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hello and welcome. leaders of the g7 group of nations have reinforced their commitment to enhance the economic isolation of russia and step up a campaign against russian elites that are supporting president vladimir putin. the united states has unveiled sanctions against three russian television stations and executives from gazprombank. the uk has pledged to double its military aid to ukraine to £1.3 billion that s about $1.6 billion. the world s top economies have vowed to phase out dependency on russian energy but bulgaria will not support the european union s new set of sanctions against russia if it does not get a delegation from the proposed ban on buying russian oil. the eu says it will hold more talks monday. joining me now is dr adi imsirovic, senior research fellow at the oxford institute for energy studies. thank you for being with us. these talks continue today with the eu to try to reach some consensus and the sticking point is how to get oil supplies to ....
welcome to mtp daily. i m garrett haake in for chuck todd. as fighting in ukraine intensifies, putin is trying to justify the war he started. president zelenskyy is vowing to win the war and president biden is urging his own officials not to leak information to the media to prevent the u.s. from being completely drawn into the war. in eastern ukraine, officials fear 60 people were killed in an airstrike on a school where people were sheltering in what could be among the deadliest attacks on civilians since the war began more than two months ago. meanwhile, ukrainian officials say all civilians have been evacuated from the steel plant in mariupol where they had been holed up alongside ukrainian troops for weeks. i delaware spite russian claims of victory, the last remaining ukrainian forces continue to hold out in that steel plant. in moscow today, president putin defended his country s invasion during a vem cel brags of victory day. the celebration of the soviet union ....
of putin s invasion of ukraine. my guest is zoltan kovacs, the orban government s international spokesperson. so, whose side is hungary on? zoltan kovacs, in budapest, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for being with you. well, thank you forjoining us. we have to start, i think, with the pressing matter of the eu and its latest round of sanctions that it intends to impose on russia. central to this is an oil embargo which will be phased in over time for all member states. hungary, it seems, would be given a little more time to stop using russian oil by the end of 2023. is that acceptable to your government? very shortly, no, it s not. because? the reasons are very simple and i believe we ve been clear about them for the past, not only weeks, but basically months by now. and that is, for us, it s the hungarian interest and that is the hungarian population s and the hungarian economy s perspectives are the most important. that s what we have received a fourth consecutive man ....
three donald trump allies. good afternoon. i m garrett haake in for hallie jackson. i m joined by matt bradley and courtney. and andrea mitchell is our chief foreign affairs correspondent. matt, i ll start with you. you ve been following the travels of these evacuees from mariupol. what can you tell us? reporter: we don t exactly know where they are. we know that some have left, and i ve been here at the parking lot that normally hosts people who come from all over the southeastern region from inside russian occupied territory. they didn t show up, at least not in the numbers that we were expecting today. and not the ones from the steel plant. the much-anticipated arrival of bus loads of civilians sheltered underground underneath that steel factory for months on end. they aren t there yet. instead, we saw quite a few others. we saw people from all over the region, two had come fleeing from russian occupied territory, placeskherson, outside of mariupol. and all of thes ....
this is the sunday show. this sunday we begin with a secret diplomatic trip to a war torn country. house speaker nancy pelosi let a small congressional delegation on an unannounced trip to ukraine. meeting with president volodymyr zelenskyy, and spending three hours on the ground in the capital city of kyiv. it is a strong show of support from the united states. pelosi is now the highest ranking u.s. official to visit to the ukrainian capital since russia s invasion. we believe that we are visiting you to say thank you. for your fight for freedom on any frontier freedom and that your front is a fight for everyone. but our command is to be there for you while this work is done. we as the delegation continues on to polling, the russian foreign minister is warning that any weapons shipments is, quote, fair game as russian forces continue to pound the besieged nation. a glimmer of hope this morning news agency was reported that nearly 40 civilians were successfully evac ....