putin. but it really comes down to him, and he is showing no signs of wanting an offramp. this talk of no-fly zones and humanitarian corridors, unless he orders his troops to abide by that, it s not going to happen. arthel: and what s your reporting on the notion of banning russian oil imports? reporter: well, it s important to remember that the u.s. imto rts an average of 209,000 gallons per day of crude oil, 500,000 barrels per day of other petroleum products. that s 3% of u.s. crude oil imports. by contrast, the u.s. imports 61% from canada, 10% of its oil from mexico and 6% from saudi arabia. the one place they re looking to perhaps get more oil to replace russian crude oil would be venezuela. remember that in 2019 the trump administration imposed sanctions on venezuela, and that cut off u.s. supplies of venezuelan oil.
moldova, not a nato country. this war has created hundreds of thousands of refugees. moldova says it s hosting more than 120,000 refugees and is requesting assistance. blinken has been highlighting the white house s $257 billion request for humanitarian assistance to help with refugees. that would have to go through congress first. part of this six-day, seven-country trip has been to coordinate sanctions on russia between the and e.u., and it appears they re looking to target energy now. we are now in very active discussions with our european partners about banning the em port of russian oil to our countries while, of course, at the same time maintaining a steady global supply of oil. the actions we ve taken to date have already had a devastating impact on the reporter: the problem with that is you remove russian oil from the market, prices go up. it s unclear where the administration is going to get those barrels to replace a loss
humanitarian corridor, putin can t seem to agree to a ceasefire so they can get to safety. so how does that happen? and what more, you know, account u.s. do? account u.s. do? everybody s expecting the u.s. and nato to be the zaevion savior in all this. is that possible? it is possible in some ways. the polish-ukrainian border must be kept open. if you look at the map at where the russian forces are, they re in the east, the south, the north, and they re in the central portions of ukraine. but they re really not in western ukraine. so i do believe it s time to raise the stakes. either true a united nations through a united nations, a sponsored declaration or unilateral efforts by nato to declare western ukraine as a humanitarian assistance zone. currently
soil, and he s not sending u.s. war planes to fight against the russian air force in the skies over ukraine. arthel? arthel: yes. so, yes. i was actually surprised when general pittard, who i thought was excellent, said that. he is very respected and so we ll see how this plays out. your information in terms of the timing and amount of personnel, physical and otherwise, that was sent to ukraine by the biden administration just smacks in the face of those who are saying the biden administration should have done more before the conflict began. national security correspondent jennifer griffin, thank you, jen. thanks, arthel. arthel: eric? eric: yeah. thank you, jennifer. if you want to understand vladimir putin s brutality and savagery, just look at the killings on the streets of kyiv and throughout ukraine. stunning new video that exposes the devastation of the country
armed clashes forced civilians to take cover. soldiers and knell residents helped the elderly to hurry out of the town with frightened people. meanwhile, in mariupol efforts to evacuate 200,000 from the heavily bomb barreledded city fell apart for bombarded city. the humanitarian corridor was fired upon. buses waited to go in, but the red cross said it was simply do dangerous. too dangerous. more than six days of near constant shelling by encircling russian forces has cut off food, water, power and heating supplies. it is one of the cities that is i that is being hit hardest. meanwhile, as russian tanks push forward, putin demanded that ukraine end the fighting in a phone call with turkish president erdogan who appealed for a ceasefire. pilot putin told erdogan he was ready for a dialogue but said any attempt to draw out