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Belarusian joint exercises with russia to the north that were mentioned in that report, but there is also growing tension to the south. russia has put out a warning saying it is planning to carry out naval drills, missile drills in the black sea and ac that runs along ukraine's south coast. dimitrov says thatis ukraine's south coast. dimitrov says that is actually a pretext for blocking ukrainian ports, which would put not only a military squeeze on things, but an economic one as well, so he is worried about that. he says there is evidence that the number of troops, that estimated 100,000 figu...

Different estimation. >> reporter: the differences on the question of intention. you don't believe they intend to invade? >> i hope that in kremlin they didn't make their decision still. >> reporter: but chernobyl is only ten miles from the border with belarus, where russia has been holding joint military exercises. these just some of the 30,000 combat troops that nato has warned on their way, welcomed with bread and salt and open arms. to the east of chernobyl lies this neutral zone between ukraine, russia, and belarus. it's known as the three sisters crossing, in memory of the time when the ...

He will likely get exactly what he didn't want. if you read the papers, he didn't want increased forward presence and increased forward capability. and that's what we're doing now, as well as other nato nations, by the way. but general, doesn't doing precisely what president putin doesn't want risk further escalation in the region, given that moscow has called this deployment "destructive", and makes it seem like the time for talking is over? so, karishma, let's talk about what you just said. so mr putin's sitting over there with well over 109,000 troops on the border — and he calls this dep...

More is being asked of britain's smaller armed forces. but his focus is notjust on deterrence, but diplomacy, too. this week, he will talk to president putin and visit eastern europe, while the defence secretary, ben wallace, will also be travelling the region to rally support. jonathan beale, bbc news. speaking on the bbc�*s sunday morning politics, nato's secretary general jens stoltenberg told the bbc he has no plans to send nato troops to ukraine. we have no plans to deploy nato combat troops to ukraine. nato allies have trainers there. we help them from nato with building capacity, mode...

Heard as well, to provide some services out in the western part of the country in case it's impossible to do work in kyiv. however, as jake said yesterday, jake sullivan said yesterday, the decision -- a decision, mr. putin's decision to invade has not yet been made. he hasn't decided. he can still be deterred. he can still do that calculation that we talked about, that the costs are very high and the benefits are not. >> so, we also heard the u.s. essentially saying, listen, if the russian president decides to invade ukraine, we are ready. and we know what they mean by that. we will level the...