its military forces around ukraine while publicly denying any plans to attack. in a joint statement, xi offered strong support for russia s security demands, saying, quote, russia and china stand against attempts by external forces to undermine security. and then putin opened the olympics sitting expression list as ukraine s athletes were introduced. the u.s. is deploying additional troops in eastern europe to support our nato allies who are very meche fearful of the russians. and new intel says russia is plotting a mission as a pretext for war. keir simmons who has interviewed vladimir putin joins us from
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?
sit-down with the deputy attorney general later this hour. do stay with us for the administration s plan to tackle the major uptick also in violent crime in this country. yeah. other major story we re following this morning, rapidly evolving crisis on the russia/ukraine border. kylie atwood is at the state department. nic robertson in moscow. kylie, let s begin with you. written response now by the u.s. to russia s security demands. do we know in general what message the u.s. sent here? well, listen, we re expecting that this is going to be sent from the united states to russia as soon as today at some point this week. here s what we know about this, jim. it is going to largely follow the contours of what the united states has been saying publicly. first, it is not expected to diagnose the likelihood of ukraine joining nato in the short-term. even though president biden said that was unlikely in his public
exeable headquarters in germany. 8500 more remain at home on heightened alert. these are not troops that will go into ukraine. they are not fighting in ukraine. this is us this is the united states abiding by our commitment under article 5 to support reassure our partners in the region. after accusing the u.s. and allies of ignoring his security demands, putin plans to meet with xi jinping at the olympics and release a joint statement on what the kremlin calls shared security concerns. back in washington, no response from president biden, who spent wednesday relaunching his program to find a cure for cancer. i would like to see that doctor on the end there. that s the man who spent 18 months trying to save our sons life. doctor, i love you. and today the white house would not say whether other eastern flanked countries requested u.s. troops support. but the state department confirmed leaks to spanish media detailing an offer the u.s. made that putin apparently rejected.
civil defense force said they recovered the bodies of several women and children from the compound after the raid, 13 civilians they report. those numbers do not align with ours according to officials we spoke to. they accused the isis leader of using his own children as human shields. eight children came out safely from the compound, we were told, both the president and vice president were in the situation room during the entire raid. the mood was tense. at the end of the operation overnight, president biden said god bless our troops as he left the room. john. john: jennifer with the latest. sandra: god bless our troops indeed. threats of russia invading ukraine, biden officials talking to the congress today, and the validity of washington s response to russia s security demands. steve harrington is reporting