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Very likely intervention on the ground and in the air by nato. >> okay. colonel jack jacobs, general bayer mccaffrey, thank you both as always. i appreciate your time. next we're going to go inside the humanitarian crisis unfolding inside ukraine and show you what life is like for droves seeking shelter in bomb shelters. plus nato allies pushing putin to end his war. he won't even consider a ceasefire. what does progress look like when forging diplomacy with a dictator? stories of strangers helping strangers for the greater good ahead on "msnbc reports." s for d ahead on "msnbc reports. ...

The south, and trying to do exactly the same thing in the east. i think he's single minded about achieving that. and one of the reasons he's participating an unrelenting bombardment of the cities is that the russian army was unsuccessful in marching in unopposed. so, he's just unleashed the entire army on the entire country and, as general mccaffrey said, will just blast all the cities until they're nothing but rubble, richard. >> the word "blast every city" that you bring up, colonel, over to you now general, a new word was brought in last week, just a couple days ago, chemical weapons. and t...

Watch this happen. >> unbearable. and you're saying that they've not had much success, at least at the speed you would think vladimir putin might want. and colonel, president zelenskyy today saying, you know, we have now hardened the empty buildings in our capital of kyiv. if they want to take over kyiv, they're going to have to carpet bomb the city to get it. what do you make of his comments? and is he right? >> well, that's not going to help the russians very much. the russians know better than anybody what it's like to attack -- to defend a city that's been completely turned into rubble, as...

Eugene, the man speaking there, then showed me a video later, after he had escaped kharkiv. it was his apartment building that had been bombed and smoldering away. he was vividly upset. he was shaken but still showing a lot of resolve. he's coming here in lviv. he says it's so important for all ukrainians to do their bit to contribute to the economy, to make sure that the economy doesn't flat line because that's going to help fight the russians. incredible fortitude. people after people you meet, they all have these tragic stories, but they keep pushing along. there's a real sense of community...

And one of the reasons we believe is that the middle level management, the brigade commanders, the general officers, division commanders and so on, very poorly trained, did not have very much idea how to operate with their forces in that kind of environment. didn't take the simplest kind of precautions that a low-ranking officer or nco would take. that is to secure his flanks, leaving the ukrainians the ability to pick off tanks, armored vehicles, and trucks at will. so, general mccaffrey says, putin's out of options. scorched earth. and they're going to have it very hard tonight fighting insi...