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Base. jen, good afternoon. was that international peace keeping base near polish border targeted because that's where nato weapons were flowing into ukraine? >> reporter: well, that's what the russians have said, mike. shortly after the white house announced it had authorized another $200 million in security assistance to ukraine, assistance that goes over land into ukraine from a variety of border cross toings from nato article v countries, russia's deputy foreign minister warned that russia would target these convoys, these shipments of weapons. hours later, at 6 a.m. local time, a barrage o...

Strike on the ukrainian training base near poland, it may disrupt shipments after russia warned it will view any weapons deliveries as, quote, legitimate topic -- targets. jen or if griffin is at the pentagon with more on this. jennifer, is there a sense at the pentagon that the russians were after nato resupplying the ukrainian government? >> reporter: well, certainly a symbolic target, and it hasn't been a secret that the u.s. and nato have used that base for years going back to 2015. it was very popular among codells when congressional leaders would go and visit. but let's go back and look ...

Ukraine, assistance that goes overland into ukraine from a variety of border crossings from nato article v countries. russia's deputy foreign minister warned that russia would target these convoys, those shipments of weapons. hours later, at 6 a.m. local time, a barrage of russian cruise missiles struck the international peacekeeping and security center in car vi about 12 miles from the border. >> translator: rockets started to fall 10 kilometers from the border with europe with. tomorrow they may fall on the territory of poland where our wives and children are staying now. i want to call on a...

It stalling, you tell the people that in some of these towns where the bombs keep falling and their loved ones keep dying. >> and that as much as anything is why volodymyr zelenskyy is calling for face-to-face talks, that the destruction is that being wrought on his country is such that, if it continues for much longer, if we have another four weeks of this, how much of ukraine will generally be left? >> reporter: yes, and he sees on the sidelines that the big grand plan that he would like is to close the sky, a no-fly zone. and he knows that that won't happen. it is just too dangerous. worth ...

Forward if they are targets? >> well, it depends how we define legitimate targets. if the russians have the temerity to put a missile or something into systems in poland or wherever in eastern europe within nato, then the -- then that is a -- that is an act of war. and we're going to move into article v and nato land. i want to make one point, joe. when we talk about u.s. and nato, this isn't just that. it's europe. and there are other -- there are eu nations and neutral nations that also have a major, major stake in it. the russians want to make it a nato-russia thing. no. this is europe in a...