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look different. hundreds of thousands have sought refuge in this city. and world central kitchen is trying to feed as many of them as possible. we have this network of chefs, restaurants and delivery drivers. reporter: these friends fled. what about to have a hot meal like this every day? of course, we re so happy she says, in our city there s no gas, no water, nothing. today a cloud of smoke rose from behind another world central kitchen in lviv, the aftermath of a russian strike nearby. it didn t stop the work of feeding the hungry. jacob soboroff nbc news lviv. we want to thank you for watching nbc reports. i ll be back tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. eastern. velshi starts right now, live from hungary.
biden has been supportive for weeks of a diplomatic solution to this crisis, we re told that he made that very clear to china s president. we re also told that conversations between officials on both sides are going to be continuing in the weeks ahead. president biden this morning is waking up in rehoboth beach, delaware, where he s spending the weekend ahead of a very busy weekend. he s headed to brussels, belgium, where he ll participate in conversations and meetings with a number of allies from nato to g7 to the european council and this is really a show of force of the allied support for ukraine by all these countries across europe, but the u.s. officials are still resistant to what president zelenskyy and ukraine really wants which of course is the no-fly zone over the country. gary and gabe, thank you so much for your reports. for insight and analysis, former u.s. army brigadier general peter zlack, and former u.s.ment
expletive made president zelenskyy crack a smile. [ speaking in foreign language ] but fear is spreading. today this refugee told us the mayor of her city in southern ukraine was in hiding in another town about 75 miles from kyiv the mayor is surrounded by armed guards. many ukrainian leaders defiant. today we spoke with lviv s mayor hours after a russian air strike blew up a repair facility near the airport. the mayor has to be together with his community, whatever happens. reporter: the kremlin has not commented on the kidnappings. this is essentially what the soviets did in eastern europe during the cold war in east germany in czechoslovakia and the other warsaw pact nations, and what i m suggesting is it won t work in ukraine. for more on this we turn to alex gonkhairenko, a member of
putin is a kgb agent. he couldn t do anything with ukrainian army which is holding the ground, that s why he s terrorizing civilians and trying to make operations like kidnapping of officials and trying to get them to their side. i want to read you something, speaking to the washington post, odesa s mayor warns putin s next target will likely be his city. the mayor says our concern is that the city could be surrounded. we need so many things, i don t know where to start. we appreciate your help in preventing a humanitarian catastrophe. you re based in odesa, you re very much in the battlefield. what does the city need right now just to defend itself? reporter: yes. definitely for putin, there are it s sebastopol and crime extra which is temporarily occupied by russia.