lie. all your avarice, and everything you ve done admirable will be in vain. we also spoke today with ukraine s deputy prime minister says russian troops are rounding of presidents and sending them to so-called filtration camps. before they re deported to russian controlled territories. people are searched, they checked, telephones documents, and personal belongings. they want to know whether this person is pro ukrainian. these people disappear. nbc news can t independently verify that. russian state television claims evacuees are arriving in russia willingly. that is an absolutely. russia s use such tactics before during its worse in chechnya. let s welcome maria pull city council member maxim, those just outside lviv tonight. thank you so much for joining us. first, help us understand. your hometown, your city, is basically destroyed. why is mariupol so important to the russians?
demands that they surrender. nbc s reporter has more about this tonight. to associated press journalists who documented the first horrors of the russian invasion, including the bombing of a maternity ward. the doctors pleaded with us to film families bringing in their own dead and wounded. no one knows what s going on in our city, they said. any new, harrowing account. they describe their escape. the russians were hunting us. they had a list of names, including ours, and they were closing and. ukrainian soldiers were under orders to find an extract them first. and the russians catch you, one of the soldiers said, they will get you on camera and me to say that everything you filmed is a lie. all your avarice, and everything you ve done admirable will be in vain. we also spoke today with ukraine s deputy prime minister says russian troops are rounding of presidents and sending them to so-called filtration camps. before they re deported to russian controlled territories.
she was always there to help anybody that needed it. admirable. yes, very much. one year after kevin and lisa met, they married. a year and a half later lisa and kevin announced the arrival of a baby of their own, hailey. lisa was on top of the world. megan loved like crazy, of course. but she really wanted another child. but lisa felt she had more to give. two years after hailey s birth, she decided to invite 16-year-old foster child sabrina into her home. and to make sabrina part of the family. i met sabrina almost immediately when she came to the house. i remember saying, i finally have a family. everything was going really well. she fit right into the family. lisa couldn t talk highly enough about her. but the happy times for the
experiences, but i think that the resilience, perseverance you are showing the world today is incredibly aadmirable. i hope young survivors who see this who feel powerless to tell their stories will feel, yes, this is the example they should tell it. i think it has to be far more than just telling the stories. obviously, like senator durbin, i ve been on this committee for a long time. i cannot think of anything so moving. we re going to hear senators and others talk about accountability and justice today, but what was genuine accountability look like to you? when do you feel justice will be done for the injustices you suffer? that really should be the question we have today.
0 job is to protect are getting away with this? this is not justice. enough is enough. i ask you to hear my voice. please doe all that is in your power to ensure these individuals are held responsible and accountable for ignoring my initial report. for lying about my initial report and for covering up for a child molester. in closing, i would like to express my deep gratitude to the united states senate a very power institution that from the very beginning has fought for us rather than against us. thank you. i welcome any questions. thank you. miss nickols. thank you for inviting me to speak to you today. i want to thank you for your commitment to pry tortizing athlete safety. i was named as gymnast two and previously identified by athlete a. this did not happen to gymnast two or athlete a. it happened to me, maggie nick nichols. i was elite level gymnast by the age of 13. by the time i was 14, i made the national team. i traveled internationally for four years and in 2015 at the