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Fight in order to win and reach the peace ukrainians deserve. >> president biden passing the buck. >> current spike in gas prices largely fall on vladimir putin. >> this is not about blame at this point. that's not what people care about. they want to know how we are going to get out of this. ♪ >> it is 1:00 in the afternoon in ukraine on this tuesday, march 15th, 2022. beware the ides of march and a fox news alert. a brutal assault continues in ukraine this afternoon with russia pushing a scorched earth defensive despite ongoing diplomatic talks between the two countries. >> rachel: the uni...

Nbc news courtney correspondent, courtney kube with the nato cold response team. thank you for joining us with your exclusive reporting. let's talk about the news you have been working on breaking. how would the plan impact the thousands of troops already deployed to the region? >> as you said, kristen, there's four of the battle groups under nato hat and the united states is the lead on one of those. there are already thousands of american troops here as part of the nato presence here in eastern europe, but there are 100,000 troops all throughout europe right now. what we are doing here right...

But it is just an exercise — a test for nato allies to come to its defence. something nato says it will do to protect a member state, though not for ukraine. but what's happened in ukraine has suddenly made this training feel more real. an exercise like this, it's really good to have, uh, to prove to countries like russia and other foreign states that you don't want to mess with nato. i think there have been some discussions about if the cold response should take place, but i think it's more important to do it now than ever. and what signal does it send to russia, do you think? that we're wi...

To make that decision. russia's war in ukraine has sent shockwaves throughout the world. i met borisjohnson yesterday... and the head of nato, who met troops taking part in cold response, says the consequences will be felt for many years to come. president putin is getting exactly the opposite of what he wants. he wants less nato at his borders, he's getting more nato at his borders. he wants to divide nato. he has actually united, is uniting nato. but there's still a limit as to what nato is willing to do. it stands ready to defend its members, but it won't be using its military power to inte...

President putin wanted less nato near his border. what he's getting is more. notjust more exercises like this, but thousands more nato troops stationed along nato's eastern flank, all the way from the baltic to the black sea. it's notjust nato allies taking part. so are finland and sweden, with a long history of neutrality. but both countries have seen a recent surge in public support tojoin nato. russia's war in ukraine is forcing more of europe to pick sides. the military is ready, if the political decision — and there is a decision tojoin, but it's not up to us to make that decision. russ...