tell us the nearest units are just nine miles from the city center. people are already feeling putin price hikes at the pump. won t take blame for the sky high gas prices. using this crisis to take accountability off themselves all while pushing green energy. pete: we begin this hour with a fox news alert. russian president vladimir putin is meeting with the bella rugs president lukashenko. the talks come after putin sending fighters from the middle east and elsewhere recruiting them to join the kremlinens offensive. brian: the people don t want it and that leader is sunged to to what vladimir putin wants. meanwhile airstrikes slamming central and western ukraine as the u.s. offense widens. ainsley: benjamin hall joins us live from kyiv with the latest. benjamin? ainsley, brian, pete good morning. yes, president putin also saying today that he thought there had been positive movements forward in the diplomatic front and
years. you are profiting off of arms deals that you sign off on and the military industrial come pleasure and then it s the other thing to just start trading into these stocks right before putin invades when you have access to intelligence and sanctions packages. is this ever going to change, ned? first of all, jesse, this is insider trading for congress and still three which is a shame. they are privy to information that the public is not that allows them to buy these stocks in very advantageous way. even worse again as you have alluded, to how are we to say without being i don t think it s cynical to say that they re voting in a certain way to enrich themselves because they know that the funding will actually enrich the stocks that they control. you mentioned raytheon and lockheed. you know, look it, senator carper out of delaware, he bought stocks in mosaic that supplies phosphate and potash for fertilizers just as we sanctioned russian and bella rugs phosphate and potash oh, by