our assessment is they re positioned in such a way that it will take a week, possibly two weeks, to put themselves in the right place to effectively stage some kind of incursion or some kind of larger scale invasion. they re really playing it down. that was repeated by the country s prime minister today, saying even if the troops there are ready, they are not numerous enough, there s not enough russian forces to stage a wide sort of full-scale russian invasion which he says would take a lot, lot more russian personnel on the ground, kate. matthew, thank you so much for your reporting. for russia s part, they are threatening to retaliate, quote, unquote, from aggressive actions to the west. math chew chancellor was laying out they are putting 100,000 troops at the border. president biden is wanting to sanction russia personally if they invade ukraine.