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They are not hitting their objectives. it is turning out to be more of a swab. ukrainians are putting up more of a fight than the russians guessed they would. putting up more than the russians had planned for. again, it is easy to turn that into an inspirational thing. it is easy to read the ballot of that in your mind. but, an up armored, mechanized, huge modern military, against a civilian population, its something that starts terrible, that is terrible in the middle, and that ends terribly al...

Statements of president putin. we reject any notions of the spheres of influence and we reject any limited sovereignty which russia wants to impoesz on the neighbors, be it ukraine, be it georgia, muldova or any country surrounding the russian federation. >> and georgia and muldova both have some areas which are russian controlled as a result. there has been the activation for the first time in natos history of a defense force, an active response force and some of it which will be in the baltic ...

>> weve seen scenes like this before in europe. every russian has lived or learned about the horrific siege of liningrad during world war ii. that siege affected millions of russian families, including president putins, whose 1-year-old brother is one of the many victims. the world is saying to russia, stop these attacks immediately. let the food and medicine in. let the people out safely. >> also in latvia, our colleague, josh lederman, who got a close look at natos response force and the u.s. ...

>> hannah hopko, thank you so much. coming up next, nato has activated its response force for the first time ever. what does that mean exactly? and what more can nato do? talking about this with hannah, what more can nato do? and the u.s. do to slow russias aggression? and one thing the u.s. has already done is sanctions, but what impact will these financial punishments really have? later, a warning from ukraines nuclear regulators who say the russian activity around chernobyl is kicking u...

Very much, from moscow, lets go to nbcs josh lederman from brussels. nato has activated its response force for the first time in history. what is the justification for this historic move? >> reporter: well, nato secretary general stoltenberg says its a response, alex, to the greatest threat to european security in decades. so what this means is that some of the 40,000 troops that make up natos response force will be deployed to eastern europe to shore up nato allies, including battle ready troop...

During an emergency session yesterday, nato did decide to activate that response force for the first time in its history as part of that collective defense purpose and in response directly to this russian aggression were seeing, this war that has broken out. the reason is to reassure the eastern flavng nato countries that nato is supporting them, that they have enough forces and equipment necessary to repel anything that may come their way, the concern being obviously that an invasion that is so...

Exploding rounds falling around the vehicle. casualties are rising. among them 13 ukrainian defenders on a black sea island. they refused to surrender to a russian warship and reportedly responded with an expletive when the russians told them to surrender. tonight zelenskyy says theyll receive the honor of ukraine. the nato alliance is activating its rapid response force for the first time in a defensive role in europe, up to 40,000 troops will bolster allied countries close to russia and ukrain...

Account or flagging it for misinformation. back to you guys. >> waking up right outside their windows, ukrainian forces holding off attacks in the streets of their capital city. nato has activated its response force for the first time in history. lightning fighters arriving on natos eastern flank. joining me now our military panels u.s. marine and member of the security team that bought in the battle of benghazi and robert charles, former assistant secretary of state for george w. bush and forme...

Response force. the situation in ukraine, the senior u.s. defense official says russia has every intention of decapitating the ukrainian government and installing one that favors russia. ukrainian the domain president appeared and no short video promising that he and his family are staying in ukraine despite being atop the russian target list and that a new iron curtain is falling in europe. ukraines foreign minister is returning home. he spoke to bret baiers pleading for military hardware so hi...

Nuanced development in military events in europe. nato has activated what is essentially 40,000-man response force. these are troops that would be ready to go to their positions on very short notice. no one is thinking that 40,000 are going. it will be something smaller than that as nato makes decisions throughout the next several days. but what it does is put troops on standby essentially. be ready. you may be deployed. you may be going to certain loca locations. this is something the u.s. is a...