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Russia, women, children and the elderly first, because he claimed the ukrainian army is about to launch an all-out war. >> defies basic logic to believe the ukrainians would choose this moment with well over 150,000 troops on its borders to escalate a year-long conflict. >> reporter: instead, ukraine accuses the separatists, who are armed and led by the kremlin of firing on ukrainian territory in an attempt to bait the ukrainian army into a response. the separatists control an enclave about the ...

Known as "putins wallet," and the insurance company sogaz, partially owned by a close putin ally. some russian oligarchs are calling those sanctions unfair, others now publicly calling for an end to putins war. >> the strategy is to make their lives, which are very comfortable, uncomfortable, by sanctioning them personally and by blocking access to those assets. >> reporter: the wave of punishing financial measures and restrictions unrelenting, with the u.s. closing its airspace to russian fligh...

Nuclear forces on heightened alert by putin, who is advising him and how isolated has vladimir putin become? james longman from moscow tonight. >> reporter: tonight, russia is feeling the shock of western sanctions, growing increasingly isolated from the world. a nation beginning to suffer for one mans war. the wave of economic measures unrelenting. switzerland announcing it will break from its tradition of neutrally to freeze russian assets. and the u.s. now targeting russias central bank. long...

International price up 60%, £3.50 per therm, household energy bills already going up right now for a record. if this conflict lasts weeks or months, but could happen again in the winter. and thats not the end of it. food prices, too, stand to be affected. the conflict is likely to interrupt the supply of green from ukraine which is responsible for one eighth of world supply. wonderful grain. but the economy is also a weapon here, the windpipe before impact ordering fell on the russian currency,...

Exploding all across ukraine and those talks are just getting underway. it looks like the russians are going to ask for a surrender immediately of all the ukraine forces and ukrainianing are likely to ask for a cease-fire and also for russians to pull back there has been heavy fighting not just here in the capital but also in the city of kharkiv as well. heavy street fighting going on there. putin has ratcheted up the anti-entirely saying putting nuclear forces on high alert the u.s. and west ha...

Take. >> colonel, thank you for joining us. mosheh, thank you as well. the ruble is plunging because of economic sanctions. and well talk to a journalist on the on the ground in kharkiv. what he is seeing in the tunnels coming up. youre watching msnbc. up. youre watching msnbc.

Bit of a fight back in the ruble. we have gained ground versus the dollar but not nearly to the extent of the falls that we saw earlier so were seeing a little bit of stabilization not only in the ruble but broader assets. theres no doubt about it. the russian stocks, the stocks that reflect the companies that are targeted by the sanctions, they have been hit very hard in the stocks in which they are list the outside of russia but as you mentioned the moscow stock exchange not open for trade. >>...

Likely. in fact, its starting to happen. their currency has already crashed to record low. hyper inflation is on the horizon. russians are actively making a run on the banks. trying to withdrawal all their money while they still can. even the russian states biggest money makers have become a sinking ship like oil companies, gas who shares plunge almost in half thanks to boycotts from western countries. and putins out of silver bullets, too. now that the west froze central banks reserves. putin h...

Mit security studies program. so first if you could, liz, break down how this works? how sanctions could impact putin, the ruble, his economy as well as his oligarchs? could? it already is pretty want to make a moment the stock exchange open about nine and half hours its going to be widely watched because it could plummet even further than it did on thursday but down a third of a percent because of what we saw yesterday specifically yesterday would confirm that russia would be kicked off at leas...

About 500,000 to 600,000 of the separatists have russian passports. they use the ruble. this is a russian-speaking area. so they are very much connected to russia, backed by russia. there are about 3,000 russian troops inside the area and that number may have gone up. there is an open border between russia and the separatist areas and in addition to about 30,000 local fighters. and if there were to be a conflict here, that separate areas would very likely be involved or used as a pretext, which ...