Gazprom, the state-owned Russian gas group, today cut off all supplies to Europe traveling through the Ukrainian pipelines, intensifying the political and economic crisis that has arisen out of a payment dispute between the two countries.

And now, Russia, because of Ukraine threatening to reneg on their lease of a naval port and moving weapon systems up against the border, Russia cut back on some of the basically free gas they've been giving them as a subsidy as part of that deal. And so what did Ukraine do? They just cut off gas to Europe.

People could die there, folks. I mean, below zero in many of those countries. In fact, people are dying.