msnbc s chief international security and diplomacy analyst. richard, you ve learned these new details on momentum of russia s military buildups. give us the details. reporter: so i received a lengthy briefing from a senior western intelligence official, and we discussed a range of options, what intelligence officials are looking at, what they are seeing and how they are analyzing this information, and i would love to hear the admiral s take on it since he was actually in this position commanding nato and having to deal with this very similar kind of scenario in years past, but what this intelligence official told me, who has access to realtime information, is that russia is still increasing its forces, that it will have enough force in place in the next two to three weeks to carry out a full-scale invasion of ukraine should vladimir putin decide,
divided. they don t know exactly what to think. the government is telling people to remain calm. the government is telling people they ve seen this kind of thing before, but they haven t seen this kind of thing exactly before. they have seen military buildups by russia on their borders but that has happened generally on one side of the russian border, not three sides to the north of belarus or naval exercises to the south and just this week, they moved russian, military divisions operating simultaneously. land, sea, air and nuclear. so this is not something that the ukrainians have but they re being told that they have. so many people are shrugging it off, think that it won t happen, that this is just more of familiar terrain. but will is also a segment of sty, that is deeply concerned and is starting to prepare,
possible summit could mark a major breakthrough in those diplomatic talks, the administration is still being very clear-eyed and weary of russian s intentions as they have seen military buildups around the border of ukraine, but they have long insisted that they think that there is a diplomatic path available to avert such a crisis even if russia is making some of these moves that suggest an attack could be imminent. arlette saenz, cnn, the white house. ukraine s defense ministry says it has recorded dozens of cease-fire violations by those russian-backed separatists in eastern ukraine. a total of 74 just on sunday night. the ministry said 68 of those were weapons prohibited under the minske agreements. ukraine said this video showed russian-backed separatists launching fire against their own territory in an attempt to falsely accuse ukraine s armed
conflict without meaning to. so he is saying yes, things look a little crazy right here at home in the united states right now, but don t take that to mean that we re going to be in some way dangerous to you or hostile to you. this has happened before right after 9/11, one of the first calls that was made was to moscow to reassure vladimir putin in that era that he was going to see military buildups and actions on the part of americans in the days to come, but that shouldn t see that as a threat to russia. this is what we want our generals do, that we don t get into a conflict by accident. in theory this was carrying out the president s policy because the president didn t have a policy of going to war with china. and milley is also being criticized for his conversation with nancy pelosi on that same day january 8 after january 6. of course the insurrection. and for saying things according to what the authors say is a transcript and i ve talked to people and the authenticity of
barbara, what did he tell you? tonight the number one general in the u.s. military increasingly concerned about both russian and chinese military buildups. a u.s. b-5 bomber caught over the baltic sea. moscow claims a russian fighter jet forced the americans to back off, something adamantly denied by the u.s. air force which said the russian aircraft did not chase the b-52 away. it s all part of the new front line between moscow and washington over superpower dominance. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff says russia is working on new missiles, ships and aircraft aimed at making it harder for the u.s. to defend europe, a plan he says that is so far succeeding. absolutely no question that it would be more difficult for us to project power in europe today. general joseph dunford said