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His strongest ally in the region. the president of belarus. their meeting coming as the two leaders and wrapping up military exercises but also planning to stage a massive nuclear drill they say will include ballistic and cruise missile launches tomorrow. cnns nic robertson live for us in moscow covering all of this. nic, what else do they say? >> kate, weve got the strongest and unequivocal indication from president putin now he has no intention of deescalating his forces unless the leadership ...

>> nic, what is their attitude as far as you can tell toward ukrainians these days? generally russians think of ukrainians as their brothers, but is the state media trying to portray the kyiv government as kind of the enemy? >> reporter: certainly the government and an absolute diminution of president zelensky at every opportunity. president putin when he met with president macron, they held a press conference just on monday, you know, six days ago, he used some really pretty vile language, i su...

Pretty loudly for several days now. and the president giving us an updated number of how many russian forces are there. previously, the u.s. assessment we had heard publicly was about 130,000. today, president biden said 150,000, and the white house said those words were chosen pretty carefully. >> so nic, we heard president biden speak directly to the citizens of russian, saying, quote, you are not our enemy. how was that message received? was it even heard? >> it hasnt really been heard yet. i...

>> and we were listening to u.s. vice president kamala harris addressing the munich security conference. the subject, of course, was the thread of a russian invasion of ukraine. we heard a warning that the security of europe is under threat. she said, quote, national borders should not be changed by force, which was roundly applauded by the audience there. she warned how russia was massing forces. and she warned that if russia further invaded ukraine, the response would be, quote, swift, severe ...

40% is with europe. by acting together, we put ourselves in a position where we would have not only an overall impact, but on putin who is tied to the russian economy. >> important perspective there. you can imagine cnn has reporters covering all angles of this. isabel a salas is following the troop deployment in fort bragg, north carolina. well get to that in a few minutes. first lets bring in melissa bell in kyiv and nic robertson in moscow. nic, good morning. let me start with you this hour. ...

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Editor nic robertson in moscow. and, nic, what is your assessment of what were seeing. it almost looks like russia is in its final stages of combat readiness. >> yeah, of course, for weeks now weve been hearing from u.s. officials and other officials, british officials saying, look, if russia is really serious about wanting a negotiation, a diplomatic track to open up here, then it should reduce the tension. if it really wants to have a discussion and get its issues addressed, then why the need ...

There is whats happened around the country and there is also whats happened on the front line. the u.s. ioc monitors any breaches. hes said they have locked and loaded their guns and avoiding any further cease-fire allegations. with more than 100,000 troops already on that ukraine border, russia is sending warships to the black sea for what it says are naval exercises. >> meanwhile french president macron believes his shuttle diplomacy in moscow and kyiv could bear fruit. lets go to cnns nic r...

The same side of world war ii. that was a war of necessity but this is war of choice. that obviously a message for vladmir putin. >> yes. nic, that leads us to you. i thought there were many times the message was to an audience of one and to vladmir putin when president biden said were ready with diplomacy or to respond decisively. we still believe that we can give diplomacy a chance. it was both. he was showing -- he was talking about his interest in diplomacy but also laying out the laundry li...

We begin with new developments on russias aggression. vladimir putin now saying this morning hes ready to discuss what he calls confidence-building measures with the u.s. and nato. the russian leader saying after meeting with germanys new chancellor in moscow but what does he really actually mean? this happens as nato disputes unsubstantiated claims that some troops have been withdrawing from the ukrainian border. secretary general said theres no signs of russian deescalation on the ground despi...