you really do get a sense, whether it is the oligarchs that are fleeing on their yachts or having to sell assets across the west or the military generals who are having to send these young kids into war, you really do get a deep sense of unease, not only from moscow s leaders but also from the middle class who are rushing to atm machines and waiting in line for several days. what is your read on the ground there? reporter: you do get a sense of that, joe. we get a sense of it, because you can imagine the team here talk to people quietly, not in public necessarily, people will share their sense of unease. then there are these indications. you know, you mentioned the yachts, reuters reporting that a shipping tracking site can see super yachts, oligarch super yachts in the maldives and the
sanctions have been put together. first of all, the biden administration has been very patient, or impatiently patient, and lining up support of the rest of the world. with that in place, shutting down the russian bank s first, so that they did not have access, and then shutting off their ability to communicate, well significantly, impact the russian a crown me much sooner than most people think. it may, very well be that most people think that the access to atm machines, banks who would be able to do domestic as well as international exchanges, may not be available. in addition to that, it will become pretty clear that the russian economy is going to be slowed down. and slowly, slowly strangled. that slowness, maybe much faster than everybody anticipated. i would hope it is. that the message gets to putin right away, that it is not just
not only to kyiv, but also other parts of the country, tiffany. thank you, erin mclaughlin. . joining me is tyrell jay starr, senior nonresident fellow at the atlantic council s and kimberly, these two clearly know each other. tyrell, talk to me about what it s like on the ground there. we have been seeing you all week. we re seeing women and children sleeping in the subways with their pets, lines wrapped around blocks for groceries and atm machines. citizens are picking up arms to fight the russian invasion, including grandmothers. that s some of the most shocking footage. this morning you tweeted about your friend in ukraine who s taking up arms. talk more about what the resistance is looking like there on the ground?
that s all from here in lviv back to you in the studio. thank you very much to you and the team there in western ukraine. a couple of bits of news coming into us in the situation. tick tock says it is suspending live stream new content to russia whilst it reviews the safety implications of the law passed in russia. no doubt the media crackdown that has been announced this week. they say they the messaging service will not be effective. and also american express suspending all their operations in russia. this globally issued cards will no longer work at atm machines and merchants and retailers in russia. they are also terminating all business operations in belarus,
you see addicts shooting febt fentanyl all over the place. what happens in downtown does not stay in downtown. a rise in thefts across the city where thieves are driving cars to store fronts and stealing atm machines. yesterday in south seattle, they drove a kafr to the walgreens, they go in and try to steal the atm. this is the third time in the last week where a car was used to break into a store for an atm machine and what you re seeing is insane footage, a grocery store in north seattle, thieves drive a stolen forklift to go ahead and get this atm. obviously caused a lot of damage and the owner of the store told me that, look, we ve been dealing with an uptick in crime, i m not even going to replace the atm machine. the mayor began pushing emphasis patrols downtown. we saw some success but not stopping the drug dealing. the spd planned to make arrests