governor of the great state of south carolina and the executive director of the u.n. world food program governor beasley. i know you are doing herculean work in ukraine. how big is the challenge and what are your obstacles? the challenge is the 30 million people who have been destabilized because of this war. 39 million people are still inside ukraine where millions have been displaced. we are reaching 3.4 million people inside ukraine on the fringes and about it end of this month we ll reach 4 million as this war continues to devastate internally. the external impact around the world will be catastrophic as well. trey: i want to ask you about that worldwide impact. you are doing everything you can
governor of the great state of south carolina and the executive director of the u.n. world food program governor beasley. i know you are doing herculean work in ukraine. how big is the challenge and what are your obstacles? the challenge is the 30 million people who have been destabilized because of this war. 39 million people are still inside ukraine where millions have been displaced. we are reaching 3.4 million people inside ukraine on the fringes and about it end of this month we ll reach 4 million as this war continues to devastate internally. the external impact around the world will be catastrophic as well. trey: i want to ask you about that worldwide impact.
governor of the great state of south carolina and the executive director of the u.n. world food program governor beasley. i know you are doing herculean work in ukraine. how big is the challenge and what are your obstacles? the challenge is the 30 million people who have been destabilized because of this war. 39 million people are still inside ukraine where millions have been displaced. we are reaching 3.4 million people inside ukraine on the fringes and about it end of this month we ll reach 4 million as this war continues to devastate internally. the external impact around the world will be catastrophic as well. trey: i want to ask you about that worldwide impact. you are doing everything you can
russia focusing more and more on dominating or trying to eastern ukraine. we saw in mariupol claiming russian troops are digging up bodies had that been buried before in some of these court yards and not allowing new burials of, quote, people killed by them. the director of the u.n. world food program tells nbc news today that people in the besieged city are starving to death. while russia has pulled back from the ukrainian capital of kyiv, the defense minister is promising to boost the number of missile in and around the city. the flagship, which translate to moscow, is now at the bottom of the black sea. with claims and counterclaims from russia and ukraine. a ukrainian naval officer in the port city of odesa shared a
can hold on here. you know, marines from ukrainian forces have been posting on social media they re going into battle with empty weapons because they ve run out of ammunition. the conditions in that city are almost beyond belief. we actually had a woman come up to us on the street here, we re in the west of the country but she is from mariupol. she said she hasn t been able to speak to her elderly mother in three weeks now and she has no idea whether she is alive or dead. the u.n. world food program is saying people are starving to death inside mariupol because there is not enough food getting in. there s certainly not enough water. unicef saying up to a million people all across ukraine, many of them in mariupol, do not have access to drinking water right now and they are being forced to drink dirty, brackish water just to survive day by day. now, as you said, mariupol would be an enormous prize for president putin, especially after his failures in the north