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Singing in ukrainian. 0utnumbered and outgunned, this small defending force has become a potent symbol for ukraine. they may never surrender — but their families are praying they'll at least get a chance to leave alive. laura bicker, bbc news, dnipro. the white house has announced a new multi—billion dollar package of military aid for ukraine that will include artillery, munitions, and radars. president biden said the existing funding for ukraine was "nearly exhausted" and urged us congress to pass his proposed assistance package worth 33—billion dollars to — as he put it — �*stren...

And certainly not to support china and be on the wrong side of history in terms of any military assistance to china as it wages an unjustified war against the peeople of ukraine. >> secretary of state antony blinken is calling on senators to quickly affirm state department nominees who are vital to helping ukraine battle russia's onslaught. some of these are key positions to help with the refugee crisis going on. 3.2 million have fled ukraine. that's the latest numbers. you say that the delay in confirming these nominees is like helping putin. so does that mean that you believe the senators wh...

Department with one of those nominees that i went to the floor to ask consent to confirm, he passed bipartisan out of the committee and don't we want the sanctions coordinator as our strongest weapon against putin and his economy in this unjust war to be on site working? don't you want the assistant secretary of refugees and migration when we've had, as you've pointed out, 3.2 million ukrainian refugees and probably more to be added to that dynamic. don't we want the assistant administrator for europe, usaid that could help with the assistance to deal with the migration, the forced migration o...

Report to flynn. we also have the former sanctions coordinator who left when he felt president trump was trying to lift sanctions on russia. >> you chart back then businessman donald trump's connections to russians. what were the interactions you found there? >> the first clear he will elicit action was 1984. there was a russian mobster in trump tower, bought five condos from trump directly and it was ruled that that was money laundering, and you see dependents of it happening throughout the 80s and 90s. he starts getting in gettidebt,g through bankruptcies, and then the russian mafia start wo...

Where it kill. i think so far think the trumpet ministration has done a good job with this our was these sanctions coordinator for the obama administration and so i work closely with germany and other european countries putting together the obama set of sanctions i think what the trump people have done is a strong move i applaud them for it they want they've gone after not the russian economy but against principly russian oligarchs close to putin i think that's the right move and they've gone after the companies these oligarchs on but they've avoided some dumb moves they didn't go after the ga...