[000:00:00;00] the me, russia, defense minister orders safe exit. ruth ukrainian soldiers wanting to surrender, emitted military operation for that's all for the russian president ordered a special operations saying the aim is to send the people to the mass from a pirate genocide, by the cleaning military anatomy approach. and stressed russia has no plans for occupation, have customer relations with russia and the west to build an entity in coalition. while the us found the criminal abrasion is a barbaric attack and vowed the ha, sure,

so sanctioned in the law from oscar. thanks for joining us. this our, our international, i'm daniel hawkins. welcome to the program. a russia is now waging a military operation, which it says is aimed at defending with mass from so called ukrainian aggression kit following where the western powers are describing it as an invasion, say, cities across ukraine under attack. there russia, defense ministry denies that saying no, but in areas of being targeted, the stripes are known military infrastructure and also that safe exit route for you play in soldiers. all being arranged of who's in is also cooling for you quite in soldiers to be treated with dignity to obtain this flu video for russian war reporter in the dawn. but he claims it shows ukrainian troops surrendering through the nest republic forces. the reporter says, there are soldiers who have voluntarily laid down the weapons. now, authorities and bananas have shed pictures of one of the soldiers who is apparently wounded and has been provided with the site. well,

let's go live now to our policies about guys they're proposing from lucon mora, thanks for staying across the story for us. you're in there in the heart of all these events, we saw some explosions in lugens local or hillary farming as well. what's the situation there as we speak? maladies unrecognizable from what it was this morning or even yesterday or the day before with, with the constant shelling for hours. now that hadn't been any exclusions in regards scott or in the suburbs in the outskirts of the city as we had seen in previous days with, with constant shelling between the 2 sides. so shelling from the ukrainian side and from the self proclaimed or at the now recognized republic of lugens. nevertheless, the operation, the offensive that they launched this morning following, following a very sustained, very loud and very sustained artillery. shelly campaign this morning. as the,

the operation they say is progressing according to plan. they say they have penetrated 3 kilometers into, into ukrainian lines more i believe on that than yet. side just south of us. nevertheless, the front line stretches for the hundreds of kilometers and we haven't been able to get close to the front lines. we have been turned back because of the dangerous situation there. as we were told, nevertheless, the cross ukraine as a whole. this has been a chaotic day, a complete surprise for every one we saw russian units. russian forces launch calla book cruise missiles at various military installations. the for the ministry of defense came out and set it themselves that they launched precision strikes against ukrainian military infrastructure against ad defend sites, as well as against f fields and assets of the air force of the ukrainian air

force. there was even a port that was struck multiple arms, depos fuel depos. we saw the fires characteristic foss raging throughout the day. nevertheless, the russian, the russian defense minister came out and said that any ukrainian wants to surrender cancer and that he will be treated with respect. he ordered russian troops to treat any ukrainian, a regular with respect the, the brunt of the resistance. where hearing about a is coming from nationalist battalions neo nazi elements, for example, such as as off battalion battalion, which for years as used a nazi symbols on its uniform and, and in its brochures and the likes, the organization, for example, as band band and russia. and many of its members are of wanted by courts. nevertheless, the situation in ukraine is developing very rapidly, very quickly. the russian of the russian ministry of defense,

or it is also said that they have destroyed about a dozen f fields or struck a dozen or so. and fields are more than 70 various military infrastructure sites around ukraine, which presumably includes those, imo ammunition depots that, that i talked about. and other sites such as a we've, we've seen footage unconfirmed as of yet, for example, ukrainian military vehicles destroyed a convoys entire convoys of tanks, bassett, and burning across ukraine. it remains very difficult to, to verify various footage and information coming out. there's a lot of a lot of fake information recycled footage from previous wars that is being leveled here and pushed on social media. nevertheless, the picture will become clear in days to come the, the, the hot spot now is key of obviously where russian paratroopers or russian special

forces have been cited at the number of airports, including one just 25 kilometers away from 25 kilometers away from key f authorities in key of have said that the russian said that vladimir putin isn't going to go off to civilian in structural civilian targets because he wants to win that he wants public support and that would destroy his public support. they also said that they want that they're going to try to tonight at a beat, a russian troops out of the airport. i keep of, i believe airport near keith, which is where they are now stationed. and they have been reports that more russian units about cargo planes, a could perhaps be headed there again. are all subject to change or all subject to clarification. right out his work as if they're reporting from logan's. thanks for that update more

i thought i thought myself myself, my son. this video was filmed by our crew on the front line in the dentist republic where as we understand, they had to suddenly flee due to incoming shells. russia defense ministry says ukrainian force is a firing of cities in the dumbass. though ukraine says russia has carried up more than $200.00 attacks since the start of the day in the region. now, a series of powerful explosions were reported across the crime this morning. loud last rock several cities off the russia launch. the military operation is being reported. the explosions were caused by missile strikes from russia's aerospace forces. now we've just received these images from are you poll? fix, smoke can be seen blowing across the sky. as you can see, a damage decrying in radar system throughout the day, powerful explosions have been reported throughout the country. well, here you can see

a map of what's been going all of the the desk and look out the people's republic sir. that c republics announced their independence from keith shortly after the 2014 might revolution and have its claims been repeatedly shelled, ever since that led to multiple civil and casualties. now both republic so they will liberate their territory still under key of control. up to now they've held only about half that area. president booting says russia recognizes these 2 states as defined by this map you can see on your screen. now very approved and out to the decision and nationally televised speech saying there's no intention to occupy ukraine. thank you, said the rich with a quote as to the article, 51 in the 7th chapter of the un charter with the sanction of the federation council and according to the friendship and mutual help treaties with the nets and lu

ganske, the public's i have decided to conduct a special military operation, the goal is to protect the people who for 8 years of a bullying and genocide from the key of regime. and for this, we aim for the, the militarization and the next, if a cation of ukraine will bring to the court, those who committed multiple sanguinary crimes against civilians, including russian citizens. we do not plan to occupy ukrainian territories. ukraine has severed temperament relations with russia over what it calls a full scale invasion. your brains president, that means the rescue claims his country did not choose the path of war, but did offer ways to peace. and he made some further accusations against the russian forces in a tweet. the russian occupation forces are trying to see that your noble nuclear power plant or defenders are giving their lives so that the tragedy of 1986 will not be repeated reported this to the swedish prime minister. this is

a declaration of war against the whole of europe. a president landscape is vowing to fight russia, though not only cranium, politicians share that view. 7 limits, parliament of call for diplomatic solution and direct negotiations with moscow. president zelinski, we urge you to immediately start talks with russia as president put in on ways to end the bloody confrontation and negotiate a treaty. or there are things of panic and crimes. capital care for right now. long traffic jobs are forming as people head out of the city many to the west of the country. however, the local officials are urging residents to stay at home and not block the roads. so someone campbell taking shelter on the ground in the metro system authorities, i've been telling people to use the stations as bomb shelters metro station. so metro trains rather have temporarily stopped running. we heard from locals,

witnessing the chaos in which i hear it is somewhere in t. f. sirens can be heard. they are bombing about really, you know, when we landed in the airport, we heard some things. 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. people started leaving kia packing their cars into a huge traffic jam. everything was crowded, but most people stayed home. my friends and i hope things will be ok. we hope that kia will not be bombs. that all goes to there are huge cues, perpetual stations on the roads, several hours long. it's impossible to refill. it's good that i had a full tank, but i still have to refill somewhere. we've been leaving kiev for 4 hours already. a russian tank sub apparently been spotted in ukraine, sumi region near the russian border, a residence interface, and verified video of military vehicle that shall

with, [000:00:00;00] with tuition curtis with its cross law. now it's all about about off russian political scientists. so like, thanks for joining us, the program. good to have you with us today. now, this conflicts in the, in these to be training the newly recognized regions has been raging for 8 years.

this isn't something that began recently, and it was largely ignored based on the carpet by a lot of worst leaders and the russian government claims. that is the reason that these measures have now been taken a while. you think it has taken 8 years for things to come to a head for some sort of solution? yes, you are absolutely right. i agree with you that there are also the conflicts started 8 years ago and to also previously before the crimean events in 2014 because they are violation of human rights. so our russian speaking population in ukraine was quite, quite widespread and an all body and they were unfortunately in the counsel of you will not rest an organization's or reactive to these. and russia tried to

be moderate. and i remember just in 2014, many russian radicals already. they are a western russia show called nice people republics in don't, you can look on just a dime box. they followed these, these logic and a 2 years or more on it's useless diplomatic docs. unfortunately, they are the course on the and previously so it was unfortunately we see that what we see today is the grade trailer or the european diploma. that's the fact there's been quite a range of reactions from western powers ranging from very much aggressive towards russia to quite muted as well. do you see you expect to see and well, mean consensus from west,

the leaders about what measures will be taken against russia in terms of shank sanctions or any other events? well, if for me is difficult to, to clarify, but i ran, i've seen today some use that there was no consensus within the european union on the spectrum of assumptions against ross. but there are some just deal promo. it's more neutral, more moderate, that role because everybody understands that coffee and all the ties all going on. these guys with the rush are all energized these russia want to be not be future will be on countries as well. the economy, the germany, bowman, and the guardian, the common economy, the polish economy. they would also start from tech and there are some more voices

within the u. r. c. because there is a very top political moment for the leaders. they must show their use your grade, that's clear, absolutely clear. and what would be more valid for them all. it takes all eco nomics. we'll see in a few hours or in a few days. this is certainly a very difficult situation, primarily for the people on the ground and both sides. we've seen the economic impact that somebody had in russia and the people in ukraine, obviously very worried about what will happen next. what do you see is the best realistic outcome given the situation where now and do you see any sharps of some sort of negotiations that provides a solution to stop minute reaction? well,

as far as i see the main dame all for today strikes of today's military action was to derive the grating and military potential almost oldest strive against military bases are on the board stands and so on. and practice speaking basis. the logical way to start there was just remember what the american probably the americans thought it was against you. was flavio or against iraq, from the drive, against the military and do dark installation. or now the key question, how long it will be sure that during any war we kind of say, sorry to say, any contact dale. so it's the chart day. so i know that's me who

or the biggest piece. so it's maybe not necessary to trust all there, and you will see all the read your column and you've done explain contra, short and so on. but we'll see if there we go. we will be quite short in time. and i see for 2 days, reports about russian troops around around either key parts, both eastern and central ukraine. i think that they would be quite quite a, i wouldn't say in a few days, but i, i don't belong. and so there, there will be demilitarization of the brain. we will be achieved by the rush. i mean, it made a choice. so there will be the ability to go talk for the new status war for the new or situation in your brain. and you'll be on

that, so we have time for now like but i want to rush political scientists. thanks for your time and the programs that i would appreciate it. thanks or let's go straight to a corresponded draper trunk or who's that so a moscow city send to protest against russia's minutes. reparation in ukraine, or alia. thanks for coming along. the you are in the center over the city. we understand there are number of people out there to show their indignation at events over the last 1224 hours. what's the mood there? like where you are daniel a good evening. well, are we are in central moscow. this is the pushkin's square square, which is a traditional location for anti government protests. but as you can see behind my shoulder, there are a lot of police vehicles,

but dart that many people out. so the turnout for this a protest isn't that massive and we know that this was something which was not planned out. we remember how the ukranian leadership, including the president, vo dimmers lensky, called on russian citizens. not only to voice their discontent on instagram or through the tick tock, abs, or anything like it. he said, come out cargo to red square, go to the streets of moscow and other cities, and a scream shout, no war. well, this is something that i did here on the square, but like i said that there aren't that many people partially, i guess because the see the, the police groups out there. they can see the fires and the blue lights, according to russian law, or any kind of rally in the cities such as moscow has to be sanctioned by the city

authorities and the police. and like i said, this is a spontaneous rally. and this was something that wasn't agreed by moscow, mayor's office, or the police department of moscow. so this is why anyone who shows i'm kind of protest activity it a group automatically gets detained by police. and i've seen some of these detentions, there have been a few dozen of them, but the situation is a rather com. we've heard some russian celebrities call all the people to spread the word to again, to us, share the hashtags, no war on their account. and so on and so forth. but i can tell you that here in the streets of moscow, the protest activity has been quite mild anchor. they live from moscow at the approach as we'll get back to you as a, the numbers there are doing little potentially increase as the night sir. a goes on and turns to daylight. well, aside from reaction of moscow, there's always those of interaction both in the e. u and the us,

we're going to go live to correspondence, fall asleep in berlin. caleb open in new york. paul of we can go to you 1st to what's been the reaction from the you so far? paula: well as we speak and you summit is underway and there they are discussing the new sanctions to be imposed on russia. we have heard that the sanctions will be to quote, massive with dire consequences for moscow. the president of the european commission, osha la funder lion has said that putin chose to bring war back to europe. now this is actually incorrect, you need to remember of course, that the war has been ongoing since 2014. so that's 8 years and the western media. and when i did this for pointing that out, in fact,

in the last 4 years. so if we're looking at just simply from 2018 alone, there has been 381 civilians who have been killed in the don bus region. and that is according tonight to nations figures. this is 5 times more the, the number of people who have been killed in territories set off controlled by here . and the vast majority of these people who've been killed, in fact, over 80 percent, are in the public who have the kid independence. this is what the funder lion had to say, and target and, and children are dying of fear for their life. we condemn this barbaric attack and the cynical arguments to justify it. it is president putin was bringing war back to europe. now we have received a leaked takes to regarding this you meeting that is currently underway. and it

says that you leaders will call for sanctions also to be imposed against bel worse for supporting russia in this military action. united. so to follow the high representatives of the you for foreign affairs made these comments bread, then they will be in conceal prejudice. michelle has called for a meeting of the to be in con, she'll this evening and they will agree and provide political guidance to adopt the stronger package. the harshest baggage those sanctions we have ever implemented. there is not a question of blocks. this is not a question of diplomatic power games. it's a matter of life and death. earlier, the g 7 met virtually, and they say that they will port by unprovoked and unjustified attacks by russia. they said that this military action was proceeded by fabricated claims,

an unfounded allegations, the g 7 saying that this is fundamentally changed. united at atlantic security situation, and that they bring forward severe and co ordinated economic and on mentioned thank sanction. that's the 1st time since the beginning of this crisis, we had heard from the hungarian prime minister, victor all been. now in the past he has been someone who's had a close relationship with person. i'm at now. we are hearing him. condemn was actually in ukraine. says that he expects unity on the european front, and he has also ruled out any hungarian assistance to the ukraine. the same sentiment coming from germany, where we heard from the vice chancellor also saying that germany will not apply to ukraine. and this is despite repeated requests from ukraine and the fact that germany has repeatedly said that it will not do that. we have the german chancellor

has purpose, assistance and war. and if there is no justification for it, spain prime minister has called on pollution to bring an immediate end to the hostilities. and we've just heard from the british prime minister always johnson saying that he plans to pose the largest and most severe sanctions on russia. he has court put in a dictator, he says that this is a barbaric war, and that he is offering the military assistance of the british forces to ukraine. the dependence on washing oil and gas must stop. he says for too long this has given president putin equip, on waste in politics. and then we also heard from francis president emmanuel cron saying, and i'm quoting, today's events are a turning point in the history of europe and of our country. we are now on stand by for a natal virtual summit that will happen tomorrow,

and we're waiting to receive the outcome of the summit that, as i mentioned, is underway right now. yes, certainly people are in ukraine across europe and continents waking up to a very different time this morning and of course president lin skills is speaking to us. president joe biden, following recent events. caleb, your in new york, president barton a believe is you to speak in the coming hours on ukraine. what's been the response from the u. s. so far in terms of sanctions and other actions? sure. what we expect to hear from joe biden, in just a few minutes, he is scheduled to speak on this issue of ukraine and russia, etc. the monitor of the biden administration that has been repeated on social media is laying the shoulders of this conflict squarely on russia shoulders, saying that russia is the only country that bears any responsibility for the

situation in ukraine. right now. that has been the monitor of the vitamin ministration. this is what we heard from biden in an earlier statement. brush a loan is responsible for the death and destruction this attack will bring. and the united states and its allies and partners will respond in a united and decisive way the world will hold russia accountable. now we understand that biden has been engaging with the g 7 countries about the possibility of sanctions and what kind of sanctions will be imposed. we expect that new sanctions on russia will be announced when joe biden speaks. in addition to that, us mainstream media has been flooded with a lot of very questionable allegations about russia reports from ukraine. that the questions are surfacing about obviously investigation will be carried out before we get into specifics, but there are a lot of very, very questionable statements being made in u. s. media at this point. a lot of hysterical outrage, you know, on behalf of the people of ukraine,

but as has been pointed out by russian leaders over and over and over again, over 14000 people have died since this conflict began 8 years ago. and us mainstream media doesn't seem to have any concern where the peoples of don boss, the peoples of don ads can lugens, can what they've been enduring on terms of the last 8 years showing that they've endured the food blockade. they've endured the outlying of their language, what the people have been enduring, withdrawn strikes and shelling and attacks doesn't seem to be acknowledged at all by us. leaders. meanwhile, the fact that the men's agreement was signed 7 years ago back in 2015. and at no point was implemented and the promise that that these regions would be integrated back into ukrainian society was never fulfilled. that has been ignored. now u. s. media makes it sound like russia just, just randomly declared lugens can done, has to be countries, not acknowledging that lugens can done that declared their independence in 2014.

and russia has waited 8 years to confer recognition upon them. so the u. s. media narratives that are quite hysterical right now, you know, are going to be examined. but another thing it's worth pointing out is that one theme we're seeing consistently in us media is an attempt to link donald trump and conservatives in general with russia. you know, tucker carlson who's a t v house on fox news, who has given some more balanced coverage to the situation and presented russia's point of view as a, as opposed to the american perspective is now being widely accused in us media of being a traitor. donald trump is being linked with russia and being accused of being some kind of 5th colonist. and it seems that not only as mainstream media stoking up an anti russia hysteria, they're also stoking up a hysterical against republicans and conservatives. they perceive as being disloyal and somehow sympathetic to russia. people are wondering if this is a new mccarthyism, this time not directed against the laugh, but rather against right. wingers,