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The latest sanctions launched by the eu. >> good morning. this is what central banks do. they control inflation. its one of their major job. its a java federal bank. the ruble is under absolute pressure from the sanctions that have been correlated between the u.s. government and western governments right now. its an attempt by the central bank to try to stop some of the problems. the ruble falling about 30% against the value of a dollar just this morning. major problems as the war rages on and u...

Christine roman joins us now. theyre surgical, meant to be crushing and certainly having an effect. >> the russian economy is reeling under the weight of the global response to vladimir putins six days of invasion. you look at the crash in the ruble, less than a penny. no end in sight to that because, look, also been directly sanctioned. that would be the body that would step in and intervene to try to protect the ruble and doesnt have much fire power. the bank interest rates to 20%, imagine if ...

Him and have thrived under vladimir putin and how -- when they turn away from this situation. youve got the market in russia is closed, completely shut down until march 5. my guess is theyll have to move the date further out. you look at the impact on u.s. markets and the fact that the ruble is down dramatically down 30%. in every way he is being cut off. i also keep thinking what president xi thinks when he watches this, right? the person he stood up and had this alliance announced with before ...

We are fighting just for our land and for our freedom. nobody is going to break us. we are strong. we are ukrainians. do prove you are with us. do prove that you will not let us go, and then life will win over death and light will win over darkness. >> meanwhile, u.s. intelligence agencies say russian president vladimir putin is frustrated both with his military as it struggles to take ukraine and with the world as countries cut russia off from world markets. with the ruble in free fall our crew...

Aggression. the white house just announced that the u.s. is also expanding sanctions, new steps focusing on russias central bank. already western sanctions are sending the value of russias currency, the ruble, to historic lows. this crisis is obviously defining the early contours of president bidens second year in office, especially as he prepares to give that first state of the union address. that will take place tomorrow night. will this crisis spotlight a larger bottle, protecting democracy i...

Bret: the russian invasion began rattling the stock market causing big swings on wall street but lets bring in fox news contributor jonathan. you need some tomes or something for the back-and-forth we saw this past week. >> yes, bret baier tremendous by the type of volatility is not even ended yet. early indications the markets going to drop our own market about 500 points with the news russia has been excluded from the swift system the banking system so a lot of analysts are looking for some ma...

Max is the moscow bureau chief for the financial times e. joins me now from moscow. we only spoke a couple of hours ago, but new developments. what does this increase in interest rates tell us about the impact that these sanctions are having on moscow? >> well, this is going to be absolutely dramatic because its going to enormously increase the cost of imported goods in russia. its going to cause enormous headaches for anyone who has a loan or mortgage because your prices just -- your rate is ju...

This scene here moments ago the united nations general assembly overwhelmingly voting to condemn russias invasion of ukraine, and you see there a rare standing ovation from the general assembly chambers. also today the kremlin conceding western sanctions are dealing, quote, serious blows to russias economy. moscow kept the stock market closed for a third consecutive day. the ruble continues to slump. with me now to share insights and expertise the former u.s. ambassador to nato. grateful for you...

Economy very hard. >> the ruble is under absolute pressure falling 30%. >> russian president vladimir putin piewts nuclear forces on high alerted. >> this is truly a nightmare scenario that would start a global third world war. ♪ >> it is 2:00 in the afternoon in ukraine. we begin this hour of fox news alerts with peace talks that are happening right now at a table between russia and ukraine. >> brian: all right. the negotiations come because russian president vladimir putin puts his nuclear f...

That apparently the city is encircled. how does that complicate things for the residents of kyiv? >> for the residents of kyiv, its going to be a couple of really, really rough days and if you think about it, they have had rough days, but where the russian army is, theyre going to have to either understand that theyre going to have to go house by house in kyiv and potentially lose a lot of men, or theyre going to start doing really hard shelling in the hopes to have destroying the resistance. ei...