economy, which have affected broad swath of the population. we have seen it along atm lines. clearly, the average russian has been hurting from the sanctions. i think these moves that we see now and by president biden of the united states, the demonstration now is not just average russians. middle class russians. who will feel the pain of putin s unprovoked war it is the very wealthiest russians who will have their like taken from them. and lawrence, just a couple of weeks ago, there was doubt around the world about germany s willingness to cancel the pipeline. about germany s willingness to impose sanctions on russia. to make good on these all a guard sanctions. all oligarchy, even those who are closest have been put on notice. and when you are working on
what is their legal authority for doing it and we will see more of? it i think we will only see more of that. the european union acted swiftly to impose the sanctions on and they made good on that threat by seizing his i think what we ve seen in the past week is unprecedented sanctions on the russian economy, which have affected broad swath of the population. we have seen it along atm lines. clearly, the average russian has been hurting from the sanctions. i think these moves that we see now and by president biden of the united states, the demonstration now is not just average russians. middle class russians. who will feel the pain of putin s unprovoked war it is the very wealthiest russians who will have their taken from them. and lawrence, just a couple of weeks ago, there was doubt around the world about germany s willingness to cancel the pipeline.
calm. the only places we saw groups of people were atm lines, every single atm. some ran out of money although we did see some still had money early this evening. then there were gas lines. this one was outside the city. we did see a few stations ran out, but the lines were incredibly calm. i spoke to some people and one woman told me as her voice broke she had a plan to leave for poland when the unimaginable happened, but when it did she decided to stay. there s so much we don t know tonight, but we do know the people we have met here over the past cup of weeks have all had an incredible reservoir of strength. thank you for joining us. ac 360 starts now. good evening. ukraine tonight bracing for what the coming hours might bring. already it s seen russian forces attack on three fronts with concerns now growing what an
fisherman who served as russia sanctions lead at the state department. thank you very much for joining us tonight. i want to begin with that yacht, that most visible asset seizure that we have had and may have for a while. germany just closing in on that hamburg shipyard is where all of the super yacht go in for service. and germany just made the move that president biden promised last night. what is their legal authority for doing it and we will see more of? it i think we will only see more of that. the european union acted swiftly to impose the sanctions on alasdair. and they made good on that threat by seizing his i think what we ve seen in the past week is unprecedented sanctions on the russian economy, which have affected broad swath of the population. we have seen it along atm lines.
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