♪♪ hey, everybody, i'm yasmin vossoughian. if you are just joining us, welcome. if you're sticking with us, thank you. it's 4:00 p.m. in the east, 10:00 p.m. in ukraine. after weeks of russian troops circling and shelling the coastal city of mariupol, forces have officially besieged the area, shutting down a major steel plant amidst heavy fighting. russian troops have already cut the city off from the sea of azov. its fall marks a major battlefield advance for russia, who have been bogged down outside multiple major cities for weeks. this takeover is coming just hours after president volodymyr zelenskyy's call for a negotiation of peace, quote, without delay.

warning russia's losses will be huge if it continues its brutal attacks on the ukrainian people. and then just a short time ago, another warning, this time from british prime minister boris johnson saying a russian victory in ukraine would bring about a new age of intimidation in europe and that putin's downfall must be ensured. >> he has been terrified of the effect of that ukrainian model on him and on russia, and he's been in a total panic by the so-called color revolution in moscow itself. and that's why he's trying so brutally to snuff out the flame of freedom in ukraine. and that's why it is so vital that he fails. >> and then a new report from the united nations now estimating 6.5 million people have been displaced inside ukraine since the invasion began. that is in addition to the 3 million-plus civilians who have fled the country.

the united nations also reporting the conflict has resulted in more than 2,000 civilian casualties and close to 800 deaths, though they say the true figures are likely considerably higher. we want to begin this hour in lviv. residents there are bracing for even more attacks after russian troops launched multiple missiles at an aircraft repair plant near the city. nbc's ali arouzi is in lviv for us with more. good to see you again. talk to us more about what we know about this attack and have you seen any more like it so far today? >> reporter: hey, yasmin, around 6:00 a.m., 6:30 a.m. yesterday morning, there were three or four very loud explosions. the lviv skyline filled up with black smoke, and we learned that the russians had attacked an aircraft repair facility on the outskirts of lviv just four miles from the city center. you know, the russians have opened up fronts on the north, east, and the south of the country, but here in lviv, which

is meant to be a safe zone for so many of the displaced people, has remained relatively unscathed. but that appears to be changing now. the ukrainian air force say that the russians targeted that facility with six cruise missiles from the black sea. they say that they intercepted two of them, but they did considerable damage because it destroyed the place, and evidently, they were targeting these aging, dwindling fleet of ukraine's fighter jets. and the russians are clearly now going after infrastructure to stop the ukrainian advances, to stop ukrainian aircrafts making it to the air. you asked about other incidents. we've heard reports, and nbc can't confirm, but it's coming from the russian ministry of defense, saying that they used a hypersonic missile to hit a weapons depot in the west of the country about 80 miles south of where we are here in lviv. and that's quite significant,

yasmin, because they say if true, it's the first time they've used it. that's a new generation of weapon. it can travel at five times the speed of sound. it can deflect anti-aircraft systems, and it can travel about 1,200 miles, so it shows that they're using long-range, precision missiles to hit specific targets, unlike the other places where they've done indiscriminate bombing and wrecked places like mariupol, and of course, that's made people here in lviv nervous. this is a safe zone. this is the last place in ukraine that they can remain safe. and it's made them jittery. >> i think one of the most concerning things that so many people see happening outside and around lviv is as this conflict is moving closer and closer to that city, that city has, in fact, become this humanitarian hub for thousands of internally displaced ukrainians, many of them children.

you actually spoke with some americans who are now fighting to get their kids -- to get these kids, i should say, to safety. talk to me about that. >> reporter: that's right. i mean, waves and waves of displaced people are here. we're hearing that, you know, one child a second is made a refugee in this country. there are already 1.5 million children displaced in ukraine because of this war, and as you mentioned, we met up with an american group that was trying to take some of the most vulnerable children in this country, orphans, away from the battered east to the safety of lviv. let's take a listen to their story and how they got here. these are some of ukraine's orphans. they are the most vulnerable in society. already without parents, some with physical disabilities, now the war has ripped them away from their secure environment. some american groups are doing what they can. >> this country, the people are just suffering at no fault of

their own. it's just horrible. >> reporter: aerial recovery is one of those groups. mostly made up of u.s. military veterans working with the ukrainian authorities to help these children with no parents escape the war-torn parts of ukraine. >> okay? >> our objective has been to help and assist the local government with safely moving bunches of orphaned children from danger areas into safe areas in the country where we can house them and feed them and keep them maintained in the system so that we don't lose track. >> reporter: at lviv's train station, we met a group of 58 children along with their 12 ukrainian caregivers that just got in from the east by rail. often stoic, but remarkably many of them smiling. what they have experienced so far, unimaginable. >> some of the children, i mean, they've lost their family, so it's pretty traumatic. >> reporter: this war already devastating for children. 109 killed so far, 439 educational institutions

damaged, 63 completely destroyed according to ukrainian officials. >> i was one of them at one point, so it only felt natural to be able to come. >> reporter: vlad is also one of those volunteers, but he's not ex-u.s. military. he was once an orphan in ukraine, adopted by a newark city detective when he was 15. he felt bound to come help, to give back. >> luckily, i found this group to be able to do it which just centered more towards where i am come, like orphans. >> reporter: the volunteers are eagle-eyed on the kids, constantly counting them, on the lookout for potential traffickers, people smugglers blending in looking for an opportunity to take advantage. the plan is to keep the kids in ukraine, their home, and not to further displace them. when the fog of war settles, then they can figure out foster care or adoption. >> these are ukraine's children. these children -- these -- this is their heritage. this is their home. >> reporter: the family of orphans finally made it on to a bus with their belongings. they set off for the security of

a shelter in lviv where they will find warmth, food, bedtime stories and some much-needed love. and yasmin, one of the directors of that group told us those kids in the east were living under appalling conditions. they spent most of their time in a basement out of fear, little resources in the freezing cold. unimaginable for children to have to live like that, let alone orphans. >> unbelievable. ali arouzi, thank you for bringing that to us, we appreciate it. the majority of some 3.3 million ukrainians displaced by russia's invasion have sought refuge in neighboring poland for the time being and as npr pointed out, the number of ukrainians who fled to poland have reached the same population as warsaw itself, and we can only expect that number of refugees to grow, to keep rising. joining me now from warsaw is nbc's claudio lavanga. as you mentioned in the last hour, if you plan on staying, you must essentially get a social security number.

i know that you went to social security registration in warsaw today. what is this process look like, especially for those ukrainians wanting to stay? >> reporter: that's right, yasmin. well, the government in poland is granting permission to all ukrainians fleeing the who arrive here. the possibility to stay here, the rights to stay here in poland for at least 18 months without having to ask for an asylum or permission, which would have been the case, of course, because ukraine is outside of the european union. but if they want to do anything here like working or accessing healthcare or send their kids to school, they need to apply for a social security number. so, they've set up all these hot spots across not only warsaw but across the country, so that the ukrainians can go and register, and the biggest hot spot they've

opened up, the registration point have opened up, is at the stadium here in warsaw which we went to visit today, and we spoke to a volunteer there, a polish volunteer who told us how this works. let's listen to what she had to say. >> the queues were enormous. people came in the morning. for the moment, there is no possibility to do it because there were so many people who are interested in obtaining such a number. lots of refugees would like to get some jobs, start a new life in poland. that's why they need it so much. >> reporter: as you heard there, yasmin, too many ukrainian refugees arrived this morning at that big registration center at the stadium to the point that soon after they opened up the gates, the authorities had to tell most of them to come back tomorrow. yasmin?

>> nbc's claudio lavanga from warsaw, thank you. ukrainian president zelenskyy is continuing his push for peace talks with russia, saying in a video address late last night that the time has come for meaningful and direct discussions with moscow and president putin. >> let's bring in ambassador bill taylor, vice president for russia and europe at the u.s. institute of peace. ambassador, thanks for joining us. appreciate it. all right, we heard zelenskyy there calling for direct talks with vladimir putin. we know there have been some ongoing talks, it seemed as if there was some progress and then there was some backtracking per that progress. two individuals that sparked my interest in the last hour that i spoke to, one was mikhail zygar,

who has, it seems, studied quite closely vladimir putin and his inner circle, and he said essentially, he doesn't even believe vladimir putin is interested in negotiating. and then, another man that i spoke to advising president zelenskyy, and we talked a little bit about kind of these ongoing negotiations, do you think that there is hope for these ongoing negotiations considering who it is the ukrainian president would be negotiating with? >> yasmin, only if president putin decides, is forced to decide that he is losing on the battlefield, at least is not winning on the battlefield. only then will there be serious negotiations. president zelenskyy knows that. president zelenskyy is asking for these kind of conversations. president zelenskyy knows president putin may not -- that the ukrainian military is doing very well, is holding back the

russian military. the much larger russian military. they thought, the russian military thought, they probably told president putin that they would be in kyiv in two days. and here it is, what, day 24, yasmin. the ukrainian military is doing well, and president putin will only negotiate when he realizes that the russians are not doing well. >> but that's -- that is where i have the hardest time believing that these negotiations are anything but real -- are anything at all. because of the fact that i can not imagine the russian president admitting that. either to the people surrounding him, to russians, and especially to himself. >> yasmin, we're going to have to imagine that. we have to start imagining things that we can't right now. and what may help him understand, president putin understand, is when the russian soldiers continue to walk off from their positions. when they continue to walk away from their tanks.

when they continue to be unable to get resupply, fuel, food. the russian military is not doing well. that will become clear to him, and at that point, we can imagine that he will have to find a way to back down. and then he'll be looking for the negotiations. that time will come. that time will come. the other thing that he's got to worry about is the russian people and the people around him know that as well. >> can we talk a little bit about that, the russian people? this is also something that came up in the last hour. because it seemed as if up until this point, they had fierce dedication to vladimir putin. they liked him as a leader, it seemed, because he kind of was the person that was applauded for creating a middle class inside russia. he kind of took them out of the soviet era. he created wealth inside russia. but it seems as if there may have been a turn, even in the last few days. i'm wondering if that's something that you sense not

only just in urban areas of russia but also in the more rural areas of russia. >> yasmin, the sanctions that we have talked about for weeks now, indeed months, the sanctions that president biden told president putin were coming, those are in place, and they are hammering the russian people. it's sad to say, but the russian families, the russian normal people are suffering because of what vladimir putin is doing. and you're right. that will begin to show up in their wavering support. he promised them prosperity. he promised them europe. he's taken that all back. he is, by his invasion of ukraine, he has invalidated the promises he made and they are -- they know it. the russian people know it. when they see they can't buy things, they can't travel, they are excluded, they're a pariah in the world, their nation is spurned in every forum that they're in. they don't even have support from the chinese. the chinese abstained in the u.n. they won't support them.

so this is a problem for president putin. >> let's talk a little bit more about the chinese. i'm glad that you brought that up. and it's important because it seems as if president xi may be the only person that can get through to vladimir putin, that he somewhat respects on the same level as himself. this is someone who he basically gave a heads up to about his invasion. he waited to invade ukraine, post the olympics, obviously. how important do you think xi is, china is to this calculus, to this invasion, to this war, to ending this war? >> yasmin, i think the chinese are very important. and i think they don't want to be associated -- chinese don't want to be associated with this invasion. they've made that pretty clear. they've got investments in ukraine. they've got investments in stability. they've got investments in sovereignty of nations. they, yasmin, they are not'inger

to support this adventure, this misadventure, this mistake, this blunder. they are -- they would like not to be associated with that. so, you're right, president xi, i would even say, is the senior partner to the junior partner of putin. and so putin does have to look up to president xi. he may not like it, but that's certainly the case. and that gives president xi the ability to both tell president putin the reality of what's going on, on the ground, in the economy, in the public. he's got the ability to get through to president putin exactly as you said. so, he could make that point. >> well, and my understanding up until now, ambassador, and correct me if i'm wrong, but china was the biggest investor in ukraine up until this war began. so, with that in mind, what type of pressure could president biden put on the chinese president, especially when it comes to this -- i mean, he's got money on the table at the end of the day. >> he has money on the table. he's got investments in ukraine. exactly as you say, the single

largest investor in ukraine has been china, exactly what you said, yasmin. and that means -- and the interaction, the interplay, the interconnections between the chinese any and the u.s. economy gives president biden leverage, and president biden, i'm sure, in the conversation yesterday, made it very clear that if president xi goes the wrong way and supports president putin militarily, as apparently they've asked for, or financially, that those sanctions can hurt the chiepz. chinese. >> ambassador bill taylor as always, we appreciate your voice on this, and for lending yourself on this saturday afternoon. thank you. >> thank you. still ahead, everybody, how russia is turning the popular social media app tiktok into a propaganda network. plus an american teacher killed in ukraine while standing in a bread line. the sister of james hill joining me after the break with why her brother chose not to leave once the war began. y her brother chose not to leave once the war began.

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passion for teaching that brought him to parts of europe, according to his sister, katia hill. >> he taught in kyiv. he taught in austria, germany, finland. >> reporter: but it was hill's love for his partner that anchored him to kyiv. >> i would refer to irina as my sister-in-law because they have been partners for so long. and -- but she had m.s. he was so desperate to get her any kind of treatment. he really loved her so deeply. >> and jimmy's sister, katia hill is joining me now. hi, katia, how are you doing? >> i'm hanging in there as best i can right now with the family. still waiting for word from the state department as to where my brother's body or remains are and how we can try to get him home.

but realize it's a war zone, but we haven't yet had word from the state department. >> what was jimmy like, katia? >> as my little brother, growing up, he loved to tease me. but as an adult, he was such a grounded, caring man. he was the helper that everybody looks for when it's a time of crisis. and indeed, what he was doing once the invasion started was finding ways to help and identifying others that needed more help than he did. >> you talk about how he wanted to stay in ukraine, not leave his partner behind. because she has m.s. he did that. and he lost his life. because of it, finding her food. how is she doing? have you spoken to her?

>> no. we have a group that jimmy had organized for her care over the years, so when he traveled back to the united states, her mother could have some respite. ira's in the hospital. we're communicating with her doctor to try to see what we can do. can we get her out? we don't know. i would like to make a correction that just happened this morning about jimmy's death. he had befriended a woman with four children, her name is katrina, and he was with katrina as he was going out daily to find food. and she still had some internet at her home. katrina and jimmy went -- walked to the center of the town because they heard buses were going to be taking people out to

kyiv. when they got there, there were over a thousand people waiting in line, so my brother decided to return to the hospital. at that time, bombs dropped, and that's how he was killed. katrina said she lost hearing in one ear. but my brother had shared with me over our conversations once the invasion started that what the russian bombing was doing was bombing through the night into the morning, stopping their bombing, and then stores and bakeries would open for people to come out and stand in line. and once long enough lines had formed, then the bombing would resume. >> how did you learn of jimmy's death, katya? >> with our messenger group, one of the iranians got a message

that was released from the chief of police from chernihiv saying that they had found the body of a u.s. citizen born in 1954 from minnesota. and i knew immediately that could have only been my brother. and then we got a call from the u.s. embassy saying, indeed, that they had received a copy of jimmy's passport to verify that he was found dead in the streets. now we're still waiting for news from the state department of more official notification in terms of where his body is, how we might be able to get his body back. we have started just this morning a gofundme group for

that purpose along with trying to get care for ira since jimmy was providing all of her medical care, and he is gone. and when i talked to him, the last conversation i had on the phone, was his hope, his dream that once he was back in the united states, he would organize for displaced families and refugees to come to his properties in utah and montana to stay as a little ukraine. so, he was, to the end, thinking of the future and how he could be helping people. >> he sounded like a really good man, katya. i'm so sorry. >> yes. >> for your loss. i know this is an incredibly hard time to lose your brother, so i thank you for taking the time to speak with us. >> well, i thank you too.

and i hope that this becomes more personal for everybody. all of the patients in the hospital have been without heat for now a week, and they can't be transported. ira can't leave that hospital unless there's an ambulance for her. and that's along with a lot of other patients and people with disabilities. >> incredibly dire situation there. >> so this is a huger crisis than -- humanitarian crisis than we're even realizing. >> absolutely. katya, thank you. we'll be right back. we'll be right back. [copy machine printing] ♪ ♪

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veronica. she's the executive editor of the new voice of ukraine and is joining me now. veronica, great to see you. thank you for joining us on this. i want to read -- >> thank you for having me. >> of course. i want to read from your piece in the "atlantic." it paints a picture of some of your reporting on the ground there. the kremlin knows that the west, despite its public admiration for ukrainian courage, has left ukraine alone on the actual battlefield. people in these countries are scared of world war iii. i understand the fear, but don't you understand that world war iii may have already arrived. you also talk and wonder as you are in the city of kyiv and as this war marches closer and closer to the capital city and closes in on the capital city, that your name will eventually be added to the list of names of people that have died during this war. what is that like?

>> well, that is terrifying, but all we have left is hope, and as everyone sees right now, is that russia finds it very hard to advance in ukraine in the recent days. it was quite successful in the first days of war, but right now, ukrainian armies going into counteroffensive operations on many fronts, including kyiv. just like yesterday, they threw the russians 70 kilometers away at one direction, so yes, i'm afraid that russians might take kyiv, might try to take kyiv again, because it's still their main goal, but as our defense minister says, currently, they

are regrouping their forces, using the fact that there are negotiations ongoing, but still, it doesn't save us all from the russian missiles that hit a residential building, a kindergarten, school, critical infrastructure almost every night in ukraine. not all in kyiv. so, yeah, it's quite scary. >> what is your life like right now? what is a day like? do you have supplies? >> yeah, in kyiv, everything is fine so far. we have, as our authority says, we have stored food enough for 2 million people to survive for two weeks because kyiv is getting ready for all scenarios, including the possible russian blockade. which is currently -- it's not impossible. however, it's going to be very difficult for russians to

achieve, because currently, they are very far from surrounding kyiv and blockading kyiv. their only control the north part of some 20 kilometers of the capital, and also ukrainians are going on counteroffensive. they recently liberated 30 villages in kyiv, so yeah, other roads to kyiv are clear, and the news about kyiv being encircled or besieged are not true. so, we have -- everything is fine right now. >> ukrainians have been fighting so hard. they have sacrificed so much in this war. they have rallied behind your president. you have rallied behind your president. when you think about a diplomatic solution here, these talks of conversations, you

heard zelenskyy obviously calling for a meeting with president putin, with the russian president. are the ukrainians you're speaking to -- do they want a diplomatic solution here? because it seems as if, if one were to be had, it would mean more sacrifice. for ukraine. especially considering the demands of russia right now. >> i think that every normal person wants the war to end, and yes, ukraine is searching for diplomatic solution, and ukrainians want diplomatic solution. however, if you consider russian demands, they are very far from diplomacy. it's basically ultimatums and calls for surrendering, so i don't see any diplomatic path -- diplomatic steps made by russia so far. and i think that after all what russia did with ukraine, our

government just can't, and i think it wouldn't go and satisfy russian demands that are basically unchanged, because, i mean, russia just wants to dictate another country how to live. it wants to take away territories, and it wants to get away with all the mass murders it already committed in ukraine. >> russia's demands, you're saying, are not diplomacy. in fact, for them, to you, it is an ultimatum that they are offering. veronika, thank you so much for all the brave reporting that you are doing from kyiv. and please, please, please, while you are doing that reporting, and living there, stay safe. thank you. so, when social media giant tiktok announced it would be suspending russian users from uploading new videos it was seen as a widespread effort to rail

against vladimir putin's fake news laws and attempts to control the narrative about the war in ukraine. however, minutes after the ban went into effect, russian tiktok users noticed instead that western content was no longer viewable while pro-kremlin, pro-war videos were actually still flooding their feeds. my next guest says this alarming you were the of events is playing right into putin's hands, leaving russian citizens completely in the dark with a vastly different version of the internet than the rest of the world. saying tiktok now runs the risk, by the way, of converting itself into a full-fledged propaganda channel for the kremlin. joining me now is david gilbert, reporter at vice news. thanks for joining us on this. we appreciate it. you referenced this new study by tracking exposed, i should say, throughout your piece and i want to put up some of the key findings from this study. all european and american accounts videos not available in russia, including institutional accounts like the w.h.o., the u.n. as well.

95% of the content previously available to users is now inaccessible and pro-putin and pro-lukashenko accounts are actually still available as well. talk to me about this. >> yeah, thanks for having me on to talk about this, yasmin. as you said, when tiktok initially took this decision, it was seen the by many as kind of another step for silicon valley or the big tech companies to clamp down on disinformation. but it very quickly became clear that what was actually happening was that people inside russia who wanted to see content from outside the country just simply weren't able to do it. and so, what we found was that an investigation by us at vice news found it was actually a coordinated campaign happening around the same time, which saw influencers being paid money or offered money, at least, to post pro-putin and pro-russia videos

talking about how all russians should unite behind the military and how areas like luhansk and dunetsk are part of russia so it seems like the kremlin on one hand was definitely trying to take advantage of tiktok because it's so popular in the country, and at the same time, tiktok's decision to ban all global content meant that there was no counternarrative for those people who were looking for it. >> there's also a china element to all of this, which i find fascinating, considering, obviously, the role of china right now in the conversation between president biden and president xi. you write this. tiktok is owned by chinese company bytedance and the report's author said that the platform's decision to block nonrussian content raises the question of whether beijing forced tiktok's hand. russia seems to be moving towards the chinese model of internet censorship. that's astounding, david.

>> it is. it's quite remarkable, but if you look at what people inside russia are looking at right now in terms of the internet, they don't have access to twitter or facebook. their access to tiktok, which is hugely popular inside the country, is very limited to, as we said, pro-putin content. so, we're very quickly getting to the point where russia is moving itself behind what people have called the digital iron curtain. similar to what china has with the great firewall. but they're totally different systems, but the net result is the same thing, effectively. and as you said, the fact that bytedance, the parent company of tiktok, is the parent company that holds control over this network does just automatically raise questions and while tiktok has repeatedly said that there is a wall between what it does and what bytedance does, we've seen multiple reports of former employees saying that bytedance is the company that holds all the power and they're the ones

who make the decisions, ultimately. >> really fascinating stuff. and great reporting. david gilbert, thank you. we're going to bring you some other news, everybody, making headlines today in just a moment. and tonight, by the way, on ayman, an exclusive interview with former ukrainian prime minister. >> you know, putin's problem is that he believes that he is the new messiah. a new nazi-style leader. and he believes that his mission is to restore the soviet union to, liberate someone from somebody, to grab another part of ukraine to undermine the united states. part of ukraine to undermine the united states. >> tune in to "ayman" tonight for the full conversation, 8:00 eastern on msnbc. t for the full conversation, 8:00 eastern on msnbc (music throughout)

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welcome back. here are some other stories we're following this hour. local authorities confirming today four american troops were killed when a u.s. military aircraft crashed during a training exercise in norway. that training operation called cold response has nato members operate along with norwegian forces under harsh winter conditions. and then in china, health officials reporting the first covid deaths in more than a year in a northeastern province. chinese officials vowing to double down on the zero tolerance policy to contain this surge, instituting travel bans with people needing permission from police to travel across

borders. the oldest member of the current congress, republican don young, has died at the age of 88. the lawmaker first left the congress back in 1973, died while on a trip back to his home state of alaska. congressman young was the longest serving republican in u.s. history. and the gop senate debate in ohio almost getting violent when candidate josh mandell rose from his seat to get in the face of mike gibbons. the two are set to meet for a debate this coming monday. coming up, ukrainians helping ukrainians. some of the nearly 300,000 who have already escaped to hungary are now lending a hand to others in need. lending a hand to others in need. >> couldn't sit and wait and constantly read news. it was driving me crazy, and i thought that the best thing to do is to help.

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now rising to help thousands of new residents, residents who are refugees. >> everything you see here are coming from donations. >> on the outside skirts of the city. they have rushed to transform a office building into a hostel. food and shelter for up to 300 people. >> for example, we have a two-perm bedroom here. this is -- and with their own toilets. >> privacy and comfort, a playroom lets kids' colorful imaginations roam. they helped -- >> around me, we have 110 people here, but during the night, we expect the numb tore go up as the trains from the east will arrive. >> maria arrived with her family by train.

they're staying for a few days, trying to figure out how to get to germany, where they don't have friends or family. >> translator: were going to munich, hoping to get a job there, because it's a big city, so there are a lot of possibilities. >> across town, the workshop restaurant is serving a different need -- fresh, hot meals. right next to the cultural center. >> they have family behints, and they just are lost and they don't know what to do. >> kindness from people who understand, anastacio left her family behind in ukraine two weeks ago. >> just constantly in the news, it was driving me crazy, and i thought that the best thing to do is to help. >> reporter: she's now volunteering at the restaurant.

as families eat, angelina has started a art therapy program. she came to budapest with her two children. her husband is back in ukraine as well. these drawings reveal both children's trauma and truth. >> this boy, and to go -- >> and while across budapest, we found people in need of rebuilding their lives, like the -- the ukrainians we met said they will rise against. >> you can see how ukrainians -- got everything in the world what it means to be a ukraine yang. >> thank you, ali velshi, for that. that wraps it up for me. i'll see you tomorrow. reverend al sharpton, "politics

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good evening. welcome to "politics nation." tonight's lead, the crisis continues. russia's invasion of ukraine is now in its fourth week, and as the fighting intensifies, the humanitarian