complicated but that s the high commission for human rights. unicef as people make the journeys in ukraine or romania it is about getting support and not gist food and blankets but starting to thankfully warm up a little bit. that s stress support. the longer this goes on and the longer children are bearing the brunt the longer they do the more likely to get a generation of ukrainian kids that know war. we can t afford that. so an organization like unicef does a lot of trauma support for children in poland, here this ukraine. the fastest way out is for the attacks to stop. at the beginning of the hour we had a sound from a mother who said the child asked her if she
government. they don t believe me. they say it s your fault, you re to blame. it s you, you, you. russian state tv describe russian troops as liberators in ukraine. these are the first images from inside a theater in mariupol russia attacked nine days ago where hundreds of ukrainian civilians were sheltering. covered in dust, they seem dazed. many are women, children, and the elderly. a narrator on the video says the missile hit the center of the theater, and people are evacuating the site. mariupol city officials citing witnesses claimed 300 people were killed in the attack. nbc news cannot verify that claim. the theater is in the center of mariupol, and it had been clearly marked with signs, in russian, saying children to indicate children were inside. russia denied it carried out the attack. ukraine is holding back the russian assault for now, but it faces an army eight times its
evacuees from mariupol and went through checkpoints with signs that read children. take a listen to a young mother that fled mariupol with her family. i don t know really how to describe it because you don t know will you be alive in a minute or no or son will be alive or no. one night he said to me, my son, he is 10 years old. sorry. he ask me, mama, will i see my birthday in august or no? will i be alive? and i didn t know what to say to him. joining our coverage, nbc news seechb your white house correspondent kelly o donnell live in warsaw and correspondent ali arouzi live from krahn
and that will continue to be the guiding principle. i do think we have seen a surprise among some people. i recall early in the invasion, talking to some european officials who we would ask about this seemed to be a stalled advance on the russian side, and they would say, do not underestimate the power of the russian war machine. and in recent days, they have said, you know, perhaps putin himself overestimated the power of his own war machine. but just because it s not going as well as putin expected that it might, does not mean that it is over, by a long stretch. and the devastation, the destruction, the displacement we have all been talking about that has been wrought on ukraine, that doesn t go away in an instant either, and a shadow of that will stay over the area for a while. and then harry, you layer on top of that the economic pressure on russia, this from the new york times. the united states announced a deal with european leaders on friday to increase shipments of natural
size. joining us now, nbc news correspondents dashas burns live from poland and cal perry is live in lviv, ukraine. cal, you re there in lviv on the opposite side of the country in kherson today. a pentagon official revealed that russia has lost full control of that city. ukrainians have been fighting back against what we all understand is a far superior, far larger force. you have been in that country for a month now, cal. can you give us a sense of morale among the ukrainians you re speaking with in? reporter: well, look, i think ukrainians on the ground would take issue partly with the question. i think they would say they are fighting a larger force, but is it a superior force? in the past 48 hours, it seems like a to two-front war has developed. gains made by ukrainian soldiers on the ground, particularly in kyiv. in the western part of the city, they have pushed back the russian lines, in some places broken through those lines. the city of kherson, that was