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Some people were living in a kind of suspended disbelief that it wouldn't happen, that vladimir putin wouldn't go all the way, that he would go deterred, but i think starting yesterday and the day before when we saw a dramatic increase in the fire from the russian-backed separatists, many of the troops that i spoke to thought that russia was preparing the ground, that it was softening its targets. i think at this early stage we are still seeing that. there was not a massive shock-and-awe campaign like some u.s. officials anticipated. there was a devastating cyberattack. there haven't been the ...

To fail. the french, the germans, everyone in nato has tried diplomacy. it is not going to work here. we have known that but you still have to do that with a nuclear power. so we have entered into a new phase. if the united states and nato wants to throw everything they have at vladimir putin short of sending american troops into ukraine and starting world war iii, what do we do? >> you start by fully activating what is called the nato response force. this is about 30,000 troops, airmen, seamen, soldiers obviously. you flood them forward to the borders of the alliance. look, if you are waking ...

President here is to find a way to describe to the american people what is at stake, to put more american resources into this in terms of military equipment, personnel and so forth, bolstering the eastern flank. again, not u.s. personnel inside ukraine but trying to support our partners and allies who are in nato who could become vulnerable depending on what spill-over there could be. always in war there are the unintended consequences and it is not clear exactly how far vladimir putin wants to go. he has not been truthful about his intentions thus far, and clearly now we are in an active, kin...

The pocketbook but again also would not be a permanent infrastructure impact. >> one last question that i know you have to get to some extra reporting, the russian defense ministry is claiming they're done for the day. what are your sources and our officials say? >> reporter: so, what a senior defense official told us is that, yes, there was sort of this very, very early initial tranche of action, 100 cruise missiles and ballistic missiles were fired, 75 aircraft conducting air strikes throughout mostly the eastern part of the country, but really they did ultimately touch just about every area...