They can at the moment, including imposing war sanctions on the russians on friday, including some of putin s top oligarchs. also, starting the process of removing russia s most favored trade nation status. so these are some of the tools in the tool box that the biden administration continues to roll out, stephen. a lot of pleased that no-fly zone which is something we heard this morning. and ali, walk us through what s happening on capitol hill. we know about the trade status, the effort to revoke russia s trade status. what is going on with that? well, stephen, early last because our president biden announce, as we are awfully or that ban on russia s oil imports after growing calls for lawmakers here on capitol hill. and following in that pattern, we saw him on friday announced that with european allies and g7 nations, that the u.s. would cut off, as leigh anne mentioned, russia s favored trading status with the united states.
Since this began. so it s a really difficult thing to get a handle on. stephen? so awful, these people already forced from their homes. now, dealing with that potential threat. kelly, reporting must from poland, and molly under reported much from lviv, ukraine. thank you, both. for more on all of this, we are joined by ukrainian member of parliament, and andrew shapiro, director and founder of beacon global strategies. first, enough, you are in kyiv, region of kyiv right now. how are you doing, first of all? what is life like for you right now? well, i think it is, well, now given the baseline, it is better than people living in mariupol, people living in my native kharkiv, which had been bombarded and destroyed. i am safe, to an extent. all of my loved ones are alive. of course, the situation in the city of kyiv is extremely intense, because we do see that the russians have an idea of gathering their forces and
But, recent studies show that americans are responded by driving less. some, already with reduced travel due to pandemic work from home setups. so, how much higher can these prices go? most experts i ve spoken to say that we should expect this to go on for at least several months. there is an old adage, in the industry, that gas prices rise like a rocket and fall like a feather. catie beck, nbc news. that s going to do it for us this morning. thanks for watching msnbc reports, i m stephen romo. velshi starts right now. good morning, i m ali velshi. it is sunday, march 13th. it is day 18 of russia s war against ukraine. it is 8 am eastern, 1 pm here in the han, hungry. on the border with ukraine,
American military structures houston time at the base. we asked the ministry of defense this morning whether any foreign military instructors were either part of those injured, or a part of those of course killed, or even at the base. we have not received an answer. but as you said, that death toll, really just skyrocketed in the last 35 people have been confirmed dead. 134 injured. stephen? that is concerning, indeed. we are also hearing reports, molly, of another mayor of the ukrainian city being kidnapped by russian troops. can you tell us anything about that? yes, that is right. this is the second day in a row this has happened. yesterday, stephen, we were talking at the mayor of mariupol who was apparently abducted, according to ukrainian officials. last night, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy came on air and said no one was made dresses extra, and implored the russians to give up this mare and this is a tactic ukraine officials say is a psychological tactic, in additio