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So, are there more steps that we can take? absolutely, and tomorrow the g7 will announce a new quite powerful round of sanctions, including aimed at countries that are trying to back fill the products that are denied them from these sanctions. so, you will see as time goes on the continued erosion of the quality and capacity of the russian economy, even as vladimir putin races to spend money in an effort to prop it up. >> let's now talk about china. we have a another audience member who's here in d. c., joseph ogundeyi is a project manager at a nonprofit. he has the floor with a question for j...

That the people get fired, that they get prosecuted. and what's amazing about this last year's at the same time people like oleg have been fighting in the trenches, the fight against corruption has been continuing. -- has been continue to pass laws on whistle blower protection and aid procurement, subhuman is more visible to ukrainians, but also to the rest of us. and that fight as they continue alongside the military fight. >> i want to bring in artem kulyk he is an interpreter for the international rescue committee. he's a native ukrainian. artem, you have a question for the national securit...

So, it's something we watch very closely. president biden has a simple message to send when he talks to president xi. china should not be supporting the russian war effort, because the russian war effort is all about trying to destroy and subjugate in neighbor, in violation of every principle of human decency and every principle of international law. and that is a message that not only the united states is carrying, but countries around the world are carrying. as samantha said earlier, 141 countries today voted to condemn this war and to show that the vast majority of the world recognizes what...

In this country who believe that the east of ukraine is essentially russian territory. historically russian territory, there's a lot of people who believe that territory was infringed upon by the united states, by nato, and that somehow, this conflict now is one between russia and the west. and specifically, between russia and the united states. so, right now, there's no public pressure on vladimir putin to end this war. and it certainly does not seem as though he's inclined to do so anytime soon, fareed. >> and fred, what is life like day-to-day for russians? do they feel the war in any sense...

>> so, will they get fighter jets? >> when it comes to f-16s, this is important for the current phase of the war. this point is important for the current phase of the war. which is they're about to mount a significant counteroffensive. from our perspective, f-16s are not the key capability for that offensive. it is the stuff that we are moving rapidly to the front lines now. f-16s are not a question for the short term fight. f-16s our question for the long term defense of ukraine. and that's a conversation that president biden and president zelenskyy had. >> we will be back in a moment to talk...