defend the city of kyiv if necessary. thank you so much. appreciate it. russia has been relentlessly pounding ukraine s second-largest city. kharkiv saw intense shelling today. 25 miles from the eastern border, it s a primary objective for russian forces. it s a focus of the ukrainian resistance. russian troops controlled it over the weekend and then ukrainian forces quickly took it back. joining me now from ukraine is rolling stone correspondent and msnbc contributor jack crosby. last time we talked to you, you were in an underground parking garage kharkiv. how did you get out? i had been in kharkiv since the beginning of the war. last night was a relatively quiet night by most accounts. there were still isolated shelling outside of the city. but we thought that there was going to be a lull in the
forces are advancing on kyiv are planning on basically encircling the city or to storm kyiv? this type of troops and army of this size, are you able to draw any conclusion from what you are seeing? i think the main conclusion we can draw gets to leah s question, is that they continue to want to move on kyiv, to capture kyiv and take kyiv. although we don t know everything about this convoy, it s certainly in keeping with what we believe to be their intent with respect to the capital city. how they are going to do that, whether it s encirclement or bombardment or street to street fighting, i don t think we have the level of insights of what they are planning on doing. that s what we are seeing now. we are seeing the ukrainians
peeved by these accusations by president zielinski. it feels like it has done as much as it could and indeed the white house spokesperson said today these measures amount to hide these measures amount to hide the standing by on the sidelines, she put it. thank ou sidelines, she put it. thank you very sidelines, she put it. thank you very much sidelines, she put it. thank you very much indeed - sidelines, she put it. thank you very much indeed for i sidelines, she put it. thank- you very much indeed for being as up to date. let s bring you as up to date. let s bring you a quick reminder of our headlines. ukraine s capital itself a further russian attacks with residents forced to spend another night sheltering. the country s president once russia will try to storm kyiv tonight. his spokesman said ukraine is ready to talk about a ceasefire. the senior director of the centre of military and political power and foundation for defence of democracy where he focus on us defence strategy an
civilians that are trying to take up arms? we ve been getting reports that individual ukrainians are going out and using their bodies to block russian tanks, forming a line of bodies in front of russian tanks, trying to block them from passing. yeah, i know in kharkiv, specifically, there was a russian incursion into the city center itself. i believe two days ago. no, i m sorry. yesterday morning. it s been a long four days. this has kind of blurred together for me. yesterday morning, a russian incursion made it into the city center and was repulsed by the ukrainian military and by newly armed civilian defense members. we ve seen those as i was leaving the city and moving around the city in prior days, both at checkpoints inside and out of the city, i think the key things that some of those units have been tasked with now is that in kyiv and in kharkiv, there have been various
tell you that we tried to transfer ukraine to switzerland, not only with the economic development, but also for the under the bed of every ukrainian, we should have an automatic rifle, and that would be a hell for russian who tried to storm kyiv. and putin should explain to the russians why already 3,500 russians are killed during the 72 hours of the russian aggression. 100 tanks, 20 airplane, more than 1,000 armed personal carrier. at the same time we have lost about 40 civilians, including two children. they attack kindergarten, they attack schools, they attack hospital. they have the putin putin