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music more moon. you're very welcome back to r t international coming in live twenty four hours a day from moscow now despite calls for a cease fire growing ever larger kiev has stepped up its military crackdown against the centers of government resistance in east ukraine this week the situation in the regional capital of the next remains tense with explosions heard on the outskirts deeley earlier raids on shelling have become every day reality for the people in. in the artillery attack on the city centers residential areas a kindergarten in the school were severely damaged on the army's mortar fire in broad daylight killed at least sixteen on friday meanwhile the organization for security and cooperation in europe puts the number of lives lost in lugansk since the summer of two hundred fifty. ukraine border with the latest updates from the.
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residence of reported hearing air raid sirens again again last night and they're saying that fighting continues on the outskirts of the city now according to defense forces ukrainian troops are gaining ground seeking to take control over the road that is connecting the god's goodness but just to these that are essentially capitals of the two regions. varying. by the ukrainian army this city has been heavily hit its infrastructure damaged and people are saying they are left without water electricity gas is also. finding a shortage off of course there are instances of people being hit in the middle of the day by artillery and mortar shells at one instance eight people have died when a shell hit a. wall always the observers have said that two hundred fifty people have been killed since the beginning of june alone previously that number is given for
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civilian casualties for the entire generation of the conflict for both regions and so now. i can assume that that number is probably a lot higher than those people have to in the industry they're living here and what the u.s. uses over peaceful life is so explicit is. this you look like the terrorists. you know. the fighting continues and at times it can be heard on the border between russia and ukraine with residents complaining about shells flying into their backyards essentially despite the fact that petro poroshenko has assured that civilians are not going to be. targets by ukrainian military nevertheless they seem to be bearing the brunt of off the pressure and when exactly at this conflict is going to end is not yet clear with of course the world's attention being on the aftermath of the disaster of flight m.h. seventeen the fighting that doesn't seem to subside in southeastern ukraine goes on
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before the finish customs have seized the shipment of military equipment for ukraine officials describe it as quote military goods that belong to certain types of arms and quote local media report the shipment comprised of components for a mistrial guidance systems customs officials declined to confirm that the shipment was seized at the end of june of helsinki because it was locking necessary permits for defense material it reportedly originated from vietnam and was heading to ukraine in transit via finland the finnish military are investigating the case. on this washington proceeds with its accusations against moscow claiming it's doing nothing to deescalate tensions in ukraine fresh sanctions have been imposed this week against major russian companies russia's biggest oil producer rosneft along with gazprom bank are among those targeted just to give you an idea of the scale of these companies gazprom bank is the country's third largest bank it finances some
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of russia's most prominent energy projects rosneft is a vital contributor to the state budget generating over one hundred billion dollars in revenue these two along with several other firms and are forbidden from borrowing money on u.s. markets for periods longer than ninety days and here is how the russian president reacted to the move. as far as sanctions are concerned they usually have a boomerang effect like i've said before and they will eventually lead russian u.s. relations to a dead end to damaging them severely i'm also positive that these measures harm america's long term strategic interests and the interests of its people. we earlier spoke to the editor of business new europe magazine benares he explained to us how the new sanctions could affect russia's economy they seem to be very targeted at a few companies and specifically this is a significant scaling up because these are financial sanctions until now it's been
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aimed mainly at individuals and there's trying to find a tricky sort of path between on the one hand punishing russia and on the other hand maintaining the businesses that are here because you have a huge business lobby both in america and particularly in europe who are invested in making most of the profits here and the european partners are putting a lot of pressure on the states you know to to keep it contained to back off so that they don't lose any money it's not effective in so much as it doesn't really do much economic damage but it is effective because psychologically in all that all the sanctions have been posed who has very little economic damage directly but the psychological effect is enormous i mean the ruble has already tanked today and the threat that more sanctions will come has created this environment of uncertainty washington's eaglets just partly shared in europe with brussels only weighing the decision to freeze funding for future projects with russia and are now looks like the e.u. is caught in an orchid position as dr richard wellings from the institute of
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economic affairs told us. e.u. russian trade is about ten times the size of u.s. russian tris they clearly are potentially massive losses from the u. imposing too stringent sanctions on russia particularly given the huge dependence on russian energy imports in countries towards the sort of eastern side of the european union so there's a big difference in emphasis and i think. the e.u. at this stage of gesture politics where it's trying to if you like to please the americans but do as little as possible in reality so i think really we we're not going to be a much action from the they'll try and get away with as little as possible without really upsetting the white house. for it is one of its worst ever transport acts into early or at this week during the morning rush hour on choose the three cars to real killing more than twenty people and injuring at least one hundred fifty
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several survivors are still in intensive care and this is what the aftermath looked like. i think i mean here i kind of but i think. you. know. i think you. heard what this three days through the wreckage and sorry i prefer services could resume here's how one eyewitness described the moment of the disaster. you can see it they knew i was thrown into the air there was blood on the floor heads bruised some people had broken ribs and one person was injured and old people were hysterical we started to get out when we saw a door in the tunnel will men eventually broke the door and we saw workers constructing a parallel tom they helped us to get out investigators are still debating the
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different theories as to how a relatively new railway section became the scene of such a deadly accident so far they've identified an incorrectly secured truck switch as the most likely cause of the tragedy two metro workers have been detained over safety preaches an investigator said the circle of suspects could expand. i'll be back with more news in just a few moments time you're watching r.t. international to stay with us. in. the midst of success.
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they don't want to see foreigners in their country and will fight to guerilla war till the end. of. our headlines in our to rebel leaders in eastern ukraine say they have the flight recorders from the two malaysian airliner and are ready to hand them over to international investigators. as questions pile up over the tragedy we take a look at some of the all next plane details including why the aircraft strayed from its usual route and why dispatchers told to traduce altitude. also coming up this hour civilian deaths go largely unnoticed in the anti government stronghold of lugansk in eastern ukraine as kiev brushes it off its military onslaught in the wake of a plane crash.
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