areas of corruption, about a leak, about deep state, about plots to control the global economy. those were emanating from russia and the american right with the same velocity and veracity and now i think you ve seen in ukraine is most tragic manifestation of where it can lead if the entire war is bit on a pyramid of lies. unfortunately, the american right wing had gone along with a lot of those lies. remember the conspiracy theory that somehow ukraine hacked the election? not russia. it was picked up by russian bots and american right wing trolls. these are the narratives that putin served into this war and left the american right wing in this deeply awkward position where some are still willing to go along with it and some are realizing they ve been accomplices to something that leads to the kind of violence we re witnessing every single day in ukraine. to that point, i want to read you the last two paragraphs of
caught by a missile strike. they barely got her out alive to kyiv to a hospital and has to have the leg amputate jd a girl that has an amputated leg survived miraculous. because of the insane attack on ukraine. ukrainian forces continue to push back. the pentagon now reporting there are signs that ukraine is trying to recapture territory that had been taken over by russian forces and trying to ensure that russia pays a steep price. in fact, a stagger 40,000 russian troops killed, captured or injured in the month since the war began according to a nato estimate. richard engel got aesz to a war room. reporter: we are in the municipality, a control center
the backdrop of intense fighting and a spiral crisis in ukraine. in a statement secretary of state blinken say it is united states has evidence that russian troops have committed war crimes. the state department citing attacks on civilians as well as the situation in mariupol where an estimated 100,000 people remain without power, food or water and now are under near constant russian shelling. russians targeted apartment buildings, schools and hospitals. overnight russian air strikes hit residential buildings in kyiv. one ukrainian journalist told msnbc this war is sparing no one. around 20 killed in my native kyiv. i see neighborhoods bombarded and incinerating. seen a shopping mall obliterated. friends of my colleague, she was
off russian energy a way that vladimir putin is financing the war and then other steps that president zelenskyy is calling for and likely to call for in the address to nato tomorrow including a no-fly zone that nato said is not going the happen and sending fighter jet toss the ukrainians and a real challenge for the international community as well. they look for ways to do more than what they have done so far but they find that the tool box is largely exhausted. we have sinlg, josh, that president zelenskyy is incredibly successful with the powers of persuasion but the things he asked for that he thinks they need is a nonstarter. could the needle be moving?
ukrainians making military advances and the civilian punished for that. and the backdrop for a peace talks and makes the job of the ukrainian president particularly difficult because he wants a cease-fire to relieve the pressure on the civilians and said to negotiate with someone negotiating to buy themselves time doesn t do them any good and the backdrop that president biden is arriving in europe, chris. this is an extraordinary, urgent meeting. they re lookinging at i think broadly, right, two categories of vladimir putin. deterrence and defense. what is it that president biden is coming to brussels hoping to accomplish at this summit? reporter: the challenge here is that the u.s. and europe have been pretty united already. they have taken steps in the fist month of this war that