oleg, academic adviser to president zelenskyy. moving forward, they were enjoying life, tonight, nearly 2 million ukrainians are literally running for their lives. we re going to check in with my friend and colleague, and partner, ali velshi and hungry for more. on the humanitarian crisis on the 11th hour, when it continues. continues.
journalist, and that s important. lester holt, thank you for being there and thank you for joining us tonight. with that, let s bring in our experts, admiral james, and the former head of the u.s. southern command and former supreme allied commander of nato, i m michael allen. select committee on intelligence. he also served a senior director at the national security council under president george w. bush. admiral, despite ukrainians begging for a no-fly zone, the u.s. and nato insist it is off the table, because it could start a much, much bigger war. can you explain this to us? i can, stephanie. let s begin by saying we want to avoid ultimately, a global thermal nuclear war between the u.s. and russia. we can do that. we can avoid that, but still give the ukrainians with a need to fight this war.
lake meade where the drought is happening right now. things will become unfarmable. it has to change. we are increasing fossil fuel emissions by 14%. we need to go down by 45% to reach the limit. new science finds if we go past 1.5, it will take thousands of years for the earth to recover in some parts. the wrong direction. bill weir, thank you very much. new day continues right now. announcer: that is cnn breaking news. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. it is monday, february 28th. i m john berman with brianna keilar. and we do begin with breaking news. just moments ago, in an incredible moment here on cnn, our matthew chance was on the front lines of russia s attempt to take the ukrainian capital of kyiv. he s on the ground after ukrainians pushed back this russian assault.
they have 1 million. 4 to 1. you get the idea. the polls need to step up, send their jets, and we will backfill under the theory that both sides are looking at with the u.s. f-16 s. the polls know how to fly those. the ukrainians know how to play the mig-29, i get it, it s complicated, but we need to get this quickly. that would be the quickest path to creating real damage to the russian war machine in ukraine. michael, why are they going after civilians, despite saying that they re not? is it because they cannot win against the ukrainian military? i think that is part of it. i think they re trying to break the will of the ukrainians. they want to encourage more refugees, more miserable people that will ultimately pressure zelenskyy and the others to sue for peace. the russians floated several ideas today. they want the so-called
on president putin sooner or later. russia is now proposing that the ceasefire with certain humanitarian corridors, most which seem to lead to russia or belarus, is that just something to i don t know if it s a time killer, allowing them to just focus on, kind of, figuring out what to do on the ground there. are they just playing here? they re not serious. they must know that it s not serious to give humanitarian corridors to ukrainians to go into russia or even belarus. ukrainians, as your reporter versus done a great job of describing, they hate russia. and they will hate russia for generations. and they re not going to go on humanitarian corridors into into that place. so, that s that s not going to work. that said, there are con conversations, as we know going on a third round happened today on the border between