BERMAN: The latest now in the AirAsia crash investigation. Indonesia's transportation minister confirms that Flight 8501 climbed at speeds more suitable for a fighter jet before plunging into the Java Sea. Six thousand feet per minute, that's about hour times the average climbing speed for a commercial jet. Aviation experts say that kind of ascent could trigger a stall.</s>ROMANS: Violence is flaring in Eastern Ukraine. Government forces coming under heavy fire from pro-Russian rebels. Ukraine's prime minister insisting these rebels are being helped by hundreds of Russian troops, Russian troops who have crossed their border. A charge for Russian defense ministry calls a hallucination. Let's bring in Matthew Chance live from Moscow. Well-worn argument here, Ukraine says Russia is involved with its troops. Russia says no way. But the violence flares.</s>MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes, it does. And that's what we're seeing on the ground right now in Eastern Ukraine. Within the past few minutes, in fact, the Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov was again rejected those allegations coming from Ukraine in particular, but also NATO and the United States and others, that Russian troops have been crossing the border, Russian heavy weaponry has been crossing the border, saying that, look, we've heard this in the past, this is what he said. But we haven't seen any evidence for it. Give us the satellite photos. Show us the evidence. And that's been the Russian argument all along and at the roots of these Russian denials. So, again, they're saying they got nothing to do with the violence but they're calling on the Ukrainians and the rebels as well, as a matter of fact, to pull back the heavy weaponry and to implement the ceasefire, Christine.</s>ROMANS: All right. Matthew Chance for us this morning in Moscow -- thank you, Matthew, for that.</s>BERMAN: All right. Twenty-six minutes after the hour right now. President Obama pushing a new aggressive agenda in his State of the Union Address. That with the Republicans controlling both houses of Congress. What does that mean for is agenda, for the congressional agenda going forward? We'll break it all down, next.
Heavy Fighting in Eastern Ukraine