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Russia about what is happening on the border of ukraine over the weekend russian officials announced that they were pulling back 10,000 troops who have now completed what they say was sort of a pre-planned standard winter training. they have gone back to their permanent bases. and it is not clear yet what is going to happen to the other estimated 60 to 90,000 remaining russian forces that are close to the border with ukraine. that still remains a concern. and also we understand from russian offi...

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Cnns nic robertson joins us from moscow this morning. nic, good morning. why would troops leave now after ratcheting up tensions were ukraine? >> reporter: well, russias perspective on this is that all of those troops are not there to ratchet up tensions with ukraine. theyve been there for regular routine military exercises on russias territory, which they say is their prerogative, and is not designed to send, you know, a threatening message to ukraine. so what russia is saying right now is 10,0...

Their planned training exercises are completed. this is combat troops, special forces, motorized infantry divisions have gone back to those bases. the sense i think in moscow is that this is now picking up on a political diplomatic track. but what president putin is looking for is clarity from nato, clarity from the united states on the position vis-a-vis y ukraine, and hes leaning heavily on the united states to use its influence in nato, which will have a separate meeting with russia a couple ...

Estimated to be between 70,000 to 100,000 troops relatively close to the borders of ukraine within russia, this reduction of 10,000 includes motorized infantry units, combat units, special forces units, all returned as you say to their normal long-term bases. so, you know, in the context of these talks coming into line now and seeming to be established in terms of this apparent reduction, the white house doesnt confirm that it can see 10,000 troops have gone back to bases, this does seem to meet...

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Hostilities. nic robertson joins us now. good to have you. russia says it wants certain guarantees from the u.s., from nato. they have pulled back about 10,000 or so troops on the border, but you have more than 70,000, 80,000 there. what do we know? >> reporter: i think from a russian perspective, the fact that the demands, if you will, russias -- what it wants to talk about, that is no further nato expansion towards russia, i.e., ukraine, thats firmly clearly on the table there, that nato shoul...

Raising international alarms. vladimir putin rejects claims of an attempt to strike its neighboring country. last week during his annual end of year press conference putin pointed blame at the west for escalating the situation demanding a promise that ukraine will not receive a nato membership. take a listen. >> we must understand how our safety will be insured. that is why there can be no more nato moving eastward. the ball is in their court and they have to give us some answers. >> saturday ru...

John hannah is a senior fellow at the jewish institute for national security of america. thank you for joining us. he pulls 10,000 out, 60, 70, 80,000 troops still on the border on the ground. as you look at the chess board whats the move? is he trying to ease tensions or something else at play here, sir? >> thank you, trace. listen, i always prefer having fewer russian troops on ukraines border ready to invade than more russian troops. having said that i dont think anybody can relax here. first...

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