ah, in the kremlin, says, ukraine is refusing to negotiate, and the mil military operation there will continue. while an advisor to ukraine's president is not satisfied with the conditions. russia is offering for peace to you has decided to disconnect to some russian banks from the swift system as well as freeze assets of the russian central bank. a source in russia defense ministry rejects allegations that the military hit, a residential power blocking trains capital with both sides claiming each other. meanwhile, artillery and gunfire is reported in the city with this kindergarten in one of the districts. it's just one of the places that was shelled on a saturday morning and our corresponding reports from the best conflicts own where

kindergarten has come under fire. fortunately, no one was home with forecasting, live direct from our studios in moscow. this is our international. i'm john thomas . certainly glad to help you with us. now we start with breaking news from the conflict in ukraine, according to media sources, citing and ukrainian official. there has been a huge explosion at an oil depot, which is about 18 miles south of key if this video, which we cannot yet independently verify shows the result of that explosion. as you can see, there are flames and huge plumes of smoke filling the sky. this comes after reports of artillery and gunfire in the ukrainian capital key. if really are archie's correspondence? earlier? katrinka spoke with my colleague, den hawkins, here's what they discussed. the amateur videos of the fighting that's already going on in the residential areas of kiev. they began to appear

as it became dark over the cranium capital. but there are quite a few developments when it comes to what's actually in these videos. and this is very worrying and troubling because we do actually see crossfire last night. it was mostly gotten fire when i'm, when i'm talking about the cross bar here, it could actually be felt that these are either artillery rounds or possibly even missile launchers. and this is indeed much more warring, although i do want to point out that we cannot verify their authenticity. however, now from the reports that we're getting from the locals and on social media, it has become abundantly clear that fighting is now happening inside kia, which is the crating capital in the city of almost $3000000.00 inhabitants. and we know that is divided by the nipper river. the russians have closed in on the city

from the western side. and there is a major road that links the highway the in circles key of with the city center. and again, i'm looking at reports on telegram candles, and i can see that already the russian forces are halfway through that road. these are all the reports. these are the things that we're hearing on social media . we have not received a confirmation of that from the russian military officially, but the situation in kiev is very difficult. also, when i log at the maps, which showed traffic and you know how you usually see these green or red lines there. they're almost nonexistent anymore because apparently the cars are not out in the streets. many, many people thing god have left the capital. so definitely from that fighting for

structure, the residential areas as well. unfortunate. the will be damaged, but let's hope that there aren't many casualties as a result of this fighting which is intensifying. no matter what it seems of these images from day 3 of the special operation show what appears to be a missile strike on a residential power block on the outskirts of kids. several floors have been damaged. it is unclear if there are any casualties at this time. now the russian defense ministry sources say that it was caused by a missile guidance failure in ukraine's air defense system. and although key of disputes that they said that it was a russian missile strike, a lot of information on both sides, the russian military expert gave us his views on ukraine's tactics. this was the reason of miss l. guidance system of the grain onto this complex one. surely,

graham media will represent this case as a russian attack is a big according to their control. the track bath and the nature of the damage. we can surely identified as an anti miss out, but it was very difficult to establish serial number possible identified. the main reason is that they are gray and forces on deploying armaments in form and conditions directly threatening. so this is the main problem in ukraine's and capital officials are urging residents it should take refuge in bomb shelters. residents are also seeking safety in the city metro stations as well. meanwhile, elsewhere in ukraine,

o, i'm verified footage has emerged online showing, fighting in the heart of the region which borders russia and the don bass plains have allegedly been flying over the city of bala, korea and shops and powerful explosions have been heard there as well. the russian forces have reportedly destroyed warehouses. ukraine president's office says that key of is it not satisfied with the conditions being offered by russia foresees fire negotiations. this is after the kremlin spokesperson claims ukraine is refusing to hold talks, and russia will continue what it calls a special operation. stressing again the russian army is not targeting any civilian areas. so they say cured me on yesterday. when we were expecting negotiations with the ukranian leadership, the russian president ordered a suspension of the russian armed forces advance. but as the ukrainian side has

refused to negotiate, the advance of the main russian forces resumed this afternoon in accordance with the plan of the operation. ukraine, of course, did not refuse negotiations, but that's about negotiations, which by the way, have not yet taken place. ukraine and president zelinski categorically renounce any unacceptable conditions or ultimatums from the russian side. britons prime minister has branded the removal of russia from the swift as a stepping stone with more sanctions on rush and finance to come. this comes after the president of the european commission confirmed the you and western allies would freeze the assets of the central russian bank and disconnect, select russian banks from swift, major tool for being able to operate in the international transaction system. or cheese post layer has more it said it's very significant if she remember, there has been some discussion between european capitals for quite some time now as to whether or not removed russia from the switch international monitoring system.

the u. k. has already made that. and we're now hearing from the european commission president a shipment funded lion and saying that they are now moving ahead and disconnecting some russian banks, france worked so that they won't be able to operate globally. it was issued as part of a joint statement that was signed off on by the european union, the united queued in the united states and canada taken listen, i will now propose to you lead us the following measures. first, we commit to ensuring that a certain number of russian banks are removed from swift. this will ensure that these banks are disconnected from the international financial system and harm their ability to operate globally. second, we will stop

a protein from using his war chest. we will paralyze the assets of russia central bank. this will freeze its transactions and it will made it impossible for the central bank to liquidate assets. now swinton also said that they were looking at the imaging, the sale of citizenship, in other words, what is known as golden passports that allows wealthy rushing businessmen who are connected to the russian government, a common citizens of european countries. and in that way, gain access to your ubs financial markets. we will work to prohibit rational oligarchs from using their financial assets on our markets. all of these measures will significantly harm put his ability to finance his war. this coming week, it will be a cons. atlantic task force there will be whose primary goal will be to ensure the

effective implementation of these financial sanctions by identifying and freezing the acids are sanctioned individuals and companies that exist within european jurisdiction. that the organization will also say that co ordination against dis, information and high. but we'll say all of this coming on the back of the u. k. prime minister boys johnston announcing that the u. k. well now, except refugees from ukraine. for more on this, we cannot cross a live to independent political analyst. i was under bruno, thank you for being with us unity so huge on our founder. what the west has ramped up, the severity of sanctions in its bid to climb down on russia's economy. how significant is the removal from swift and the central brain freeze for people who might not be aware of the international banking system?

well, i don't know, i'm not very good with the technicalities of the stress system. but essentially, i think in this situation where they're doing more harm to europe than they are to russia because many european countries, particularly italy and germany and bulgaria require russia natural gas to survive during the winter and for heating for energy. and in fact, the entire apparatus of so called green energy solar panels and wind farms need a natural gas as a backup. without natural gas, these new technologies cannot function. so that's going to hurt them without swift. these countries will not be able to buy gas in russia, and they're going to have to find that new sources. one of which of course, is united states natural liquefied natural gas. but that's going to be much more

expensive. so we're going to have a number of factors affecting the economies of the west and particularly europe with inflation. from rising situation, it's going to be much worse. busy than it was in 1073, with the energy crisis, the oil engineering after the 1973 me least war. so for the full, i mean, much like shooting on their feet while can i ask? do you think this will actually hurt the everyday consumer in russia? it won't hurt immediately of everyday consumer russia, the ever, the consumer in russia was going to be hurt by many other factors. i mean, a number of them, i can't even imagine many russians like to travel. and just imagine all the russians who are living in europe these days. how they must be feeling. there's going to be a number, i think social logical, psychological issues are going to be greater than any financial problems. but i

think in the immediate effect, it's going to be a bigger problem for europe than it is for russia. and i think that at the start of the war, they must have taken people around the president circle. and moscow must have taken the this measure into consideration because it was one of the most obvious ones. right. our founder joe biden told reporters recently that the 1st round of sanctions which did not include swift were harsher than being taken off of swift. was he right? i. i don't know what he meant by that because being taken off swift hurts are a number of people. i mean, imagine, i think the russians who work for foreign firms, for example, how are they going to get paid?

you know, their salaries are in question now, but it mostly for me, it's the natural gas issue. that is the one that is a, a definite, you know, shoot in your feet. it was the expression a message is to move and that sense because it, it hurts the you and reluctantly, germany and italy, i think finally signed on to that. actually, i'm not sure if that has been finalized yet. the last i heard was that they were moving towards it, but yeah, i don't know what he meant. the sanctions are going to be harsh. no question the, the presidency has taken those into consideration. i think the, the issues here i think are, are bigger at play and i'm afraid, for example, that the ultimate goal of this situation,

which probably was to this meant to stop nato's expansion. and to perhaps even cause a quote, countries, the question it is changing because now i hear that still and is moving to a referendum on participating in nato. so nato has gotten shot in the arm in the last couple of days. never before in my life, do i remember native being so i don't want to say relevant, but in prominent. so you just mentioned this, finland in the referendum towards nato. some countries say that they will be increasing their supply of weaponry to ukraine as well. is there any other measure in addition to this that you can see in terms of sanctions or what else that can be taken against russia at this point? well, the short of participating directly on the ground,

i think perhaps there may be the temptation eventually to send secret special forces because a number of countries have these units and they may participate. they may train special forces outside on the borders. i think these measures should be what are likely because all of a sudden we see germany sending weapons just one week ago, germany was preventing planes from carrying weapons to fly over its air space. so we see there's been something happened. there was a major shift in the last last sunday. and after the visit of the time for minister, i noticed from the tone something radically harsh must have happened. i don't think this attack was being pondered until hours before i. i think there was

a hope that the situation could have been resolved diplomatically. and i think this was certainly a shock to me. i'm still trying to absorb it or with all actually yes. all right, and i'm afraid there's the europeans and the americans are making things worse. not better. well, the founder, bruno independent political analyst, always interesting to hear thoughts. thank you. thank you. right. as for other measures being taken in response to the special operation, france is going to boosted to supplies, to military equipment, to ukraine. and germany's, you turn on its weapons export policy by confirming that it will deliver arms to ukraine as well or to show it to pinsky has more all we heard on saturday from president mack on at some very great words. indeed, he said that the war in ukraine would last and that they would be consequences. now

. macklin has been meeting with his defense council ministers on saturday. we're waiting to find out what was agreed on if anything in that defense council. but we did hear from the elisa palace earlier on saturday saying that frances main objective, when it comes to the situation in ukraine, is to avoid the collapse of the country and to be able to negotiate a ceasefire. that is something it says it is still pursuing between russia and ukraine. now there are the possibility of further sanctions that could be announced by the e u. we just heard from yoseph burrell. this is the used foreign affairs chief who is said that he's going to convene a meeting to morrow on sunday in the evening of foreign affairs ministers. and the suggestion is that there will be a new package of emergency assistance put forward for ukraine in his words, to support the her rowing fight. they're also a very big

u turn coming out of germany on saturday. and this is the fact that germany is now decided to send weapons to ukraine. it has a long standing policy of not sending armory to conflict owns this is what the german chancellor had to say. it is our duty to do our best to help ukraine defend against the invading army of putin. we've also seen more and more e u countries deciding that they will ban russian aircraft from not just landing at their airports, but also from flying over their airspace. estonia, poland, lack fear, and others at piling in to say that they will not allow that to happen from now on an, in a further blow to russia. we know that sweden is now pushing for all member states within the european union to essentially caput, to eject their sporting links with russia. the swedish sporting

minister saying that that would be the case as long as the invasion lost. and just finding another separate issue, a russian cargo ship that was on its way to st. petersburg was seized earlier on saturday morning by the french coast guards. it was taken to below ensue matter, which is the largest port in northern france. in fact, in france itself and the crew that have been allowed to disembark, apparently it was seized as a result of the fact that the owning company of that cargo shift is on the list of sanction companies in the u. s. for the moment though, it has been seized, the crew are allowed to wander around, as they like. the russian embassy here in paris has sent a note to requesting information about what's happened to that coca ship and says that it will do everything it can to protect the security of the crewman of that. but for the moment, it will be up for a court to decide if that cargo ship remains seized,

or whether it can go back on its journey towards st. petersburg. as pressure on russia is mounting abroad. russian diplomats are under strain according to russian embassy staff. in lithuania, they say one of its diplomats was beaten by protesters who were rallying against the military operation in ukraine. meanwhile, embassies in poland and a stony of reported acts of vandalism, with personnel receiving threats as well. and in dublin, red paint was smeared on the russian coat of arms outside the embassy there. and staff saying that the police are not doing enough to help. what you need for a month, if you put screw, should i come to learn that some irish m pays under an irish member of the european parliament or the pro justy of the politicians have been more aggressive than ordinary processes and spoke about wanting to plot the functioning of the russian embassy, we are concerned over how the police responded. they turned down a request that they curb to protest and secure, normal functioning of the embassy. we've addressed the irish for ministry in

a way that response, it was while most to have strongly condemned the russian special military operation in ukraine. china was one of a handful of countries abstaining from voting on a un resolution against moscow. the chinese embassy in russia echoed remarks made by the russian envoy to the un by calling out the u. s. they posted a u. s. bombing list with wars or armed conflicts. they say the u. s. has been involved in since world war 2 and they display data which alleges 81 percent of the conflicts were us initiated. meanwhile, this video shows a rally in the serbian capital f. l. de demonstrators lined up in, reportedly, in support of letting me put and his life from the dumbass and others. serbia is largely pro russia with its leader alexander fujitsu, saying that it will not back sanctions against russia given their closest article. meanwhile, the russian president,

vladimir putin is alleging ukrainian radical nationalists in the army are putting civilian lives at risk by deploying heavy weapons in densely populated areas. with us is the ukranian radical nationalists are deploying heavy weapons including multiple loans, rocket systems, right in the central areas of large cities including kit and hark of they planned 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 blaming the russia. it is reliably known that this is happening under the direction of foreign consultants, primarily americans, that you are here on the 1st image. you can see reportedly ukrainian artillery squad ready to open fire right in the middle of a residential area. now the photo itself is verified to verify that it is ukraine. enforce the source though, is not so we cannot say what their intentions are. a russian defense ministry spokesman says that the russian side for their part will not be drawn into provocations and will not attack heavy weaponry inside cities. as illustrates there

. meanwhile, ukraine has scrapped, excuse me, age limits for the army entry and band. all men between the ages of 18 and 60, from leaving the countries recreate in authorities, are also issuing guns to any citizen who watson in the region alone is reported that more than 10000 rifles were handed out to volunteers. and in the northern city of chattanooga its mer calling on citizens to take up weapons as well. general, you shouldn't see me fellow citizens of churney. cough i have urgently address you . we need to prepare for fighting on the streets. that's why anyone who knows what i'm talking about. prepare a lighter fluid is another thing committed citizen, you guys, i'm asking you to proceed to the dislocation center of territorial defense. living in charles shoe bridge, a former counterterrorism intelligence officer says that there are risks to simply

heading out weapons like this to give out weapons to anybody the office to use them against somebody is probably quite a reckless odyssey sparks of desperation, of course. but where the problem comes when weapons are given out freely or festival, you're giving it to people who may not be copy, trying to how to use them in the 1st instance. and secondly, you've got an issue that you've only got it on trusted as people are going to use those weapons against the invader. after all, they could be going to actually anybody at once you introduce those weapons freely into an environment. yes. well, you kind of keep control of those weapons. all right, people living in the don units people's republics are being subjected to regular shelling attacks reportedly from the ukranian side. but also from the russian side . of this 3 story, residential building was largely destroyed in a bombardment earlier on saturday. we spoke with a woman who has been working at the end of your care. there was no wind diet,

that glass was shattered. or, you know, we covered at ourselves. that was back in 2014 and chestnut. and now this happened rubio, i was near the end trends, both parties, roman coastal, is in daniella, with the latest on the stand off between local militia forces and the ukranian army full about 7 pm local time. we heard so really allows sounds of artillery here in jeanette scanned from the reports that we're getting from the officials. i here are, those were $152.00 millimeter or a harvard service or, or they said it could be multiple rocket launcher systems that were shelled at said genetics a little bit earlier. now this happens a near the airport about 6 kilometers from a where i'm standing a right now. as the results at the moment, municipal transfer public transportation has been halted in the area and emergency

services are on the scene trying to figure figure out the result of fall. what had happened now earlier on saturday in genetic at least 3 private residences have also been damaged as a shelling a continued stay here in this city. no, no reports about casualties about what happened earlier on saturday evening. but over the last 48 hours, there were at least 7 civilians killed in la ganske and a nurse because the results of the ukrainian shelling of course, scores were injured as the results are as well. now civilian infrastructure on the outskirts of the nest has been damaged and as a result, thousands of people are now without electricity or without access to any water. now, several buildings, sins and ask, had been damaged on friday as well going on saturday morning. now one of those buildings boys a kindergarten,

thankfully there were no people there at the time of the shelling, but nevertheless the kindergarten was heavily damaged. all the windows were blown out and i visited place a little bit earlier on saturday. and this is the footage that i came back with this kindergarten in one of our next district says just one of the places was a shelby on saturday morning. you can see shattered glass all around me. but he says that a fell off the building, at least the 32 windows here had been shattered. and this is the place of impact if you can point the camera this way. right next to begin kindergarten. thankfully, a was done overnight. no kids were here. no teachers, i saw nobody was hurt, but you can take a look all around me. this is a heavily populated residential area. there are people living in each and every one of these houses and i can see absolutely no military

positions here at all. but the front line is located not very far away from here, but this place in the nest is being shelled for out the 8 years since this conflict existed. room on catherine hearty, don't ask. and in the logan's ca, people's republic, a massive fire has in gulf, the fuel depot there, there was a huge explosion earlier. and officials are saying at least 200 tons of fuel have caught light. they didn't specify what caused the blast. several increase have been reported. injuries excuse me, have been reported that the numbers so far are unclear. of course, we will be trying to independently verify that as well according to don, yet to republic officials, the local militia groups have taken control of the settlements around the city of nickel, a sky. these are images from there. they also claim to have taken 2 territories on the way to mario, as well as nearby rose russian defense ministry says ukrainian nationalist fighters

are using truck mounted mortar value and the nationalist battalions use so called ben derrick cars, which have increased off road capability and are equipped with large caliber, small arms or mortars. let me remind you that this tactic is used by international terrorists in syria. or more of the latest pictures from the don. yet the people's republic local forces can be seen moving through the area with support from the russian military. and in the past few hours, they have claimed to have taken 3 villages. remarked in red and blue on this map are the 2 don bass republics. according to their borders has recently recognized independently by russia. the russian defense ministry has just announced a new development saying who god's forces have re taken territory from the ukrainian army. 46 kilometers beyond what was the contact line and done yet.