the putin regime's increased clamp-down on civil liberties. >> thank you both so much for talking to us today. that's going to wrap up this hour for he. i'm chris jansing. >> and a good monday morning to you. craig melvin here, following the latest developments in ukraine this morning. ukraine's president zelenskyy outside in kyiv pledging to rebuild as russia continues to bombard his country. we just found that president zelenskyy will be speaking directly to u.s. lawmakers on wednesday in a virtual address to congress. but there he is, on the streets in his city. meanwhile, russia now pursuing a

more destructive drive, striking closer to civilian population centers. overnight in ukraine's capital at least one was killed, several others hurt in a high rise building in what is essentially the times square of kyiv. you can see a man right there planting the ukrainian flag in the aftermath of that attack. it's clearly failed to extinguish the patriotism of the ukrainian people. as this conflict continues to move closer to the doorstep of our nato ally poland, all eyes on poland. sunday officials say a russian air strike hit a military base outside of lviv, just about 12 miles from poland's border. dozens were killed, more than a hundred hurt. and dialing up the tension, don't forget the biden administration's pledge that the united states will protect, quote, every inch of nato

territory. and a new wrinkle this morning. three u.s. officials say the united states has reason to believe russia has asked china for military equipment and other support. china and russia pushing back on that just as president biden's national security adviser is meeting with china's senior diplomat in rome today. meanwhile, the united nations believes there have been more than 1,600 civilian casualties from this war so far. more than 2.8 million people have fled their homes so far. nearly 200,000 arrived in poland just over the weekend, most of them women and children. >> when we cross the border, my mother begin to cry because my mother needs help. all these people, thank you very much. thank you. i'm sorry. >> our reporters and analysts covering every angle of this. nbc's matt bradley continues there at his post in lviv and

ukraine and kelly o'donnell at 1600 pennsylvania avenue and we have clint watts there at the big board. and we're going to be joined by jay gray. jay is going to join us in just a few moments. matt, before i come to you, i do want to play a portion of our chief correspondent richard engel's report this morning. this is the aftermath of an attack on an apartment building. >> the attack happened just after 5 when most people were sleeping. the rocket hit right by the front door making evacuations more difficult, more dangerous. there was no military activity here at the time, no outgoing fire and this can only be described as an attack on civilians right near the heart of kyiv. >> translator: i woke up for a cigarette right before.

maybe i knew something, he says, who lives with his mother and described the slow motion effect of hearing the incoming round and then the explosion. it blew out my windows and doors. if i were near them, i'd be dead, he said. nina was shaken but unhurt. she said she's happy not to be alone and asked if i have a mother who also happens to be named nina. she said this attack shows why ukrainians need to fight as open russian war with no distinction between civilians and soldiers is moving into kyiv. >> our chief foreign correspondent richard engel there. matt, ukrainian officials say the front line towns near kyiv are being successfully evacuated for a fifth straight day now. many of these folks are headed your way, western ukraine. what's happening on the ground where you are right now?

>> we were starting to see -- not starting, we have been seeing tons of refugees or they will be refugees once they cross the border flowing through this city. as you can hear, actually there's a person here kind of rocking out in the middle of the city. it doesn't feel like a city under siege are even as you mentioned that assault 12 miles away from the polish border. this city is persisting, as are several other cities that are not faces constant bombardment. i just got back from a city where there had been quite a lot of civilian targets that were hit but it's a much, much more subdued atmosphere. this place just hasn't been struck in the same way that others have. we're starting to see, though, when you look at the map and you look at where the bombardments have been happening, we are seeing a steady creep westward.

so that's really threatening and is going to become increasingly threatening. as russian advanced toward kyiv and kharkiv, they're going to start pummelling civilian centers. they already have been. they're going to be doing that probably here in the west. they seem to be relying so much on artillery rather than relying on their infantry advances because their artillery is allowing them to actually strike targets they're not able to reach with their ground forces their ground forces have been repeatedly repelled. the only exception seems to be in the south of the country around the area of mykolaiv and there's still 400,000 people in that southeastern city who lack water, fresh water, heating,

electricity and any recourse to getting out of the city. so far days and days of attempts to secure a humanitarian corridor has been unsuccessful. we have seen some examples of the humanitarian corridors in effect. we heard from the government in ukraine more than 100,000 people have been rescued and the country using the model of that humanitarian corridor and they were negotiations again between ukraine and russia, humanitarian corridors aren't necessarily a big part of that but there has been some successful models, particularly in the city of sumy but so far it's civilians taking the brunt of the fighting and civilians in places like laviv where everything is normal that we might start to see a change in attitude and atmosphere. >> matt, thank you. mr. watts, let's pick up where matt just left off there.

he spent a little time talking about strategy there and this idea that so far they've been far more successful with their artillery versus their infantry. what to we make of the russian strategy so far and what might be next? >> i think some important points from over the weekend is despite all the russian armor divisions moving in, all the advances they make, they don't hold areas. in particular watch kharkiv and mykolaiv. they are really striking back at these russian columns. it remarkable to see how successful they've been. these are massive armor formations. we did not see that much activity, additional activity in kyiv over the weekend. this is where you probably saw that uav strike on an artillery column.

here is another advance they're trying to make. there was some video you could see of russian forces trying to advance. they're going to try to create blocking positions around the city trying to cut off the resupply. this is not going to go well for the russians. in the south that's the story to watch. the southern forces out of crimea which we talked about during week one and two were much more successful than the northern forces. even here you're seeing them meet stiff resistance around mykolaiv. they have to take it. odessa here. in the north there's an area

called sumy. here they're still fighting in mariupol. and these dots are areas. this air strike is close to the polish border. the russians are targeting out west. they want to go after the supply lines. if they can't cut off the supplies to the ukrainian military, that brings us to the picture of why this is going to be a long fight. ukraine has fighters throwing up. and they are trying to coerce

the belarusian military to fight. this looks like an extended fight. >> and taking control and holding those cities are another thing entirely, right? >> that's right. and what's super fascinating in the south, kherson deployed what is known as riot police. you've probably seen it in the navalney days. at some point russia has a big problem. putin, are they trying to get support from china? and in terms of personnel. if they had to recruit another wave of soldiers, it's going to go from lower class to middle class and will be a huge issue for russia. >> thanks. a fascinating look there. jay gray is in poland for us once again and continues to cover the mounting refugee

crisis that this conflict is creating. and at the train station, jay, what are you seeing there? >> well, craig, we continue to see waves of refugees moving in. i kind of want to walk you through the process of what happens. behind these fences what you'll see are the trains coming in from ukraine. we just had one come in so people are working through customs and getting settled. they'll walk over to the terminal and it's from there that they walk back out on to the platforms on the other side. you can see a train here is being loaded right now. so here's the deal, craig. over the last couple of days these trains have been moving into, for the most part, warsaw and krakow. over the weekend they said their refugees to stay long term are

really full. they're stretched to their limits now. this is just a border train station. we're about three miles from the actual gates of the border. what warsaw is doing is saying we can't take any more people in. you've got these people coming in, many have left a loved one behind and they don't want to go far. they want to stay around the border so they can get back in if they need to and they feel they get better information around the border. these families are stuck. there's physically no more room. yesterday in warsaw, they started 17 new train routes out of that station. nine of them go to berlin, the eight others go to the czech republic. a lot of people say i don't want to go there, i want to stay close to home. it's part of this crisis that we've been talking about that's now coming to fruition. and understand we're seeing the first round come through. the second round is going to be

bigger. we've got more than 2.6 million that have escaped ukraine, most here in poland. the second round of refugees is going to be much bigger, perhaps double. so this is a problem that's just going to continue to intensify, craig. >> jay gray on the refugee crisis that continues to worsen there in poland. jay, thank you. kelly o'donnell, let's talk about these troubling reports. u.s. officials confirming to nbc news that the u.s. government has reason to believe russia has asked china for military equipment, other support as well. what more are we hearing from the white house about that part of the story? >> reporter: there's real concern that as russia has not been able to accomplish its military goals in the timely way it had envisioned and we know that russia is looking for help in a world that has closed its doors and russia and we've seen how many nations have pulled

away, china has remained one of its friend on the global stage. right now the president's national security adviser is in rome meeting with a top chinese diplomat to send the message clearly there will be economic penalties for china if they side with russia in this fight. this is a case where russia is looking for lifelines and the u.s. says any attempt to provide those lifelines will be met with swift penalties and further steps from the west, the u.s. and likely european allies as well to send a very clear message that that will not be tolerated at a time when there is this unprovoked war and all of the life-and-death consequences that are playing out. it does suggest that russia has needs militarily that are not being fully met and that is coming at a time when the white house is also looking at ways to supplement the defenses of ukraine. we have seen how over the weekend the president authorized another $200 million in u.s.

military equipment that's already in the system making it faster to get to ukraine, things like air defenses and anti-tank and the kind of munitions that would be useful in the battlefield now. one of the concerns is getting it there. and officials say they believe they have the ability to flow that kind of material support to the front lines and of course they're watching carefully as russia has taken steps to carry out strikes on areas where they believe there might be supplies, convoys and things like that. so this is obviously a situation that is changing rapidly. today we will hear from the president but on domestic matters, as he will be at a hotel in washington, d.c. talking to local officials from around the country who are gathered for a conference there. and he spoke with france's

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quote, together we will win. that's the message from ukrainian president zelenskyy in a new presidential address. standing outside in the daytime, zelenskyy says we will rebuild every street in every city as russia tries to destroy the infrastructure. and the president will address congress wednesday morning at:00. i want to bring in the former

press secretary to president zelenskyy. what do you think we'll hear from your former boss, president zelenskyy, when he addresses our lawmakers on wednesday? what do you think he'll say? >> thank you for having me. of course president zelenskyy will explain the situation on the ground and explain everything ukraine is doing to finish the conflict. president zelenskyy was trying and is trying hard to make any efforts to finish this military invasion. he tries to talk to vladimir putin and send very transparent message that there are only two people who can find solution in this brutal invasion, it's the president of ukraine and the president of russian federation putin. but of course he will be explaining the needs that ukraine is extremely expecting these days. i know that ukraine is very grateful for every type of help that was gotten from the west

and from the u.s. and for the $6 billion of support that will go to ukrainian army and for humanitarian to ukraine. but definitely president zelenskyy is looking for the support to stop this brutal bombing and shelling, especially when we are talking about -- you know that president zelenskyy was talking about the necessity to close the sky nowadays, no-fly zone regime. but if it's not possible, we are looking forward to see the military jets supplied to ukraine. and we know that russia black mails the west that we'll bombard the supply chains to ukraine. at the same time we see that russia is attacking the ukraine that is really 15 miles from poland, the country member of nato.

of course he will be looking for solutions, how to help ukrainians fight for the sky, defend their territory and actually our pilots today behave as -- in the country think are so big heros. they are like angels hiding in the skies with their wings from this absolutely tremendous hell, monstrous hell aggression that comes from russia from the sky. so i think the major messages will be the gratitude from ukrainians for the united states that united states helps us to defend democracy here and also more -- attempts to ask for more to help ukrainians defend ourselves from the sky. the victims are being counted in thousands already, thousands. they destroyed civilian infrastructure, houses,

hospitals, kindergartens and just kill ordinary people here. no time to wait. time is people's lives. >> negotiators, as you know, from ukraine and russia, they apparently spoke again this morning. are you still hopeful that these talks are going to yield meaningful results? >> we have a lot of hope. diplomacy is the only way to find solution. on the other hand, there are only two people who take really decisions. so we try to make vladimir putin to talk to volodymyr zelenskyy. right now putin will finish this terrible situation. and we need to help escape

thousands of ukrainians is the result of negotiations that have been held. right now we are hoping and praying that humanitarian corridor from mariupol that is suffering the most in ukraine will work out. what we heard the last one the silence on this corridor was confirmed. we hope people who have food shortages and do not have water, who suffer really strongly will get at least some relief and will be taken out from mariupol. this is the result of those negotiations. it's not the result for finishing the invasion, but definitely it's the result for relief of sufferings of people. >> thank you. thank you so much. and do stay safe. >> thank you. >> we'll check in with you soon. we have seen some stunning images from ukraine, including this video that shows an intercepted russian missile hitting a bus in kyiv. we're going to take you through this new video that we verified.

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breaking news on this monday. just moments ago nbc news learned that the white house is talking about a trip for president biden to visit europe, according to three u.s. officials and two people familiar with the discussions. let's get to mike memoli with more. what more can you tell us? >> this is more reporting from carol lee, josh letterman and myself. we've been watching president biden largely handle this ukraine crisis from the capitol and now we're learning the white house is in discussions to have president biden make a trip potentially in the next few weeks to europe, to show solidarity with our nato allies at this critical moment. it's been the vice president, kamala harris, who has been

logging a lot of miles on air force ii, making two separate trips to europe, most recently last week when we saw her in poland, on the border of ukraine, and with two key allies. we don't have a final decision yet about this travel. there are a lot of complications, a lot of decisions that would go into making this decision but some of those very officials who were part of helping with the vice president's trip to eastern europe last week have stayed behind in anticipation of a potential visit. we've reached out to the white house. officially we have not received any comment yet, craig, but we'll follow up as we hear more. >> mike, do we know perhaps what part of europe the president would visit? >> reporter: one of the locations under discussion is brussels, which is obviously important because it's both the seat of nato as well as the european union. so much of what the president has been doing has been trying to align u.s. actions with our nato allies at this point,

trying to show that upity in the face of russia. but also there might be other stops as well. the president has made two trips to europe already, including to brussels last summer when he had a meeting with nato allies, as well as the g7 meeting in england and the g20 meeting in rome. the president hasn't traveled yet. there are other summits on the calendar but not for several months. this shows the urgency of the moment, the white house having him get there even sooner. >> mike, thank you. time is running out. that's part of a dire new warning from the red cross about the hundreds of thousands of civilians that are trapped in mariupol. we're going to take a look at what's happening there. i also talked to a former member of ukraine as parliament about the conditions on the ground next. ever wonder what everyone's doing on their phones? they're banking, with bank of america. his girlfriend just caught the bouquet, so he's checking in on that ring fund.

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other top stories here at home. take a look at this video out of new york city. police are still searching for the man seen here jumping over a reception desk before stabbing two people behind that desk. it happened at the museum of modern art, or moma, on saturday. he's been identified as 60-year-old gary cabana. they say he's a former museum member but was denied entry. the victims are in stable condition. >> and barack obama has tested positive for covid-19. he announced it in a twitter post on sunday saying he's had a scratchy throat but is otherwise feeling fine. obama says he and his wife, michelle, are grateful to be vaccinated and boosted. michelle tested negative. and starting this morning chicago public school students will be able to choose whether they want to wear masks in the

classroom. the change comes as cases in chicago are at the lowest level since july of last year. just coming in to our newsroom here at msnbc, our social gathering team, our social news gathering team just verified some pretty shocking surveillance video of an intercepted missile falling on a street in kyiv. i want to bring in my colleague savannah sellers. we have a group of folks working to verify videos like this. what do we see in this video? >> let's do another social media deep dive. this one just came out. it's a crazy video out of kyiv. you played it moments ago, allegedly showing an intercepted russian missile falling down on the ukrainian city, hitting a bus actually. how did our session news gathering team verify this just happened?

i want you to look over here. that's what this verification has to deal with. our teammate was able to match this video first to a statement from the mayor saying one person died and since others were hurt when a missile fell on the road, destroying a trolley bus. the time stamp fits the mayor's classification that this was in fact recent. i'm going to show you a freeze frame of that video. pay attention to this blue awning, this portion of the building here. our teammate, matteau, was able to go ahead and verify that using google maps. this is that same portion of that area. we were able to pinpoint it and match it to the google street view to the spot where we saw it get hit. we saw people getting rescued from a damaged apartment build. i'll show you a few more stills

of this rescue. these photos were posted by ukraine emergency services. here's a few of them. they're horrible to see, saying the search continues for more in the people. this strike killed two and sent three others to the hospital. this violence in kyiv is happening after that deadly attack this weekend where 35 people were killed after russia bombed ukraine's international center for peacekeeping and security, about 20 miles from the polish border. this video shows that aftermath of that attack. that was verified by our social news gathering team. here's a freeze frame we'll start with. i'll explain how we verified it. here's that freeze frame. again, just using google maps, use coordinates on the map to find what is the still on this video on street view. it's that same yellow building just before the shelling. videos posted are becoming more

important than ever as our teams on the ground find it more dangerous to be in certain areas. that first one from kyiv, about 30 minutes from the main position of kyiv where we've been seeing president zelenskyy sending those videos in from. >> that's great. fascinating. thank you for lifting the veil on that. savannah sellers dangerous shortages of everything from food and water to medicine. that is what the red cross is warning about in the port city of mariupol. we'll take a look at what conditions are like on the ground there. also, we've got a look at some. most complicated evacuations in ukraine, getting sick children to the hospital, away from the bombing. >> what does it feel like as a mother just to have all of this out of your control? >> translator: i have to be strong. i'll do whatever it takes to get him the treatment he needs. ent s r passion for learning.

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writ large. >> that was speaker of the house nancy pelosi just a few moments ago. she's in new york city. she was there touting the new infrastructure bill and you heard her talking about ukrainian president zelenskyy's planned address to congress on wednesday. meanwhile, in his country, the red cross said hundreds of thousands of civilians in the hard-hit city of mariupol are facing a, quote, worst case scenario, food shortages, water shortages and medicine shortages. we're getting a closer look at another heart breaking struggle in this war, children forced to flee violence in eastern ukraine that are also fighting illnesses. molly hunter has more from a children's hospital in lviv.

>> we immediate 8-year-old danny and his mom in the relatively safety of lviv a week after fleeing. he was diagnosed with blood cancer and then the war started. it was terrifying, she said, leaving in an ambulance and dodging the constant bombing. >> reporter: what does it feel like as a mother just to have all of this out of your control? >> translator: i have to be strong. i'll do whatever it takes to get him the treatment he needs. they'll go anywhere where he can get treatment. >> reporter: this doctor runs the pediatric oncology ward at the westernized children medical's center. having a child with cancer or

severe illness is horrific but right now this is a hell that children shouldn't have to endure. and this little girl was transported from kyiv. what was that trip like to new. >> these kids are like our family and there was not enough staff to get the kids out. on saturday it was go time. >> translator: i'm very worried, she says. i just want to get to the new clinic fast so we can start the treatment. the convoy, a dozen ambulances and three busses. ina sent us video from the road to the border they made it to poland. now they're outside of warsaw.

she says for now the future is unclear but we are so happy to be safe. >> that was nbc's molly hunter reporting there. for more i want to bring in hannah andbosku. hanna is a rm former member of ukraine's parliament. she's in warsaw this morning. michael is a global analyst, former spokesman for the organization and cooperation in europe. michael is in lviv right now, thanks to both of you. hanna, let me start with you. what goes through your mind when you see those images of sick children fleeing war? and what more needs to be done to help them? >> you know, the last ten years i'm working as a volunteer of the biggest, the flagship children hospital in ukraine. so all these years i helped children with diseases and now when i see this small boy, so

actually i'm just trying to be strong, but i want to cry. so and, of course, i wanted to make a special appeal like i implore american people to act. and you know, we made an appeal to president biden just 17 women of ukraine, politicians, activists -- president biden, so you, as a father, you have experienced tragic losses of those closest to you. as a mother of 10 years old daughter sofia, i would like to represent the children of all ukraine because i consider them as my own children. so please, president biden, you know how to stop putin. so actually, please your -- please, come to ukraine. if there is no fly zone, if we get more military assistance to protect all these kids because

we don't know if tomorrow putin will not attack lviv where now children from kyiv, kharkiv, we don't know if they're in safe position, so i ask president biden, maximum military assistance. if not, please come to ukraine, don't be afraid, and protect ukrainian children. you can also invite his holiness, pope francis, we could pray for the victory of ukraine, and i'm sure that russians will not dare to attack by missiles, by rockets, at ukrainian cities. this is the only way to stop the war in ukraine. so, president biden, please it's your moral duty and also u.s., as a security gar ran or the of ukraine. as a mother i'm just praying to god, ask him, everybody don't be

so tolerant to russian full-scale war. it's war crimes. how to say, crime against humanity. american society is a brave society. you are the bravest nation, like ukrainians now, stopping putin. please, help us. help us to stop and not to allow the regime to move beyond ukraine and border. >> michael, we know that hospitals are not safe from violence in this conflict, obviously. we now know that the pregnant woman who was photographed on wednesday being carried out of the hospital that was bombed, the pregnant woman you see there in the photograph on the stretcher, she died. hospitals, these are not military targets. what other options should other nato countries or the eu start weighing when we're seeing the

obvious targeting of siville civilians. >> thank you for having me. those pictures of that hospital bombed in mariupol, and that was a huge missile. that was a red line that was crossed. that is how the west should see it, full stop. and yet what do we hear, platitudes and rhetorics from western leaders about how concerned they are. it's tough to say this i am a former unicef spokesperson, they can't name the aggressor, russia, or calling this beyond an escalated conflict. i can tell you, from being in ukraine for over a month now, there's widespread disappointment in the west reaction to what's going on here. if i can just frame this, what happened at that hospital, we were talking amongst colleagues about what happened, and it was basically a wakeup call, remember when during the syrian crisis, the body of that syrian

child washed up on a turkish shore or when the chemical weapon attack happened in syria as well. we, one would have thought this is as far as it's going to go and the west will do some kind of intervention. you asked me what more the west could do, but i think at this point, perhaps the west should use leverage with china to stop this war. china actually has very big interest in ukraine, economic interest. before the war, president zelenskyy called china ukraine's biggest economic partner. so maybe there's leverage room left there to get china to put pressure on russia to stop. i know there's been reports that russia has been in talks with china to get their assistance. but i don't think they're going to be careless and wade into this carelessly, so perhaps that is an option out of this. >> michael, hanna, i wish we had more time on this monday, but i do want both of you to come back. thank you both for your time and

thank you for your time as well on this monday. that's going to do it for me on this hour. "andrea mitchell report" starts next. ndrea mitchell report" sta next subway's refreshing with better ingredients, better footlongs, and better spokespeople. because you gotta you gotta refresh to be fresh

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polish border where nato forces are on high alert. injuring 134 and killing 35 people in an air strike over the weekend. for the first time near the heart of ukraine's capital, striking an apartment building near kyiv city center full of ukrainian civilians. >> fortunately if you can describe anything as fortunate, the building was largely evacuated at the time, about half the people had already left but many people decided to stay behind. many people now have to find other places to live, some residents here who are just collecting whatever they can salvage from this building say they now are going to either live in shelters or with relatives in other parts of the city. >> today a kremlin spokesman is denying reports that russia may be seeking foreign assistance to topple the ukrainian resistance. the u.s. government has reason