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Russia vetoed a united nations security council resolution that condemned the country's invasion of ukraine. drawing a scathing response from the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. >> you can veto this resolution, but you cannot veto our voices. you cannot veto the truth. and you will not veto accountability. >> reporter: back in kyiv, as civilians take up arms, prepared to defend their country, some families are leaving. many by car, and others by train. thousands trying to get out. officers fired warning shots to disburse the crowd. for others, the city's metro has become a shelter. terrified resid...

Territory. >> reporter: now, those troops will not be fighting in ukraine. they will not be fighting against russia in ukraine. they are to shore up a nato ally, so if the u.s. and nato are not going to put boots on the ground in ukraine, the next best thing, according to the ukrainians is more aid and military equipment that they sorely need against the russian equipped military. two dozen nations offering more support including the u.s., with $350 million that will be going to ukraine. we are learning just now that some of that will include anti-tank and anti-aircraft capabilities that are s...

Heat and you have unemployment start to rise. that's what we saw in 1973 in response to the opec oil embargo, and that really triggered a bad recession in the mid-1970s, yet an inflationary spiral that we couldn't get out of, so you lose both your jobs and lose living standards because you're paying higher prices at the same time. >> reporter: how to position yourself for that, swunk offers a potential strategies. if you can do it, pay down debt, especially credit card debt. put off high ticket purchases, if you can, and also resist the temptation to hoard, remember the toilet paper crisis of ...

Here in the east, and actually come of the fiercest fighting is north of where i am in the second largest city of kharkiv, that's where i was yesterday morning, and that's where we're seeing another push, another access of defense by the russians against the ukrainians. so, you know, there's a three pronged offensive here from two points from the north, one from the south, and really, it's incredible, alex, that the ukrainian military has not yet been overwhelmed. the fact is, according to these two intelligence assessments, the russians still have not taken any appreciably large part of any u...

Joining us from moscow. the message from there, and the kremlin. what's the latest and is it clear that russia plans to keep this military offensive going? is there any prospect of negotiation to put a stop to this? >> reporter: no sign of negotiations at this stage, alex, certainly some -- a notable piece of news from the russian ministry of defense claiming, and i'm just going to quote this, it is highly likely that was american uavs, american drones that directed ukrainian boats on the flat see ships of russia. the russian ministry offense claiming as it says highly likely that american dro...