now that Viktor Yanukovych is no longer in power in Ukraine
their is the year and deletion I guess depending on which side
%uh the question your on that Vladimir Putin
and Russia may start using the russian military
to enforce and or exert
Hauer in Ukraine they're already conflicting stories about this President
Vladimir Putin
yesterday well technically I guess wednesday
Wednesday in russia but it was still technically yesterday here but really
kind of today
anyway within the last 24 hours ordered a military exercises
in western Russia near the Ukrainian border
defense minister Sarah gay shoigu said in a televised statement
that the exercises intended quote to
checked the troops readiness for action in crisis situations that
threaten the nation's military security
there was no specific mention I've ukraine
and tensions have course remain high with the
bullying victory and a coke which to eastern UP eastern Ukraine at a minimum
and potentially at some point into Russia
up the senior Russian lawmaker
also said that the air
is a naval base there within the ukraine
that is Russian and that they may use that to help protect
russians who are in Ukraine the problem is that there is video which purports to
already show
russian military within ukraine I'm gonna play the video here for you
and these are will d
these are said to be russian armored personnel carriers that were briefly
stationed
in central naquin mobs square in Sebastopol
on the Crimean Coast before heading to the moscow house building according to
Interfax news agency
and a quote that we have from from a source close to senior officials in
Russia's Black Sea
lead said there have been movements have certain vehicles
as part of anti-terrorist measures to protect
the Russian facilities this is very interesting
because on the one hand we hear the a
Russian ambassador to Canada for example
say that even suggesting russia might move troops into Ukraine
is and insult to the intelligence
up Canadians that's a quote from the ambassador to Canada from Russia
at the same time we hear about military exercises near the ukrainian border
and we have BDO of what is being reported
as russian troops already in Ukraine Louis do you think that a Russian
military presence
involved here and what's happening in in ukraine
will be a positive thing or a negative thing
for the long term stability if ukraine I don't know
it's hard to say I mean yesterday we talked about
those who are looking to seize power in Ukraine and there would I rather have
the ukraine be under russian control that in that the hands of Nazis
I yes I would so I I think it all depends
even if it's the same up kasich's who are
anti-semitic I mean I don't know it but we're we're now talking in in shades of
gray I think
if we take a step back for second there's really no reason if we go all
the way back to the beginning at the Ukrainian situation
there's really no reason that there could be more official ties to the
European Union
and at the same time still maintaining relations with Russia and blood in their
Putin
of course the the instant that the conversation started with regard to
trade arrangements in closer alignment with with the European Union
it was not seen as the typeof choice where will we could do a little bit have
one in a little bit of the other it became immediately a one hit wonder the
other
this is what caused tensions to rise and immediately caused all these protests
so we're gonna follow what the russian involvement will be here there is no
question at all
that latimer Putin would love to exert more
influence over Ukraine and to have closer alignment particularly
when you see a situation that has been destabilized the best opportunity
to be seen as coming to the rescue is it maybe when there are these types have
a shifting governments around the world are
when there is that when you have the opportunity to frame yourself
as the rescuer to the local people and there's no question whatever you think
about blood it but a mere pueden
he knows that he's going to take advantage of that as much as he can
right but I would say that the majority of Ukrainian people
I would not view him that way in that way if if he were to
quote rescue yeah ukraine
yeah I don't know I don't have polling to tell me exactly
how they would see it but I think that would be it would be an interesting
conversation for sure