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Reporter: mike, that threat of potential invasion continues to grow as russia very publicly is bringing more weapons, more weapon systems and soldiers to three sides of ukraines border in particular to the north in the country of belarus with more than 30000 troops in the north carrying out joint exercises, russia and belarus. were an attack to come from the north it would be a two hour drive to take the capital here. we spoke to some women along the highway there whose cell cheese, eggs and pic...

Steve is in ukraines capital of kyiv right now with the very latest. steve. >> the numbers are pretty lopsided when you look at them. some of the ukrainian civilians training with what in tell me rifles. have the russians on three sides of ukraine now. some of the most modern weapon systems in the world and that buildup in particular in the north of ukraine in the country of belarus. russia and delivers carrying out joint exercises and its the largest deployment since the start of the cold war a...

That is an independent country. its very closely aligned to russia. all of these forces here have been aligned for quite some time. this russian military presence is very notable because its really close to the ukrainian capital of kyiv, right here. its only 56 miles from here to here. the russian -- excuse me, the belarusian and ukrainian border to kyiv, 56 miles, so that allows you to move very quickly if you need to get from one place to the other, and this shows right here, for example, you ...

Looking at that the 27th. now, the proposed amendments are interesting. they would remove language about the countrys military neutrality and its obligation to remain free of nuclear weapons. thats pretty serious change. could that set the stage for russia to station nuclear missiles on natos doorstep? >> they absolutely -- belarus has effectively operated as a buffer between nato and russia, and that has been a stabilizing factor. now we see -- first of all, the presence of russian forces, alre...

Wiped out. now it is believed that putin will try to order the armed force, the armor, the mechanized infantry, to come down and do a mass assault into a city. anyone that served knows that this is dangerous. you go into an urban area with tanks, without enough adequate infantry cover, those tanks even though they have good firepower, are vulnerable to being attacked on all sides. so they may make it into the city, they may even make it look good as they get down to certain cross roads, they mig...

Air defense missile fired, ukraine has war planes operational, the fuel issues we are told show they either outran their supply lines, did not plan properly, or did not execute that plan very well. they have been slowed from taking any cities, like where columns of military vehicles have been successfully targeted by the shoulder-fired anti-tank javelin and inlaw missiles the u.s. and nato have provided the ukrainian military. evidence that russia is beginning to employ the imprecise weapon syst...

This one certainly the case. russia does have the impact that president biden described. they can effect american lives. a big chunk of wheat flows through the black sea. energy prices for sure. you can constrict and destabilize the market. he can mess around in the middle east and present real risk to our friend and ally israel. vladimir putin has many tools. not the least of which is still a thousand nuclear warheads. we gave him at the very beginning of this administration. we gave him the br...

Additional military aid swiftly, that theyre going to be overwhelmed. i mean, if you look at how much more military the russians have on the ground versus the ukrainians, theyre dwarfed by it. theyre dwarfed by the weapon systems that russia has. this is an onslaught that we have to appreciate is going to be effective if we dont take more significant steps. >> when you say more significant steps, getting more arsenal in country is among them, right. i mean, how quickly and of what capacity could...

To both of you saying the u.s. had not previously provided advanced weapon systems with a credible military pressure and could have imposed earlier targeted sanctions on russian leadership. as promised, ambassador, i believe you want today bring up different points beyond s.w.i.f.t. your reaction to vindman and those other points you want to raise. >> vindman is absolutely right. last spring, the russians put that build-up on ukraines border and we talked about providing ukraine weapons but we d...

>> thanks for having me, threes. i think the short answer is that vladimir putin is not -- especially as the head of the russian federation and second most of the military might is on the sideline so he can increase from a conventional standpoint, assets is large -- as well as larger weapon systems the unconventional means are a possibility, especially the cyber front. we see what he has done there. but there is significant possibility that he can go that direction. [indiscernible] but from a bi...