[000:00:00;00] a oh, the latest teradowski international k as claims it shut down, a russian cruise missed all above the city, but they bri, apparently hit a residential area injury 8 days as russia special operation named the demilitarization of ukraine. and because they to moscow maintains it has no plans for occupation. the u. america. unfair allies slam the kremlin operation as a bob barrack attack and, and valor ross, to tough sanctions against russia. with hello and welcome. this is asi,

international coming to you live at from moscow bringing you the latest news updates as we continue to go beyond the headlines and question more. thank you for joining us this morning. that today is the 2nd day of russia's military operation in ukraine. in the morning, the capital key was rocked by a series of powerful explosions, key of claims that has shot down a russian cruise miss all of a residential area in the city. the day bri apparently came down on an apartment building starting a fire and injuring 8th. i mean while air raid sirens have been heard in major ukrainian cities with residents encouraged to use bomb shelters. ah ah

well, these are images of people in key of uncall cough, despite russian assurance is not to target civilians, they're not taking any chances that opting for shelter in the underground metro stations, ukraine's presence and say that he's ready to discuss his country's neutrality with russia yes, brittany, to was numb. i asked them, are you with us? they answered that they are with us to civil that they don't want to take us into the alliance. i've asked 27 leaders of europe. so if you crane will be in nato, and i lost them directly, all are afraid and did not respond. we are not afraid of russia. we are not afraid to talk with russia yet. talk about everything. security guarantees of our country when a neutral status or sheet, we're not an inmate. so now what security guarantees will we have to post which countries will give them this big? we understand the russian president has spoken by phone with the french president emmanuel, the crown, according to the cramming, vladimir pacing,

laid out the reasons for russia's actions in ukraine and get the latest on the ground in ukraine. and in dawn bass from our correspondence, i remark, concert is now in dawn yesco, remind good to see you this morning. now we've seen videos from chaos where the missile was shut down and struck a residential building. can you just give us more information about what we know for sure right now? well, i've been following the reports from key about the sensitive from the very beginning and those reports have been come. who can go conflicting from the get go? first, we heard from one of the korean ukranian official that it was an enemy aircraft that was shot down. then we heard from the local emergency ministry that it was an unidentified flying object that was shot down in the debris. from this object fell on an apartment building. we heard from the mayor of the city of ikea,

former boxer itala. please call that at least 3 people i have been injured, but now we are hearing from the authorities that it was a russian, a cruise missile that was intercepted over the city of a key of a missile that was destined for a one of the military. ah, one of the military posts offer ukraine like an emergency. his ministry said that at least 150 people had to be evacuated from that building. but we're not getting report. so for any depth from that location, it was on a what's the latest from the front line in dawn? yes. where you are now. we'll have is shelling continues here through the front line. we're getting reports of casualties in a city of our goal of go over the last 24 hours. at least 2 people to civilians had been killed. and at least as well for the latest figures while people had been. i heavily wounded,

also fighting is continuing on the outskirts of don't ask as well where civilian infrastructure was damaged them at the moment. well, thousands of people are without access to water and electricity and they're forced to hides in bomb shelters. then russia, defense ministry is saying that they, that don yeske has actually seen some ground from ukrainian for says and what advances are being made. what do you know? well, according to russian defense ministry, the nest people's militia have advanced at least still 6 to 8 kilometers into their territory formerly occupied by ukraine. their task is to liberate the entire and that region and to restore liberty in all places. now i have you fighting is continuing in the, in the south of the next people's republican here murray, opal and the representative of the people's militia edwardo. but soren says that

that city is encircled by the us of battalion, unknown for their neo nazi affiliations. and this battalion is preventing civilians of variable from evacuating and thus creating it will the living a human shields out of the residence. now some ukrainian soldiers, according to people's militia, are surrendering and elaine down arms. and that's, of course, in line with what's vladimir putin and local administration has called on the ukrainian soldiers to lay down their arms to surrender as they been promised free passage back home. and of course amnesty complete, amnesty is indeed such a rapidly developing situation. and we're trying to get a handle on all angles and there's also reports from ukraine, that is suggesting cubes, military has been pulling back from the border with russia. can you tell us anything about that?

absolutely. one of those places is the region of here, san it's bordering with gray mia local residence there will completely baffled by the lack of ukrainian military who are nowhere in sight. and let's have a listen to one of their conversations. and i see, let's discuss it a deal with the fact that there's a lot you're done dealing with now, according to russia's, the federal security service there at the moment. there are no ukrainian border guards on the border where the russia and actually 16 of those border guards have

crossed into crimea refusing further service on the ukrainian flag. ukraine's border authorities said that they had relocated some of their border guards to reserve positions and will rotate them as this situation dictates. now back here in our net, people are hoping that the award, the 8 year conflict will and very soon and that their loved ones will no longer have to suffer from the sounds of artillery. meanwhile, denis people's republic head denise pushing and announced that holds of the evacuation of a citizen, saying that there are now plenty of places within the republic where people can feel safe. women, thank you very much for that update that fontes were mon cars, or if he's on the ground in don. yes, for as thank you very much. now me, while the happy reports have an attack by ukrainian forces on a russian military base near the border, reportedly the ukrainian side launch and miss, i will have more details on that show the last class not to don't caught. and now

he's in to gown walk, which is a border town in rushes whilst of region at dawn. bring you up to speed on the latest where you are i there, nicky. well, there has also been actually instances of artillery strikes and then now the latest a rocket strike on russian territory. like you said, it, it would took place on a military base that's located in the ra stove region where i'm located right now. a of these are unconfirmed reports, we still have to confirm them, but we have seen video footage circulating across social media that we still of course have to confirm of a, a, an alleged rocket from the ukranian side launch took and, and actually, you know, man landed in a military air base, it created a fire. so far there are not any reports of people being injured, just these videos going around. and this is only the latest instance of,

of violence that's occurred on russian territory. it happened just an hour or 2 or 2 ago, but just last night actually we, we have, we've gotten confirmed, we've confirmed reports that at least 14 artillery shells have fallen on the territory of the russian federation in the a roster of region where i'm located right now it's not exactly that close to talk on rogue where i'm right now located, but the region itself is very big and this is more mostly located towards the border with dun boss. and this, these actual, these strikes actually started after the russian offensive began. we said we heard that there were a lot of the artillery strikes that happened in the regions of for example, they took place in belgrade. where and, and rust off as well, where there were houses that were damaged by this artillery shelling. thank goodness, no one was heard, but i in the brown screeching actually, which is another russian region bordering don boss. there were unfortunately 2

people injured by artillery strikes. this all happened in the morning of yesterday . there was a, there was another instance in which course creegan was hit by an artillery strike, but the russian border authorities, the russian and security services, were able to disable that position quite quickly. so nobody was hurt and not really any infrastructure was damaged. but we tried to get there as soon as possible when we heard this. and it took us several hours to get to the border by the time we were there unfortunately. well fortunately, there was, it was quiet. we thought maybe it had something to do with the offense, how the offensive was going. but unfortunately it's kind of impossible to understand where the situation is going to go here. it's changing every minute really. and this is also connected to the, the measures that the regional governments have been taking recently just last night. actually they closed or last yesterday afternoon. they closed down all the schools in, in russia,

that border done boss and ukraine. so that to children who are obviously studying there will not be in harm's way. god forbid some shelling continues in those areas . we also heard that the authorities shut down the air space in southern russia. 12 airports in roster region have had their flights cancelled until march 2nd. and that's just at the minimum that may be extended. we don't know yet, and it's important to note at the same time, the ukrainian foreign ministry has said that they actually have not launched any artillery strikes on russian territory. despite these, these reports and conflicts and certain confirmations from the confirmation from the russian authorities. but we have asked about the most recent instance, the, the rocket hitting the airfield. we've asked the ministry of defense for confirmation. we still have to have yet to hear back from them. but we will, of course, let us let our viewers know when that information becomes available. but it's important to know that this has entirely changed really the,

the vacuum situation here. because just to remind everyone, since the evacuation was declared just about a little under a week ago, 1000 over 100000 evac reese from the don boss region, have made their way into russia to wait out this conflict. they've come through temporary housing facilities set up right next to the border as well as deeper within the regions of russia that border the, the don boss region as well as ukraine. they've been given to food in water as they've arrived there, a place to stay temporarily stay the night stipends of $10000.00 roubles around $140.00 to $150.00. and this, this situation continues, of course, but actually we've seen the amount of evacuees drop that are entering into russia. we've seen the rate at which they're entering go down as of as of recently. and the reason for that could be that the diets,

people's republican lugens people's republic have temporary, says temporarily suspended their evacuation. don, thank you so much for that. and thank you for updating us on the evacuation situation because i know that i have the policy we keep in there as these bus loads of people have been leaving the dumbasses coming in to russia, trying to get some shelter from what they're expecting. could be more shelling in the dumbass, so thank you for updating us on nice in dash one to say how impressed i am, by the resilience and the strength all of these people as they go through this f a now at dawn quota of opposing to s m from take our rock. thank you. well us, he, saskia taylor has a round up now of day one of russia's military operation in ukraine. let's take a look in the early moscow hours of the 24th of february. the don bass for products requested military help from russia to quote, prevent, further bloodshed. hours later vladimir putin made this announcement. when we're

bringing that history or provide unit, 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 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 reason given apparently, diplomacy had run try and nato had crossed red lines. ukraine's president was quick to respond with the message were ready for anything. but as far nicky was still pondering, we are strong, we were ready for everything was who to feed every one because we are ukraine. he imposed marsal law cut off the tip or matic ties of moscow and declared general mobilization. ukraine's as space shot to civilian flights. blasts were reported in

numerous cities. embassies evacuated, their staff. the russian rubel tanked. and brent oil hit a 7 year high. then western leaders woke up and a wave of condemnation came. these are among the darkest hour, for you'd have seen the end of war war to this hideous barber's venture. a vladimir putin must end in failure. the russian defense men. she said it was only precision targeting calves, military infrastructure, and not civilians were not under threat. it then claimed that ukrainian soldiers were a bonding that post on mass or surrendering. he shouldn't go on us. lucy. unlike the nationalist members of ukraine in armed forces, swore an oath to the crowning people, and we're obeying orders for. so we treat them with respect for service members who have put down their arms. we make safe corridors for them to escape the operation

and return to their families as they want of moscow special operation. net, if and he had said in quick luck as thousands fled by car, in spite of the government calls the. com and i see things unfolded. few remember at a time of such confusion and instability, it could have been prevented. it could have been prevented up 2 days ago a day ago. all that needed to happen was for a ukraine to say, we will not be part of nato and we will comply with minsk and then i believe this would not have happened. but that was never going to happen. the west, i suddenly remembered mense, can say, hey, we need to do this. well, you know, you had 7 years to do it and you did. it could have pressured ukrainian government to implement it. you didn't, and now you're paying the price. they announce a raft of sanctions against russia early this find a following deliberations between european leaders in brussels trilogy. pinsky has

the latest 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 forest johnson and ursula vaughan delane had to say, the occasion onto 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 a cool 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 rushes access to the most important capital markets. and these sanctions will increase rushes, borrowing costs raise inflation and gradually erode russia's industrial base president macro on of france. also not men sing his words, saying that this was a turning point in european history and france was ready to act as your disappearance somerset. together we anticipated this crisis by conducting a demanding dialogue and alongside our european allies and partners. we had everything we could to avoid it, it is hair and we are ready. we will respond to the sights of all without weakness,

with cold blood determination and unity. but president macklin has said the door is still open to dialogue. in fact, present mack 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 ferrar, who has said the west, his poked the russian bear with a stick. and here in france presidential hopeful candidate. eric samouce said that wylie condemned the action. he said they should also be laid the blame at the west

stool new zone to if we could have avoided this catastrophe. i have been saying for years that the west has responsibility for the escalation of violence in the east. and i must understand russian demands against 9 to expansion. unfortunately, we have done nothing to prevent this escalation, more emergency meeting city to be held on friday with you leaders due to meet also need to do to have discussions and the g 7. and of course, will be keeping you up to date on all of the developments. while we spoke to political analyst alessandra bruno our, he says that russia's operation was a last resort. i think the decision became inevitable, and i think he was pushed into it. but they refused to discuss the situation from the russian perspective. so in the end, they gave him little 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 bass republics as independent in the agreements were made between 20142015. so we've had 7 years to implement them. instead we've had a 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 songs from russia to ukraine. no more attacks into the dumbass or at least that we can hope for. and then a stabilization, 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, innovative key of that is not in the cards. and frankly, i don't see, but all the talk russia wanting to become an empire again and expand territory. i think the last thing that russia needs is more territory. joe biden has also condemned the russian operation and unveiled what he called devastating sanctions. caleb morgan 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 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, the european allies don't seem to agree and essentially admitted that while the united 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 a 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 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 . and now what was also interesting is our when pressed by reporters, 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, 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. russia is engaging in 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 defined. very concerning. legal and media analyst line of phase, the newest condemnation of russia was hypocritical. when i ask people, why is it that we or other countries can invade or san invading or was entering? okay, well it wouldn't, it entering. no, he's invading. is it a partial of 8 water? no. is he occupying was a partial occupy, and there's all these, these little dispatcher of the work, and i'm a lawyer,

and i love to pars word. but when it comes to go grenada, when it comes to the falkland islands or vietnam, or iraq or afghanistan, we don't need justifying from anybody. we don't have to explain to anybody who matter won't care, who's killed, we're right in their wrong. for 5 years we've had nothing but dish drumbeat is rochelle phobic, anti russian. lou mine said that basically made people show easily convinced that this must be wrong. and by the way, i'm against war. i think everybody is. that's not the issue. i was a one asking, why are we going to iraq? why are we going to have get? is that what did they have to do with 911? shut up don't euro. you're an american, you're not patriotic. or nobody ask any questions or nobody. what did afghanistan have to do? and i'm, and i'm in new york,

and i was here on 911. i remember it. when did afghanistan have to do with it? doesn't matter. we've been there for a long dish war. isn't it funny? the hypocrisy isn't funny whether it's the falkland islands that the the a but grenada, i mean these little skirmishes, military ashes, whether it's syria, middle east, target assassinations of people. nobody says a word. but now all of a sudden, well, we're all pacifist and that's good. but please consistency ah, let's just have a quick remind you of the main develop it now on the 2nd day of russia's military operation and ukraine in the morning. the capital key of it was rocked by a series of powerful explosions. have claimed they shot down a russian cruise missile like

a residential area in the city. a day bri apparently came down on an apartment building, starting a fire and injuring 8. meanwhile, air raid sirens have been heard in major ukrainian cities with residents encouraged to use bomb shelters. ah ah. were looking at no images of people in kiev and ca, calls, despite russian assurance is not to target civilians, they're not taking any chances are opting for shelter in the underground metro stations. also, there was seen the panic in the in ukraine's capital here on thursday. long traffic jams formed as people headed out of the city many to the west of the country. however,

local officials urge residents to stay at home and not clunk up the roads. the russian president has spoken by phone with a french president monument crone, according to the cronan vladimir putin laid out the reasons for russia's actions in ukraine. ukrainian, president said he's not afraid of russia and ready to discuss his country's nato neutrality as a way of ending the conflicts. let's discuss this further. now, i'm trying to the studio by our corresponding egleston of ego. i'm sensing it to change in tone from a flood him is the landscape just talking through what was happening now? well, exactly. the change in the town might be a little bit subtle, but it is still quite evident because even before the operation rushes operation, ukraine began and onward during its into its 1st hours president lens he tried to put on this, you know, very hard line very you know this broad shouldered man,