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On top of, that the russian ruble has collapsed. russians are left scrambling to figure out how to style which their financial situations. its not just fees and mastercard. many other countries across many other industries have cut ties with russia since the invasion began. this includes international automakers like ford, toyota, volkswagen. theyve announced that they will be suspending operations and halting exports and or imports in russia. technology giants like apple, samsung, and microsoft...

Of how the country will -- what the mood and attitude of the country will be. i know theyve been kind of bracing for the next shoe to drop here for a while. will this be seen as that next shoe dropping and what will that feel like there on the ground among the people you spend a lot of time with? >> so, there are already russian troops in this area. the only difference is they have not been acknowledged by. by most accounts, there are about 3,000 troops, maybe there are more right now, but as of...

>> does the money matter to putin at this point? >> i dont think it really matters to him personally. sanctioning him personally are more symbolic than effective. the ruble is already starting to crash. it has been sliding since the very first inflation of ukraine in 2014. i think the issue is that russians are going to suffer, the average russians, even people against the war. you saw protests, for example, in st. petersburg and moscow where protesting is extremely danger. there was an 18-year-...

Russia is facing gracing fall over the invasion of ukraine. the russian ruble has plunged 30% against the dollar as of this morning. as the u.s. and its allies are placing its toughest sanctions yet on to moscow and some western businesses are cutting ties with russia as well. including british energy giant bp which off-loaded its nearly 20% stake in a russian controlled oil company. vp saying that russias military action represents a fundamental change, that will have tragic consequences across...

On the ground. nbcs cal perry and lviv, ukraine. and rough sanchez in moscow. how, you are in a war zone, youve been there for a week. what are people telling you? i think we just lost cows audio. so rough take us to moscow. for people in russia they are now facing a ruble worth less than a penny. and with every passing day their country is more cut off from the rest of the world. >> yeah, stephanie, ordinary russians are finding their economic reality is turning upside down. as the ruble collap...

Through polls, they still have their own currency but as of now are ruble is worthless. the ruble crash today. literally down to zero. a rule now is worth less than a penny. their national credit rating is downgraded officially to john. russia has one industry oil and gas, but their oil and gas technology is terrible. in part because the companies are terribly run by putin cronies who run them like organized crime families. that basically run them like gangsters. russias oil and gas industry is ...

And said if you impose maximum cost on food and theres more that we can do. notably his counterpart in the foreign committee on the foreign relations committee, jim wright, agreed with them. so there is bipartisan support for doing more. >> exactly. i think the biden administration has a problem where they are leading from behind but in the worst way. because we have a crisis in europe where theyre trying to get everybody on board before they do anything. now is the time for american leadership....

Anticipated. that the number of sanctions, that the depth of them has been greater. they have built more quickly. that germans and others have joined on. and you saw what happened with the ruble. the russians had to close their stock market for takes on end. oil companies have pulled out. so this damage is long lasting. he has only one wake to strike back at our financial system, and thats cyber. he doesnt have the ability to do what we can do to his by manipulating the fact that we have one of ...

Interesting ali, the russian state media regulator told russian media outlets that they are not too allowed to refer to this as a war or an invasion or an attack. the term the russian government preferss special operation, and any deviants from that line is being censored. ill tell you ayman, theres a growing sense of alarm in moscow about those economic sanctions that the u.s. and its european allies are said they will move along with. news that russia might be partially kicked off the swift ne...

Conversations might be happening. i suspect the russians would want those conversations to happen because that would put pressure on the west about those supply lines, about supporting the ukrainians. thats the kind of detail when you get into conflict, when you get into war that can matter a great deal. >> keir simmons in moscow, thank you very much, keir. nbcs cal perry in ukraine, thank you as well. joe and mika, theres the military miscalculation by putin, theres the disinformation loss he...