has posted a series of videos threatening to withdraw his mercenaries from bakhmut by wednesday if russia does not supply him with more ammunition. nbc news correspondent ellison barber is live now from kyiv, ukraine. ellison, what s the latest you re hearing on let s start with the drone attack and the war in the east. reporter: yeah, ana, yesterday evening there were plumes of smoke over kyiv s skyline after a series of explosions were heard in the heart of the capital. what a lot of people initially thought might be another russian air attack turned out to be one of ukraine s own drones. i think we have some video and possibly sound we can play for you of what we saw and heard yesterday evening. ukraine, they are saying that one of their drones simply malfunctioned. you hear the sound there. understandably people in the streets were fleeing not knowing
from moscow, there s been a lot of concern here that there could be some sort of large scale attack that russia is trying to plan on the city. that s at least what some of president zelenskyy s top advisers have warned of. you mentioned situation in bakhmut there, that continues to be the longest, bloodiest battle of this war, and right now what we are hearing from the head of the wagner group in a series of videos posted on social media is a very angry leader demanding more ammunition from russia s ministry of defense and threatening if he doesn t get it that he will pull his troops out of that city by wednesday. ana. ellison barber, thank you so much for the latest there. i want to give everybody a quick programming note. andrea mitchell will speak with ukraine s ambassador to the u.s. at noon eastern today, so keep it right here on msnbc. up next on ana cabrera reports, growing concerns about a humanitarian crisis at the southern border as more migra cross. i ll talk with henry
these moments of what feels like absolute normalcy. when you talk to people who live in these cities further from the front lines, they will tell you they know it s a temporary feeling because something like this can happen at any moment. that s the constant fear in ukraine for people who don t live right along the eastern front is that russia has spent so much time targeting other cities by air, by missiles that they know that sometimes it feels like they re just random and that it can happen anywhere. remember in the winter, and our team was here in november as russia had started their very aggressive air assault on energy infrastructure in ukraine, and it was just constant air raid sirens then. that slowed. there was a bit of relief, a bit of normalcy. most people will tell you they know it s temporary, this is a reminder of how quickly things can change in this country, even if you think you are far enough from the are front lines. ana. ellison, thank you so much for that reporti
city of uman where missiles hit a residential apartment building while people were sleeping. at least 19 civilians are now dead including three children. search and rescue efforts are ongoing at this hour. i m going to bring in nbc news correspondent ellison barber live for us from ukraine. also joining us right now is michael allen, former member of the national security council, former special assistant to president george w. bush. he s also managing director of beacon global strategies. so great to have both of you here with us. let me start with you, ellison, and the latest reporting. what s happening there right now? reporter: ana, you played that sound of air raid sirens, it s something if you spent time in ukraine in the last year plus, you re very familiar with it. but as you said, it s something in a lot of cities people have not heard for quite a while. this is the largest missile attack russia has launched on the country in about two month thes. this is an area where there
die. with us now to talk more about this, nbc news correspondent ellison barber in lake city, south carolina. telemundo news anchor julio bakedo. ellison, we re hearing more from family members of the survivors, what are they telling us? reporter: yeah, family and friends tell nbc news all four of these individuals were childhood friends and that they had gone together to split up driving duties to take turns on the long journey to mexico. this city, lake city, is was their hometown. the mayor has already talked about this, acknowledging all of them had ties here. we expect the community to have a vigil later this evening. the family of the survivors, we re starting to hear more from them and they re talking about this scale, this range of emotions of feeling a lot of relief that they have now heard that their loved ones are safe