that is rj thing too heavy weapons that the west has been sending to ukraine in recent days. president biden requested for even more military aid to be sent. earlier this week, he asked congress to authorize 33 billion dollars of artillery, anti tank weapons and funds for economic and humanitarian relief. meanwhile, actress angelina jolie was spotted in ukraine today. she is in lviv visiting children injured by attacks in kramatorsk. nbc correspondent, cal perry, is live for us in kyiv. cal, the most important development tonight at this hour, certainly, what appears to be collaboration that is working on both sides there in mariupol? what do you know? absolutely, small steps for certain, but stepped in the right direction. at least 20 civilians making it out of the city. probably, not surprisingly, the russians and ukrainians disagreeing on actually how it came about. the russians say that they facilitate and permitted to 25 civilians. ukrainians making it clear to
anti tank weapons and funds for economic and humanitarian relief. meanwhile, actress angelina jolie was spotted in ukraine today. she is in lviv visiting children injured by attacks in kramatorsk. nbc correspondent, cal perry, is live for us in kyiv. cal, the most important development tonight at this hour, certainly, what appears to be collaboration that is working on both sides there in mariupol? what do you know? absolutely, small steps for certain, but stepped in the right direction. at least 20 civilians making it out of the city. probably, not surprisingly, the russians and ukrainians disagreeing on actually how it came about. the russians say that they facilitate and permitted to 25 civilians. ukrainians making it clear to nbc news that it was in fact the red cross that facilitated the evacuation. it was 20 civilians. either way, you are looking there a video from underneath that still works factory, the situation there remains, in the
large javelin. do you think that united states, at this stage in the war, has done enough to provide support to ukraine? because it sounds like zelenskyy needs more than just a morale booster at this point. well, all the west has been very, very slow to react, really. it looks like we jump right into it, but our allies, particularly france and germany, were extremely slow to respond. and we still, none of us, have still sent sufficient amounts of material to ukraine. to make it easier for them to resist the russian advance, they need ground to air aircraft weapons. they need surface to surface weapons indirect fire, rocket launchers, missiles, artillery. we are finally sending significant numbers of artillery pieces and ammunition. and anti tank weapons. because the russians are going to use tanks to spearhead their invasion in the east, and to
continue the attack in the south. so, anti tank weapons are vitally important. but we have been forthcoming with material, it hasn t come fast enough. and it s been at the risk of ukraine getting cut in half and russia preventing the resupply of ukrainians. so, we need more weapons and we need them faster, katie. once again, zelenskyy publicly has warned that putin has more in mind beyond just ukraine. but, colonel, this is a refrain that has been repeated for months now. the russian military, by all accounts, isn t a weekend state and are in a re-constitution in preparation mode. it s putin really at the point where he could back his words with actions? yeah, don t forget that the russians have always been stronger on the ground than the ukrainians. when you make an attack, however, do you need a ratio of 3 to 1 on your side if you are