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West at the river. he has transport helicopters to move logistics, personnel, fuel, ammunition, et cetera to support an operation like that. it's a very short distance. just look at the geography. from crimea into the support operations if he were to do that is right there. so it's well positioned. and he also has these attack aircraft, which can be used as well, plus the naval capability. so it tells you if i were looking at this i would say, look, let's not throw our eggs in one basket. but let's try to find more confirming evidence or to disprove this intelligence that he is going to move i...

Attack aircraft landed at an air base, and they have done so over the past few days, they see that satellite activity. that base had been vacant until now until at least 2003. i'll show you the same base in november of last year. you can see the shift, and 70 miles from the ukraine coast, another satellite image here shows at least ten russian su-34 strike bombers now in place. new video released today by the russian ministry of defense showing multiple rocket launchers conducting artillery drills in crimea. putin is saying one thing, saying he wants diplomacy, pulling back troops now that the...

Helicopters, attack helicopters. so the two things that really stand out to me in this announcement, lindsey, one is the f-35s. that is the u.s. military's most advanced fighter aircraft. that sends a real signal to the russians that the u.s. is moving these in. they have a strong surveillance capability into addition to the fact that they are attack aircraft. they have the ability to conduct air strikes. by that, i was very struck by the 32 apaches. these are attack helicopters. they only carry two people, the crew on board. they are frequently used for attacking the ground. so in like a conf...

Images that are showing at least 60 helicopters that have landed in the past few days at a previously unused air base in crimea. these helicopters are said to be a mix of transport and attack aircraft. more than 130,000 russian troops are already in position around ukraine as well. and the american embassy in kyiv closed as an invasion precaution. u.s. officials say the situation remains extremely dangerous, and a russian attack could be ordered at a moment's notice. >> cnn's jim sciutto live for us in kyiv this morning. jim, why don't you bring us up to speed on the very latest developments, ...

So the russians have a reasonably large inventory of attack aircraft -- some hold, some new. and they will employ those now that less risk from ukrainian air defenses and ukrainian command and control to organize a defense. the -- the really bad news, i think, for ukrainians out of that is that -- is that we know from the russian practice in syria that they don't use a lot of precision-guided weapons on their strike aircraft. they use -- they don't have huge stocks of those weapons, so they use more bombs and that is going to mean civilian casualties. >> and we all know what happened and the d...