alexandra von nomine explains what's behind the u. s. decision. american f. 15 fighter jets arriving in estonia. a danish frigate deployed to support nato in the baltic sea. more and more allies are sending troops to eastern europe. it's not a choice, it's the masters as security expert, bruno latino, and berlin made or has to prepare for every possible military scenario. it is not unrealistic, for instance, to think that's russia cuts to raise a border incidence with estonia to distract attention from an invasion in ukraine to be prepared. the u. s. alone ascending 1700 troops to poland and a 1000 strong unions to romania, france wants to send soldiers to romania as well that never lance is considering deploying fighter aircraft to war guerria. so to is spain, while the u. k made its patch troops to estonia and danish fighter jets have already arrived in lithuania, compared to russia's nato presence in the region is still relatively small. but as the kremlin continues, it spilled up around ukraine, nato, strengthening its defense posture. accordi

w is brussels bureau chief, alexandra von nomine sat down with the us ambassador to the alliance. what's next in the ukraine crisis? is there a chance for a diplomatic solution? let's speak about that. with you as ambassador to ne, to julian smith. hello, met him ambassador. at the you ask, government has warned that a russian invasion of ukraine could happen any time. and still, there is a flurry of diplomatic effort still underway, and now we are hearing from the crowning kremlin that they would like to continue to talks. so please tell us how close are we to war in ukraine? well, as the u. s. administration has made very clear we remain concerned about the build up of russian troops around ukraine's border. we do believe that at this time, russia possesses all that it needs to invade ukraine further invade ukraine. all that said, we have also made very clear to moscow in recent days, in fact that the door to dialogue is wide open. and we are collectively here at nato and at the o. s. e. but also back in washington, were prepared to sit down and engage in a dialogue and hopefull

general there speaking moments ago, and we can take you to nato headquarters, our bureau chief, alexandra von nomine, is that following developments? they're very closely for you. alex is nato being tested by russia. and how is nato managing? yes, layla. the answer is yes sir. russian president vladimir putin, it's definitely tight testing the alliance. and it's unity sending mixed signals from moscow and trying k to, to form to see some cracks in this unity. because he of course knows how difficult it is for the 30 members of nato to have a common position. and to stay firm on that position. they all have different interest. some of them have very close economic relations with russia. some of them used to be for my soviet republics. and of course, they are afraid they have a border with russia. so has a different concerns. but so far, we have to say that nato has remained united in its dual track approach towards russia. so they say they are, of course, continuing their diplomatic efforts. they want to have a meaningful dialogue with russia. but they also ready to father provides deterrence and def