[000:00:00;00] a, [000:00:00;00] with russia's defense minister orders safe exits, routes for ukrainian soldiers willing to surrender as a military operation on folds. that's after the russian president ordered a special operation, saying the aim is to defend the people of the dom vast from aggression by the ukrainian military. but it may, putin has stressed russia has no plans for occupation care because diplomatic relations with russia and urges the west to build an anti puting coalition for the u. s. and its allies, a slum, the cremeans operation as

a barbaric its art. and vow the harshest of sanctions with you're watching r t international. my name is peter scott and wherever you are joining us from. welcome to the program. all the tasks assigned full russian troops for the day have been successfully completed. according to its defense ministry. that comes after the kremlin started a military operation, which it says is aimed at defending the don boss from ukrainian aggression. russian armed forces have destroyed 8 to 3 ukrainian military targets. the defense ministry added that no civilian areas were targeted to the strikes were aimed only at military infrastructure and also the safe exit routes for ukrainian soldiers have been arranged. ortiz, senior correspondence broadcast div reports from the la guns republic. 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 wisconsin shelling between the 2 sides. so shelling from the ukrainian side and from the self proclaimed or at the now recognized republic of you guns. nevertheless, the operation, the offensive that they have 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 the near side just south of us. nevertheless, the front line stretches for the hundreds of kilometers and we haven't been able to to get close to the front lines. we have been turned back because of the dangerous situation that, as we were told, nevertheless, across you. craig, as a homeless,

has been a chaotic day, a complete surprise for every one we saw russian. the 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 launched 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 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 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 nazi symbols on its uniform and, 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, imo 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, basset,

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 law. the hot spot now is keith, obviously, where russian paratroopers or russian special forces have been cited at a number of apples, 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 infrastructural or civilian targets and he wants public support. and that would destroy his public support. they also said that they want the gillies to try to, to lies, to beat russian troops out of the airport and ship 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. 13 is also calling for ukrainian soldiers to be treated with respect. odyssey obtained this exclusive video from a russian report in the don boss. and he claims it shows ukrainian troops surrendering to danielle republic forces. the reporter says, there are soldiers who have voluntarily laid down their arms or authorities in done yes. have shed pitches of one of the soldiers who is apparently wounded and has been provided with 1st aid. mm mm. we also have a series of on verified videos from ukraine showing some of the impacts of the

special military operation. first of we see a mushroom cloud after a powerful explosion at an airfield in southeast, in ukraine. in the next clip, debris flies as a missile hits a miniature warehouse in the strategic port city of odessa. lastly, there's the sound of a cruise missile darting through the air of a v nidia in the west of ukraine. russia's defense minisey says the kremlin is only targets in military infrastructure. meanwhile, russian military, experts alexander stepan of broke down what vladimir putin. ruth was referring to on thursday when he announced that special operation that was the special but the military operations comply the russian and the international law. according to where the boss 7, all the article 51 view in chapter state member can

use these type of activity in there to protect the national and international security. putting it that was ration channel was carried out to, to minimize casualties among the local population. russian armed forces use the entire set of hi tech tools that have selection so they can action 1st war. they are directed against military infrastructure. they're not directed against the local population. the main goal used to seeing these local civilians. they all just use all their opperation or all plan. it's dennis of vacation and the militarization until the threat is totally remote. the operation will be carried out. according to the

actual dynamics of the accurate face of the current operation will come to an end. in the coming days, russian scientists have apparently been spotted in ukraine's seen the region that's near the russian border. resident then says this on verified video of military vehicles that shall, would the build. oh oh oh boy, you ah dealership, what was to dumpster looked on the machine. ah,

earlier we heard from people living in ukraine's he had a song region which is near crimea, and one of them expressed surprise, the ukrainian army is nowhere to be seen. a deal with a

ukraine. the president zelinski has addressed the nation and a recent televised broadcast. he gave an update on the ukranian casualties so far. he spoke about casualties since the intervention saying that's 137 ukrainian soldiers have been killed and more than 300 injured. the country's defense was mentioned and he said ukraine had been left alone protecting the states. on a ledge, the russian troops were close to key. if touching on potential negotiations. he said he was ready to talk with russia. president zalinski is going to fight to russia, although not all ukrainian politicians share that view. 7 members of parliament have called for a different matic 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 were scenes of panic in ukraine's capital key if on thursday,

long traffic jams formed as people headed out to the city. many to the west of the country are the local officials urged residents to stay at home and not block the roads. and so my kids are taking shelter under ground in the metro system. all authorities have been telling people to use the stations as bomb shelters. metro stations have temporarily stopped running where we heard from locals witnessing the chaos in key f. i hear it. it's somewhere in t. f. sirens can be heard. they are bombing, 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 bombed over. there are huge keys, 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 some last we've been leaving here for 4 hours already. while sean's a panic have spread beyond key of residents from the done yet g region have also set about leaving their homes. footage 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 bill garad region. the investigative committee released this footage the you can see on your screens now. and officials say the 2 adults and a child were injured in the assault. one residential building was destroyed and 8 others damaged. a criminal case has been launched. russian authorities also say at

least 14 shells from ukrainian territory, have hit russia's roster region with another. this video was filmed by our crew on the phone line in the done yet republic, where as we understand, they had to suddenly flee due to incoming shelves, rushes defense ministry says ukrainian forces are firing as cities in the don bus. although ukraine says russia has carried out to more and $200.00 sites. since the starts of the day in the region. a series of powerful explosions were reported across ukraine. loud blasts wrote several cities after russia launched its military operation. it's been reported the explosions were caused by missile strikes from russia's aerospace forces. we've also received these images from mario pole and think spoke can be seen billowing across the sky. as you can see

a damaged ukrainian radar system here in this image. and throughout the day, powerful explosions have been reported throughout ukraine. here you can see a map of the done yet can look guns people's republics. the 2 republics announced their independence from kiev shortly after the 2014 my done revolution. and have it claimed been repeatedly shelled, ever since leading to numerous civilian casualties. and now both republic say they will liberate their territories. still under keith's control, up to now they've held only about half of that area. and president putin says russia recognizes these 2 states as defined by this map. but it puts in, announced a decision in a nationally televised speech saying there is no intention to occupy ukraine. so this is so, so you desert the richest 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 dynette 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. a famous hacker group called anonymous, has declared cyber war against the russian government ortiz websites is one of its targets and has been affected by outages. i'm joined live now in our studio biology correspondence, eager to dawn of. here we have this hockey and collective that's frequently referred to as heart to based on they've the picture taken down all websites. what can you tell us about that you go?

well, absolutely anonymous is arguably the world's most famous hacker group and they have been quite active. they're well responsible for a number of well, very resident, well hacks and leaks that have resonated throughout, excuse me, that have resonated throughout the whole world. and this time, well, they have declared war the cyber war on russia and the website has become one of the targets as we speak, as of now, the website can really be reached may be from the 10th or from the 20th page refresh attempt. maybe the main page would open, but if you try to follow any of the links, well, you really can't, unless you rephrase your page in time and time again. so it doesn't really work. this is not a proper way to, you know, to browse the internet. so our website is pretty much down and throughout the whole day, in fact, he has been reporting that, that have been de dos attacks on its website. again, details attacks basic,

it's very basic explanation. that's when artificially a lot of requests are sent to the website making look like tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of users are trying to reach at which all of those are fake. so the serve is can't handle really can't handle the load. and so they, while they go down the site, the website crashes, this is pretty much what happened throughout the day, according to well, our editor in chief, we have managed to well to fight against these attacks. but this time they got to our website. in fact, i'll tease only one of many russian websites that have been targeted apparently by anonymous as they claim. for example, the side of the kremlin of the russian government and send so on. in fact, russia is f as b rushes main. well intelligence most prominent intelligence, a n c has declared the critical threat level has said that the level of threat is

critical when it comes to well cyber security. so again, according to r t also, and it's interesting detail about 30 percent of all ip addresses were that belonged to the will. the dos attack is came from the territory of the united states against the, this all sorts of factors in play. there can be vpn, this can be used and so on and so forth. but facts are facts. so here's the thing. but there's plenty other sources where you can reach out in english, including our social media like twitter and so on. and of course, all of us, while our engineers are working on getting our web site open monday and all of us can go the latest updates included on this millage operation on telegram and social media pages. like you say, thanks very much. l date eager. well, as we've already said, if you can find our web site work in please head over to telegram for any updates on the news on the ongoing military operation that rushes launched. well, in her comments on the global pressure, russia is going through now. the countries of foreign ministry spokesman says that

moscow has been left with no choice but to defend the civilians are being shown in don boss since 2014 useless went them is that the soul should give the international community has noticed that for 8. yes, there was a war ended on bass. now 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 the conflict should be resolved, but they prefer not to notice any of that. they prefer not to notice the actual people living in these regions. i knew the also did everything in lay of power to make sure that the media would present this situation from the cruise perspective. there is no reason to say that this is and fresh and 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. the minsk agreement was the russian initiative. and i would like to remind everyone that if you don't

want to see the obvious ukrainian official started saying publicly, they should probably consider that ukraine should get nuclear weapons when we're talking about a country tone appalled by civil crisis unit. ukraine was been pumped out with buttons from different places. the was britain, europe, the whole supply? ukraine was alms. why? but it ukraine wanted peace? why did they gap these many weapons? it was clear that these weapons to be used in an offensive theater. who were they fight saying they were fighting their own citizens in the saw the strength of the country. and it's not about waiting for a match to like to talk to the go. i know there is a sea of blood that has appeared over the last 8 years. anyone really not conceded that and the main aim is to stop the escalation of the war that has been going on for a t s. i. if the west doesn't want to see that they would probably, and not

a mistake on you, that they have make plenty of throughout history. not older. u. s. president joe biden has also condemned the russian operations on he's unveiled towards he has cold, devastating sanctions. caleb morgan explains well, when we heard from joe biden, the u. s. president. he laid out new sanctions on russia. these you'll spoke specifically of some banks that will be targeted specifically talk to 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 pressed about the swift 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 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've 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 lew 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. coo and 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 poor and 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 lou gone from attack. the idea that this is some kind of nuclear confrontation is pretty outrageous, or the fact that biden responded to such a question with, i don't know, is something that

a lot of americans have got defined very concerning. what your opinion reaction has been pouring in since the start of the russian operation, ukraine. the british foreign secretary for instance, lives trust outlined new sanctions aimed a devastating russians economy. policy has more not 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 war has been ongoing since 2014. so that's 8 years and the western media, and when i understand the other folder for not pointing that out, in fact, in the last 4 years. so if we looking at just simply from 2008 a loan, 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, over 80 percent, are in these 2 republics. who have the kid independence. this is what ursula on the lie and 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 you meeting that is currently underway. and it says that you leaders will call for sanctions also to be imposed against belive, worse for supporting russia in this military action, united. so if you follow who is the high representative of the new full for foreign affairs, we made these comments. ready then? due to be and gone to regina michelle high school for our meeting. all due to be

and gone, she'll this evening. and they will agree and provide voted to guidance to adopt the stronger package, the harsh it package. those sanctions we haven't ever implemented is not the quick channels bloss. this is not a question of live romantic power games is a matter of life and death. earlier, the g 7 made 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 atlantic security situation way and the thing too, when forward. so here and co ordinated, economic and financial thank sanction. not all public figures support the must

condemnation of russia. australian journalists, john pilcher, thinks 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, it's hard on ukraine, which is entirely on justified under promote political unless nicolo mur, cove, it's things the western alliance is in no positions or accuse others of aggression . if you look at brown university analysis of american and natal strikes since 911 attacks in new york, we're counting today more than 900000 dead. we're counting over 50 to 60000000 p

a richer g across the world. and these are wars and the consequences of nato led and us lead wars across the world. and jen stilton bird is going to give lessons today on, on what the heinous acts are. i think this is really something that she should refrain from saying, i think this is just a lot of rhetoric as reason 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 extreme to point that we always bear this in mind. we've seen counselors, 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 pacific 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 just oldenburg. well,

that's all for now. my name is peter scotts and i'll be back again in around 30 minutes with any old dates on which is ongoing military operation. thank you for watching. ah, a in with, in here across the entire russian capital, this is not even national a

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