chains which we are receiving from our western partners. of course, we expect the idea of an airlift from western ukraine, like it happened with western berlin, which has to be introduced in ukraine. what is also important is for our western partners to seek tougher sanctions, an oil and gas embargo, or to include people like kirill, the leader of the moscow orthodox church, on the sanction list. the west has to send a clear message to putin that you are with us and you have a strategy, ukraine defeating russia, and you will be with us until ukraine s victory comes. the british prime minister borisjohnson faces another tough week. he s due to answer questions in parliament tomorrow
any evidence though of what is actually hitting him? well, he s banneded from traveling for personal reasoned. any of his assets in the western financial system is frozen. and the same goes for oligarchs putting on the sanction list. the announcements we put out on saturday, ari, is we re going to begin multilateral process of finding the yachts, fancy cars, private jets, of all of the oligarchs that benefitted from this in russia. we re going to begin seizing them. we think over time that s going to hit those most close to putin and perhaps even putin himself. . deputy national security adviser, thank you for making time for us as you re working late tonight. i appreciate it. thanks, ari. absolutely. st. coming up, general mccaffrey will be here to get into depth of the pressure on ukraine.
going to continue to grow so that russia at one point or another understands that it needs to reverse course. i want to get to this viewer question about the sanctions. this viewer asks why did the u.s. government exempt almost all forms of russian energy from its sanction list? energy is massive export for russia. if we truly cared wouldn t we be cutting off that lifeline as well? well, the problem is of course we don t rely on much of russian energy, the u.s. we import some oil. it s the europeans who are highly reliant particularly on gas. some countries get 100% of their gas for electricity and heating from russia. to turn it off means to in fact have no electricity and no heating. it s the middle of winter in europe, and having countries make that decision is just one that is that is too difficult. at the same time it once again underscores the incredibly
reallocated to another bank. when you look at the sanctions on their economic actors, sanctions avoided the energy sector, which is the main pocket for putin. we saw sanctions on oligarchs today, but for some reason, of who is a very close ally to putin, chelsea football club has a lot of companies here in the united states he has three steel companies in the united states, he is not on the sanction list, so we keep begging the world to be stronger in the reaction, but unfortunately so far we are seeing that everybody is trying to protect their economy, that are worth more than ukraine lives. alexandra, perhaps joe biden, the president of the united states is watching, what is your message to him? please, support ukrainian children, women who are dying right now, thousands of them i directional. we need a no fly zone just to protect our civilian population.
real estate in new york city along. the building behind me, purchased in 2018 for $90 million. you can only imagine how much it s woshth today. a look at the list of russian oligarchs for further sanctions. roman, known as putin s banker, owner of chelsea soccer club. 4 buildings on 75th street off central park, $90.5 million. despite close connection to putin, remained off the u.s. sanction list. another on the list, alex i kuz, m ichev, $42 million for a mansion on 74th street. take a look at some locations of those property. oligarchs all around central park. those who support the push to