even dismissed out of hand, what we're witnessing is the cuban missile crisis in reverse and this could have easily been avoided. ah, the latest update fantasy international k of claims that show down a russian cruise miss all above the city. the day pre apparently hit a residential area in during a this is russia's special operation, named the demilitarization of ukraine and tuesday to moscow maintains it has no plans for occupation the you america and the allies and the prevalence operation as a bomb barrick attack and invalid ross of tough sanctions against russia. mm. hello, and welcome. this is nancy international coming to live from moscow bringing you the latest world news updates as we continue to go beyond the headlines and

question more. thank you for joining us this morning. now, on the 2nd day of russia's military operation and ukraine, news and videos are pouring in from all sides. the capital key was rocked by a series of powerful explosions. kiev claims that has shot down a russian cruise missed all as a residential area in the city. the day bri apparently came down on an apartment building starting of fi and enjoying a's. mean, while air raid sirens have been heard in may do ukrainian cities with residents encouraged to use bomb shelters? ah ah well pictures the russian force is coming in from se new train local say they've

occupied. the city is melita paul is mer, apparently confirmed in his speech that the cities surrendered. there were also, i witness reports of the ongoing battle for goes to mel airfield near kias, around $200.00 russian troops. if managed to enter the airfield but are under you training, attack reports suggest that the fighting has been ongoing for 2 days. now. we are not afraid of russia. we are not afraid to talk with russia. talk about everything security guarantees for our country and a neutral status or sheet. we're not an inmate. so now what security guarantees will we, how it differs which countries will give them this big benefit for the russian president and best, best spoken by phone, with french president emanuel macro laying out the reasons for russia's actions in ukraine. let's hear the latest one. correspondence on the ground. now we can go to our correspondence in dom bathroom on color of his now and don. yes, karema and get to see this morning. could you bring us the latest from the front

line in tony as to where you are now? please call the shilling here and on vasa continues there relentlessly. it's been a while very alarm in 24 hours as civilian casualties. a mountain here in the nest peoples republic. now just recently received the news from the mayor of the town or for gore. look about an hour's drive away from here that the 2 women, 2 teachers were killed as the result of shelling in this school in the town or for a girl of go. and this is adding to another to civilian deaths that happened on the thursday. so it's so 4 deaths in the last 24 hours in girl alone. and of course, according to the mayor of the town, at 12 more people had been injured as the result of for multiple shillings that occurred in the last 24 hour. now the town of girl, okay,

is no stranger to shelling. it's located right on the front line of, of the conflict here in don boss. and for the last 8 years it saw multiple deaths or both children, the elderly and the, the military alike. people are still hoping for peace there. they're hoping this liberation operation as they call it here will soon and, and there will be a, there will be able to finally live in peace. meanwhile, fighting continues along all of the front lines here in don boss. here in the, on the outskirts of the netscape, people have been forced into a bomb shelters. those who did decided not to evacuate. and of course a lot of 1st civilian infrastructure was targeted here. in the next can that resulted in the destruction of a civil infrastructure like a water pumping plans and electricity?

so people are without these basic necessities. at the moment, i am on and now washes defense ministry says this don, yes, has seized some ground from ukrainian force. as do you know anything about that? more than his people's republic authorities announced that they will not stop until all of the people's republic is liberated. from the ukraine, an army, and indeed intense fighting has taken place everywhere, especially in this south of the republic near the town of murray. you pull according to edward, but soaring. he is the representative of the people's militia here. that town is currently encircled by the eyes of battalion that is known for it's a neo nazi beliefs and affiliations as well. apparently, there preventing civilians from evacuating the city and basically making them into human shields. now, according to report,

some of the craning soldiers have decided to surrender to the army of the nest, to lay down their weapons. and that's in accordance to the call by vladimir putin and local authorities as well. who promised amnesty to the soldiers that lead their weapons behind. and a safe passage back home. i remember was i getting reports from ukraine is suggest here, the military is pulling back from the border with russia. well, can you tell us about bass or russia's federal security service have announced that so there are no ukrainians, a border guards left on the border with russia. actually, 16 of those. a border guards have crossed into crimea, surrendered to lush, a russian law enforcement a saying that they no longer wish to serve in the ukraine. meanwhile, ukrainian border guards authorities said that they indeed have relocated some of the border guards to reserve positions and they will rotate them as the situation

dictates. meanwhile, we've heard again on the border of ukraine. there is a place called a here san. well, apparently ukrainian military are nowhere to be found there, and this is, this has baffled the locals. and this is just one of the conversations that was that we, we heard from them. and i feel like you're not your voice a deal with that. they're not, not, you're done really good. so with that was women cancer if they're reporting to us from the ground a in that don't,

yes. okay, meeting on there being i have opposed to ms. hunt, bye ukrainian forces on the russian military base, native boy to reported the ukrainian side lotion miss. so let's try to find out more dates has not, not sound class live to a correspondent on cause a heathen to gown language is a bona town in russia's wellstar region. dawn. good to see this morning. could you just tell is the latest and bring it up to speed place by there nikki: well that's right. there's been a, there's been reports and videos circulating across social media, allegedly depicting a possible rocket strike against a russian air base here in ra, stove region of russia. this is all unconfirmed. we're still waiting for our comment from the russian government, but that's actually not the only strike that's happened on a or, or the the only the only a legend or confirm strike on russian territory. there has been, there has been a number of others actually just last night. there have been at the very least 14

artillery strikes on ross of region where we are located right now in this region. but although this town is quite far away from where those straits actually took place, there, mainly a confined to around border areas. and that's not the only place that this has been happening after the russian offensive began. yesterday, there were a number of strikes in different russian regions that border don, boss, and ukraine. specifically, the, the region of bell garage, where you are ukranian artillery stripes apparently hit there and damage to several civilian buildings. another in there were several others in the brand screeching in which unfortunately 2 people were injured. another in cor screeching where that was actually quite quick at the border. the federal security services of russia were able to disable the firing position. now quite quickly after that happened, but the situation is hard to judge here because after those strikes that i,

as mentioned, there happened pretty much immediately after the russian offence offensive was launched. and we tried to get to the border. we did eventually get there several hours after it happened, but it was quiet there. so we thought maybe they could have had something to do with the successes of the russian military there. but like i said, all over just last night, there has been a, the artillery straits have resumed, specifically in, i'm in ra stove, a region. so that's an important thing to note. and this is actually caused a lot of it's caused the government to take a lot of measures. now. i mean, they've closed down the air space down in the southern region of russia where we're located right now. our flights have been entirely canceled throughout 12 airports in raw stove region until march 2nd, at a minimum that can be extended, but we don't know if it will be so far. another measure the regional authorities have taken is 2 and not just in ra stove, but also in the other regions. i mentioned this to close down schools located near

the border because of threats of artillery shelling. now all this stuff combined. i mean, this is caused the russian government to open a criminal investigation into this some of the, some of the potential biggest perpetrators of the, the what the, you know, what the russian government is calling crimes and acts of genocide. actually these are that they're opening an investigation into specifically people connected to neo fascist armed organizations, like the as off battalion and right sector. let's take a listen to what the head of the investigative committee had to say earlier. she, acoustically nicholas who showed us, we've named the perpetrators of all the crimes that were committed into nest and le, ganske of food shelling, destruction, murder. and so on genocide, we have enough evidence the killing of people on the basis of nationality. so now it's also important to note that ann evacuee situation has been going on for almost a week. now that was when an invite of an evacuation was declared from the don yet

people's republic and glue ganske people's republic for people basically civilians, women, children, the elderly and men who are not of a military age to basically fleece of the russian federation. the re, the regional authorities of the regions on the border with the, with the don bus region have set up temporary housing facilities for these people, specifically and roster. there are over a 100 of them where people have been coming and mass already over a 100000 have entered the russian federation and they've come to these temporary housing facilities to receive food water. they've been, they've been giving a place to stay over night, a stipends of $10000.00 roubles, or $14150.00 until they can make their way farther into other russian regions that will, that are set to hold them for a longer stay until this conflict is over and we have to also realize that there

are over 3000 children that are in ra stove old las ross of region right now that are from the don units can lugens people's republic that have been evacuated, that many of which have been connected have been assigned to the schools that have been shut down near the border. so that presents another problem for the authorities here where to move them next to can make sure that they continue. they can continue their education. i mean it's so just to really harsh situation for the civilians that have been forced to leave their homes with little more than just the shirts on their back and whatever they could carry, worrying about their loved ones that are still left in don boss, either fighting in the military, against the, the ukrainian armed forces, or simply because they couldn't, they just didn't have the strength, maybe because of an illness or something to make it to the russian federation. many thanks, that poor ted don now thought he's don't close that. he, you announce a raft of sanctions against russia early this friday, following deliberations between european leaders in brussels. charlotte davinsky

has the latest or wide condemnation from european leaders about those special operations taking place in parts of ukraine. they say 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 were not totally to exclude russian banks from the u. k. financial system, which is of course by far 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 tonight, clearly demonstrates that this package includes financial sanctions that cut rushes access to the most important capital markets. and these sanctions will increase rush us 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 you want to see bill summers together. we anticipated this crisis by conducting a demanding dialogue and alongside a european allies and partners who did everything we could to avoid it. it is here and we are ready. we will respond to the sites 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 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 everyone 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 wily condemned the action. he said they should also be lay the blame at the west stool. no volume too 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 to bonds against 9 to expansion. unfortunately, we've done nothing to prevent this escalation. more emergency meetings is 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 will be keeping you up to date on all of the developments. will ellia, my colleague peter scott discussed rushes, that special military operation with former pentagon security analysts, michael maloof, now he says that a military operation was an option of last resort. mr. newton warned about how he was concerned about the security of the federation with the encroachment of nato, as 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, 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 all 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. newton has probably already calculated that his military strategist already figure that out and basically will cut off that logistical support very rapidly. and now the yeah, russian defense ministry has published his latest report on a military operation in ukraine to break down this report am joined by r t z a t ranking only a thanks for coming. and so was the defensive industry being briefing vicky hi there. well, it looks like this is becoming regular, about 3 or 4 times a day, we hear from updates from them. so shall we have a look then mr. cornish, think of is saying that the counter offensive by the so called people's militias of

the dawn and scan, lugens republics is picking up pace. now they have advanced further into the ukranian controlled regions of donnie and the gardens. and indeed, they've gone as far as 10 kilometers beyond what used to be the front line between the d p r and the l a r. and also again the territories of these 2 republics. sorry, these 2 regions that were controlled by key of before. now, mr. kohler j called is also giving an update on the elements of the cranium, military infrastructure that have been destroyed by the russian strikes. in particular, he's saying that almost 120 elements of that infrastructure have been either damaged or destroyed by the strikes, including at least 11 military air fields. now, besides this,

mr. cornish jacob is saying that as many as 5 fighter jets and 5 drones have also been wiped out by the russian army. now there's something particularly interesting that we're hearing from the russian defense ministry. we already learned last night that the noble nuclear power plant was under control of the russian military. but right now we're hearing that this is being done together. i mean securing this compound, it's being done together with the cranium forces that are on the ground. so this something special, the russian troops on the ground must have had some kind of conversation with them and agreed to make sure that everything is safe. and this is of course, very important because we know that this is the site of the worst nuclear disaster

in history. like i said, a crucial thing and date. and let's talk about the ukranian leda really difficult few days. but for him, especially for all of us, and let's talk about his change in tone hayes and how he's feeling right now have in one page. yeah, there's been one. consistency is clearly not the right word that perhaps we should use when referring to val, dimmers, landscape, tone and volume, or zelinski, the rhetoric. perhaps he sounded confident or at least tried to sound confident while the initial stages of the russian military operation were unraveling. now, i guess he might have expected a nato members my to nato members, or the members of the lines that are less powerful to possibly even fight alongside ukraine or maybe send stronger messages to russia rather than just

imposing or announcing sanctions. and he kept reassuring everyone online that he's always in touch with dozens of heads of state. however, if we look at the reaction, yes, of course, we've been hearing a strong statement from european leaders, leaders across the atlantic. however, nobody's ready to fight alongside ukraine. nobody is ready to send its troops, not just to eastern europe, to places like the baltic states blood to ukraine. and this perhaps, really did leads to some major changes in what mr. lensky is saying. would you believe it or not? right now, the cranium president is saying that he's ready absolutely ready for direct talks with vladimir putin about a neutral neutral status of his country. and this is something that russia wanted

as security guarantee for itself. and mr. brewton has been talking about that time and time again, but let's listen to baltimore's lensky. his latest statement really reflects everything that i've just been telling you about. she was numb. i asked them, are you with us? they answered that they are with us. if they don't want to take us into the alliance, i've asked 27 leaders of europe. so if you crane will be a nato, and i've asked them you directly. all are afraid and does not respond. we are not afraid of russia. we are not afraid to talk with russia, talk about everything. security guarantees, a country in a neutral status. we are not in a so now what security guarantees we have, which countries will give them back. i find that quite difficult. so what it seems to me like is very emotional isn't, is either broken man from the looks of it. what the thing go,

because he realizes that everything's happening in different parts of the country. could not go, could not be going the way he really wanted to be. well the see staying in here. he is not fled. that's very important. but clearly his face is different. and is tolling is different again. why? because nobody is ready to fight with you. cried yes, the western leaders are saying that the stand together with the grade, but that's something completely different. and if we look at the sanctions in particular, it has not been the worst case scenario for russia because russia is still part of the swift system of banking payments, which could have been the worst case scenario. yes, the russian banking sector is being hit with sanctions. yes. for example, the champions league final d u a which i'm b as the final will be canceled in st. petersburg to try to find a new location for it and so on and so forth. but this isn't

a grand major disaster for the russian economy or for other spheres in this country for now. so perhaps this is the reason why present volume is lensky isn't being that consistent or, well, maybe the another way even to call it really he is. everything's changing and what he's saying, let's see what happens next because, you know, it's friday. it's still early hours and everything on the ground in ukraine in terms of what's happening when we, when it comes to the military aspect, it's changing every hour. exactly. it's still fresh and thank you for coming in for trying to appreciate the update. thank you. which our budget has also condemned the russian operation and invalid what he called devastating sanctions. caleb morgan explains more about that. 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. he 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 european allies don't seem to agree and essentially admitted that while the states might want to kick russia out of this web system, it seems united states is not going to be able to do that at this time. now the narrative that joe biden laid out throughout his remarks was the same narrative we've been hearing from us officials all along. apparently this whole crisis, according to joe biden, has just happened simply because of russia. there is no other factor, it is simply russia's malign activities that has caused the whole thing. this is what we heard from joe biden laying out his interpretation of the dance 4 weeks. we've been warning that this would happen,

and now it's unfolding largely as we predicted. now, it's important to note that russia has repeatedly raised the issue of its security guarantees. in addition to that, russia has made clear it has no intend to invade ukraine, however, is 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. coo 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 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 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. russia is engaging in an operation to protect don ask and lou gone from attack. the idea that this is some kind of nuclear confrontation is pretty outrageous, or the fact that biden responded to such a question with, i don't know, is something that a lot of americans have got to find very concerning with mm. showing me every 1st on the alex simon. sure. i'll be speaking to guess of the

world politics school business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. mm. ah. grey's own inhabitants have learned to sleep through the nighttime shilling and to live without the most basic utilities going for weeks without clean water or electricity. worst of all, they've had to watch as the war creeps ever closer to their homes. teach georgia to correct train. you.