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Sanctions in case of further aggression in the full range of responses are available including... the russian foreign ministry said the best way to reduce tensions was for nato to withdraw its forces from eastern europe, again insisting the kremlin has no plans for an invasion. we have already repeatedly stated that our country does not intend to —— anyone. we consider even the thought of war between our people to be unacceptable. not convinced, nato continues to bolster its defences in eastern europe, four danish f16's landed in lithuania today for enhanced air policing along the eu's eas...

Joe, the president of the united states has put on alert 8500 troops here in the states that could be deployed if russian veins for not ukraine itself but to the eastern front of nato to send a message to russians ukraine is not part of nato, you are not going to mess with nato itself. but, as the president even have agreement on that deployment? with the rest of nato go along? >> i think what is really conspicuous with regard to that suggestion from biden as you are not hearing that kind of conversation from any other european country. as difficult as it is for the germans to get themselves o...

So what are you suggestic nato do at this point? >> well, something we should have all done years and years ago, so there's collective blame here, but nato's expansion didn't have a clear end point and as a result, we've got a number of countries, moldova, belarus, ukraine, ajerbaijan caught in a gray zone between nato's eastern border and russia's western border and that ambiguity is something putin is playing on right now. so while nato develops a strategy to deter putin from taking aggressive action against ukraine in particular or any of the others, we need to have a better strategic focus...

Does wonders for your mental health. this in we are england in half an hour, here on bbc news. hello and welcome to bbc news. the prime minister borisjohnson is due to speak to the russian president vladimir putin and visit eastern europe in the coming days as the uk steps up its efforts to resolve the crisis at ukraine's eastern border. russia has gathered 100,0000 troops, tanks and missiles at the border with ukraine but denies plans to invade. borisjohnson said he would reiterate the need for russia to step back. 0ur chief international correspondent lyse doucet has more from kyiv.

>> reporter: today, more russian troops and hardware arriving in belarus, to ukraine's north, for war games, adding to the pressure from thousands already massing to the east. the kremlin threatening a military technical response unless there's a guarantee ukraine won't join nato. >> president putin has created this crisis by amassing 100,000 russian troops along ukraine's borders. this includes moving russian forces into belarus recently for joint exercises and conducting additional exercises on ukraine's eastern border. >> reporter: secretary blinken now en route to the region for talks in u...