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By his military struggles and he may see his only option as doubling down on violence as well as lashing out at under links and the worldwide condemnation of his actions. tough sanctions left russias economy and the ruble in free fall with banks at risk of failure as russian citizens try to withdrawal their savings. russias stock market remains closed for the week. the russian dictator badly miscalculate his ukrainian counterpart volodymyr zelenskyy that made an emotional speech from his homelan...

May well decide to put in these sanctions. we imagine the west has will come to us and say russia has survived this before. they are saying these sanctions are in their words illegitimate. the russian ambassador has said this will have no effect on russia has survived this previously and it will rebound onto the us and western economies instead. others have already pointed out there is already an impact of president putins decision to recognise these areas. we have seen a dramatic decline in the...

Up in that region. theyve been involved in something like trench warfare there the last eight years. its been a static battlefield where very little has been happening. we have to remember, 14,000 ukrainians have been killed in this conflict, not else inially against russian regulars. theyre still essentially ukrainian soldiers, but theyre russian speakers and theyre backed by russia, theyre separatists. these are people who speak russian, use the russian ruble, but, you know, im in a city where...

Of further measures, like sanctioning russian oil and gas all that seems to have created a lot of volatility in the global markets? >> yes, certainly in the last 24 hours. the russian ruble hit yet another record low. it was i believe at 8 -- 8 -- 118 to the dollar. there we go. its come back a little bit. also, oil, brent and wti hitting new multiyear record highs yesterday morning. they have come back little bit as well. markets very concerned actually that oil and gas could be targeted by san...

Is something a little different about this one. >> matt, let me ask you quickly and we have about 30 seconds left, thed announcement from t u.s. that there will be strong sanctions imposed on russia, likelyti to cripple the economy there. you live in russia. talk to us a little bit about how that message has been received by ordinary russians and more importantly by the kremlin, what do we anticipate the russian response to be to the announcing of these strong sanctions as president biden descri...

To their survival. also were seeing russian aircraft banned. eu, canada, other countries in the days ahead. a full sense of why the effect has been so dramatic. the ruble just cratering over the course of the last couple of days. obviously, increasingly isolated from the world economy. russia had its lowest day on the stock market on friday. today its closed. weve seen the lines in moscow of people trying to get their money out. thats expected to only increase as the sanctions are fully implemen...

Uae. >> reporter: youre right. state media is our best window as to what the russian media want the russian people to know and not know. what is not on the news is this announcement from vladimir putin that he has put the countrys nuclear forces on high alert, which is interesting because it is getting so much attention around the world. it is aimed at an international audience, not an audience here at home. the main theme is that the russian government has the foreign currency reserves it needs...

Impact on the russian economy? >> yeah, bhiwhit, theyre tryino look for ways to cut the russian government off from the international financial system and make sure that the sanctions they already put in place hurt, first, like you said, after a lot of political pressure theyre announcing theyre cutting off key russian banks from the s.w.i.f.t. system. that helps large banks send international transactions and second, this is a big one, too. the white house said they will put some restirikds on ...

Russias defense space and maritime centers. in total, the united states and our partners will effectively be cutting off more than half of all high-tech imports going into russia, this includes curbing russias access to advanced semiconductors and other foundational technologies that russia needs to diversify and modernize its economy. working in tandem these financial sanctions and the export controls will undercut his aspirations to project power on the world stage. those impacts intensified d...

The biggest story on the world stage that weve all covered in a very long time indeed and the consequences are likely to be far reaching. tragically as the russians resort to ever more crude and brutal tactics to try to subjugate and bring down the ukrainian government, the cost in civilian casualties is the likelihood of great atrocities and the results will only grow further isolating russia, bringing on further sanctions against that country. its economy has already been jolted seriously by t...