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Of civilians inside ukraine. joining us now, former naval intelligence officer john jordan. john, a lot of information coming there from jake sullivan except for sullivan would not tell us exactly what those new sanctions will look like. give us, if you will, a preview of what you think we might see in the form of sanctions in the president's trip to brussels. well, first of all, we're going to see sanctions going downward in russian society. emphasis to date has been on oligarchs, but now we're moving down to members of the parliament and the duma and i hope into members of the siloviki, whic...

Relatively quiet. people out getting coffee, shopping. in some ways it's hard to tell you about it. president biden expected to announce a new round of sanctions after he arrives in belgium. the target? members of russia's parliament. u.s. has already sanctioned some members of the duma. the upcoming announcement will expand that list. >> one of the key elements of that announcement will focus not just on adding new sanctions but on ensuring there is joint effort to crack down on sanctions busting on any attempt by any country to help russia basically undermine, weaken or get around the sanc...

Very quick legislation passing through the duma. the bbc rightly paused its operations in order to give us a chance to look at that legislation and ensure that our staff could operate freely and safely in the country. and we have resumed our broadcasting the early part of this week, in english only, from moscow in the light of the legal and operational advice that we've taken. but of course, the provision of free and independent information is not in any sense an attack on the russian state. it's simply part of the world service mission, as it has been for a number of decades. and, you know, e...

The u.s. announced new sanctions today against russia. targeting hundreds of members of the duma, russia's parliament and at least 40 defense companies. the u.s. and western allies making moves to try to blunt russia's attempts to prop up its ailing economy, finding ways around the sanctions. senior international correspondent joins me now. great to see you. you had a long stretch in moscow. talk about the sanctions and how effective these are against the duma. do they have it held in crypto and eps wear? >> reporter: they do. we're way past the period where sanctions were targeted particular,...

Sanction 300 russian politicians seems to be an effort to prevent russia from trying to squirrel away from some of these sanctions. how significant are these latest developments? >> well, it's interesting that they went after the duma, the members of the parliament because they're the decisionmakers. of course, many european countries had already done that. but i think the real behind the scenes conversation here in brussels has really been about how you ultimately choke off the one last big piece of revenue that the russians have coming in. and that's for its sale of gas to europe, particular...