ah ah, president putin urges ukraine soldiers to take power in the country to protect civilian lives as western powers, condemn what they call an all out invasion. that's a un security council meeting. russia's envoy to the un said the u. s. has no right to preach to russia. russia veto the council resolution condemning is special operation in ukraine. officials in the done yes. republic claim, a ukrainian army shelling has hits a local school killing to teachers. meanwhile rushes defense ministry accusers, ukraine's army of allegedly committing a war crime by placing rocket launchers in residential areas. i appeal to you, premium citizen, i'm very sure if you're nationalist leadership uses the same methods as here is old,

but they want to use you as human shields rushes, military operation in ukraine who stated aim is to protect the people of don bass continues as russian troops move across the country with the weekends just getting underway here in moscow moneys, pizza, scott, and wherever you are, joining us from. welcome to the program. president putin has said he's ready to send a delegation to beller roost to negotiates with ukrainian governments after president . volume is zalinski is off for talks. according to the kremlin ukraine has responded with a counter offer and that's for a meeting in the polish capital. warsaw. so far, no decision has been reached. after date, 2 of russia's military operation routine has also addressed ukrainian soldiers directly urging them to take power back in their country. you sure so,

but i should be in a solution focused on assuming i once again appeal to the military personnel of the own forces of ukraine. do not allow neo nazis to use your children, wives, and the elderly. as human shields take power into your own hands. it looks like it will be easier for us to come to an agreement. ukraine sees the russian intervention as an invasion and a violation of its sovereignty. meanwhile, present zelinski is press secretary post on social media on friday. the ukraine is open to negotiating a ceasefire with russia. the statement alleges that the 2 parties have got as far as talking about the time under place for discussions. meanwhile, ukraine has said he will give guns to any ukranian. he wants them in the care of region alone. it's reported that 10000 rifles have been given out to volunteers. the country is also scraps. the age limit needed to join the army. this comes as ukrainian men, aged between 18 and 60,

are banned from leaving the country. the russian defense ministry has claimed to ukraine is using as population as human shields allegedly, on the direct instructions of us advisors. so given through and that it's an antigen and cia advisors talking ukrainian military leadership, how to place rocket artillery systems in residential areas to promote return hire against local residents is a used by the key of regime of residential areas to cover the firing positions of its artillery as a war, cry william impetus this handwriting is familiar. johnson of these techniques are actively used by terrorists supervised by the cia in the middle east and other countries and will focus i appeal to ukrainian citizens to share your nationalist leadership uses the same methods as terrorists, or they want to use you as human shields that the russian armed forces will not strike residential areas of the ukrainian capitalism, assuming the ministry spokesman also claimed ukraine is committing

a war crime by firing ought celery from inside residential areas. but the russian miniature will not be drawn into provocations alleging similar thank 6. have been used by ca, bites of militants in the middle east. now from on this, we can cross live now to rick sterling an investigative journalist, rick, welcome to odyssey international. now both in pearson on volume is zalinski said they're willing to engage in dialogue. although the latest word from the kremlin is that the ukranian side may no longer be replying to russian officer meets, is still very unclear at the moment. and what the situation is. what can we read into that and do you see negotiations launched soon? well, i hope so, but i fear that the us and nato are using their influence with the landscape. and they do not want a quick resolution of the conflict. they probably want to drag it out to maximize

the pain and the cost to russia. frankly, they would rather see ukrainians and rushing russians dying, then a resolution of the conflict that ended in a neutral ukraine, and that was living at peace with both with the west end with russia. now we use surprised when russia launched this, what he calls the special military operation. so it in entered day 3 now in ukraine . yes. like many people i, i was surprised. and why, why was that? well, a lot of people, of course, joe biden, and the us media had been counting the drums of war and, and predicting there would be something like this for a long time. and i think it came as

a surprise to people when one looks back at the peace agreement that was proposed by, by russia in december. when one reads that carefully, then it becomes clear that they were that russia, that leverage and were, you know, we're making clear that the us had crossed the red line and they expected some kind of change. and when that was not forthcoming, obviously they've made their decision that that they had to had to send troops into ukraine and to change the situation militarily. now we've already seen a raft of sanctions been levied against numerous russian business entities and individuals. and most recently, of course, the russian president himself, the defense ministry, the, the defense minister, the foreign minister. what do you think the impacts of those sanctions will be?

well, it could be the sanctions, the personal sanctions on, on business personalities and, and the political leadership of russia will have to see that the, the possibility of the, the swift being sanction from the swift transaction for national banks. that would have huge ramifications that would hurt everybody, frankly. so we'll have to see whether it's a symbolic, i think the us wants to inflict maximum pain, but it's is constrained because they realize that they're going to be there's going to be a lot of pain felt in europe and, and ultimately in the us as well. so it's widely seen as a nuclear option is the exclusion from the swift banking system. so the things that

we kept off the table for now, then, well, i haven't heard the latest, but i do know that in the last year, russia has announced that they are prepared to move out of their prepared to leave the system. so there have been preparations underway for that already. well, rick, still, and that's all we have time for, but thank you very much for your insights into this quite fluid situation in ukraine at the moment. us make still an investigative journalist a now for an old dates from the ukrainian capital. on verified footage reportedly shows military, but that was taking place near beer is gay, sky of metro station, which is where an important ukrainian military unit is apparently stationed. now with the international condemnation of russia's intervention in ukraine,

mounting a un security council meeting was held member states including the u. s. russia and ukraine all issued statements. and there was a vote on a resolution calling out moscow's actions. russia uses veto powell, not meaning that it could not be approved. ortiz killer, moping as mall. i'm going to like to go to sydney on the new start. the new colleges, the colleges have started any swaim. so soon year was russo christmas mania. krusik authorities here for this is her, this was ordinary lunch. the modern essentially the united states and their allies brought before the un security council, a resolution condemning russia and a vote was taken and the resolution did not pass because russia is a permanent member of the un security council and voted no on it thus vetoing it however, the vote was preceded by

a lot of theatrical speeches condemning russia. russia had an opportunity to defend itself from some of the extreme allegations made by you as allies. here's some of what we heard in this rather dramatic meeting by russia's latest attack. on our most fundamental principles is so bold, so brazen that it threatens our international system. as we know it, president putin has launched a massive invasion of ukraine. his aim is to remove its government and subjugate its people. this is not self defense. under article 51, it is naked aggression. it is an unprovoked unjustified war. and this council must condemn it. now, at this point, the following the resolution and the fact that it was essentially voted down

because of russia's membership as a permanent member of the security council. we then got to hear the russian ambassador refute some of the allegations man. the russian ambassador pointed out that lugens and don ask, have been subject to shelling a food located and ongoing attacks since 2014 and that russia has waited for 7 years for the minsk agreement to be implemented that would deescalate the conflict and reintegrate the eastern regions back into the country, russia waited for 7 years before ultimately granting recognition to the republics. now, the russian ambassador was quick to point to the hypocrisy of the moralistic tone where it seems like us leaders have so much empathy. suddenly, for the people in the ukraine, but they're not, you know, worried about, you know, pushing the country into a conflict. number one. and number 2, they didn't have no empathy for what the people, the eastern regions have been enduring for the past 8 years. a lot of which came at

the hands of the extremist as of battalion, a ultra nationalist far right wing a fighting force. so from there we heard the russian ambassador taking to the floor defending russia against these allegations. and then after that we heard the ukrainian representative who used his opportunity to address the 15 member body that leads the united nations. we heard him basically engage in a very theatrical speech, involved a moment of silence followed by applause from you as representatives, very, very theatrical. this is what we heard from the ukrainian representative. and we'll ask all of you to pray for so. so those who has been already killed for so those who may be killed, let us spend a moment in

a complete silence pushing a bluish. i do apologize, but before moving to a moment of silence, i want to include in unless those people who perish over all these years and on boss, they also are worthy of being mentioned, annie and i all human lives are valuable and let's not forget them either. now that was the russian representative pointing out that while there seems to be so much empathy for those who are genuinely suffering right now in ukraine, amid the current situation, there has not been empathy for what has taken place for the past 8 years in the eastern regions now, the russian representative, he also pointed out that in ensure noble, there has been a de escalation of the situation. the radioactivity is very low and the danger to the population that the fear that there could be some kind of chemical explosion or a dirty bomb or something like that at this point is non existent. ger noble has been secured. he made that point and then bang the gabble. the meeting was over.

now. many onlookers are wondering how productive this meeting was. russia vetoed the resolution and had no chance of passing as rushes a permanent member of the un security council. however, western leaders, the added states, britain and their allies were able to use the euro un security council in order to engage in some sciatic and to make wild accusations against russia. but other than that was anything really accomplished in this meeting for actually resolving the problems in the country, bringing the world closer to gather, stopping this tension. many are looking on and asking themselves if that meeting really served anything near that purpose. to teachers have been killed by a ukrainian artillery strike on a school outside the net that's according to local officials. now warning you may find the following footage, disturbing with you, we received these images showing the aftermath. fortunately, no children were in the building at the time, and it's within one of the 2 don bus republics, which russia recognized that independence earlier this week. and in done yes,

can self residential areas have also been heads according to locals, that ukrainian sho landed in a car park damaging several vehicles. the shock wave smashed the windows of a nearby warehouse, and one civilian was reportedly severely injured. all sees romantic cost reports from daniel republic as shilling a continues here as peebles, republican women here, and it's in this sensor of the city on the outskirts of the city. and of course, said, the news came from the city of al gore lapka earlier on friday. where 2 teachers were killed by a shelling at a school. thankfully, the school was close and there were no words were no children present, he would english and good again, british french eaten tricky. another tragedy occurred in our town today. ukrainian forces shall to school. as a result, our colleagues, 2 of our teachers have died for 8 years. we have been leaving in fear that our

loved ones may get hurt. die how colleagues may die. why is that? there is no answer. keep us till it will be fired off. he grant has been given us for 8 years now. he's left without parents. the deputy had teacher has a son, he's in 5th grade. he became an orphan. she didn't have a husband, he died. the geography teacher has a sick mother. no one knows what to do with her now. that's terrifying. when will this be over? we're waiting for a police everyone who is doing it. just stop this terrible war. innocent people are dying for deal. it's more my shelling of that city continues for 8 years already and the this friday i was not any different in addition to the 2 women who were killed by artillery fire, one person was a wounded out earlier on thursday and the other 2 people were killed at a factory where they were working,

and so all and all over 2 days with all of as many as 12 people had been wounded now from the city of gall of coal, which is about an hour away from where i'm standing to arrive here to the city of done that square a shelling hit will nearly the center of the city of about 30 kilometers away from where i'm standing. ah, several, our civilian facilities were, were here. and unfortunately one person lost their life. it was a woman who came under fire and in the ambulance, so came to save her life by. unfortunately, she died on route to the hospital. now denise kiss quiet, a large sissy and many of its outskirts are right there on the front line. were heavy artillery duels continue, and many of the local residents, so were forced to hide in bomb shelters. were speaking of fer mario paul, while according to the representative of the people's militia here, edwardo. but sir, and well, that city is currently encircled by us of battalion. it's

a so called the territorial defense force which over many years the many have linked it with me or nazi affiliations and belief. well, they're saying here that there are members of this battalion, they're not letting people evacuate from mario pool. we've been hearing a lot of artillery fire here in the center on friday. of course it's been a, it's sounds a lot more distant, but yes, there were explosions are right here in the city as for the atmosphere. you can definitely see people walking around me. of course, everyone here is hoping that of this conflict will soon and according to you and numbers are more than 14000 people had dialed over 90. children were killed in this conflict. so 240 children have been wounded and many of them became disabled. so certainly the people here want peace. they want not nothing but

peace and her. some of them are all over the past 2 days since they're breaking again. they're saying that said, don't netscape the moment is probably the safest place that's in has been in the last 8 years because the fighting is now mostly going outboard and not into the city. we heard from patrick kennings to an executive editor 21st century y. a dot com and he thinks ukrainian guns has little control over some of the more extreme forces fighting in the country. you don't really have a fully functioning state. and i think a lot of people will argue that, you know, on many levels, ukraine has been a kind of a failed state in some sense after the coup in 2014. but just by nearby the nature of the fact that they don't have the military hierarchy don't have full control over all of their a paramilitary units. we're talking about the as all battalions. and some of the

more extreme radical right leaning extreme right. leaning military units that russia and moscow's complained about that or not under the full control of the unified ukrainian military hierarchy. and, and this is why you probably have all of these a civilian casualties shelling in the dom bass. and at the same time, the government key has been denying that they've been firing or broken ceasefire protocols regarding the mix accords and so forth. so that level of deniability is always very convenient if you have sort of freelancing uh units within your military structure. the russian defense ministry claim to their report tubes were not met with resistance. earlier, the minister also said troops from the done yet unless guns republic are advancing with the support of russian forces. they've moved 25, columbus is west. beyond the former concert line into terry 3 that was until now

held by key of numerous ukrainian soldiers reportedly surrendered on lay down their arms. russian forces now control the exclusion zone surrounding the full, much noble nuclear power. plants in sounds in cities across ukraine, warning sirens were going off all throughout friday. these images are from nikolai of on the black sea coast. and you can see people huddled in a soviet era air raid shelter in a school basement. and earlier, there was a large fire on the outskirts of hard cove and he's didn't ukraine. this video apparently shows a blaze, an army fuel depot. color cove is ukraine's the 2nd largest city in his home to some 1500000 people. russian troops have been conducting operations outside the city limits, but they say those have now concluded ukrainian national symbols are being removed in the break away dawn bus. republics, which russia now considered to be depended,

hey, denise can militia fights that can be seen, replace one of ukrainian flag vignettes republics outside the local administration building. ah, various forces had moved west beyond the former concert line on this now heavy fighting matthew polt between them and the assault battalion. it's a nationalist militia group which russia considered to be neo nazi, and the u. n. has also accused of war crimes. meanwhile, an verified video is circulating on line apparently showing people welcoming the russian army near handcuff. assimilated ours daily lives in new orleans him on the north with under early on friday morning here was rocked. busy by a series of powerful explosions. authorities claim they shot down

a russian cruise missile over a residential area in the capitol. however, rushes defense ministry has denied conducting a rocket strike on it, says ukraine shot down its own aircraft. the debris apparently came down on an apartment building, sparking a fire and injuring 8 people. around 200 russian powers troopers have seized. the key goes to mal airfield near key of fighting had been ongoing for 2 days now and ended when the power cheapest linked up with other russian forces. the u. s. has sanctioned vladimir putin and the russian foreign minister said gay lover of falling a similar decision by britain on the european union following a television, a telephone conversation, a president biden held with a european commission president ursula underline and an alignment with the decision by our european allies, united states will join them in sanctioning president putin and foreign minister

leverage and members of the russian national security team experts will have more specific details out later this afternoon. basically the united states, the u, the u. k. the western alliance so, so to speak, they are, they keep applying pressure and mounting pressure on russia in a bid to try and will stop moscow in its tracks when it comes to its military campaign in ukraine. and of course, the biggest development here now is that, well, russia's top political officials are on the sanction list, starting with president vladimir putin. of course, this was the big development today. there you have at vladimir putin is on the sanctions list along with the russian foreign minister, sergio lab on the left. and the russian defense minister showing who, who is on the sanctioned list as well. at least when it comes to the united states . now personal sanctions is not, of course, the only thing that has that the united states that you have announced today, russian defense ministry as a whole, plus russian intelligence,

one of russian intelligence agency, the service of foreign intelligence has been put on the sanction list along with the rushes leading companies over the military, industrial sector, for example, those that build military jets, those that build warships they are, they have been sanctioned as well. now going back to some of the personal sanctions, but in a broader scale. it was, it used to be there to certain categories of russians like business men, politicians, officials, diplomats, they enjoyed a simplified a most streamlined process of applying for an e u visa. well, no more. they enjoyed paying less of in fees. they, the process was okay, but now all they can do is apply through a standard procedure like for example, i would also when it comes to companies, when it comes to the e. u and the us applying pressure to the industrial sector. basically they have

bond, the e u has banned all experts when it comes to oil facilities to the defense capabilities . and all sort of like space tech has been banned from entering and from being exported to russia as well. so this is the long story short like again, as i said, they keep mounting this pressure. but russia so far has remained defined even before this round of sanctions, before any sanctions had been announced. the russian president vladimir putin had said that, well, russia was preparing for this military campaign, not just like military wise, but also they have been kind of, you know, playing out and simulating all sorts of scenarios. so russia says that it is ready for anything that is yet to come or that has been imposed already. and well again the, we are already getting new reports of new, fresh fighting, fresh bombardments in and around the ukrainian capital. the city of

a key of so russia shows no indications of stopping the onslaught. the minsk agreements obliged both sides of ukrainian conflicts to withdraw weapons from the front line. and an anti documentary follows the lives of people living in the conflict zone for the past 8 years. you can see the full version of r t dot com, but a warning you may find some of the following scenes disturbing. i don't really until even is one of the great sounds most an option, 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. i think that has a thought or to play a ruth, a thought is that the principal hello, that's mtv.

a 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 wall. didn't like the autopay to really only focus premium with a bit deeper with so shocked it. it was a with

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