country, an emotional and painful journey with no clear destination. putin, monster. putin is a monster? yes. he just kill. for those staying behind to fight, the toughest days may still be ahead. as we speak, a 40-mile-long convoy of tanks and arp mored vehicles is closing in on kyiv less than 20 miles from the city center, ukraine s capital bracing for the worst. it s vladimir putin s latest attempt to showcase russian power and demoralize ukrainian resistance, something he has not been age to do so far. the exact opposite, in fact, seems to be happening. ukrainians and the world rallying against vladimir putin. just a few minutes from now, secretary of state antony blinken will address the u.n. human rights council. nbc news has exclusively learned that blinken will question whether russia should be kicked
jim maceda traveled to the town in the heart of the region occupied by pro-russian militia. reporter: hi, ronan. we re finding ourselves in a bizarre, almost surreal situation here. behind me you see what is a tank, obviously, a small tank, part yesterday of the ukrainian national army, along with five or six other arp mored troop vehicles scattered throughout this park that i m in here in slavyansk, part of donetsk. it has been occupied by pro-russian m lish yeahmen. these were part of that army. today they are part of the opposition force, because in between, there has been a defection, we re told, by individuals who are now asleep, catching up on rest because they re already preparing military operations on the other side. so, what is happening next?