the weapons. on the ground in ukraine more sign that is russia's invasion stalled. ukrainians have pushed russian troops back more than 15 miles in towns east of kyiv and ukraine claims to have destroyed a russian warship in the black sea but the intense fighting far month led to widespread devastation on a scale not seen in europe in decades. air assaults targeting neighborhoods led the mayor to call it a war on civilians. here's what he told andrea mitchell. >> our nation is getting just wiped off. that cannot happen. in a -- all our allies and in the world to isolate russia economically because every trade with russia and every cent going to the budget of russia is used for weapons against civilians as
are now left with no homes and often times they have get out of too many of these cities. we saw it firsthand while we were there this weekend. >> couple of headlines tonight this one from "the washington post" that top russian military leaders repeatedly declined calls from u.s. prompting fears of sleepwalking into war. even world's two largest nuclear powers in the dark with explanations with military movement. the major miscalculation or battlefield accident. your take? >> i think it's really important and i want to say one thing about president joe biden and i support that trip. i want our nato allies to say that the united states support them, almost a hundred thousand troops in the region and they been there for a long time. they are there to promote peace and help with that humanitarian crisis, also to show support for
children have actually been born into this war. and everywhere you look here in poland, you see mothers with multiple young children, and you know, some of the kids that have come across the border have come without parents. ukraine has a large population of orphans, alicia. in fact, it has one of the largest systems of orphanages in europe, caring for about 100,000 children, according to unicef and we spent some time with a group of 31 of them. you heard from the orphanage director that got them here and he's extremely worried that the number of orphans is actually going to rise exponentially because of this conflict. he saw it happen. he says in 2014. some of the kids we met here in poland have actually experienced fleeing war twice, first in 2014, fleeing from the east, and now retreating west again, and i want you to hear just a little bit more of our conversation
situation is and how president biden is trying to project a real air of alliance here. that the allies are closely tied together and marching in lockstep in opposition to the russian aggression against ukraine. stern words from the president about how unified nato is. one of the three stops today. really remarkable day of diplomacy. now one month in to this war and the leaders heard an emotional address from president zelenskyy calling for their help and underscores while certainly the alliance is unified, administration officials like to say, it pointed out the limits to what president biden can do. for instance, as much as the nato alliance pledged help to ukraine they can't or won't do a no-fly zone. as much as they try to stop the
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militarily to acquire more power and not stopped before and seeing the response from president biden. i don't even -- i have no words. as we sit here hottest place in hell is reserved for those that did nothing in the face of evil. the refugees don't need to be integrated into the u.s. society. they need to stop the war from happening in the homes so they don't become refugees. need to stop the misery immediately and nato has the power to do it. the u.s. has the power to do it. some reason they're afraid. maybe they could take an example from the ukrainians, the ukrainians that everybody thought would be defeated in three days. look at us! we are bravely fighting the second most powerful army in the world. this is what president zelenskyy
haven't heard anything about the tanks. no single airplane. they feel very much on the own and could be exposed to an attack by putin. >> thank you both. i want into the conversation evo dolder a former ambassador to united nations and now president of the chicago council on global affairs. elise abbott at american school of international service. this is how you said that nato should respond? quote, no one wants to start world war iii. but putin should know that if he escalates nato's calculation of risks and rewards will change. letting moscow know that nato would come to ukraine's direct defense would not only be legal and legitimate but necessary to
then ukraine should at least have an opportunity to be an observer. well, i mean, that's -- that could be the case too. personally, i think we should walk out of the g20. who wants to sit in a room with a war criminal and talk about things when we've got a war that he has started going on in ukraine? i'm not sure how we could do that in an honest way. maybe we send a lower-ranking official to go. but i don't think we can have something even the semblance of business as usual, so i think there's some options that the president is looking at. i hope he chooses one where he's not present. >> bobby, we talked to cal at the top of the hour about that daylight between what it is ukrainians want, what zelenskyy is asking for, what they are getting. can you help us evaluate the why there is this still just about the delicate dance of avoiding escalation or is there more to the calculus? >> well, there's a lot more that can be given to ukraine in terms of weapons that their army,
week tops to take kyiv and the ukrainians putt up such resistance and last day or so staged successful counter attacks. pushing russian forces back from kyiv. he thinks there's a chance that the ukrainians could win this war. administration officials floated to me this idea that putin with losses continuing to mount pull back some troops and no need. at least not now to pull back the armament and still can bombard the cities at a distance. laying waste to these once proud cities. so that may happen for a while. it's unclear what he would settle to take. certainly the early days of the war there was a thought to take the donbas and maybe that would be enough but committing to
i was nervous about the life of each one of the child. right now, i'm in peace because all the children are safe. >> nbc's dasha burns speaking with a ukrainian orphanage director who has managed to get the children in his care to safety in poland. today, the u.n. announcing the 4.3 million ukrainian children, 4.3 million, have been displaced by this war, more than half of all the children in the country. let's bring in nbc news correspondent dasha burns, live for us from poland. dasha, talk to us about what it is you are hearing from parents, from children on the ground. >> reporter: alicia, you underscored it there, and i have to underscore it again. the scale of this is just staggering. more than 1 in 2 children of ukraine are now displaced. and unicef told me a couple hours ago that about 7,500