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Turning up heat on the sanctions making sure they are being sanctioned in every country. look at what is happening with the ruble and stock market, they are making a recovery. we have to do our bit economically just as the ukrainian armed forces are doing their bit militarily. >> am i right, did you personally travel 1,000 miles to deliver aid to ukrainian refugees near the border? >> thats right. i live in a little town in oxfordshire. i take part in a food project there. we asked people for do...

Has not responded well to large losses of this type. >> part of what we were seeing this weekend as we hear more publicly from what they choose to release of putin are words for his own people. he is dealing with a lot of pushback. thousands of people in jail now for speaking out against this war. their economy is crumbling reportedly. the ruble is worth almost nothing. russian forces are meeting fierce resistance in ukraine and there are rising concerns that putin could employ the use of atomic...

Regrouping, takes a step, back in and lashes back out from a position of weakness to regain strength. >> let me ask you about that crippled russian economy, because we, and our european allies, have been passing more and more, what we think, are crippling economic sanctions. when you look at the russian ruble, its bouncing back. what does that tell you, one? >> i think its dangerous to look at the ruble day-to-day, and uses a measuring stick for effectiveness of sanctions. for a couple of reason...

With russia and therefore were working every day to phase out also with regard to the fossil dependency on russia. >> vladimir putin might have been bluffing when he threatened to shut off gas supply friday unless payment was made in ruble. one european country gave in. and putin backed down. the blow bhak from the economic sanctions. russia pushing for more trade with india. looking for an economic lifeline. foreign minister in india friday meeting there with officials. russia is standing by re...

President vladimir putin. you know, we have already seen that, for example, the russian central bank was able to prop up the currency, basically, with ratcheting up interest rates and putting under strict capital controls, theyve now got the ruble to what it was almost before the war. started. and that helped to ease the pressure off the government quite a bit. knack, now, the government is demanding that all of its energy contracts be paid in rubles. this is something that the european commissi...

Prop up the ruble. a free market would be in a free fall. why dont we sanction all the oil? there is a proposal by a lot of exports if you want to buy oil and gas from russia the money goes to an escrow account. putin wont shut down his oil fields and gas fields. we did the same thing of the iranians. the russians have the choice. get the money if they stop the war in ukraine or the money stays in escrow. why dont we do things like that? this administration, harris, is always one step behind or ...

Able to prosecute his war, however defective in many ways the prosecution has been, and the president said this from the beginning these would be crippling sanctions but take time. i think we are going to see that. you have already seen the value of the ruble go down to almost nothing and now reaching out to countries like china to try to get some assistance economically. so hes -- hes only going to be prosecute the war from a financial perspective only so much longer and that may be, again, may...

You know, the russian ruble is doing fairly well against the dollar. its not really yet impacting putin. he is getting oil revenue. how do you expect to influence him going forward? >> well, i think we have to be very honest in this so difficult situation because we are all humans, and everybody from us is a mother, is a grandmother, is a sister, is a father, is a nephew. and everybody from us wishes that peace would be there tomorrow. but the brutal reality is that putin himself has chosen to d...

Is propping off the rubble, theyre buying rubble. that count political controls, on so you can exchange dollars and euros the way you can normally. theyve raised interest rates, 20%. thats not sustainable long term. so, the ruble is weaker. theres no question. russian economy is going to be shrinking. the reality though, the sanctions regime is not complete. theres a gaping hole in it. thats russian oil and gas. putin has known for a very long time that he can use the oil and gas sector as a swo...

The gas, but its really important to understand its not only germany, its pretty much the whole of europe — especially central europe, eastern europe and some countries that are almost 100% dependent on russian gas deliveries. for germany, of course, being the economic powerhouse in europe, its very important to get the gas to power manufacturing, so in many senses its a big challenge. putin then demanded that from now on his customers had to pay in rubles, which helped him a bit because the r...