Is Russia sanctions-proof?
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🗓️ 1 March 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Today on Post Reports, we bring you the latest from the war in Ukraine. How sanctions from the West are tanking Russia’s currency. Plus, a dire new climate report from the United Nations.
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Six days into the invasion of Ukraine, fierce fighting continued in Kharkiv as Russian forces closed in on the second-largest Ukrainian city. A convoy seemed to be stalled outside Kyiv on Tuesday afternoon. Follow the latest on the war from our reporters on the ground.
The United States and Europe have responded to Russia’s aggression with historic sanctions. But are they working? Paul Sonne reports on the impact on Russia’s economy and how much this changes things for ordinary Russians.
Meanwhile, on Monday a newly released report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said that the window is closing to prevent catastrophic climate change.
“Frankly, I don't think that I've ever seen a report so dire,” says climate reporter Sarah Kaplan. “The language is just incredibly bleak.”
There is, however, a glimmer of hope: Humanity still has time to shift Earth's warming trajectory, scientists say. But averting the world’s worst-case scenarios will require nothing less than transformational change on a global scale.
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| 0:00.0 | We are helping our soldiers, we are helping our people, we are actually seeking for sitting |
| 0:12.0 | at home and doing nothing so that we want to help by doing anything, by helping our |
| 0:18.9 | men that are on the war. |
| 0:22.8 | Maria Milieco is an 18 year old in Kiev. |
| 0:26.3 | See and other women are seeing traditional Ukrainian songs as they roll out dough on a |
| 0:30.3 | long table in the basement of a church. |
| 0:33.4 | We are preparing food for our soldiers that defend our city. |
| 0:37.2 | Like no, they are meat but the territory of the fans. |
| 0:40.7 | We are making traditional Ukrainian food but I think it. |
| 0:43.8 | Field with potato or meat or even cheese. |
| 0:48.4 | Like a parogi or it's like a dumpling. |
| 0:52.9 | Yeah, yeah, yeah, like dumplings. |
| 0:55.1 | Later they will deliver the food to nearby troops. |
| 0:59.2 | While so many others are fleeing Ukraine, Maria and her family have decided to stay. |
| 1:04.3 | As any Ukrainian people, I am very angry, I am furious and I want them to go back to |
| 1:14.5 | their country. |
| 1:15.6 | Just do whatever you want in your country. |
| 1:19.5 | This is my home and I will defend it by any ways I can. |
| 1:24.7 | I wanted to join the territory of the fans but my parents wouldn't let me. |
| 1:29.9 | But right now I do whatever I can. |
| 1:33.6 | Whatever I, my parents let me. |
| 1:38.9 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports. |
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