ah, ah rushes defense minister orders safe exit routes for ukrainian soldiers willing to surrender as a military operation on falls. thus, after the russian president ordered a special operation, say name is to defend the people of the don boss from aggression by the ukrainian military. that he may, putin stressed. russia has no plans for occupation here. the severs diplomatic relations with russia and urges the west to build an anti puting coalition. as while the us on his allies islam, the cremins operation as a barbaric at sac. and rather harshest of sanctions. ah, this is our t international. my name is peter scott and wherever you are joining us from

welcome to the program. and we start with breaking news this hour after a few hours of relative. com overnights early morning, this friday, powerful explosions. i have reportedly been heard in ukraine's capital city key if that's according to media reports, citing social media footage. and it comes out to russia, announced a military intervention on thursday. this is a developing story and we will bring you more updates on when we get them. i was thou that hasn't been there any explosions 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 as the now recognised 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 north side, just south of us. nevertheless, the frontline stretches for, for 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, the cross she craved. as a homeless has been a chaotic day. a complete surprise for every one we saw russian. the units russian forces launch caliber whose miss allison 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 multiple arms, depos fuel depos. we saw the fires characteristic fuzz 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 that 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, knotty symbols on its uniform and in its brochures and the likes, the organization. for example, his 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 has 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 ammo, ammunition depots that, that i talked about. and the other side such as 0 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 airports, including one just 25 kilometers away from 25 kilometers away from key f 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. he wants public support, and that would destroy his public support. they also said that they want the and going to try to, to live at a beat russian troops out of the airport. and typical, i believe airport near kia, which is where they are now stationed. and there have been reports that more russian units, aboard cargo planes could perhaps be headed there again. fruits in is also call in for ukrainian soldiers to be treated with respect arts. he obtained this

exclusive video from a russian war reporter in the dom boss. and he claims it shows ukrainian troops surrendering to the next republic forces. the reporter also says there are soldiers who have voluntarily laid down their arms or authorities. indonesia have also shared pitches of one of the soldiers who is apparently wounded and has been provided with 1st. busy aid medical assistance mm mm. we also have a series of own 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 at an air field in south east and ukraine. in the next clay of the debris flies as a missile heads, a miniature warehouse in the strategic for city of odessa. and lastly, there's the sound of a cruise missile darting through the air of a vanessia in the west of the country. russia's defense ministry says the kremlin

is only targeting military infrastructure russian military experts alexander stair pon of broke down watts bloody vladimir putin was referring to on thursday when he announced a special operation. the special military operations strictly complied. the russian and the international law courting speaking with bob 7, all the article 51 view in chapter genie state member can use these type of activity to protect national and international security as it was rational internal was 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

war they are directed against military nutro struction. they're not directed against the local population. the main goal. ringback used to seeing these local civilians, they all just use all the operation or all plan. it's dennis vacation and the militarization until the threat is totally remote. the operation will be carried out according to the actual dynamics of the actual crease of the current operation will come to an end in the coming days. version thanks. have apparently been spotted in ukraine. see me region which is near the russian border. resident then says this unverified video of military vehicles much hello is

the little oh ah, but, but you ah, it was june. i'm still good bundle who is shown good. ah, we heard from people living in ukraine, scarce on region, which is near crimea. one of them express surprise that the ukranian army is nowhere to be seen. she liked. yeah, not a deal with

that young person. there's a lot you're done. dealing with ukrainian president volume is zelinski address the nation in a televised broadcast. he spoke about casualties since the intervention began. the saying that 137 ukrainians have been killed, a more than 300 injured. zalinski said he's calling open military service and that's he felt ukraine had been left alone to defend itself. he also said the russian troops were close to key f in his address,

zalinski also said he was ready to speak with russia. this comes after earlier calls from 7 members of parliament 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 were scenes of punishing here on day one of the intervention. long traffic jumps formed as people headed out to the city, and many were going to the west of the country. are the local officials urge residents to stay at home and not block the roads in ukraine, 2nd, city of crowds of people spend the night come to the metro with local residents, trying to find space to rest wherever they could. train services have been severely disrupted amid the ongoing operation. similar scenes also unfolded in kiev. well, authorities have been telling people to use the stations as bomb shelters. we heard

from locals. witness in the chaos in key f. yes. 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 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 here will not be bombs for that 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. meanwhile, residents formed done yet,

regions set about leaving their homes. footage shows them aligning trained platforms with their belongings and queueing up to take cash out as they bid to escape me. while russia says ukrainian forces her fide shells across the border into rushes bill garad region. the investigative committee released this footage and official said 2 adults and a child were injured in the assault one residential building was destroyed and aids or this damage. a criminal case has been launched and russian authorities also say at least 14 shelves from ukrainian 30 have hit russia's boston region. with another. this video was filmed by our crew on the full line in the done yes republic. where as we understand they had to suddenly flee due to incoming artillery, fire rushes, defense ministry says ukrainian forces are firing out cities in the don bus or

ukraine says russia has carried out more than $200.00 attacks since the starts of the day in the region a series of powerful explosions were reported across ukraine. loud blasts wrought several cities after russia lawn estates, military operation is being reported. the explosions were caused by missile strikes from russia's aerospace forces. and we also received these images from mario pal, where think smoke can be seen a billowing across the sky. and you can also see a damaged ukrainian radar system throughout the day. powerful explosions have been reported throughout ukraine. and he here you can see a map of the done yes. and lou guns people's republics, the 2 republics announced the independence from kiev shortly after the 2014 my done revolution on top of its claimed being repeatedly shelled, ever since leading to numerous civilian casualties. now both republics say they

will liberate that territory. still on the key of control of the now they've held only half of that area. president putin says russia recognizes these 2 states as defined by this month. but in the proof in announced the decision in a nationally televised speech saying there's no intention to occupy ukraine said, if you'd be said the richard with a quote as to the article, $51.00 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 demilitarization and the nurse, 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. the group anonymous has declared cyber war against the russian government. all these websites is one of its targets and has been affected by outages, as are eager to done reports. the most recognizable and the largest in the world. it is responsible and has claimed responsibility for a loss of val hacks and leagues that have resonated all around the world. this time, they have openly openly said that they are waging war on all of russia and the claim responsibility for bringing down the r t dot com our website. it, as i'm speaking as of now, it can be reached really, unless you will get a you, luckily, can get through it after you refresh the page for like dozens of time, maybe again, it doesn't day doesn't really count as you know, working not properly anyway. so they claim responsibility for that and it follows

a series of attacks on other russian websites, for example, the website of the kremlin of the russian government and so on and so forth. and in fact, r t has been targeted a number of times throughout the day, according to our editor in chief. but during the day we managed, our team managed to like repel those d dos attacks. but now, well the website is down again, just a quick reminder, adidas attack. simplifying it is basically that's when a lot of thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of false requests are sent to the websites or that that the servers think that a lot of people are trying to reach the site. the website at the same time the servers can't handle below to, so they go down, this is how it works. and interestingly enough, this or well hacker attack that has been claimed by anonymous it, there happens on the heels of an unconfirmed media reports that joe biden was presented with. opportunities of, you know, provide, of basically waging

a cyber war on russia to lake hamper it's military operation in ukraine. again, according to the reports, no final decisions were made. but some of the ideas apparently floated in front of the american president. it are the, it is to disrupt the and that all across russia also to shut off electric power and to tampa with railroad switches. apparently this would allow to, well stop trains in their tracks or even well derail them. again, those are just media reports and with no indication that any decision had been made, but clearly anonymous. again, a group that well there is no proven connection of anonymous to any official government. it has to be said, but they are a force to be reckoned with. and right now russia is their top priority. now, just a quick reminder walla engineers work on getting our web sites up and running. you

could always follow up on telegram and our social media pages for updates. russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman says that moscow has been left with no choice but to defend the civilians being sheldon dunbar since 2014. yes. to let 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 that 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. they 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 and fresh and on the part of russia, thankful 80. as we've been trying to suggest different options. and we put forward

different proposals to result. 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 of this ukrainian official started saying publicly, they should probably consider that ukraine should get nuclear weapons and went talking about a country tone appalled by civil crisis unit. ukraine was been pumped out with buttons from different places. the was written, 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 lie to top to the good. no. there is a sea of blood that has appeared over the last 80 years. anyone really not consider that? and the main aim is to stop the escalation of the war that has been going on for

a t s. i believe 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 was not all that you as president joe biden has also condemned the russian operation on a veiled was he cold? devastating sanctions as caleb open explodes. well when we heard from joe biden, the u. s. president, he laid out new sanctions on russia. these or spoke specifically of some banks that will be targeted. i 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 pressed about the swift international banking system. and he gave kind of a mild answer and said, well, the, the european allies don't seem to agree and essentially admitted that while the united states might want to kick russia out of the swim 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 u. s. 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 for 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 lugens, 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 that when pressed by report, a joe biden revealed some rather interesting lack of knowledge when it comes to events. one of the reporters actually asked him, is putin's threatening a nuclear strike? to which biden replied, i don't know what he is threatening, so we have the president of the united states saying that he doesn't know if nuclear war is on the table. now of course, russia has not threatened a nuclear strike, a nuclear war is simply not on the table rush is engaging and an operation to protect don ask and lu ganske 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 to find very concerning. well, european reaction has also been pouring in since the starts of the russian operation and ukraine. the british foreign sexless choice outlined new sanctions aimed at the devastating versus economy policy. as more in the story, 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 with the other folder for not pointing 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, over 80 percent, are in these 2 republics. who have the kid independence. this is what ocean from the lion had to say. my children are dying of fear for their lives. 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 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 as you follow, who is g? i representative of the new full for foreign affairs made these comments. ready

then due to be and gone to regina 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 our bob. the stronger package, the harsh it package, those sanctions we have ever implemented. there's not a quick channels. blush is not a question of deep romantic power games is a matter of life and death. earlier, the g 7 met virtually, and they say that they will and poured 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 and that those 2 are when full with the severe and co ordinated economic and financial bank sanction. and now back to our breaking news from ukraine, after

a few hours, the relative calm overnights, early morning, this friday, powerful explosions, have reportedly been heard in ukraine's capital city key. if now for more on this, i am joined again by eager, eager donna who has been closely following this situation. the operation, the russian military operation has entered the 2nd phase day to with exposure, reportedly been heard in kiev. what can you tell us? you go? well indeed apparently this is what's been going on. first. we saw some videos that have been spread across social media showing the very bright object in the night sky that fell onto the residential quarters. you can actually see it on your screen right now. this massive ball of fire hurling towards the ground that makes an impact. so immediately right away you can see it actually you see burning in the residential quarters of here. now,

immediately we started getting some very well conflicting reports as to whether or not it was an a miss l. a talk or ukraine, for example, claimed that the short down and his were things get tricky because we started to get very conflicting reports from official ukrainian sources. as to what happened. their initial claim was that they shut down a russian aircraft. now these are the claims that they had made throughout the 1st day. in fact, they claim that they shut down a number of russian, you know, fighter jets without a single photograph or a single video to prove that a russian, that so the russian, you know, the russian ariel, you know, attack machine was shut down. so this time they 1st, they said that it was an aircraft, but then lay to different pictures were released to like the ones that you're seeing right now of rescue services of rescue is kinda know clearing out the debris . and they showed some of the debris that they found, and immediately it was clear that it, they don't really resemble an aircraft,

maybe an unmanned aerial vehicle or indeed a cruise miss out. so now we have a different statement from the ukranian officials and apparently a caliber mill style. i've been shut down over here, right. of course, this is one of the main problems during this operation is all this on the verified footage. there are reports of footage from previous conflicts from parades, and it's getting to the bottom of this and verify this proven so challenging the moments. exactly. it is very, very important to vet your sources before you will take anything for granted before you trust into anything you see. i mean, it applies to journalists, but it applies to well general public as well, who of course, now a lot of people all over the world. they want to be informed about what's going on in co crane. and we had them as a televised address by the ukranian president, ms. dylan in which he states these cold up the reserve is in ukraine.

can you tell us more about this? we're entering today's date, sir. this intervention will absolutely apparent the president landscape response to the to what happened to day one was to well on the general population. he declared a general mobilization and gave 90 days to complete it. which lot of experts argued that this isn't really going to be enough time for ukraine, that they won't really hold off for this long. that it won't be able to withstand the russian onslaught. even the american intelligence gave them less than like 96 hours now less and here some experts argue that that was quite generous. and right now we're also hearing reports of another attacks launched on other different ukrainian cities like a desa. for example, we're hearing that there are some, you know, you know, fights breaking out there as well.