The drum beats of war are getting louder in focus of course are the newer deployments more and more deployments at that on one side russia sending in more troops and on the other hand nato is trying to match this deployment stuck in between of course is ukraine where the 10 day long military drills are currently underway but even while leaders hope that some form of diplomacy will work out,
And in a certain sense douse the tensions the fear of invasion continues to loom over the region the united states is now urging its citizens to leave the country immediately the state department has issued a new advisory they want citizens to get out of here now because of this all of it comes down to one factor and that is if there is a war then the u.s will not deploy soldiers to ukraine not even to evacuate its own citizens what scenarios would you put american troops to rescue and get americans out there's not that's a world war when americans and russians start shooting at one another we're in a very different world than we've ever been in according to a u.s intelligence report the russian military could launch a full-scale invasion with tanks that potentially could reach gear within 48 hours,
So what the us wants is for citizens to get out as soon as they can simply put we continue to see very troubling signs of russian escalation uh including new forces arriving at the ukrainian border um and as we said before we're in a window uh when an invasion could begin at any time and to be clear that includes during the olympics um we're continuing to draw down our our embassy uh we will continue that process and we've also been very clear that any american citizens who remain in ukraine should leave now both the u.s and the uk think that an invasion in fact would happen any time japan too has wanted citizens to leave the country immediately,
However ukraine has played down biden's evacuation order as nothing new meanwhile new satellite images show an increased russian deployment in the region we're showing now the new images that are currently on your screen now these are the new troops that russia has moved to belarus and also crimea reports suggest that 10 000 russian soldiers are now camping in crimea russia is currently holding joint military exercises in belarus as well as naval drills in the black sea it is all part of moscow's surging military activity near ukraine russia has not disclosed how many troops it has deployed moscow even says that it has a right to move forces around on its territory,
As it sees fit insisting that they do not pose any external threat meanwhile our executive editor palki sharma padhya is on ground zero covering all the latest developments from ukraine she joined us earlier to bring us the latest updates from the russia ukraine border in fact a very sensitive zone in this next report balki gives us a sense of the public sentiment during the conflict along with the repercussions of the u.s president's recent warning telling americans to leave ukraine now listening i'm at the saint kievka border checkpoint and this site where i'm standing will be the site of the opening battle in case russia decides to invade ukraine,
Because to my right is belarus this road leads to belarus the border is right behind where we are standing and to my left is russia and where we are is ukraine in front of me you see the the last ukrainian village on the northern side which is so this is a very very significant spot a former defense minister of ukraine recently said that the 600 mile long border between ukraine and belarus is a high risk zone and we went here today to to see what was happening because on the other side of the border i'm sure you know that russia and belarus are conducting drills they have s 400 missile systems su-35 fighter jets scandal missiles tanks all sorts of military deployment and 30 000 troops,
And so this is a very sensitive zone uh the border guards who are stationed here uh are are prepared they say for whatever is coming they've always operated under the shadow of war and they understand the risks involved but they are uh they are standing steady we we were given a a tour of of this area and a lot of places are out of bounds you would understand because of security concerns there were vast stretches of land where we told we could not step on because there were land mines but but this is uh the last ukrainian village this is a border checkpoint beyond which we have russian territory well joe biden's statement and his administration's assessment uh becomes more dire by the day when he began this week,
We were telling our viewers about american intelligence assessments that said that kiev could fall within 48 to 72 hours that there might be 50 000 civilian casualties 25 000 troop casualties on the ukraine inside this was american assessment they could not they could not give any specific details on how they arrived at those numbers but that's what they said now in this past week we've seen the u.s president repeatedly say that american citizens should evacuate this is the time to leave and he's made a very important statement today where he says that he is not going to send u.s troops to evacuate citizens,
Because he's been
giving them enough warnings and he says we're facing one of the biggest
militaries in the world i.e the russian military and things could quote unquote
go crazy at any time and that does not instill a lot of confidence in the
people here but if you talk to the people of ukraine they say that uh they're
hoping there is not going to be a war and they're confident in their forces and
the spirits remain high beyond world is one is now available in your country
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