Ukraine Crisis | The Latest on Putin's War & EMERGENCY DECREE.

today has been a big day for ukraine and

if you haven't gotten caught up with

everything that's going on between

ukraine and russia this will catch you

up with what's been going on over the

last four days the weekend and the first

couple days of this week so the united

states has had numerous companies today

announce that they were going to shut

down their operations in ukraine this is

on top of the many other companies that

have already announced that they were

going to stop doing business in ukraine

those companies that had already

announced are companies like apple

burberry ea hermes h m ikea nike under

armour ford and many more but today we

got a lot of updates on this we heard

that uh porsche and a ferrari are and

lamborghini are potentially or

restricting their activities in russia

we also heard that mcdonald's is

shutting down all of its stores in

russia and it's keeping all of its

employees on payroll it is continuing to

uh pay its employees while uh they shut

down all of their mcdonald's stores as

soon as mcdonald's pulled out starbucks

pulled out coca-cola pulled out as soon

as coca-cola pulled out pepsi came out

and said we're gonna remove and stop

spending money on uh any of our ads in

in russia we're gonna stop whatever and

pepsi basically any business in in

russia and pepsi went as far as saying

they have 20 000 associates in russia

and they're going to work to continue to

support their livelihoods while they

pull out of russia so massive shutouts

here the u.s has also warned about

potentially shutting out chinese

semiconductor manufacturers for any

companies that violate russian sanctions

in response to this putin immediately

came out and signed a decree now we

still don't know all of the details of

what's going to be in this but

apparently putin gave his ministers two

days to determine exactly what kind of

commodities they will now ban from being

exported to uh potentially the united

states and other countries so biden's

cabinet has two days for a list of

commodities and specifically which

countries are going to be subject to

that ban he did sign this decree and

this decree would ban these commodities

uh exports all the way through december

31st now this could be a problem because

40 percent of the world's of certain

parts of the world's corn wheat and

metal markets come from russia nickel

for example has three exton price

palladium skyrocketing aluminum

skyrocketing wheat soybeans all

important commodities that come out of

ukraine and uh the russia region

collectively uh of course putin's decree

on uh on uh coming out of russia won't

uh affect so much so the things coming

out of ukraine but you've got a war

going on there and you've got factories

shutting down in ukraine and you wonder

how many of the wheat fields are going

to survive unscathed when it comes time

for wheat harvest in august we just

don't know that yet so you've got this

change coming up within the next two

days that was signed today and so we'll

have a big announcement on those items

in the next two days and that could lead

to even more of a move on some of these

commodity prices

we've also heard from the director of

national intelligence that uh there are

likely somewhere between 2 000 to 4 000

russian soldiers who have died at this

point ukraine says that they have killed

11 000 troops and russia says they've

killed

that only 500 russian troops have died

so the truth is probably somewhere in

the middle of this massive range here

russia is apparently also not retrieving

the bodies of russian soldiers who have

been killed uh which is very unnormal or

abnormal moscow according to the

director of national intelligence has

severely underestimated

the resistance that they would face in

ukraine there are stories that military

individuals from ukraine were told that

they were just going to i'm sorry from

russia we're told that they were going

to

train at the border of ukraine and train

with belarus and then all of a sudden

they found that they were being told hey

guess what you're part of the front line

you're going in to invade ukraine now

but don't worry you're just liberating

the ukrainian people from nazis and when

they got there they obviously were met

by ukrainians who do not want to be

liberated

of course under the incredible

leadership and guidance of zelinski

there have been a lot of attempts to

create safe harbor corridors which the

red cross is trying to set up and

maintain and ensure that ceasefires are

respected on both the ukrainian and

russian side this is very difficult to

do because all it does is take one

random sniper shot from one person or

somebody accidentally discharging a

firearm or somebody purposely

discharging a firearm to violate

potentially the ceasefire on both sides

and then these evacuation corridors fail

now the evacuation corridor so far

coming under fire by zielinski because

zielinski's saying hey russia's trying

to set up evacuation corridors

from ukraine to russia but people don't

want to go to russia and this is leading

to arguments that maybe these corridors

are just being set up for russian

propaganda that russia's setting up the

corridors to say look

you know so they can put on on their

russian televisions hey look we are

letting people from ukraine come to the

great country of mother russia and we

are trying to rescue them from the nazis

uh and the russian media is is very

state sanitized in russia it's worth

noting that i want to say three of the

largest tv

yeah it is three of the largest tv

companies or stations in russia are

either wholly owned by the state

or the state has a majority ownership of

like 50.5 percent in those so in other

words they have all decision making

power which is crazy the cia cia

director our cia director is now warning

that the next few weeks will be quote

ugly and this is due to intensive

intelligence that they have which

they're sharing with ukraine it's also

worth noting that there's a belief that

a ceasefire that starts tomorrow at 11

a.m moscow time so that's in about 12

hours now

it could actually last it's probably in

about nine hours now at this point uh

that this this uh corridor that uh and

ceasefire that russia now sets up could

just be used as an opportunity for

russia to end up pushing some more of

their troops forward peacefully to

eventually encircle keef

and uh they're pushing a lot of troops

from the east to circle kiev and to take

control of the capital and it's possible

that we could see more aggressive

attacks on the capital as russia

essentially lashes out so far we have a

lot of reports including one in the

financial times this morning that says

russia so far has still not used a real

shock and awe strategy of fighting in uh

ukraine and that when they do there

could be a lot more loss of life the new

york times had a cover photo yesterday

of individuals actually trying to flee

from outside of kiev across a bridge to

get into keeve because kiev is still

ukrainian controlled and it's actually

safer than some of the areas right

around akiv

and a family made a run for it and they

ended up getting hit by a russian border

and and died it was absolutely terrible

uh to in these these are civilians just

trying to flee for safety as a mother

and her two children uh they look like

older children that doesn't change the

fact that they were still their children

it's absolutely terrible so in just

kharkiv for example we've had 27

civilians killed in the last 24 hours

the un estimates that over 400 civilians

in ukraine have been killed at this

point

zelensky vows to stay in ukraine to win

a patriotic war and he says that he

doesn't want to lose what's ours however

he has made a large sort of u-turn or

undertaking a large u-turn and that the

uh well that ukraine essentially is now

no longer insisting on nato membership

and there's a belief that maybe this

would lead to some sort of pullback by

russia but russia really is calling for

still despite the third negotiation

attempt now russia is still pushing for

a full demilitarization of ukraine it's

not even clear if ukraine would be

willing to to

so far they've said no but even if we

don't even know if this would be enough

for russia if ukraine just said hey take

donbass let's say the eastern region of

ukraine let's use that as a buffer zone

we don't even know if that would be good

enough at the moment

for for russia and so putin is really

going all in at this point now we do

also just have an update coming through

that uh paypal

it looks like is potentially suspending

services now in russia as well

so these updates are just now coming in

this follows again a whole host of

cancellations of services in russia we

also know that credit card companies

like

sorry american express mastercard and

visa have suspended services for card

users outside of russia now the problem

with that is if you're russian and

you're like i'm getting out of russia

because i don't like russia anymore and

all your money is in russian bank

accounts now you go you use your credit

card outside of russia it doesn't work

so big problem we already know apple pay

and google pay have been having issues

people get stuck in the subways because

they can't use this mcdonald's as we've

mentioned closing all 850 stores

we'll see again how uh putin's decree

goes the european commission today

mentions that they plan to cut the eu

dependency on russian natural gas by

two-thirds quote well before 2030

hopefully so

uh of course we do know that the russian

military still outnumbers and out guns

ukrainians

we do believe that russia could go dark

and ultimately shell

ukrainian cities much more so far since

the invasions began they've launched 600

missiles against ukraine with 100 more

fired just over this weekend

and 82 despite all this eighty-two

percent of ukrainians believe that they

can ultimately drive russians out

now uh mitch mcconnell mentions that 14

billion dollars in aid for ukraine is

likely to be approved very soon

we also know that amazon has eliminated

the opportunity for anyone in belarus or

russia or any company in russia or

belarus to open up any form of aws

contract now the universal music group

has suspended

its work in uh you in russia rather and

ge is also quitting russia with the

exception of essential medical equipment

bumble is removing its app from the

russian uh

versions of the apple app store and the

google play stores

the energy secretary today mentioned

that this our gas prices going up are

because of putin and because of putin's

war that it has nothing to do with biden

or biden's policies that it all has to

do with putin and putin's war

we do know that last week we saw

footage of the

individual family folks from or or just

ukrainians

in their families defending a uh

ukrainian

nuclear facility that operates six

reactors six out of the 15 nuclear

reactors in ukraine

this nuclear facility now only has one

of its six reactors running at 60

capacity and russians have taken control

of this despite that initial ukrainian

resistance this has led to a lot of fear

that russia is basically trying to wave

the nuclear nuclear saber so to speak

and saber rattle nuclear threats without

actually saber-rattling nuclear threats

by essentially taking over these nuclear

power plants

we know that uh the only men who are

able to leave are either men who are

somehow bribing guards who are between

16 or sorry between 18 and 60 years old

they're they're all subject to cons

conscription in ukraine which means

they're obligated to to serve their

country in the military for defense and

uh the only individuals the only men who

are able to leave are those who either

have three children or those who have

been able to basically bribe their way

through the border

we know that uh facebook twitter and

youtube have continued to remove their

services and a lot of folks are in

russia and a lot of folks are now

calling for either putin to find a way

to

essentially retire in in a peaceful way

maybe throw them on an island like

napoleon bonaparte there have been some

references to this

there uh is uh even the potential

suggestion that if this war continues to

fail for russia which so far it is that

there could end up being a coup d'etat

which is a military overthrow of the

government in russia especially

depending on how

terrible the economy potentially

collapses estimates now that you could

see inflation of upwards of 40 percent

in russia we know the russian rupal

is now uh sitting at about 120 rupal per

single dollar putting it well below a

value of one penny per rupal

lindsey graham argued this weekend that

vladimir putin should be quote taken out

and this is really him saying out loud

what a lot of people have been saying

we know that there is a lot of

censorship uh by russia of twitter and

facebook making it harder for

potentially

the other side of the information

argument to actually make it over to

russia we know that elon musk has been

elon musk has been asked to censor

russia today on starlink satellites that

is people using starlink satellite

internet

would potentially be censored from being

able to see russian media like russia

today

russia today

u.s by the way since there's a u.s

version actually shut down in the u.s

and all of their employees were fired

in the u.s it's the u.s version of that

russian state-run media but uh elon musk

refused to

censor anyone he believes that free

speech stands above anything and uh will

not censor anyone including russia today

on the starlink network we know that

fertilizer is having substantial issues

not only due to russia purposefully

halting fertilizer exports purposefully

jacking up costs of food around the

world this is just russia giving a

middle finger to the rest of the world

but then you also have delivery issues

right you've got to remember that that

fedex and ups aren't able to function

there

you've got uh

the

new journalist suspension the

independent journalist suspension in

russia which is another issue they've

passed a law that essentially creates a

criminal code for any independent

reporter in russia who potentially

spreads whatever they deem to be fake

news and if you spread in their mind

fake news in russia about the russian

military you would be subject to a

15-year sentence

for spreading this potential fake news

you have uh this this real fear now as

well that uh

we know that ukraine does not want to be

occupied the ukrainian insurgency is

likely to survive

but there's this fear that what if

russia starts potentially going down the

direction of losing

and if russia starts losing there is

that fear and we've mentioned this a

couple times in this video that they

could really ramp up the aerial

bombardments in ukraine as just sort of

a

actually implementing shock and awe and

lashing out

a lot of talk about also

marupo and the disasters of the safe

passage corridors here talked about the

other safe passage corridors earlier as

well as well as the ones coming forward

we know that in russia and ukraine

restaurants are running out of meat and

fish

uh and there's even talk about a

straight-up censorship between well and

we know this but between

or so much censorship happening in

russia that

family members in ukraine who call their

family back in russia there are reports

of this so obviously it's difficult to

confirm this but there are many reports

of this that family members in ukraine

are calling their family in russia or

people they know in russia and

describing the atrocities of what's

happening in ukraine and the folks in in

russia are responding by saying no that

that can't be true we see it here on tv

this is just a a

mission to rescue and liberate the

ukrainians from the nazis and that there

is no uh you know attack on civilians

when on the flip side obviously here and

you could see this on my twitter profile

you can go through my twitter profile

like history not that i like it but it's

so you can see it and you could see just

the absolute atrocities of

cluster bombs or cluster munitions and

and bombs hitting residential areas air

strikes against apartment buildings it's

absolutely terrible really really

terrible what's happening in ukraine so

this catches us up a little bit i'd say

the biggest next catalysts we have here

for the russia ukraine crisis are

determining what those commodities are

going to be that are going to be on that

ban list from putin's decree and then

also what ultimately ends up happening

with uh after this potential ceasefire

tomorrow which we'll know about probably

tonight

and

uh

and then we'll we'll see what happens in

the coming days the cia and our

intelligence officers here in the united

states not too optimistic instead saying

the next few weeks will continue to be

very ugly for ukraine

well folks there you have it thank you

so much for watching this update on

ukraine and i'll see you next one bye