million people even if they weren t all classified as covid deaths. clearly that had a tremendous impact. and third is just he s been increasingly isolated. we ve seen that he has lost or gotten rid of any advisor that might have challenged him in any way. and over the course of the last year his rhetoric has completely mirrored the most ultra-nationalists in his circle. and i think you see this kind of isolation and this kind of echo chamber is one of the reasons that he anticipated this invasion would be quick and easy despite the fact that, i think, any analyst would have predicted this was the ukrainian people would not have greeted russian soldiers or any of the other analysis that seemed to have factored into the decision to do this. okay. still to come for us new details on the arrest of wnba star
earlier this week president putin said he was recognising two areas in eastern ukraine called donetsk and luhansk as independent . these areas have been controlled by russian backed fighters since 2014. mr putin said he was sending in troops as peace keepers. the united states says that s an invasion. our moscow correspondent caroline davies is in the city of rostov on don, 100km from the border with ukraine. so far the kremlin have been dismissive about some of the sanctions, suggesting they wouldn t have an impact on russia. the russian people may feel differently and concerned about how it will affect them. today is te defenders of the fatherland in russia.-
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With service members permanently stationed in Europe, those on rotational assignments and recent additional deployments, the U.S. now has more than 100,000 troops in Europe, the most since 2005, as Stars and Stripes noted.