toward the capital city and could be within 10 miles. more than a million ukrainians are still in kyiv, and many say they are prepared to give their lives to defend it. and meanwhile, a humanitarian crisis unfolding in the southern ukrainian state of city of mariupol. residents there have reportedly had no food, no clean drinking water for more than a week. want to bring in now alex wade, doctors without borders. alex, thank you for joining us. now, i understand friday russian airstrikes killed they hit near a kinner garten building there kindergarten building. i understand one person at least has been killed. you were in mariupol a couple of days ago, and mariupol was obliterated. i would like you now to describe the scene as you see it, and how long can you stay there to help? well, so i was in mariupol a
because it will be too late tomorrow. reporter: no u.s. troops were at the base at the time, and no uniformed u.s. military troops had entered ukraine since the invasion began. these are photos from november and january showing some of the last members of the florida national guard trainers, members of the 53rd infantry brigade combat team who were in ukraine training forces up until the last moment knowing that a massive russian invasion was looming. we are continue to be able to flow substantial amounts of military assistance and weapons to the front lines. of course these convoys are going through a war zone, and so to describe them as safe wouldn t quite be accurate. but we believe that we have methods and systems in place to be able to continue to support the ukrainians. reporter: those convoys are not being driven by nato or u.s. troops. clearly, the message, eric, from russia today, stop supporting the ukrainian military.
come at any moment as vladimir putin, this challenge to the civilized war with world with this barbaric war. arthel: mean while, president biden is taking bipartisan calls to do more to help ukraine. the u.s. has already authorized $1.2 billion in security assistance. president biden authorizing an additional $200 million yesterdayment still yesterday. still, many say that is not enough. jack my heinrich is live at the white house with more. reporter: hey there, arthel. well, the president is at camp david this weekend, and his national security team is making the rounds on the sunday shows. his national security adviser, jake sullivan, used his appearance on cnn to tee up a meeting with the chinese tomorrow in rome. the white house statement about this meeting says the two sides will discuss ongoing efforts to manage the competition between our two countries and discuss the impact of russia s war on
million residents still in kyiv and so is president zelenskyy. is this a game- changer? and have we run out of time to help protect ukraine, or is that not a fair question? well, arthel, good afternoon. it s, obviously, a very complex situation on the ground, certainly, from a geopolitical standpoint. on top of the russian attack on that facility just 12 miles from the polish border that mike reported on, so it is, it s a very complex situation. i believe still that the united states and our nato allies ought to be using all elements of national power to include the diplomatic information, intelligence and so forth as well as the economic, certainly the sanctions which which will then begin to take place with greater impact, i believe, in the coming days and weeks as well as the military. we need to continue to bolster our efforts to keep nato unified, also to provide as much resupply of military equipment to president zelenskyy and the
terms of, again, his remarkable leadership are. he s become a global leader, arthel. and whereas the narrative with putin is he s a tie ant, so we just tyrant. we just need to continue to do this. again, i m at the point now where, again, with all the emotions and especially the atrocities we re seeing, we ve got to maintain cooler heads prevail here. but again, nato and u.s. ought to be in a position should we be attacked or should there be strikes, yes, but we re not at that point at this minute. arthel: you re right, emotions are high as we all watch this. these are horrible scenes that we re witnessing, you know, in realtime, and that s why i ask you. these are the questions americans keep doing, have we run out of time? you can give me that in 20 seconds. i know there s sanctions and china trying to stuff putin s pockets to help him, you know, ward off the effects, but have we run out of time, sir? i mean, ukraine arthel, we have not run out of time. in fact, i would state t