Russian military exercises got underway in earnest Thursday in Belarus near the border with Ukraine, while the British foreign secretary held an icy meeting with her Russian counterpart in Moscow with no sign of progress. Michael Kofman, research program director in the Russia studies program at the Center for Naval Analyses, a Navy-funded think-tank, joins Nick Schifrin to discuss.

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