ah ah street parcels are reportedly taking place just kilometer away from the heart of ukraine's capital of care. as russia's military operation entered, the day, the russian president alleges ukrainian radical nationalist, the using civilians as human shields by deploying heavy weapons in bed. sleep populated areas with ukrainian radical nationalists are deploying heavy weapons, security, multiple loans, rocket systems, right? in the central areas of the large city. they plan to provoke a response from russia strike systems on residential areas and security council resolution condemning russia's military intervention and euphrates vetoed by russia,

which is claiming weston double standards with the united states sets the bar when it comes to invasion. i will refrain from listing the aggressions that the united states has committed in its history, but it has no right to preach morality to russia. ah, what i say am here in the russian capital and you're watching t international as we continue to take you through the latest updates on the crisis in ukraine, covering all angles and continuing as always, to question more. the 3rd day of russia's special military operation in ukraine is underway with battles reportedly taking place in the streets of the capital kiev, the sleeve and

verified pictures reportedly so shooting and explosions in key locals sharing videos of fires and smoke along the capitals essential victory avenue and the surrounding areas fighting is also taking place just kilometers away in my down square. and he government protests held in 2014. he of officials are urging residents to hide in foam shelters and on verified video from one chelsea. you can see local, sleeping, standing, and sitting by them. so seeking safety in the city's metro station. so meanwhile, the ukranian president save everything must be done to defend the capital. mine will be, we cannot lose the capital. i address our defenders on all fronts. the enemy will use all of its forces at disposal to break our resistance. ukrainian f for all 30. there issuing guns to any citizen who won swan make here. region alone is reported

that more than $10000.00 rifles were handouts and volunteers. the country is also scraps. the age limits needed to join the army and bound old men between 18 and 60, from leaving the country. well, let's get more on was going on in ukraine right now. we can cross live to ortiz, remind calls or is in the east. he didn't, don't yet government. good to see this morning. give us an update on the latest where you are. ah, good morning. well, we'll start with what's happening in the ukraine in the moment. we're getting reports that are russian troops are continuing to neutralize ukrainian army positions across the country. and i was talking about so basis, airports, air defense systems, and basically any military positions that they have in some places in ukraine, a local army is nowhere to be seen. for example, in the city of fi here, san,

or in the entire region are local residents were baffled by the absence of the ukrainian army. while they were witnessing the presence of a russian troops. now the city of fire mil it's opal in ukraine is also reportedly already under a rushes control. i'm talking about the military bases of course. and earlier, there was a large fire in the city of fargo, golf in the east of ukraine, home to at least a 1000000 and a half for people on the video. if you're looking at it right now, shows a blaze of the local army fuel depot. now, i'm russian troops are conducting operations against the green arm positions outside of the city limits. and we have also seen the, the a work of for air defense systems in the city. oh, for odessa also getting reports that are you korean army are blowing up a bridges where they can see the presence of,

for russian forces in order to prevent them from advancing. so certainly a lot of things are going on in the ukraine. right now. we're getting a lot of conflicting reports, a lot of footage, a lot of her footage of for firing and air defense systems work and things along those lines so rapid to escalations and ukraine. how about where you are right now in don't yet, was a situation like that? well, it has been a relatively calm night, but i can't say that for the last 48 hours, it has very loud, we civilian casualties amounting here as well. for example, the city of fog whirl of coal, which is about an hour away from here, we saw at least 4 people, 4 civilians who died on the friday. 2 teachers were blown out, but at a local school, thankfully the schools are closed at the moment. so no children were heard, but the teachers were there,

they were working on the distance learning with their students. and unfortunately they lost their lives or so at least 12 people had been injured in a world of k. as the result of shelly was that city is no stranger to shelling as it has been down to artillery fire over the last 8 years. also another person guide in donnette scott on friday as the result of schilling and a local oil depot. it was a shelled as well by applying was damaged. also, a lot of civilian infrastructure has been damaged to thousands of people are without water, without electricity, and that is been repaired at the moment and people are hoping that very soon are there will. those entities will be returned them. i meanwhile, in terms of the military situation, situate situation ins and outs, people's republic the, their army is advancing. they've gone already,

at least in certain places, at these 15 kilometers into the defense lines of your brain. we saw footage of local militia soldiers, switching ukrainian flags for those of the dentist peoples republic. and the head of the head of the republic said that the operational soon ends by the only ends went the rest of the territory, wlan, as people's republic will be liberated. meanwhile, heavy fighting continues in the south of the republic near the city of murray, opal and that place is controlled by the us over battalion. and the, as all battalion is affiliated with neo nazis even un, have accused them of a war crimes. and reportedly they how they are preventing a residence of maribelle from leaving the city are creating, making them into a virtual human shield if you will. but so a heavy fighting can,

he continues there. we witnessed multiple rocket launcher systems. so that is the situation is very, very alarming, but so here in the next it's been, oh, well, more quiet than usual but still situations very alarming. indeed her remind. thank you. excuse me so much for that update and and stay with us throughout the day 3 am to see what comes out of this the next few hours. that's our t's raymond kiser of speaking to his life from danny, ask that will russian at defense ministry, excuse me, say that russian forces have entered the cities of semi and cannot top in the northeast ukraine. according to its report, trips were not met with any resistance there. earlier, the ministry also said troops from the don yet, skinner gowns advancing with the support of russian forces. they've moved 25 kilometers west beyond the former contact line into territory that was until now

held by t as well. numerous ukrainian soldiers have reported these surrendered and laid down their weapons. russian force is now control the city of china. gov in north ukraine and ghost mal airfield in the suburbs of kiev. mean, while the russian president vladimir putin is alleging ukrainian radical nationalists who are in charge of the army using civilians as human shields by deploying heavy weapons in densely populated areas. claiming also that it's happening at the direct instructions of us advises us is the ukrainian radical nationalists are deploying heavy weapons including multiple loans, rocket systems, right? in the central areas of large cities, including kia and hark of they plan to provoke a response from russian strike systems on residential areas. in fact, they act in the same way as terrorists do. they hide the truth and hope of playing russia. it is reliably known that this is happening under the direction of foreign consultants, primarily americans that uses that several unverified images have emerged to the

cranial army taking heavy weaponry into residential areas of russian defense ministry spokesman unsafe the russian military will not be drawn into provocations . and will not attack heavy weaponry inside cities. he also noticed this similar talk to take on the news by c. i a backed militants in the middle east. despite the ongoing parcels, there's still a glimmer of hope for a diplomatic solution. though kiev said it was ready to talk with the criminal about to see fire and the status of neutrality less qualified to ortiz, don't quarter to get the latest from a possible diplomatic way. also, the crisis right now, don't what we heard from the 2 sides. do we have any reason to be optimistic? hi ah, yeah, actually on both sides, russia and ukraine have actually now said that they're ready to sit down to

negotiations. i'll go through the russian position 1st. it's made very, very clear. 3 points. it wants moscow at once, demilitarization of ukraine. first of all, that much is clear. they don't want ukraine to be a military threat to russia any more. and they certainly don't want them to have nuclear weapons as a lot of a ukranian. politicians were talking about before the initiation of this russian offensive. number 2 is denazi's vacation of ukraine. this means and the russian government has already held it started an investigation into this, this means holding the neo fascist armed organizations accountable to potential war crimes that they've committed. and this said, this is what we're talking about here. the fact that they've been indiscriminately bombing civilians over the span of the past 8 years and don boss. so this is the 2nd point that moscow wants to hold these people accountable. and number 3 is so that ukraine can remain neutral, a neutral country. it doesn't have to be a great friends with russia, but it can't be part of the nato alliance. this is something that russia has said

it's wanted for months already, that the west has rejected. that has base is been one of the factors that lead to this point, but ah, the, the actual initiation of negotiations, it's taking a bit, a long to start and rush has been saying that i, it's, it actually wants to negotiate more with the military leadership rather than the politicians and key of let's take a listen to what was said. you should a little bit of shoot gwyneth wu, ocean lazuli. and once again, appeal to the military personnel of the armed 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. now like said before, ki, have also said it's ready to sit down to negotiations and they're of the thing they want is very simple. they want one thing,

3rd party guarantees for security. let's take a listen what ukraine said. not a little of none with the. our goal is to stop the bloodshed he brush or we'll have to talk to us sooner or later. do talk about how to end the fighting and stop this invasion sold back to you, but he's not now in terms of where these negotiations are set to take place moscow 1st suggested men, skin bella roost, but key of rejected that the key of then suggested that the negotiations be held in warsaw in poland, but moscow didn't want to have them there. so right now, what's being considered is actually israel as a 3rd party, a 3rd, as a 3rd party mediator in these negotiations because it's one of the very few countries around the world that actually has a positive relationship with ukraine as well as russia. so we're not to see how that plays out. i don't. what does he have say about that? he she mm.

sorry about what issue. sorry, let's this is move on. done many thanks for the update. we'll come back to you later in the day for, for more updates on that other version of foreign ministry spokeswoman say moscow is always ready to negotiate. maria harris also claimed that it was the ukrainian government's decisions that have led to the country. she does hasta, we would always respond to requests for negotiations. we always hold them even with the most aggressive opponents you. it's important to understand that the person stood as the president of ukraine is inadequate for the job when you are in recent years, the decisions that ukraine has meet brought it under the guise of national interests, contradicted the interest they alert that would serve. and that's leading the country to disaster than they are the endless provocations in october and november 2021 alone. there were 5 provocations in the air space above the black sea that needed an answer. and it's being given way. and we should note were all connected,

perhaps by friendship, by business. but when the security of the people, both ours and the people of ukraine is at stake. these connections will be redundant without demilitarization. so the goals are set and the operation is implemented. i've been with international condemnation of russia's intervention in ukraine. mounting a un security council meeting was convened. member states including the us that russia and ukraine issued statements, and that was a vote on a resolution condemning moskos actions. rush used as veto power to blow, kit ortiz, caleb moore, pin reports. i'm going to look to see new stuff in the united states is that under the mar when it comes to invasions, i will refrain from listing the aggressions that the united states has committed in its history. but it has no right to preach morality to russia. one loan, 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 naught, self defense unto ot co 51. it is naked aggression. it is an unprovoked unjustified war. and this council must condemn it.

now, at this point, 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 men, the russian ambassador pointed out that lou ganske and don ask, have been subject to showing a food blockade and ongoing attacks since 2014 and that russia has waited for 7 years for the mens agreement to be implemented that would be escalate to 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 moral istic tone, where it seems like us leaders have so much empathy, suddenly for the people of ukraine. but they're not worried about pushing the

country into a conflict. number one and number 2, they didn't have no empathy for what the people of the eastern regions have been enduring for the past 8 years, a lot of which came at the hands of the extremist as our battalion a and ultra nationalist far right wing. fighting for so, so from there we heard the russian ambassador taking the floor defending russia against these allegations. and then after that we heard the cranium 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 us representatives. very, very theatrical. this is what we heard from the ukranian representative. i will ask all of you to pray for souls. so those who has been already killed for

souls who those who may be killed, let us spend a moment in a complete silence. social rushing, perish, and i do apologize. but before moving to a moment of silence, i want to include in the list those people who perished over all these years in don bass. they also are worthy of being mentioned. all human lives are valuable. let's not forget them. 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. and 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. the fear that there could be some kind of chemical explosion or dirty bomb, or something like that at this point is non existent. chernobyl 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 rush as a permanent member, the un security council. however, western leaders, the united 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 his meeting for actually resolving the problems in that country, bringing the world closer together, stopping this tension. many are looking on and asking themselves if that meeting really served anything near that purpose. when earlier we spoke to journalist on dos, he contributes a rich had met her. he says the west is employing double founders. yeah, i mean the, the hypocrisy is unbelievable. i don't think we can possibly count the number of

countries. the u. s. u k. have have together crude invaded bond since world war 2. it's quite staggering. we, i literally con, name them all. the us was bombing siri and brian williams was, you know, foaming at the mouth on live television. it's not isolated, they all do that on every network. i am old enough to remember when they were invading iraq and they were doing the same thing. you had a live stream from a tank on cnn. this is who these people are. they are spokes a person's. they are the mouthpiece for the weapons manufacturers. so it's their job to sell war, and i know this must be very frustrating for americans because when they see bombing on live television, they're used to seeing their own troops do it. so when they see russia doing it to defend itself, it's weird for them. they don't understand it and it causes a lot of it's, there is a lot of emotions. and you know, israel is bombing syria almost every single week. and i don't see anyone in uncovering that as a matter of fact, a few hours before rush along the operational ukraine, israel bon, syria,

and there was no coverage at all. so they're okay with violations of international law and sovereignty and territorial integrity. they're okay with bindings, they're working with wars when they're the ones doing it. and that's most of the time which the e. u. now why, where a raft of sanctions have been announced against russia following deliberations between european leaders in brussels for more life to charlotte? here in paris for charlotte, but to see you this morning, what can you tell us about these sanctions? well, the sanctions are designed to cripple the russian economy. they going to target state owned companies, individuals, key sectors of the russian economy. for example, all members of the russian parliament, the duma, will be impacted by travel bands and asset freezes. and that will also be applicable to members of the russian security council. now for individual russians

who say live in the you, they will be now subject to a limit of only being able to put around a $100000.00 euros into bank accounts. and there will be a ban from the e on the sale of spare parts. air crofts and equipment all to russian airlines, and in an extremely rare moved by the e. u. there has also been a decision taken to freeze the assets of not just president putin, but also his foreign minister said a love rav for european ministers. following that meeting, they said that these extreme measures when necessary, but to one of these, and we're adding president putin and foreign secretary love rav to the list of sanctions. they are responsible for the deaths of innocent people in ukraine and for trampling on the international system. and then we as europeans do not accept that now canada, the u. k. and the u. s. of also at followed in that motion with freezing the

assets of president putin and said gay law from the u. s. has actually taken this a step further. it's actually imposing a travel ban on the pair to following a television, a telephone conversation, a president biden held with a european commission president ursula of 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. now, individual countries within the e u are also taking their own measures. for example, poland, the czech republic and bulgaria have decided to not allow russian aircraft to fly over its air space, new land at its airports. and the czech republic has also said it's going to stop issuing residency permits to russians. now the e u is also saying that it's mulling a 3rd round of possible sanctions,

and this could include the swift international payment system at the moment. the e u has been resistive to add a blocking russia from accessing that. the u. k has already taken that step, but it is a possibility in the coming days and weeks now the blocks foreign affairs chief, this is joseph burrell said that none of these measures are designed to target individual russian citizens. and he's also congratulated them on taking part in protests against their own government. within russia. i want to stay where we are not targeting russia people. many of them broke against this senseless war. and i want to salute their courage, the cottage of the people that the 58 russian cities had been demonstrating against

the war that we certainly made. the difference between cumberland and russia put in not the russian people. now the sanctions may be designed to target elite russians and not everyday ordinary citizens. but the reality is these will trickle down and impact people on an everyday basis and already russian citizens in the e u and the u. k. a wondering what and how this will impact them in the countries they are now living in their adoptive countries and also for their families back home in russia. absolutely, i was just about to say is the everyday people who are gonna fill the pain of this to actually dimansky. thank you for the update and economist richard wolf claims that barring russia from the swift banking system would cause huge financial problems worldwide in a global world, more globally interconnected than ever before. if you blocked the swift system,

you are declaring a kind of economic warfare that will damage and destroy all kinds of economic relationships. the reason mister schultz and germany did not want to and stopped the attempt to convert to fries russia out of swift, was because it would throw the price of oil and gas up into the roof beyond what it has already been. because you couldn't pay russia for the oil and gas through swift, and they wouldn't send it any more. and no one knows where that's going to go. so if they do that, if they actually go through with that, they will disrupt global trade. they will drive inflation through the roof. and let me remind everyone, russia, china, iran, and many other countries don't like the domination, the united states as over the swift system. and it really is only

a matter of time before there are multiple systems. bitcoin is already functioning to a degree like that. so this'll be a very dangerous step because it will accelerate the end of the swift monopolies too. bothered about that more knees in 30 minutes. be might want to stick around to have a documentary coming up. could ukraine everlasting present? ah, join me every thursday on the alex simon, sure. and i'll be speaking to guess in the world politics. sport, business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. mm. a, it isn't with

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