what he said earlier today about it. so let's keep that he feels alone, right. 2 days ago he wasn't saying that he was alone because i remember his twitter post, the post that he had on facebook instagram and even kept tagging the leader saying, i've just had a phone conversation with this man with this woman, the western leaders. and he kept saying that they do stand by ukraine, but he was perhaps expecting actual moves or, or maybe some big, you know, some, some tanks to rolled in from, from nato. i mean, apparently bars johnson is considering sending ahmed plating for ukrainian soldiers . also maybe night vision goggles, but also perhaps a anti tank missiles. now, of course you've got the u. s. javelin anti tank missiles have been going in there for many, many months. now, it seems like you know, the powers that be, maybe they have some sort of feeling something was coming along. but again, all these nato weapons have wound up in east ukraine. and as, as one of our officials was saying recently that ukraine seemingly has a, not even being a member of nato, it's going to even more powerful weapons, even the latest technology with a weapons competitors,

some of the other nato members of the powers that be new there was gonna be some sort of conflict at this contact line. but rory, me see, since mr. sky wasn't getting any of that support the anything that he expected. and perhaps that is the reason why his tone changed. and now he is talking about direct negotiations with a lot of reporting about the neutral status of ukraine. and this is something that actually russia has been calling for for years and years now because of concerns about its own security. mistress and landscape mentioned that. and his latest address, let's take a look. she was numb. i asked them, are you with us? they answered that they are with us. 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 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 nato now. what security guarantees we have which countries will give them back then as well. our colleague saskia was actually on the line with you live rob during that conference and she asked the russian top diplomat wed there. russia was ready to engage in these talks and she even said, look, well mister then he's open for these talks on a neutral status. instead, though 30 labranz said that mister lensky was lying about how he's so open to these talks. okay, maybe he's saying that now, but previously ukraine wasn't ready for it at all, but we were reporting this on our tea earlier. this is the thing, this is why this is so dangerous and it gets so confusing. i read that on auto dot com, to de lensky said, i'm ready to talk about ukraine achieving

a neutral status to bring this conflict to an end. you're telling me sort of a laugh. ralph said, that's not true. so he was lying. well, we're talking about the past in this particular case, because this is a completely new statement by mister janski's. by the way, what's important is that mr. pass golf. lot of our poodle spokesperson was asked by the media, whether they've been in touch with the cranium government in the past few hours. and he says, for now, he cannot answer that question. so maybe it is that the crating government hasn't yet reached out to russia. and other reporting, yes, we are reporting yesterday that the key if a different ties with my exact right. right. so now what, what is it? it is indeed confusing if the grading try is the crane inside trying to contact doors inside or not. that's a good question. but again, when to he lab, rob says that lensky is lying. he means whenever the great government says that

they want the diplomacy to prevail, according to the russian side, that's not true because of the actions that ukraine took on the ground. and 1st of all, we're talking about the military action in the don mass region. please. helio ski run, go to a residential land. ski didn't save you the trip. he lie to you. president lansky mentioned negotiations in 2 dimensions. first, when he refused to implement means agreements, a want to gather the normandy, formal meetings. we the reason the or without a reason, without any guarantees that these summits will bring any practical results and practical outcomes. that's when presidents are lansky, what negotiations? he's not telling you the truth. he is lying to be frank, when he says that they are ready to talk about neutral estate, is pretty wiring when you've got the russian foreign minister saying something like that. i want to ask you about essentially,

what military progress is being major. and you know, this is, this is being a putin is insisting on calling this and keeps calling this a special operation, a special military operation that the west calling isn't all out invasion when it comes to progress being made. i mean, we've heard shelling outside the ukrainian capital. i haven't seen images of russian tanks outside the capital. they're unclear, but certainly have seen peter the russian times and other parts of ukraine, the border near the border. what is the russian, i guess, defense ministry saying about its progression. it's incursion into ukraine. well, we keep waiting for updates from the russian ministry of defense. i went to that building where the age who actually is yesterday, for now, we only had one update from mr. connor shank of he's the spokesman for the russian army actually in fact he was talking more about the advancements of the,

the dawn and scandal, gods, people's militias, which are pretty much the armies of the 2 republics. he's saying that their operations are being quite successful. however, he keeps calling them a counter offensive, so they are moving for further to conquer the entire regions of dawn and skin lugens. because remember that the d p r in the l p r world about a 3rd of the whole territory. so they are making their advancements and what to mr . cause i was also saying that some ukranian units are surrendering. however, they will not be captured or held by the russian military. what they'll be asked to do is to sign a document where they promise not to take part and further military action. we would just, sorry, we're just showing them up just now as you were speaking there and, and you know, it's curious to have any idea how far west fusion wants to go. that's

a difficult one. and if we go back to the updates the official update from the russian army, mr. college of isn't talking about what's going on near here. if he's talking about east ukraine. well, maybe you know, that's how the army works. they don't want to reveal the latest details of their military are put and keep saying that we have no interest. we have no designs on an occupation in ukraine. now the western media and western politicians are voicing extreme alarm the food and will occupy ukraine. and what, what does that mean for the future of present prosperity in that region? just just quickly. i know you're, you're across the ministry of foreign affairs, you're also across the military side of it too. if i could just ask for a personal opinion, ilia, how much longer do you think this, this, this special operation is going to go on for? well, this is indeed very difficult to guess, because we understand that clearly again, from the reports of the,

the people that are on the ground, they're the journalists that there is fighting just outside the cranium. capital. if there wasn't forces progress further into key of i believe this all depends on how strong the forces inside kids are. because as far as i understand, most of the crating military might of course, that is located near the former breakaway republics. right. or will they be sending any one back west? also, it's probably about the courage of the great leadership. we remember how the former president of ghana stan fled to ball about what was it a week after the main stage of the tall about a re insurgence began president. sure. yeah. when he fled with more than 6 suitcases of $1.06 suitcases. crime, and we don't know how many suitcase mr. zalesky has with them, but he was a famous actor. you remember telling me something or if i could pick your brain for

a moment, i was watching some u. k. media today they were saying that i put maybe at least 400 or more russian soldiers have been killed so far in this conflict. i'm getting thing at gold rush, ministry of defense, i'm getting nothing here on that. well, perhaps it's a good idea for them to hold a briefing where we could have some, some questions, just like sort of lab will stating questions, both from the foreign media and the russian media about half an hour ago. so hopefully we can find that out. but at the same time, without any confirmation from the russian ministry of defense, we cannot say for sure that the losses are that bad. so better, double checked anyway, for some figures that were actually getting from the russian army, they're saying that 118 military elements and infrastructure were destroyed completely by the washing strikes. and 5 fighter jets have been

taken down 5 drones that are actually armed. but there's something even more important that i want to draw your attention to last night. we found out that the russian army is now in control of the tra, noble nuclear power plant. and rory, you do remember quite well, i guess what that means and what that location is, right? yeah, of course i was alive back in the eighty's when, when that terrible nuclear tragedy happened there. but what, what does it mean though? and so what i mean, ok, this is a shoot for a nuclear zone. there was a nuclear meltdown bay, you know, back in the, in the early mid eighty's. what does that, what so, so there are 2 aspects to aspect fear. perhaps they're watching. mildew wants to show that it's in control of a very important object. it's important clearly because, you know, it's plain dangerous because there are still nuclear substances inside that shelter . you know, there's still measuring radiation in that area they are, but on, on another side, nature has also in some bizarre way, returned as well, with the foreigner in the day. and i've seen the documentaries on it, but you're saying as

a morale for the for well that's one that looks good. now they want a, we've got show know, rather defunct power station. russian keeps talking about these nationalists battalions that sometimes are completely out of control. and even the ukrainian military commanders, according to the russian side just can't give them orders because these orders, in some cases wouldn't even be followed. so this is be you talking about the as off battalion or the likes of the likes of that these are so called nazi sympathizers and all that. and i've seen that i've been reading about that for years as well. i do tend to believe that not why has widespread as some in the media do like to say there are, they do exist, they are there and i hope it's more to do with just a few bad apples frankly than any, any larger income. but i can not say for sure, but the same time when i'm talking about the 2nd aspect here. all i can say is that the russian military clearly wants to show the rest of the world. and clearly the

want to show both the population inside the green and inside russia that this area is safe and that no national as battalions will be able to use any of that. sure, noble. the say, the west will say it's not safe because rushers just steam rolled into town. roy, but let me just tell you. yesterday we found out that the russian army was in control. but today, according to mr. con shank of the russian army is patrolling this area together with the ukrainians and locals into that bed where mister, called a shank of explains what he means conic on the road. that your noble nuclear power plant was taken under full control and agreement was reached with the service men of the ukrainian security battalion to jointly secure the power unit in the sarcophagus of the renewable nuclear power plant. before drop off the radioactive background in the area of the nuclear power plant as normal, normal. so if that indeed is the case and the russian army is acting together

to secure this area with a number of the cranium troops. the. this is really something to think about if the ukrainian unit that's there is not following the orders of central command. and they've reached some kind of agreement with the russian military. that is something really unprecedented. and let's watch out if any of that continues to happen in other parts of ukraine. where again, like we've heard from the russian military, some of the cranium service men have already surrendered as well. right? we've heard that too. we will also worth reporting the shift fear that people must be going through in certain parts of ukraine. right now when you've got what is it? the 2nd or the 3rd biggest ministry in the world is rolled into town. it's going to be a very difficult time for all of these people to involve ukrainians as well living here in russia, for example, almost everyone does that. we work with your daughter and to national have family and friends in ukraine. so a lot of people are really worried about law guide ration. exactly. so it's

a profoundly complicated matter. i mean, i just want to say the west a me to is calling this an all out invasion. i think there is some truth in that. i think there is, i think a lot of people are surprised by how far putin is potentially pushing this. he says he's justified in this so called military operation. it is what they to now. so early days you will see, i mean, the big eyes either on key of now what's gonna happen to be a credit capital. we're just going to have to see, but we are keeping was checking to the facts here at ology international. go to try and confirm absolutely every single detail that come through. let's just hope it doesn't continue for months or at any particular thanks for joining us. appreciate that. you're welcome. are you. i don't see you soon. thanks very much. well, thank you for joining us. as well here and rolling coverage on all the international apparently now rushers investigative committee is proceeding with its investigation of what it calls, genocide allegations in a don. yes. and lou ganske republics are correspondent donald quarter. he's picking

this up. i'm right here in russia's roster region in the town of tucker rock, but we actually have here on russian territory. i heard that that there have been artillery strikes a number of them. i mean, just last night there were over, over 14, at least 14 artillery strikes on the territory of rushes ra stove region. and just yesterday, when the military offensive began, there were other other reports as well. in belgrade, there were a number of artillery strikes that hit there and damaged people's homes. we have indeed seen shelling on russian territory. and this has caused the, the russian authorities, the regional authorities, that border don boss and ukraine to take measures. they've closed down the air space of rushes to southern region. all the flights are basically canceled from at least from ra stoves, 12 airports, roster regions 12 airports until march. second. that's just at minimum that can be

extended depending on how the situation unfolds. the another measure they've taken is that they've close schools that are near the border that aarp, it could potentially come under shelling as we've seen, has already happened in border areas. so they want to make sure that kids there can be safe. and like you said, the russian government has now opened a criminal investigation into these instances, but not just these instances also into the, the 8 years of artillery bombing of civilian villages, towns in done boss, 8 years of that. and the russian government is going to investigate specifically the main perpetrators, the leaders and, and affiliates of neo fascist armed organizations. like as all battalion and right sector that have been the most ferociously anti russian in this situation. so let's take a listen to what the head of the investigative committee had to say here crystal blue goose, who shows we've named the perpetrators of all the crimes that were committed into

nest and le ganske through shelling russian murder and so on. with genocide, we have enough evidence, the killing of people on the basis of nationality. now it's important to mention that what we just heard, these acts of, of genocide, the artillery strikes of don boss and that have been going on for 8 years. this is created a crisis. i mean, there ever, ever since the don boss people's republics, it declared an evacuation just about a week ago because they had information that suggested that the ukrainians were going to going on go on an offensive. over $100000.00 evacuees have left the don boss area to russia since then. and they've been a bit temporarily being housed a temporary, temporary housing facilities and the boarder regence of ra stove and others that i mentioned before. it's there that they were given food and water, a stipends of around $10000.00 roubles around $14150.00, and a warm place to stay at night. this is where they've taken their children. this is

where those who are were not of military age or not strong enough to fight, have gone with little more than the shirts on their backs and whatever they could carry, leaving, leaving everything behind. and now they are. many of them have either gone to live with relatives in russia if they have them, or if they don't, then to other areas deeper within the russian federal federation that are outside harm's way. we did actually it here yesterday that the done done yet, people's republican delgado people's republic have declared a suspension of this evacuation. it seems like they see that the situation there has gotten a bit better than it was before the offensive started. but we're gonna have to see again how the situation plays out. we were speaking earlier with a political analysts, alexander bruno. now he says that russia's military incursion into ukraine was a last resort measure. i think the decision became inevitable and i think he was

pushed into it that they refused to discuss the situation from the russian perspective. so in the end they gave put in little choice and they. busy 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 dumbass republics, as independent 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 ukrainian 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 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, innovative key of that is not in the cards. and frankly, i don't see but hold to talk. russia wanting to become an empire again and expand territory. i think the last thing that russia needs is more territory. one of the

major bones of contention to all of today's current situation is that the minced agreements. now these agreements obliged both sides post the 2014, my don qu, both sides of the crate in conflict to withdraw weapons from the front line. now, we've made a documentary about this some time ago following the lives of people living in the conflict zone over the past 8 years. you can watch it are full r t dot com, and i should warn you, this little x up coming up. you may find some of it a bit disturbing. well, exam really on television is one of the gravestones most often a resident. he's the only electrician still here after the civil war broke out in the settlement of alexandra for him. the frontline stopped just outside the gates of his own house. okay, before i should i thought i didn't push it always while it felt or to play every a yellow

thought and the price point. hello. that's mtv i who call you back or they bought. he gave alexander keeps a special notebook when he records every one of his cools to repair power lines damaged by shelling in the last 7 years. it's become a real chronicle of an undeclared wall. didn't like the autopay to really only focus premium with a bit deeper with a push in you bill of sale. shocked it. it was a dome

with a new entry and alexander's diary of january the 16th 2015 or that was the day his family was killed by motor, a room and i should come as a refresher. come on, i use a whitish for so says so to somewhere it bushes really room with she was crucial. so yeah. it's a school with her, so it's a with her the why. it's like a little can we always in my focus actually? well, don't she doesn't or dish, or is there is a minute sim voicing is with chris already that

a triple here with we forgot it with the american journalist and a documentary producer dan cohen about russia's position now since it rolled into ukraine. this is been an absolute horrific war waged by the ukrainian forces and orchestrated by the united states funded by american dollars on the people of the don bass, who have suffered immensely, who they've seen their, their homes, their schools hit by mortars indiscriminately, and many civilians killed with really no ability to, to mount a proper defense and despite locals in listing and militias. and so now we've

seen, basically repeated deceptions, lies, manipulations and refusals to abide by the minks accords from basically the west from the united states, nato and ukraine. that basically provoked russia into a going on this denot to vacation campaign, which is what president putin has called it. and i think is, is absolutely accurate. well, i don't think the u. s. is really interested in diplomacy. it's only interested in, in the appearance of diplomacy, but at the same time it's sending weapons and training to ukrainian, alter nationalist hilary and nazi forces. we've seen actual swastika flags flying on the side of ukrainian military that has been attacking the don bass region for the last 7 plus years. and so there has to be some kind of recognition from brussels and from washington of what exactly it's doing. because the,

the way that, you know, politicians and media are speaking here in, in, in, in the united states is the disconnect is with reality. and so the fact that, you know, if i think if americans understood in order to attack russia than you know, we'd have a very different view. but i think it's a necessary operation in order to remove these ultra fascist dangerous elements that i think i believe are a minority of ukrainian on forces. and i hope peace will prevail. aah! moscow repeatedly warned, it would not tolerate ukraine being used by nato to threaten russia's natural security. those warnings were not taken seriously even dismissed out of hand. what

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ah, there's hours of headlines right now here in atlanta national. we are working to confirm this, but according to militia, isn't that done yet? script, public based, se ukrainian army shelter, local school, killing 2 teachers. we are working to confirm that means i'm rushers of military operation. the so called military operation in ukraine who stated aim is to protect the people of don bass. now entering it 2nd day, as western officials and the media brown this a multi pronged invasion of ukraine. as we understand more ukrainian troops have surrendered now to the russian military or the russian defense ministry saying they will not be harmed. and they can go home if they refuse to fight. ukrainian president has now asked president putin to sit down the negotiating table too. and .