the west rejected ukrainian president zelenskyy s pleas to establish a no fly zone due to fears it could lead to world war iii and a deal that would provide fighter jets to ukraine is unlikely to happen. the u.s. and poland were in talks of providing the jets but there is little momentum for the deal tonight. meanwhile, a white house spokesperson said the u.s. is collecting evidence of possible russian war crimes and countries are considering sanctions on an already cratering russian economy. the u.s. is in active talks with europe to ban russian oil imports, however, the world s biggest buyer of russian crude oil germany rejected that plan and putin for his part claimed sanctions are a kin to a decoloration, to war.
freedom of ukraine. tell us what you re seeing, what you re experiencing right now. well, it s pretty desperate situation i would say. russia is bombing kharkiv, trying to bomb kyiv but not at the same scale. they attacking the military bases but the fact is they re destroying civilian compounds. they re not able to enter the city of kyiv. that s where i am. it s underground there is not a single soldier, they are stuck in the suburbs. they are attacking civilians, the ones that are trying to leave, they re attacking volunteers trying to bring water and food into the suburbs. it s a barbaric actions. it sounds like and what the
pressed for more sanctions against russia including boycotting russian oil. translator: what is needed is a boycott of russian experts, the rejection of oil and oil prices from russia. it can be called an embargo or refusal. when you refuse to give money to terrorists. if they don t want to comply with civilized rules they shouldn t receive goods either, let the war feed them. president biden and the leaders of france, germany and united kingdom held a call to continue raising the cost on russia and tonight a still defiant president zelenskyy released yet another video showing he s not left ukraine s capital city and praising the fierce ukrainian resistance. joining me now, nbc news correspondent cal perry in lviv and matt bradley live in ukraine. let s go in reverse order, matt. what is the status in rivna and people trying to get out or get
analysis is russia military is not winning this war to be blunt. they under estimated the va lose eracity of the resistance so they re attempting to demoralize at this point ukrain civilians and people trying to flee and flatten the country if they can t get ukraine to surrender. is that the sense you have? this is not a precision military exercise, it s just an attempt to level as much of ukraine as they can and demoralize the people? well, that s their plan because on the ground they don t have the morality to advance. i mean, the ukrainians are putting up a fight they didn t expect. they expected they would be welcomed with butter and salt like crimea. ukraine is a different country. for the past eight years, which we are in a war with russia, the people understand that russia
at the time, the ad symbolized russia s embrace of capitalism and had finally joined the global economy. fast forward to today and russia is quickly backsliding thanks to vladimir putin. his invasion of ukraine prompted a mass exit of businesses from russia incluing visa, master card and american express seizing card holder transactions in that country as well as netflix, which suspended services. they ve joined a growing list of companies that have effectively pulled out isolating russia from the world economy and putin is turning back the clock on the information age with crackdowns on journalism and social media and blacked access to facebook and the bbc among others and signed a law banning so-called fake news including a ban on calling the invasion of ukraine what it is an invasion or war which is punishable by 15 years in prison and arresting more