we intend to assist the ukrainians resist this invasion with everything that we can. and we are also going to assist them to drive all the russian troops off their land for as long as it takes. let the ukrainians know that we stand with them. i thought there was another opportunity. we are going to have likely a humanitarian catastrophe on our hands as they bomb the cities and encircle them in the amount of death and hardship that is going to take place inside of them. he should have said a stage for that and said the humanitarian crisis is possibly coming. i m going to ask the united stations and our allies and partners to support the united nations in leading an effort to relieve the human suffering that is going to take place. those are two essential points that i think needed to be made here. particularly the first one. going right to the ukrainian
alarming to all americans. i want you to know we are going to be okay. we are going to be okay. when the history of this era is written because putin s wore into print will have left russia weaker and the rest of the world stronger. while it should not taking something so terrible for people around the world to see what is at stake, now everyone sees it clearly. we see that unity among leaders of nations, a more unified europe, a more unified? we see unity among the people who are gathering in the cities and large crowds around the world, even in russia. to demonstrate their support for the people of ukraine. in the battle between democracy and autocracies, democracies are rising to the moment and that
even more important contribution because doing so would be a peaceful expect what we connect russia and your make the west more secure and it would be good for the united states if the united states, help. bret: we are waiting on william walker to announce the president to walk into the chamber. brit, we are talking about ukraine and it is a chapter. oftentimes in america, we deal with chapters. the covid chapter let s listen in now. the president of the united states. [cheers and applause]
truly don t think that you will see anything here. i don t think there s going to be any big legislative push out of the speech and in the meantime ukrainians are fighting for their lives and we talked a lot about how we can send some things but he also didn t end on a high note on that point and i wish that he would have. speaking of ukraine, we have oil prices now. this is from beijing and alert. surging more than $5 per barrel after the release of supplies fails to call markets. so they had $107 per barrel yesterday at one point and now from the asian markets they are up $5 per barrel which will affect everybody. you talk about 60 million barrels being release from strategic reserves including 30 million in the u.s. about the situation and ukraine is dire. big cities under attack shelling and civilians being killed by russian aggression. to put it in context when we talk about oil and barrels of oil, we consumed
putin is now isolated from the world more then he has our been. together ever been. together [applause] together, along with our allies, we are right now enforcing powerful economic sanctions. we are quitting of russia s largest banks and international financial system. we russia s central bank making putin $630 billion war front worthless. we are choking russia s access. [cheers and applause] we are choking russia s access. it will weaken its military for years to come. tonight, i say to russian oligarchs and the corrupt leaders who build billions of dollars of this violent regime,