Holocaust survivor, 96, is killed in Ukraine: LIVE UPDATES

The U.S. government needs to stop listening to Russia's Vladimir Putin, Rep. Dan Crenshaw told "Jesse Watters Primetime" Monday.

Crenshaw said that too often, America's leaders are reactionary to Putin's considerations and definitions of what constitutes direct U.S. involvement in Ukraine, which could trigger NATO Article V and lead to World War III.

The Biden administration has appeared cautious so as not to provoke a Russian response directly toward NATO states, but that tact has been conversely criticized by Ukrainian officials who are calling for more specific assistance.

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Dozens of Ukrainian children have already been killed and up to six million more are in "imminent danger" as Russian forces continue their assault on Ukrainian cities, the humanitarian organization Save the Children warned Monday. 

"We are extremely alarmed by reports that bombs and intense shelling have damaged more than 460 schools across the country, and over 60 now lay in complete ruins," Pete Walsh, Save the Children’s Country Director in Ukraine, said in a statement on Monday. "School should be a safe haven for children, not a place of fear, injury or death."

Ukrainian authorities said Sunday that Russian forces bombed an art school sheltering 400 people in Mariupol, a port city on the Azov Sea that has been under siege for weeks. 

"To do this to a peaceful city, what the occupiers did, is a terror that will be remembered for centuries to come," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday evening. "The more Russia uses terror against Ukraine, the worse the consequences for it."

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Pro-Kremlin newspaper Pravda was reportedly hacked when it posted large casualty numbers for Russian troops in Ukraine.

A story featured on the website reported that the Russian military has seen 9,861 people killed and 16,153 wounded during its invasion of Ukraine, but the outlet quickly deleted the figured and later claimed they were posted a result of hacking.

It is not clear the source of the numbers that were posted, with Russia having not released a figure since acknowledging that 498 of their forces had been killed during what they continue to call a "special operation in Ukraine."

Fox News' Thomas Ferraro contributed to this report.

As Russia continues its deadly assault on Ukraine, a small group of American veterans is rescuing the country's orphans in areas under attack and bringing them to safety.

The children are being brought from the heart of the war zone to Lviv in western Ukraine where they are screened and evaluated. Many have had to fend for themselves amid a lack of power, food and cold temperatures in the midst of repeated Russian airstrikes.  

More than 460 orphans have been rescued so far, said Jeremy Locke, a retired Army Green Beret and the chief operations officer for the Aerial Recovery Group, a team of battle-tested U.S. veterans leading the mission.

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President Biden attempted to dispel the belief that Ukraine is fighting Russia without sophisticated equipment, arguing they have what they need to effectively fight the invasion.

“The idea that they don’t have enough sophisticated equipment is just simply not accurate," Biden said during remarks at the Business Roundtable quarterly meeting Monday. "They have every piece of equipment that makes rational sense based on our military and NATO’s military, for them to be able to do what they’re doing.

"They’re wreaking havoc on the on the Russian military, whether it’s their tanks or their helicopters or their aircraft.”

Biden's comments come as many have continued for the U.S. to allow for the transfer of MiG fighter jets from Poland to Ukraine, a move the administration has not backed down from arguing is too risky to be perceived as escalatory by the Russians.

Project Dynamo, a group of U.S. veterans and civilians who have helped Americans and allies escape Afghanistan and Ukraine, rescued retired Sgt. 1st Class Robert "Bob" Platt, Platt's wife, and the couple's cats from a town northeast of Kyiv on Saturday night. 

Platt lived in a town that put him "squarely behind enemy lines with, no kidding, Russians in his backyard and tanks parked on his street," Project Dynamo co-founder Bryan Stern told Fox News Digital. 

Operatives on the ground planned to evacuate Platt and his family on Thursday, but the team came under Russian artillery fire when they were just five miles away from Platt and had to turn back.

"Bob had told me, he says, 'Look, Brian, it's too hot here. You need to go. Just leave. We'll be in Russian-occupied Ukraine,'" Stern said of his conversations with Platt last week. "And I said, ‘This is the deal. We don't leave our people behind, not happening. You have two very simple jobs: Stay positive and stay alive. Leave the rest to me.’"

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An expert on Russia and Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that President Biden is "playing our very strong hand in a very weak way" by squandering the power of the United States to deter Russian aggression.

Rebekah Koffler, who is a former DIA intelligence officer and author of "Putin’s Playbook: Russia’s Secret Plan to Defeat America," told Fox News Digital that the Russians understand the conflict in Ukraine as a proxy war between Russia and the United States.

"We are on a geopolitical collision course with Russia," she said. "Our national interests are irreconcilable, the way that both countries define them."

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Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said that the U.S. has seen "clear evidence" that Russian forces have committed war crimes in Ukraine.

"We see clear evidence that the Russians are committing war crimes," Kirby said during Monday's press briefing, adding that the U.S. is helping with the collection of evidence to document that crimes.

Kirby declined to speak to what the repercussions or what the U.S. response would be to the war crimes.

Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said Monday that Russia is still struggling to meet their objectives on the ground in Ukraine and have stepped up their bombardment of Ukrainian cities.

"We’re on day 26, the Russians clearly have not achieved many or almost all of the objectives they were setting out to achieve," Kirby said. "When you look at what they have managed to do in 26 days, it’s not that impressive."

Kirby said Ukrainians are fighting bravely to keep hold of cities, pointing to the besieged city of Mariupol and noting that it still has not fallen into Russian hands.

“They have failed to achieve a lot of their objectives," Kirby said. "Because they are stalled… they are stepping up their long range fires… they are lobbing an awful lot of hardware into these cities to force their surrender."

Kirby noted that the increased bombardment is resulting in more civilian casualties and damage to key infrastructure such as schools and hospitals, arguing the shelling has been "largely indiscriminate."

He also lauded how the Ukrainian military has maximized its resources to prevent Russian forces from gaining air superiority, saying that the Pentagon assesses that Russia still does not have control of the sky after 26 days.

Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said Monday that Russia has continued an effort to recruit foreign fighters, particularly from the Middle Eastern countries such as Syria, to join the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

While that effort remains ongoing, Kirby cautioned that they have not seen any movement or influx of groups of foreign fighters into Ukraine.