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Point. jennifer griffin has more. my sources tell me that it is wrong to suggest that vladimir putin has taken the decision to invade ukraine and has communicated that to his generals. but at the same time, the sense of urgency increased after a situation room meeting last night and a series of phone calls to nato allieses that an invasion could come at any time. i encourage all american citizens that remain in ukraine to depart immediately. we want to be crystal clear. any american in the ukraine should leave as soon as possible and in any event in the next 24 to 48 hours. defense secretary lloyd austin has ordered an additional 3,000 u.s. paratroopers from the 82nd airborne to deploy to poland to join the 1,700 u.s. troops that deployed there under major general chris donahue. this as a striker brigade of u.s. forces began arriving over
Some of the 3,000 u.s. forces president biden deployed to nato s eastern flank have arrived in romania, along with a striker brigade, helping to shore up eastern flank and ukraine, ammunition and the javelin anti-tank missiles continue to arrive from the u.s. those are missiles used by one soldier. should tanks cross the border into ukraine and the satellite images show there is a build-up of russian forces and vehicles and tents built in belarus and the south, in crimea, held by russia as well. despite intense diplomatic efforts, no progress on talks, here is some blunt remarks from russia s foreign secretary lavrov. what we have is a conversation between a dumb and a deaf person.
Defense officials are saying and u.s. military commanders are doing as this situation around ukraine becomes more precarious. at least from their perspective. national security correspondent jennifer griffin joins us live from the pentagon. good evening, jennifer. talk about, if you will, this decision to deploy 3,000 additional elite paratroopers to poland today. well, bret, these are in addition to the 1700 members of the 82nd airborne who will were deployed to poland last week outs of fort bragg, north carolina. the president authorized lloyd austin to order an additional 3,000 troops from the 82nd airborne to reassure nato ally poland which shares a border with ukraine. another 1,000 shoulders from a striker brigade in germany arrived from romania today. they are not going to fight against russian troops in ukraine. jake as you will van made that crystal clear today from the podium at the white house. also today, we learned that a that four additional u.s. navy