were in moscow just a week or so ago. now you re here. i want to read to our viewers a couple lines from this really powerful article you just posted on cnn.com. i highly recommend it. it was it was really moving. let me give a couple lines from from what you wrote. quote, after over three decades of covering russia, i leave in despair. one man has extinguished the bright hope many once felt. and then you add, russian president vladimir putin isn t just destroying ukraine but two nations, condemning russians to an isolation that they didn t necessarily choose. explain your thoughts because they are so, so powerful. russia s under sanctions, the sanctions are aimed to bring putin down or at least halt his invasion and war in ukraine. they re going to affect the russian population. the russian population, many of them, don t support putin and don t support the war. but they re going to suffer the
individual. police say they know exactly who he is, and they re working to track him down. they don t believe that he s in the area now. as you can see the scene that took place at about 4:00 p.m. earlier today there was a massive evacuation. that to happen when investigators didn t know much about what was going down on. a saturday afternoon, you can imagine it was very busy, very packed. now the situation under control as those two individuals that were attached are expected to survive, and the search is on for the individual believed to be responsible. back to you. hope they find him and find him quickly. all right. thank you very, very much. get back to the war this ukraine and the ramifications for what s going on in the u.s. and allies. they are preparing to suspend normal trade relations with russia now, stripping the country of what s called its most-favored-nation trading status. it would be but the latest in a string of sanctions imposed on moscow for its invasion of ukra
i m i was surprised when he decided to go and attack all of ukraine and tried to seek control of that country that came as a surprise to me. and it did to me, as well. we heard him threaten, we heard him threaten military technical measures in we don t get what we want with nato. nato needs to roll back, it needs to go back to 1997, it needs to stop ukraine becoming a member. i think people thought this was just putin wantating a voice at the table. once he got a voice at the table he wouldn t follow through. he s become more and more determined. we re now in a position of looking at the scenario going forward, putin is taking tracts of land, territory, cities, we ve seen a mayor of a town marched off today, a proxy installed in the mayor s place. the future, therefore, in putin s mind in ukraine is going to be more of that. what happens where is the war going to stop, and how do you get putin then to let go of these places and give them back to the ukrainians? because it s goi
troops, labeling anti-war protesters in russia as his new heroes. this morning, as ordinary russians feel the devastating effects of economic sanctions due to russia s invasion of ukraine, the russian president is attempting to put his own spin on the effects of sanctions and truly alarming terms. claiming that sanctions are opening up new possibilities for the country s economy, and also warning his own people, erica. yeah. putin issuing a warning to russians last night, urging them to reject fellow citizens who do not support the war. people he calls slaves and traitors. take a listen. translator: they will try to bet on the so-called fifth column on traitors, on those who earn their money here, but live over there. live not in the geographical sense, but in the way they think with the mindset of a slave. these people cannot live without
joining us as we do every few days. thank you so, so much. there s more breaking news in this special edition of the situation room. in ukraine, the choice to stay or go can be excruciating. so far the u.s. estimates once again more than 2.5 million ukrainians have left since the war began. this is now week three. mainly women and children and the elderly. every day on ukraine s borders there s a steady stream of refugees. many are arriving in these countries with next to nothing. maybe a little suitcase if that. miguel marquez is joining us from bucharest, romania, now. all week you have toured different refugee centers along the border. what are you seeing? what s the greatest need? reporter: getting from point a to point b, this is the biggest problem, something that not only romania is doing but the eu, as well, the european union, trying to get people whether it s in romania, poland, hungary, wherever they re coming across that border, trying to get them from where they re