potentially go to help and go to the port of mariupol considering the harbor site is not too destroyed and give some release. there s no doubt discussions are going on at nato to support the situation in eastern europe. you have the lithuanian president thanking germany for the support it s giving. germany leading a ba tallian of nato troops that have ramped up the numbers inside of lithuania as well as they have in the other baltic nations. what we re hearing from the lithuanian president is we need to ramp this up. they need to go from ba tallian size to a brigade size. three times the size. a brigade has much bigger clout, much bigger sort of resources, assets, ability to do things and
communication type units that they didn t have before. things to fix. their supply lines and to keep the actions on the battlefield more coordinated. they say that they re doing what they call shaping operations which means propping up some areas with artillery while bringing in more troops. they estimate that there are more than 70 ba tallian task groups in the area. that means up to 70,000 russian forces amassed for this fight. that sounds like a lot. that isn t, however, according to military experts and officials that i speak to enough to hold all of this territory they want to take. it s enough to do a lot of damage. when you think of every artillery shell they are firing can have a kill radius of 30 to 50 yards. at the same time you have ukraine receiving weapons in the
border protection. u.s. president joe biden announcing tuesday that he is moving additional troops and equipment to strengthen u.s. allies in the baltic nations. cnn s oren lieberman has more on that decision from the pentagon. reporter: president joe biden made it clear the u.s. would defend, as he called it, every inch of the u.n. territory. he made it clear he would not be sending troops in ukraine to avoid the possibility or probability of encounter between u.s. troops and russian troops that could lead to an escalation between the two super powers. he said they would be sending troops to estonia, latvia, lithuania. these are all troops that are already in european commands. these are troops moving on the continent. about 800 troops of ba tallian
in the building, just soldiers. this is the reality captured in the moments immediately after the blast. an obviously pregnant woman is stretchered from the sight, another hurt, bleeding, walks out carrying what she can. russians often honored, the bravery and determination showed by their own citizens who are besieged by nazi forces in the second world war. now russia is inflicting that same suffering on the people of mariupol. phil black, cnn, london. russia s foreign minister says that suffering is at the hands of someone else, not russia. translator: at the meeting of the u.n. security council our delegation presented facts about this maternity hospital having long been seized by the azof ba tallian and other radicals and they have driven all the pregnant women and the nurses out of it and set up a base for
don bolldock was the best office ner the ba tallian and also my operations officer. it was the opinion of the senior leadership at the pentagon that they wanted a lieutenant colonel, a more experienced officer on the ground in afghanistan, and so that s why we deployed. to me it was, it was exciting. i mean one day i ll tell my grandkids about it when i m old and decrepit and they ll say oh, yeah, sure grandpa. while left to our devices we felt like we were able to get a lot done. it was almost the seeds of our own destruction because everything went well. and then we find out from headquarters that 20 folks are going to come in.