dance has spoken by phone with a french president, a manual mclaren, according to the crown and drug put in, laid out the reasons for russia's actions in ukraine. ukrainian, president said he's not afraid of russia and is ready to discuss his country's natal neutrality as a way of ending the conflicts. let's discuss this further now and join the studio by corresponding egos, dawn of ego. i'm sensing at the change in tone from a flood him is a 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 the lens key, tried to put on this, you know, very hard line, very you know, this broad shouldered man did true commander in chief look. and so it kind of, he tried to reflect it in his rhetoric. he released a statement after statement speech, after speech, all in ukrainian. again,

adopting a very, you know, militaristic tone, saying that they are afraid of nobody that russia is going to get what it deserves . and his, you know, his entourage, his retinue, they will kind of echoing this message but amplifying it by an order of magnitude, like some ukranian officials is kind of, you know, building up on the landscape tone. they have been saying that like welcome to l and stuff like that, but this is what you're going to get here in ukraine, either before or into the 1st hours of the operation. when the operation began, zelinski immediately zalinski mediately cut, all diplomatic ties with russia. then he reached out to the e. u to the united states, trying to get, trying to get them on board and trying to get some, you know, help on the ground. he asked for an anti russia coalition. he was, didn't even ask for it. he said we at the state of his as a fact that we are forming the anti russian coalition. and apparently this was the

response that he got listened to what the cranium president had to say lately. yes, brittany, to was numb. i asked them, are you with us? they answered that they are with us or that they don't want to take us into the alliance. i've asked 27 leaders of europe, so if ukraine will be in nato, and i've asked them directly, all are afraid and did not respond. we are not afraid of russian. we are not afraid to talk with russia. let's talk about everything. security guarantees for our country in a neutral status, but we're not in nato now. what security guarantees will we, how it differs which countries will give them this big? then there's definitely a demeanor about him in the video, which is very different. you know, he's dressed down, he looks like he hasn't slept not many of his hands on it. he has a and e seems almost like he's been let down. can i thought that? yes, i guess you can say that because he still is that he hasn't given up, you know, attempts to like get some actual sizable help,

not just money and weapons because well, he's already lost airspace to the russian. so this pretty much spells defeat in any, you know, war, text book a but a, he reached out to the so called the book arrestor and 9, it's basically, it's an alliance of countries are that it's in the lines that has been created to streamline communication and the corporation between the east in front of the natal block. so he basically reached out to the baltic states and countries like bulgaria, chakiya or you know, the czech republic, slovakia and so on. so he's kind of reacher and well, those, especially the baltic states, they have been the most vehemently anti russian, you know, power and the voices in the pause. well yes, really, they have been really, really anti russian. so he has reached out to them. but at the same time, he is already admitting, and that's a quote that they have been left alone, that they have been abandoned, that nobody wants to fight for them,

and that nato doesn't want to accept them. so he went from like, oh, from playing with the idea of, you know, joining natal maybe even obtaining to clear weapons. and this was actually something that bladder mabood and said was the red line. and this is what tipped him over and had him announced alteration i just wanted to ask, you know, all the way it's been both sides calling for diplomacy. we wanna say want to cooperate, we need a diplomatic solution to there. so how did we get to this point? well, it is a very touchy subject because as it seems, there's no credit cards to this. well, because, i mean, if you ask the russians if you, they will say one thing if you ask them ukrainians, they will say another thing, they will just school russia and aggressor that russia is attacking a weakling, a country. but basically, russia is just starting a war in europe, but russia has a very different view to it because many people simply have not been following

what's been going on in east, in the ukraine for the past 8. yes, they have not been following the 17000 deaths. that will happened over the course of the stand of between the ukraine, the, the eastern, the ukrainian world, separatists and militia, and ukraine's trained army. then so basically vladimir putin seeing that nato's beta. so, russia's position has been like this. russia has been seeing nato's natal expanding close and closer to the russian borders for years. if not decades. russia has been reaching out to nature and saying, look, we want some guarantees or some security guarantees. and according to vladimir putin, this has been completely ignored. and when you crane one ukraine flow to the idea that they might try and get nuclear weapons, that was the tipping points. again, this is russia side, ukraine and the west view this very differently. they say that russia is the

aggressive, that this is basically the accusing russia of well, of abandoning diplomacy. and this is, is not how things are done in the 21st century. they are saying that russia is being unreasonable and they fear a lot of deaths. well, so far, both russia and ukraine have admitted that russian security forces are targeting military infrastructure and even the ukraine's even an an advisor to the ukraine. to the cranium, president told civilians told the citizens of key of the capital of ukraine that even though they expect a heavy bombardment as of today of the capital, the civilians should not be afraid that they won't be targeted because russians on doing it. these are the words coming from ukraine's from the, from the aid to the ukranian president. and it's still very, very nerve wracking time. so if everybody involved, ego,

thanks for come in and updating us on that, we appreciate it. thank you. well, my colleague peter scott discussed russian special military operation with former pentagon security analyst, michael melissa. he said that a military operation was an option of last resort. mister wooten warned about how he was concerned about the security of the federation with the encroachment of nato. and the possibility of assistance to ukraine through with, with nato assistance. and that's probably why mister colton decided to take action because it was the last resort. the implementation of men's to ukraine was not interested. washington, basically it is that once again, it coerced ukrainian leadership not to go along with it. and, and, and again, it's, it, the leadership of the country is not in control of its own destiny. it's really

controlled from the outside. and this was another manifestation of that there wasn't agreement and it's just one more agreement in a whole list of agreements that were. ready ignored or violated and mr. colton clearly felt that he was left with no other choice. do you expect that to continue or to ramp up, given this developments where it's going to be difficult to provide any more assistance if the country is under attack already? i think it's going to be difficult to move any more supplies in unless certain corridors are. but i think mr. brewton has probably already calculated that is military strategist already figure that out. and basically will cut off that logistical support very rapidly. that means agreements that blige both sides of the ukrainian conflict to withdrawal weapons from the front line. and the nazi

documentary follows the lines that people living in the conflict zone over the to 8 years. you can see the full version at r t dot com, a warning for you. you might find some of these following things to survey and exam really until even is one of the greys owns most nob hill resident. he's the only electrician still here after the civil war broke out in the settlement of alexandra for him. the front line stopped just outside the gates of his own house. okay, before i should i thought i'd give you a call. if it was you south or to play every a thought in the press more hello, that's mtv for you. who, who call you back or they bought, he did. alexander keeps a special notebook when he records every one of his schools to repair power lines

damaged by shelling in the last 7 years. it's become a real chronicle of an undeclared. won't you get an idea of so really only focus premium with a bit deeper. what was the last one? i gotta push in your bill of sale. shocked. it wasn't with you. i've got to but there's no entry. and alexander's diary of january the 16th

2015 or that was the day his family was killed by multiply. if i'm day of room, thus how much will a thread potentially come on? well, you see, i usually if the whitish process, if so to summer period bushes, really, really with chrissy, this was chris you say is one of the puzzle in a circle with her. so it's a with her, the, just a couple of hours in my focus, actually modem. she doesn't or dis throwing chairs a minute. sim wilson is with chris. are you that are for, for your voice in the sky? you friday? cuz i put it there. so we're in the room with her that both of us is foreign ministry spokesman says that moscow has

been left with no choice but to defend the civilians being sheldon dumbass since 2014 usually with them is that the soul should give the international community has noticed that for 8, yes, there was and we want and, and on bass. now they have kept saying that it was wrong to kill civilians that they have seen how many people have actually died. they haven't 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. and you the also did everything in lay of power to make sure that the media look presented this situation from the cruise 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. lee 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. and we are talking about a country tone appalled by civil crisis unit. ukraine was being pumped out with batman's from different places. the west britain, europe, the old 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 talk to the guard. no, there is the sea of blood that has appeared over the last 8 years that 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. if the west doesn't want to see that they would probably, and not

a mistake, but you that they have make plenty of throughout history was not all that with the evacuation of civilians from the donnas can legality people's republics to russia is going going ortiz, don't quote reports from the russian border. thousands and thousands of evacuated from the don boss region have common to russia. they've set up ad to they. they basically had to go to temporary housing facilities that the regional governments on the borders have set up for these evacuees. and then they've gone to other regions of russia for longer term stay that are farther in, inside the heart land of russia. but actually the after what happened yesterday, the initiation of rushes offensive in don bos, delegates to people's republics. and the got to look on people's republican, danielle people's republic, they actually suspended the mandatory evacuation. there are still people coming here though, because the fighting is obviously still going on. and actually i wanted to mention

that we're right here at the border town of target. rogan russell of region of russia, where over night actually there were no less than 14 artillery shells that came, that fell on russian territory here. and although the ukrainian foreign ministry denies that the ukrainian military is fired, any artillery shells on to russian territory that there have been actually many instances of artillery shells of falling here, specifically last night. but even yesterday, when the, when the offensive began, there were bombings in the region of bell garrett where several of people's homes pro just civilians. the homes were damaged of sent. the same thing also happened in a brown screech and where at least 2 people were injured. there was another report from russia's federal security services that in course region, they also are sent to artillery shells on to russian territory. but they reported

that they immediately were able to destroy the firing position. so there has also been quite a, quite a bit of action on the border on the russian side and, and because of that, their local authorities have taken action. actually the air space rushes southern air space has been entirely closed. there aren't any flights going out of the 12 airports in this area until march 2nd, at least. and also they've decided to close down schools near the border because of course, like i just said, artillery shells have been falling there and of several people have gotten hurt already. and just and as early as last the last night, there were just in this region for at least 14 artillery shells had fell here. so this is obviously a danger to people. and the, and the authorities want to make sure that people near the border are okay. until this, so these hostility cease. earlier we spoke with political commentator alley wisc. he says, it's strange that russia hadn't intervened earlier considering the rise of militant

extremism, including me and not seek leaps near its board. us. let me look at the what the organization of security cooperation in europe, the o. s. c. he, what it has documented. the maps recently released from that organization, which you can consider to be a pro russian by the way. you know that organization, a put maps and it clearly the nor the positions the are blotches identified. they show that most of the escalation over the past few days has come against the russian side id that the ukrainian side was the one which was a, you know, carrying a going ahead with the largest number of bombings and attacks. so you know, when you see such neutral parties are making such statements or prevail, presenting such evidence. i think things become clear, but it's interesting wants to present important mention when he, when he referred to the notification of that region. personally that got my

attention because you know, it's been well documented that there is a strong presence of neo nazis in ukraine, particularly in that eastern region and on bus. and save him in documented groups like the us off battalion, for example, which is part of ukrainian national guard. it's also been documented that you have a general law neo nazi culture, which was prevailing amongst the ukrainian armed forces. so when you have the presence of near lassie is such a strong, neo nazi presence, right next door, or, you know, that in itself is a big threat to national security. so, you know, we could say, i was somewhat surprised that russia didn't take any steps even before this given the fact that this near nausea for it has increase shaft. i remember the term recently, for example, at the beginning, just a few months ago, we began to see part of the cranium president zelinski, imposing some new laws which could be described as racist. laws in the eastern

regions like imposing ukrainian as a sole language. so even as on, thanks, scam saw was a leading, leaning towards a green layer, nausea paw. what i mean to say is that your brain is old amos government where somebody was taking more and more than the or not the past. so i think in light of those developments, such intervention must have been inevitable. we have a group anonymous, has declared cyber war against the russian government. anonymous is a hacking group named globally for his. aunty logically motivated, cyber attacks has put down a number of russian government science is also take a name as r t dot com, which is experienced difficulties. raj, a k, a technology analyst share, his thoughts on the situation. i was just looking at anonymous his record of all of the attacks that they have launched over time. and they seem quite ecumenical in the sense that they are happy to hack into anyone they identify as

those. well it's, it's mostly that they feel like they're defending the week. so they identify, in this case ukraine is the week. and russia is the strong and so they feel like they're coming to the defense of the week. and that seems to be the pattern because they don't follow any obvious political pattern. they don't seem to be working for a particular group or in a particular ideology. other than something like robin hood, you know, they're trying to defend the weak against the, against the strong. and they are the ones who identify who they think is weak and strong and then they act on it and they're rather independent about that. so. so that's, so that's their normal modus operandi, but i think that the answer is that they were taken by surprise. so if you do find our website isn't working for the time being, you can follow

r t on telegram for all the latest updates. i mean, while the u. k hasn't vowed when it calls the most severe package yet of sanctions against russia. they mainly target russian officials and the assets of the country is biggest banks such as the t b r t is host of going underground asking returns he thinks their misguided is. they'll end up hurting the wrong people. but as was the big headline figures v t b, the 2nd biggest bank in russia. full asset freeze in britain, maybe there'll be some kind of legal action by v t b, about on a raising sovereign debt. i'm not sure whether any of the politicians currently in the house of commons understand that russia has reserves of $630000000000.00 estimated in foreign reserves. the debt markets for russia haven't mean they're not that necessary to the russian economy are all, be it that the j. p. morgan funds say in emerging markets,

there emerging bond market 6 percent of it is in russian bonds. the 4 x version is 3 percent. i have no word from j, p. morgan or any of these funds that they want to reduce that amount because the oil prices spiking. so while the rich seemed to be doing okay. and while her rusher of course is doing okay, in terms of reserves from the oil, the poor bear, the brunt of war, as they always do through history. austria's former foreign minister, carrington ethel, says that if the ear sanctions, i, russian gas, it will have huge consequences for the block itself. that was german officials, including i think, even did the minister economy have said we were able to substitute rush and gas imports. i'm not so sure that this would really be possible because we are speaking of huge why do gas oil and also coal, that effect in summer, even announcing that in this final stage of renegotiating the

agreement with iran, that iranian gas could substitute ration natural gas. i mean, this will be the irony of history to, to substitute rush and gas natural gas or to the pipelines with natural gas from, from iran, given all the while the in. so to do that, you have with iraq, apart from the technical aspect to why you can these williams really be substituted . the immediate impact is already seen on the stock exchange market. it's a tremendous price hike. and we might even see a situation where the average german households will have to spend maybe 50 percent of the income on utilities. i mean, this is something that has never been happening before. that's always been any kind of conflict situation. you have to bear in mind the domestic front, and in that case, high energy prices will put

a tremendous pressure on the average germans ever. german is the electorate. and it will decrease even furthermore and already very fragile purchase power dead, inflation is only galloping. so the has to be a balance of strike by the job officials or how to, how to find that balance. so we will, we will see a ah, it's been 30 years since the soviet union collapsed. mom miss got louder. go to chill on to what the problem yet, nuclear, you know, talk,

so shown where you also trust 11 coil or tom ukraine was one of the independent states that emerge from the ruins of a super about doing or somebody would. you also get on the ball greens, come a little more surely confusing. some of the i can last new lucian, west india, better. one more law, a watch the past 3 decades been likely ukraine. eye witnesses recall the events. this would be more or less, so judiciary was in a deficiency of chipotle. what i knew to know if that order, i'm not sure, but i did that for months with marvin windows and what other forces were at play. you have to use the room, you show in. sure mushy. in those them, you are in the kid. what it, i'm going to constitute little bit when is it shows us the most of the versions or at least take a look at ukraine 30 years after gaining independence dog with

unless, unless you mean like unity recorded live, but a will, it could be issue. you have lush williston holding for oh, is your media a reflection of reality? in a world transformed what will make you feel safer? isolation for community. are you going the right way, or are you being led to some welsh direct? what is true? what is faith? in the world corrupted, you need to descend. ah,

so join us in the depths or remain in the shallows. ah, i was thinking somehow i had to come back because mom was waiting for me. i just knew that everything would be fine. for some reason we were so confident because we were going to get married officially after he came back. how could he not come back? because the mere thought of it never crossed her mind with the militants decided to try and break through. i heard you guinea ab screaming grenade. 6 google, who and explosion below him, we'll run his bag through a little and it was all over the ocean. we know that our comrades and our commander won't leave us here. no matter how tough it gets where team they're valuable. if

jenny was a senior in his military trio video, he knew that if he didn't smother that grenade with his body more, if his comrades would die, he gave his own life to save his friends. ah again that was you were talking to what the lever head the same color people problem they did their wedding leaving they'd always listen even if they don't know they don't really know that they are prostituted none of the girls and they do tell him terry, it all being pushed, one way or another leg over to again for the fight. hey,

order with beer and thick by you have it off that then hero. ah, when i get, when i pin, then that was why with 9 give me an dallas may have a different type of contract. and that is, that's what a a moscow repeatedly warned. it would not tolerate ukraine being used by nato to threaten russia's national security. those warnings were not taken seriously, even dismissed out of hand. what we're witnessing is the cuban missile crisis in reverse. and this could have easily been avoided

with the latest that they found out the international key of claims that shut down a russian cruise missile above the city. the day pre apparently hit a residential area in during a this is russia's special operation, named the dean. that's why they should have you train on tuesday to moscow, maintains it has no plans for occupation. they, you, america and the allies. i'm the prevalence operation as a bomb barrick attack and invalid ross of tough sanctions against russia. mm. hello and welcome. this is monte international coming to live for moscow bringing you the latest world news updates as we continue to go.