the devil is charles mc. cedrin joins me in the studio for more on this . charles, you've been following this, are you boy, you've been reporting on ukraine for years, but following this crisis in particular, really closely, we've saved throughout this whole build up that a lot of his alliance. he has been calling for com. he's been remaining calm, trying to keep him. this is a huge divergence from that. rebecca, he's been the console and chief, the ukranian people for months. this is a 360 degree or a 190 degree. turn around this message and i think it really go around the world. absolutely. i will. will spark perhaps. we'll mark the start of a new phase. now zalinski in recent months is often say more concerned about the economic impact of this crisis. now we're seeing him addressed the potential of a military conflict and data major war part of his stance. until now it's been prompted, i think by add the desire not to provoke russia and not to seem like he's doing anything aggressive. so now at the last moment he's taken an entirely new tack, and i think

well, d w reporter charles mc federal joins been out in the studio with more on president salenti reaction. charles, welcome. what were the main messages of his speech? anthony, i think that president zelinski had 3 audiences in mind as he delivered the speech . firstly, there was a reaction to vladimir putin and that very angry, someone say, very aggressive speech, which really sought to betray ukraine as, as somewhat of a fight country. now, voting me, zalinski replied, where proud people with the proud history we're going to talk about here. and now we're going to talk about how to prevent war. so for letting me put number one, number 2, he's trying to prevent a lot of demonstrations from voters in the east of the country. there are hundreds of thousands of internally displaced. people who've had to flee the fighting. many of them will feel like they can't go home now after this announcement by lady mid peyton. so a lot of me zalinski said where peaceful people and i think he was talking to those voters. and thirdly, he had a message for the world, anthony, he said that where country wi

now i'm back in the studio with charles mc, phaedra and charles is ukraine prepared for this? this has been obviously where there been warnings of this for mom. stud zalinski has been calling for com this whole time i ukrainians prepared. were about to find out in the coming hours. i think rebecca, the great which people have been prepared for letting me zalinski throughout this crisis which has been building for months in dade since the autumn, the late autumn has been somewhat of a consult orange for the crime in people. he often stressed the economic impact all of this crisis on, on the crying economy. and he faced the task of keeping essentially the show on the road. we sort of, and i just hours before this whole began zalinski people to the russian. people not directly to the crimean people, but to the russian people to back down and to take to the straits against their leaders. that was, that was very, very light in the day. it was not a direct signal to the cranium public. it was a direct signal to the russian pop crather. i'm so i think there will be questions in the c

ukrainian cities, including kear and car keys, were we just heard from in the east will dw, so charles mc cedrin joins me now in the studio for more. charles, i know that you have close contacts with ukraine. you travel there often, you know, many people in the country you've been following this extremely closely. talk us through what we know. well, in the past few minutes saw ukraine's board of gods and another of the cranny. ministries have confirmed that russia and belarus together have crossed the border from the north towards the capital key of so we have, we now have you crime being apparently invited from for 3 directions. now when you say cross the border, charles, do that, or you're saying that there are troops, there are vehicles and perhaps tanks, heavy artillery. or we have our initial initial reports that there is an operation underway by russia and beller ross on the northern ukrainian border. so that is very, very substantial news, because my weston's intelligence sources in one european countries, i didn't think that russia had enough troops to, to actually cross that boar

mc. federal is joining me in the studio. charles, tell us about the address of letting me put and it was a surprise address that caught the world by surprise. rebecca, i have to say in this, in this very moment, we're moving into unprecedented moments in european history. i'm going to quote what blood vladimir putin said in his address, which he said just moments ago on russian television. he said, we will strive to demilitarize and day not so for car d knots fight you crime. he said he had authorized an operation after the defense packed, he can, he concluded with the self proclaimed separatist. and that the operation would begin in the don. best region of you, crime are the john bass and the which includes the loo hands and the don't. it's great and it remains to be same if this marks the start of a limited engagement. rebecca, or if we're going to say the nearly 200000 russian soldiers on 3 sides of ukraine, go into action. so we'll, we'll have to wait and see what happens in the, in the hours to come. but regardless, this is an