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immigration here at home could get in the way. meanwhile, new attacks all across ukraine, including kyiv, as the united nations chief visited the country. plus, things go from bad to worse in mariupol, as russia bombs a makeshift hospital inside the steel plant where fighters and civilians are barely holding on. former ambassador to ukraine, bill taylor, joins us in a moment. and later, we ll talk to former u.s. ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul, on the very latest in ukraine. and the january 6th committee ready to go public as the chairman announces the date of the first open hearings on the attack on the capitol. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, april 29th. quite a week. yesterday, we knew president biden would be asking congress to fund a sweeping aid package aimed at keeping ukraine in the fight against russia for at least the next five months. we just didn t know how much he would be asking for. we heard from the president, propos ....
end it. translator: if someone intends to intervene in what is happening from the outside and creates unacceptable strategic threats for us, then they should know that our response to oncoming strikes will be swift, lightning fast. we have all the tools for this. ones that no one can brag about. and we won t brag, we will use them if needed. the war will not turn with the war will end when the russian federation decides to end it and when there is after a ceasefire a possibility of a serious political agreement. we can have all meetings, but that is not what will end the war. overnight britain s defense minister said putin may seek to consolidate what he has in ukraine and dig in like a cancerous growth. we re also learning about more horrors out of donetsk. the u.s. has credible information that russian military units executed ukrainians there while they were surrendering, their hands were bound, their bodies showed signs of torture and they were killed execu ....
good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this thursday, april 28th. i m jonathan lemire. president biden is expected to ask congress to fund a new aid package for ukraine today, and in scheduled remarks from the white house this morning, two sources tell nbc news, that the president will lay out the details of a quote massive request, which is intended to last through september. the u.s. has already provided ukraine with more than $3 billion in aid since the invasion began, including an $800 million package that was announced last week. following that spending, president biden said the white house had nearly run out of funding authorized by congress. prices for natural gas have increased after russia stoked tensions by cutting off exports to poland and bulgaria for refusing to pay with russian rubles. both countries are members of nato, and are heavily reliant on russian natural gas. but so far, officials in those two countries say the action taken by russia won ....
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atlanta. ia i ll have all the other latest including a new prison sentence for awning sung suchy. a military court has found her guilty of corruption. and we begin this hour with a dramatic escalation and tension between russia and the west over the war in ukraine. now threatening to hammer european economies. they say they ve now halted supplies. after them denying russia to pay in rubles. they re cutting to the pipeline you re seeing in green. the move could signal trouble for european economies more broadly, which is still heavily reliant on russia s energy. meanwhile with, a state of attack in and around moldova is raising fears russia is planning a new front on the war in ukraine. after explosions destroyed radio towers and a reported rocket attack a day earlier. the blast happened in a russian-backed break-away region highlighted in red on your screen. we re hearing they hit a key rail and road bridge. russia s trying to sew tension between his country and mold ....