Pentagon says this is a temporary deployment and that no u. S. Troops will be on the ground in ukraine. Vladimir putin has amassed more than 1,000 troops along the border in the ukraine and that includes 5,000 troops in belarus which would give a direct route to the ukrainian capital. U. S. Officials also say russia is moving keep medical supplies to the border, further suggesting a plan to invade. But given how hard it is to determine russias true intentions, the United States isnt taking any chances. Do you have any evidence that potent plans to move beyond it ukraines borders . Why are you bolstering these Eastern Flank allies if you do not have evidence of that . Because its important that we send a strong signal to what mr. Pruden end up frankly to the world at that nato matters to the United States. What we see, jenna, is clear evidence every day that he continues to destabilize the environment by adding more forces in the western part of the country and along belarus. He clearly
3,000 u. S. Troops to europe as the threat of a russian invasion looms over ukraine. Hello, welcome to America Reports for a wednesday, john roberts in washington. Sandra, good to be back with you. Sandra great to see you. Welcome back. Sandra smith in new york. Additional forces are deploying to poland, germany and romania, all of which are nato members, on top of the 8500 troops already on high alert and ready for deployment if needed. John the pentagon says the u. S. Is committed to defending nato allies as tensions rise, and new Satellite Images reveal the extent of russias military activity in the region. Sandra steve live in kyiv, what is putin doing now . Whats he doing now and whats he going to do, the question many World Leaders are asking themselves. Putin kept quiet about ukraine for a month, he broke the silence yesterday in classic passion. Twisted it around saying the u. S. Was trying to drag russia into war in ukraine, not mentioning the massive buildup of Russian Forces
Forces on the Ukraine Border. 2,000 u. S. Forces will be sent to poland while another 1,000 american troops will be shifted from germany to romania. Republican senators josh hawley calling this a mistake. Well get reaction from Nebraska Republican deb fisher a member of the Senate Armed Services committee. Welcome. Im Charles Payne in for neil cavuto, this is your world. For to Jennifer Griffin at the pentagon with the very latest. Jennifer . Charles, todays announcement is separate from the pentagons announcement last week that 8,500 troops had been given prepare to deploy orders in the event that ney though calls up the 40,000 response force, this is a separate Deployment Order that President Biden authorized to send 3,000 troops to bolster natos eastern flank. Nato will move forces to romania, poland and germany. These are not permanent move. 1,000 troop from a Striker Squadron will be moved to romaine yo to augment the troops there on rotation. 1,700 troops from the 82nd Airborne w
News chief white house correspondent, peter alexander. Nbc news foreign correspondent, matt bradley in eastern ukraine, jonathan la mir, Politico White House bureau chief as well as host of Way Too Early here on msnbc. And he lane cooper, the New York Times pentagon correspondent. Both jonathan and helane are msnbc contributors. Peter, what more can you tell us about the president s decision to u. S. Moves troops already on standby to europe . Reporter thats exactly right. We have now learned that its a total of 3,000 u. S. Troops who will be moving, about a thousand of them already in europe will be going to romania, a native member nation. Another 2,000 presently here in the u. S. Will be going to germany and to poland, as well. This comes, according to a Senior Administration official at the president s direction, and following the recommendation of the defense secretary, Secretary Austin. I think youre going to hear this officially from john kirby, the Press Secretary at the pentag
Us in just a minute to talk about it all. Were also following several breaking headlines in the january 6th investigation including the National Archives putting donald trump on alert this afternoon. They say theyre getting ready to send over more white house records this time from the other guy onscreen, his thenVice President mike pence. Weve got new deiltas on when and what maybe could stop it. Plus our team there when Jeffrey Clark arrived on the hill. What we know about what exactly the former trump doj official said or didnt say. Im Hallie Jackson in washington with a lot going on this afternoon. Shannon pettypiece is outside the white house and matt bradley live for us in ukraine. At the end of the remarks i think folks watched here live on msnbc, President Biden discussing a different topic on this cancer moon shot. I think he took a couple of questions i know it wasnt on camera about this Troop Deployment. Reporter this wasnt any sort of formal address or remarks he was making