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U.s. troops have been placed on heightened alert for possible deployment to eastern europe. pentagon spokesperson john kirby says despite calls for russian president vladimir putin to step back from ukraine, he's actually sending new troops to the border. >> they continue to add tactical groups to their western border, to the border with ukraine. and in belarus as well. they've shown no signs of de-escalating but they are adding more force capability. >> president biden held a conference call on the crisis and touted total unanimity. >> hi, nic. >> hi, christine. we've just heard from dmitry p...

Why? let's go outfront. good evening, i'm erin burnett. outfront tonight, on the brink. president biden holding a call with key u.s. allies for roughly 80 minutes tonight over growing fears russia is on the verge of invading ukraine. the president saying everyone is on the same page. the call comes as 8500 u.s. troops are now on heightened alert to possibly deploy. as president putin shows no sign of backing down. >> as their presence on the border enlarged or changed in a qualitative way that ises ses escalating? >> yes. they are continuing to add battalion troops to their western border, t...

Absolutely. they continue to adeyeye tallian tactical groups to the western -- to their western border, to the border with ukraine and in belarus as well. numbers there are increasing so they have not only shown no signs of de-escalating but they are in fact adding more force capability. >> ukraine's leader is trying to calm nerves inside of the country telling citizens there's no need to panic as authorities work for full deescalation of the situation. we are also learning the marines has bolstered security at the embassy. additional measures were deployed recently but didn't say how many w...

Some small arms, so a various amount of both lethal and non-lethal aid are in that $200 million package that's now being delivered to ukracht it's also very important to point out where we are in this situation, craig, and that is that russia continues to flow more forces in to the border area around ukraine, so they are not de-escalating, but, in fact, they are escalating the situation just in the past few hours and days. we heard a little bit about that from press secretary john kirby yesterday that russia is continuing to send in more of these military capabilities. >> they have not only sh...

Do we know about whether or not to send u.s. forces to eastern europe? >> it's a decision that could come as soon as this week. what we do know, as of today, president biden hasn't made a final decision about that. behind the scenes they are getting the specifics ready in case he makes call to bolster u.s. forces in eastern ooum to increase the troop presence as they are playing behind the scenes for what that would look like. the concern in the administration is that an invasion could be imminent. right now, russia is not only de-escalating, they are adding force capability to the border. >> ...