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Zalensky watched as his national guard conducted drills. less than 15 miles from the border of crimea where they are conducting military exercises. the biden administration is warning if russian invasion could start at any moment. >> the ukrainians continue those drills today but do seem to have a different view on the current intelligence assessments. ukrainian zalensk said this when i asked him about the situation. >> the truth that we have different information and now the best friend for enemies that is panic in our country. >> on saturday several thousand people marched through the street...

>> so, jose, you're seeing that gratitude towards the rest. but i've also got to tell you, and i wrote about this on the nbc news website today, about how, you know, a lot of ukrainians, they're scared of moscow, they're scared of russians, they're scared of that 150,000 troops who are marshaling around the borders. they're also very frustrated and annoyed with the prognostications from the west. these intelligence assessments that they see as being increasingly unlikely and that are drumming up panic and that are actually damaging the economy here. ratings agencies has lowered, had downgraded...

De-nazi-fication in kyiv, and to me since there are no nazis running the country, it sounds like a made up or phony term for a regime change. i would like to know what is happening in putin's head. something very obscure. i don't think anybody can figure it out but here people are becoming increasingly riled and you can tell from some of the civilians over here crouching down here with us, this was enough to get people worried, if they weren't worried before, and they were very, very worried before. this was unexpected. this was something that a lot of people here hadn't really expected, for s...

Gun sales skyrocketed here. people are preparing for the worse. taking the intelligence assessments from president biden and others extraordinarily seriously and they're really bracing for the military also making its preparations. president zelensky, while he has long been downplaying these intelligence assessments, has spent the majority of the week traveling. there was a unity day earlier here in the week in kyiv and across ukraine, people were raising the flags, they were showing national pride, wearing yellow and blue ribbons, because people here believe that through solidarity, they'll b...

Russians thought this was going to be an easy fight. well, they haven't gotten their way. alicia? >> matt, i do want to ask you on those reports about oil and gas, how prepared is ukraine, should those oil and gas supply lines be cut off or destroyed? >> that's a really good question, alicia. i don't know. i know that a lot of individual level, a lot of ukrainians themselves were not prepared. most people that i spoke with did not expect there to be an invasion as recently as the day before. despite all of those repeatedly -- repeated intelligence assessments that a lot of ukrainians faulted f...