an engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves will depart, we choose to look from common ground. ah rushes defense minister orders safe exits, routes for ukrainian soldiers willing to surrender. as a military operation unfolds, lost out to the russian president ordered a special operation, saying the aim is to defend the people of the dom bus from aggression by the ukrainian military. but he may putin as stressed. russia has no plans for occupation. give codes diplomatic relations with russia and judges the west to build an unsafe routine coalition, while the u. s. on his eyes. slum the cremins operation as a barbaric attack, and vow the harshest of sanctions

with you're watching r t international. my name is peter scott and wherever you joining us from, welcome to the program. all the tasks assigned for russian troops for the day have been successfully completed. according to his defense ministry that comes out to the kremlin, started a military operation, which it says is aimed at defending the don boss from ukrainian aggression. russian armed forces have destroyed 83 ukrainian military targets. the defense ministry added that no civilian areas were targeted. the strikes were aimed only at military infrastructure and also that safe exit routes for ukrainian soldiers have been arranged arts, he's a senior correspondent, broadcast fee of reports from little guns for public. i was thou, that hasn't been a any exclusions, and the gods sca oh, 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 all at the now recognised republic of lugens. nevertheless, the operation, the offensive that they have launched this morning following, following a very sustained, very loud and very sustained artillery shelling campaign this morning at 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 frontline stretches for the hundreds of kilometers and we haven't been able to to get close to the front lines. we have in thought back because of the dangerous situation that as we were told, nevertheless, across you crave as a whole. this has been a chaotic day. a complete surprise for every one we saw russian 9

units. russian forces launch caliber cruise missiles at various military installations. the for the ministry of defense came out and said it themselves that they lodged precision strikes against ukrainian military infrastructure against air defense sites, as well as against airfields and assets of the air force of the ukrainian air force. there was even a port that was struck, a 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 that wants to surrender cancer and he will be treated with respect. he ordered russian troops to treat any ukrainian a regular with respect the, the brunt of the resistance of way, 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 knotty symbols on its uniform and in its brochures and the likes, the organization, for example, us band band in russia, and many of its members are of wanted by courts. nevertheless, the, 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 at fields or struck a dozen or so. and fields are more than 70 various military infrastructure sites around ukraine, which presumably includes those. i am a amunition depots that, that i talked about. and the other side such as a we've, we've seen footage unconfirmed as of yet. and 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 was the reserve 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 keith, obviously, where russian paratroopers or russian special forces have been cited at a number of airport, including one just 25 kilometers away from 25 kilometers away from keith authorities in key of have said that the russians or the vladimir putin isn't going to go off to civilian infrastructure or civilian targets and he wants public support and that would destroy his public support. they also said that they want that going to try to, to lies a beat russian troops out of the airport. and keep of,

i believe airport near keith, which is where they are now stationed. and there have been reports that more russian units abroad cargo planes could perhaps be headed there. again. futon is also calling for ukrainian soldiers to be treated with respect or to obtain this exclusive video from a russian war reports in the don bus. he claims this shows ukrainian troops surrendering to the next republic forces. the report that says there are soldiers who have voluntarily laid down their weapons. or authorities index have shed pitches of one of the soldiers who is apparently wounded and has been provided with 1st aid. mm. mm. we have a series of on verified videos from ukraine showing some of the impacts of the special military operation. firstly, we can see a mushroom cloud after

a powerful explosion as an airfield in southeast, in ukraine. in the next clip, debrief flies as a missile heads a military warehouse in the strategic port city of odessa. and lastly, there's the sound of a cruise missile darting through the air of a vanessia in the west of ukraine. russia's defense ministry says the kremlin is only targeting military infrastructure. meanwhile, russian military experts alexander step on of brought down what study may putin was referring on thursday when he announced a special military operation. that of the special with the military operations really complies the russian and the international law. according to the point where the bonds 7 sounds is all for all the article, 51 are you in chapter genie state member worker can use these type of activity in that to protect national and international security opening it that

all russian terrell was. i carried out to, to minimize casualties among the local population. russian armed forces use the entire set of high tech tools that have selection selective action. first to war, they are directed against military infrastructure. they're not directed against local population. the main goal is to save these local civilians, the orange issues. although operation are all plan, it's dennis vacation and demilitarization until the threat is totally remote. the operation will be carried out according to the actual dynamics. the accurate face of the current operation will come to an end. in the coming days

. russian sang serv, apparently been spotted in ukraine's assuming region, which is near the russian border residence and says this on verified video of military vehicles. that shall, was the bill. oh, oh oh boy you ah yeah, good osha, but it was june. don't look a thunder. who is shown good. ah

we heard from people living in ukraine's here song region which is near crimea. and one of them expressed surprise that the ukrainian armies nowhere to be seen as you like your not your boy in what i've done a deal with steve. i with that young person, that there's a lot more to done, really so much with ukraine's president zalinski has addressed the nation in a televised broadcast way,

gave an old dates on ukrainian casualties so far. now to discuss this, i am joined, alive now by the correspondence eager to don of who has more on this ego the ukrainian presidents. the volume is ellen ski gave a televised address. what more can you tell us about what he said? while absolutely, there's been a whole series of speeches that he made throughout the day. kind of sharing ukraine government's perspective on what's been going on, what's been going on in the country. this is, this was the latest and well, kind of, you know, drawing the line kind of describing what happened throughout the day, according to the ukranian authorities and according precedence lensky, 137 ukrainian heroes. this is the word that he used perished in the conflict, including 10 officers and more than 300 were injured as a result of the fighting. also, his said that a sub taj groups, russian sabotage groups. this is how the he called the russian troops were literally just outside of k of in the suburbs, right outside the city limit. so the russians are almost in the capital,

even according to the ukrainian authorities, official sources. he also shed some light on what happened behind closed doors and what happened during his, you know, he's called during his talks to foreign leaders to the western leaders. and apparently, according to president lansky, they have been left completely alone, completely alone, completely abandoned. they should say he kind of ask the question as to who was ready to fight for them to intervene and help them out militarily on the ground. and while he said that he doesn't see anybody that he didn't see any body and that nato, the basically that they weren't. welcome in nato. he's also kind well laid aside, all claims that the had left ukraine because we had seen some speculation that he fled the country. and he said that he was in the capital in the governmental quarters with the rest representatives of the government, representatives of authorities. now in another big development, he announced

a general mobilization of the population and gave 90 days to complete that now. well, given that even the american intelligence give only a less than 96 hours for you know, for capital key of the basically they're saying that the capital case will fall in less than 96 hours. and some people hear some experts here saying that even that prediction is quite a generous. well, it's unclear whether, whether this mobilization will be able to sway the course of events in ukraine's favor. because so far, according to the, to the previous statement by the russian defense ministry, which happened a few hours before the lens keys bay, they destroyed dozens of elements of military infrastructure. russia has also been saying that that strikes are very precise, that they are only targeting military infrastructure and not carpet bombing, the not carpet bombing cities. and in fact, there has been not

a single verified video online to prove that russians were to basically to prove to prove them wrong and to catch them right handed, right handed, lying. so also, president zaleski has said that he's not afraid to talk with russia about the neutral status of ukraine, basically implying that russia will remain neutral, excuse me, that ukraine will rather remain neutral and not join nature. this was one of russia as demands to the military block, basic as a guarantee of safety. this is kind of, this is how the build up to what has been happening throughout the day, been going on. so this is, this is the later so far there has been a low in the fighting, but russia so far has shown no intention of backing down. and they have promised to continue their operation throughout the next day, day, weeks. i mean, there's no way of telling so far. this information is top secret. well, you go,

thank you for giving me the latest on the ongoing russian military ration. i hope you keep us up to date as and when you get more information on it. thank you. now present, zalinski is vowing to fight russia, although not all ukrainian politicians share that view. 7 members of parliaments have called for a diplomatic solution and direct negotiations with moscow. president zalinski, we urge you to immediately start talks with russia's president putin on ways to end the bloody confrontation and negotiate a treaty. there are scenes of panic in ukraine's capital here right now. long traffic jams are forming as people head out of the city, many to the west of the country where the local officials are urging residents to stay at home and not to block the roads. and so, mean kia are taking shelter under ground in the metro system. authorities have been telling people to use the stations as bomb shelters. metro chains have temporarily

also stopped running. we heard from locals, witnessing the chaos in k in key f. when i hear it, it's somewhere in t. f. sirens can be heard, they are bombing, we're about to let 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. a people started leaving here, 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 over there are huge keys, perpetual stations on the roads, several hours long. it's impossible to refill even. it's good that i had a full tank, but i still have to refill somewhere. we've been leaving here for 4 hours already. it seems of panic of spread beyond key of ukrainian residents from the done. yet

collegian have also set about leaving their homes for these shows them lining train platforms with their belongings and queueing up to take cash out as they bid to escape. meanwhile, russia says ukrainian forces have fight shells across the border into rushes. belgrade region investigative committee released this footage, official say 2 adults and a child were injured in the assault one residential building was destroyed. an 8th of this damage. a criminal case has been launched, a national authority say at least 14 shells from ukrainian territory have hit versus lost all region. with us, this video was filmed by our crew on the phone line in the done yes republic. where as we understand they had to suddenly flee due to incoming shells, rushes defense ministry says ukrainian forces are firing

a cities in the dumbass. although ukraine says russia has carried out to more than $200.00 attacks. since the start of the day in the region. as there is a powerful explosions were reported across ukraine. this morning. loud blasts wrote several cities after russia launched a military operation. it's been reported to the explosions were caused by miss ow strikes from russia's aerospace forces. we've also received these images from are you poll? thick smoke can be seen billowing across the sky, and you can see a damaged ukrainian radar system throughout the day. powerful explosions have been reported throughout ukraine. here you can see a map of the done yet, st. lou guns people's republics, the 2 republics announced their independence from here shortly after the 2014 my done revolution. and have it claimed been repeatedly shelled, ever since leading to numerous civilian casualties. now both republic say they will

liberate their territories. still under caves, control of the now they've held only about half of that area. president putin says russia recognizes these 2 states as defined by this map. let him have bruton announced the decision in a nationally televised speech saying there's no intention to occupy ukraine. so this is a richard with a court 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 de ness and luc gant's republics, i have decided to conduct a special military operation. the goal is to protect the people who for 8 years suffer bullying and genocide from the key of regime. and for this, we aim for the demilitarization 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. russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman says moscow has been left with no choice but to defend the civilians being sheldon dumbass since 2014 useless with them is that the soul should give the international community has noticed that for 8. yes, there was a war in a dumbass. they have kept saying that it was wrong to kill civilians that they had seen how many people have actually died. they had talked about human rights and how that conflict should be resolved, but they prefer not to notice any of that. they prefer not to note, is the actual people living in these regions. the also did everything in their power to make sure that the media would present this situation from the clues perspective. there is no reason to say that this is aggression on the part of russia. for 8 years we've been trying to suggest different options. and we put

forward different proposals to resolve the crisis that minsk agreement was the russian initiative. and i would like to remind everyone, if you don't want to see the of this ukrainian official started same publicly, they should probably consider that ukraine should get nuclear weapons. and we had spoken about a country tone appalled by civil crisis unit. ukraine was being pumped up with weapons from different places. the west britain, europe, the old supply ukraine, was alms. why? ukraine wanted peace. why did they gap these many weapons? it was clear that these weapons to be used in an offensive here. who were they fight thing. they were fighting their own citizens in the saw this part of the country, and it's not about weights in for a match to lie to top. no, there is a sea of blood that has appeared over the last 80 is anyone really not conceded

that? and the main aim is to stop the escalation of the one that has been going on for a t s. if the west doesn't want to see that, they would probably another mistake that they have make plenty of throughout history. not all that the u. s. president joe biden has also condemned the russian operation an unveiled. what's he called? devastating sanctions kellum open explains well, when we heard from joe biden, the u. s. president. he laid out new sanctions on russia. these spoke specifically of some banks that will be targeted. he specifically talked of products being outlawed, to export to russia. u. s. companies will not be able to export certain products to russia later in the press conference. he was trapped about this is with international banking system. and he gave kind of a mild answer and said, well, the european allies don't seem to agree and essentially admitted that while the states might want to kick russia out of this web system,

it seems the united states is not going to be able to do that at this time now the narrative that joe biden laid out throughout his remarks was the same narrative we've been hearing from us officials all along. apparently, this whole crisis, according to joe biden, has just happened simply because of russia. there is no other factor. it is simply russia's malign activities that has caused the whole thing. this is what we heard from joe biden laying out his interpretation of the dance. 4 weeks. we had been warning that this would happen, and now it's unfolding largely as we predicted. now, it's important to note that russia has repeatedly raised the issue of its security guarantees. in addition to that, russia has made clear it has no intent to invade ukraine. however, at this point, they are engaging in an operation to protect the people of don, ask, and luc guns, and make sure they do not continue to face the shelling and bombardment they have

been enduring for the past 8 years. it's important to note that unlike what joe biden said, these republics were not declared by the russian president vladimir putin. they were declared by the peoples of these regions in response to the u. s. coup in 2014, and it has been 8 years since then that russia has waited to declare the republics . now what was also interesting is when pressed by report, joe biden revealed some rather interesting lack of knowledge when it comes to events. one of the reporters actually asked him, it is prudent, threatening a nuclear strike, to which widen replied, i don't know what he is threatening, so we have the president of the united states saying, he doesn't know if nuclear war is on the table. now of course, russia has not threatened a nuclear strike nuclear war is simply not on the table. russia is engaging in an operation to protect don ask and lu, gone from attack. the idea that this is some kind of nuclear confrontation is

pretty outrageous. the fact that biting responded to such a question was, i don't know is something that a lot of americans have got to find very concerning. while european reaction has been pouring in since the start of the russian operation in ukraine, the british foreign secretary, for instance, outline new sanctions aimed at devastating rushes economy. paul asleep has more. the president of the european commission, a shallow funder lion, has said that putin chose to bring wool back to europe. now this is factually incorrect. you need to a member of course, that the wall has been ongoing since 2014. so that's 8 years. and the western media and west, honestly, i started a folder for no point from that out. in fact, in the last 4 years. so if we looking at just simply from 2008 alone, that they have been 381 civilians who have been killed in the don best region. and

that is according to united nations figures. this is 5 times more measures the, the number of people who have been killed in territories that are controlled by here. and the vast majority of these people who've been killed, in fact, of 80 percent, are in these 2 republicans who have declared independence. this is what ocean on the lion had to say. my children are dying of fear for their lives. we condemned 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 text regarding this meeting that is currently underway. and it says that you leaders will call for sanctions also to be imposed against bella worse for supporting russia in this military action. and i decided to follow who is the i representative of the new full for foreign affairs. 3,

made these comments. ready then? i'll do been gone. she'll graduate and michelle high school for our meeting are due to be and gone to this evening. and they will agree and provide voted to guidance to adopt the stronger baggage the harsh it package. those sanctions we have ever implemented these, not the quick channels blash. these is not a question of diplomatic power games is a matter of life and death. earlier, the g 7 met virtually, and they say that they will and a port by unprovoked and unjustified attacks by russia. they said that this military action was preceded by, fabricated, claims, an unfounded allegations, the g 7 saying that this has fundamentally changed united you an antique security situation way and that those who are suffering full way, presidio and co ordinated,

economic and financial thank sanctions. not all public figures support the must condemnation of russia. australian journalists, john pilcher, things, western politicians are guilty of hypocrisy. the hypocrites on parade. watch them on cnn, the bbc read them wall to wall. now imagine a strategic enclave of britons or french, or germans, or americans under violent siege, sheldon, terrorized for 8 years. would this be tolerated by the rulers of the world? nay, so has condemned the russian operation calling. it's a horrifying at sark on ukraine, which is entirely unjustified aunt unprovoked political unless nicholas markov, it's a things the western alliance is in no position to accuse others of aggression. if you look at brown university's analysis of american nato strikes since 911 attacks in new york, what we're counting today more than 900000 dead,

we're counting over 50 to 60000000 p, a refugees across the world. and these are wars and the consequences of nato led and us lead wars across the world. and gens tolten birth is going to give lessons today on, on what the heinous acts are. i think this is really something that she should do and refrain from saying, i think this is just a lot of rhetoric as we seen is coming out from nato. if he gets positive news that nato said that it will not intervene, but we must bear in mind that these past years and since 2014 and the u. s. navy led in kit leading to a nancy russian government. let's read this extremely point that we always bear this in mind. we've seen a counselor, as we've seen weapons. we've seen a funding coming out of nato countries into ukraine to finance an army which is fighting against russian speaking people of ukraine. so it's good that nato does not intervene directly in this specific war, but nato is also, since these past years has been intervening in ukraine and has been encouraging

ukraine to attack the russian speakers of dumbasses. so i think this is something else we should bring to mind to mr. chilton berg. well, that's the rop for now. my name is peter scott and i'll be back again at the top of the hour. then he'll dates on bush's ongoing military operation. thank you for watching. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking together in the world of politics, sport, business, i'm show business. i'll see you then. by the way. i am jenny. yep, of course. the more gunner, with the assault section of the 2nd platoon 3rd special forces unit. mm.