Announcer live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. U. S. Officials now believe russia has assembled about 70 of the military force it needs to launch a fullscale invasion of ukraine. The latest Satellite Images show Russian Forces gathering strength in belarus. Some are positioned less than 50 kilometers from ukraines northern border. In neighboring poland, senior u. S. Military members arrived on saturday, as nato looks to reinforce its eastern flank. This as the head of nato is due to meet with the polish president. French president Emmanuel Macron heads to moscow on monday in part to try to revive negotiations between kyiv and prorussian separatists in eastern ukraine. Russias Chief Negotiator recently offered this dismal assessment. Translator we hope to be more constructive there and will have something to tell you, because today, we have nothing to brag about. As much as we want to move forward, the progress that we have equals almost zero. Cnns Melissa Bell
Announcer live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. U. S. Officials now believe russia has assembled about 70 of the military force it needs to launch a fullscale invasion of ukraine. The latest Satellite Images show Russian Forces gathering strength in belarus. Some are positioned less than 50 kilometers from ukraines northern border. In neighboring poland, senior u. S. Military members arrived on saturday, as nato looks to reinforce its eastern flank. This as the head of nato is due to meet with the polish president. French president Emmanuel Macron heads to moscow on monday in part to try to revive negotiations between kyiv and prorussian separatists in eastern ukraine. Russias Chief Negotiator recently offered this dismal assessment. Translator we hope to be more constructive there and will have something to tell you, because today, we have nothing to brag about. As much as we want to move forward, the progress that we have equals almost zero. Cnns Melissa Bell
Diplomacy isnt dead yet. We are engaging in dialogue and diplomacy just as we pursue the path of defense and deterrence. Reporter even as we see the troops head over, one thing we will not see, or rather hear, the word imminent coming from the administration. The white house says it seems to imply that Vladimir Putin has made the imminent decision to invade ukraine, and that they say is a decision they dont believe hes made yet. Thank you. Lets bring in cnn corn matthew chance. How are the ukrainians and how to russians responding to these deployments of u. S. Service members to Eastern Europe . Well, ive just been speaking to senior ukrainian official, and there is been no sort of formal reaction here in ukraine yet. This official said, look, ukraine welcomes this bolstering of natos Eastern Flank by the United States. But you know, there is a little bit of reticence in their comments. Obviously, the troops are going to poland, germany and romania. Theyre not coming to ukraine. What u
Diplomacy isnt dead yet. We are engaging in dialogue and diplomacy just as we pursue the path of defense and deterrence. Reporter even as we see the troops head over, one thing we will not see, or rather hear, the word imminent coming from the administration. The white house says it seems to imply that Vladimir Putin has made the imminent decision to invade ukraine, and that they say is a decision they dont believe hes made yet. Thank you. Lets bring in cnn corn matthew chance. How are the ukrainians and how to russians responding to these deployments of u. S. Service members to Eastern Europe . Well, ive just been speaking to senior ukrainian official, and there is been no sort of formal reaction here in ukraine yet. This official said, look, ukraine welcomes this bolstering of natos Eastern Flank by the United States. But you know, there is a little bit of reticence in their comments. Obviously, the troops are going to poland, germany and romania. Theyre not coming to ukraine. What u
Robust offense of our nato allies. All of these are in addition to the 8500 personnel on heightened alert poster i announced last week. Those 8500 are not currently being deployed but remain ready if called for the Nato Response force. And President Trump taking it to the fellow republicans coming to the defense of mike pence. Lindsey graham after days of admitting he believed pence could have overturned the 2020 election. Of course, that is false. On the coronavirus, pfizers request for Emergency Use Authorization for children under five years of age is getting a mixed reaction from both vaccinated and unvaccinated parents. Ill speak to dr. Zeke emanual about their concerns this hour. And millions americans are in the path of a massive winter storm. By far the biggest of the season so far. The threeday Weather Event will slam states with sleet, Freezing Rain and potentially recordsetting snow totals along the rust belt. We begin this hour with the crisis in ukraine. Joining me is the