While trapped under ground. have a look at this. five buses only. but within them, the world hopes of a way to deliver innocent ukrainians to safety. from russia s onslaught. just over 100 civilians the first to leave the basement of the steel plant. in mariupol. bringing with them stories of the circle of hell they lived in under ground. for weeks. this is ol ga. after two months in the dark she struggles in sunlight still. i ask if she can see okay. bad. she says. i can t see anything in the sun. age 78, and she keeps saying completely alone. her entire life is in these two bags. 48 hours earlier she was pictured in a ukrainian military video just walking out of
Inflation. they do better than democrats on the economy. they do better than democrats on foreign policy. democrats don t know how to, like, play this game. yet, and yet, independents are going, republicans are too crazy. maybe i ll take a second welcome look at the democrats. coming up, reverend al is going to weigh in on joe biden s approval ratings. at the top of the hour, we ll have the latest on nancy pelosi s visit to kyiv. she is the highest u.s. official to go visit with the ukrainian president. also, some civilians escaping that steel plant in mariupol. we ll have the very latest when morning joe continues. we ll be right back. morning joe continues. morning joe continues. we ll be right back.ember, you can instantly start saving on your travels. so you can go and see all those, lovely, lemony, lemons.
They re being allowed out of their homes, we re seeing actual acts of civil disobedience. vegetables being thrown. pots and pans being banged. banners being hung. being taken down quite quickly. but still, this sense that there is a growing public anger with the beijing leadership in shanghai that has been percolating for five weeks during this lockdown. all right. nbc s janis mackey frayer in beijing, thank you so much for your report. now back to ukraine. the long-awaited evacuation of that besieged steel plant in mariupol is under way right now. according to president zelenskyy, more than 100 civil ians, mostly women and children, were evacuated yesterday and were being taken to ukrainian-controlled territory. this video of the evacuation has not been completely verified by nbc news. joining us now live from southeastern ukraine, nbc news
general, richard haass. could you drill down on the phrase what war of attrition means? are there larger battles? is it skirmish after skirmish, engagements? what does this look like? number one, you have to remember that the russians have not had a strategic victory during this war. when i say strategic victory, mariupol, it is a strategic objective because it is a major port. it is the fifth largest port out of the 15 that ukrainians have. kyiv, strategic objective, the house of power, where the house sits. odesa, that s where the region and port city and port complexes reside, on odesa. their route to getting to
To stay in the shelter. it was horrible. she s she was working as a nurse in the hospital that was destroyed. reporter: i m sorry. so glad you made it out safe. you heard from yulia. she just came from around this region. as you can see, she is one of so many people, you know, her car she came with, all the marks with these white flags. this is the trademark of a lot of the cars. again, she s not coming from mariupol. she s coming from elsewhere here in zaporizhzhia. regions that are very much under shelling. here s another car. this is what we re seeing. and we see this all the time. this means children. all of these cars are well marked. as you can see here, also further white flags. these are sign after sign that says, don t shoot. this car contains civilians. we always see these cars,