ship, russian officials say but no mention hoff an attack. the ship is being towed to port. destruction in mariupol continues to mount. russia claims more than 1,000 ukrainian troops have surrendered the city. ukraine s interior minister countered the battle is still going on. regardless, the loss of life and the impact on innocent civilians is staggering where more than 10,000 have died and more than 100,000 are trapped. why are they killing us? why our houses? three ten story buildings were burnt completely. meanwhile, the u.s. officials are confirming today, martha, that they will be sending a top level official to the capitol city of kyiv. who that might be, it s unclear right now. president biden saying it s essentially in the works. martha? martha: jeff paul in lviv.
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because words matter especially if you re the president to the policy being critical of fast-tracking nord stream 2 at this point last year. policies matter. with all of that being said, i would echo what senator graham pointed out that bipartisanship is very important. i want to see the biden administration and our leaders in government to be successful here. also, there s other countries in that region, throughout europe and the rest of the world that are engaged, they re talking. by working together, multilateral, you can ramp up pressure where you create more hoff of a deterrent effect. this is something that we ve been waiting on a long time. at this particular moment, if you did everything, russia might still enter ukraine. you have to try. the last thing i would say is that there s a lot of people focused right now on ukraine s border that are not focused on our own. and we have to make sure that
bedlam and confusion and a war that seemingly knows no end, he s been proven right. the markets have come back mightily from their early war lows. one of the things that tuchman reminded me about, the resilience of our markets. it was reflected today focusing on the half full glass, that there s talks going on with the ukrainians and the russians. he said where there s progress, there s hope. and there is that smile. that iconic image of a man who has seen more than his share hoff crises and reminded me today we get through them all. meanwhile, the big focus of today, that war and whether there are inklings it could be changing. never the mind that they have russian soldiers firing on ukrainians and ukrainians firing back on russian soldiers. we re told fewer firings back and forth. maybe a sign with talks today in
there s no play back as to how this might go. the focus i think on both sides has been in terms of developing strong offensive capabilities, we have not been as good at defense as we know from great costs that have been inflicted on our economy by cyber attacks of various kinds from various as far as offensive capabilities, we have them. i m sure the russians have them, the chinese, the israelis, the iranians, the northern koreans. those are the countries that have the strong offensive capabilities. neil: i m curious what you make hoff vladimir putin s ongoing war in the face of all of these disappointments and criticism of the troops and how they have not been able to close the deal here, whatever you want to say. yet he s still enjoys strong support at home. does any intelligence indicate