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And so one of the things that alliance leaders are talking about today, what should it look like? here in the united states, i mean, we had before the war 80,000 troops in europe, we now have 100,000. those are on temporary deployments. we are in the pentagon looking at what the future footprint ought to look like to make sure we can bolster natos eastern flank. >> i look at the numbers as a former pentagon correspondent myself very closely. along the ukraine border, the eastern european nato al...

The russians are pretty determined to break these lines. are they going to get past here? are they going to get past you and these men? translation: | think no. - we will not surrender kharkiv. our loved ones have got our backs. explosion they wont get through here. quentin sommerville, bbc news, kharkiv. president biden says nato has never been more united, and that russias president, vladimir putin, is getting the opposite of what he intended when he ordered the invasion of ukraine. the us pre...

Its really about capabilities and its based on constant conversations with our nato allies on the eastern flank. >> are those marines nato response force committed or are they just individual -- >> right now these are individual decisions based on available capability that we had and in talking to our nato allies. i dont -- as you probably saw in the nato summit, they announced another four battle groups and i think the nations are still feeling those out. i think were leading the one in poland....

Well see president biden. hes going to give us a press conference and debrief reporters on these meetings theyve held. critical talks theyve held behind the scenes here at bufl. abby? >> thanks, kaitlan. a busy day for president biden. well check back with you. lets go to white house reporter natasha bertrand, also in brussels. the nato chief stoltenberg said allies agreed to bolster natos military position in eastern europe. tell us more about what that means. >> yeah, abby, this was a key pr...

Space and their own ability to gain air superiority over their own country. >> interesting. nato is agreeing to place substantially more troops on the eastern flank including establishing four additional battle groups. where will these troops go and how do these deployments help secure nato? >> the additional troops will be slovakia, hunk gary, romania an bulgaria. thats where they will go in addition to poland and baltic states. so the idea is to create in essence an iron wall between nato and ...

To impose unprecedented costs on russia and will reinforce allied deterrence and defence. leaders approved are for new battle groups and bulgaria, hungary, romania and slovakia, in addition to the four already in the baltic countries and poland so we have eight multinational nato groups now. from the baltic sea to the black seat. across europe there are 100,000 us troops supporting nato efforts and european allies have also stepped up, we have 40,000 forces under direct nato command, mostly in t...

European union. more than 300 members of the duma, oligarchs and russian defence companies that fuelled the russian war machine. in addition to the 100,000 us forces now stationed in europe to defend nato territory, nato established, as you already know, four new battle groups in romania, hungary, bulgaria and slovakia to reinforce the eastern front. putin was banking on nato being split. my early conversations in december and january it was clear to me he didnt think we could sustain this cohes...

To help ukraine uphold its fundamental right for its self defence. natos court task is to protect and defend all allies. we have increased our military presence in the eastern part of the alliance. nato leaders today will address the need for a reset of our terms and defence in the longer term. the first step is the establishment of four new battle groups in the eastern part of the alliance, in bulgaria, romania, hungary... british prime minister, borisjohnson has arrived at the summit in the la...

Sanctions of more than 400 individuals and entities aligned with -- in alignment with the european union. more than 300 members of the duma, oligarchs and russian defense companies that fuel the russian war machine. in addition to the 100,000 u.s. forces now stationed in europe to defend nato territory, nato established as you already know four new battle groups in romania, hungary, bulgaria and slovakia to reinforce the eastern front. putin was banking on nato being split. my early conversation...

In fact, the top u.s. commander in europe just this week said things could be changing for the very long term. more troops, more of these battle groups, these multinational groups of military forces, including the u.s. that are in the eastern flank to bolster and reassure nato and also very clearly send a message to russia. these are the levers of influence, money, troops, power, weapons, that are being exercised to try and influence russian activity. to try and be a strong bulwark against the a...