says. mariupol is a russian speaking city, everyone has relatives in russia and russia is killing its own people. he says i m glad putin opened my eyes as to who i really am, we ought ukrainians. let s head to kyiv and speak with our chief international correspondent lyse doucet. let s start if we may with that figure on people who have either left the country or have been internally displaced. my understanding is that almost a quarter of the people in the country forced to leave their homes. yes, the prewar population was about 44 million and we have been reporting as the numbers of people who crossed the borders, it has been accelerating at an extraordinary historic right, as we have said and the un has said the fastest rate
if you remember, ana, this was brought by the maujority leader to the floor. asked unanimous consent. i joined with him in an effort to get unanimous consent. it was only republicans who objected to that consent. you talk about wanting to put the economic stranglehold on russia. we just reported the ruble is almost back to his prewar levels. if russia s economy is recovering, what does that mean for putin s war on ukraine? well, listen, i think a temporary rise in the ruble isn t a permanent one. the russian economy is going to go under severe contractions. and those contractions will ultimately be reflected in the value of the ruble. so whatever fluctuation may have taken place by russia trying to prop up the ruble cannot sustain the coming onslaught of sanctions which have a tail to it.
so i think it is a fantasy to think this can be done in some sort of very nice neat package. as a war has been described as hell. it s ugly, it s a violent and the ukrainians are fighting for the very lives but i would give them everything they need faster than we are right now. space former president trump has called vladimir putin a genius for the prewar strategy clarified that recently. he is also called on him to turn over information that putin might be aware of about hunter biden s business practices in the region. do you think that will help him or will it hurt him if president trump decides to run again? i would not trust a vladimir putin any further than i could throw him. i think that is really the answer. because putin is a killer. he is a thug. he has a vision of restoring the russian empire, the fall of
think this can be done in some sort of very nice neat package. as a war has been described as hell. it s ugly, it s a violent and the ukrainians are fighting for the very lives but i would give them everything they need faster than we are right now. space former president trump has called vladimir putin a genius for the prewar strategy clarified that recently. he is also called on him to turn over information that putin might be aware of about hunter biden s business practices in the region. do you think that will help him or will it hurt him if president trump decides to run again? i would not trust a vladimir putin any further than i could throw him. i think that is really the answer. because putin is a killer. he is a thug. he has a vision of restoring the russian empire, the fall of