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Deployment of four additional battle groups to protect the alliance's eastern border. that would increase the number of nato forces in those eastern nato alliance countries from 20,000 to 40,000 within days, doubling that number. we're watching all of this unfold very, very closely. >> we are. thank you for joining us this hour. i'm poppy harlow. ukrainian president zelenskyy addressed nato ahead of these critical meetings delivering an impassioned plea for even more military assistance. listen. >> you have at least 8,000 tanks. ukraine asks for 1%. 1% of all your tanks. please give them to us...

Extraordinarily significant. the battle groups just announced, for example, there are 1500 to 2,000 troops, and they are multinational, and in addition to battle groups that stretch on the northern flank, now you have them going on the southern flank which is just critical, hungry, slovakia, hungry and romania. vladimir putin is waking up in the kremlin this morning and it's everything he doesn't want to see. it's a unified appliance politically and diplomatically, but one that is showing its military capability. by the way, you know i am going to say this, it's not just about land forces. wha...

The four new battle groups headed to the four new battle groups headed to the eastern flank of nato and the international community has never been more united that it is today, the opposite of what vladimir putin wanted. he was asked about chemical weapons and this was an interesting response because he was asked what with the response be if chemical weapons were used and he said we would respond, in terms of the nature of the use. deliberately vague around what sort of red light actually exists. he was also asked about china, the conversations with president xijinping and about china, the con...

Ukraine. that said, everyone agreed russia not everyone agreed that russia should be expelled from the g 20 and the next summit in november. western leaders were keen to show they are united against moscow and preparing for any worst case scenario. >> our top military commander, general walters, activated nato chemical bio logical and nuclear defense elements. and allies are deploying additional chemical and nuclear defenses to reinforce the existing new battle groups. >> cnn has all the diplomatic angles. covering with correspondents across europe. live in poland. we begin in brussels with mo...

Growlers coming out of wouldby island. it's based on constant conversations with our nato allies. >> are those marine nato response force committed or are they just individuals? >> right now these are individual decisions based on avail able 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 the nations are filling them out. we're leading the one in poland. other nations, france, is leading romania. they're still filling these houtd. okay. you've been patient. >> i have been told about north