electricity, even president zelenskyy said that one child died in mariupol yesterday because he didn t have any water, of dehydration. so the situation is desperate there. the humanitarian corridor that the russians said they would keep open hasn t been kept open. that corridor has been bombed. there s no way into mariupol or out of mariupol. many of the surrounding cities are in the same situation. the only place that the humanitarian corridor worked was summi, people allowed to get out and travel west. but the rest of the area is a disaster zone. the ukrainian authorities have said some of the offers that have been made by the russians are just unacceptable to create a corridor for ukrainians to go to russia or belarus. they said that s just not an option for their citizen, and there s one of the reasons why they can t come to some sort of understanding about how to get these people out because they just can t agree on any of the
program of creating these laboratories all over the world. that s lavrov repeating the lie the russian foreign ministry told yesterday, claiming that the u.s. and ukraine have been working together on a bio weapons program. the administration called that allegation absurd but warns that russia could use it as a pretext for launching its own chemical or biological attack. even if that doesn t happen, the war appears to be moving into a more destructive phase at it enters week three. while the russian advance has slowed down, it has not stopped and the bombing have intensified. look at this video out of a city two hours west of kyiv where two war hospitals were bombed. there were no injuries, but the world health organization says there have been 18 confirmed attacks on hospitals and ambulances during the war. in mariupol, residential buildings are being bombed once again today. 1,200 people have died in that one city alone according to the
india, chai kres queue s fall. don t you think there s something to be said, if we re being fair about this, that the russian market for most of these companies that have come out thursday far are relatively small, that this decision is not an impossible one and is actually would be a much more difficult one if, in fact, they were told, for example, you can t do business or you shouldn t do business in china. it s created all sorts of questions about consistency in terms of messaging, what issues you re going to talk about publicly in the united states, for example. obviously there was a big debate about voting rights in georgia. delta bore the brunt of it. disney now involved in that debate in florida over lgbt issues and not speaking out on issues in china. you have this inconsistecy where people are saying is this hypocritical? is it not? is this about money or not? we are out of tiechlt i know
provisional of additional fighter aircraft provides little increased capabilities at high risk. we also believe that there are alternative options that are much better suited to support the ukrainian military in their fight against russia. it seems, helene, that s a shift, not that this could trigger world war iii but it essentially wouldn t make a difference. what do you make of what we re hearing in terms of messaging on this? there s a lot of pressure on the biden administration to do something more. hi. thanks for having me, chris. the pentagon has been adamant from the start that this is for days now that they do not see the point of in the words of the pentagon these mig requests for poland, in part because pentagon officials say ukraine isn t really taking the battle to the skies anyway.
corridors and the russians are not playing nice. ali, thank you. i know you have to do more reporting. please stay safe there. general, that brings me to this big picture, what you heard ali say, people desperate to get out of the country. they re bombing hospitals a ul over the country. the uk says russia has confirmed russia sb using vacuum bombs. this seems to be galvanizing the resistance. you think they d be exhausted right now. what do you see? what is the status of this war as you assess it? well, i think the situation obviously is dire. it s being exasperated by this cold weather front that is coming in that makes it so very difficult on the civilians, the innocents, and makes it also tough on the russian attackerings and the ukrainian defenders. the ukrainian forces are primarily stationary in their defensive positions so it s a little bit easier to stay warm that way. but for the russian attackers,