news that we found is the fire was about 1200 feet away from the reactor itself, saved an enormous disaster of immense proportions here. just 24 hours ago. pop on over to the north, sean, i know you had a question a moment to go to jen about what is happening with this convoy. it is still pretty much stuck where it is, has been for the past several days, but the forces here are outlined in this red area here. and sean, i know our viewers, some of them have seen these pictures online, i know you have come as well, i have seen them the past week, some of the towns in this red portion here have been absolutely annihilated. and i bring that up because here is the capital city of kyiv, and we believe that still the incentive is to go ahead and surround the city with that convoy that stretches roughly right around this area and is holding there at the airport.
push in and show you more specifics but that is about the area where it is. point being, a lot of your action is in this part of the city. so far. again, keep this in mind: if we get a few days from now come a week or even two weeks from now, this is still the intent, we believe, on behalf of the russian army, and the reason why i make that point, sean, is because the city of kharkiv, russian-speaking, 1.5 million, 20 miles, just across the border from russia here, this city has been hammered, just like all the other areas i was explain in a moment ago, and based on the reporting we are getting, it is surrounded, but it has not fallen, so they are still hanging on in the city of kharkiv, which is, if i could just go forward just one time here, capital city of kyiv is here, kharkiv is over here, and they are hanging on for now, but you have to wonder what is left of that city, and frankly, there is not much. show you one more thing, sean, just to complete the story,
welcome to msnbc s live coverage of the war in ukraine, i m dara brown. we have breaking news on this early saturday morning, russian and ukrainian officials confirm to bc news that a temporary cease-fire will be in place in two areas of ukraine, to allow civilians to evacuate. one of those two key areas? the keyport city apparent marrow paul. joining now is nbc s molly hunter in lviv. molly, good to have you, mara paul has faced some of the fiercest shelling by russian forces. once we make of this temporary cease-fire. hi dara, that s right, minutes ago we got these short statements down on the black sea as the
ground in ukraine by russian forces. we are not just talking about outside the capital of kyiv, but across this country. in the second largest city in ukraine, we have seen this back and forth front line of local media reports tonight, the ukrainians are launching a counter offensive to try to take back some of that territory the russians seized in the early days of the invasion. in the south, the city of a city of more than 400,000 civilians, currently about to be totally cut off from the outside world, as russian forces look to surround the keyport city. this happens, already seen power and water cut, you re going to have an even larger humanitarian crisis taking place on the ground, and right now, putin is not mixing any sort of conflicts, he is keeping to the playbook what we have seen across the world in places like syria. he is now targeting civilian areas, again, there is evidence of war crimes being committed in the former cluster bomb, vacuum bombs against residential areas,
to visit a training camp with numerous fighters, normal citizens filling sandbags and checkpoints throughout the city to protect the city. i also spoke to a young woman earlier today who says she wanted the russian soldiers to go to hell and learn the history of this country. sean? sean: thank you, lucas. democrats at home are drawing absurd comparisons. stacey abrams made a bizarre comparison between her work on progressive voting rights to the ukrainian people fighting back against russia s invasion, really? here now with reaction, fox news contributors tammy bruce, leo 2.0 terrell, leo, what is your reaction to that? i am so glad you asked me this question. stacey abrams is absorbed with herself. there is absolutely no comparison whatsoever between the hoax of democracy she has been fighting for with the jim crow act and what is going on in ukraine.