Troop Map News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

As your reporter just indicated there is a lot of movement of russian forces, naval, air, ground forces. mr. putin is trying to -- trying to bludgeon, trying to upset, trying to intimidate the ukraine president and president biden with these moves. looking to see if there is movement, a blink. so far the ukrainians have not blinked and the americans and allies have not blinked and holding firm. i think watching for that is important. >> bill: very interesting answer. here is the troop map. russian troops said to be 127,000. rebel troops 35,000. a piece this morning in the "wall street journal"...

Smallest of differences, you know, he will milk for everything because, of course, you know, from the 30,000 foot level right down to in the weeds, that has always been vladimir putin's primary plan is to divide the west. divide western democracies, so as to weaken them and that's what he is trying to -- he will take every opportunity, no matter how small. whether it's, you know, a difference between -- between allies or whether it's something -- something larger. he will try to -- he will try to stick something in that wedge to make it as wide as he possibly -- as he possibly can. and i think...

Level right down to in the weeds, that has been his primary plan is to divide the west, divide western democracies so as to weaken them. he'll take every opportunity no matter how small, whether it's a difference between allies or whether it's something larger. he will try to stick something in that wedge to make it as wide as he possibly can, and i think he'll use this opportunity as well. it would surprise me if he didn't. >> i want to talk about the russian troops that are stationed at the ukrainian border. we got a troop map there, ukrainian intelligence puts it at 130,000, more arriving e...

Colonel lleyton. >> we update maps constantly. struck by updating the map how close russian forces are to the eastern flank of the capital city kyiv. looking at the battle for kyiv what do you make of that and how close they are? >> this is really important. right here, this is very close to the northeastern suburbs of kyiv, and notice how close they are to the actual city line. this means that the russians are coming in this way, plus they're also looking at this area right here. because this will be an area of approach for them as well. >> why have they not at vaadvan from the west further i...