And good morning and welcome to Morning Joe. It is Tuesday, March 1st. We are in Washington this morning ahead of President Biden's first state of the union address tonight. And with us on set, we have columnist, an associate editor for the Washington Post, David Ignatius, MSNBC contributor,

Katty K, and U.S. national editor at the Financial Times, Ed Luce.

Willie Geist is in New York, along with the host of way too early and White House peer chief at Politico, Jonathan Lemire.

Let's dive right in.

Russian forces are bearing down on the Ukrainian capital as new satellite images show that they are just 17 miles away from the center of the city.

The images released by Maxar Technologies yesterday showed a 40-mile-long convoy of hundreds of Russian tanks and artillery approaching Kiev.

The photos also showed developments of ground forces and attack helicopter units in southern Belarus.

Yeah, much you get to. Let's just keep those pictures up for a second.

David Ignatius is extraordinarily frustrating for Americans and people

across the West to see this, a slow-moving train of death to Kiev, when, of course,

everybody in this country understands we can't do anything in Ukraine without launching, or most

understand, without starting World War III,

at the same time, we're watching in slow motion a humanitarian crisis develop that we could

literally take care of in 15 minutes by scrambling jets and wipe them, wipe, wipe this entire

convoy off the face of the earth.

We can't do that.

But the question is, why can't the Ukrainians with the migs that they're getting from the EU?

Why can't anybody do anything about this slow approaching humanitarian nightmare?

The answer, Joe, must be that their forces have been degraded so far to the point that they're

not capable of taking the action on what, as you say, is an obvious sitting target.

If we can see it in these photographs we're looking at, so can the Ukrainians.

Like you, I wake up every morning these days

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