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An estimated 130,000 troops along ukraine's border and putin has added at least a half dozen landing ships in the black sea with the purposes of putting troops on shore. they are talking diplomacy but advancing into attack positions. >> right. this is a moment of maximum pressure against ukraine. so he's got the military machine moving, he's moving it to its attack position. the world is on edge. people in ukraine are starting to take this seriously. it could be very damaging to the collapse of the government in ukraine or president zelensky says we give up on nato and please accept us as your...

>> and lastly, the pentagon is well aware of that? >> absolutely. there is no abatement about the concern and worry about putin's next steps. they see the number of troops there. we're looking at 190,000. they see the buildup getting closer to the border. remember friday 45 to 50% of troops, russian troops near ukraine were in attack positions. and they have seen no signs that putin is deescalating. if you leave the forces in belaruse when the exercise is over, if they remain at a height ened level in crimea and the border of eastern ukraine there, what's the reason for that? the conclusion, t...

"we'll unbelievable a deescalation when we see a full-scale pullout." despite russian reassurances, u.s. officials tell cbs news, those troops pulling back to their barracks, are not frontline forces, describing them as irrelevant, and they represent just a fraction of the rest of the 150,000 troops, missiles, and warships that remain in place by land and sea. critically, that includes russian troops on joint military exercises in belarus, just a few hundred miles from the capital kyiv. a u.s. official tells cbs news russian forces have moved into attack positions, and americans have been told...

Fracturing. angela merkel is now gone. you have a new chancellor, internal politics, very cold winter, nord stream 2 coming in. and fractured nato. you look at the imagery on the ground where forces are deployed. when you look back at january, they are all lined up in an atonement area, deployment area, if you will. what we saw a week ago is these forces are now deployed else elsewhere. this is ukraine. this is the area where this piece of imagery exists right now. what was in place is beginning to deploy into what we call attack positions or what, as putin says, these are legitimate training ...

>> trace: general keith kellogg, you are the man to speak with at this time. so it's not u.s. intelligence we are basing these reports of russian troop movement and yet the president of ukraine, zelensky, has now told his people he thinks wednesday is the day. what do you make of this statement? >> trace, thanks for having me on again. look, understand this, generally in warfare the first report is always wrong but i will tell you this. this is unclassified. we have had a lot of aerial assets, rivet joint or j stars, aircraft that are flying the border between ukraine and russia. they can pick...