Women need better health care. yeah. it takes us back decades. still ahead on morning joe, the latest from hard-hit mariupol. russian forces are stepping up their attacks and attempting to storm that steel plant where hundreds of civilians are still holed up. plus, when it comes to ukraine, cities have been destroyed, thousands have been killed, but some experts say putin is actually showing restraint. admiral james stavridis joins us next to weigh in on that. also ahead, donald trump s pick, j.d. vance won last night s gop primary. ohio s open senate seat. wait, wasn t j.d. vance the guy who said if you re a christian, done vote for donald trump? yes. what that means for the midterms and trump s hold over the republican party. we ll have tim ryan who will face vance on the ballot this
Putin they believe in vengeful acts is firing on cities to extract pain and a higher price to the negotiations happening now. richard engel, what when we look at the human suffering and the indiscriminate bombing and make the point in the package clearly it was an attack on civilians. what have russians been able to do in mariupol been more difrlt than kyiv? so kyiv is a mariupol has about 400,000 and also right on the sea so it is easier to surround. the topography is that you can surround it by several sides. industrial areas that easy to cut off. it is close to the russian
Because they re emblematic of what s happening around the country. mariupol, we now know at least 2,200 civilians there have been killed. we expect that number to be far higher. this is a city now known for the first visuals of a mass grave in this conflict. you talked about the 150 or so cars that got out. it s been ten days since any international aid has gotten into that city. no food, no water. we know from the president that at least one child there died of dehydration. to your point, the gray hairs are going to be amongst the children who saw that. to kharkiv, you have a situation where it s starting to resemble what we saw in places like aleppo and grozny where the structure was bombed to rubble and the rubble has been bombed and shelled and the people are unable to go aboveground at all. you have fierce fighting that has left the bodies of russian soldiers on the streets and those bodies apparently remain. it s an indication about how bad and how the street fighting there is li
Border and close to the russian backed separatist areas. there are a lot of troops inside mariupol so i think the russian strategy for mariupol was instead of going into the city to fight street to street and having to fight the soldiers that are there would be to take advantage of its proximity to the border and starve them out as if it s an ancient hill top castle in europe. kyiv is different. there s a river running through it. a large, sprawling city. many times larger. about 4 million people. depending on whose estimate you use. a lot put it 3.5 million. the number the mayor uses. it would be much more difficult to surround a city like this not pressed up right against the sea and some u.s. military officials that i speak to don t think they
Is old people and we see animals, dogs and cats. and it was a miracle. okay. now we are sisters. in hard hit mariupol an estimated 400,000 people, human beings, trapped without heat, without food, without water. hundreds managed to escape by car as a way blocked from going into the city. that s due to shelling from russian forces according to ukrainian officials. also this indelible image of war with a split second that illustrates the horrors takes place every day in ukraine. a pregnant woman carried out on march 9th. the woman in the photo has died. as has her unborn child. the country facing invasion and