good evening and welcome to bbc news. a senior conservative mp says the uk must do more to support ukraine, as russian troops mass along its border. tobias ellwood, who chairs the commons defence committee, says he thinks an invasion could now be imminent and that president putin is taking full advantage of a weakened west . russia has denied it s planning an invasion. but the us has delivered 90 tonnes of what it calls lethal aid to ukraine the first shipment since a fresh promise of assistance from president biden. in a few mins, reeta chakrabarti will be here with a round up of the day s top stories including the latest from our correspondent in kyiv. but earlier i spoke to the economist s russia and eastern europe editor arkady ostrovsky. i began by asking him whether he agreed that an invasion was imminent. well, to be honest with you, i must say i do not think anybody really knows what vladimir putin is going to do when he is going to do it. there is a lo
students to stay home. let s go out front. and good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight, putin s troops on the move. alarming new evidence reveals putin positioning more troops for war. in a moment, i will talk with someone who has seen new satellite images and will share exclusively what they show. including, ukraine surrounded by russian forces now on three sides. the crimean peninsula, russia, and belarus. the images revealing more russian ships anyway coming into the black sea. russian forces, also, shown to be moving more of them toward the ukrainian border by both truck and train. this comes on top of russia moving more military equipment into belarus, to the north of kyiv, for military exercises. putin s saber rattling, the focus of what was a high-stakes face-to-face meeting between american and russian top diplomats today. after 90 minutes, there was no breakthrough. that was the shared view between the two countries. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken w
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of the best selling of all time, has died at the age of 7a. the us and russia remain at a diplomatic stand off with their military assets standing by. after months of escalating tensions, the two superpowers have been holding talks about ukraine, which nato fears is the next sovereign territory moscow wants to seize through force. remember, it s less than a decade since russia annexed crimea. russia says it s concerned nato is sending weapons and military expertise to ukraine and wants guarantees that the organisation will pull back from its borders. speaking after the talks in geneva, russia s foreign minister, sergei lavrov, said the dialogue would continue and his country had no plans to attack ukraine. russia is understood to have more than 100,000 troops currently near its border with ukraine. 0ur diplomatic correspondent james landale sent this report. more russian forces on the move, surface to air missiles in the country s far east, due to join what moscow says are mi