Sort of figure this out, and the vice president today focused more on sort of a united front. she didn t get into the details of why that back and forth happened, and that s clearly what they re trying to project now, they re sort of trying to move on from this. but clearly on capitol hill they ve not moved on and will be asking the administration a lot more. so we ll track the military to military conversations in inalliance, which i think as you pointed out is a key point. can you get all the military folks in the alliance onboard? she met with some ukrainian refugees when she was there. she promised them the world was watching and the world would not forget. she also was asked about what would happen yesterday in mariupol. but yesterday was particularly ghastly. she said this. we are also very clear that any intentional attack on innocent civilians is a violation, and i have no question the eyes of the world are on this war and what russia
More than they could chew. they are trying to win in multiple locations which means they ve violated one of the most incredible and most important principles of war. what is your center of gravity? what are you trying to achieve, and put the maximum power against that objective. they are trying to get mariupol, trying to get land bridge from the donbas all the way to odesa. they re trying to get kharkiv for logistics reasons. trying to get kyiv because it s the capital city. and they are failing in each one of those locations. other than in mariupol, which is where they ve been able to simply conduct this brutal long-range fire assault against fixed facilities. it s not warfare. it s simply thug tactics that increase the terror level of the citizens within ukraine. so the russian forces are really out of stride. they don t have any momentum and they re trying to find their next moves. and in mariupol, the russians have been bombing that city for weeks and yet they have not been
Right? reporter: it is fair wily dangerous work. everything going east, you ve heard the russians now say they re going to start targeting things that they feel are resupply that are going east, so that increases the risk even for the people who are bringing humanitarian aid. but what we have seen time and time again since the invasion started is this remarkable willingness on the part of the ukrainians, particularly here in the wen part of the country western part of the country, to do whatever it takes to help this effort, and aha includes and that includes very much special emphasis on the aid to get people who are out in the trouble spots like kharkiv and mariupol. molly? molly: a phenomenal outpouring. thank you, mike tobin, for bringing us these reports. appreciate it. griff: for more on the u.s. response to the russian war on ukraine, we asked richard fowler and steve a radio talk show host. steve, richard, thanks for being here. steve, what do you make of the
Largest city in ukraine and then the city of mariupol, literally encircled by the russian troops. and you re hearing from the foreign minister, it s the worst humanitarian catastrophe on the planet right now. of course, you can see the russian occupation all the way over here, almost closing access to the sea, and of course being a access to the entire black sea. take you to the ukrainian forces. as they change color here, in the blue, these are areas where the ukrainian defense is trying to stop things. they ve got a circle around mariupol, trying to stop what looks like an inevitable occupation of that city by russian forces and you can see in the red, the russian forces are advancing, and closing in on mariupol, as well as moving
Injured. molly: as we get more information on that, i can t imagine that s going to be good news. alexis, thank you so much for sharing those pictures and continuing to do the work to gather them for us, we appreciate it. griff? griff: let s a take a look now at where the most intense battles are happening many ukraine. joining us to break it down, senior fellow at the heritage foundation, brent sadler. he spent 26 years in the navy, nuclear-powered submarines under his belt, just one of many things. alexis was talking about that mosque being attacked. that happened here in mariupol, in that city, absolutely under siege. it appears russian forces are completely surrounding it, trying to choke it off in the near future. it does not look good in mariupol. in melitopol, the mayor apparently kidnapped. that is troubling. but from this eastern breakaway area of the donbas all the way now almost land bridge that s