March 7, 2022

With oil prices at a 14-year high, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said today that the EU has to "get rid of the dependency on Russian gas, oil, and coal." Bill McKibben says responding with renewables is the way to both defeat Putin and alleviate climate change. He tells Hari Sreenivasan that now is the time to transition away from fossil fuels.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is visiting the Baltic nations -- all of them NATO members -- to reassure them, and to warn Putin that NATO is reinforcing its eastern flank. For more on this, Christiane speaks with U.S. Ambassador to NATO Julianne Smith.

Christiane speaks with the Mayor of Mykolaiv, who confirms Russia's use of cluster bombs and reports that Ukrainian fighters have pushed a number of Russian tanks away from the city's airport.

Andrey Kurkov is acclaimed the world over for satirical novels like "Death and the Penguin." He has put his latest novel on pause in order to speak out about what is happening to his country and his countrymen. He joins Christiane from western Ukraine.