putin might make. we don t have a new assessment of his decision. martha: steve harrigan live with the latest state of play there. hi, steve. martha, if there is a russian invasion, keep in mind there s a number of different options for russian president putin. anything from eliminating incursion to the worst case scenario, which would be a full scale invasion. in the case of a full scale invasion, u.s. intelligence estimates the russian forces could take this capitol that i m standing in now, kiev, in two to three days. 72 hours max. there s preparations along the ukraine border nearing completion. they have more than 80 battalions, more than 130,000 forces. they re carrying out joint exercises in belarus. the numbers are quite sobering in the worst case scenario. if it s a full scale invasion, the u.s. estimates 50,000 civilians could be killed. 25,000 ukrainian military,