two weeks. translator: it s very difficult to leave them behind. reporter: tonight an ominous sunset in kyiv, as ukraine braces for more fighting yet to come and gabe joins us now live from lviv gabe, there are now troubling allegations some ukrainians may be getting sent forcibly to russia. reporter: yes, jose according to the mariupol city council, russian troops have rounded up thousands of residents over the past week and deported them to russia nbc news has not been able to verify that, jose gabe gutierrez in lviv, thank you. we re going to take a step back for a moment and try to cut through the fog of war. the barrage of daily headlines can sometimes obscure the big picture of how far russia has actually advanced in this war, how successful ukraine has been in battling them, and at what cost to both. cal perry lays it out for us from the western part of ukraine. reporter: today, another claim of battlefield success for ukraine, the death of another russian general,
0 the italians are dependent on russian energy. depending on what country you re talking to you get a different answer and agenda. talking about what they could potentially do next, all we have seen essentially is an agreement to diversify, try to find in the next several years a way to diversify away from russian energy sources. also in the last 24 hours after a very very long meeting, i ve heard that it was quite a long slog, they decided to potentially do price caps. hadley, here comes hadley here comes rude interruption from me. just a moment, let s take a listen as we listen to bells ringing there at the presidential palace in advance of the president. presidential pe of the president well, apparently we were able to hear the bells, they re no longer ringing and again that s the presidential castle, not the palace, i want to make that distinction, and as we look at that sea of people awaiting the arrival of president biden, you see quite a beautiful backdrop setting for the pr