escalating tensions in the region despite the fact that it is vladimir putin who has positioned more than 120,000 forces along ukraine s border. head of nato says that he is hopeful diplomacy will prevail. it still is diplomatic way out, but that requires that russia deescalates and engages in good faith it in political talks with nato and nato allies. and whether russia is willing to do that, this that remains to be seen. that i toe will not deploy nato troops to ukraine, but we need to be sure that there is no misunderstanding about our readiness, our commitment to protect and defend all allies especially in the eastern part of the alliance. and sam kiley is in kiev. sam, how are ukranian officials responding to these latest decisions and movements? reporter: they are very delighted to see more arrival of weapons, very important weapons to the javelin anti-arrest mower weapon that comes on top of previous supplies from the united states. and about ten days ago, suppli
russian invasion of ukraine. vladmir putin directly if russian forces enter ukraine. watch. this is all putin. i don t think his people know for certain. would you see yourself personally sanctioning him if he did invade ukraine? yes. you would? i would see that. cnn has this story covered from multiple angles. what did he say? he said those troops could deploy in the near term. he didn t offer specifics own when they might deploy or to where they might deploy. the u.s. right now still keeping it options open. the pentagon came out yesterday and said as many as 8500 troops got prepared to deploy orders which is a heads up of get ready, you may deploying soon to europe. the pentagon is keeping options open saying it might be more troops and wouldn t just be in it was in response to the nato response force activating the bolster eastern european allies there but the pentagon and the white house could also see and move unilaterally here if they see fit. what were t
Markets, the issue now is we have constrained supply into a global market that s increasing in demand. that s an issue we have been working on with our partner and allies. the price of oil is set globally. we re looking at contingencies but we believe that there are actions we can take with ourselves and farpartners to mitigate that across time. to be clear, the principal local of the pain that will be felt is in the russian economy and that s certainly both in narrative and in substance what we re trying to communicate right now. always good to have you. thank you, sir. good to be with you. we re beginning with the breaking news on a possibly