joining us now, is nbc news correspondent holly arouzi from tel aviv. ali, what is the situation there tonight? good evening lawrence. russia s assault on ukraine s eastern front has intensified with relentless shelling in the donbas. they are hitting that area pretty hard over the last two days, and russians managed to capture a city called kreminna, with about 18,000 people. but the ukrainians have managed to repel them in other areas. and if you listen to the ukrainian commanders on the ground there, they are saying that this is now a battle of artillery. between them and the russians. and that s why they keep asking for more weapons. they say their artillery is a depleted, or the russians are destroying their artillery. it will allow russian tanks to roll into that area. and give them a significant
a scale we really haven t seen in a long time. accounts of people being shot at close range in the leg and then in the chest. having limbs blown off before they were killed. it s just unimaginable what happened in bucha and it s unimaginable what the people of that city had to go through, many of them murdered in their own city. nbc s olly arouzi. thank you for being with us. we see russian forces step up acts of brutality against the ukrainian people what more can the u.s. do to help? joining me now, serves on the house committee intent committee. congressman, unfolding as genocide, president zelenskyy saying. your thoughts on the images? sure looks like genocide. very hard to watch. we ve sooner a lot of images over the last month or so that have been very hard to watch. we re seeing vladimir putin inflict a level of wickedness that almost no one has seen in our lifetime or