ah, ah, president tutoring makes the choice to immediately recognize the sovereignty of ukraine's dom bus republics. also citing treaties of friendship, cooperation, and mutual assistance. president of the russian federation, vladimir putin is signing the executive decree on recognition of that done at people's republic. easy dealers. he's the president of the russian federation for vladimir putin signing the executive decree on recognition the lo ganske people's republic, who no shelling bought fireworks in the don bus after recognition of the independence is officially signed in the kremlin days of happiness and broad smiles. not only in

done yet against republics, but also in many russian regions where thousands are found a safe place to shelter western leaders, salaam rushes move to recognize them. yes, can move guns, autonomy threatening both moscow on the done don back to public with new harsh sanctions. ah, you're watching r t international, almost been quite a historic news day here in russia. my name is peter scott and welcome to the program. president putin has ordered the troops be sent to don bass to maintain peace in the region. the move comes rights after an announcement of recognition of the independence of done yet unless danced republics. now we can cross that live now, so it's easier for train ko who has been following this development very closely.

one of the decrees now, what else was also said in this address? well, we do have to understand that 1st of all, we're, we're looking at the agreement between russia and the donates and lou ganske republics. because the most important thing for us to understand was what follows this announcement by the kremlin of the recognition of the independence of don't you can build on. and now we understand that there is going to be military cooperation immediately after that. you mentioned the troops being moved to the d, p r and the l p r. but this is, according again to a treaty side between moscow and the 2 republics. and if we look at some other elements of it, i can actually name quite a few and most important, see, it's about what russia can do on the territory of this, these republics. because it's clear, you know, that the sizes of the states are different than russia will be able to use the

infrastructure of the 2 republics to build some of its own military objects and move its troops all the territory of these republics. besides this, russia will be able to help donna and scandal gone to secure the borders of the 2 republican. that's the most important thing for doing this can lugens because that will definitely make v crating military have a 2nd thought about whether to continue attacking the territory of these 2. now, besides this, again, we understand that a significant amount of rushing hardware will be able to be moved there as well. because now moscow recognizes these 2 republics as entities of international law. and it has signed a treaty with them. so, but there you have it, it's as simple as that. now there are other elements of that treaty as well that have to do with the economy. in particular,

russia will try and support the financial and banking systems of donates can ganske, which is very important for the people as well. because during all be 7 or 8 years of instability and being in limbo after the year, 2014, the life and the financial matters of the republics were also in limbo. it was very difficult for the people as well. now. well, what i want to move on is tell you about the particular elements vladimir putin speech. it could have been very short after listening from, after listening, sorry to the most important political figure, senior government officials of the russian federation, who said, yes, this recognition is something that's required at this point. just could have just come out and said ok, we've made the decision there. you have a but instead his speech was almost an hour long and it almost sounded like history lesson. in particular, we could remember how mister pool said that's the territory of modern

ukraine as it is right now is the way it is thanks to some of the decisions that were made by the soviet leaders mclennan by starting by khrushchev who pretty much gave crimea to ukraine as a present during the soviet time. so mr. made it clear that he believes that ukraine currently as it is, is in existence. thanks to the soviet union. that is his opinion. you may agree with it. you may not. and then he went on to talk about the laws on the commune is ation. that is something that is out there and you can right now. for instance, one of the elements of that law is that the cities and towns and ukraine could no longer be called the way they were called in the us sr. mister prudent said, well, now you'll see what real de communication is. again, perhaps hinting that he will be recognizing don, it's,

and the gods because independent entities of international law, because he believes that these regions of russia were added to ukraine under the soviet times. but more important the i'd have to say that you couldn't spoke of the motivation of the reasoning for that crucial historic decision by the kremlin. he wasn't saying which of them is more important for him because as far as understand for the washing leader, these are equally important. in particular, he spoke about the safety of the russian speaking population of these region. and like we've been saying all along, they were living under the constant threat of being bombarded by ukrainian missiles . and as far as we can understand in the past few days or weeks, this wasn't just a threat. this was a reality for these people. so safety of the pro russian population in that region of ukraine, safety of the russian speaking population on the one hand. but then on the other

hand, the military aspect, the build up, the nato build up on rushes doorstep. the military aid that was kept being sent to key of and so on and so forth. in fact, mister port and even spoke about how from the natal viewpoint. as he believes ukraine was almost being prepared to be used as a theater of battles in the future. well, probably not the near future, but in the years to come. so let's listen to that particular part of mr. poodle speech, where he described it the amount of the went started explore the territory of ukraine as the future theater of military action that the future battlefield and it is aimed against russia. last year alone, it had more than 20000 troops and more than 1000 equipment hardware. again, it's well, as you mentioned before, i was quite a long speech an hour long and it did turn into a bit of

a history lesson. i listened to it to myself, myself on duty. he mentioned quite interesting encounter with the former us president bill clinton. what can you tell us about what? yeah, that was something again mr. brewton said he never described this meeting to, to the media or anywhere. there was an organ. yeah. that was 22 years ago. that was when mister pool just became president of russia. and at that time, bill clinton was already a lame duck president. but still the meeting between the 2 leaders happened. and there was a proposal that came from walmart that would perhaps, nowadays sound as completely unbelievable mister prudent asked what balkan thought about russia potentially becoming a natal member. can you imagine that in the morning time? certainly not. no. clearly that's something that, again, like i said, would sound completely out of the ordinary nowadays, but back then mr. potent said,

okay, but this idea could potentially be on the table. but instead he got a cold shoulder from bill clinton. and mister picking says that at that time, it became abundantly clear for him that no matter who's in charge of the democratic republicans or anyone else the west doesn't need russia. as a strong player, rush is still big. and what has the potential to return all its international mike that it last after the collapse of the soviet union and mr. put in for the us or other major nato countries will never need russia. and that capacity trickles into that you will. interesting, you said you don't want to see friend and as an ally enough, but why do you want to make many me out of us? but the only answer that we got was, it's not about our political regime or anything else. it just, they don't need such a big and independent country,

it's russia. so that's the answer to all the question that the source of provisional american policy they pursue in the russian track. so what's next? again, if we're talking about the military aspect, and if we're talking about the specific threats for russian security, mister putin went on to talk about that as well. and we can remember how the military aid from the us from, from nato countries was expanding year on year. i remember i've made several reports about that. first, it was non lethal military aid. then it turned into lethal military a. but also think of the new ne, 2 members. what's been happening to them in the past 2 decades. first, they become natal members. then in a few years, the missiles that could potentially reach russia are stationed or deployed there.

this is almost inevitable, just learning from history. you know, and mister putin believed that this is also something inevitable for ukraine, even if it doesn't become a natal member. but if it signed some agreements on military cooperation with the likes of the us and mister prudent even went on to talk about the ranges of the potential weaponry and the missiles that could be placed there. and in particular, he spoke about the actual threat for the european part of russia, but some of these arms could actually hit as far as beyond the urals. he said, bound to gun has openly started developing a whole range of the land based meet solve, with a range of $5500.00 kalonde rates. if such systems are deployed in ukraine, they can hear the targets in the european russia and also behind the euro's and

travel time. all the tomahawk missiles to moscow will be less than 35 minutes. ballistic missiles, 78 minutes and hybrid sound offensive weapons for 5 minutes. that's like having a knife against our throat. well, peter, you've been asked. well, you just arrived, but i remember how roar he's been asking. most of our guests, what's next in terms of the pressure that russia could face from the west? we understand that. hey, well, it's sanctions. as usual. did mr. brewton mentioned that yes he did, but he's got a particular viewpoint on the economic measures that the west could slap russia width. in particular, mister putin said that he believes, no matter what russia does, the western countries will find a pretext to hit russia with new sanctions. in particular,

he said this about to this potential punishment. without sure that they tried to blackmail us once again, they threaten us with sanctions. and i think they will still impose those in fred use those as strong and as more powerful our country becomes we will always find an excuse to introduce more sanctions regardless of the situation on ukraine. that is the only goal they have is to contain the development of bruship. and they will do that, like they did it before peter, i said potential, but i guess potential isn't the right word because we already heard from western leaders that they're coming. but that was easy to expect. right? that's right. yeah. yeah. they've already said it. so i guess in the next couple of days or so it become clear exactly what those consequences are going to be. artillio. katrinka, thank you very much for breaking down the lengthy, iconic historic address by russian president buddy may preach. i'm sure the last

time we have you in the studio talking about it. you're welcome. anyway. thank you . now people in don boss are celebrating russian recognition of their sovereignty. you can see them 2nd off fireworks and waving russian flags when we heard from local don. yes. residents who gave us their reaction to the events. danielle sheila and you have an order with the weight. i know what what, what it origin horton. oh, what about like with . 2 all not a c as us do us to read, you're not dealing with, you know, you know,

not on the story, not is not well for his opinion. on this developing story, we're now joined live by it's scott ritter, ortho analyst and former marine corps intelligence officer and weapons inspector scott, welcome to the program. thanks. read me now in response to this move to recognize the independence of the don't yet sca lugens republics. nato members have called for new weapons to be sent to ukraine. what's effect, do you think this'll have an audi very tense situation? this is, this is an absurdity. in the extreme, i mean nato is just, you know, repeating, you know, one mistake after others. weapon systems do not constitute military capacity. i mean, you, one would have think they would have learned that lesson in afghanistan, after pouring and billions of dollars of the most modern military equipment to the afghan army, you know, the,

the army collapsed and left these weapons behind ukrainian military today, while sizable is not a modern functioning military operating under doctrine that allows it to compete head to head with the military power, like like russia, whatever weapons are being sent cannot be absorbed either physically. they can't be utilized in accordance with the technical requirements. and they're not incorporated into overall doctrine that supports the technology. busy a present, so either they're going to be given the troops on the front lines who are ill prepared to use them, or they're going to be stored in warehouses where they'll either be captured or destroyed. if there is a larger conflict, the nato hasn't learned anything here. it. and it just proving that this, this dispatch of weaponry is just a, a, a further example of nato's impotence. you know, they think they're being strong,

but they're not. this is, this is a show, this is theater, but it has nothing to do with reality except further expose ukraine to, you know, the potential dire realities of what war really is. now many western leaders don't think it bias johnson joe biden just a barrel have not really pulled that punches in response to this move. what do you see? the potential consequences of this recognition of independence being for russia looked at the di was cast a long time ago in russia, and president putin knew this. you know, they, they, that the russians put out to treaties last december, 1 to the united states, one to nato in which they laid out in one detail, their demands for security guarantees. these demands haven't been met. and clearly nato and the united states, burrell, the, you, the british, maybe clear that under no circumstances where they going to give the russian

concerns over security guarantees to due consideration. they just refused to respond. and they, they let it be known that if russia takes for their actions, there will be these quote, unquote, massive sanctions. russia wasn't going to back down. so the outcome is inevitable. we're going to get more rhetoric out of the west. they will implement the sanctions, the sanctions will have 0 impact, and russia will continue to be very aggressive in terms of its demands for security guarantees. and as they pointed out, i mean, we can look at what happened with zone yes. can look, guns is a microcosm of the security guarantee for lugens can don't. yes, we're supposed to be meant that makes the meant to agreements that agreement gone. russia made it clear that it has no validity there. there's nothing those days are over. russia is going to guarantee their security. russia said that ukraine's membership in nato represents an, a,

an unacceptable risk. if nato continues to pursue this false promise of nato membership, if you train continues to pursue it. if nato continues to feed as fantasy by supplying weapons, i'm afraid we might see a, another phrase of this conflict to which all nato has to respond with our sanctions, which russia to cure less about. so i'm very concerned that the west doesn't have a plan to deal with this diplomatically. and in the end of the day, the only thing russia has left of diplomacy is taken off the table is the military technical solution. now you twist upon this in the answer to that question, then the u. s. secretary, they said that the recognition of the l p r and the d p r with a violation of the midst agreements. but it seems with setting a blind eye to kids compliance with them. do you think this is another kind of, of double standards? well, of course, 1st of all, russia had no duties under the immense agreements. jim did. ukraine did,

and ukraine has made it clear that they were not interested in pursuing men schism . lensky made this clear. when he spread his repeated over and over again. that this was an agreement that was negotiated by a prior regime under pressure. and that his presidency, ukraine, under his leadership, has no desire to see it through that. the unit is a bad deal. so you know that men's guess dead men sc is dead. and after listening to president perkins speech on the history, the formation of ukraine, ukraine, better be careful, or it might be dead. i mean, listen to the way he spoke about the government. he didn't call it the government of ukraine. he called it, you know, those who took power through those who currently hold power and ukraine through a qu, underscoring the russian point of view that unless he government is illegitimate in every regard. well, over the past couple of weeks been told by western politicians and especially the

media of war, this eminence war stoke in the embers of this situation. he would benefit from this potential or the talk of war between russia and ukraine. no one. i mean, i did, there would, there will be no one who benefit from this and, you know, russian president vladimir food has said this over and over again that he doesn't want to invade. i think the russians no fully, well, what the consequences of a military action ukraine may be a short term military victory, long term. you know, it won't improve the security policy for russia won't improve russia's economic posture, and it will be stabilizing for the globe. but, you know, she recognizes this, that's why he sought a diplomatic solution. but did the thing is made in the united states don't seem to recognize this. it's almost as if they want to war in the iron. he is willing to sacrifice ukraine on the altar of false. you're not the false promise of nato

membership. this is the tragedy. no one will benefit from this, but the people that are going to suffer the most of the people of ukraine and they're being sacrificed by nato. we're a point of principle of the principle of open door policy. there is no open door policy and they will re read article 10 of the of the needle charter. we're talks about letting nations in only if that nation's inclusion in nato will improve the security posture of nato. should that invitation be extended? there's no automatic entree. and there's no one that can articulate a case that ukraine's membership and nato would enhance the security of any what all it does is guarantee war. so i don't think russia wants this war. i don't think ukraine doesn't want this war. but, you know, who does nato, because a war over ukraine would give nato in it's a leaf system, a reason to exist,

and nato is desperately searching for a reason to exist after the debacle of afghanistan. so i think the responsibility for all of this falls on the shoulders of those diplomats in brussels, who are unable to come up with a solution to problem that russia has been articulating for some time. now, i mean, back in 2009, william burns, then the us ambassador wrote a memorandum means net, meaning the russians, when they say no to nato expansion in ukraine, they mean it. and his memorandum not only accurately outlined the russian concerns, but also said these are legitimate concerns. nobody listened to him. nobody's listened to russia since then. and now russia feels it has no choice. i mean, how much further back to russia go much more in russia give. we've reached the end of the line and now we're paying the consequences for russia will not benefit from this. let's just make that absolutely clear. russia will pay a heavy price,

a horrible price if there's a war in ukraine and put noses, but he has no other choice. i mean, other than total surrender, which no nation would do. while scott's, i'm afraid we're running out of time now, but thank you very much for your analysis into this situation of scott ritz over analysts on former marine corps intelligence officer. thank you. thank you. president by den announced his new sanctions against russia after it recognizes dom bus republics a move, the white house was quite to label a growth violation of international obligations. well, let's cross the live now to ortiz keller morphine in new york, kayla. and what's the latest statements from washington? sure, well, we now have an executive order from us president joe biden, and that executive order prohibits any american entity or us person from doing business with any of the recently recognized republics. the 2 recently recognized

republics are officially under us sanctions. joe biden signed this into law. i believe it was an emergency, a state of emergency, you know, statement that was signed one of these emergency sanctions. now that the president has the ability to impose under us law, not only does it target the brute the republics themselves, it also targets anyone doing business in the area in which these republics exist. now, in addition to that, we understand the white house has been in communication with various world leaders about the ongoing crisis. we understand the white house has spoken with the lensky the ukranian president, and assured him they disagree with russia's recent move to confer recognition on to the republics. we also understand that the german chancellor has been in touch with biden, and that they have also agreed to condemn these moves. now interestingly, this point justin trudeau, the canadian prime minister, has spoken up and echoed

a lot of washington sentiments about the recent move by russia. this is what we heard from the canadian prime minister. we will fully stand for the entire you, territorial integrity of ukraine, and do not recognize any attempts to, to in dependently, recognize or or autonomy eyes. the separates occupied separatist occupied regions of eastern ukraine. now in the earlier statement we heard from gen saki, who is the white house spokesperson, she clarified that the new sanctions they are considering against russia. the, not the sanctions against the republics, but against russia at this point, don't include the swift, international banking st. sanctions or the threat to kick russia out of the

international banking system. is that at the moment or not on the table, from what we understand from a previous statement by jen saki, the white house spokesperson, and those, those, you know, these threats sanctions on russia are yet to be heard. we haven't heard about them . we have seen the executive order that was signed by biden imposing sanctions on these republics that has been declared, but it's also worth noting that on us social media, the top number one trending term has been putin, the russian president. his name has been the top number one trending term, and 2nd is president's day because after all, february 21st is the birthday of george washington. the 1st president of the added states. and today is a federal holiday in the united states presidents day. so we have putin as the number one trending term on twitter, followed by president's day in honor of the u. s. federal holiday. quite an interesting turn of events, there is bound to be more reaction from the united states to these moves from

russia, or what we understand there has been a meeting going on at the white house with the leaders of the pentagon leaders of the intelligence agency, common harris national security advisors, as well as the president himself. they've all been convened and meeting behind closed doors around the clock today as these moves have developed. so we'll be keeping you updated as more information comes in as there is more of a us response. kayla. thank you very much for giving us that reaction over in america. yes, we waiting very much for that response onto correspondent kelly moping. thank you. meanwhile, tens of thousands of don bus residents have been fleeing the region of the crisis escalates. all correspondent don court is one of the many temporary housing facilities sets up to accommodate the evacuees is just after the evacuation was declared, actually the rust off regional government declared a state of emergency and set up or around over now a 100 different temporary housing complexes around the region to make sure that

these people coming in will have free food. they'll be able to have a warm place to stay a while they make their way on 2 different actually other russian regions that are prepared to hold them for more longer term. we actually spoke with 11 family today that actually took a family of evacuees from dunbar into their home themselves and they're making sure that they're going to be able to wait this all out in their very own home. but another thing that the governor of ra stalled actually said at the beginning, he appealed to hotels in the region to help out with this housing effort. and like you said, i am at one of those facilities right now. this is the hotel that we've been staying in here as we've been working throughout the region. and you know, this is the lobby where i'm evacuated, have been coming in to check in and everything right now it's, it's a bit empty, but at very different times of the day, this place is literally packed to the brim. so i want to show you all. busy

basically what it goes on here, once evacuees make it to this hotel, they register here at the, the check in desk, but they also have several other things they have to do here. this is a covey, 19 testing station actually. and the workers here have agreed to tell us a little bit a bit about what they do here, but because you to but also the jim resistance and you might this about vision c, p recorder, calvin express tasks. people get the results in 15 minutes. all tasks we have done are negative. there are no positive tasks so far. and we have done around $100.00 tests today. okay, so that was the area where they're doing coven tasks for the evacuation that are coming through these doors. as she mentioned just there, there have been no positive test, recall it in this location and also we spoke to other other we spoke to staff at other temporary housing facilities. it also said that these are the, the rate of positive cov tests is actually been very low. another thing i want to

show you right here, you can see these people working at computer.