make the situation even worse, reporting in washington. rachel blevins, r t. former us diplomat jim john trust says it's not the ukraine conflict that has caused the rising prices, but rather a mismanagement by the, by an administration. i say really a releasing oil from the strategic petroleum reserve will have a small and one time shot impact on lower prices. but it won't be a lasting impact. and once that's gone, there's no more that can be done. it's like a pistol with only one bullet, and that's all they've got. i remember this was going on even before the war. and ukraine started that mr. biden had an act of the number of what they called green energy policies. that were really a kind of a war on while and gas and other fossil fuels, even when we would take into account ukraine. war is the response to the war rather than the war itself. that's causing the prices to go up. there was notable inflation going on already before the crane war started. and now it's becoming much worse. the un secretary general's a spokesperson condemns britton's censorship of russian media outlets including r t