CNN CNN Newsroom Live January 9, 2022 09:34:00
Russian troops now having been sent there. but the biggest deployment since post-war history, amassing on the russian side of the border with ukraine. with more than 100,000 troops that vladimir putin has been building up, as part of this ongoing diplomatic leverage, kristi, that he's being trying to achieve to essentially get nato to push back on its boundaries, to get nato to shrink back in some way towards the post-soviet time. because, of course, nato has expanded quite significantly since that time, taking a lot of eastern european countries. and that is essentially what vladimir putin is...