picture that shows how far people in ukraine have to go to protect their loved oneses. this is olga, she shielded her child with her body. the mother underwent multiple surgeries. thankfully the baby is okay. olga s husband is there in the picture and the attack wounded his legs. according to the u.n., nearly 850 krichcivilians have killed. the numbers will cliekllikely c much higher. since the beginning, more than 3 million have fled. that s more than the population of chicago. europe hasn t seen a refugee crisis that s escalated this quickly since the second world war. very worked in refugee emergency force almost 40 year, and rarely have i seen an exodus
military giant in history, watching the massacre and crimes that europe hasn t seen since world war ii. garry, thanks, again, for your detailed analysis. you know more about this than so many of us do and it s important we see this with clear eyes. garry kasparov, russian pro-democracy leader and chairman of the human rights foundation and chairman and founder of the renewed democracy initiative. even without direct on-the-ground support from nato or the u.s., the ukraine has been successful in slowing russian advances in several key areas using defense weapons, which history shows are highly effective. that s next on velshi. . ( )
odesa is under threat. making sure they get anti-aircraft missiles now but they re worried about going too far and provoking moscow understanding that missions go beyond ukraine, we need to help ukraine stop the kremlin right now. and the ambassador is hitting on something the ukrainian foreign minister said over the weekend that if they in fact had more planes, more mig 29s, more civilians on the ground would have been saved. do you agree with that? the pentagon doesn t. they argue that the ukrainian air force hasn t been very operational in this fight. a lot of their 50 some odd planes mostly stayed on the ground. they say the ukrainian army has already been making great progress with the anti-aircrafts. i ll interrupt you because we re going to president zelenskyy addressing the canadian parliament. let s listen in.
the ways and means, the senate side, the finance committee, republicans have spoken out, the democrats holding their fire a bit. ultimately, the president was able to deliver his statement today. chuck, as you talk about it, particularly for the u.s., they have a different situation than europe does as it relates to these imports. only 8% of imports in the united states, not only, but 8% of the imports of gas and oil in the u.s. come from russia. for those in europe, the number is closer to a third. that s why we heard from boris johnson today, he didn t announce an immediate ban but sort of the phasing out of oil over the course of this year. that s why chancellor scholz in germany said they recognize the need to change their dependence on russian oil but it wouldn t happen overnight. the president didn t take our questions. we wanted to pose those to him, if the u.s. has a moral obligation to go further. you talked about the potential of a limited no-fly zone. i m hearing from offici
restrictions in the coming weeks. here in italy we re seeing numbers spike up again. we re going to be out of the state of emergency that s been in effect for more than two years here at the end of the month. and we re looking at getting rid of mask mandates by may 1st, which is something that hasn t happened in two years. so you re right, despite the high number of cases, restrictions don t seem to be following suit. that falls into the pattern that it seems to be generating a different reaction to this wave this time. there s less concern. is that fair? yeah t, it is fair, and i thk that also people are finally getting their lives back in order. these economies that have been struggling for two year now finally seeing better days, and these government officials are just not in a position at all to tell people to if go back and lockdown and close things up again.