Today we're talking about Russia cutting off some European gas, the US economy's bad

first quarter, the NFL draft and other top news for Friday, April 29th.

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Stay 64 of the war in Ukraine and a chorus of Kumbaya seems as unlikely as ever.

As far as things between Russia and the West, they are not good.

Yesterday, Russia turned off the tap on Poland and Bulgaria's natural gas due to their

quote, failure to pay in rubles, a new requirement for countries that Putin deems unfriendly.

The two European countries called the rubles requirement a violation of their contract

and the head of the European Commission called it blackmail.

Meanwhile, Germany signaled they're now open to a full European embargo of Russian oil.

Obviously it was believed that the EU needed Russian energy and Russia needed the EU's

money, too much to cut one another off, but it turns out, maybe not.

Meanwhile, the war in Ukraine appears to be spreading.

Now that we can all find Ukraine on the map, geography class turns to Moldova, a small

country nestled between Ukraine and Romania.

President Putin alleges there have been, quote, acts of terrorism in the impoverished country

and Russia must go liberate the oppressed peoples.

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