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She was telling me she's drawing a direct parallel with her sign here between adolf hitler's annexation in 1938 and what looks like the imminent russian annexation of crimea this year. people fought and died here to defend their vision of the future of ukraine. but now russian troops are massing along ukraine's eastern border. "we need to defend our country. we don't want to fight but we can't just give up our land." some men here say they're volunteering to defend ukraine. >> i just went to military checkpoint and left my phone just in case of any emergency state. i'm ready to go. but either ...

Are absolutely unacceptable and we have to return ukraine's territorial integrity back. >> but here's something that will bring into question whether this is it as the crimean deputy prime minister told our correspondent richard engel today, that eastern ukraine will be the next to join russia. but today secretary kerry and the foreign minister there, mr. lavrov, they agreed on a halt until the ukraine election. so do you think, heather, that the crimea is the only territory in vladimir putin's sights? >> i think moscow is keeping its options open. yesterday we already saw incursions into the ...

>> while russia's ambassador insisted his country does not want war, developments on the ground show they are preparing for one anyway. troops are carrying out operations in multiple regions along ukraine's eastern border. russian fighter jets and military helicopters are holding training exercises nearby. inside ukraine, tensions are high. violent protests between pro-russian supporters and supporters of the ukrainian government left at one person dead and more than a dozen injured. nbc's jim maceda is in washington. what's the latest with what appears to be a troop buildup for russian troops...

Morning. >> it does raise so many questions, though. all right, let's turn now to crimea, where this morning all indications are that this weekend's secession vote is likely to go in favor of those who want to secede and join russia. troops are now massing on ukraine's eastern border, a dramatic build-up raising the specter of a russian invasion. in just an hour now, secretary of state john kerry is set to meet with his russian counterpart in london. they're trying to find a diplomatic solution to keep this crisis from getting worse. our nick patan walsh is in simferopol this morning in crim...

>> i think that's why it may be too late. i think the west as a whole made a big mistake in 2008 when we didn't bring ukraine into nato. jenna: interesting you say that. you point out this is mistake made by different administrations by different political persuasions. what is going on in the way we view this part of the world, our leaders are viewing this part of the world that you think we have wrong? >> i think we're not defending american interests in a clear enough way. i think nato decision in 2008 to leave a gap between nato's eastern border if you will and russia's western border creat...