advances towards kyiv, in the past day. forces are now three miles closer to the capitol, and just ten miles from the city center. boris johnson, telling sky news, he believes that vladimir putin may be preparing to use chemical weapons in ukraine. of the g7 countries, and the eu, reportedly, moving today to strip russia of its most favored nation trading status, allowing them to impose tariffs on russian goods. skies sally walk would, with fresh reporting. days of military convoys have stalled outside of kyiv. images taken in the last 24 hours have suggested that they have reorganized. usa delight company, max, our say that vehicles have appeared to dispersed, and re-deployed. with towed artillery, now, in firing positions nearby. it comes as a senior u.s. defense official said that
legislation on the oil ban. opposed to removing russia s most favored nation trading status until. he was against those signed into law package today until congress moved. congress will have to take the lead and push the biden administration to do more for president zelenskyy. bret: marc, quickly, as a former speech writer, you look at zelenskyy to brit s point about how he has addressed these world bodies, parliament the house of commons, canadian parliament. congress today using personalized in each instance efforts to draw these folks in. he talked about 9/11 and pearl harbor, he used the words of martin luther king, dr. martin luther king, he said i have a dream. i have a need. when is he making a pitch for weapons. he talked about churchill and shakespeare with the house of commons. what about this from a speech-writing perspective? he is brilliant. i mean, he is the modern day churchill in both in terms of his courage and his tenacity and also in his eloquence.
of peace, on the side of security. we re showing our strength, and we will not falter. god bless all of you, god bless ukraine, and god bless our troops. that russia may use chemical weapons or create a false flag operation to use them. what evidence have you seen showing that and would the u.s. have a military response if putin does launch a chemical weapons attack? i m not going to speak about the intelligence, but russia would pay a severe price if they use chemicals. president there announcing new economic steps, notably, in conjunction with eu partners, namely removing russia from what s known as most favored nation trading status, a further economic blow or step to cut it off from the world economy, but
mayor. his detention is the first known instance of a ukrainian political official being detained and investigated by russia or russian-backed forces since this invasion began. president biden announced new sanctions on russia today. the united states will ban luxury russian items like vodka and seafood, plus along with the g7 and the european union, the u.s. will move to revoke russia s most favored nation trading status. revoking pntr for russia is going to make it harder for russia to do business with the united states and doing it in eunice on with other nations to make up half of the global economy will be another crushing blow to the russian economy. it is already suffering very badly from our sanctions. let s welcome ambassador william taylor, former u.s. ambassador to ukraine. mr. ambassador, these sanctions have increased over the last two plus weeks now. what is the impact of what the president announced today?
other ways. some of which don t get on your air ways for good reason. it s in the middle of the war. we should provide the planes. they are potentially very important. to the ukrainian defense. here at capitol in the coming week we expect to see more legislation aimed at punishing russia for the invasion of ukraine. including the proposal to revoke russia s most favored nation trading status. speaker nancy pelosi said she would like to get that passed by theened oeft week. end of the week. despite the bombardments, ukraine rail way system continues to be a reliable lifeline for people. if you can imagine you can take a train to kyiv. from this part of the country. fears of being targeted by russia are a challenge for all of its operators. we have that story.