circumstance. now, having said that, the achilles heel are 2 million ukrainian civilians in kyiv right now, who will have a massive loss of life, if they have to street by street in the city. ukrainians will win that fight for weeks, but it s going to be a painful situation. i think the u.s. is also, right, now ramping up our monetary in food support for these millions of hopeless civilians who are displaced in a country, under attack in a country, or fleeing into europe. before we go, ambassador taylor, whether general was just mentioning, you are coming together, can you speak about how president biden, has he done a good job uniting our allies around the world? from my little seat, it seems extraordinary, the coordination. the coordination has been extraordinary, stephanie. one of general mccaffrey s contemporaries, general doug
russian military. let s bring in our reporters. nbc s cal perry in lviv and msnbc news contributor, also a correspondent for the washington post reporting in kyiv. cal, the russians keep saying they re going not going after civilians. we both know that what are you seeing? you are there. we have evidence that they are, especially in that city of mariupol, where you saw that report from my colleague richard engel. russian forces are inside the main hospital now in that city. it is a particularly uniquely grotesque war crime. because you are actually stomping civilians from receiving treatment. you are using civilians in the hospital as human shields. and you are preventing the soldiers from fighting seeing their relatives. that s why we now see mass graves in the city of mariupol. and as the sun comes up this morning, we are going to be looking at that the, it around the thousand civilians huddled
i know in certain professions and businesses, they look invincible. they look like they will last forever. but in this day and age, you always need to have a plan b. you need to move away from that moment or mentality. that is what is happening in geopolitics. that is what is happening in global security, unfortunately. and your plan b? the still feel safe being so close to kyiv with your family? i have many plans. b, and c and d all the way through z. well, i wish you safety and i m thinking of you in your family. igor novikov. coming, up he literally wrote the book presidents of war. we will mike ask historian michael beschloss about one presidents powerful message to america today and what history books will write about it for years to.
good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle, we are entering day 22 of the russian invasion. as one ukrainian official describes the city of mariupol, hell on earth. civilians in mariupol, kyiv and other cities are being terrorized by russia s relentless assaults. we are in the final hours before a curfew in kyiv expires on thursday morning. nbc s richard engel he s on the ground with the latest. with round the clock earthshaking bombings [noise] russia is turning ukrainian cities in its crosshairs into a living hell. at a hospital in mariupol. doctors struggle to handle the flood of injuries and dead. many of the images are too graphic to broadcast but what we can air shows naked russian brutality against a captive population. ukrainian officials say that russian forces bombed a theater used as a shelter in mariupol
a war criminal. the kremlin says that that is unforgivable. but will it change anything? as the 11th hour gets underway on a wednesday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle, we are entering day 22 of the russian invasion. as one ukrainian official describes the city of mariupol, hell on earth. civilians in mariupol, kyiv and other cities are being terrorized by russia s relentless assaults. we are in the final hours before a curfew in kyiv expires on thursday morning. nbc s richard engel he s on the ground with the latest. with round the clock earthshaking bombings [noise] russia is turning ukrainian cities into its crosshairs into a living hell. at a hospital in mariupol doctor struggle to handle the flood of injuries and dead. many of the images are too graphic to broadcast but what