when you are bringing new life into the world. concern for pregnant women extends to all women, because many women and girls on the move are going to be vulnerable. the understanding that we must protect civilians is what we are calling for. , , ~ ., ., for. but it must strike fear into the hearts for. but it must strike fear into the hearts of for. but it must strike fear into the hearts of all for. but it must strike fear into the hearts of all the for. but it must strike fear into the hearts of all the aid - for. but it must strike fear into i the hearts of all the aid agencies try to help women and children, that if you look at mariupol, where there is no running water, no heat, yet births will still continue, dangerous births under those conditions, you have to fear for those mothers who are in labour? this is one time where i have two also stress that we have to be cognisant that the ukraine crisis,
these bitter conditions. it s been a long week of darkness, on this friday night we actually want to start with a little ray of light. i want to introduce you to veronica, she was born late last night in a hospital mariupol, it latin, veronica means to bring victory, which is a powerful thing given that this is her mom veronica s mom mariana was inside that maternity hospital on wednesday. that was bombed by russia. after the attack she grabbed her bag, she walked herself out of the wreckage, less than 48 hours later she gave birth to veronika, the bringer of victory. in the middle of an active war zone. still wearing those same pocket pajamas. here is veronica with her dad yuriy, it s often clear where the family of three is gonna go from here. evacuations out of mariupol remain stalled, authorities
fought the nazis, and the red army came back through. one of the russian journalist said, there s one difference between hitler, when he was coming in and putin, hitler didn t kill ethnic germans. he didn t kill german speaking people, i think people need to remember that when we re talking about cities like kharkiv, and mariupol, and kyiv, there are large populations there, up to a third and sometimes as much as a half that our russian speakers, and our ethnic russians. and yet putin doesn t seem to care about that, he slaughters the very people he said he has come to liberate. ambassador, let s talk a little bit about the fears that the west and nato have had about escalation, that doesn t have a much of a return, including the polish jets the other day, or the other things that the ukrainians are asking for, including a no-fly zone, or even humanitarian corridors. you ve made the argument that
the shrimp phase. nothing so far has managed to slow russia s invasion of ukraine, on the, contrary it seems to be picking up steam, and planting footholds in the country farther and farther to the west. joining us now, live, from lviv, is nbc news correspondent cal perry. cal, how is the situation changed where you are? it s changed because of those airstrikes and lutsk that you talked about last night. we ve been here since the beginning of the war, and we ve had consistent irate alarms, but there is been a choice of many people in the city have made which is not run to those bomb shelters, because i m 350 miles from the capital of kyiv, which is where most of that fighting is taking place. that ll changed this morning, now people are going to russia those bomb shelters, because putin has made it clear he will strike in the west. problem the situation along the black sea, ali, continues to disintegrate, the city of mariupol now, confirming at least 1500 civilians there have been ki
inexcusable. the kind of fear that we saw in the eyes of their women fleeing that s maternity hospital in mariupol yesterday. i know you have issued a statement. russia is now describing it as a pathetic outcry. seeing the hospital had been taken over by gann men. what information do you have about what was happening in that hospital? taken over by gunmen. it was clear this was a maternity and children s hospital. whenever humanitarian crisis occurs we are subject to a humanitarian laws. the targeting of a health facility, and world health organization has verified that this has happened in ukraine, that is always wrong, always unacceptable, we stand by our