ukraine s border. we know that ukrainian officials believe that the point of this is to rattle nato, is to test it, is to divide it, is to challenge it. and that certainly seems to have been accomplished. nato is definitely paying attention to what s happening here. there has been this different assessment between the united states and ukraine in terms of just how serious the threat is, but we ve been seeing these satellite images coming through these last 24 hours, kim, from maxar, the independent satellite image provider, showing that just on that border between ukraine and belarus, forces have been moving south. so they are now within 50 kilometers of the border, and they are not just men in weapons, but aircraft as well, at several of those airfields along the border. the point here is that even as the world wonders whether vladimir putin has actually made up his mind about whether or not to invade ukraine, the point is that hcan. and what the american officials are briefing is tha
helicopters. these near belgrade a few miles from the ukrainian border. these are showing more than 60 helicopters in a disused airfield in crimea. there was nothing there a few days ago. helicopters shown are attack, transport 40 miles from ukraine s southern coast. off the coast russia s defense ministry is reporting on the black sea navy drills which involve some 40 ships. maxar also detected that the russian air force has deployed at least ten su 34 strike bombers near an airport near kraznadar. the airfield is some 40 miles near the sea. it will be a few days before new satellite images and video can confirm that at least part of the force of 130,000 russian troops have, indeed, moved away from ukraine. for now a substantial force on land, in the air and at sea
ukraine s southern coast. just off the coast, the russian defense ministry s media outlet is reporting on the black sea navy drills which involve some 30 ships. in satellite images, maxar also detected the russian air force deployed at least ten su-34 strike bombers to an airport near kraznadar in southern russia. the airfield is some 70 miles across the sea of azov from the ukrainian coast. it will be a few days before new satellite images and video can confirm that at least part of the force of 130,000 russian troops have indeed moved away from ukraine. for now, a substantial force on land, in the air and at sea remains on three sides of ukraine. the most recent u.s. intelligence assessment as described to me was that, as of last night, russian forces were moving forward and moving crucially into combat positions. that is positions where they
because we are just over 20 miles from the border with russia and we have seen through images on maxar satellite images but also from the reporting of our own fred pleitgen, who s just on the other side, that there is a massive build-up of russian weaponry and russian troops just over in that belgorod area. also our fred pleitgen was reporting earlier that he was hearing a lot of outgoing artillery. we ve certainly been hearing quite a bit of that. landing around the city of kharkiv. a city of 1.4 million people. i m just getting a little bit more information here. this is coming from the mayor of kharkiv. it says dear citizens, please do not leave your homes today. due to the complicated situation, schools, kindergartens, other institutions will not be operational today until the situation becomes clearer. public transport will work as usual and i will keep you informed of what is happening and the actions of city
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