let us all commit ourselves to imploring peace from our balconies and in the streets. may the leaders of nations hear people s pleas for peace. eric: arthel. arthel: he has risen. happy easter, everyone. you may have noticed peter easter treats are more expensive this year as inflation hits 40-year high. sky-high prices have holiday shoppers hope to fill baskets. seems like some items have almost doubled and some are like half of a price more. inflation increased 8.5 more than a year ago, 40-year high. the administration acknowledges americans are hurting but passes blame to the pandemic and the war in ukraine. we all agree it s a huge
orthodox easter for many of the ukrainians here is next sunday. this is only palm sunday but obviously the easter message coming from the pope is ringing loud here. it s interesting to be here in the capital because we hear air raid sirens arthel and strikes being stepped up in the area and it s creating a false sense of security, i think, because as people are kind of getting back to normal lives they know they are still very much a target and the entire country at war. arthel: i have some friends who are celebrating orthodox easter, orthodox christians celebrating next sunday but this is a holy day for sure. griff jenkins, be safe, thank you. this is reality today. my family, my friends, my colleagues, they are fearful for their life. i want to advocate for music and for art and for schools but at
any thoughts and your thoughts on this powerful statement by president zelenskyy? yeah. particularly today on easter sunday, look, i spent years tracking russia and vladimir putin in particular and if there s one thing that i learned it s never underestimate the will and the capacity of russia, of the kremlin to inflict massive casualties on innocent civilians to destroy the environment, all to suit the narrow ends of af a corrupt reg, whether it was the soviet union or vladimir putin s russia and that s what we are seeing and we are seeing vladimir putin use own church, the orthodox church as tool to influence russians, russians assessment and and support for the war, contrary to the teachings of
to resupply them and refit them and now we are at the fourth phase of the war which could be arguably the most bloody and disastrous in terms of humanitarian catastrophe and only getting worse day by day. it won t be of any use in a week or two, the russians would have inflicted the onslaught in ukraine and won the war. eric: you can give them helicopters that go straight up, you re not going to give them war plane that is go attack the russians. finally, dan, this is easter and let me read what president zelenskyy said, i do not understand, religious representatives are empowering soldiers to kill ukrainians, i cannot understand how our christian country, largest orthodox community in the world will be killing people on these very days. this is not christian behavior at all as i understand it. on easter they will kill and they will be killed.
it comes as russian forces are preparing for this new offensive in the east donbas region that many worry may be bloodier than anything that we have seen so far. meanwhile, in bucha the horrors continue to roll in. we traveled there yesterday. here is what we found. the stench of death is unbearable here in the church in bucha, you can see the mass grave being excavated and criminal war investigators are pulling body out of the war. the investigators here looking for evidence of war crimes. we spoke to a local priest who said that this community is devastated, that there are men, women and children, innocent civilians who were killed here. we saw a small bag come out, it meant a child was in it. just a snapshot of the horrors that occurred here. these matters are tragic regardless being easter day or