Do drag ukraine into war. u.s. responding the chief danger is 100,000 russian troops on ukraine border. i can t say i am surprised by my russian colleague s comments but i am disappointed with threats of action if russia s security demands aren t meant is provocative. diplomacy is not prove octobertive. your actions will speak for themselves. ukrainians know they are out manned and out gunned but trying to prepare for once was just a hobby has become a business. training civilians how to fight. what i am asked most is what kind of rifle do i need to defend my home. when you talk to a lot of these young ukrainians out there training many say they see the 100,000 russian troops as really a life or death threat. we all try to be prepared in
Forces it amassed along ukraine s borders. reporter: the ukrainians on aler for invasion as military advisers work and train with troops. in kyiv, they re training civilians to fight. in congress, there s a bipartisan bill to impose sanctions on russia, including measures that could go into effect immediately. russia has already taken provocative action that has caused damage to the ukrainian economy that merits consequence andrea, we just learned russia sent new written responses to the u.s do we know what they said reporter: lester, it is a response to the u.s. arms control proposals to de-escalate the crisis that s going to be the subject of secretary of state ton blinken s planned talk with the russian foreign minister tomorrow at the same time, one ominous sign, russia has now moved blood supplies they would need in an invasion to troops on the border. andrea mitchell tonight, thank you
He is working to increase the capabilities of the army. they are preparing. they re training civilians, training the territorial defense forces. you have been reporting on this. they are preparing, not panicking. they need to have the support of the united states and nato and getting it in terms of weapons, getting it in terms of commitments on the sanctions. nic nic and kylie mentioned the attack, should it come, i m hopeful it won t come, that putin will decide to take off. if it does come, it will kill a lot of civilians, in particular the aerial bombardment jake sullivan talks about. that will kill a lot of civilians. that s a war crime, something that putin, the individual can be investigated by the
America s top diplomat holding talks earlier today with his kremlin counterpart as russia s military builds up troops along the border. supplies and fire power along the ukraine border continuing to build for days and weeks. team coverage now, general jack keane is on that just ahead. but first, steve is live in kyiv ukraine where former soldiers are training civilians how to use firearms, steve. sandra, it s become a cottage industry. and if you look at things on paper, as things stand now, it s a tremendous mismatch, russia spends ten times what ukraine does on its military, three times the number of tanks, four times the number of men. so on paper it looks bad for ukraine. they need a lot of help. they have gotten more than $2.5 billion in military aid from the u.s. over the past eight years and more aid is coming in. but you do see a lot of ukrainians doing what they can to try to train themselves for potentially upcoming major war. a lot of former soldiers are in
Kyiv now. what s the situation? what are you seeing, erin? hey, ali, we moved out of the capital in a southern direction, moving to the south and now we re cutting west. what was remarkable as we were going through the capital was just how empty the streets were. there were very few people out. saw very little in the way of military presence inside the city itself, despite the fact that ukraine is currently under marshall law. we saw little in the way of police officers, it wasn t until we pushed further out of the city that we saw our first military checkpoint, a combination of ukrainian soldiers and civilians. the military seemed to be training civilians how to fire weapons, guns, a javelin. as you can see, the roads here are pretty clear. we ve seen very few ukrainians evacuate today. we are seeing this is a country