it s answering to vladimir putin. the cases in places like bucha do require trying to understand what s happening on the battlefield, who is making those orders, taking those decisions. even there, international law, the top command is responsible for those acts if they have notice or have reason to know and fail to take action to prevent or punish. all we get from putin is, who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes, it s all fake? there s no good faith effort to investigate this or crack down on any of it, which indicates they re doing what they want them to do. that point to me is so important to think about. often times intentionality is what is allowing people to evade prosecution because they are able to find some way to justify or say it was not deliberate. as you described it and thinking about how to go up the chain of command, i bet that s part of the holistic appropriate the investigators are looking at. thank you so much. i appreciate hearing your expertise. go
and good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight, javelins and east gander missiles, the u.s. and russia flooding the zone around ukraine as president biden warns u.s. troops could soon be headed there. pictures of 300 anti-tank missiles arriving in kyiv today as president biden says the troops are ready to go to eastern europe. i may be moving some of those troops in the near term. this would be the largest k i we move in with those, it would change the world. the white house believes this could happen. today telling reporters the biden administration believes an invasion by putin is, quote, imminent. that warning comes as russia is making new and aggressive moves along the ukraine border. we have seen a consistent accumulation of combat power by the russians in the western part
invasion, too, and object we h have, obviously, we havet satellite images and images that putin wants us to see. do you see this as imminent and inevitable? i do. what you have in place is all the necessary combat enablers, is what we call those, in order to conduct an invasion. they are positioned. they have been there for a while. most importantly, what you see over the past few weeks is you have seen an increase in the number of rocket and artillery forces. look, let s be frank. this is a russian formation, but these are soviet-like tactics and the soviets went to war with an overwhelming amount of artillery fire. you mentioned it upfront. those rocket forces certainly can reach kyiv. what i see is the possibility of an invasion is imminent. we could label that in terms of days or weeks, but they are in place. and the ability to transition from the position that they have right now, the training that they are doing to maintain those skill sets and then to launch,
white house. they are saying they don t see the threat from russia at the moment is imminent, but dangerous, and they don t believe order has been given for an invasion to take place yet and when an order is given it s the assessment of ukrainian officials that it will be between one and two weeks before those forces close to ukraine s borders would be ready to strike. if that s the case, it s not the lightning strike we hear is possible from the united states and others. all right, thank you very much. i want to go to retired u.s. army major general james spider marks, the head of geopolitical strategy at academy securities along with evan farkas, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for russia, ukraine, eurasia in the obama administration. general marks, let me start with you. the white house today clear where they stand using im fent to to describe an invasion. you heard admiral kirby laying out all that they are seeing them do in terms of all the support that would be nee
plans to launch an invasion. instead, blaming the united states and allies for soaring tensions. all of this prompting countries to leave ukraine, australia and canada, pulling families of diplomats out of the country because of fears of an invasion are real. all iowaen eyes are on putin. america s adversaries are also watching. they are testing biden as well. north korea firing two cruise missiles this morning according to the south korean military. it was kim jong-un s fifth test just this year. we are still in january. and taiwan accusing china of 52 warplanes sent into airspace this week, including nuclear-capable bombers. america s foes are watching to see what happens in ukraine. matthew chance is in kyiv tonight. what are you learning from ukrainian officials this evening? reporter: well, it s a strange one because on the one hand ukrainian officials are welcoming the potential deployment of 85,000 u.s. troops