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Major escalation. >> javelin anti-tank missiles were quite effective against the t-80 tanks which is the russians are employing against ukraine right now. >> reporter: the u.s. has been warning allies of a possible russian invasion, with just a short window to prevent russia from taking action. as top u.s. officials increasingly sound the alarm publicly. >> we have real concerns about russia's unusual military activity on the border with ukraine. >> we're not sure exactly what mr. putin is up to. >> reporter: a top ukrainian intelligence official claims in an interview with the military times ...

Air defense missiles, multiple officials tell cnn. the biden administration is weighing the consequences of such moves. with some administration officials concerned they could be seen by the kremlin as a major escalation. >> anti-tank missiles are effective against the t-80 tanks, which the russians are employing in these efforts against ukraine right now. >> reporter: the u.s. has been warning allies of a possible russian invasion. with just a short window to prevent russia from taking action, top u.s. officials increasingly sound the alarm publicly. >> we have real concerns about russia's un...

Are quite effective against the t-80 tanks which the russians are employing in these efforts against ukraine right now. >> reporter: the u.s. has been warning allies of a possible russian invasion with just a short window to prevent russia from taking action as top u.s. officials increasingly sound the alarm publicly. >> we have concerns about russia's unusual military activity on the border with ukraine. >> we're not sure exactly what mr. putin is up to. >> reporter: a top intelligence official claims in an interview with the military times that russia has more than 92,000 troops amassed near...

Earlier this month show those russian t-80 tanks, as well as armored personnel carriers and other equipment. masked in a small town, a possible staging area for invading from the north, potentially through russia's ally belarus. >> we don't know what president putin's intentions are, but we do know what's happened in the past. we do know the playbook of trying to cite some illusory provocation from ukraine or another country, then doing whatever russia is planning to do all along. >> reporter: vladimir putin's response is to call existing u.s. support for yukraine a provocation. >> we need to ...

These, you know, are primary armored personnel carriers, trucks of various types. there might be a few tanks in some of the areas here. you are looking at 1,200 different kinds of weapons that are actually being staged in an area lookic this. this is a con tonement area used by the 41st combined force army, about a 30,000 strong military unit. and these units, you see some of the tanks here. they are t-80 tanks. those tanks are very important for anien innovation forces that are going to potentially be used in an effort to go after ukraine. what you are seeing here is a staging area that can b...