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Mattress. the united nations estimates that over 1 million ukrainians now have fled the country. that means about 98% of ukrainians remain in ukraine. many are seeking safer locations within ukraine, like the city of lviv in western ukraine, 45 miles from the border with poland. and leading off our coverage tonight is nbc news correspondent, cal perry. he is in lviv, ukraine. also with us, retired colonel alexander vindman who was born in ukraine and rose to director of european affairs -- cow, let's begin with you and the situation there tonight. >> overnight and into the morning hours here, ...

Troops. his problems with the. ukraine so there is one thing we need to do. and frankly we might get pulled into this regardless of what we do. >> colonel thanks for your time, lieutenant colonel -- we'll be right back.

President, where trump withheld military aid from ukraine to extort dirt about joe biden. he wrote a book about his experience, titled, here, right matters. and colonel vindman joins me now. it's great to see you. thanks for joining me. >> thanks for having me on. >> so, let me just start with a strange common dna that things to be shared by vladimir putin and certain wings of the gop. do you think it's an overstatement to say that they share threads in terms of their governing agenda, if you will? >> i'm not sure if i necessarily would describe it as that. excuse, me sorry. so, i think vladim...

Are going to do -- putin in particular will use incrementalism. he'll see vulnerabilities, the fact we're hemming and hawing about these aircraft, will ratchet up the intentions on us, continue to bomb ukrainian cities. he doubles down. and we're giving so taking action now is actually a good way to help ukraine resolve this issue on the ground, which is where this is going to be decided, through this -- this clash of militaries. and if we help ukraine fend off the russian military, that's how this ends. that's how we compel putin to go to the negotiating table. that's how zelenskyy sits acros...

Ukraine. jeremy bash, former chief of staff at the cia and the pentagon, and william taylor, former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, and the united states institute of peace of vice president for russia. colonel vindman, have to start with you. you are born in ukraine, you know this country, and you know putin. ukraine has been much stronger than putin has months waited. he's facing global blowback. his own people are protesting, and his stars are athletes are rejecting him. he's getting humiliated. what is this next move? >> double down. he's gonna respond more aggressively. the fact is that he's ...