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My job was to study the border of battle and viability of the russian invasion routes. and that is real. i know the people in ukraine are taking a rather, you know, casual approach towards it. they don't believe the russians are going to win bug. and, you as one of your previous reporters put it earlier that, is changing in the last 48 hours. it's not anywhere near what he would would expect. there is no panic going on here at all. however, the russian battle groups that are around this country are 75% of the russian army. thauf gone from garrison out in the tent fields, they're now moving to ...

Nato leaders who've been meeting in brussels say they're considering strengthening the bloc�*s eastern flank, in the light of the crisis over ukraine. that would mean creating new battle groups in central and southern europe. nato also says, it's seen no evidence to confirm russia's claims, that some forces have been pulling back, following the completion of military exercises in crimea. police in london are investigating allegations of cash for honours linked to one of the prince of wales�*s charities. his aides say he had "no knowledge of the alleged offer of honours or british citizensh...

Thanks so much. _ let's talk to general philip breedlove — he's a retired four—star general in the united states air force and served as nato's supreme allied commander in europe from 2013 to 2016. thank you so much forjoining us, you are very welcome. i want to go back to something that was said earlier — he was talking about strengthening the defence, talking about new battle groups in central and southeastern europe could be in romania and the black sea region. what he think about that, strengthening the defence? is at the right approach, and why or why not? i think it's part of the r...

Indeed we hear that the russian defence ministry had announced that they were building that bridge as part of what it calls its military exercises in belarus near the border with the ukraine. i think there are some differences about some of the intelligence. for example, you've heard more than 100,000 russian troops, some people say 130,000. we've also heard ben wallace talking about 150,000 troops. the point they are making is that that build—up hasn't gone away, that even if troops are being moved around, the threat remains and that is why they are still so concerned here about what happen...

Ukraine if president putin decided to. i think it's a case of once bitten, twice shy. remember, last yearthe bitten, twice shy. remember, last year the west saw russia build up its forces on the ukrainian border and then withdraw some of them, but they left equipment behind and each time they have reset their military posture higher. so that is why nato defence ministers here are discussing their own military posture. if you remember after 2014 and the invasion of crimea, nato put in battle groups of 1000 troops each in battle groups of 1000 troops each in the baltic states in poland and are t...