US-Russian Tensions Mount After Military Activity at Ukraine Border

THIS U.S. ALLY.

ON THE NORTHERN SEA BETWEEN

RUSSIA AND UKRAINE, UKRAINE

DOESNT HAVE MUCH OF A NAVY OR

COAST GUARD LEFT.

RUSSIA SEIZED MOST OF ITS

FLOATING FORCE SEVEN YEARS AGO

WHEN VLADIMIR PUTIN ANNEXED

CRIMEA FROM UKRAINE AND TOOK THE

NAVAL BASES THAT WERE THERE.

THE SHIPS UKRAINE HAS LEFT ARE

NOW LOOKING OUT FOR RUSSIAN

FORCES APPROACHING AGAIN.

ON LAND, HIGH ALERT, TOO.

WE JOINED THE UKRAINIAN ARMY TO

SEE IT DEFENSES.

SO THIS IS THE FRONT LINE UP

HERE?

AS WE GOT CLOSER, THE LIEUTENANT

SHOWED US THE TRENCHES.

THEY RUN FOR MILES, LIKE A WORLD

WAR I BATTLEFIELD.

AT THE END IS A LOOKOUT POST.

IN THE DISTANCE, THEY SAY A

RUSSIAN AND RUSSIAN-BACKED

UKRAINIAN TROOP.

THEYRE IN THE TREE LINE BY THE

WINDMILLS.

EARLIER THIS MONTH, VLADIMIR

PUTIN DEPLOYED 120,000 TROOPS

NEAR HERE.

RUSSIA SAID IT WAS A MILITARY

EXERCISE.

UKRAINIAN OFFICIALS BELIEVE

PUTIN MAY BE PREPARING AN

INVASION AND WANTED TO TEST IF

PRESIDENT BIDEN WOULD TOLERATE

IT.

BUT PRESIDENT BIDEN PUSHED BACK.

>> I STRONGLY URGED HIM TO

REFRAIN FROM ANY MILITARY

ACTION.

>> Reporter: LAST WEEK, RUSSIA

WITHDREW MOST OF ITS FORCES.

UKRAINIAN OFFICIALS WARN RUSSIAN

TROOPS COULD RETURN WITHOUT

WARNING, SO THEYRE AT THE READY

ON EIGHT-MONTH DEPLOYMENTS DOWN

IN THE TRENCHES.

HOPING PRESIDENT BIDEN CAN DETER

PUTIN FROM ATTACKING.

RUSSIA TOOK CRIMEA FROM UKRAINE

WHILE BIDEN WAS VICE PRESIDENT,

AND IT SEEMS NOW THE BIDEN

ADMINISTRATION IS SIGNALING TO

RUSSIA THAT IT WILL NOT ACCEPT

MORE MOVES ON THIS COUNTRY.

SECRETARY OF STATE BLINKEN IS

English - CC1