0 and the new battery powered google that's more about your front door is safer. join the millions of people who choose to help keep themed safe. you're shipping manager left to find themselves leaving you you need to hire. i need indeed and feed you do indeed. instant message instantly delivers quality candidates matching your job description visit and be .com slash hire. together with our allies and our partners, we're going to keep raising the economic cost and ratchet up the pace and further increase russia's economic isolation. the white house is hoping a sweeping new sanctions against russia this time targeting vladimir putin's own family, including his adult daughters. any u.s. investment in russia is now also bad. it comes as nato warns about a possible new large russian offensive, this time in eastern ukraine. hello, everyone. i'm chris gallagher in los angeles. with our continuing live coverage of the crisis in eastern europe is 10:00 p.m. here on the west coast, 8:00 wednesday morning in key, the battle for ukraine's independence now in day forty three and grim news out of the besieged port city of mariupol. the city's mayor now saying the civilian death there could be at least five thousand could go as high as 10,000. this comes as president zolensky is accusing russia of trying to cover up the atrocity by hiding bodies and evidence to interfere with the international war crimes investigation. we begin our coverage of the war on ukraine with fox news correspondent and co-anchor griff jenkins. he is live in the western ukrainian city of lviv. griff, good morning. chris , good morning. and you're right, mariupol has seen some of the fiercest fighting since this war began. now we are getting a grim picture of the realities there. mariupol mayor vadim butenko writing this on his facebook page, quote, the world has not seen the scale of the tragedy of mariupol since the concentration camps. the racist turned our whole city into a death camp. unfortunately, the area analogy is getting more and more confirmation this is no longer chechnya or aleppo. this is the new auschwitz and mednick the world should help punish putin's villains. the mayor estimating more than 5000 civilians have been killed, as you mentioned, trace, but also among them 200 or more were children. the city's left in complete ruins, cut off from civilization without food, water or electricity as heavy fighting and shelling continues today. this as president zelenskyy warns in his nightly address to russian forces are preparing for a new offensive in the eastern donbas region. >> we will fight that . we will not retreat. we will look for all options to defend ourselves and russia seriously, to seek peace. it comes as a senior defense official says the atrocities committed in bujar and surrounding areas appear to be quote premeditated and very deliberate. we spoke yesterday to a member of parliament, alex cohen trinko, who just returned from bukha and witnessed the horrors firsthand. now he wants revenge on vladimir putin. i don't have anything to say to him. like i just want to see him dead. that's what i want. and if i could, i will kill him with my own hands that absolutely i'm not joking and i'm not exaggerating. and the pentagon assessing that all russian troops have left kyiv in the training area to refit in belarus and belgorod russia. they added as well that this new javelins we were talking about yesterday in that one hundred million dollar additional package are expected to be in ukrainian hands within four to six days in . ukrainians here say they can't come fast enough. trace, i think a lot of ukrainians would like to kill putin with their bare hands as well. griff jenkins, back to you in moments. thank you . meantime, the u.s. and the european union are tightening the screws on russia over the ongoing conflict in ukraine. more sanctions are now in place against russia's top banks and even family members of russian president vladimir putin fox news white house correspondent jackie heinrich has more on that organization coordinating with the european union to ratchet penalties on russia for their ongoing invasion of ukraine. the latest sanctions unveiled wednesday target russia's largest banks and directly penalize vladimir putin's adult children. president biden says the move is in response to war crime allegations in a key suburb of we're going to start with russia's ability as economy to grow for years to come. the department of justice and the fbi are also following suit. attorney general merrick garland has filed charges against a russian oligarch accused of providing financial support to russian separatists in crimea. these are the first charges related to russian criminal activity since the invasion began over a month ago. garland also revealed the u.s. and its allies have thwarted an attempted malware attack carried out by russian military intelligence. it does not matter how far you sail your yacht. it does not matter how well you conceal your assets. the justice department will use every available tool to find you, disrupt your plots and hold you accountable. the justice department is also working with several european allies to gather evidence of possible russian war crimes. president biden calling for vladimir putin to face a war crimes trial. there's nothing less happening than major war crimes. responsible nations have to come together to hold these perpetrators accountable. president biden will sign an executive order prohibiting any new investment in russia by americans living here and abroad. at the white house, jackie heinrich fox news jackie veto raising concerns about a possible new major offensive by russian forces. moscow withdrew its forces around kiv just about a week ago. its negotiators saying it was done to instill mutual trust. now putin's forces are mounting in the east and the secretary general of nato says he is still convinced putin's end goal is to control all of ukraine. >> russia's moving forces out of the north to reach and force them, to resupply them, to rearm them and then to move them into the east where we are expecting a major offensive. president putin's aim is to try to control the whole of donbas and to establish a land bridge. >> but with us now, retired colonel daniel davis, a senior fellow at defense priorities. always great to see you. is the secretary general of nato right? do you believe that russia truly does want to control all of ukraine, not just the, the eastern portion of the donbas region? no, i don't i don't believe that they do. i don't see any evidence that i don't or any of us that putin even initially thought that he wanted to. i definitely think that he wanted to everything east of the napa river and he may still harbor those hopes, but everything is going to depend on what happens in this next battle that's starting to unfold already in the donbas area because all those troops that he did that general stoltenberg did just mentioned they're coming down from kyiv and sue me in kharkov are already starting to arrive in some regards. some are coming in later and some of the troops that had been working on mariupol have now left and are now starting to go to what's referred to as the southern shoulder of a forming pocket around those up to 50000 ukrainian troops. if they're able to penetrate that and actually bring those two forces together, it could be a bad situation for a lot of ukrainian troops. and i think that's going to depend that's going to determine what happens in the next phase of the war and how far russia even wants to go later. yeah, interesting. you say you don't think vladimir putin wants to control all of europe. the guardian has an op ed saying they don't think he can control it all. quoting here the pivot to operations in the east and the rotation out of baton russian units from ukraine's northern flank is a recognition by moscow that as many military analysts had predicted before the current conflict, it simply does not have the deployable forces it would need to conquer all of ukraine along multiple axes of advanced. your thoughts 100%. absolutely. it's a matter of capacity. it doesn't matter what he wants to do. i don't think he did want to just because of how much force he actually allocated for this . but he definitely does it now and it's been exposed that he has a lot less capacity even than he thought. and a lot of it's fundamental. it's not just the losses of vehicles that he has, but it's the system of logistics that he designed for his forces that can project power even when he had all of his tanks. so especially now this is probably as far as they can go ,colonel, when nato says it wants to and i'm quoting here increase its force posture, does that mean simply more weapons for ukraine or are we missing some kind of definition of that of that phrase? well, i'd like to have a little bit more definition because we've seen already the united states has had itself by itself up to 40000 troops in the eastern part of the eastern flank of nato and of course they're moving in fighter jets to move in all kinds of other stuff. and you know, i'm just not really sure what the purpose of that is because as you can see, russia can't even go through the rest of ukraine. it certainly isn't going to attack into nato and if anybody's going to bolster up, that probably should be the eastern european countries or the western european countries should bring those to bear, not the united states. are you saying we cannot give ukraine enough weapons to win the war only enough to maybe hold their ground? no, no, no, no, no. i'm not talking about i'm talking about the on the flank of nato. not not all talking about what's going on within ukraine. we should we should give them everything that makes sense to do to allow them the best chance they can to survive very quickly in about 30 seconds left if russia does create that landbridge we have talked about from donbas to the black sea is it impossible to recover from that if ukraine in the near term? yes, it will be because you know, for all of the losses that russia has had, ukraine has had at least commensurate losses as well and it's much harder for them to replace the personal losses as well as trying to reform an offensive capacity in the near term, just not in the cards. >> colonel daniel davis, always great to have you on , sir. thank you for coming on . thanks, chris . well, meantime, a severe weather alert now at least three deaths in the south in southeast georgia. people had barely begun recovery efforts from an earlier twister when another likely tornado touched down, killing one woman and injuring several others. the severe storms are also blamed for killing people in louisiana and texas and many people are now left to pick up the pieces like people living in this bonaire, georgia neighborhood. see that big tree crashing is so i grant my husband's hand and my dog coco is willing to help to move. and this is what got all of a sudden sound like a freight train and all the stuff hitting the house when this barrigan and it was over and a minute or so of severe weather as we get the news that the senate is expected to confirm ketanji brown jackson as the next supreme court justice just hours from now, if confirmed, she would be the first black woman on the supreme court. jackson is currently a judge on the us court of appeals for the d.c. circuit. she was nominated by president biden to succeed justice stephen breyer, who is retiring this summer with the support from republican senators lisa murkowski, susan collins and mitt romney. her confirmation is almost certain, especially of all democrats vote as expected to confirm and big was seemingly on trial on capitol hill on wednesday as executives from shell, exxon mobil and four other major energy companies testified about high gas prices before a democrat controlled house committee correspondent ashley strohmeyer is live on what happened at that hearing. ashley, the oil exactly say the democrats accusations of them trying to rip off americans at the pump simply isn't true . the president of shell saying this week it's illegal for them to set the price of crude oil. take listen because oil is a global commodity, shell does not set or control the price of crude oil. similarly, a shell does not set or control the price that consumers pay. indeed, it would be illegal for shell to do so because nearly all shell branded retail stations in the u.s. are owned by independent operators who set their own prices in the marketplace. so big oil says if lawmakers on capitol hill wanted to really help, they'd be sitting down to meet with the oil company ceos to map a plan for increased production. however, democrats say they've already done enough. done our part or we're doing our part to try to produce or have more oil available on the marketplace. but now it's time for big oil to take some action to reduce the pain at the gas pump. >> president biden and the democrats have continually blamed russian president vladimir putin's invasion of ukraine for the surge and now their focus has actually shifted to the oil companies. but big oil says the steady increase happened much before the invasion started, even before the invasion of ukraine as the world emerged from pandemic, we were seeing a growing imbalance in global oil and gas markets. the invasion has further demonstrated how quickly and dramatically markets can be disrupted by . with the midterms nearing, republicans and democrats alike know those gas prices will be a major issue that will drive the voters to the polls. as the strohmeyer live for us in new york ashleigh, thank you . the latest round of sanctions are hitting vladimir putin's inner circle pretty hard, but the leaders of ukraine say they will still not cut it. why? we'll have more on that next. and for the west getting the russians was to have 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