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Short weeks, since this swore started, ayman. and it has really pressed the ability of countries like poland, to the brink, as they try to care for the ukrainian neighbors. but at the same time, they're worried about their own potential safety, if president putin were to go beyond ukraine, and start to threaten other countries in the region, such as poland, romania, hungary, many of them nato allies who would enjoy ostensibly the collective defense of the u.s. and everyone else in nato. but still extremely concerned about the potential ramifications for them. we know that earlier today, presid...

Security and humanitarian aid package. the u.s. and nato allies, ukrainians have received more than 17,000 weapons, and billions of dollars in aid. and of course, russia has been pummeled with an unprecedented number of sanctions. we're gonna have a little bit more on that later in the hour. but despite all of this, russia is still ramping up its targeting of civilians. and it's closing in on kyiv, as we just heard. these efforts actually fall short of what ukrainian leaders have been asking for, things like a no-fly zone, or fighter jets. and a plan that would have had the u.s. serve as the i...

People are flooding into lviv, where we are. and of course, the eastern cities of this country are just being brutalized by relentless shelling. the city of mariupol has essentially been raised to the ground. and everybody who's in there, 400,000 of them, are essentially being held hostage. >> all right, nbc's ali arouzi life in ukraine for us. starting us off, ali, thank you very much. on a tour now to the humanitarian aspect in this equation. nbc correspondent, josh lederman, is in poland, with the very latest on the struggle to address what is emerging to be one of the worst humanitarian cr...

If, for example, the russians decide to attack one of these deliveries, inside ukraine? i don't think that they would do it outside of ukraine, and poland or wherever they are coming from, or whatever the originating from. but if whether they were to strike at a western shipment inside ukraine? >> i think that is a significant risk. but it's a risk worth taking. putin has shown in this conflict that the russian military is not ten feet tall. it might not even be six feet tall. it had such incredible logistical problems. it had equipment rob looms. they know this war is not going well. and they...

Israelis and the turks are also continuing their own efforts to offer a diplomatic services to act or try to act as brokers between the russians and the ukrainians. and we're also seeing the u.s. tonight step up its own security assistance to ukraine, ayman, with secretary of state anthony blinken announcing that the u.s. has authorized another $200 million in security assistance to the ukrainians. that, according to blinken, including anti aircraft capabilities, anti armor weapons, and this is the kind of thing the u.s. feels like they can offer, short of putting boots on the ground, imposing...