it will be fast and no painful. we hope not to die from hunger, because it woul be much easier to die mediately. my sister told me that if we run out of food, we will commi suicide together it was really difficult t listen to that interview wit her, ali, it was reall heartbreaking. she told me that when they wer escaping mariupol, they were met by russian checkpoints, th russian soldiers taunting them laughed at them, to what the had done in their city, sh managed to escape with a pai of trainers and her laptop, to get out of that city, and some of her family members. but for others there who remai in that city, it s a devastating situation, and the feeling is that the russians are going to continue thei
relentless bombing of that city making little distinctio between the military force there, and the civilia population that is still tryin to hold on to their city not least of all because it is so financially important t this country all of ukraine s coal, corn, and steel is shipped across th world from mariupol. if they re not going to be abl to do that, that s all going t economically strangle the city so, a devastating situation, not only from a humanitarian point of view, but from financial point of view fo this country, as well. ali, what a thing to hear them make a suicide pact i they didn t think they would make it out of the city. thank you for your amazing reporting. ali arouzi is live for us in lviv, this late night. in just a minute, i m going to be talking live with someone who just escaped from mariupol with his family, that intervie will be after this first, i want to get som thoughts from a military analyst on what we witnessed
things are tonight that s right, ali, that s i the suburbs of kyiv, some of the russian troops have made advances and occupy small part of subarbs in kyiv and i northwest, in bucha, but i other parts in the west of the city, russian troops had mad advances, but the cranes fough back hard as, as you mentioned in your report and took back certain areas in the eastern parts of kyiv. that s because, ali, kyiv is a city on a heel, it s heavily fortified, it s streets an roads are very narrow, makin it very hard for russian tanks and heavy armor to maneuve their way around their of course, because they ve bee held met by fierce resistanc by the ukrainian forces trying to defend their capital, where president zelenskyy is still standing, and putting out thes very strong messages to hi armed forces and to the people
of freedom, it s a stronghol of all democracy stronghold of all democracy in the world, nbc s gabe gutierrez reporting tonigh from ukraine today, the french government announced that there is stil appear to be no cease fire going in place that could halt the fighting in ukraine. russia ratcheted up tensio today, saying the countr refuses to rule out the use of nuclear weapons. as long as it is facing but it is vaguely defining, as an existential threat. the u.s. national security advise warned today that, the war would not end easily or rapidl which is becoming more and mor apparent every day, as we clos out day 27 of this brutal war. joining us now live from lvi is nbc correspondents al arouzi ali, thank you for being up at this hour with us, it seem like ukrainian troops ar pushing back against russian forces in certain areas of the country, even though russi continues to bomb by the citie and cause heavy damage, what are you hearing about wher