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🗓️ 8 February 2022
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0:00.0 | From New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro. This is Adali. |
0:07.0 | Today, if Russia invades Ukraine, it would be the largest and potentially deadliest military |
0:19.1 | action in Europe since World War II. So why are the US and its European allies so divided |
0:28.9 | over just how seriously to take the threat? I spoke with my colleague, Moscow Birocheev, |
0:36.8 | Anton Trojanovsky. |
0:44.8 | It's Tuesday, February 8th. |
0:51.7 | Anton, this is really starting to feel like the scariest moment for Europe. Maybe in decades, |
0:56.8 | talk of a historic potential invasion of Ukraine by Russia and casualty counts that could |
1:03.5 | reach into the tens of thousands, leaders across Europe are shuttling around the continent, |
1:08.6 | desperately trying to find a diplomatic solution so there's not an invasion. And so we wanted |
1:12.9 | to check in with you on exactly where everything stands for all the major players. Russia, |
1:18.9 | Ukraine, the United States, and Europe. Let's start with Russia and its troop buildup around |
1:26.6 | Ukraine. What exactly is the state of that at this very moment? |
1:30.2 | Well, it's very ominous and it's gotten worse since we last spoke. Russia now has more than |
1:39.6 | a hundred, ten thousand, by some estimates, as many as a hundred, thirty thousand troops |
1:44.6 | encircling Ukraine on three sides. And the important thing here is not just the number |
1:50.8 | of troops we're talking about, but the fact that they're on the move, they're getting |
1:54.3 | closer to the border. A few weeks ago, we saw a lot of equipment positioned in the area |
2:02.7 | near the border, but not enough personnel to operate all those tanks and artillery systems |
2:08.6 | and rocket launchers. We're now seeing a lot of those soldiers showing up from all across |
2:14.4 | the country, being flown in, coming in on long trains. And the latest thing is we're |
2:20.3 | now seeing these forces that were positioned a hundred miles or more away from the border, |
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