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Cnn's christiane amanpour, the russian troops along ukraine's eastern border are poised to move and could do so in as little as 12 hours. phil black is live in moscow. phil, just a few days ago, it seemed that vladimir putin was trying to pull or planning to pull those troops back, but still high alert this morning that an invasion could be imminent. what has changed? >> reporter: christine, i guess that's the point, nothing has changed. it has been a significant week diplomatically with russia pushing a possible diplomatic solution, russia suggesting a partial withdraw of forces from that are...

Of the ukraine situation and nato's belief, along with the u.s., there are still 40,000 russian troops on ukraine's eastern border. what will all of this mean? look, some of it may be symbolic. but it also sends a very clear message. russia and nato, along with the u.s., cooperate in nuclear ballistic missile testing by the russians. that's going to be an issue. that notification, that very precise cooperation, has to continue. russian bombers often fly over northern europe and along the alaska coastline. that's going to be an issue. it's going to have to continue. nato supplies. in and out of...

Ukraine's boarders. and tonight, i raised with the foreign minister our strong concern about these forces. we believe that these forces are creating a climate of fear and intimidation. >> translator: we expressed different views about the causes of this crisis. but nevertheless, we agreed that we need to search for points of common ground to find a diplomatic settlement of the situation in the interest of the ukrainian people. >> as we mentioned, ukraine said tens of thousands of russian troops are massed on its border with russia. as karl penhaul reports, many average ukrainians are praying f...

The conversation. not sure if we're going to get them, either. all of this comes just 15 days since the crimeans voted to secede from ukraine. now, head to the north up on to the main land, and that's where russia may have 40,000 troops near its border with eastern ukraine and another 25,000 inland on high alert and prepared to move in at any time. cnn's karl penhaul has more from the ukraine-russia border. ♪ >> reporter: faith, they can avoid a war are the russians. but just in case, a little prayer. this church sits on ukraine's eastern border. its priest, once an officer in the soviet arm...

I think that's always the fear, isn't it, for folks in california. >> reporter: oh, sure. >> you know because you lived in southern california. but the big one in san francisco, i think people in large part have always been asking when's the next one, how much worse can it get. >> up until a couple weeks ago, los angeles hadn't seen a really strong earthquake. you had one two weeks ago and another a couple days ago. but 1994 the northridge earthquake, which i lived through and a lot of people watching at home i'm sure lived through was a traumatic experience. $42 billion in damage. isn't comin...