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Mine. "the new york times" reports ukrainian bomb technicians discovered mines near kharkiv. traditional land wires explode after a trip wire is stepped on. but these will detonate when someone is walking by and can tell the difference between humans and animals. joining us, pentagon press secretary, retired rear admiral john kirby. good morning. good to have you with us. >> thank you. >> give us your assessment, if you would. we have been talking about the retreat of the russian troops from kyi...

The movement and the increase since the break-up of the soviet union of nato forces has been because of precisely russias unpredictability, its invasion of georgia in 2008, its annexation of crimea in 2014, and its created a fear of the eastern allies that russia is in an expansion mood and they need greater forces to defend themselves. it hasnt deployed in numbers. its been sensitive to what russia has sent. its produced a trip wire force of several hundred troops, fighter aircraft into the bal...

However? will the u.s. have to give more concrete concessions or incentives to make this process move to a peaceful resolution? >> the united states and our allies have been clear that there is a lot to talk about when it comes to reciprocal interest-based security parameters in europe we can talk about missiles and missile placements as we have historically with intermediate nuclear capable missiles we can talk about the size and scope of exercises. we can talk about greater transparency and ri...

Force. it was a trip wire. if russia was to cross over and trip that wire, other forces, nato forces could be rushed to the border. what is happening now? that trip wire is being bolstered. nato is putting itself on a higher level of readiness for whatever may happen. particularly in those baltic nations who are quite isolated. they lived under the soviet union for so long. theyre very concerned about their size and location and what russia is maneuver to do now . hes going to see this as a wors...

The big significance is that were publicly showing our cards a bit here with our possibility military deployment and possible nato joint task force in this particular situation. so normally what happens in a case like this is un ipts are issuing a warning order, told they need to get ready to deploy, it is pretty obvious from admiral kirbys press conference and his remarks that, that warning order has gone out but an actual deployment order which sens troops forward has not gone out. and that wo...

President zelensky has abdicated and im here, and meanwhile the russian forces are coming in from all directions, its enough confusion that in that, they think perhaps that would be the most desirable case. theyll come at it, i think, from all directions. thats what we have to assume in any case, that it would be quick, as large as possible, and over as rapidly as possible. >> general, i want to put up a map for you. its showing u.s. and nato troops. this is along natos eastern border. the u.s. ...

Trigger all of these responses after the fact. i think in part maybe president biden is setting up his own cuban missile crisis. if this talk is about the russians go across the border and it does and happen, president biden said we prevented world war iii. the other thought is we keep sending in nato troops. thats a good thing. theyre there as a symbolic effort and also there as a trip wire should vladimir putin think hes greedier than ukraine. frankly, theres there as an evacuation force. the ...

What sensigns are they looking ? theres no one single answer that is the trip wire. but warning signs could include an increase in russian cyber attacks against ukraine. weve already seen some cyber attacks against ukraine, but this would be on another level, information warfare from russian state-run media outlets, and a firing range. all could be signs that an invasion is coming but its not definitive. >> thank you very much for the update and the reporting. new revelations about the trump adm...

Pres president zelensky as abdicated, its enough confusion that in that they think perhaps that would be the most desirable case. theyll come at it from, i think, from all directions. thats what we have to assume in any case, that it would be quick, as large as possible, and over as rapidly as possible. >> general, i want to put up a map for you showing u.s. and nato troops along natos eastern border, the u.s. troops are marked in red. 5,700 u.s. troops in poland, 450 in lithuania, 900 in romani...

Incredibly scary. if you want stability on the continent is that not something you have to address? you have to continue to set boundaries _ you have to continue to set boundaries for _ you have to continue to set boundaries for russia - you have to continue to set boundaries for russia and i you have to continue to set - boundaries for russia and putin to id boundaries for russia and putin to go across— boundaries for russia and putin to go across them _ boundaries for russia and putin to go ...