thanks for spending time with us here on "the beat" as we cover these stories around the world. "the reidout" with joy reid starts right now. good evening, everyone. we begin "the reidout" with the horrific realities in ukraine. putin's isolation, miscalculations and stomach churning appetite for murder. tonight, we want to show you what putin's war actually looks like. i want to warn you it is dpraf -- graphic and heartbreaking. earlier today putin's forces bombed a maternity hospital wounding seven people. this is what it sounded like. the russian air strike was so

powerful that the ground shook for miles. it blew out the windows and left the newborn intensive care unit in ruins. look at these images. these are the victims of putin's war. it the wailing mother clutching her bewildered child. it a heavily pregnant woman bleeding being carried on a journey rushed to safety. it's the innocent children sobbing and terrified the russians would return. this is how putin chose to end the second week of his invasion and it drew immediate condemnation. u.k. prime minister boris johnson called it depraved and jen psaki said it was a barbaric use of force. late today president zelenskyy called it an evil war crime. new satellite imagery shows the extensive damage that the russian invasion forces have inflicted so far on civilian infrastructure in mariupol. how they laid waste to residential homes, apartmentgrod

the associated press took these images of mass grave sites dug on the outskirts of mariupol because they can't conduct proper burials due to the bombings, the russians denied bombing the maternity hospital claiming they do not fire on civilian targets. they talk about disarming ukraine and dislodging nazi leaders. not true. richard engel spent the day in a hospital and asked a doctor about russia's denials. >> reporter: vladimir putin says that the russian army is not bombing civilians. no civilians are being hurt. >> a lie. it's an obvious lie. >> meanwhile, today russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov arrived in turkey. it should come as no surprise the russian delegation refused to concede anything. vice president kamala harris landed for the first leg of her trip to meet with regional allies. part of that will include

cleaning up a diplomatic spat over supplying fighter jets to ukraine. today the pentagon said the u.s. does not support the polish plan to transfer the jets. joining me now from lviv, ukraine is nbc news correspondent cal perry. the view from lviv tonight, cal, give us what that is particularly given now it is pretty clear the u.s. did not and does not support this plan to provide fighter jets by way of this circular route through via poland. >> yeah, it's the jets ukraine desperate he needs that nobody wants to touch. nobody wants to be the ones handing over the jets so for now, it seems to be on hold. the view from here is watching that video coming out of those port cities. you know, a city of mariupol with mass graves, you have the deputy mayor saying at least 1200 civilians have been killed and he thinks that's a low

number. it could be three times that. there are half a dozen cities under siege and it's more depressing when you factor in we expected this. we expected hospitals to be hit if not targeted. it was one of the first things i heard when we got to lviv. there was a hospital preparing for wounded ukrainian soldiers and they were asking us not to give up the name of the hospital because they were convinced this would happen. the other thing is people are turning their attention towards these nuclear sites. our viewers remember there was a fire fight at the nuclear plant, the largest nuclear power plant in europe. it provides power to a quarter of ukraine and has been taken off the grid and removed from the monitoring system. we're hearing from the white

house false flag attack using chemical weapons. you couple those two things together and marry them with the video coming from the port cities and you're going to have an increase of the wave of human traffic headed in my direction and headed to poland. the knock on effect will be more people are going to hit the roads in a country that cannot take this level of refugees, cannot take this level of internally displaced people. we heard from the mayor of lvivi yesterday that this city is starting to burst at the seams. it cannot take the humanitarian crisis that is underway. again, with the news we're getting tonight about the nuclear sites and the news about trinoble, you'll see the situation continue to deteriorate, joy. >> terrifying, awful. thank you for covering this for us cal perry, stay safe. thank you, my friend.

appreciate you. >> joining us now are two members of the ukrainian parliament who is also an olympic gold medalist. thank you both for being here. where to begin? i'll start with you. what we're seeing out of mariupol, the idea that hospitals where children and pregnant women were being treated are being bombed, apartment buildings being levelled, what doe you make of the russians or the kremlin i should say continuing to deny that they're hitting civilian buildings and hospitals, et cetera? >> you know, i would start rephrasing your question as it's not whether we expected this from putin. the question is how long do the western this execution of

ukrainians the air defense continue until he get all of the ukrainians and he has been talking about the ukrainian nation which means nazis in ukraine and they're all dead. these are war crimes that he's committed in the center of europe and if you don't get the protection of our sky, there is no at least humanitarian horn door to protect these people, being shelled is going to continue and you have to understand he's now using the civilian population as a human shield for his army because he knows if he doesn't let these people out of the cities and ukraine tries to evacuate people

from other cities, this will be a human shield for his army that will continue this 24/7 on the tv. >> john, two years ago you were competing in wrestling and winning medals. i believe you won a gold. there you are. there is a picture of you, and what a change to your life now. talk to us about what you're experiencing and what you would want to say to the u.s. administration, vice president kamala harris is traveling in the region to talk to regional leaders. what would you want to say to u.s. officials right now that they have essentially said they're not in favor of transferring these fighter jets? >> yes, we need to help, we need

to do something. across every day bomb our cities. you see these pictures and you must understand they kill us every day. they destroy our infrastructure. they kill our children. they kill our citizen. that's why we need to protect us. we do everything for protection but we need to help from nato, from u.s., from europe and because it's time. i win a gold medal this last summer but now i think about for keep my country and protect our civilization, our nation because russian are going to kill us. putin crazy.

i don't know how i can describe the situation. >> and to stay with you for a moment, i think a lot of people don't realize there is a lot of diversity inside ukraine. maybe not as much as we have in the united states but the fact that you are there, what do you make of the stories of the differences between the way people are being treated at the borders trying to escape? have you heard any feedback people are being treated differently when they try to flea based on the color of their skin? >> i don't know the situation but i'm member of ukrainian and to know russian propaganda do everything about -- about guilty our country in racism, it's not true because i'm a ukraine doing

everything for my life and i know ukrainian is country and we don't support it. that's why now it's terrible time, now it's a lot of problem and i know this situation with african citizens, i know this but it's -- we need to -- sorry, mind is not so good. >> that's okay. >> i do my best for this

situation, yes. and but russian propaganda works very good and show it's not true about ukraine a lot, you know? >> yeah. >> that's why we need to help from u.s. and need to stop this guy with ukraine because it's a really big problem to us. every time the city bomb from the sky and our children, our citizens kills every day, every hour, you know? >> indeed. your english is better than my ukrainian so you're doing far better than i am with this. i will ask you about this refugee crisis. we have now -- at least the latest numbers are low, 2 million ukrainians on the move internally displaced or

externally displaced. just as somebody that's a member of the government there, how helpful have neighboring countries been in terms of where people are going to be able to stay because what we know about refugee crisis in the past is people can't turn around and go home any time soon. we don't know how long this is going to last. what provisions are there for ukrainians being forced to leave ukraine into neighboring countries? are you confident they're going to be okay, that they're going to have enough resources, that they're going to be well taken care of? give us sort of the latest in terms of the refugee crisis. >> understand the majority of these people in the country, we're talking mainly about children and women because men between 18 and 60 are not allowed because of the martial law. these people are losing their houses and homes because we have our cities shelled and bombed and unfortunately, we understand

that this looks like it's going to be a long process. not going to be for a week as we hoped for a month. a lot of these people are dreaming about coming back home because to be a refugee for the rest of your life or even for years having a small kid with no place to stay, it's unbelievable right now here in 21st century in the center of europe. so we had, like, let's say our neighboring countries have been very helpful, especially poland, slovakia and romania accepting these people. they have support and food. you have to understand this is a short term solution. we cannot just reallocate millions of people to solve this issue. we should understand that we just -- if we protection of our sky and provide ukraine with more weapons, we can get these

people back to their houses. we just need to kick putin's [ bleep ] sorry out of ukraine to get his [ bleep ] out and if we did that these people would be whole and safe there and that's why i say if we do not want humanitarian crisis, we need to protect them. >> indeed. your pleas are well heardment thank you both so much. stay safe. still ahead, the ukrainian president emerges as the churchill of the digital age rallying people against the russian on slot and a former advisor joins us next. plus, there are still more questions than answers about the long term effects of the invasion on international relations. is this the start of a new economic cold war? and later, some of ukraine's biggest ballet stars are taking up arms to defend their country. >> translator: i love to perform on stage and travel and come back to ballet she says but the

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ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy emerged as a winston churchill countering vladimir putin's lies refusing to leave his country boosting ukrainians' moral saying he and his people aren't afraid. his rise from comedian to wartime president is remarkable and standing up to putin and his lies about supposedly denazifying ukraine while becoming the famous face of resistance. zelenskyy who is jewish has captivated the world while offering a reminder of the region's scared history of anti-semitism. it also a reminder of how far ukraine has come and i should warn you some of the following

images are graphic. it been barely over a century since more than 1,000 wide spread pogroms killed 100,000 jews in present day ukraine and ukraine was home to one of the largest jewish populations in europe after the actual nazi army invaded in 1941 with their campaign of ex termination. more than 100,000 jews were executed. the memorial was the site of a russian attack last week and as ukraine's first jewish president whose grandfather fought the noz -- nazis, zelenskyy used video and social media to personally and forcefully rebut putin's surrealest history channelling anger asking the world what is the point of saying never again for 80 years in the wake of the

strike saying it's puputin's wa that is pure nazi behavior. he pressed that point again in an interview with "sky news" accusing other countries of being indecisive for his calls over a no fly zone in ukraine. i'm joined by igor. >> you can't decide, if you're united against the terror, you have to close. not me, don't wait me asking you several times, million times close the skies. believe me, if it prolong this way, yes, you'll see they will close the sky. but we'll lose millions of people. >> i'm joined by igor, former advisor to ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. thank you for being hear. i'll endorse your batman t-shirt. that is absolutely great. i have to ask you about this guy. people have tweeted that, you

know, volodymyr zelenskyy becoming president is sort of rather like stephen colbert or john stewart becoming president and i have no doubt either one of them would step right up to the damn plate if that happened if faced with an invasion because they're patriotic good people. is that the way that you understand him? i think the idea he was a comedian throws people off when they see how to use a not so tv term bad ass he is? >> well, hi and first of all, thanks for having me. surprised you didn't mention jimmy fallon. >> and jimmy fallon. >> and jimmy fallon. look, president zelenskyy, first and foremost is a human being. you know, he's not a politician. i keep repeating that but it's true. the world now is kind of interested in having bad news. having real people do real things. so real emotions, real mistakes, that's what the world needs. that's the portrait and bronze

statutes, people being hypocrites and fake. president zelenskyy is very real. that's the first kind of factor that's helping, you know, his image at the moment and helping ukraine. secondly, president zelenskyy is a collective portrait of, you know, the ukrainian people and anyone who is familiar with ukraine knows everyone is like that, you know, so put anyone in their place and you have the same thing. i mean, like people are returning to ukraine to fight instead of fleeing. men are returning. look, i'll give you one example. we kind of -- we're a small village of a country so everyone knows everyone and whenever something happens to you, you get the phone calls asking for help. most of the phone calls i got were from men, actually asking me to help them join the army because they wouldn't take them.

the battalions were full. that gives you an idea what zelenskyy is like and ukraine is like. two very important points, first of all, this is the first social media war. we remember, you know, the second war in iraq and the first tv war, 9/11 happened live on tv. now this is the first like social media, like facebook and twitter war. so everything is happening live. everyone is participating in the story telling and obviously, the world needed john mcclain from "diehard" and president zelenskyy is that. what makes me really worried is the fact that very fact that it's a story telling war and propaganda war and the whole world is fighting a country that's already created an ultimate reality so there are no more fakes in russia. they're living a completely parallel universe. we are playing on their playing field. we're kind of playing by their

rules so instead of listening to what president zelenskyy has to say, we are discussing who president zelenskyy is and, you know, the emotion that's surrounding him and that's incredibly dangerous because first of all, this is not a reality tv show. it's a real war. these are real deaths. i mean, yesterday in mariupol we have a 6-year-old girl die of dehydration while the city was bombing by the russians. today they bomb a maternity ward full of mother and children. i'm a father of two girls. these are the shoes of my 2.5-year-old. i mean, they would make for a perfect picture of a terrible crime and terrible tragedy and they'll be all over the newspapers. i don't want that to happen. i don't want the story telling. i want action. we need to close the skies. we need multi national business

out of russia. i'll give you one example. we're trying to talk to international law firms who haven't even issued statements. why still doing business in russia? it's like doing business with al qaeda after 9/11. it just unbelievable. president zelenskyy, you know, the only thing he got out of this for ukraine, out of this wrong intention, are you paying attention to who he is rather than to what he says, he's got that position now to tell the world like to name and shape and hopefully people will begin listening to him because what putin has in mind concerns everyone. >> well, and i think you make a really good point. honestly, his use of social media, the fact he's very adapt at it and getting his message out and making people pay attention to him, i think is part of the reason that russia has been so isolated and i don't know what you make of this idea that it's part of the reason that they are propaganda war

hasn't worked. first of all, social media makes it clear we can see what they're doing but people globally taking sides. do you think that has made it, i don't know, i am surprised to be honest the u.s. administration has not agreed to go ahead and exceed to his demands of war planes. are you surprised his ability to move the world in favor of ukraine has fallen short of being able to get that done and what would you say to u.s. leaders who are still resisting giving over the war planes? >> i do apologize i might sound harsh but i think this situation regarding the war planes and closing the skies has turned into a muppet show. most people think that putin is losing the information war but he's actually winning it. let me explain to you why. his propaganda and his kind of stream of information story telling is not aimed at the

western audience. he couldn't careless about what europeans think. he couldn't careless what america caps think. he doesn't even consider us to be people, ukrainians, right? so we're back to 1941 in that sense. both physically and mentally and historically. look, what putin wants, he wants to build a portrait of an enemy, of a collective west as an enemy and you're actually helping him. you know, now he's trying to kind of to bring the people of russia to accept what comes next. let me tell you what comes next. it's blatantly obvious. he's not interested in taking ukraine. he's not interested in policing the ukrainian nation. what's happening now, he's bombing civilian infrastructure, he's bombing everything to make ukrainians leave. now then ukraine becomes territory for him to test article 5. that's what he's after. when you have to pick between disgrace and war, historically

if you pick disgrace, you end up with both in the end. so i think the west really needs to push back against him otherwise, you know, the west will lose this fight eventually. >> thank you so much for being here. i hope you'll come back. i think what you said is incredibly instructive. i hope people listen. i think you're clearly, obviously, right. thank you so much. appreciate your time. >> thank you. and up next, putin says the west crippling economic sanctions are almost an about of war so how will russia respond and how bad could it get? we'll be right back. w bad couldt we'll be right back. i'm so glad we could all take this trip together, son yeah. and kayak made getting here so easy- ♪ ♪ here we go. you know i'm a kayak denier! you can't possibly believe kayak compare hundreds of travel sites

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russia is accusing the u.s. of waging economic war in response to president biden banning russian oil, natural gas and coal imports to the u.s. the kremlin says the country will do what is necessary to defend the interest. meanwhile amid the historic sanctions concern is growing for americans detained in russia like brittney griner, one of the most dominant players detained in russia for weeks and not been alloweded to leave the country. the russian federal customs service said it discovered cart gauges containing marijuana oil. an offense that could carry a maximum penalty of ten years in

prison. here is an apparent photo of grind brittney griner used on russian tv. it include as track line that says the hope of american female basketball is pose income a police station with a sign with her sir name on it. congresswoman sheila jackson lee called on the russian government to release griner and joins me now. i understand ms. griner is originally from use district so you are speaking out on her behalf. i'm wondering if you have heard anything about the situation that she is in now? have you gotten any sort of feedback from the state department or anywhere else? >> well, first of all, joy, thank you for having me and being concerned. we love brittney griner, family members are there, coaches are there, and just all of her high school friends of course and look at her now. putin is a baby killer so it is very difficult to see how he

would have compassion for this young woman. we know that in a few days, we may hear more detailed account from the state department because of some procedural matters that have now been cleared up. we do know she's detained but i also know that these allegations are ones that are alleged and they are promoted by a russian official. russian officials who know and knew brittney griner as a long-time player for their teams and one who has given great joy to the russian people. that customs agent well knew he could have provided her a temporary suspension out of the country and not able to come back for a period of time, could have confiscated what she had allegedly and sent her on her way. you wonder why she was selected. she's very well-known and why at that point in time she had to be

selected or had to be examined further and these particular items that they say, that i don't want to believe, because i don't believe the representations that they've made and these facts have not been brought to bear to us. i do know that as an american citizen, that she had no reason to be held for this extensive period of time. we know that there is another case that happened and that person was let out in a month. we see her approaching a month and no evidence of that at this time. so we're concerned. she has a number of individual works for her including russian counsel. i believe it is important for the united states to work for her and a meeting with the president, i presented him with a letter to help us and i'm very glad that the state department and the president is well aware of brittney griner. >> and i will note her wife posted an instagram photo that we can put up just to show thanking everyone that's reached out and i don't know if you've

been in touch with the vice president's office but she is in the region. you've been very vocal. i'm somewhat surprised we haven't heard much from any of the arizona, either the quite -- united states senators from arizona, she plays in arizona. i wonder if there say thought that the vice president while there may voice something about this. >> i don't want to speculate but it certainly appropriate. she's obviously there in poland to deal with the confusion about the fighters and the necessity of air cover for ukraine and the request that president zelenskyy has made but i've seen the kind of -- you call them side bar conversations and a side bar conversation certainly would be appropriate and i wouldn't put it past her agenda that that might be raised. but i think it's important to say that what is happening is there is russian counsel giving guidance and i respect that

guidance but i believe that the federal government, the united states of america, the president, there are others being held in russia and they have been held in such vicious conditions, their health is deteriorating like mr. reed and others and the point is, we can't let the brutality of putin -- you know, i started by saying he's a baby killer. this is his war. there was no vote for this. he has 6,000 russians in jail right now and continues to create a world war iii atmosphere in ukraine. i think we have to step in and exert our sovereignty over our citizens and demand that they be released. >> indeed. >> and get them out of there if i might say it in that way. >> i know 13,500 protesters thus far have been arrested for being brave enough to dare protest against putin's war of choice, war that is conducted, including

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we have talked a lot over the past few weeks how putin is surrounded by oligarchs that profit. some are higher up and none are as important as igor sechin described as one of the scariest men on earth. he's a former intelligence officer putin had run the major oil company after his stint as prime minister. the infamous steel dossier alleges he promised carter page lucrative deals for the u.s. if trump was elected and ended ukraine related sanctions on russia. that information was not confirmed by the mueller report but is part of the background noise. he like other oligarchs has been

hit by sanctions with the french government impounding a super yacht they say is linked to him. it might be entertaining to watch the seizure of his gotty assets, journalist tim o'brien says it's not enough to have an impact on russia. he knows the truly damaging sanctions against putin and russia would go directly after their piggy bank. energy companies are more central to an economic well being than a collection of yachts and private jets and yesterday the u.k. and u.s. took a step in that direction banning the import of russian oil. i'm joined by tim o'brien and executive director of the renew democracy initiative. tim, i guess your argument to boil it down in your article is don't take their toys, take the sort of piggy bank. >> we shouldn't be mistaken that the window dressing that's associated with going after

oligarchs' mansions and jets and yachts are the things that will put a strangle hold on putin or his ability to finance a war or finance an economy that keeps him in a place where he doesn't have uprisings in the streets in russia. you know, the oligarchs loom large in the western imagination because they played a serious role both in the politics and the economic structures of russia and they were for the large number of them were predators. they grifted and stole state assets. putin came to power in the economic rubble of 19 -- that followed the 1998 economic collapse and he put a prominent oligarch in jail. he exiled others and the only oligarchs who stayed in place in russia were those who bowed to

putin and he kept them on a short leash. you noted igor is an exception to the rule there but only because he's a lifelong, you know, partner essentially both in the intelligence agencies and in politics of putin. he had no experience running an energy company. putin stuck him in so he could be controlled by the sort of elite former russian spies who were close to putin and i think the u.s. is fighting this on two fronts. they're going after oligarchs but the real game here is shutting down russia's access to the financial system, freezing the assets of the central bank and stomping down on the energy exports. that's where you're really going to strangle him economically. >> yeah. let me ask you this, there is a sense that part of this sort of gottiness living like zars and putin himself almost fooled

them. there is a piece by russian foreign minister under boris named andre and he wrote this and he said this is one of the reasons that putin over estimated his own military. that the kremlin spent the last 20 years trying to modernize the military but much of the budget was stolen and spent on mega yachts but you can't report that to the president so they reported lies to him instead. is there a sense that the yachts maybe they aren't the key to bringing russia down but they're the key to bringing russia's military down because that's what they're spending the money on rather than building up the military. >> thank you, joy. that's a really interesting thought. i'll disagree a little bit with tim i believe that sanctions on oligarchs can have significant impact not because -- and while conceding that state level sanctions are the ones that are absolutely critical to strangle russia's economic side but essentially what putin did when he came to power and he

essentially threw away some of the oligarchs is he made a deal with the others if he backed them, finances would be safe. what we need to do is make sure that putin ran on that deep. taking away their money is not just lavrov being the foreign minister and those sanctions, of course, are useless. putin does not have any money in his own name, really. instead, he holds money in the wallets of others. in the wallets of oligarchs and the wallets of political leaders. it's not about any single oligarch. it's about the entire class. and right now is the moment for us to hit all of them. the time for half measures is gone. i mean, we should be hitting everyone in the federation, council every single oligarch, everyone in the duma, and don't just go after them by name. go after the shell companies, their assets, and taking a super yacht here and there is nice. but it's far from enough.

i would go further. you don't just off the russian neighbors themselves, you cut off putin's ability to buy off politicians in the free world. gerard schroeder, the former chancellor of germany, is in putin's pocket. he supports the dictator and we allow him to, for the moment. it's people like that who should also be sanctioned. ultimately, these are folks who cannot be allowed to benefit from the free world while attacking its very foundations. it's our job to convince these oligarchs and other russian political leaders that they would be better off without putin than they would be with him. >> and that gets to the point, tim, that i wanted to come back to. is the idea here that if you make them unable to enjoy a western lifestyle that they have become accustomed to and unable to spend money, and then make the russian people even unable to go to mcdonald's or netflix, that you take away the western lifestyle? and turned the clock back in russia for 40 years? to what end? is there a blanket?

>>, no because putin has money offshore, and oligarch accounts. there's been speculation about how much money putin has overseas. he's undoubtedly stolen billions. but that's also never been clearly substantiated. vladimir putin, anytime he wants, can simply steal money from state controlled companies and any company inside russia. trying to sanction oligarch accounts and the idea you would hit putin in his wallet, that ultimately does not matter because he can replace those yachts and replace those bank accounts by stealing from state assets. i do think that most russians, actually, do not live a western lifestyle. russia suffers through grinding poverty. there is a very small class of people in moscow who live a western lifestyle. and in st. petersburg. in a lot of russia, it is still desperately poor.

you are talking about people not being able to get food and heat for their homes because of the sanctions. >> -- yeah. >> it's going to hurt but it's going to hurt in a prima way. not being able to go to mcdonald's or gucci is not, i think, where it's going to hurt them. >> it's a fascinating conversation, i wish we had more time, we will have to have you back for a part two. i want to keep going but the clock says i, cannot tim o'brien and uriel epshtein, thank you. up next on "the reidout", a group of ballerinas take up the fight in ukraine. fight in ukraine with unitedhealthcare medicare advantage plans, you can take advantage of $0 preventive dental care. - wow. - uh-huh. $0 copays on preventive dental care and the nation's largest medicare dental network. take advantage now.

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ballet dancers were performing pirouettes and plays on stages across their country. now, like thousands of their fellow ukrainians, some are joining the frontlines against putin's invasion, swapping their ballet shoes for -- erin mclaughlin brings us their

story. >> yeah the butterflies of kyiv performing for the final time in france. back home, their country is torn apart by war. now, some of ukraine's premier ballet dancers have swapped their tutus and slippers for guns and fatigues, putting lifes work on hold to defend their country. >> of course i am scared, says artist alexei. i am not a military person. but i could not just sit on the sidelines and observe. >> just days ago, alexei was a principal dancer in his prime. now he's a military paramedic. his life as an artist is a distant memory. >> i don't even think about ballet anymore, he says. i had two premiers coming before the war. now it seems like another life that did not exist before. they stance artist said artistry prepared her for war. >> ballet teaches you to have a strong spirit, she says. in 2019, she says her husband

died fighting. she says she is armed herself to protect her son and her country. >> i love to perform onstage, to come back to ballet, she says. but the most important thing now is for the war to end in victory. across ukraine, opera houses and theaters are closed to focus on war. >> now it's not the time to focus on performance onstage. now we have a performance on a street. we have blood and bombing. >> last time he danced, it was the night before the war began. now alexander is building anti tank -- and each day goes by, falling further out of shape, a small sacrifice, he says, for his country. >> i really love my country, we have a beautiful people and beautiful country. i am very sad. i am very angry. >> do you think you are going to dance again? >> yes. 100%, i will go back again. >> when? >> i don't know.

when it's all finished. i hope it will be soon. >> the artistic soul of ukraine is standing by until they have secure their freedom. >> erin maclachlan, thank you so much, wow. that is tonight's "the reidout", "all in with chris hayes" starts right now. ight now tonight on "all in" -- >> how do you stop it? are you prepared to do a deal? you have said you will talk. >> we can't stop alone, all this. >> the russian bombardment continues and the secretary of state gives a stark assessment of putin's plan. >> he has a clear plan, right now, to brutalize ukraine. >> tonight, admiral james stravidis on how to think about the russian attack two weeks in. and reporters journey out of ukraine with jack crosbie of "rolling stone", plus a member of the villain ski zelenskyy cabinet on