final matching and slow to those watching. two sides that are both exhausted and i do not believe right now that russia has the capacity to to carry on at that level that you ve seen in the couple weeks they are going the finish this and try to raise up to 300,000 soldiers and their own people a are rebelling agait that and it s not very popular. i just don t see it sustainable. arthel: they are running, they are running for their lives. leaving home countries so they don t get snatched off the street and force to fight in this war. let me ask you this, it seems that it s coming into its final stages, if you will. ui mean, ifputin realizes, there massive consequences if he were to use nuclear attack in ukraine, widespread or more targeted. is this why he s ramping up conventional military attacks on ukraine? kind of your analogy and can
knocking on the door between one of the biggest oil producers of the world in russia, and you ve seen a lot of military attacks, terrorism and violence, saudi arabia, yemen and the middle east, and that s got everyone on edge, and that s on top of, there was a whole lot of demand as the economies were coming back. so that supply and demand is what s driving up the price. yeah, so, you ve just articulated what you think is the downside to halting the gas tax, but is there any other arsenal in the administration tool that they could employ here to try to bring down gas prices? well, in a way, they can they could do another release of the strategic petroleum reserve. that was attacked at the time they did it. if you recall, people said, well, it wouldn t do very much. it would be short lived, but the timing ended up being pretty good on that, and it sort of ushered in fruitful negotiations with opec and some others that they agreed to expand
attacks military attacks on european states, attacks on military attacks on european states, attacks on european soil, up to this information attacks on european soil, up to this information and cyber attacks against information and cyber attacks against democratic institutions like the german parliament. we have to understand the german parliament. we have to understand that we are out there for a long understand that we are out there for a long game and we have to play the lon- a long game and we have to play the long game a long game and we have to play the long game and not leave all these initiatives long game and not leave all these initiatives to putin. long game and not leave all these initiatives to putin. thank you very much. as initiatives to putin. thank you very much- its the initiatives to putin. thank you very much. as the day initiatives to putin. thank you very much. as the day continues - initiatives to putin. thank you very much. as the day contin
74 planes, 86 helicopters. we understand they have more. we know we shall continue defending ourselves. ukraine doesn t surrender. the army doesn t surrender. the people do not surrender. the whole ukraine is fighting. meantime russia offensive is spreading to western ukraine. where missiles hit a military base. near the city of lviv. close to the border with nato member poland. well, a local official says at least 35 people were killed. we heard the explosions from our position here in lviv. more than 24 hours ago. and the white house national security adviser warning that any attack on nato territory will trigger a full response by the alliance. as the conflict grinds on, one thing seems increasingly clear, russia military attacks against ukraine are growing more