breaking right now on msnbc, violent hours in the capital of ukraine. brand-new video shows the moment an apartment building is hit, according to ukrainians by a russian missile. more people forced to leave everything they know behind as the shelling for kiev ramps up. plus, the fight against the russians is now spilling into the streets. ukraine's leader vowing not to surrender and fight the rising tide of russia disinformation. and the world watches the beginnings of a humanitarian

crisis as ukrainians race to european borders. millions could become refugees looking for new, safe homes. plus, new reaction from around the globe as putin faces new level of sanctions that hit him, directly. we are also tracking other headlines in morning. back home in washington, kimberly guilfoyle meets with the committee. what went wrong and what's next. good morning, it is saturday, february 26th. i'm lindsay riser. i want to show you how major happenedmarks in new york city are lit up in solidarity of the ukrainian building in blue and yellow. the world trade center and one world trade on the right. we have a team of reporters, empire state on the right. reporters following us from you krein to moscow to brussels and d.c. this morning the fight is on for the capital, street fighting has

begun in kiev. i want to show you what the ukrainian government says is a missile striking an apartment building in kiev. do you see that? the minister of foreign affairs tweeting his city spent another night under attack and more video showing russian troops storming towards kiev as explosions reverberated throughout the city. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is in hiding but will not surrender. now, the white house and europe, they're moving to sanction president vladimir putin as well as russian foreign minister directly. president biden is set to speak with his national security teams in a few hours, this is after nato agreed to deploy the nato response force, for the first time in history. for more on all of this, we turn

on cal perry live in ukraine. keir simmons is in moscow, russia. nbc news corners scombrosh josh letterman is in brussels. cam, let's start with you on this latest assault on kiev and also the report we are getting in there are russian saboteurs disguising themselves as ukrainian police? >> reporter: yeah. this situation really deteriorating here, i am 350 miles from the capital of kiev. we are starting to see activity here. in the last sort of 30 minutes, we heard from the mayor of lviv that was russian paratroopers on three helicopters. 60 troops were put on the ground. they were quigley repelled, this according to ukrainian government. they say they took off running into the nearby woods. it's one more indication how this defensive seems to be widening across the country.

lviv is supposed to be the safe city where there was no activity. as you said, we are seeing checkpoints across this city. there is a real paranoia they are donning ukrainian army uniforms to carry out deep inside ukraine. it is likely disinformation. but it is all a part of this information war and confusion. as for the capital, itself, a second night of heavy barrage and intense gun fights happening inside the city. yesterday, you know, 12 hours ago,ing the fighting seemed to be mostly confined to the outer suburbs, certainly, things have changed. the city has not fallen, the city is in the ukrainian hand, the ukrainian president putting out a video this morning. he has been doing this to rally people. it seems to be working. ukrainians can identify what it is they are fighting for. he tapped into this sentiment ukraine is fighting for independent, it's life, it's own

sovereignty. he seems to be putting out these messages as a way of rallying the ukrainian people together. >> keir, what you can tell us about these new sanctions directly targeting putin and lavrov, also, what you can tell us about people who are arrested in moscow for protesting this invasion? >> reporter: well, 576 people arrested across russia yesterday. that's a total number arrested to around 2,300 in demonstrations across multiple cities in russia. those numbers aren't that large really considering the millions of people who obviously live in russia. but keep in mind how dangerous it is for russians to protest and that when we speak to ordinary russians on the streets, there is a strong sentiment against this. there are a large group of russians who support president putin. but i think there are many even inside the russian government,

two are worrying, who are questioning the decision-making inside the kremlin. in fact, i spoke to 21 official inside the foreign ministry yesterday who is sharing that they have relatives and friends in ukraine, so it's important to remember that potential split loyalty in russia. so many ukrainians live here, so many russians have connections to ukraine. in terms of the question of sanctions, that is a dramatic move and an impactful move to sanction president putin, himself. it is something that the international community does not do easily, sanction a leader of a country. minister lavrov, the foreign minister described as president putin's chief propagandist. and the russian government is sanctioning russian leaders. president putin called in business leaders. my understanding is after the cameras were switched off,

president putin said to those business leaders, do not think that you can continue to do business and not do business with sanctioned banks and companies. if you try and protect yourself in that way, we will hurt you. we will damage you. so, president putin making every effort to hold his domestic alliance together if you like as he continues this war in ukraine. >> josh, president biden meeting with the national security team this morning. after meeting with nato leaders yesterday and agreeing to deploy the nato response force, for the first time in history what would these troops be doing? >> well, this is a battle-ready high alert team of 40,000 troops that come from nato members, including the united states, who are prepared on about two days' notice to deploy and will be heading to eastern europe to shore up these nato allies. not all 40,000 of them.

but parts of that nato response force and the pentagon has said that the united states has between 10 and 12,000 troops who are now on prepare to deploy orders who might be called into that nato mission. now, these are not troops who will be fighting in ukraine or against russia at this point in time. this is about protecting the nato members and ensuring that if putin's aggression moves past ukraine and begins to threaten some of these nato allies on the eastern flank that nato is prepared on short notice to respond to that. this is the first time in the more than two decades the response force has been in existence, that it has been deployed for the collective deterrents and defense of nato allies. in the past, it's only been used for humanitarian relief. disaster response. but the nato secretary general saying they are taking this action now because the european

continent is facing the biggest security threat in decades. all of this coming as the west, nato are doing everything they possibly can to try to isolate russia diplomatically and on the world stage with that u.n. security council vote because russia vetoed it. notably, china, a close partner of the russians, they did not join, they instead abstained on that vote. the white house in a shift from its many weeks of saying they want a diplomatic resolution, that involves negotiations with russia, they are now saying that it is not the time for diplomacy with russia at the point in time that president putin is still engaged in an ongoing invasion of a sovereign nation. lindsey. >> josh letterman, keir simmons, cal perry, thank you all so much for start us off. for more on this we turn now to retired general ben hodges who serve as the general for the

u.s. army in europe. general, thank you for 'ing with us. i want no ask you, do you expect russian troops to be able to take over and hold kiev and also what do you make of some of the attacks that we are seeing. this missile strike on an apartment building, for example? >> well, first of all, i am so impressed with what i have seen ukranian armed forces as well as ukrainian people. some of them, the film you're excellent team is showing, there is a lot of fight here. around i would say that ukrainian armed forces have over performed in these first 72 hours while russian armed forces have under performed. the fact that they have not achieved all their objectives on time is i think a consequence of ukrainian resistance and this given the huge disadvantage they are when it comes to air power and sea power, is why the

ukrainians are asking for, pleading for stingers, shoulder fire-to-air defense systems, so the fighting that's been happening, these are helicopters that are bringing in special forces. helicopters could be shot down easily by stingers, that's why the ukrainians are asking for that. the videos are rockets hitting apartments, nobody should be surprised that this is what russians are doing. they are firing indiscriminately into the middle of the city inflicting civilian casualties and adding to the panic. >> general, in announcing his invasion of ukraine president biden suggested he intends to rid the country of its democratic elected government, zelenskyy. do you think putin is close to achieving that goal? what can zelenskyy do to remain in power in. >> i met president zelenskyy about three-and-a-half weeks ago in kiev.

i was with him for about an hour. i was impressed with his spirit. he's smart. he's a tough guy. i mean tough in terms of he's willing to fight. he's still there. i think it's so important that the leader does what he is doing, to be seen, to be out there, reminding the ukrainians what this is all about. there is no doubt that the russians want to capture him and i would expect he, his family, his closest thing would be executed as soon as possible if he is captured. yet, he is staying there as are members of the rada, others, from is important. this is where i am confident, actually, the russians will not be able to capture kiev. think about, this is a city of 3.5 million people. all those huge apartment buildings, it takes hundreds of soldiers to enter, clear and secure each one of those apartments. so this is going to be a very,

very long fight. a lot of casualties. i'm not convinced russia will be able to accomplish their objectives in kiev. i certainly hope not. >> talk about the nato response force for the first time in history. this announcement follows the announcement we will be sending more troops to nato regions there. this brings the number of u.s. troops on the continent to almost 100,000 so we know that president biden has said she not going to be sending troops into ukraine. but what are the chances you think fighting could spill into other nato territories? is that the purpose of these additional forces? >> i think it's twofold and you hit right on the most important one. i think this is to make sure the kremlin knows that we, the united states and our allies, are prepared and for the kremlin not to allow this to spill over somehow into poland or lithuania. so that the responsibility is on the kremlin to make sure that

doesn't happen and reported earlier talking about the possibility of missiles landing in poland. i am not as impressed with the accuracy and precision and despite our best efforts to make sure we don't have collateral damage or missed targets. so i think the risk is higher when russians are launching missiles. i don't think they're as concerned. so the nrf deploying is a strong signal to the kremlin, do not let this get out of control. our allies from estonia, latvia, poland, they're so close. they understand what's at stake here also. and i think the alliance is actually going to consider seriously going to permanent basing in those countries. again, a good faith effort, we have lived up to or provided by the provisions of the act which said no basing in former

republic or warsaw-type countries. i think that good faith effort has not been rewarded by good russian behavior. so i hope the reliance will consider this and we'll have permanent basing in those countries. >> just in the last few minutes, we did hear from the ukrainian national guard who says that russian troops are constantly working and attempting to land on the left bank of the city of kiev. what do you make here of not only that they've reached kiev, they're trying to reach that left bank, but also i know you said you don't think kiev will fall quickly. where do you think we are in this fight in. >> well, if we can start continue pushing capabilities to them and we keep seeing young men like the 19-year-old kid that was headed back into the fight, this is going to be very tough. in world war ii, the soviets,

during their counteroffensive to recapture kiev had 700,000 soldiers and it took a month of them to capture and clear kiev and that was a much smaller kiev. so i think this is going to go on for a very long time. it will be very, very expensive attorney ben hodges, thank you. the confirmation battle that lies ahead for the first black woman nominated to the supreme court. the sanctions squeezed directly targeting putin and russia's top brass. if the sound of intense fighting on the streets of kiev on day three of the siege. e of thethe on the streets of kiev on day three of the siege. the sound of on the streets of kiev on day

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. >> back to our live coverage of the invasion of ukraine. kiev has been the scene of heavy

fighting over the last several hours. you can hear just how loud it was in the city overnight. ukrainian leaders say they were able to hold on to cities and regions overnight despite the russian attacks. president zelenskyy released a new video saying he wants to fight fake information and made clear he has not told any ukrainians to surrender. biden administration yesterday joined the eu and directly sanctioned vladimir putin but so far sanctions haven't appeared to have much of an impact. let's bring in former secretary of state joel reuben. so, before we get to the talk of sanctions, joel, what's your reaction here to the video we are seeing in from overnight. the fact that we are hearing russian troops are trying to break into the west bank in kiev. what are your thoughts on how zelenskyy is handling all this?

>> it's great to be with you. president zelenskyy is an inspiration. he's an inspiration to the world. he's an inspiration to his people. he's an inspiration to humanity. he stands for what's right in this fight. this fight is vial. it's criminal. what vladimir putin is doing bombing innocent civilians in cities is beyond the pale. he is rightly now an international pariah on the level of assad and kim jong-un in terms of being sanctioned directly. so president zelenskyy is demonstrating what it means to be a real hero and a real leader. what it means in terms of a fight is ukraines are as we have been talking about fighting back and they're fighting back not just for themselves but for all of us so we have to continue to support them. we have to continue to fight back. russia, its international markets with hard-hitting sanctions with more military supplies. we have to look at president

zelenskyy just alone as a monument to humanity right now. >> let's talk about those sanctions. now that the u.s. has sanctioned putin and lavrov directly, what kind of impact will it have? >> it will hurt directly and personally. these individuals are used to trotting the world stage, used to telling the world representing their company, now they are persona non-grata, got the world. they will go around and get booed and hits as are their diplomats and representatives. oligarks are targeted and their children are using their shields to protect them around their assets. it's with the administration, they do have a plan. they are rolling it out step-by-step. if people think the sanctions we see up until now are it. that's wrong. this is the appetizer. we will see more targeted sanctions.

it's going to make it very uncomfortable for these individuals. not just in the next days and weeks, months and years ahead. >> one thing we haven't discussed is cyber attacks and how they can play a role. we have been hearing russia has at its disposal the ability to cripple ukraiian infrastructure digitally. they haven't used those tools, but there is information maybe the u.s. might be considering doing that against russia. keep in mind anything they can do, they'll do to us. how do you think the white house is bringing this decision? >> this is a front of warfare the united states has been preparing in for years. with russia, in particular, we learned our lessons, they cyber hacked us. there have been our government systems and, of course, our politics. there have been ongoing efforts to strengthen our european

allies in ukraine in recent months, as this invasion looked like it was going about. so we have capabilities to respond. it is a scary front, without a doubt. it's the kind of front where the private sect roar can be targeted and hit directly. so making sure that we have the strength nationally overall, not just government-to-government, but also within the private sector, it's been a huge task. it's one the administration is taking care on. i will say it is a new front and one where we don't know how to predict what it will look like and certainly the united states understands it can be high across the board. >> thank you for your time, just a moment. we'll continue to follow joel in ukraine, still to come, reshaping the people court. we are live in d.c. with the fight ahead for the first black

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. we continue to track the latest on ukraine. we will get back to that gnome. in a moment. president biden nominating ketangi brown jackson to the supreme court. some republicans, though, were criticizing the pick, despite three of them voted to confirm the current position. if confirmed she would replace justice breyer who she once clerked for. here's a release of the video of the call she got from president biden. >> i am wonderful, how are you, mr. president? >> i am even more wonderful. i'd like you to go to the supreme court. how about that? >> sir, i would be so honored. >> lauren eagan joining us live from washington, d.c. is the white house feeling

confident that they'll get this confirmation? >> reporter: they are feeling confident. part of the calculation that president biden made when he was deciding his nominee was whether or not he felt they could ultimately make it through and get confirmed to the supreme court? we know that president biden, this is something he was preparing for and discussing altar way back to his transition phase. keep in mind that jackson simply needs majority in order to get confirmed. democrats have 50 seats on the senate, plus vice president kamala harris is a tie-breaking vote. that enough right there is enough to get jackson confirmed. as we know, president biden values bipartisan. he wants to get some republican votes and tout her nomination as a bipartisan win. as you mentioned lindsay, just eight months ago, some republicans voted for jackson to confirm her to the seat she holds now. those senators were republicans

lindsey graham of south carolina and susan collins of maine. already, these republicans have come out in criticism of jackson. senator graham said she was too liberal, murcowski said in a statement late friday that just because she voted for jackson eight months ago does not necessarily mean that's what she will do this time around an support her for the supreme court. senate democrats say they want to move quickly on jackson's nomination. typically when someone is nominated, it takes about 70 days for them to actually get confirmed, that's about two-and-a-half months, perhaps sometimes i sometime later this spring. listen to what senate majority leader had to say about the nomination. >> this is a great nomination in so many ways, that will make my job easier that the president picked someone extraordinary in her experience, in her

brilliance, in her ability to reach out to people on the other side, almost no one who knows her says anything bad about her. >> reporter: in the coming weeks, jackson is going to make the round on capitol hill. she will start meeting with seniors one on one and the white house is ultimately anticipating that she will make it onto the supreme court. but it will be a long few weeks ahead for jackson. >> lauren, thanks so much. coming up, the desperate search for settleer from the siege. we are live with a real life impact on this assault in ukraine as thousands flee to safety. n ukraine as thousands flee to safety

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. all right. everybody, we are getting new information ukranian president volodymyr zelenskyy imploring people, all those that can return to ukraine come back to defend ukraine. he put out a plea to the russian people saying, the sooner you them your authorities the war must be stopped immediately, the more of your people will remain alive new images are emerging of the often human toll of this crisis in ukraine. tens of thousands of ukrainians are crossing into neighboring country seeking refuge, most of them women, children and the elderly. kelly kobiaya met some across the border in poland. >> reporter: a car with a lifetime of memories, a mother

pushing her baby, while pulling her belongings, the heart break and hard reality of war. the u.n. says 100,000 ukrainians have fled their homes, this supermarket a shelter. several thousand walking and waiting for hours at border crossings here in poland. >> it was very chaotic. all the walking down the road. >> reporter: kathy gold lived in ukraine for 29 years. her life now packed into two suitcases. this woman told me she feared for her children walking six miles with her young twins and ten-year-old son to get here. do you feel safe now? >> yes. >> reporter: this family from north carolina were due to fly out when they heard the airport

had been bombed. >> definitely the scariest day of my life. absolutely. just trying to make sure she got to safety, that we got to safety. >> reporter: fighting aged men told they can't leave. but some are rushing to get back into ukraine, like these brothers in their 50s. . >> i go back, this is my country. i love ukraine. >> reporter: going back to fight along with this former corporeal in the ukrainian army. do you think ukraine can win this fight? >> oh, i think so i am dying for my country. i am joined now by a freelance correspondent in ukraine, hosting a family with a fierce battle to push russian troops away from the city. also with me manager of the ukraine eurasia chatham

house. first off, we're not saying where you are in ukraine for you, your family's safety, your safety. we know you are in the western part of the country. how are you and your family doing? what is happening around you right now in. >> well, the most important thing that we are going to fear is safety. i can do my job as a journalist and tell what is happening in ukraine through the interinable media and trying to help our friends and our family members who are, you know, trying to get from the areas under russian attack now and currently, we are hosting a family, they arrived yesterday after almost two days on the road. it's you know about 1,000 kilometers, they had to make in their cars. a family of parents, a child and a cat. they arrived safely and we are very happy they are already here. but at the same time, i am also trying to help and other friends

who are stalking kiev, they do not own a car, so they cannot leave by car. those trying to leave by car, it's very difficult to do so, the roads are clogged and today we received the news that one of the major roads having, leading from kiev to the western part of the country, there was a breach on patrol. so that can be accessible now, which will further, you know, make it harder for people to leave kiev into the western part of the country and the western border. so i am very hopeful this family will be able to catch a train and they also have a five-year-old child and they are currently under russian bombs in kiev and we are worried for them. >> and that situation in kiev, i want to show you video that we have been playing of a russian missile hitting an apartment building there. olga, i know you are wearing two hats. one is journalist. one is this is your country.

these people are your neighbors. what do you feel when you see something like this? >> well, it's heart breaking. you know, it's obvious at this point russia is attacking civilians, attacking hospitals yesterday, a kindergarten. and today we are seeing russia targeting residential walks in kiev. kiev is a free city of 3 to 4 million people. many are still remain there. it's difficult and dangerous to live in the city at this moment. so you know i hope it won't happen. but we might see more attacks on civilians in the next days and hours. that's why the world needs to step up pressure and russia step up to help ukraine military assistance, financial assistance, humanitarian assistance to prevent the catastrophe from happening. >> we had spoken with leiutenant

general ben hodges at the beginning of the program. he said clearly right now what we are seeing is ukrainian forms over performing, russian troops under performing. talk to us about this morale, the urge to defend the country. obviously, there are calls from the president to do so. what would you say morale is right now in. >> i'd say it high, among armed forces and civilian resistant and those civilians providing a backbone for ukraine. ukrainians are already in this fight. what in a way justifies injustifiable victim and destruction. this is the beginning, honestly, of the putin regime in russia. this is the start of putin's end, where he will get himself bombed into resistance in the country that he clearly cannot sub just gait and you will see

many social video of ukrainian armed forces and elderly ladies, challenging russian military saying what are you doing here occupiers? so the morale is very high. >> i only have a few more second left with you, but i want to ask you, what your prognosis is for kiev? we know that according to ukrainian national guard, russian troops are trying to get into kiev on the left bank there. what do you think about the prospects of ukrainians being able to hold on to their capital city? >> first of all, russians are failing to achieve the strategies that they've initially planned and they are now regrouping, ukrainian armed forces are also learning on goal. the capital will stand. i think for a while, kiev has a very complex geography of seven hills and it will be very difficult for russians to take it in one blow completely. >> we have to leave it there. our thanks to beth of you for coming on, bravely sharing your stories. please do stay safe.

we have been talking about the devastating human tolls. up next, we are going to talk about the economic ones, from paying at the pump, why the assault on ukraine can make record inflation here at home even worse. make record inflation here at home even worse the crisis in ukr

already hitting american's wallets, particularly at the gas much. the national average is now $3.55 a gallon. it's higher in places like california.

it will only get worse if the connect widens. russia is the second largest oil producer in the world supplying one out of every ten barrels used globally. besides fuel, russia and ukraine account roughly 29% of all wheat exports and destruction could mean higher food prices globally. i want to bring in our businesst come at a worst time. inflation is at its highest place in 40 years. how high can it get? and where else can americans expect to pay more? >> reporter: that's right, it could not come at a worst time in terms of the russian ukraine conflict on inflation here in the u.s. inflation has ridden the highest pate i pace. americans are stretched thin. many of them, under constant pain for essentials for gas, food, all those items, rent and

because of the conflict, we can expect inflation is going to go higher. so the price of all of those goods could be pushed up even higher. also, we seen supply cane issues over the past two years because of the pandemic. well, that can also be exacerbated and there has been so much effort made to help the u.s. recover in the financial pain inflicted by the pandemic. this conflict could make it even harder and slow down u.s. growth. >> well, the u.s. didn't import meat from ukraine or russia. why does the disruption there impact us? >> reporter: well, when there is inflation, it tends to impact many other areas. many consumers experienced that. we see that with the russian conflict, oil prices skyrocket. we seen them no higher than $100 a barrel. the concern, of course, is gas

price at the pump. when it comes to inflation we see other goods going up, chicken, beef, rent, items. it has a widespread effect when it's not just gas not just gas going up, but you see the price of other items also going up at this time. >> all right, sibile marcellus, painting a hard to swallow picture for us. thanks so much. we will have up to the minute coverage from ukraine ahead. and new fallout from the capital riot as the january 6th committee sets its sites on donald trump jr.'s fiance. site donald trump jr.'s fiance.

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we continue to track the breaking news in ukraine, as the russian invasion intensifies, but we also want to get to some big news in the january 6th investigation. the select committee met with kimberly guilfoyle, a former fox news personality engaged to donald trump jr. she worked for trump's re-election campaign and spoke at that trump rally near the white house, right before the riot. but that meeting with the panel did not go as planned, and now, there could be a subpoena on the way. capitol hill correspondent, ali is live here this morning. what happened? >> well, lindsey, we know kimberly guilfoyle has been in former president trump's inner circle for years now.

she is donald trump jr.'s fiance. a top trump surrogate and as you mentioned as well, she spoke at the stop the steal rally on january 6th. so the idea that we should talk to the committee without by the way being subpoenaed, they only asked her for documents could have been huge. this could have been as close personally to trump's inner circle as the committee had gotten up to this point. but yesterday went south pretty quickly just over the span of a couple of hours. basically, in a lengthy statement that kimberly guilfoyle tweeted out by her attorney, her attorney accuses the committee of hijacking her interview after guilfoyle said she only wanted to speak to staff, not committee members. the attorney goes on to say that he claims the committee is using guilfoyle as political ammunition, or attacks, for attacks on the former president. this went on and on in this lengthy, lengthy statement and it got so bad which the committee, which never comments on their interview process actually released a statement

yesterday, saying it had quote hoped she would do as dozens of other witnesses had done, participate in a voluntary transcribed interview with staff and committee members. ms. guilfoyle has now declined to do so, forcing the select committee to compel her testimony at an upcoming deposition. so, lots of drama here, the committee did say that she turned over some documents to them, so that will definitely be helpful but they will still have to wait a little bit longer for her to talk. >> and ali, there is some new developments from the house oversight committee investigating how trump handled sensitive records. what can you tell us? >> yes, so the house oversight committee is concerned that the former president not only violated the presidential records act when he took those 15 boxes from the white house to mar-a-lago but they are concerned that he potentially knew some of this information in these boxes were classified when he took them and in some confirmed cases, ripped them up, so the house oversight committee

is now asking the national archives, who is the agency that recovered those boxes, for more information, as to what's inside. we know that they recovered them last month, but so far, no response from the agency, or for that matter the former president on this new development in this case. >> thank you so much. and a new hour, "advisory report" starts right now. briefing right now on msnbc, new signs of ukrainians fighting back. the military says this russian convoy was hit. now troops are going through the wreckage. ukraine's president zelenskyy says the capital city of kyiv is still under ukrainian control. despite a renewed russian push to take over the city. a ukrainian journalist posted this video saying, these were the sounds of combat overnight. >> zelenskyy skays quote, the

fate of ukraine is being decided now. while hundreds of romanians rushed to the border to help in this video from a romanian newspaper. and two members of congress speak at an event put on by white nationalists and while most of the world condemns vladimir putin list tonight reaction when the event's leader brings up russia. >> i look at china, i look at russia, can we give a round of applause for russia? >> plus, here in the u.s., new guidance for face masks, what you need to know about the policies and how they're changing across the country. as we approach the two-year mark of the pandemic. good morning, everybody. it is a new hour of msnbc reports. i'm lindsey riser. we have a team of reporters and analysts following the latest for us right now from ukraine to russia, to brussels to poland to dc and we will begin the capital

of ukraine is bracing for battle as russian troops advance on the city. street fighting, breaking out as officials urge residents to take shelter. ukrainian president vladimir zelenskyy reportedly refusing to leave kyiv, as the russian military ratchets up it's tacks. and the u.s. and eu are now sanctioning russian president vladimir putin and the russian foreign minister directly. women and children are fleeing ukraine, as fighting destroys apartments, schools, and infrastructure. the u.n. is saying russia's assault could result in millions of refugees. meanwhile, nato will dispatch its response force for the first time in history, to protect member nations in the east. ukrainian officials are reporting at least 198 deaths from the fighting so far. president biden is set to meet with his national security team a few hours from now and is working to establish a communication back channel with the russian military. to hopefully prevent an

accidental clash between u.s. and russian troops. for more on all of this, we turn to nbc news correspondent cal perry live in lviv, ukraine and nbc news correspondent keir simmons live in moscow. we have josh lederman in brussels. so cal, first we'll go to you. what do we know about this russian assault on ukraine right now, on kyiv, and also the developing refugee crisis? >> from what we can tell, the main assault is still taking place around the ukrainian capital of kyiv, the fighting started late yesterday, in the suburbs that surrounded the city, from the north and from the east, and slowly crept forward, but this morning, as the sun rose, over the capital city, it was still in ukrainian hands. there has been a herculean effort to arm citizens in that city, at least 16,000 assault rifles distributed to citizens there, there were even instructions put up on the ukrainian ministry of defense web site, showing civilians how to make molotov