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And so one of the things that alliance leaders are talking about today, what should it look like? here in the united states, i mean, we had before the war 80,000 troops in europe, we now have 100,000. those are on temporary deployments. we are in the pentagon looking at what the future footprint ought to look like to make sure we can bolster nato's eastern flank. >> i look at the numbers as a former pentagon correspondent myself very closely. along the ukraine border, the eastern european nato allies, the number of troops have gone from 20,000 to 40,000 within a matter of a few weeks. >> that'...

The russians are pretty determined to break these lines. are they going to get past here? are they going to get past you and these men? translation: | think no. - we will not surrender kharkiv. our loved ones have got our backs. explosion they won't get through here. quentin sommerville, bbc news, kharkiv. president biden says nato has never been more united, and that russia's president, vladimir putin, is getting the opposite of what he intended when he ordered the invasion of ukraine. the us president was speaking after a summit in which leaders approved plans to send new battle groups to fo...

It's really about capabilities and it's based on constant conversations with our nato allies on the eastern flank. >> are those marines nato response force committed or are they just individual -- >> right now these are individual decisions based on available capability that we had and in talking to our nato allies. i don't -- as you probably saw in the nato summit, they announced another four battle groups and i think the nations are still feeling those out. i think we're leading the one in poland. other nations, you've got france i think is leading romania. so they're still filling some of t...

We'll see president biden. he's going to give us a press conference and debrief reporters on these meetings they've held. critical talks they've held behind the scenes here at bufl. abby? >> thanks, kaitlan. a busy day for president biden. we'll check back with you. let's go to white house reporter natasha bertrand, also in brussels. the nato chief stoltenberg said allies agreed to bolster nato's military position in eastern europe. tell us more about what that means. >> yeah, abby, this was a key priority of these discussions today. and what they've decided is that they are going to massive...

Space and their own ability to gain air superiority over their own country. >> interesting. nato is agreeing to place substantially more troops on the eastern flank including establishing four additional battle groups. where will these troops go and how do these deployments help secure nato? >> the additional troops will be slovakia, hunk gary, romania an bulgaria. that's where they will go in addition to poland and baltic states. so the idea is to create in essence an iron wall between nato and anything that the russians would try to gain because belarus is a russian ally. belarus may also be...