sanctions over the war in ukraine are hurting russia s economy. the senior correspondent mike tobin is live in kyiv with more. mike? trace, another update coming from russian news agencies. gershkovich has a hearing on the books now scheduled a week from tuesday. so far no u.s. representative has been able to get in the yale to see gershkovich. the wall street journal said private lawyers got to see him. the u.s. ambassador in moscow had a meeting with the deputy minister. not much movement came from the meeting. gershkovich is the wall street journal reporter taken into custody and accused of trying to obtain classified information about a russian arms factory at the direction of u.s. officials allegedly. he was taken to moscow where he s being held in prison. denied access, u.s. officials don t have good insight to his condition. i wish we did. we still haven t been able to get consular access. that s an issue that we bring up through our embassy in moscow. i wish i
free with the espionage statute to interpret in pretty much anyway they want. it does not appear that mr. gershkovich is being given due process here, sir. no, he s not. in fact, under the law in russia, they don t have to he s forbidden from revealing the details of the accusation against him. even his lawyers are not allowed to say what it is he s actually charged with. you may have noticed when they came out after their meeting with him, they restricted themselves to generalities thanking people for support and so on. they didn t say anything about what the he was charged with, what he allegedly did and how plausible it is. you know, under the espionage statue, that s you can t discuss those things. that a plays to everyone,