Vladimir Putin Operation in Ukraine going according to plan

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00:00Well, Scott, just a few moments ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin ending a televised

00:04address that served as a sort of alternative programming to the events that are unfolding

00:08on the ground in Ukraine. In that address, President Putin said that his special military

00:12option in the country is going to plan. He said he is fighting against the threat of nuclear weapons,

00:18even as the U.S. and other Western allies have refrained from ratcheting up their nuclear threat

00:23level to match that of Mr. Putin. Putin accuses Ukrainian forces of using civilians as human

00:28shields, even as one million Ukrainians have fled the country and 2000 civilians have died in public

00:34places there. Putin saying his special military operation going to plan is interesting in the

00:39context of a call that he had earlier today with France's President Emmanuel Macron, where they

00:44discussed the possibility of a ceasefire. And a senior French official tells me that Putin appeared

00:48very closed off and rejected the notion of any ceasefire without complete demilitarization of

00:55Ukraine, which is a nonstarter to the West. This is, of course, as talks are happening at the

01:00Belarusian border yet again. Ukraine's president has invited Putin to personally sit down and

01:06negotiate as he has in weeks and months in the past. But there is a view among the West that the

01:12violence, Scott, will worsen in the coming days, with Putin apparently communicating that he believes

01:19that his negotiating hand will only strengthen as Russia seizes more of the country.