So hopefully now when we reach the second and third lines of defence that the russians have established, those will be easier to essentially overcome. And perhaps hopefully this is the spot, this is the place where we can actually put all the modern nato technology, the tanks that weve been getting and the training that weve been receiving, put all of that to use to our advantage. And just really, really briefly, the hope from your side that ukraines military has managed to break through these defences, how does that sit in the war across the country . Is this a key moment, would you say . Hopefully its the key moment. Again, well see what happens. Its hard to predict any at any point, including at this point. But you know what the objectives are. We have a Common Objective of liberating ukraine, notjust for ukraine, but for the whole western developed democratic world, because this is a standoff between democracies and authoritarian systems, and its really key for everybody to chip in
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
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 wednesd
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