here at home, there continues to be significant criticism for the president s sanctions policy particularly his reluck teens place more severe penalties on russia. the president though today joining european leaders in freezing the assets of both vladimir putin and his foreign minister lavrov. we begin with correspondent trey yingst in kyiv tonight. good evening, trey. bret, good evening. ukrainian officials say russian forces have breached the city limits of kyiv. throughout the day we have heard explosions and small arms fire as air raid sirens there in the background. we know that the russian troops are continuing their offensive at this hour. they have tried to take a number of locations around this capital city and they claim they have recaptured the airport outside of the capital. we know there was fierce fighting there in recent days. if confirmed it would give them a long runway and the ability to bring in more horses and weapons just miles from kyiv. the russians claimed wit
benchmark momentarily surpassed $105 per barrel for the first time since 2014 amid concerns that conflict and sanctions would disrupt supplies. as no sanctions on energy have been announced. the benchmark for u.s. crude slid today 1.3% to 9159 per barrel. crude fell almost 1.2% to 97.93. europe we only need to develop a lot of energy alternatives to wean themselves from dependence on russia and then sanction could say take a much bigger bite. you are correct that the lack of sanctions on russia is doing very little in the overall scheme of things in the oil and gas industry. stocks also rose across much of europe and asia today recovering after yesterday s losses. the wench mark in london, france and germany all closing higher today. markets in japan and shanghai close in the green why the hang
president biden went from nominating to sanctions. this time putin himself. and an alignment decision by european allies, the united states will join them in sanctioning president putin and foreign minister lavrov and members of the russian national security people. putin s hit list is apparently topped by ukrainian president zelenskyy who phoned biden today for 40 minutes. we remain in very close touch, of course, with president zelenskyy. in ukraine, zelenskyy is on his own, but this weekend in germany, 9 u.s. worked to keep him safe. i think you should know if you don t already that the united states was providing protection and security for him for that trip. so that he could make an appeal, personal appeal to the people of the world in light of what he was facing. republican critics are calling on biden to get tougher on russia. joe biden and nato leaders need to quit pussy footing around. biden and putin have know plans to talk any time soon. that doesn t mean u
generation warplanes just sent to the baltics. and 120 ships deployed to protect europe, including three strike carrier groups. we have new images of american apache helicopter gun ships arriving in latvia and poland. there must be no space for miscalculation or misunderstanding. we will do what it takes to protect and defend every ally. and every inch ever nato territory. a russian amphibious assault occurred earlier today to the west of mayor poll. thousands of infantry marines are moving ashore on the sea. u.s. intelligence suggest russians are russia has yet to achieve air expire or at this. ukraine s air and missile defense capability is still
i hope president putin will help us to stay on track with respect to what we need to do for the climate. key democrats say the administration should maintain its climate goals despite the conflict. i don t think the response to putin making war on ukraine ought to be the dismantling of our protections against climate change. i do think prompt wholesale effort to wean europe off of russian oil and gas. so that russia can no longer use that as leverage against europe. lawmakers could try to stuff energy provisions into an omnibus spending bill to fund the government next month. bret? bret: chad pergram on the hill. thanks. bring in oil industry expert kevin book managing director for research at clear view energy partners. kevin, good evening. thanks for being here. you just heard congressman adam schiff say one of the goals here is for europe to wean itself off of russian oil.