retailers are trying to jump-start holidays to get consumers kind of in the groove early to start buying, teeing them up because they know that consumers are going to be getting hit with higher prices. so they want to get retailers in the mood to shell out their money earlier. victor? three weeks ahead of halloween and folks are already buying christmas trees. alison, thank you. thank you for staying with me. i m victor blackwell. jsh joe biden and world leaders are condemning russian missile strikes that targeted civilians in ukraine. [ explosions ] wow. overnight, russia unleashed a barrage of missiles in kyiv. multiple other cities too across the country, knocking out critical infrastructure. at least 11 people are dead, dozens more injured. today, putin is boasting about the attack and vows there will be more. he says this blitz is retaliation for the weekend attack on a key bridge that links annexed crimea to russia. joe biden says russia s attacks demonstrate the
refinery maintenance shutdowns ant and opec s latest cuts as retirees will soon get the biggest social security living increase that they ve seen in decades. in a moment we will hear from the wall street journal jon hilsenrath. analysis in moments. arthel: the white house trying to get in front of rising gas prices and inflation among top voter concerns. hey, lucas. lucas: price of regular unleaded gasoline nationwide is 3.91 according to triple a. president biden lashing out against saudi arabia and opec for cutting oil production former secretary of state mike pompeo responded this morning on fox news sunday. the the point the finger at someone else opec and saudis is enormous mistake when america has the capacity to produce energy independence for its own country and provide energy for the world as well. lucas: pompeo also taking issue with biden s comments on armageddon defined last battle between good and evil before day of judgment and called comments reckless and w
and it s used to resupply russian forces. russia s government insists the damage was under control. ukraine is not claiming responsibility. but they are directly mocking russia. the ukrainian government s official twitter account, tweeting sick burn. also, a famous scene of titanic to show the bridge. ukraine sent a birthday greeting to vladimir putin, next to marilyn monroe, singing happy birthday to u.s. president john f. kennedy. happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday, mr. president happy birthday to you fred is following this from kyiv. how are russia and ukraine reacting? well, both sides are essentially blaming each other. you say that the russians are saying it s the ukraine ons behind all of this. a senior official calling it c ukrainian vandals behind this. and figures in moscow making the same allegation. the ukrainians, this is an adviser saying they believe it might have been infighting within russian security services that wa
ukraine is not directly claiming responsibility, but the fire has was hardly extinguished by the time ukraine began trolling russia. the ukrainian government s official twitter account tweeting sick burn. it was featured in a russian rom com. now ukraine is giving its own hollywood treatment you might say. ukraine has new stamps with figures of leonardo dicaprio and kate winslet in their famous pose from titanic tierchg tita instead they re on the kerch bridge. there was a video tweeted of marilyn monroe famously singing happy birthday to jfk. take a look. happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday mr. president happy birthday that is epic trolling. fred pleitgen has the latest from the ukrainian capital kyiv. fred, what s the latest from where you are? reporter: i hi there, we see the russians and ukrainians blaming each other for what happened on the kerch bridge, on the crimean bridge. a senior adviser to russian president vladimir putin comin