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Russian forces are moving closer to Odessa, Ukraine, the third-largest city in the country. Nick Paton Walsh reports on how citizens are preparing.

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Russian forces took control of the Zaporizhzhia plant, Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, Friday after shelling sparked a fire and fears of nuclear meltdown. Clint Watts discusses.

NATO has warned that there will "more deaths, more suffering and more destruction" in coming days in Ukraine.

The alliance's Secretary-General, Jens Stoltenberg, said this was "President Putin's war" and called for him to withdraw all troops from Ukraine without conditions.

Former White House chief of staff Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, now a senior fellow at Hoover Institute and author of "Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World," spoke to CBS News about why he believes Vladimir Putin provoked a conflict to test the NATO alliance.

Pentagon Press Secretary Jack Kirby joins Morning Joe to discuss Russian forces taking control of Zaporizhzhia, Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, and how the U.S. is helping Ukrainian armed forces.

Amid the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, Putin spoke to French President Macron. Macros said that the worst is yet to come as Putin wants to take all of Ukraine.

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President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has spoken out about the conflict in Ukraine.

She said Europe was seeing "destructIon and displacement not seen since darkest days of last century".

The US believes a 40-mile-long Russian military convoy outside of Kyiv is “stalled,” a senior US defense official says.

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