ah ah, if claims it shot down a russian cruise miss all above the city, the deep re apparently hit a residential area injuring 8. this is russia special operation name to the demilitarization of ukraine enters dates who moscow maintains it has no plans for occupation. you america, and the allies lamb, the kremlin operation as a bog down where it gets pack and, and valid rocked, if tough sanctions against russian with this is dorothy international coming to you live from moscow as we continue to bring you the very latest. and as always go beyond the headlines and question more, thank you for joining us this morning. ok. have claims. it has shut down

a russian cruise, methanol above the campus, all residential area. the day bree apparently came down on an apartment building, causing a fire, was gonna correspond, and egos are joining us in the studio now to bring in more details on this ego. what do we know? what we know? what's the latest? well, indeed, it is. day 2 of russia's operation in ukraine, and the 1st reports we got from kia a video, started to circulate on the line from different angles, different, you know, footage over some, a bright flash in the night sky, and then a massive ball of fire erling, down towards us immediately we've seen some speculation as to what happened was a, an unmanned aerial vehicle. was it a plane? was it a missile? initially, we got conflicting reports from ukraine's official side. first, they claimed that they had shot down a russian well, military jet, something that have been, i mean this is not the 1st time of this that they have made. not showing any proof,

not showing any pictures, not shown any video down russian jets and but this time they change their narrative quite quickly saying that what you're seeing right now in the screen in your screen is apparently a russian cruise missile of a caliber family and it fell down, the debrief fell down on a residential area basically next to an apartment building. i think we do have live pictures from the scene right now. what it looks like right now. yes. this is it. you can see it is an apartment building. i mean, it's a soviet style, the standard, well multi apartment block and several, several floors have been damaged. 8 people as of now we know have been both tragically injured and more than a 100 have been evacuated again. one thing where russia and ukraine apparently, you see i to, i, in this conflict is that russia doesn't saw good. well,

it doesn't, bowman discriminant leave. russia has been claiming all along that as well does carries out pin point as strikes on the objects of military infrastructure. and so things as well an advisor to president the landscape, ukrainian president. because beforehand, as he was kind of forecasting as to what to expect of day to, he had said that basically, well we were, we are expecting a well, a large scale bombardment of capital, key of but civilians. it should not be afraid because they did, because basically we didn't all believe that there will be civilian casualties that they will be affected by the russian bombing. again, these are the words of an adviser to president lens can be ukrainian president. so this is what they've been saying and so this cruise missile, it was on the way to hit some military target, and so the ukrainians shut it down. and that's why the debrief on the,

on the presidential contracts. no one wants to see any bloodshed of any sorts really. so what you, i want to pick up on one thing you said about sorting through what claiming to be fox. what all fog at this point things are moving so rapidly. we're to day to into this and so it is important to look at every angle. it's going through all of these videos. also remember that some of these videos on verify some of the facts on verified. give us a sense of what the overall mood is like across the ukraine right now. well, absolutely. basically, kit is far from the only hot spot right now. that's where day 2 of the operations seem to begin. but now it has spread over all over ukraine. i should say, i mean air raid sirens have been had in pretty much all major cities from a desperate to believe, which is the hot bed of ukrainian nationalism far, far in the west. and again,

some cities have seen the movement of russian troops. we are getting reports of, you know, fire fights are happening in ukraine. rush columns of russian military hardware moving towards will came towards hark of and cities like that. we have, we were seeing reports of air strikes, being conducted against ukraine's military infrastructure in other parts of the country as well. but exactly what you've just said. while we are blessed with a lot of videos like us, john las 1st, you have to remember that, well, you have to, you know, pick your sources very carefully. throughout day one we've seen lots of fakes. like for example, some media outlets would use certain pictures to illustrate the news wise that ukraine had well allegedly shut down a russian jet. and they would use footage of from libya or from syria. and so one and another point to be made here is that, well, while people, they seem good to film what's going on that. and so we can show you pictures like

this, for example, like some other amateur footage. but just, i want to urge everybody, especially as someone who has been an was own. i want to urge everybody and to remind everyone that the most dangerous places a civilian that you can find yourself during an air strike, you know, rate is next to a window. because like even if it targets as a military and for some military infrastructure, even if it doesn't target at the particular residential complex, the blast if it, if it's close enough, if it's powerful enough it can shut of the windows. you can get injured by shattered glass, you can be killed. i mean, a stray shot of debris can just hit you. so, according to all, you know, all safety guidelines. if you hear air raid sirens, even if you don't have a bomb shelter to go to, than just stay away from the windows and just try to just just try to surround yourself with concrete and something not easily break. already imagine what must be

going through their minds, but i know that some families out as we see would be reporting, have been sleeping in the metro station on the ground because us feel they feel safe is place to be. indeed, those are some really well the hard breaking pictures. i have to save people families with children there sheltering in the metro even though well, even ukraine, even the ukraine ukraine officials have been saying that, well, look, in reality, it's unlikely you will be head like the russians on targeting civilians. they are targeting the military infrastructure, but still i completely understand because hearing just hearing that just experiencing the impact of the, of the blast wave is, is enough to send people running scared. and again, remember, keep has, hasn't been part of the war for many, many has been part of the war of that at all. i mean, people and don't bass, that's a different story. they have been enduring as strikes for the past 18 there. there

are children who were born and therefore during the war they don't know any different. exactly. this has been their lives. and so now this ward out those basic, now the bombardments, they have come to care of and well, some military infrastructure that can be in the, in the middle of the city. and while are the ukrainian ukrainian side obliterated whole villages and hold residential quarters. and don bass, now people and key of well, they experience well something very similar. and of course it is as hard for them as for people in don bass because well, and any for any civilian, some was such an operation. basically such a conflict. while it is very difficult psychological well challenge, i thought definitely with all of these people in ukraine and in the dumbass right now, a call it thanks for coming in and bring it up to speed on the latest. as ortiz, he goes down. absolutely, well friday, as we said, is the 2nd day of it rushes military operation in ukraine. the defense ministry

says russian trip successfully carried out the tasks assigned to them on day one. the kremlin says the missions objective is to defend the dumbass republics from ukrainian aggression. within cross lifelong correspondence on the ground for now we've gotta remind cancer of his in don. yes, for isn't on course, or he's in to gown which the board a town in rushes roast of region. let's go to you 1st to remind i was the latest from the front line in don. yes. where you are right now. well, it's been there really incense or the last a few days as a shilling is being heard continuously throughout the people's republic as fighting continues along the entire front line here as the operation to liberate the rest of the people's republic. currently under ukrainian control has been announced now in terms of far the latest 24 or so all the outskirts of she often has had been

shelled and people are hiding in bomb shelters. one person was critically injured overnight to medics are currently trying to save this person's life. and over in a city of fog whirl about an hour away drive from where i am. well, shilling continues to this hour. and over the last 24 hours, at least to 2 civilians had been killed and a 7 have been critically wanted. now a shilling, an entire boss, like i said, is continue in all the time over the past few days. and critical civilian infrastructure was also damaged. leaving thousands of people without any water or any electricity. a red cross is working on the scene, trying to help those people that needs a bottle water or building material materials or anything else they might need. i remind them rushes defense ministry say the republic has seized some ground from ukrainian forces. so what advances are being made that could you just update us on

that? absolutely. they are. russian defense ministry announced themselves that sir denis people's republic. people's militia have advanced to 6 to 80 kilometers into the ukranian army positions over the last few days. however intense fighting is this still taking place like i said, especially in the south of the republic, closer to the city of murray opal where we are still getting reports to this hour that some of the settlements there are been shelved shirts shelled by a very heavy artillery, now edward buzzer and he is a representative of the people's militia official spokesperson says that at the moment the occupied city of marie opal is encircled by the azar battalion is the so called territorial defense. but who have been affiliated with the neo nazis ends in

the united beliefs. and apparently they are preventing the residence of maribel from leaving the city from evacuating and creating virtual actual human shields out of them. now also we're going to report that some of the ukranian soldiers are actually surrendering, and some of them are, are switching sides. and so they want to fight for the next people's republic, according to reports from the people's militia here. and thus, their answering calls are made by vladimir putin and the authorities of the people's republic to lay down arms and go home or a switch. besides, now, all these people who decide to leave their weapons behind, they have been promised free passage back home or so called humanitarian corridors . and of course amnesty, but that's as long as they lay down their arms. i am on the reports from ukraine,

suggest that he has the military is pulling back from the border with russia. what can you tell us about that? well, we been getting a report from that sound off. i hear song that's right on the bus there. the entire region is right on the border with a crimea will begin reports that said, the ukrainian military is a nowhere in sites. and that, of course, are baffled the, the local residents who are questioning the entire situation of what has been happening. and let's have a listen to one of their recorded conversations in our to let you know your voice a deal with that young person that they're not, not, you're not gonna really with

now, according to our rushes federal security service. so ukrainian border guards leaving a very positions and as of 1 pm on thursday, there are absolutely none left on the border with russia. now the federal security service also added that 16 of their, of, for these, the border guards have actually crossed the border into crimea. and they refused further service under the ukrainian flag. now ukrainian border guards, forties announced that indeed they have relocated some of the personnel to reserve a post. and they will switch that according to the fluctuation in the situation. now back here, back here in the next, people are really hoping that the shelling will and very soon and they will be able

to return to their normal lives. if people are really sick of the war that's been happening year for 8 years, they want to forget bomb shelters. they want to forget this and sorry, 8 years of hardship. and meanwhile, the evacuation that's been taking place here for a few days. regulation of people living along the front lines to a russia well the head of the republic. he has a hold of that at the moment, saying that there are many places at the moment in the next people's republic where people can find safe haven and save themselves from shelling. okay, well let's talk more about that evacuation now. let's go to our correspondent on course. i thank you for that. remind had done, there's been a big influx of refugees, some dumbass over the past week or so. as romantic mentioned, and i any evacuated vacuum is still arriving.

hi there, nikki: well yes they are. but the situation here has definitely influenced how, how much, how many people are going where i mean, just last night ra stove region, where i'm located right now. i'm located in a, in a border town of that region at saw at least 14 artillery shells fall on its territory on russian territory. now, the ukrainian foreign ministry says that the no, the ukrainian armed forces have not bombed russian territory, but russia's federal security services have documented a number of such actions. like i said, just last night, at least 14 artillery shells fell on a russian territory in the roast of region. but yesterday, after the beginning of russia's military operation in ukraine and don boss, there were also other instances of that in the russian region of bel garage. there were an old, almost immediately in the morning after the military offensive began. artillery shells fell on border towns. there and a number of other people's homes were damaged by that. luckily nobody was injured

in a course screeching. there was also another small of spat were of the artillery came from the training side of the border. but the federal security services were able to disable that, the firing position at that point in grounds region. there was on, there were unfortunately 2 people that were injured by artillery strikes, according to the federal security services coming from the ukrainian side. and this is, this is interesting because lat, yesterday we tried to go to the front, we did actually go to the front. when we, immediately after we heard that russian territory that russian territory had been hit by artillery artillery. but by the time we got there was, it was completely quiet. we thought maybe that had something to do with the fact that the russian forces with don boss forces were moving farther west. but the situation here is really, you know, difficult to understand because like i said, even last night there were a number of artillery shells falling on rust of regions. territory. now this has

also, this has influenced away the authorities here have reacted to the situation. i mean, airspace thrushes, southern airspace has been entirely shut down 12 airports around the border, specifically in ra stuff region have cancelled all flights until march 2nd. at the same time schools in on the border with done boss have been shut down entirely. not only in ross of region, but in the other regions. i mentioned that have schools near the border. we went there and saw that, you know, there were, there were no schools working because we have to remember that over 3000 children from data from the dynamics, people's republic from the gods, people's republic alone as a vacuum. ease came to roster, regional alone and are now connected to some sort of educational institution in this region. so you know, the authorities are really trying to figure out how they can protect children in these border areas. now you mentioned the evacuation basically we've,

we've been covering the fact that the roster regional government and other regional governments have been setting up temporary housing facilities for these evacuees. since the evacuation was declared just about under a week ago from danielle campbell guns people's republic. since then, over 100000 evacuees have fled to russia. they've been stopping at temporary housing facilities on border regions where they're, they would, they have received food and water stipends of $10000.00 roubles or about around $14150.00, and a play warm place to stay at night. and from there, they've moved on to other regions in russia or stayed with relatives if they have them in this country to basically wait out the conflict, see what it ends. but the latest information about the evacuation we have is that actually done yet. and lugens have declared a suspension to the evacuation. and yesterday, when we were at the border, we did see some people going back back towards the other end. so i mean,

we can confirm why they were that way. perhaps they had some sort of socially necessary work. we don't know, but the, the situation definitely is changing. and less people are evacuating from the, from the dunbar to russia, than at the beginning. don't like to ask you because you're effectively been living amongst these is i can wait for the past week or so. i just want you to give me very briefly, a sense of how they're feeling. i expect, you know, a mixture of confusion relief just very briefly update me on the mood of course we spoke to a lot of evacuation at number of different temporary housing facilities throughout roster of region. we spoke to them at one that was right next to the border, a more short term stay area. we spoke to them at sports a sports school that was converted into in a vacuum area where people could spend several days if they needed to before going

farther. into the russian federation, people are basically scared. i mean, if you could imagine these people, of course they were, they were living under constant shelling over the past 8 years. that itself is terrible. but all of the sudden they have to get up, leave their homes just with the shirts on their backs and whatever they can carry, take their families with them and just go to another country to, to russia for some indefinite period of time. people are scared, they don't know how long they're going to have to stay here. we've seen a lot of grief, a lot of cheers from people, especially those who left and had a family members who were left behind in dunbar to either couldn't come to, to russia because they had some sort of illness or or because they had to serve in the military, you know, people who have come here who have had family members over there are really worried about them. but we have seen a lot of positive sentiment actually specifically after russia recognise the

independence of the don boss. people's republics lugens can done yet because a lot of people have been saying for them, this is, this is a sign that the, the, the conflict that's been dragging on for 8 years could soon come to an end with russian support. if thanks for that update, we've been speaking to correspondent antonia it's kim on cover of and on quarterly into gunrall go to town and rushes whilst of reach in many thanks to both. while meanwhile, the ukrainian president has declared the general mobilization as meaning old and young will have to go to the front line. he also said not a single western leader was ready to provide security guarantees to his country story duffy who is ready to fly alongside as frankly, i don't see any one who is ready to kiss cubic guarantee. joy nights are frankly, everybody's scared. we have information, the enemy, sabotage group, spent it here. that's why i ask you have residence, be careful and follow the rules of the curve. also. meanwhile,

there were things of panic. can ukraine's capital key of on thursday long traffic jams formed as people headed out of the city many to the west of the country. however, local officials urged residents to stay at home and not clog up the roads. air raid sirens have been heard in major ukrainian cities with residents encouraged to use bomb shelters. ah, ah. these are images of residents of t evans, hong kong cough he preferred to spend the night taking shelter in the underground metro stations fearing russian missile strikes. the russian military claims is not targeting civilian areas, but people aren't taking any chances though some ukrainian politicians are urging

com. at the moment we recognize there is a possibility of such an attack, but it should be noted that attacks on civilians are not very likely since military targets are their aim. the ear announced a raft of sanctions against russia early this friday, following deliberations between european leaders in brussels. the latest his solid dependency in power is charlotte, good to see you. can you give us more on the reaction from european leaders please? or wide condemnation from the european leaders about those special operations taking place in parts of ukraine. they said that this is a serious violation of international law. and that president putin, of russia, has re introduced war to europe as a result, european leaders of agreed on new sanctions. also, new sanctions been announced by the u. k. both are suggesting that these will

hobble the russian economy. this is what boys johnson and ursula vaughan delane had to say. the u. k. as in nancy, the largest, most of your package of economic sanctions, the russia has oversee with new financial measures. we're taking new powers to target russian finance. in addition to the banks, we've already sanctioned these powers when they will not totally to exclude russian banks from the u. k. financial system, which is of course why for the largest in europe, stopping them from accessing sterling and clearing payments through the u. k. now we have to meet the moment we will hold the kremlin accountable. the package of massive and targeted sanctions. european leaders approved to night clearly demonstrates that this package includes financial sanctions. that cut rush us access to the most important capital markets. and these sanctions will increase

rush as borrowing costs res inflation and gradually erode rushes industrial base peasant mac corn of france also not mincing his words, saying that this was a turning point in european history and france was ready to act as if you want to see bill summers together, we anticipated this crisis by conducting a demanding dialogue and alongside our european allies and partners. we did everything we could to avoid it. it is here and we are ready. we will respond to this act of all without weakness with cold blood. the determination and unity of evidence of it. but president macklin has said the door is still open to dialogue. in fact, present mac on spoke to president putin on thursday evening to discuss the situation and called for an end to the operations. at the 2 leaders had a frank discussion. it was fairly short,

but they have agreed to continue talking apparently over the next few days. meanwhile, across europe, there have been protests outside russian embassies. however, not every one is against the action that's taking place. in fact, some of suggested that the blame should be shifted towards the west, including a british politician nigel for raj, who has said the west, his poked the russian bear with a stick. and here in france, presidential hopeful candidate, eric some more, said that wylie condemned the action. he said they should also lay the blame at the west's door. no volume too if we could have avoided this catastrophe. i have been saying for years of the west has responsibility for the escalation of violence in the east, and i must understand russian demands against 92 expansion. unfortunately, we have done nothing to prevent this escalation more emergency meetings due to be

held on friday with a new lead is due to meet, also need to do to have discussions and the g 7. and of course, we'll be keeping you up to date on all of the developments. we appreciate that. thank you. that's the latest from, shall it depend sky speaking to us from paris, them or political analysts, alessandro, bruno say, is russia's operation with a last resort. i think the decision became inevitable and i think he was pushed into it. they refused to discuss the situation from the russian perspective. so in the end, they gave to the middle choice and they cut off any possibility for a reasonable dialogue. the west could have done many things to prevent it. starting with, of course, persuading president law to mayor lensky in ukraine to abide by the men's agreements, which everyone seems to have remembered only after the

the recognition of the box republics as independent. the agreements were made in 20142015. so we've had 7 years to implement them. instead we've had continuous military operations by militia, some apparently neo nazi militia, the ukranian army. so, and i believe 14000 people have died in that conflict since 2014 alone. so the situation does not come out of the blue. hopefully the best outcome now would be for the deterrence to song, from russia to ukraine. no more attacks into the dumbass or at least we can hope for and then

a civilization. i don't think the rhetoric from the west, particularly again from washington that put in, wants to install a puppet regime and key of change the government invade key f. that is not in the cards, and frankly, i don't see but all the talk of russia wanting to become an empire again and expand here's where i think the last thing that russian needs is more territory. thanks for joining us here. and i'll see international will be back at the top of the out as we continue to question with them in good order was signed on the 12th 2015. and it was meant to end military conflicts in ukraine between government forces and on bus militia groups. the agreements.