy is tied to russian calling if you are in danger and we in germany have demonstrated it was not stream to as long as we had, as long as we have, you have supplies from russia. our economy is dependent on our petitions, remain corrupt, and that is a huge problem. and of course, what your crane are. it is important to cover every single type to russia because russia is a threat to europe. threat number one,

russian troops occupying ukrainian territory. russia organizers, cyber attacks in ukraine, russia, cuts supply are used to cart supply as long as are ukraine bought. guess from russia, russia, black males, ukraine, etc. of course you create mascot ties, but it's not a threat from any in berlin. thank you very much for your analysis. you and let's talk more about the breaking news that's been coming in to us today about the holding of the note stream to pipeline without chief political correspondent, belinda crane. the chancellor there halting the certification process of the pipeline. i think i can safely say we were both extremely surprised to suddenly hear this happen on this day at this hour. but what does it will me? yes, i think we were surprised to in part because chance the shots has for so long not

uttered the words nord stream to in connection with any form of a sanctioning process. and, and he had maintained a certain strategic vagueness perhaps to keep russia guessing. but also because of course, as, as our eastern european expert there just pointed out, many people in the social democratic party chance a shelters party have long advocated closer commercial relations with russia and really maintained the idea that this pipeline is a purely private sector project. and he now firmly went on the record saying, we are not certifying operation of north stream to it's interesting, he did not say we're imposing a package of sanctions in nordstrom to as part of that package. he said, we simply won't certify operation because that depends on a security assessment that germany, security of energy supply will not be harmed, but in fact helped by the pipeline. we can no longer say that's true. so a technical reason, but nonetheless,

that means this very important german russian project is on ice and it has faced a lot of criticism within the u. s. has faced a lot of christmas criticism from the u. s. now sholtes has given us the clear word that it is on ice, and that will be good news to many of those partners. and the us will be jubilant about this. no doubt the, the, you and us even more unified in the approach to you. great. now that troops have been ordered to the separatist regions. that's right. or we are nonetheless seeing scaled sanctions. so as we've been discussing, we don't know exactly what now will be in the foreign ministers package. but we're hearing some rumors and apparently individuals responsible for those break away republics and relations with them will be targeted. targeted, possibly the do my members who now urged president putin to recognize the break away self proclaimed break away republics. but not necessarily the president,

putin, himself and those directly around him. so why there may be many viewers saying, you know, why don't they just hit him with the full package right now. the idea is to create essentially an action and reaction situation, where if he escalates there is room for the e, u and the u. s. to escalate as well in order, in other words, to move, to even stronger sanctions. and i think that's why also many of us thought north stream would be part of that later level rather than already now. but there are still a number of other cards that the you can play because that's exactly what i was thinking isn't that wasn't that the last cod lift? obviously no, the biggest, the so called nuclear option in economic sanctions would be excluding russia from the payments transaction system, known as swift. that would make it very hard for this very energy dependent economy

to continue selling its, its resources on international markets. there's also talk apparently of some form of exclusion of russian central bank bonds now already. but again, that is not certain that that will occur. that will make it hard for russia to refinance. it's government deficits on the markets of that would also have a serious effect. so there are a number of escalate tori sanctions measures that can be put into place. and, and that certainly is what the when the u. s. clearly have been working hard to coordinate belinda crane. thank you very much for the analysis for the united nations security council is held in emergency session over the crisis. russia used the meeting to accuse ukraine of shelling residential areas in east and ukraine. the united states invoice promised it would bring new sanctions against moscow. a growing number of world leaders and nato have condemned russia's actions. president putin is now violated ukrainian sovereignty. he sent troops in. he's

broken international law. we will immediately institute package of economic sanctions, which i think is people would expect talk to not just entities in, in don't bass him against in the next. but in russia itself, targeting russian economic interests as hard as we can to slam. so it's in russia shouldn't underestimate the result of the european union, the ship vladimir putin crossed a line yesterday. and there will now be a coordinated response from the europeans together with the american monopoly cannon given russia's clear attack on ukraine sovereignty and territorial integrity is unprovoked. it is an attack on ukraine status as a you and member state. it violates a basic principle of international law, and it defies our charter. what is more, this move by president putin is clearly the basis for russia's attempt to create

a pretext for a further invasion of ukraine. dante sharika, at present, all parties concerned, must exercise restraint and avoid any action that may fuel tensions. we welcome and encourage every effort for a diplomatic solution here like a u. s. at the you rather, and boys have been discussing the situation in brussels. we can now cross to our bureau chief there, alexander, the phenomena. alexander, we heard about the 1st set of sanctions today from the you from chancellor sholtes and also the suspension of this shed pipeline between russia and germany north stream to can you tell us more about the measures being discussed? the you ambassadors are meeting this morning to discuss the proposed sanctions. and we can imagine that there are now sitting together and going over at least probably

long list of names of individuals and entities. not only in low hon, scanned on ads, but also in russia. people and entities that are believe to be directly involved in what the european union is calling an illegal act of recognition of those to break away regions in eastern ukraine. and we also, as the german chancellor just pointed out, expect them to at least in principle, approve those sanctions to day they might be published and then tomorrow. but it's not everything that's on the table. according to european officials, day european commission has suggested to members states to ben at the trade of russian bonds for example. and there are proposing to put a several hundreds of people on the sanctions list. and still we have to say this could be just the 1st round of sanctions. there could be more coming and that is

what eastern european countries and also the baltic states have been demanding since yesterday they now the european union and has to impose a broader sectoral sanctions. and that is what they are demanding. exactly, that's what schultz did mention. there that these were the 1st set of sanctions. alexander, what about nato? moscow wants to keep your brain out of your life. it is the madigan who pull back from its force. what can i do to strengthen security without antagonizing roger? well, anita is certainly not going to need dos and demands expressed by russia and according to our sources at nato headquarters. the north atlantic council is underway right now with 30 ambassadors. the members stayed sitting together together with to nato secretary general's tolten berg. and i was told that this is part of the regular

consultation they have, but of course, the item on the agenda is the queen, crisis, and nato has been preparing for all possible scenarios. and of course, we still don't know what putins plan is for you, queen how he is planning to move forward, and that is what is being discussed and nato, they have already ruled out that there will be there will be native combat forces in ukraine. but of course, one issue that has been on the agenda for a long time is now to increase in natal presence in eastern europe. we have to remember that there are nato members that have borders with russia, and especially they are a very concerned and scared that this conflict is this crisis could to spill over a fil, over a further into europe. again, with an aman,

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