different track. with regard to the no-fly zone, i think you heard secretary stoltenberg speak to this early today. one of the responsibilities we have, even as we are doing everything we can to give the ukrainian people the means to defend themselves effectively against russia, we also have a responsibility as the secretary general said, to ensure that the war doesn t spill over even beyond ukraine. and, again, because i think he put it so well, as he noted, the only way to actually implement something like a no-fly zone is to send nato planes into ukrainian air space and to shoot down russian planes and that could lead to a full fledged war in europe. president biden has been clear that we are not going to get into a war with russia. but we are going to tremendous
support, the men that are back there. so the insurgency will start. i think the mayor likely surrendered to try to buy some time to keep the killing from stopping. there is no shame in that and given the amount of fire power that they brought to the battlefield, but in the same token, they re going to have at the very reis they will be troops in that region and not send them north to kyiv. kyiv remains their primary line. they have to do that. thank you, sir. russia s invasion of ukraine is causing gas prices in the u.s. to spike. . overnight, just one night, gas prices jumped 11 cents. 18 cents the day before that. national average price for regular gasoline right now is 3
change the u.s. assessment of the might of russian military that was considered to be quite high, but now what is your assessment now. thank you very much. thank you. first part of the question, we are looking every day at what technologies, what capacities we can effectively deliver to ukraine to defend itself. and that is an ongoing conversation. literally happening on a daily basis. both with ukraine and government officials. as well as among allies and partners. and so the main focus is on making sure that anything we provide can be used, used effectively and in a timely way. so, but as i said, that is quite literally something that we re looking at every day.
make sure we have sufficient supply of energy only the market while focusing all of our efforts on squeezing and hurting the russian commeconomy. we re seeing that in realtime. i think the american families at home should take heart from the strong jobs numbers we had today and take resolve that our ally f in the entire world is unified. thank you. russian forces have seized the largest power plant in ukraine. the u.s. is deeply concerned about rusrussia s intention wit the power plant. we have a live update. (camera shutters)
looking at these things every single day. how long will take? and how many people have to die in ukraine before i m not going to put a time frame on it. what happened in record time as we ve seen are sanctions and other measures that a few weeks ago people would have said were never going to happen. i think we ve demonstrated very, very clearly that what we said we would do, many months ago, when this crisis first began to emerge, back in november, december, the g7 countries and the european union, i said if russia chose the path of aggression, we would impose massive consequences on russia including unprecedented economic sanctions. i know some people thought that was more rhetoric than reality. i think we ve demonstrated already how strong that reality is and, again, we re looking every day at measures to increase the extraordinary pressure we re already exerting.