ah, amanda mohammed, welcome to the program. we begin with the ongoing pir pittsville crisis over russia's trip builds up on the border to ukraine and nato's fears of a russian in asian did. i did say it says it has put 8500 troops on heightened a let, ready to respond. if nato decides to deploy forces, pentagon press secretary, john kirby says no final decisions were made on deployment. later also announced it sending more ships and fighter jets to boost defenses in eastern europe. russia has mass around 100000 troops at ukraine's order of warners that speak to our washington bureau chief in us poll says, why are we seeing this move at the moment? while the goal of sending military reinforcements to eastern europe would be to provide to ference's and to re assure european allies that the u. s. is on their side. but as for now or a healer, there has been no suggestion. u. s. troops would deploy to ukraine or take, pardon any combat rolls. this still is part of the diplomatic game of flexing muscles, but having that said, there i