reporter: you re right, and i think that it is important and really marked fundamental change in the way that all of this is being portrayed here in russia. essentially what vladimir putin said is that he believes that peter the great, who obviously took the region around st. petersburg and many other places in northeastern europe as well, that he was not taking land but that he was returning land and strengthening it, which obviously means that vladimir putin believes that that land was intrinsically land that belonged to russia. he then said that it falls to the current lot, meaning his government, to do the same thing. so obviously likening what is going on in ukraine right now to the russians taking back territory. and sense that happened, there has really been a big difference in messaging here. i was watching a lot of the state media over the weekend and that seems to be the newhew man being portrayed here, essentially what they are doing in ukraine, the war in ukraine is then
Once Finland and Sweden join NATO, they can be expected to contribute to air security or the air defense and NATO's maritime groups, Estonia's Ministry of Defense said. According to EKRE MP and reserve Lt. Col. Leo Kunnas, Estonia's northern neighbors joining the alliance would help establish military balance in the region for the first time.
speculate about. and then second, what is liable to happen in northeastern europe, if, as and when putin is successful in ukraine. if our allies feel extremely threatened and it s difficult to tell what he s going to do next, or how we re going to counter what he s going to do next. richard? tracy, now sweet moving, as i was just mentioning day four of the conflict, how does intelligence gathering shift? and how does the difficulty either increase or decrease at this fees? i think intelligence gathering right now is obviously critical, but i think it s incredibly difficult. you have obviously a barricade situation going on on the ground. you have the american presence there, and in official capacity, is virtually gone. so, what they re relying on right now are ukrainians that are on the ground. you have to remember, that the cia had been training
NATO announced Thursday it was increasing the number of multinational troops that will be deployed to four NATO member countries near Ukraine, including Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. Retired Lt. Gen. Doug Lute, who served on the National Security Council staff and was U.S. ambassador to NATO during the Obama administration, joins Nick Schifrin to discuss.