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Theres a military buildup going on. >> yeah, i want to ask you about the military buildup, nic. right now, russia has 100,000 troops on the border to ukraine. doing military drills, and at the same time, u.s. sending, we just saw the images, 100,000 ton of lethal aid, as they call it. britain sending in anti-missiles. its far from a de-escalation right now. >> yes, and i think this is one of the things that antony blinken tried to coordinate with se sergey lavrov present in the meeting. there wa...

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Much the focus from the french and german leadership that talks can work, that there is room for diplomacy and that leadership can pull everyone. just diplomat level though the president said speaking in germany that he hoped that could translate into leader level talks. that is a long way off. there is this phone call as well as nic was just saying that is due to take place on friday. another push from emmanuel macron to see dialogue with the kremlin rather than outride confrontation. they are ...

Deaths, and you wouldnt see the invasion of the ukrainian territory, the overthrow of the government. the belarusan government we might see russian troops based with russian troops, too. in other words, there are a lot of things the russians can do that are not backing down at all if diplomacy fails but fall considerably short of the kind of headline theatrics that are leading the news right now. and by the way, those things will be more challenging for the americans to get their nato allies to ...

Between russia and ukraine. scott mclean is following the latest peace talks i was mentioning in europe. we begin this hour with nic robertson, with the reaction to the u.s. response to russia. and, nic, what has been the reaction to this letter of guarantees from moscow? >> zero reaction so far, isa. the kremlin is likely to take some time over this. yesterday, the foreign minister sergey lavrov when addressing parliament said he would respect the united states wishes to keep the contents confi...

Putin chose to invade ukraine and all the consequences, that he should not be rewarded by europe funding him any further. >> under consideration is how the germans are framing it, if there were to be a russian invasion, but, of course, the americans, the brits would like to see a firmer commitment from germany on that. of course, this is all very delicate, because the russians have said that, look, if that pipeline were to be canceled, if they were cut out of the swift banking system, then, well...

Government in ukraine, as he considers whether to invade. cnns nic robertson is in moscow. so, nic whats the reaction from there tonight? >> well, the reaction from the kremlin is, theyre saying that this is -- that the british are making this up, and that they should stop doing this. they should go back to studying their history books what the british are saying is that the kremlin in its consideration whether or not to invade ukraine, which the kremlin says it isnt, but the british governments...

Eastern european states is at a request of nato partners. and would include troops and equipment either already in europe or from the united states. but that afghanistan hangover, if you will, and how that shapes his response now is also, of course, shaping president putins thinking, that this is a moment of weakness among nato partners after what happened last summer. >> yeah. and, nic, more weapons arrived for ukraine as the u.s. warns of a swift and united response if russia invades ukraine. ...

Department. >> well, cnns nic robertson is standing by in moscow with the latest. right now, nic, diplomacy is not dead. in fact, thats all we have after 90 minutes of meeting, no major development, no end to the standoff, but an agreement that diplomacy and dialogue will continue. >> reporter: yeah, and the next step is that written response that united states has agreed to give to russia. this is something that russia has demanded since the beginning of september. united states has resisted un...

Theres no surprises here but theyre expecting to get an answer fairly soon. not today but fairly soon. foreign minister speaking tomorrow. well hear more then. >> absolutely. nic, thank you so much for that. lets go to ukraine now. cnns sam kiley live in ukraines capcapital, kyiv. the president is speaking with president biden this afternoon. what have you learned? >> reporter: well, he will be endorsing this nato and u.s. bilateral letter because it sets in writing what had been said in public ...