they re in a different part of the country. i m worried about the two of you, because these attacks are getting closer and closer to where you are. please keep your team safe and please stay safe, we will stay close to you. kelly kabeya in poland, and bc s molly hunter in lviv, ukraine. joining me now is heather connally, she is the president of the german marshall fund. she s also a deputy state for europe and eurasian affairs, where she co-led u.s. affairs to engage nato. heather, these developments overnight. i want to first of all get your take on this. when you look at that map, of where that attack took place, it says everything you need to say. that spot, that dot, 12 miles from poland, could very easily be poland. that changes the game. tell me, first of all, that these attacks are not about vladimir putin going into eastern ukraine and protecting russians speakers from a genocide that he provided no evidence of. they are attacking western
dollars over here and i want to talk rubles. because tonight, in grammar of the eurasian group posted this. putin demanded rubble payment for gas, quickly realized he is not in a position to make demands . and backed off. suspect we are going to see a lot of that going forward. now we know that existing contracts are still good. gas is still flowing, russian gas into places like germany and other countries. so putin s move basically failed. they said rubles? guess again. we are sticking to the contracts. what does that reveal about putin s position? putin is definitely in a weak position economically. the russian economy is something like one 20th on a good day because the united states on european economy [inaudible] russia doesn t have a lot at its disposal. at the same time stephanie, i want to stress that the united states has imposed an embargo on russian oil. europe is still paying putin billions of dollars on every week for russian energy.
russian president vladimir putin. don t think about making a move on nato territory, is what he warned. it came just hours after missile strikes hit lviv, just a few miles from the polish border in western ukraine. retired army brigadier general mark kimmitt with us now as well as thomas graham, distinguished fellow on russian and eurasian affairs. at this point yesterday, we were sitting in front of our audience talking with our viewers and we knew that russia declared this first phase of the war over. and then russian missiles struck there s been so much talk of russia miscalculations and missteps. do you think that is really what is happening, or is russia more on target of what they wanted to
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talk rubles. because tonight, in grammar of the eurasian group posted this. putin demanded rubble payment for gas, quickly realized he is not in a position to make demands. and backed off. suspect we are going to see a lot of that going forward. now we know that existing contracts are still good. gas is still flowing, russian gas into places like germany and other countries. so putin s move basically failed. they said rubles? guess again. we are sticking to the contracts. what does that reveal about putin s position? putin is definitely in a weak position economically. the russian economy is something like one 20th on a good day because the united states on european economy [inaudible] russia doesn t have a lot at its disposal. at the same time stephanie, i want to stress that the united states has imposed an embargo on russian oil. europe is still paying putin billions of dollars on every week for russian energy.