дать ход(He was speaking just an hour before Russian television aired footage of a Russian security council meeting, at which Vladimir Putin set in motion the recognition of separatist republics in east Ukraine and made thinly veiled threats of a major war against the rest of the country.Anglophile)
приступать к реализации(put/set something in motion: if you set something in motion, you start it happening. The government have set in motion plans to reform the justice system. Cambridge Idioms Dictionary, 2nd ed. Alexander Demidov)
