i was going to say there s so much talk hereby about new and additional and more advanced weapons incoming to ukraine. i wonder if even before they arrive and shipped to the front lines if there s a psychic boost to knowing they re on their way. reporter: it s a definite boost. they re not getting the exact things they want and the fighter planes which they say would turn the tide in the battle but the more crimes we have seen the russians commit here the more arms they get from the west and a big boost for them. they keep pushing the russians in areas like mariupol hit so bad. they re not letting them take them with support from the west and that definitely gives them a big morale boost. i spoke to a ukrainian. i said do people like boris
If vladimir putin does settle with the ukrainians and move forward, he s going to have to blame a lot of people domestically. we re starting to see that. he s blaming the traders in the west, the oligarchs in the west, blaming his intel community, he s putting them under house arrest. it sounds a bit like he s trying to clean up things to find other people to blame if he does, in fact, settle with the ukrainians. we ll be back tomorrow morning. that does it for us for now. chris jansing picks up the coverage right now. good morning. i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york. it is thursday, march 17th. and we begin with the horrific toll of the war in ukraine reaching a new level this morning along with the ruthlessness of the scorched-earth russian assault. this is the wreckage of a theater in mariupol hit by a russian air strike. more than 1,000 civilians were sheltering inside when it struck, including women and