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And as the administration describes it, these individuals have enriched themselves. basically, at the expense of the russian people, and some have elevated their family members into high-ranking positions. others, they sit at top of russia's largest companies, and are responsible for providing the resources necessary to support putin's invasion of ukraine. but here's the question, how effective are these sanctions? and is there any real way that these sanctions are ultimately going to sway putin's mind? joining me now, professor angela stent, she's the director of the center for eurasia and ru...

Saying, talk to the world. please let the world know what's putin's doing to assist it genocide. we don't want to surrender. we just want to be able to go back to where it's warm, where there's heat and electricity. so that is the same for the state of mariupol. it is in the southeast of ukraine. it supports city. it has been under heavy siege from the russians for the last seven days. i don't have that many acquaintances there, but a sister and other member of parliament is there with her son. and today, the russians promised to provide for humanitarian corridor, to allow for women and childr...

Up at night, as they play this kind of free dimensional chess as to how reserve reverse course? >> china has already begun on the trump administration with sanctions on russia and a trade war with china. he has made his choice, and his choices now to be with china. so i don't think that has much of an impact. but what does has an impact, he said all of these sanctions threaten the existence of the russian state. so he can then use that as an excuse to escalate and retaliate. and also, tell the russian people, because these sanctions are affecting them as well. they can't get money out of the a...

The u.s. sanctions list, and of course, this past week, this 500 foot yacht, half a billion dollar worth, was just seized by german authorities. tell me a little bit about who these guys are, and what do they have to do with this putin in the war, at this point, if anything? >> so some of these people got rich on the yeltsin. some of these people got rich andra putin. so -- so they have remained very rich. there was a deal in the 1990s when nelson was about to lose an ♪ ♪ ♪ election, that these now oligarchies gave him a lot of money to get reelected, and then in return they were given a...

Horrific then, more terrible than what we have faced so far. >> as you've probably heard, and we're almost out of time, but i wanted to ask you. as you've probably heard, nato and the united states and european countries have said they will not participate in a no-fly zone, because they do not want to get into a direct military confrontation with russia. as a member of the ukrainian parliament, what is your response when you hear that? do you feel that you're being abandoned by europe and nato? >> so as simple as that, in 1994, ukraine gave out voluntarily its use nuclear weapon potential. we ...