facilities are safe and secure. david? ian pannell leading the way with our reporting again tonight. ian, thank you. and just before we came on the air this evening, we asked secretary of state antony blinken why the u.s. hasn t sanctioned putin directly. what they re seeing just outside kyiv right now. and is there a chance that vladimir putin goes beyond ukraine? secretary blinken, thank you for coming on again tonight. we heard the president list these new sanctions today against several russian banks, among other steps being taken. the president also said direct sanctions against vladimir putin himself are still on the table here. you ve got putin invading ukraine from the north, the east, the south. ignores all calls from the u.s. to stop. so, why is the u.s. not sanctions him right now? well, we ve taken, not just us, in coordination with european partners and allies, are going to have severe consequences on russia. some immediately, some that play out over time. we ve take
the refugee crisis getting worse as thousands of are fleeing the fighting in ukraine every day. many traveling long distances and braving freezing temperatures. in their struggle to get to safety. the exodus has been so overwhelming in neighboring countries that tent cities such as this one in moldova have been popping up near borders. the un says more than one and a half million people have fled ukraine. since the war began. and the crisis is escalating at a pace europe hasn t seen in decades. we have not seen in europe talking about europe now, a crisis escalating so fast since the second world war. that s a long time. of course in europe there have been many refugee crisis.
result of his administration banning russian oil sales in the united states. he called them a putin price hike. as we mentioned this announcement came the day u.s. gas prices hit their highest levels on record according to aaa. russian oil makes up 8% of u.s. imports which make up 2% to 3% of total american consumption due to robust domestic consumption. with insight, cnbc anchor hadley gamble. let s talk about the impact on russia. we re doing this, the uk is doing this, the rest of europe hasn t yet done this. maybe they will, maybe they won t. what is the impact now and what could make it hurt more? reporter: i ll take this question a different way, if you will, chuck, europe for putin, he has on a string. 40% of their imports come from russia but also the oil situation. 30% comes from russia.
and many european countries. when you say the refugee crisis will go. not only by the numbers but countries impacted. a million have already left ukraine. before it s all said and done unless there is an immediate resolution, we will see millions more leaving as well. dana: every single one of them has a story and thank you for bringing them to us. a search for survival from two wars. we ll talk to an afghan refugee who thought she found a safe haven in ukraine and forced to flee again. this time to poland. bill: want to bring in nikki haley, former u.n. ambassador. europe hasn t seen a refugee crisis like this in 23 years. go back to kosovo. that was relatively shored lived. what connell lays out there is a long and complicated issue. such a catastrophe.
tried to figure out the safest place to go and asking the volunteer, where is the country i can go to that s loyal to ukraine? you can sense the desperation of what this woman needs to figure out in the coming days. the volunteer suggested maybe she go to prague and the uncertainty of what this poor woman faces is just incredibly dramatic and the real question here, bianna, in the coming weeks is just how much more and what more needs to be done to be able to help the refugees that continue to come. the mayor here told us at the peak they were seeing about 50,000 to 55,000 a day and that number settled to 25,000, but there are fewer and fewer places for these refugees to go here in the immediate poland area. no doubt, a refugee and humanitarian crisis, the likes of which europe hasn t seen in decades. ed lavandera, thank you so much. now to an extraordinary show of support for ukraine from three european leaders.