most vicious right now, the siege laid on the city is significant and that s what we expect to see around the capital if the convoy ever gets moving. john: thanks for your help with the analysis. see you soon. sandra. sandra: see you both for that. oil prices surging, prices at the highest since 2011. in response, president biden has authorized the release of 30 million barrels of oil from the strategic petroleum reserves. but, the market is saying that s just a drop in the bucket, prices keep going higher. jeff is joining us from a pipeline by a refinery, jeff. what s going on there. yeah, you know, we have about 2.6 million miles of pipeline in the u.s., the people that run these pipelines and make the oil and gas that run through them say yeah, that is not going to have much impact, the release. you take a look at the numbers on the s.p.r., we have been running this down the past six
i don t want it to be personal, but it s the wrong policy. the wrong tame. sandra: 4:00, manchin, mccarthy, we ll be watching you. drill, drill, drill. sandra: and there you have it, ladies and gentlemen, john. john: attacks on civilians ramped up in cities that are besieged by fighting. a former nato allied supreme commander, he knows about the region and what could take place. general, the southern part of ukraine on the touch screen, the area of crimea and north of that, regular russian forces have moved out of crimea. they say the russians that they have taken control of the black seaport of kherson, so the ukrainians in and around 18 hours of shelle in the city of mariupol to the
they are going to rebel. we are in a totally different situation what putin could expect the reasonable end game to be. john: tenuous situation in the days and weeks ahead. sandra. sandra: john, as we approach the top of the new hour here, fox news alert, vladimir putin forces pound ukraine on several fronts. new explosions heard in kyiv moments ago. john: russian strikes pummelling areas jam packed with civilians. listen to this. a huge blast blowing the roof of a police building in the second largest city of kharkiv. fighting only intensifying there today. ukrainian officials confirming more than two dozen people have died in the city. also claim they shot down some
despite claims the russians are not targeting civilians. images speak for themselves. further west, more evidence of russian forces striking residential homes as the russians try to demoralize the ukrainians. and they said they shot down two fighter jets overnight and the city is on edge at this moment. a curfew about to go into effect under martial law and the air raid sirens sounding. sandra: thank you. we will get back to you shortly. john: lucas tomlinson from lviv with the latest from there. united nations says up to 874,000 refugees have now fled the country, to top a million tomorrow. the hell russian forces are inflicting. they have orders to erase our history, our country, and all of us. for the first time since the war began last thursday, the
road and go around and proceed forward and they are mired in ugly mud up there, and so they are pretty much road bound and so this is i think a big problem for the force right now. imagine what a capable air force could do to that target on that road. john: it would make the infamous highway of death in southern iraq look like child s play but of course that s something we can t do. if nato airplanes came in, that could initiate world war iii. another point here, we have the convoy down the western side of kyiv stuck there, and also detection of new troop movement swinging to the east of kyiv as forces are coming in this way as well. kharkiv down here, the forces are sweeping across the country. due believe that s some sort of movement to join forces and try to surround kyiv, or would that be a force that might move further westward?