specifically. the foreign minister told us, they are in lock step from now on. they just want to make sure that the u.s. continues to keep up this strong rhetoric and robust response. take a listen. reporter: the latest u.s. weapons arrives in ukraine. on board, 79 tons of lethal aid, including nearly 300 tank armor piercing javelin missiles. as the u.s. doubles down on its support of ukraine. as many as 8,500 u.s. troops are now on high alert to be deployed to eastern europe to join nato forces. a decision ukraine s foreign minister said he welcomes. i think it is a message to putin that, listen, whatever you re trying to achieve, you get the opposite. if you want us to withdraw from central europe, our response to
threat. translator: no, there will not be a war, he says. it is only biden who thinks this. reporter: it is interesting, talking to people here. nobody seems to be remotely concerned about the prospect of an imminent invasion. these people are no strangers to war. all around, the hollowed out remnants of villages destroyed and abandoned by fighting between ukrainian forces and pro russian separatists. but whether moved by denial or disbelief, these soldiers and the people they re protecting don t expect history to repeat itself. for now, they wait and they watch and they hope. now, jake, the u.s. has been delivering weapons. the most coveted are these tank armor piercing javelin missiles. but one of the conditions of the