if i'm going to discuss that at the moment, we'll let you know you're talking about the don't boston guns republic, that is a priority. he did talk and mention about how cough and our desa the, i think the reason he probably brought those off is that they are also 2 cities with considerable, a large russian ethnic minority. and he said if they were, for example, to want to join us in our reification then, then that would be something that could be up for discussion. i mean, i have to say it was, it was obviously the 1st time that we're hearing actually that was important not since last time that we're hearing from forty's in the republic. we've heard from zelinski earlier today he's done a couple of terrifies speeches about how he in fact to spoken to western partners about potentially setting up an anti putin coalition. then here you've got people miss side saying that's not the way that we see you, craig. we see you as a pass, you know, as a country united with its russian brothers. so like everything here is so,

you know, it's so complicated. so we've got people looking at these, these issues completely differently. and yeah, it's such a fluid situation now, which is really to try and struggling really to get a handle on, on everything. listening to that live press conference from the head of the guns republic, there would be the to come to assumption about what's to come in and the hours and days ahead. but this is where minus i was, president putin did say he was adamant that rush has no intention of occupying ukraine. and of course, as you said, the kinds presidents lensky, he said that marshall nor is being imposed and ukraine. and he said that ukraine's military infrastructure was under a taco earlier, made an emotional appeal to the population of both countries. you train on russia and said his efforts to call me on wednesday evening. we met with silence ukraine. foreign ministry has said that a full scale russian invasion is now on the way. media reports are saying the ukrainian military claims to shut down

a russian military jazz in response to the crisis. nato is now convening an emergency meeting. let's get the latest now. let's go to dorm bass because we got to correspondence that on the ground to tell us exactly what they're seeing and experiencing. now we've got wrong cancer. and on the ad scans who are down to the guns figure mirage. now we've, we've seen these videos of explosions and the guns can we have video of the republic's artillery firing was the situation that right now. what are you hearing? what are you feeling? well, there is absolutely ferocious fighting along the front lines which are again just north north, west, north, east of us, the sound of artillery of multiple rocket georgia systems is incessantly des, ongoing the sound. so you have these exclusions, but there's so many of them they at some point they melt into this constant rule that, that just keeps on going and going when the school began at about 4 30 in the morning

number, many incoming shells as well exploded at the edges of the city and in the suburbs we saw power go out an entire neighbourhood. you may be hearing this, this base, this heavy base of explosions in the distance not long ago, a jet flew up a very low altitude over the city of lou gods. but it is, as we've, as we've just heard from the authorities from the of the republic now of la guns. they are saying that they have a plan that they are on the offensive. and that they plan to re establish the republic in its former regional boundaries as part of the ukrainian state. and so that means that they must a retake from the ukrainian military, a swath of the of the region. and now now republic, they say that they have a planet going of progressing according to the plan, but that they can't go into the details. of course,

previously you would just set the ukrainians to claim that they shot down a russian jet. in fact, they have claimed that they shot down 5 russian jets and the helicopter. the russian ministry of defense hasn't done a cold it allies. and we haven't seen any sort of any sort of evidence to prove that any jet had been shot down. and that is including the 2 jets that the republic of gods has claimed to shoot down. perhaps they were pat stable drones, perhaps they landed somewhere else. nevertheless, it is it very easy to make, to make statements which, which will turn out to be true in the initial moments of conflicts, especially such as these when but propaganda is absolute in record levels at the, at the peak level crescendo. and even that the fighting here, as i say, is ongoing as it is across much of ukraine. we have seen both russia military has come out and said that they are targeting military infrastructure with precision

strikes. and we have seen what appeared to be russian caliber cruise missiles targeting an air fields as well. the russian ministry of defense, a set of fields, military infrastructure, as well as anti ad defenses. and all of them appear appear to have been suppressed according to the various reports to be of heard, including from western press in key of in other parts of the ukrainian state. on the other side of the conflict lines, which again, stretch, just begin, just kilometers away. from us and we're seeing this, this escalation across the front lines. we know that the ukranian ministry of interior has come out and said that confirm that they have lost already to settlement. we have just heard that another settlement has been claimed. they've been re taken by the republic of guns, get it as they say they are progressing according to some sort of plan that they

have that they won't share details of about due to obviously military secrecy of the situation. now. no, i'm thank you so much for that day. let's go to a man now. who's in daniel sky, ramana as things are developing rapidly, what's the latest you know where you are? oh we are in a city of far generic can we have been hearing a very heavy and continuous artillery fire? it's still continues as though it's not as frequent as it was during the night. and this morning we heard multiple rocket launcher systems were heard, mores are fire as well, but at the moment it seems to be more and more distance. it's moving away from the city of for dynamic. now, the representatives of the internet people's republic, military has said that they are now using all available methods to them in order to strike ukrainian army positions. and that has been done in order to free up to

liberate for the rest of the territory of the nav. people's republic, which is currently under a ukraine's occupation, and they're talking about cities of maria pulled from a tourist and slab on sca to name or just a few. now the head of the nist people's a republic. denise, pushing issued a statement earlier saying that this operation has gone on right now will be over a very soon. and all cities in the next people's republic will soon be liberated. he also said that they are the next people's republic, sir. army, i have destroyed the headquarters of ukraine's army here in don bos, now, intense fighting is that taken place all across to the nest people's republic especially are closer to the city of murray opal. that's in the south of done

that sca about an 100 kilometers away from the city and according to people's militia. some of the ukrainian a military have began retreating and they have already liberated the 2 settlements . the internet people's republics, ah, now adored missouri and their representative of the people's militia. here in jeannette scarce said that sir, territorial defense battalions of ukraine are known for their neo nazi affiliation and their beliefs to have. they had encircled the city of murray. upa and nap or preventing local residence or from leaving the town basically making them into a human ha shield. now also to the north of here, the town of our goal of car was under shelling of this nearby challenge as well. the mayor of the city of goal of car i posted in his social media earlier saying as

the result of ukrainian sheylan, her one civilian was killed and 5 had been wounded. we're waiting on go confirmation off of that as well. now, at ward pursuing the representative of the people's militia, how has been calling on the ukranian soldiers ukrainian army to listen to what vladimir putin had said earlier and laid down their arms and surrender. and that they will be allowed to go home and full, amnesty will be available to them. and he said, those people who leave their weapons behind i will be provided sir humanitarian corridors, and they will not be touched. i am now of course a shilling here in dawn as has been a continuance of over the last few days. it was a very, very intense and a main targets of the ukrainian military were, ah,

buildings of the civilian infrastructure. and as the results on the outskirts of genetics and a nearby town, water pumping stations had been damaged, power stations were damaged and has the results. and thousands of people were left without the water and electricity. now at cross also confirm this to us earlier as they're helping us civilians live along the front lines. were though bottled the water with the building materials and anything else they might need in order to survive this tough time. ok, now evacuation to are russia. those that wants to evacuate continues here and, and ask as well, we saw a local emergency ministry frog circulating around the city, speaking for a loud speaker and informing citizens that evacuation is still available. should they be needed it. and they're talking about meeting point center, where all of this can be done there. meanwhile, here and on as kit is

a relatively quiet are the moments of though we do hear some artillery fire at a distance, but a local residence so well, life seems to be going as usual here, we'll see, minute, municipal transports or working with c, r people here on the embankment, sar, jogging our summer, even walking around or with children. of course, it's mostly how women and the elderly, as most of the men of, for hockey, scription asia, have now been mobilized into the army. but i was, i was the monitoring social media here as well. earlier in the morning it seems that the people are in a state of euphoria, if you will, they're really happy about. so everything that's going on about this operation for peace. and so they're saying perhaps i don't ask at the moment, is the safest place. it has been in 8 years since most of the

year i was showing the most of the firing is there now are gone against ukrainian army positions of those people have been showing them for the last 8 years. they hold that this will soon and peaceful come and their relatives and loved ones will no longer be under threat. i think will d ramana. thank you so much for that update that se ramon concert went on. yes. can . tamara garcia for is in la gans keeping on top of all the latest coming out of the dumbass. thank you for now. well, as asking a tailors in the studio with me, i'm just trying to get a handle and everything that's happening this morning. we've been up since, you know, the crack of dawn trying to, to really get a heads around everything that's happening and things are moving very rapidly all day. let's talk about the international reaction, because i think that most people around the world are going to be waking up and talking about less allows them to the news stations. of course,

the media are going to be focusing heavily on they. so what reaction have we heard so far? not just the media, but also from, you know, international heads of state. well, generally the fall out as well. i think in terms of what we're looking out there are so many elements to this. first and foremost, let's look at the financial aspect of it. and for example, we had that the moscow exchange had been that was, was suspended, it reopened, and russian stocks have nosedive drawn, 20 percent raheem. rubel has also taken a bit of a hit. so for example, even just a month ago, it was $7.00 to $6.00 roubles to the dollar. now it's over a 100 for russia. pops a good thing, brent oil on this was something that was predicted especially by the serbian president brent oil has hit $103.00 a power which the highest in 2014 in terms of reaction in terms of specifically related to financial aspect. the u. s. come out and promised a harshest package of sanctions that basically the world has ever seen. specifically imposing game strategic sector of russia's economy. blocking is access to key markets and technologies. i suspect that it is not confirmed that we will be

talking about the microchip industry. and perhaps a ban on imports. a lot of microchips are designed by the us not produce that, but of course they have copyright. and that means that russia, for example, would be unable to launch satellites, best ready, a bit of a supply chain crisis with microchips. but this would obviously effectively block most of the access to them. if that is indeed the case, it was completely unprecedented. the only time that sought to stop has been taken by that you will be u. s. specific tv. with regards to telecom giant hallway. but while way is a company, it's not a country and it's not an entire sector within an industry sector within a country. so these are really unchartered waters in terms of also the situation on the ground. we've heard that multiple embassies have either fully evacuated that members from that or then moving west, close to the purchase puerto lot fia has banned to russian channels from

broadcasting that which of course comes off the back as we were talking about of the u. k. i, yesterday suggesting that of con, might look into whether he should be licensed to broad cost in terms of the head of fate within ukraine, valence. we've had, has given a televised speech. he said that he spoke contest and partners that discussing setting up an anti putin coalition, which i think would probably involve some kind of military and financial cooperation plan, perhaps what they would call humanitarian assistance in terms of assistance. also the u. k. come out and said that whilst ukraine is not a native member, it will help provide more weapons to keep in, quote, self defense. from the russian side, what we're hearing is that the russian defense just come out said that the u. k. the ukranian army or mass are leaving that positions and have just thrown down the weaponry. i'm sure that he has will count to that. we do know that moscow has been

a lot to precision strikes against, for example, ammunition, that pose, and all the quite strategic military bases. but let's also look at the human element. this, of course i was just looking in fact, a map of traffic, for example, coming out of key at the ready to compete packs are partly plummeted of calls trying to get out despite the mayor urging to come as people not to panic. the same goes for, for example, in the city of hawk off, we've seen people queuing up to banks and offs, which is actually what we, for just a couple of days. going to daniel gallant's republics, when people were to evacuate because that was concerned that i was going to be a military offensive by kias. and we saw those lines of people trying to get the money out as frantically as possible. the map also does show, it's quite astonishing to see all these planes all over the space around the world and literally of ukraine and russia. there's not a single plane to be had, may have shut off thought as mason. 60 to rush now cropped but a lot of western companies that will not fly now until for example, march,

we need to iteration to settle down and yes, in neighboring countries. the final thing i'll say neighboring countries we've got, for example, is when you multiply have declared a state of emergency and a couple of eastern european nato members have said that they are weighing up invoking article for under the nato charter, which basically means that there's going to be an urgent conversation about potential military use and how to progress because they consider this to be a threat to cause that security isn't happening near the borders. so there is a lot going on at the moment. we're still hearing from you, i'm sure the us speak very soon, bring up father actions with then ukraine, obviously as an, as an awful lot going on. we're hearing different story from, for example, the russian side landscape. it's all just, there's a lot floating and it's very difficult to keep up to date with what sat through flooding information fair at the moment. yet hope hopefully things will become more clear when we have they said, lots of big meetings being housed at the g. 7 means it's going to be held virtually

nato emergency meeting coming off, of course. and the european council meeting as well. we have a correspondent in berlin, who's going to be keeping on top of all the latest. we also have a car spots on the, on the ground and dumbass, which is great to be able to get that 1st time. i'm speaking a 1st ton of cancer. we have the live pictures from the ukrainian capital, kiev. i, i think actually, i think, you know, at the moment i think also technology fair is getting a bit of you can imagine with what's going on. i think we lost a connection to the pictures, but like i said, what we saw, i fill photos and you can go on to any kind of i think when you tube, you'll be able to find a live stream of what's going on. they can see literally the calls going out of the city was, for example, at 636, which was this morning when president putin just spoken, the city was very calm. that was let you know, one guy that people hadn't really woke up yet. right. and nothing was happening, but that in the situation obviously continued to deteriorate and people have clearly salted, panicking. oh, let's take a look at these

a live pictures from kev. now we seem to have got the connection back. this is the ukrainian capital we've been getting reports from local is that they heard a powerful bang is mostly in the outskirts of the city. and it's looking pretty calm business as usual in kiev right now. but if it's good to have the live pictures just so we can see with our own eyes exactly what's going on. and of course we're going to be bring any will that was just on, on looking at, for example, the capital city. i think it's important to mention that some there is some unverified videos of course, and what we heard earlier, and he has of cities ukrainian cities being targeted. now this is what he says. the russian defense minister has react to saying that is up to you, not what is going on. we civilians have absolutely nothing to fear from the don't pass militia or the russian military. that it, that they are there to precision strikes of military infrastructure. but we can see

from, from here about the situation at the moment. exactly. it says like the uncertainty of the whole situation and what's become right now when this is why we're here. we're trying to keep across everything. we're trying to bring it as succinctly as we can. let's move on. we've got plenty of live guests coming up with a correspondence on the grounds. we're going to be keeping on top of everything. we have all the latest and try and get some clarification on the latest details as well for you. meanwhile, explosion have been heard in the ukrainian capital key at this morning, which seemed like pictures from key. it's looking relatively calm that has what locals on the grounds have told us that some listen, i hear it. it's somewhere in hear sirens can be heard. they are bombing about, you know, when we landed in the airport, we heard some bangs. it was unclear what they were, we didn't see any damage. we heard the bank while in

a taxi. nobody knew what it was. that was promised. we have plenty of live comment from guests coming in today to try and get a handle on the situation that we now have independent journalists. look with a thank you for joining us on the program. and let's talk about what the day has brought today. were you shocked when you, what happens, read the news today, or was it expected in your mind? it was not expected. neither the dion nor my friends or connections. the military is until i taught this morning to, to retired high ranking offices of nature center. that they were not surprised at all. neither nato, on the fact that the russian forces are bombing surgically in different areas of the country of ukraine to blind the ukrainian

army. that's why on such operations and that to really come by already in the bus, which is not surprising. you have mentioned it and described it in details, so that is a sort of low for the moment. now in the, in the west because meetings are started everywhere, as you mentioned. and we'll know more probably into 3 hours of about the, the sanctions that europe and the west of course, will impose, we can expect them to be off swift. this probably on the line all stream to bird for good. maybe. oh, would be also on, on be on the paper on the table for the risk. we don't know very much in the press here as well as the politicians, even visit foreign affairs in the west. take a sort of crash course in ukrainian geography and human geography because they

don't really know how to ukraine beliefs and the number of russians peaks in your grand. so of course they refused the idea of a general side in the east, and frankly that is far fetched, but it's of the war. ready of communication or propaganda, you could say, in this case on, but of course, on the other side you hear about russia is excluded. self excluded itself on the international community. these are, you know, declarations that don't help. and the big question is to know, of course, where on the to republics will stop and, and the russian army will stop. is it the, the full on bus, or is it going to go further? decorations in the for a speech show for president 14 about or they saw and the to 40. all people who were burned alive in the house of the unions. there are a few years ago that he brush will find the people responsible and punish them.

that could mean something about odessa. we don't know. so we wait and see even for the diplomatic reactions in the west, we don't know yet what they will say. hi, luke, this is sask. i'm here with nick here. i'm just gonna jump in guess why it's good. see, we met in geneva of course on the roof top, in fact, for the boys and puritan summer. and i remembered that there was, there were no breakthroughs, but that was cautious optimism. i remember that the and the respective ambassadors were sent back, of course, to their embassies. and that was seen as a huge breakthrough. and they kind of the 2 leaders agreed that there was going to be cautious, dialogue. look how many months, not even that long. and i mean the picture is completely different. i'd like to ask you, what do you think it was that saw that really triggered this total deterioration of the relationship since that summit in beautiful geneva? but yes, sir, it was the refusal by america and the west to discuss, to even discuss the proposals by russia, about nato,

and the red line that russia has force. so, and i'm, so over the last decades about an extension east to ukraine. oh, the proposals made by russia we're very diplomatic and are, were written so it was okay. and the american counterparts as well as the europeans behind america said no, this cannot be on the table. we don't want to discuss it dying credits. every right to join major and no choice out from stall on. of course, russia couldn't accept this. did there refuse to talk about that worse and the situation dramatically and that the corrections of course, or for mr. stuart about the, the century journals, nato went even further. so that is, i think the key goal. i luca nikki here again today was supposed to be the day fair more diplomacy talks blinking was supposed to be meeting with their se galen ross today. but of course, he cancel the meeting, he said, there's no way i'm going to be talking to you now after president putin recognize

that dumbass. yet president putin is still here. a middle this calling for corporation. is it too late for talks? i think for the moment, of course, some people are very nervous, very excited, and we should wait for a few days and everybody knows that and diplomatic circles that now it's not the time to talk about shorter discussions. we have to wait for a few days. we have to, to wait for a lol and the combat. we have to see what happens in the don bus region where the, where the, the troops off the true republics will, will start on that will probably take mario, paul, they stop there and that'll go south even further on that. these are the questions . and after very probably talks will start again, because we can't be at war between east and west. we can't have coal.

so talks on it and everybody knows. the final thing i want to ask you talk to a bit earlier about the press and kind of the media war. i mean, last go will claim that it's been kind of demonized by western media. of course, the west is going to fig, navigation that russia is pretty much the inventor of this information. and do you think that it's fair to say that there is a lot of kind of confusion and people seeing things from their own sides very strictly on both sides here? yes, yes. i mean, depression to west doesn't know much about your credit to people who won't call themselves specialist. they, they don't know you, you hear them on tv being interviewed in what they say shows that they don't know anything about ukraine. so i think as i said, did take a crash course in realities in crane, and maybe the come at a swim in,

in the coming weeks on, in the sense that they will understand better the situation and be less simplistic . well certainly when you talk about the crash course, one person katie missed it was nancy pelosi, who yes, say confused, are hungry with ukraine. but as always we enjoy your comment when you're insight. that was independent journalist nuclear they many thanks. good. see, thank you. thank you. ok, we have our correspondent on quarter, his ad ross towards the airport. now don, i'm good to see. could you give us a sense of what the situation on the russian ukrainian border is like? must be sexually in thought to of school. so you've been union in front of this airport, the i'm, i'm in rust off region, the roster region of russian behind me. you could see plat off airport. it's one of the airports that are closest to the border with the don bus region closer to the

logan's peoples republic, actually. and there's actually nothing going on in this airport right now. the reason for that is because the air space in this, in the southern airs in greece and the russian federation has been basically closed down. this is just one airport among another, in addition to another 11 in the roast of region that have been that have had all of their flights cancelled until march 2nd. so that's the situation with the airports. we also heard reports that in the border towns, the russian border, towns of belkora belgrade. and just recently we heard just literally minutes ago that in course caleb list, sorry, that's in russian, incur in course region of russia. we've got had reports that artillery shells have fallen there on russian territory actually in crimea. and in that city of belgrade, they have closed down schools that are near near the border because of these, these shells had a fall on russian territory. and in, in the course, screeching literally moments ago, we also heard reports of shelling there,

but we have not actually confirmed them. we have seen some videos that have come out of on social media from belgrade, allegedly showing the damage created by these shells that have fallen there and a pair and allegedly, one person was injured. but we haven't confirmed any of that yet. and as for the situation of evacuation here, i could tell you a little bit about what we've been doing here over the past several days. the regional government of ra stove has set up over a 100 temporary housing facilities throughout the region. 4 people evacuating don boss evacuating from to escape the violence created by the don boss conflict there . and they basically been making their way across a number of checkpoints that one of which were actually at connected to the lugens people's republic. yesterday we saw the situation there, people are still coming into into russia and they're stopping at.