[000:00:00;00] ah, ah, president putin makes the choice to immediately recognize this sovereignty of ukraine's dom bus republics, also signing treaties of friendship, cooperation, and mutual assistance. rather than filled the russian federation vladimir putin because his signing the executive decree on recognition. all that done at people's republic, residencies could president of the russian federation, history of latimer, hooton's police with signing the executive decree on recognition. the lo ganske people's republic ah

not shelling both fireworks in the don bus after recognition of the independence is officially signed in the kremlin. says of happiness and broad smiles. not only in done yet, scandal, guns, republics. but also many russian regions where thousands of found a safe place to shelter president biden claims. russia's move to recognize done yet can look guns. autonomy represents an unusual and extraordinary threat to us security and signs more harsh sanctions against moscow on the dumbass republics. ah, you're watching our t international on it's been quite a busy news day at our headquarters here in moscow. my name is peter scott and welcome to the program. president to tin has ordered the troops be sent to don bass to maintain peace in the region. thus, after earlier,

recognizing the independence of the done yes and no guns republics. earlier i discussed the details of the signed degree with ortiz elliot katrinka. first of all, we do have to understand that we can look at these treaties between moscow and don't answer as well as lou ganske as an agreement between 2 fully fledged nations . because starting this monday, moscow treats the 2 republics as form entities of international law. but it's more importantly, it's more important to look at what exactly russia can do under these treaties in the 2 republics on their territory. so let me just go through the other elements of it. besides the fact that troops will now be sent to the don. it's going lugens republics. now, according to this agreement, russia will be able to use the infrastructure and the territory of the 2 new states

as moscow puts it for the military bases even possibly, and the movement and the maneuvers of its own army right there. besides this v, a borders of donnie, it's going lugens. republics will be secured and guarded. not only by the troops belonging to don, it's getting lugens, but also by the russian army as well. which is very important here, because of you can ask for your guess what are the immediate consequences of this decision to recognize the independence? well, there it is. now kiev will probably be hesitant to start an attack or a launch further offensive against this to because and now the understand that they will be up against the russian military. in that particular case, there are also other elements of it. for example, the economic measures that will be applied by russia from now on because they will insure further security of the banking sector of the 2 republics and financial

stability as well. but i will also want to tell you about is a lot of our food and speech. it could have been quite short after sinning to as the most senior russian officials, a lot of our potent hell, the conversation, the hell, hell, the council with them. and we heard from survey sure ago we heard from other government ministers that it was high time to recognize the independence or mr. prudent could have just come out and said, okay, we're doing this. we've made the historic decision, but instead mr. brewton gave a full on history lesson about the historic connections between russia and ukraine, and explained a full motivation between the story behind the kremlin move. and one of the elements of it was, of course, ensuring the safety and security of the russian speaking population in east ukraine . that's on the one hand. on the other hand, that is the military build up, the whole military aspect behind it was that name, ukraine could have become

a member of nato plus sir, we do remember that the military aid from the u. s. and other nato countries has been on the up a year on year and besides this, mr. prudent also said that he believes nato has already begun treating the ukrainian territory as a theater for it's further maneuvers and possibly even war. let's listen to what exactly mr. putin said on that a certain amount of the, when it started to explore the territory of the ukraine as the future theater of military action of the future battlefield. and it is aimed against russia. last year alone, it had more than $20000.00 troops. and more than 1000 equipment hardware units. so yeah, i watched this address myself and you know, as he said, he could have done it in 5 minutes. but in fact, you took about an hour and it was a bit of a hitch, a history lesson. i said, learned quite a few things myself about russian ukrainian history. and obviously did mentioned

something that it never mentioned before and that was an encounter with a former us president bill clinton. what did he say about that earlier? that was more than 20 years ago when duncan was still president, a lame duck. however, in fact, that is still a major role in international politics and vladimir putin back then just stepped in replacing boris yeltsin and mr. prudent said that he made a proposal that no one has ever heard of this the 1st on mr. put, mentioned that and add this time around and nowadays is kind of proposal would sound as completely unbelievable. that is the prospect of russia joining nato. now, what sir, mr. brewton got in response was a call, told her from bill clinton. and mr. couldn't believe that that was the time when he actually understood that under any kind of us administration, be

a democrat or republican at the us administration would always treat russia as an enemy, no matter what. there is no possibility of becoming friends. if any tv you don't want to see friend and as an ally in nazareth, but why do you want to make a nanny me out of us? 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, russia. so that's the answer to all the question. that's the source of traditional american policy. they pursue in the russian track machine. now moving on to the military aspect of it. what we do, remember how 1st it was non lethal military aid from the us and other major nato players. then i remember how i made a few reports on that. and non lethal know, 38 turned to lethal military 8. and we understand that once

a eastern european nations became members of nato in the course of the last 20 to 30 years, soon after that. and in a few years, they actually became a location for further deployment of natal missiles for example. and that is something that russia has always treated as a threat. but according to mister putin, ukraine didn't even have to become a natal member. in order for that to happen. if it strikes some kind of court with the west bilaterally or nato as a whole. and mr. poodle even began talking about the, the ranges of the weapons that could have potentially been deployed. he spoke about the time frames as well. how soon are these missiles could reach moscow or parts of russia that are in europe or even beyond the ural mountains? let's listen to that as well. as the pentagon has openly started developing

a whole range of the land based mid south with the range of 5500 kilometers, have such systems are deployed in ukraine. they can hit the targets in the european russia and also behind the euro's and the travel time. all the tomahawk missiles to moscow will be less than 35 minute ballistic missiles, 78 minutes and the hyper sound offensive weapons for 5 minutes. that's like having a knife against our probably the number one issue at this point is sanctions. and what exact measures the west is going to take in response to this. well, mr. porton touched upon that even before saying, there you have it. we've made the decision to recognize the independence according to the russian leader. he believes that the western countries were looking for

a pretext to hit russia with sanctions in any case. and he believes that his country would have been flapped by these economic measures inevitably. so russia and a lot of more prudent himself was ready for it. anyway, without the ship. they tried to blackmail us once again. they threaten us with the 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 the help is to contain the development of bruship, and they will do that like they did before a long historic speech. clearly, all we have to wait for at this point is the reaction and we've already begun getting it. my colleagues will tell you about while people in don barza celebrates in russian recognition of their sovereignty,

you can see them setting off fireworks and waving russian flags we heard from local don. yes. residents who gave us their reaction to the events ah, no with wanting origin or to know my dad with a c as us do us to read, you're not dealing with no, not on the story,

not that is not here. with president biden has analysed new sanctions against russia. after recognize the dumbass republics and moved, the white house was quick to label a gross violation of international obligations. ortiz kennimore been as the details of biden's statement. well, we have an executive order that has been signed by us president joe biden, imposing sanctions on the republics that have just been recognized by russia and don't ask new god. god is the publics are now subject to us sanctions, as are all who do business in the area. these republics have have received recognition in all of those territories. now what's interesting is the language of these executive orders was

a bit dramatic. how we have joe biden declaring that this moved by russia to recognize the republics has actually been considered to be a threat to the national security of the united states. here's what joe biden said . the russian federation reported recognition threatens the peace stability sovereignty and territorial integrity of ukraine, and thereby, constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the united states. now we also understand the white house has been in touch with leaders around the world who share their sentiment, saw the ukrainian president zalinski and joe biden were on the phone and they agreed that they rejected this move by russia. we also understand that the german chancellor sholtes was on the phone with with joe biden, and that they also agreed to reject his move by russia. now just intrude out the prime minister of canada, also gave his insights into these events. here's what he said. we will fully stand

for the entire territorial integrity of ukraine and do not recognize any attempts to to in dependently, recognize or, or autonomy eyes. the suffrage occupied separatist occupied regions of eastern ukraine. now the us state department and the white house press secretary of both issued statements saying that in addition to the sanctions that have just been imposed on the republics, there will be new sanctions against russia. now, in the statement that gen saki and the white house spokesperson gave, she said that the swift sanctions, the threat of kicking russia out of the international banking system, is currently not yet on the table. is that that allegation, or that, that, that threat is not yet being leveled. however,

they are planning to sanction russia as well as the new republics that have just been recognized. now it's also important to note that on us social media, the top trending term has been put in the russian president. his name is trending on twitter as the number one term for today. the 2nd top trending term is president's day, because after all, today is a federal holiday in the states. this is the birthday of george washington, the founder of the united states, the 1st president and today is a federal holiday known as presidents day. so on twitter trending respectively, we have prudent and followed by the u. s. federal holiday presidents de ukrainian president. volume is the landscape has slammed the kremlin for breaking the minsk agreements. the statement came dreams just to the nation, just always after the russian recognition of the dom bus republics. the landscape stress that kia still considers done yes and against it territories. while noting

that the states won't give anything to anyone. the president also stressed that ukrainians have no reason for concern as the state borders securely protected out into the government's will lights only in a peaceful manner. the recognition of the independence of the 2 regions has given resident something to celebrate though, amid the terrifying daily ordeal of sheltering from shelling. all correspondence, rodriguez de brings is the latest on life in the just recognised republic of dun yeske. there is still a lot of tension in his curfew now, the snow without in the streets, but as flat mapleton declares, russia's recognition the question would recognize the break with regions and yet can, with fireworks here, which, which caused cluster unsafe with the right decision path. understandable people were freight that this was a renew,

round of selling understandable, given the rumble of artillery shelling, mortar rounds falling on vineyards on the outskirts of the past few days, especially which is where the most, when the most dramatic escalation occurred, at some point that was seconds between blocks that you could hear coming from different directions we, we saw this ourselves today when we went just the little had a half hour drive from the nearest west woods. the front lines to report him to film the consequences of the aftermath of the fatal shelling there ah. receives it and tragic happened here. just west of danielle city to shelves, launched from the ukranian side made ha impact one there. another crater here and everywhere here you'll see bloodied bits of clothing. this is

a ha minus outfit. he was on his way to a mine shaft where he works. this is one of the 2 shelves. the glad that he, again, we aren't going to spend very long here because there are still incoming shelves and exclusions the be here. i in close proximity. this dramatic escalation that we have seen in the near ski, as i will have said, as occurred across the entirety of the front lines from the trenches the their weights along them. we know that in the ganske today, there was said a parrot exacerbation attempt to a car bombing, perhaps targeting elegance, official who was responsible for coordination in the cease fire compliance office monitoring and compliance office. here in the breakaway republics, his cob you up, he was injured. his driver also today shell struck in logan's gap north

i a power station depriving again thousands of electrical electricity at a time when it is cold, his badly needed here in the near it's a water pumping station was also struck the problem and tens of thousands of for access to water further south, we've also seen reports of a vicious battles, but there has been this destroy magic escalation. and what, what was this happened is people were evacuating people who feared the worst. they believe that this escalation is, it is allowed to continue or could result in a board that is even worse than the one we saw in 2014, 2015 yesterday to shanwick. and i am now waiting to die. i think that it all starts up again. i will be killed and that will be that, but i am ready. cleanable, a hot dog named craig, wasn't ready for war, was in now it's ready because it's received weapons from here. and we'll use them here in the matter of weeks, the situation, he has escalated to the point that we,

we had the you when come out today and call for an immediate cease fire saying that heavy weapons that have been deployed by both sides. and that shouldn't be within the, within the area of the front lines of the complex. so to pull them back to remove them and to de escalate, to return to up to a love what we've seen here over the past few years. nevertheless, it remains to be seen how russia's announcement that it is recognizing the self proclaimed republics, their independence, or how that will affect the situation. because the situation is such that a huge number of troops along with heavy weapons and on the ukrainian side, deadly precise new weapons delivered to them by nato. they're all still there. they are poised for military action. it means to be seen whether peace here will return and whether it will be respected. western leaders have been quick to condemn putin signing all the degree. type the degree,

sorry to recognize the dumbass republic's british pm boys. johnson has dismissed the move as a violation of international law, while french liter manuel macaroni called on the european block to impose sanctions on russia arts. he's a shoddy, i was dusty in london and policy and berlin have more on that european reaction. well, we're getting a lot of reaction. the latest is a joint statement from the iraq piano commission and the european council. no surprises there. them saying that this is a blatant violation of international law and at the same time of territorial integrity and immense agreements. the e u and its partners and i'm quoting, will react with unity, firmness and determination in solidarity with ukraine and the united states. the nato secretary general has condemned russia's recognition of la guns and the next we hearing from stoughton burke that this undermines settlement efforts in ukraine

. and that this will be, or could be used as a pretext by moscow for an invasion. now all of this coming as we hearing from the latvian prime minister, that beat recognition is a continuation of the attack on ukraine's independence sovereignty and territorial integrity that began in 2014 by to quote, unlawfully changing borders in europe. while we hearing from the latvians is an urgent to the international community to stop quote russian aggression and offer assistance to ukraine. not latvia has also announced that it will be delivering javelin anti tank missiles to ukraine from tomorrow, tuesday. at the same time, we are hearing from the ukrainian foreign ministry. they have said that the european union and ukraine has reached a preliminary deal to conduct military training in ukraine at the same time that

you will send inside the experts to ukraine. the e u. we know earlier approved a, an emergency package to the tune of 1200000000 euros in financial assistance for ukraine. not all of this happening as we hear also from the italian foreign minister saying that this recognition by moscow hinders the resolution of the crisis. for diplomacy and also that it contradicts lensky agreement, the president of estonia, has said that he will never accept the this illegal decision that moscow is not serious about diplomacy. here in germany, what's happening is the german foreign ministry has said that the recognition is a gross violation of international law. that is also running any kind of diplomatic efforts. the german foreign ministry has urged for the decision to be reversed while the product, quite frankly, the message from london is that this is now a step closer to war. if not a guaranteed move for us,

johnson has reacted just as expected, calling putins decision and l. o men a dark signed. this is plainly in breach of international law. it's a violation of flagrant violation of the sovereignty, the integrity of the, of ukraine. ah, it is a repudiation of the of the minks process in the mix agreements. and i think it's a very ill omen, and a very doc sign, it's really being interpreted as a significant escalation in the crisis. a substantial change in moscow's present position, particularly referring to the minutes agreement. but most notably a pretext, paving the way are for russian troops to cross the border. so boys johnson is seeing this as an illegal act and undermines ukraine. serenity are now in terms of diplomacy. is there any diplomacy? is that an option on the table? for vars johnson, he simply says it cannot be,

the significantly narrows or that window of opportunity. and in fact, the feeling here in london is that an attack from the east is pretty much set in stone. now already then in the last few i minutes, really his already reconfirmed the u. k. commitment at to supporting ukraine and has said that the u. k. will not, i'll be thinking what more it can do. so what has the u. k? already done, it's threatened sanctions against russia, including new powers to target any individual entity, even in the common today. artie was brought up at that point, links to the russian state. that's the minute a single russian co op and has what seen as the ukraine's territory then. 8 reiterating that today saying it's become clear, we need to start applying as much of prussia as possible because he really feels that the situation is not going to improve. of course, we also know in terms of troop spirits on the ground,

that's already been something leak as being moving toward sending troops to ukraine, also sending weaponry as well. and he always long said that he would be happy to send even more troops and weapons as and when need be, the reaction from the u. k. always been bad. in fact, the was a force johnson just a few days ago saying that any escalation would be the biggest war since 1945. today, earlier, the government was reiterating such comments saying that there would be a retaliation if putin didn't retreat. so from the united kingdom, i suspect there's a lot was to come. well, earlier we gulf reaction from 2020 libertarian us vice presidential candidate spike cohen, who believes us involvement in the crisis, can only exacerbate the situation that i think that vladimir putin is the head of state of one of the least militarily, one of the largest powers on, on the planet and of a, one of the, one of the larger economies,

former member of the ga and, and i'm, i'm sure this does weigh heavily. i'm not sure that anything that could potentially lead to a hot military conflict, especially when we're already seeing shelling and things like that wouldn't weigh heavily on him. i'm sure. honestly, i'm sure this is weighing heavily on everyone on all sides that are having to make these kinds of decisions. which is, i'm hoping that, that weighing heavily in, that desire to try to avoid conflict will lead to you know, the, the tensions receiving from this and from just respecting the rights and autonomy of people to make choices for themselves and their own local governance. whether that will happen or not, totally remains to be seen. europe actually has a history of this, right. there's a history of, you know, things that happen as a result of thousands or hundreds of years of history that often lead to long simmering tensions boiling to the surface. and as an american, again giving an american perspective on this. this is

a perfect example of why i don't want our government even remotely involved in this, because this is something that isn't going to end with this. however, this ends up ending and hopefully it ends peacefully and hopefully, and 2 people respecting each other's rights in their sovereignty. but however, this and it isn't going to end with this and having the involvement of a superpower that's clear on the other side of the planet, i don't see how that does anything but, but in flame tensions even further i, i suspect that what's going to happen next, if he, if he does move forward with, with recognizing the or it sounds like he already has move forward with recognizing these to break away nations or, or break away people for those who don't think a new nation has been form. i think that there is already that they were definitely going to be sanctions coming from europe and apparently from the u. s. and, and probably canada and other countries as well. i hope that this can remain in this realm in the realm of, you know, of saber rattling and political posturing. and i'm not

a fan of thanks and i think sanctions separate people. the 1st thing you want to do if you want to create a war is remove any of the relational or financial incentives that people would have to not have that war, which is why they always start with the sanction. but i hope if there have to be sanctions or anything like that, it ends with that. and that this doesn't turn into a hot war because not only just the, the lives that are loss anytime that there's any kind of military conflict. but the fact that this is a conflict between multiple nuclear powers, and although i don't think anyone wants to go there, there's always that real risk that if some one or another side feels at that there's an existential threat here, that it could go far past the hot water into a much hotter war, and i hope we can avoid that. lots to rob for now. my name is peter scott, and i'll be back again at the top of the hour to bring you more developments and analysis of russia's recognition of this sovereignty of those dumbass republics.

i'll see that in thank you for watching with ah, there is extreme nationalism which has been released to the us and they want us dominance. but surely they are sensible voices in the usa. that conflict is where you are heading gauntlet. gore war is not the way there is another way it could be would it wouldn't for on a everyone. and i certainly believe that the corporation between china and the united states, anyone for that my to russia will benefit mankind much more than a conflict.