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
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, supplies of armor killing weapons from the british too. these are sort of tactical nonstrategic weapons that would be very useful if the country were to get invaded. they have more than 220,000 soldiers now under arms in the regular forces in the ukraine. so they are better set, but they couldn t in any long term sense resist russian aggression. but it is this russian aggression that has caused increase in security in the u.s. embassy, more u.s. marine corps key personnel is being brought in as the u.s. and others are downsizing. so sorry do this, if you could stand by border. and i made it clear early on to