the foreign minister here saying, look, the response from the united states may not be what we wanted but it was a sort of a gold standard in diplomatic politeness. the nato response was somewhat full of itself, that he felt sorry for the person that had written the text. he went on to say that, you know, russia doesn t want war but, again, that caveat russia doesn t want war but we won t let our interests be trampled on. really reading which way is the country going there. he s not making the decision. it s the president here that s making the decisions and this is really something of a place holder. sergei lavrov. melissa, we have been seeing the last 24 hours between the u.s.
were just hearing from nic, exactly what s in the mind of vladimir putin to the response he ll give. very much everyone waiting for the responses by putin. melissa in kyiv and nic robertson in moscow. we mentioned the growing russia military presence. new satellite images really help tell the story. the first shows russia building eight new army compounds in a town less than 200 miles from ukrainian border. the compound highlighted there in green contain roughly 460 vehicles, trailers as well as structures. when you zoom in you begin really to see the quantifiable increase in russia s buildup. here a 45% jump in the number of vehicles, trailers, structures since november. in another image, have a look at
nato sent their written responses to russia s security demands and the kremlin is currently mulling that over. it s clear that the ball is now in russian president vladimir putin s court. on friday, he had a phone conversation with french president emmanuel macron that was one of the earliest signals of the russian receptiveness or lack of receptiveness. it s clear their positions are still quite far apart, although putin has yet to fully respond to that letter. but his foreign minister, sergey lavrov, said while there are secondary issues where the u.s. and russia and nato may find some common ground, on the big picture issue, whether ukraine has a path to join nato, the west and russia are still very, very far apart. nathan, thanks for that. melissa in kyiv, tell us the mood there, and also how big the disconnect with the u.s. when it comes to messaging?