not possible to describe it. russians are killing people for nothing and if the world doesn t take measures, it will be the same. something needs to be done as soon as possible. in our backyard, we have a very big cemetery and we buried seven people there. russian president vladimir putin claims he captured the city of mariupol and ordered his troops to no longer storm that massive plant where people are holed up but blockade the facilities will not even a fly can get through. however during president biden s address, biden said there is no evidence for putin to claim he has captured mariupol or the massive plant and advisor to ukrainian zelenskyy agrees with president biden. speak with the situation we are following. i cannot physically captures it. they understood this and suffered huge losses. and our defenders continue to hold it.
vietnam. secretary hagel, thank you for joining us. if the ukrainian zelenskyy is right and the horrors of bucha will be repeated, do you think the atrocities should impact the u.s. s role in this war or does it not change anything in terms of the level of involvement on the ground? well, thanks for having me, anderson. let me just reflect in answering your question on what general milley said today that you just ran a clip of that. as people watch this raw carnage, the massacres of innocent people and he s right, we haven t seen this since world war ii, there will be consequences. there will be repercussions. there will be more and more demand on the united states and the west to do more as we re seeing, every week it accelerates. do more, do more. more sanctions tomorrow.
borodianka, north of kyiv. as you will see in his report tonight in addition to the sheer destruction of civilian areas he found graphic evidence of atrocities. so bucha was not alone nor is borodianka according to ukraine s president zelenskyy who addressed the u.n. security council today. translator: the massacre in our city of bucha is only one, unfortunately, only one of many examples of what the occupiers have been doing on our land for the past 41 days, and there are many more cities similar places where the world would have yet to learn the full truth. mariupol, kharkiv, chernihiv, and dozens other ukrainian community, each of them is similar to bucha. president zelenskyy spoke to spain s parliament invoking hitler and mussolini s bombing in 1937. europe s darkest hours updated for the 21st century.
in addition to president zelenskyy s warning that there will be more discoveries like the horror of bucha to come, there were these striking words from president biden s top military adviser. we touched on this before the break, listen to general mark milley told the house panel today. we are witness to the greatest threat to peace and security of europe and perhaps the world. in my 42 years of service in uniform. the russian invasion of ukraine is threatening to undermine not only european peace and stability, but global peace and stability that my parents and a generation of americans fought so hard to defend. joining us now is chuck hagel who served as defense secretary during the obama administration and saw combat as a soldier in
that presents additional complications for the u.s. as they have to consider taking steps they my not have been thinking they have to take and that considering back filling poland as they consider air support for ukraine. you re right. we ve talked to sources who say they are stunned and impressed by the strength they ve seen in the ukrainian people. president zelenskyy over the weekend asked for more military aid. yesterday secretary blinken told chuck todd on meet the press that there are active discussions with poland to get fighter jets to ukraine. can you tell us about where those talks stand? every indication is this is in the hand of poland.