up in defending its freedom. it s true to say that ukraine won the battle for kyiv. now another battle is coming, the battle for donbas, and of course we are preparing for it, working with our partners to get weapons and basically everything that one needs to win a battle. so whatever russia is planning to do, we have our strategy, and this strategy is based on the assumption that on the confidence that we will win this war and we will liberate our territories. joining me now, nbc news correspondent ali arouzi live from lviv, ukraine. ali, what s the latest in lviv? it is the city still receiving large numbers of evacuees from the southeast? reporter: hi, alicia. yes, it is. a lot of displaced people in this country are still coming to lviv. it s still a safe zone in the west of the country, but it s
ukrainians can come at them with a lot of other stuff too. i fear that your decided use of the word grind, grind it out, really tells so much of the story. general peter zwack, thank you. nato nations have been unified in condemning russia for its invasion of ukraine. marine le pen is a putin sympathizer. if she wins this election, msnbc richard stengel joins me now. he worked previously on president biden s transition team and was the undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs. can you please explain to us what is at stake in this french election specifically as it relates to ukraine. well, i m going to go a little broader than that, alicia, first. it s another front in this global battle between democracy and autocracy.
vander van der high visited the site. we ve seen the cruel face of putin army. reporter: president search says it will be worse elsewhere. in there are more victims of russian occupiers. on the battlefield, the attention turned to the east, the regional governor warning there s no secret, the battle for donbas will be decisive, we have already experienced all of this horror, it can multiply. the u.s. says russia was behind the attack, russia has denied responsibility. the regional government in the area is taking precautions at train stations, trying to avoid huge crowds from gathering because russia is quite clearly targeting big groups of civilians. i ll send it back to you. molly hunt e thank you, now
ukraine s foreign minister told nato allies today that his country needs more weapons now because even as russian forces have withdrawn from the area around the capital, kyiv, the next phase of the war is about to begin in the donbas, in ukraine s east. as we speak, the battle for the donbas is underway. it has not reached its maximum scale but every day, the heaviest fighting takes place in that part of ukraine. and more is to come, unfortunately. the battle for donbas, we remind you and i regret to say it but this is true the battle for the donbas will remind you of the second world war and its large operational maneuvers, and involvement of thousands of tanks, armored vehicles, planes, artillery. either you help us now and i am
it has not reached its maximum scale but every day, the heaviest fighting takes place in that part of ukraine. and more is to come, unfortunately. the battle for donbas, we remind you and i regret to say it but this is true the battle for the donbas will remind you of the second world war and its large operational maneuvers, and involvement of thousands of tanks, armored vehicles, planes, artillery. either you help us now and i am speaking about in days and not weeks or your help will come too late. it is in ukraine s east, along with president zelenskyy, are urging residents to evacuate their ahead of the expected russian onslaught.