ah, ah ah, this is deal the news wife from burly russia orders ukraine to surrender. mario, followed by keith, says at bath, out of the question. as fighting in the eastern city rages, russia blaine's what it calls ukrainian nationalists while ukraine's president bullard d mirrors. lansky calls moscow sees a war crime or so running up claims it used to hypersonic miss i for the 1st time in combat and ukraine in this village, behind me destroying a military warehouse. we investigate a potential new escalation in the war as russia turns to next generation weapons in

ukraine. and russia says it's recruiting thousands of syrian mercenaries to join it's invasion of ukraine. we'll look at what's propaganda and what's fact. ah, how i'm clear, richardson. thank you so much for joining us. russia has called on ukrainian force is defending the eastern city of mario paul to surrender by monday morning. the ukraine's leadership has categorically rejected the ultimatum and with it, an offer of safe passage out of the city for traps. civilians, if reigns president while the demure zalinski has described brushes bombardment of mario paul as a war crime. russian state television recalls the destruction in mario paul. russia's military has managed to take parts of the

besieged city following heavy bombardment. the price of its progress, burnt out, buildings and traumatized residence. a nearby steel plant was also hit. russia claims to be d nazi fine. ukraine, but during an address to the israeli parliament, ukrainian president for law miss zalinski himself. jewish said it was russia's invasion which was akin to naziism. not the settled on the, on the 24th of february 1920, the national social workers party of germany and sta. p, was founded. it's a part you took millions of lives destroyed, half the country, tried to kill nations, a 102 years later, on 24th of february. a criminal order was given to launch a large scale russian invasion on ukraine. they're taken to bearing the dead next to their homes in maria pole with graveyards out of reach, due to the fighting bodies line, the streets as the rush and choke hold. squeeze his life out of the city.

the war is wreaking havoc in other parts of the country too. near keith, people were evacuated from the fighting to the po. very suburb of the capitol is super kids who we are evacuated from shinkel village. there was terrible shooting day and night. this is god's nightmare o. all of our buildings are demolished. it's just a terrible war. ah, but everywhere the russians go, they are met with defiance in the occupied city. of course, on angry residents, forced russian trucks to a stop. and eventually, to turn around more evidence, the russian evasion is not going to plan. and for analysis on this, i want to bring in at damira my research. he's

a senior fellow at the atlantic councils, europe center, and he joins us now from washington, d. c. i thank you so much for joining us. i want to begin by asking you about an interview given by lieutenant general ben hodges, the former commander of us forces in europe. and here said the next 10 days, we'll decide the war. i can you give us your take on that? i have to say it's very difficult to know whether general hodges is correct on this . all of us in and the sort of non official sphere are watching the news and trying to piece together exactly what's happening. just like you are in the media and we do see that the russians have failed to achieve their initial goals. absolutely, there's been a setback for them. and as a report, it shows the ukranian response has been quite fierce and they have managed to, to stall what has happened. but it's not clear to me, quite frankly, that the russians have not started adapting to the next phase of the war,

which i think will be one of attrition. given the kinds of losses the russians are taking and the kind of a real morale that the ukrainians are showing. i think that the optimistic take is that perhaps a kind of necessary still made might emerge within the next 10 days. but i wouldn't be quite so certain of that. it's just as likely that we could get just an ongoing grinding war that goes on for weeks of not months. now the west has rejected ukraine's calls for a no fly zone because of the potential military escalation with russia. can you tell us what your analysis is of that? i generally, i am quite sympathetic about for the, with the argument that we should not engage in the no fly zone. i think all the arguments that have been put forth about how that is, in fact, quite dangerous, given that russia is a nuclear power and to get into a hot shooting war with a nuclear power,

we just don't know which way that would go. that's it. i think that the question of the no fly zone actually it tends to distract from the fact that we are quite engaged in this war and we are doing a lot of ukrainians. the sections package has been quite unprecedented and is actually for inflicting quite a toll on russia's economy. and beyond that, we are sending a lot of troops, pardon me, not troops, a lot of weapons, both western advanced kit as well as soviet era, antiaircraft weapons and other tools that are in fact i'm showing real gains for the ukrainians on the ground. now the question is, what happens next? your previous report was from mario pole. and as i understand it, the russians have now given some kind of unspecified ultimatum to the ukrainians that they quit more. you poll by 5 am in moscow time or face on specified consequences. should that go uglier? should there be no unrestricted, carpet bombing or worse, chemical weapons,

and worse than that? well then, i think the west will have to reassess how it will approach the situation. does that mean no fly zones? i'm not sure it does. there are many things that the west can still do the fall, quite short of no fly zones that can quite inflict quite a lot more pain on the russians. he mentioned worse than that. of course, russia as a nuclear armed power is for the west, one of the major concerns this weekend. you actually tweeted the new world is with us regardless of whether putin fires a nuclear weapon in this conflict. non proliferation is a dead idea. i mean, that is quite a statement. can you tell us what you meant by it? well, i think you know, it, this has a lot to do with the fact that, that we, we have conceived of the world as being stabilized by, by a kind of mutually assured destruction that the process would be one of slowly phasing out nuclear weapons. and that, you know, aggression to this time would ultimately be deterred several pieces of come out

recently, arguing for the fact that we have badly misjudged how this works. and a lot of this has to do with the fact that the russians and the chinese themselves are able to field these so called a tactical nuclear weapons, battlefield nukes, which are able to actually, at least theoretically they have yet to be used in a battle. but in theory can be used in a battle without escalating the whole conflict. 2 mutually assured destruction. in that with that is the background. we really will have to rethink how to do deterrence after this, how to prevent these kinds of wars from happening. how to use hard power and indeed not sort of a dream of the fact that a post nuclear world is within reach. i don't think that it is quite frank. unfortunately, i have to leave it there. but to me here, my research, the senior fellow with the atlanta counsels europe center, want to thank you so much for coming to detail the news. thank you very much. and

in a potential escalation, russia says it has used hypersonic missiles for the 1st time to attack to separate targets in ukraine. the missiles have a range of up to 2000 kilometers and are difficult to intercept due to their speed t. w. 's. a funny for char spoke with people in the village of dahlia tin in western ukraine, where one of the parents missile attacks on an armed depot took place this past friday. we are in del, yet in a rural town in western ukraine. so far it's been out of focus, but that changed last weekend. russia claims it used to hypersonic miss i for the 1st time in combat in ukraine, in this village, behind me, destroying a military warehouse, not a ukrainian government has not verified. this type of missile was used and people here are tight lipped about the alleged attack, fearing what else may follow from russia was night. i haven't heard any information about this. if any confirmation exists or not. but the situation is trustful,

all the time will wait for something unexpected to happen, even on. oh, many of those who are still staying here come to this church every day to seek peace and calm, but the priest himself is concerned. he says he too does not want to speak on camera about the alleged hypersonic attack, but he says, so, but the browner, more's a book, this situation may become worse depending on the mood of the animates of enforcer. ah, it's kind of like if we don't know what he wants, because there is no reasonable logic behind these things. ah, vocally because when strategic objects are captured yet, but it's clear. but when school kindergarten hospitals are destroyed, hello, there is no hurry for anything good up of the in the montrose provides almost broken up. why all the silence in this community here? this woman wants to explain. she says the state governor urges people to not

publish anything when an air strike takes place, allegedly, to not help vienna mi, seeing a personal i did a here and seeing i didn't saw an a thing. and even if i did, i would the ceo, he is something we should and talk about such things as our government says that we should and to talk we should keep quiet. the ukrainian government in keith did not provide any further details of what actually happened here in dela team. but people's response to stay reserved indicates that psychological impact of war that would go into week number 4. and meanwhile, russia says it's recruiting a mercenary fighters from syria to join the assault on ukrainian cities. moscow has spoken of bringing in thousands of syrian militia fighters with experience in urban combat. can a lot of shows it. we're not afraid of this war guys and are ready and waiting for

a marching orders in those yard assyrian militia leader delivering a warning to ukraine from a church. now bill abdulla says he wants to give the ukrainians a lesson. they will never forget, no jordan on bureaus. ya are $700.00 orthodox christian fighters under his command, a militia that takes his orders from president a sad, serious ruler, has equipped them with weapons and heavy equipment, including tanks. there station, here on the front line in the lab series, last remaining rebel stronghold the militia chas. close linked with russia. the need for russian state tv, the christian fight has let themselves be filmed in a convoy on every car, the zed symbol of rushes. invasion of ukraine. that wouldn't be a flight. the head of the u. k. bay syrian observatory for human rights says that while much is propaganda, his source is confirmed. the basic facts behind it. to transport planes with fighters have already departed syria. one besides a political move,

they were already requested by russia, if will, some of them could already be in moscow or ukraine malady. they have urban combat experience and have taken part in military operations under russian supervision in syria. a daughter, ruthie, alaska. if you sophia, according to the observatory, 40000 fighters are ready to join putin's war and have registered to fight. 22000 have been accepted by russia so far. but whether they are really a certain of victory as they appear in the cremeans propaganda videos is questionable. oh, me home club would. was it all in syria. they wanted to save their homes in, but when they're fighting on foreign soil, he will, they show the same motivation will do enough or will they just be cannon fodder in the end, whether i have to hold with mommy many, a drawn to recruitment centers like this one out of sheer necessity hoping to secure a ticket to europe even if they're bound for a war zone. and there's a lot of money on the line as this in rowley. and as the wida told

a japanese reporter at that hour, they say that i can get $7000.00 a month on the front line, $3000.00 for other positions. and i think that that after the a difficult choice for serious would be fighters, poverty at home or war and even death in a foreign country. and in a sports ukrainian high jumper euros lava ma, who shake one a gold medal at the world indoor championships in belgrade, which she only attended after a treacherous journey. my who check cleared the bar at 2.02 meters to claim the goals. he said she had left ukraine amid explosions, fire and air raid sirens. but the trip to serbia, taking her 3 days, she said her performance was a quote, a defense of ukrainian colors. ah,

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