feeding them all. we have to. that s nbc news s jacob soboroff earlier. 1.8 million ukrainians internally displaced within ukraine since the war started. u.n. is warning for potential of emergency levels of hunger and malnutrition. let s bring in jacob soboroff. i saw the reports from this morning and some of the only happy people who had just been fed who felt like the shelters were providing something more than the food in their stomach but a sense of security which is clear is growing increasingly scarce there. reporter: yeah. i don t think there s anything more essential than something to eat especially when you re one of the millions as you said internally displaced people in
going to face when he came into a country that is pillaging to conquer. that s the point about the hospitals and schools and targeting the bread lines. this is about conquering a foreign land to him. cal, this number that s out today, confirmed by nato and u.s. intelligence, of 7,000 dead russian soldiers is in line with the estimate i think the ukrainians gave us the figure 6,000 to 8,000 a couple days ago. i wonder, with it stipulated that it s difficult to get the truth into russia, i m just thinking of president zelenskyy s message to the woman who held up the no war sign. i mean, is there an effort on ukraine s part to make sure the russians, even their friends and family in russia, understand that 7,000 people died in 20 days? reporter: we hear it from the president consistently on this telegram channel. he s trying to talk to the mothers of these soldiers. he goes out of his way to speak
this country. they were warning before today. i was in the world kitchen storage facility and saying i can t tell you the audience where i am because the people here are worried it will be targeted by the russians. it turns out our colleague richard engel that the russians today bombed two separate food storage facilities on the outskirts of kyiv. that is happening right now. and it is a disruption perhaps the most critical disruption to human life that you could see here but there are counter forces that you could say in the battle to keep ukrainians fed. and probably at the forefront are both the world wood program and world central kitchen. the ngo by chef andre. i went inside the effort with both the executive director and the ukrainian partner here on the ground and that s what s so essential here.
over ukraine exceptionally dangerous for russian aircraft to operate in. by providing these advanced anti-aircraft systems, stingers, other types of both manned portable weapons systems as well as vehicle-mounted weapons systems, the ukrainians are having tremendous success against the russians, both in the air and on the ground. it was pointed out the turkish drone system, the tb-2 is taking out a lot of tanks and weaponized units stuck on the road in ukraine so with the announcement yesterday by president biden of the additional $800 million or so worth of weapons going in, i think we want to maintain that supply and increase it so that we give ukrainian forces the wherewithal that they can stop the russian forces on the ground as well as to prevent the russians from operating with impunity in the skies, and i must say, the ukrainians have been quite inspirational from the standpoint of their