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Areas and the economy enters a tail spin. the nice thing thats nice about a war is not a war but its easy to look away. joining me is masha. i know you recently came back from russia and i am dying to know what you saw, the folks you talked to, what they know about what is happening in ukraine. >> i think maybe its more important to think about what they dont know. they dont know that it is a massive war operation and, you know, what is really striking is that even people who are -- and this is ...

Fallujah back. they had an election coming up. putin doesnt want to take kyiv like that. he needs to get to the middle and raise the russian flag and call a win. thats not what is going to happen. you hit the nail on the head. what do they not have the will to fight? the ukrainians had the will to keep their country. once youve seen what the russians do, you lost the war. hes already lost. >> the question then is how many people are going to end up in body bags before its all over. everyone, eve...

So if ukraine today dont get real help, we need jet planes, we need offense systems not only hand held systems but special systems so we can close our sky because they dont want to help us. theyre afraid putin starts world war iii but anyway, this war is already started so we need to stop putin now because later it will be hell. >> were looking at all the horn -- horrific and heroic images of them trying to save lives. what is the status of places people are fleeing and as you said, places where...

Rights to defend the interest of the people in my hometown. >> and tonight, the city of kyiv announced since the beginning of the war, 222 people have died there including four children. meanwhile in odesa, russian warships on the black sea are visible from the coast. 80 years ago during the war against the actual nazis, the city part of the soviet union could see german warships approaching. they prepare for the germans arrival fortifying the city and lining it with sandbags and today doing the...

Doorsteps. >> when you sleep at 2:0 0 a.m., the sounds turn on and its scary. its scary now because you understand that now in lviv, its like calm, its peaceful situation but we dont know if it will be tomorrow. >> but the city remains resilient. take this powerful photo of empty strollers in front of a lviv city hall. there is 109 of them. one for every child killed since the start of the war according to the ukrainian government and president zelenskyy is making an appeal to russian mothers ki...

6.5 million people internally displaced and the 13 million people currently in regions hit hardest by the war in ukraine. cities like mariupol and sumi are facing what the u.n. described as critical and potentially fatal shortages of food, water and medicine. were still learning more about the drama theater in mariupol that russia bombed despite clear markings children were inside. 130 people have been rescued but 1300 people are in the shelter. a flee cities like mariupol, many are heading west...

Putin wants his people to see as he wages a costly war in ukraine. that is putin himself holding a maga style stadium rally this morning in moscow for what hes calling a special military operation the rest of the world knows as the mass slaughter of civilians. its celebrating the illegal annexation carefully staged with banners toting the lie of the denazi of ukraine. many attendees said they were pressured into attending by employers. like wise, students said they were given a day off from lect...

Fortified defenses throughout the city. buildings and vehicles were booby trapped. it took 46 days to kill our capture nearly 3,000 insurgents in a city about .10 the size of kyiv at a cost of some 110 coalition forces leaving hundreds more wounded and thousands of innocent civilians dead. joining me is correspondent at large for "the washington post" who is in kyiv and retired army major john spencer, chair of urban warfare studies with the madison policy forum and author of "connected soldiers...

Perry and maxine. cal, ill start with you. it doesnt appear clearly russia is waging war efficiently but they sure are waging it everywhere. >> reporter: yeah, and i think what were seeing and we heard from the state department today, because the military seems bogged down in places like kyiv, in places outside of mariupol, what is happening is theyre punishing these civilian populations by indiscriminately shelling them. here we woke up to the sound of air raid alarms. there was an air strike n...

Could easily happen here in kyiv. so yeah, i mean, the russians right now you said are outside but i wouldnt say theyre surrounding the capital but any means. theyre still north of the capital here northwest pushing into the northeast but the southern routes are open. what were seeing now is a slowdown in the russian advance. the russians were trying to have to wage a conventional war but found a very well sustained insurgency where the ukrainians have been using tactics to stop the russian adva...