The Pentagon has stated round 8,500 battle ready US troops are absolutely on guard to convey at brief notification within the midst of rising pressure over Ukraine. Anyway it clarified there are not any designs to ship powers to the precise nation.
Russia has denied arranging navy exercise towards Ukraine, however massing 100,000 troopers close to its line.
President Biden has held a video name with European companions as Western powers study a typical methodology within the occasion that Russia dispatches an intrusion.
A number of NATO people, together with Denmark, Spain, Bulgaria and the Netherlands, at the moment are sending warrior planes and warships to japanese Europe to strengthen guards within the district.
Huw Edwards presents BBC News at Ten revealing by Gabriel Gatehouse in Kiev, Steve Rosenberg in Moscow and Barbara Plett Usher in Washington.