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Missile. warning that it should make his enemies think twice about threatening russia. but the missile is not ready to be used, the pentagon said testing is routine. and russia had actually properly notified the united states, in advance of the test. heavy shelling and artillery attacks intensify across the donbas region. as russia moved for additional combat units into ukraine. the situation in mariupol is worsening, as ukrainian soldiers fight for control of their city. and russia again blocke...

Russian speakers. its a war which has forced these russian speakers to shelter underground from the horrific bombardment. >> the u.s. is now saying that russia has about 76 combat units, these tactical groups in the east. theres 50,000, maybe 60,000 troops there now. the standard calculation, i guess, is three invaders for one defender. does that mean the russians are still short on the numbers they need? >> well, in terms of manpower, thats very possible. but they have massive amounts of arti a...

The fighting detachments of the 444th Brigade announced yesterday that it is continuing its anti-fuel smuggling campaign on the edges

Raising the economic cost and ratchet up the pain for putin and further increase russias economic isolation. >> and that isolation is expected to only be ramped up in the days and weeks ahead. u.s. officials still in consultation with allies about new sanctions, potentially targeting energy. one thing to note, on targeting president putins two older daughters, u.s. officials feel very firmly that russian officials have been trying to shield their money through family members, that is made them v...

Last two they got 62,000 which they said was their goal. but we also dont know about the quality of those recruits because we continually reduced standards for them. so what weve got we really need to hold onto. nthe second thing is beyond recruiting his training. when you begin to look at the combat units and you look at 40,000 nondeployable soldiers serving in the regular army of the united states, the active component right now, roughly eight to 10% of every battalion or brigade has nondeploy...

70,000 people. last two they got 62,000 which they said was their goal. but we also dont know about the quality of those recruits because we continually reduced standards for them. so what weve got we really need to hold onto. the second thing is beyond recruiting his training. when you begin to look at the combat units and you look at 40,000 nondeployable soldiers serving in the regular army of the united states, the active component right now, roughly eight to 10% of every battalion or brigade...

Will reinforce our nato allies. we will protect them and reassure them that we are prepared to move with very severe sanctions if president putin crosses that border with these combat units and invade ukraine with these combat units. we have made it very clear with the consequences for that will be. and we are continuing to try to engage the russians and diplomacy. to de-escalate the situation. vladimir putin -- we will see what he does next. >> one more question before you go. no president in h...

I dont want to try to describe it beyond that. but do you see a horizon where there wont be 100,000 troops, russian troops, on the ukraine border and a timetable for that? >> sadly, that is up to president putin. we have made very clear that we will reinforce our nato allies. we will protect them and reassure them that we are prepared to move with very severe sanctions if president putin crosses that border with these combat units and invade ukraine with these combat units. we have made it very ...

Diplomacy. amassed 190,000 troop and other personnel in and around ukraine, hours from now, speaking with global allies on how to deter russias aggression as ukraine says cease-fire violations are surging in that eastern part of the country. and breaking this morning, we have learned that a bleak new intelligence assessment is driving new urgency from the biden administration on russia and ukraine. im told the latest assessment indicates that russia is continuing with preparations to invade. w...

We are greeted by the ukrainians. they were so fearful of stalin and the misery that he caused an option for german hostility and also other people, they would follow germany into the end of the war. so we definitely and this war is in my view going to take the country the next 90 days. >> ive got the map of ukraine of them are looking at, kyiv which is basically the north center of the country. due north of it would be belarus which is an independent republic. if you are leaving kyiv right now ...