dozens of tents and vehicles less than 25 miles from the border appear in recent days. we will show you them in a moment, first i want to go to fred blight gen. pleitgen. on this border, i want to be clear. we are talking the border of the break-away separatists self declared republic putin has recognized now. he said troops will go if called upon. tell me what you are seeing, where they are? reporter: this is the first time we were able to see those large russian forces on russian territory in the field, but right at the boarder with ukraine with those break-away republics of donetsk and we saw on the ground russian soldiers in every town. also a lot of military vehicles as well. the posture of those forces appear to be, first of all, they re very strong also ready