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A city of nearly 3 million in the coming days. russia can still choose diplomacy. it is not too late to deescalate and return to the negotiating table. reporter: there are no signs russia is backing away, defense officials say russia has moved half of its forces into attack position. u.s. intelligence suggests russia has up to 190,000 forces near and in ukraine. for weeks, biden has predicted russia could use addition information, false flag operations and cyber attacks to goad ukraine into war. the white house says that s exactly what s happening. we believe the russia government is responsible for wide scale cyber attacks on ukraine this week. reporter: russia is accusing ukraine genocide against russian speakers, allegations mr. biden called phony and fabricated. and when it comes to that assertion from the president that putin has made a decision. we heard from the defense ....
Ukraine. that only happened so long as it was safe to do so, so long as there was no risk of encounter with russian forces. do they continue the flights? that s what we re looking for. the u.s. says putin acted as was expected when it was expected. the question now, is this the beginning or just the justification for a wider invasion? that s what many officials here believe and that s what they re looking for as they monitor continued russian movement. a reminder on 48, it was 40 to 50% of russian ground troops around ukraine already in attack position. so he was ready for this. certainly it was all very, very ominous indeed. thank you very much from the pentagon. much more on ukraine coming up. there s other important news we re following in the situation room. deliberations have begun in the federal hate crimes trial of the men who killed ahmaud arbery. joining us from brunswick, georgia, you were there in the courtroom. tell us what you heard. ....
President biden said about putin s decision. reporter: and do you have any indication about whether or not president putin made a decision to invade? do you feel he was confident to have made that decision already? as of this moment i m convinced he s made the decision. we have reason to believe that. reporter: you are convinced that president putin is planning to invade ukraine, is that what you just said a few moments ago? yes. reporter: is diplomacy off the table then. no. until he does, diplomacy is always a possibility. reporter: what reason do you have to believe he is considering that option at all? we have a significant intelligence capability. now, onno one can state definitively an invasion will occur, only vladimir putin can do that, what we do know is what administration officials have seen from the intelligence, one official tells cnn nearly half of russian forces surrounding ukraine are in attack position ....
To that a little while from now, you see the picture at the bottom of the screen. what would it be like for the pentagon receiving the satellite imagery, how aggressively is the pentagon trying to track down every movement to determine when those when the troops may be moved into attack position considering this wednesday, the 16th day, zelensky is now citing? they know a realtime. when they see this, they have realtime feeds inside the pentagon. they can pull it up or the computer screens there and the national military command center would see it as well, they will see that realtime. these aircraft, the j stars and the rivet joints and all those are able to transmit that information by satellite back to the pentagon so they will know it. a good feed on it and be able to bring that forward to the ukrainians. not much they can do. once vladimir putin makes the ....
After, and he said that assessment is based on intelligence, and showing that half of russia s forces around ukraine are now in the attack position. secretary of state lloyd austin traveling to lithuania saying that they are prepared to engage. what you have seen engage in the last few weeks or days is that they are telegraphing what they have seen putin s moves, and the intentions they believe the moves that he is take, and you have seen the moves of that clarity put out into the universe. this was yesterday. take a listen. we are doing everything in our power to remove any reason that russia may give for justifying invading ukraine, and ....