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And phase out russian oil completely before the end of the decade. a daunting goal since europe relies much more heavily on energy imports from russia. meanwhile, in moscow, the russian stock market remains closed for the eighth consecutive business day with the ruble in free fall. oren liebermann, cnn at the pentagon. >> well, ukraines first lady is accusing russia of carrying out the mass murder of civilians, and she is extremely worried about the suffering of refugees. olena zelenska posted a...

Of it. he is rejuvenating nato. the organization, database does not make any sense for the very organization has been undermining for over 20 years and trying to weaken. his actions here are going to strengthen nato. we are finally going to have more of an effective deterrent in eastern europe. something he is fundamentally opposed to. and giving the sanctions to take place at a think more serious ones to come actually, the people and russia whose economy is already suffering with unemployment, ...

Quickly. it was thursday president biden was asked why s.w.i.f.t. wasnt included in that original. he said frankly, european leaders were not ready to make that first step. they are now ready to respond to russia. trying to take restrictive mercedess and stop reserves and something like 600 billion and waves of sanctions from western countries to knock off the ruble. this came after president biden met with national security.

Warning. and again, switzerland never does. that so, its not like they wouldve anticipated it was gonna happen and move their stuff out before they could get hit. that kind of surprising action, that unifying face in the western world. that has to be heartening. . if you are ukrainian. or if you support ukraine and what theyre going through. but, the other side of that is this desperation this may create on the part of putin. on the part of the mad man who started this whole nightmare. hes not w...

Moscow stock exchange the latest opening to 3:00 p.m. local today. russia central bank nearly doubled its target interest rate to 20%. a move designed to halt inflation is the value of the ruble has dropped 30% to the u.s. dollar this morning. the european union says it will finance half a billion dollars in weapons for ukraine. that is the first time its done that for a country under attack. the e.u. is also sending fighter jets. the e.u. is banning russia state media outlets and closing your r...

Ukraine needs to defend itself, get in the hands of ukrainians who are doing that. having said that, one of the things that we talked about at length today in our various meetings at nato and the e.u., was what more we can do and how to do it effectively. i would add that i think as you any, foreign minister caleba came into our meetings by voide. we heard from him. were working on all of that every single day. were also a week and change into this horrific war wrought by russia. weve had alread...

$630 billion hes been saving since the last time he invaded ukraine. that rainy day fund isnt accessible to him. the united states is cutting off the dollar part, the e.u. cutting off the euro part, the u.k. cutting off, dont know if he can get his hands on the gold. thats what he would do to keep the country afloat. now that has been taken away from him. the government central bank doubled interest rates to 20% today. the stock exchange was closed today, and it will be closed tomorrow. the rubl...

And its a run on cash, going to the atms, food prices doubling there because people are trying to buy whatever is on the shelves. its wartime. it is wartime officially. >> and the ruble has crashed. >> yeah. go ahead. >> the ruble has crashed, their stock market hasnt opened for days because they know its going to fall hard and its quite difficult for its central bank to do anything right now. it raised interest rates from 20% to 9.5% so that will fall squarely on russian citizens as well. every...

He lost the recent election to the parliament, over two-thirds voted against his party. he actually started this war in order to increase his approval. because he needed this crimea annexation eight years ago. second, now this war is hitting everyone. theres an exchange rate of russian ruble going down by 40% over the last two days. its -- its also an economic disaster. so then people -- when we show that people are ready to participate, and more people will see and participate, and hopefully, a...

Derapisco, a lieutenant in 2016, has come out publicly against the war and protests. over 6,000 people arrested why thats not a lot in a large population but the risk that the people are taking when they do protest it is extraordinary. of course, the sanctions are biting i think more -- been much more hurtful to the russian economy than anybody thought. a guy came up to me with a joke and said you know what the difference is between a dollar and the ruble? the answer is a dollar. the ruble is wo...