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It's something that's very disturbing to all those watching the elections in the united states. >> matthew chance following th story live for us in moscow. matthew, thank you for the reporting. russia adamantly denies it tampered with the u.s. election, but ukraine and other eastern european nations are also worried about moscow possibly mettling as well. we get more from i-van watson. >> war games in eastern europe as u.s. soldiers train in latvia. 25 years ago this was part of the soviet union. today latvia is part of the european union and also a u.s. military ally in nato. these are live ...

Fire at north sea after military drills spilled over the border. barbara, what more are we learning this morning? >> reporter: good morning, kate. this is exactly what the u.s. has worried about for weeks. is is there a new round of provocation from north korea? this took place on the western border at sea, north korea conducting live fire exercises, some of it falling into south korean waters and at that point the south responded. the reuters news agency is reporting this got pretty brisk, the north firing about 500 artillery shells, the south koreans firing back with about 300 shells. this h...

Reassure russia, saying today ukraine had no plans to join nato, he also said the country would be defended by a strong and modern army. this week has seen the mobilization of forces including a newly-formed national guard militia as well as live fire exercises. amid reports of pro-russian agitators in eastern ukraine and more russian troop movement on the other side of the border. >> translator: if the russian army crosses into the territory of ukraine, the ukrainian army would respond with full force to the russian aggression. >> while ukraine is set to sign an economic agreement with the eu...

They might find themselves against another foe. the russian army. >> 20,000 regular soldiers have been mobilized today. 20,000 more national guard volunteers. we watched as live fire exercises were conducted at the base. the ukrainian troops have been active in the south as 22,000 russians in crimea and the east where there are violent prorussian rallies. the ukrainian military would be vastly outnumbered in any faceoff with russia. that's probably why presidential contender and former boxer had some brave but careful words about russian intervention. >> i hope we not go over the line where ...

Call? >> a great question. we have been asking china to get involved for years and china, everyone says china can put pressure on north korea. china refuses to do it. i think the reason they're doing it now is the united states is finally taking action. we put the aircraft carrier and destroyers up there off the island, the koreans are joining us. we're showing at least we're not going to be backing off and doing nothing, because maybe that's changing how beijing looks at the situation. >> shannon: the administration is emphasizing the war games were planned long ago. not in response to the la...