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The lay of the land there? i think in recent days, for example, have some of the ground units that were in larger assembly areas moved in or out closer to the border in what might be attack positions, other movements in the last 24 hours or so? >> what i would say, bob, even in the last 24 to 48, over the course of the weekend putin has added military capability along the border of belarus, and he has naval units in the black sea. he continues to add to his readiness and give himself more option...

Along ukraines border, and pentagon spokesperson john kirby says that putin has added at least a half dozen landing ships in the black sea with the purpose of putting troops onshore. they are talking diplomacy but advancing into attack positions. >> right. this is a moment of maximum pressure against ukraine. so hes got the military machine moving. hes moving it to its attack position. the world is on edge. people in ukraine are starting to take this seriously. it could be very damaging. what he...

The coming days. that assessment, he says, is based on u.s. intelligence, proposed indicating that putin has amassed up to hundred 90,000 troops on ukraines border, with roughly half of the ground forces in attack positions. bidens top officials continue to push for diplomatic resolution, but promise a, quote, severe consequences if russia invades. now, back to dateline. >> it was the middle of the night when j.j. rushs daughter, meghan, was awakened from a deep sleep. >> 3:00 a.m. knock at my d...

>> if president vladimir putin has made the decision to invade ukraine as president joe biden suggested or believes, then the forces are there in place. a u.s. defense official says that 40% to 50% of russian troops near ukraine are now in attack positions, and you get a sense on the map thereof where those troops are arranged basically not far from many of ukraines population centers. and a raid against the country on three different sides, in the north in belarus where theyre conducting joint ...

Place in the days after invasion, and we heard the national security adviser, jake sullivan talking about this, and kyiv having multiple days of aerial bombardment. people have not been prepared for this level of conflict in many cases for decades. and some people who are living here, the younger population have never seen something like we are seeing today. >> sandra: thanks for your reporting on the ground there, get this in, trey, we brought this up at the top of the hour telling our viewers ...

An estimated 130,000 troops along ukraines border and putin has added at least a half dozen landing ships in the black sea with the purposes of putting troops on shore. they are talking diplomacy but advancing into attack positions. >> right. this is a moment of maximum pressure against ukraine. so hes got the military machine moving, hes moving it to its attack position. the world is on edge. people in ukraine are starting to take this seriously. it could be very damaging to the collapse of the...

>> and lastly, the pentagon is well aware of that? >> absolutely. there is no abatement about the concern and worry about putins next steps. they see the number of troops there. were looking at 190,000. they see the buildup getting closer to the border. remember friday 45 to 50% of troops, russian troops near ukraine were in attack positions. and they have seen no signs that putin is deescalating. if you leave the forces in belaruse when the exercise is over, if they remain at a height ened leve...

"well unbelievable a deescalation when we see a full-scale pullout." despite russian reassurances, u.s. officials tell cbs news, those troops pulling back to their barracks, are not frontline forces, describing them as irrelevant, and they represent just a fraction of the rest of the 150,000 troops, missiles, and warships that remain in place by land and sea. critically, that includes russian troops on joint military exercises in belarus, just a few hundred miles from the capital kyiv. a u.s. of...

Fracturing. angela merkel is now gone. you have a new chancellor, internal politics, very cold winter, nord stream 2 coming in. and fractured nato. you look at the imagery on the ground where forces are deployed. when you look back at january, they are all lined up in an atonement area, deployment area, if you will. what we saw a week ago is these forces are now deployed else elsewhere. this is ukraine. this is the area where this piece of imagery exists right now. what was in place is beginning...

>> trace: general keith kellogg, you are the man to speak with at this time. so its not u.s. intelligence we are basing these reports of russian troop movement and yet the president of ukraine, zelensky, has now told his people he thinks wednesday is the day. what do you make of this statement? >> trace, thanks for having me on again. look, understand this, generally in warfare the first report is always wrong but i will tell you this. this is unclassified. we have had a lot of aerial assets, ri...