ah, ah, authorities in the newly recognized done yes, can look guns. republics, claim that ukrainian military is conducting relentless shelling of residential areas and the types of fuel depot the, to rocks it in a massive blaze or kia locals. fillmore, they say, is crossfire without bouncing russian forces, as numerous a explosions are reported in the region around ukraine's capital western powers run pop their sanctions against russia over the ukraine conflict with the swift international payment system, prepared to disconnect some russian buying summit services. and while many countries condemned russia's special military operation in ukraine shine offers its support with

is just from 9 am on sunday morning here in moscow. mine is peter scotts, i'm where have you joining us from. welcome to the program. now we start with news from those newly recognized don boss, republics where intense fighting continues along the front lines ah, local authorities in boston who danced undone. yes, republics claimed that several towns were targeted in overnights artillery, its arts, ukrainian military units and nationalist militia groups in the region of allegedly intensified shelling as they prepared to retreat westward. a massive fire has the ropes or does the fuel depot in the loo, ganske people's republic. local authorities claim a ukrainian missile attack cause a blast with at least $200.00 tons of fuel having caught on fire. several people have also reportedly been injured, but the numbers are so far unclear,

less cross live now to our correspondent index roman, co, sorta roman, good morning to you. what is happening on the ground right now? indeed, an oil depot was struck in the elegance people's republic by a ballistic missile. and indeed, a massive blaze is been reported at the scene there. now, the ballistic missile in question is called tortuga who in russian into sylvia weapon it's native classification is as, as 21 scarab. now it's a 2000 kilogram, a weapon and it's capable of carrying and nuclear warheads. obviously that was not the case. in this instance, however, the peoples of militia, in logan could do reports casualties, but an old civilian deaths at the moment. so as they're fighting to would this blaze. now indeed shelling is taking place across the nest

people's republic. i here as well. earlier on saturday you, we heard the several explosions here and that reportedly they were from a hobbit sir shells that there are 100, it's a 2 millimeter caliber shelves that landed on the territory of the city office and asked several her houses, so were damaged. however, no casualties have been reported. now we managed to speak to one of the, one of the people that witnessed this attack. taking the analyst your hair, there was no window that glass was shattered. we covered at ourselves. that was back in 2014 chestnut zak. and now this happened when i was near the entrance as the result of this sad, zachary public transportation service was suspended. now jeannette, scarce seen no,

she continues shelling over the last 72 hours are unfortunately a civilian deaths have been recorded as well in the girl of god and on, on the outskirts of the nest. kinda damage to civilian infrastructure as well as thousands of people here are still still have no access to water or electricity. also on saturday morning, a kindergarten in don't ask was us frog in an area nearly near the airport, very close to the front line. and i visited that place center. this is the report that i sent from their list kindergarten in now one of her nest districts is just one of the places that was shelled on a saturday morning. you can see shattered glass all around me. pieces of fell off the building, at least 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. throughout the 8 years since this conflict existed, room on coffer of hearty donuts, the editor of the graves, though new sites on your par and pill spoke with those about the beginning of the turbulence in ukraine 8 years ago. and besides, the us supported it then and continues to do so now it's been going on for 8 years . ukraine sovereignty was initially violated in 2014, when the united states supported openly a coo in ken,

installed the public government and then sparked off con conflict in the countries east. the suffering of the people of don bass to have experienced shelling and artillery fire at the hands of the ukrainian military over the past 8 years. leading to the death of nearly 15000 people. their story has been completely erased in us media. i think if you pulled the average american individual us american individual, they wouldn't have even known that there was a war in ukraine for the past 8 years. president biden just approve $350000000.00 in weapons to be released to ukraine to the cleaning government. i wonder where those weapons will go, considering russia has all but wiped out ukraine's main military capacity. it's disturbing because just in recent weeks in the united states report surfaced in media, showing that and this is according to us officials,

the united states have been covertly training ukrainian forces in order to respond to a potential russian entry into their country. creating the kind of pretext for situation as we saw in syria where the u. s. isn't officially working with the government or the military but training paramilitary group in order to d, stabilize ukraine and embroil russia in a prolonged conflict. i think that is the worst case scenario we could see play out at this point. and now to the latest news from ukraine's capital, this video, which we can't yet verify, appears to show cross fire taking place. just kilometers from the hearts of key of the shooting was reported close to the capitals, infrastructure, ministry, and just 25 kilometers from the capital. and all depot has a ropes at inflames, reportedly due to an explosion. this on verified video shows the blaze. you can

clearly see the fire and the vast plumes of smoke billowing into the sky will at ease, eagerness, done of earlier, brought me the latest on what's been happening in ukraine's capital and the surrounding region. it is very important right now to try and make sense of all the, you know, video of all the information that is pouring outside of the ukrainian capital. especially given that the we are at the height of the information war and a lot of fakes are coming from world, frankly, both sides. so again, we're trying to go looking at the videos which people so far. this is the main source of information as to what's going on there. people just filming out of their windows, like here for example. this is one of the, this is one footage that we're, we're seeing and apparently chose a fire fighting all was like in the heart of the ukrainian a capital there's of course we can see trace arounds being sure being fired. sounds of gunfire. but the problem here is that it's not clear who's fighting,

who, because the logical assumption would be that while the ukrainians are trying to repel a russian attack. but so far as it had, the reports have been rather conflicting as to whether or not russian troops are inside the capital. in fact, the ukrainian side has been denying and saying that while they've managed to ward off the russian world, russian troops who they are calling occupies. and so, so some of course are saying that sabotage groups, you know, some ukranian officials are saying that russian, sabotage grew our operational within the city. but so far, well, there we haven't seen any documents on people who have been shown as you know, captured or in the videos or like, you know, photos matched between those who are captured and key of to some of them may be like social media profiles for example where they would have listed were like there, for example, the military particular military branch where they are serving. so and given how

much firepower has been pumped into the crane and capital. more than 20000 rifles have been handed out to the general population and they didn't even ask for passports. so right now, even the ukrainian authorities have no idea who has the union, who, who is armed and who's not, the ukrainian law enforcement don't know that the ukrainian army doesn't know that . and there have already been reported, there have been in fact, confirmed cases of you know, friendly fire when you know to when local groups, when they just took one another, they took each other for, ah, for like russian saboteur sabotage groups. and they shot at each other, there have even been reports of casualties and also some other people that have been using the firepower that they got to well tumor road and to scare people. now, as you mentioned, early the up in numerous reports of explosions, not too far from the capital, including an oil deputy must be a terrifying for local residents. what's a threat are they facing?

and what are local officials saying? well, absolutely, this explosion, this strike on the oil depot has been arguably while it has been the biggest event of the night military wise. we saw basically a missile had an old depot. there was a massive fire that lit up the night sky. so it, in some videos it looks like it was a door like it, like it, like the sun was rising. that's how bright. it was also a gas storage facility apparently was targeted as well, and it was, was set ablaze by an explosion. and so yeah, are also nights the night, you know, was pierced with sounds of air, raid sirens and so, so on and so forth. so a restless night for the ukrainian capital certainly. and now we've seen quite a few emotional videos of residents of care of doing the rounds on social media. can you tell us more about what they're facing right now? well, the cities scared off rules, remember, they aren't exactly used to living amid, you know, a military operation a,

me to follow, you know, i mean, you know, asked strikes and gun fi and fire fights. so a lot of people chose to shelter in the tube and the trains in fact have been stop . so if the tube and key of is right now used exclusively to give people shelter. in fact, the was, we saw a report of a baby being born on one of the tube station as, as yes, the mother was hiding from all the may. hm. that's going on on the surface. and of course, the ukranian authorities and ukrainian president william is the lensky. he has been trying to calm down and to reassure the population. for example, he is what he said in the evening. people much will green world has seen that ukrainians are strong. ukrainians are powerful, ukrainians are brave, so it's not surprising that these people always have friends more powerful than enemies to us during the day i spoke every hour with heads of states, friends of ukraine. it seems that ukraine has gained the sincerity and attention of

the entire normal civilized world. of western powers have announced their decision to penalize moscow by disconnecting some russian banks from the swift money transfer system, which is the world's biggest mechanism for conducting international financial transactions. the commissions president announced the measurement measures in a statement. 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 hom, their ability to operate globally. 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 made it impossible for the central bank to liquidate assets. western powers have been clear

that only certain russian banks will be effected or the measures include a crackdown on so called green passports is the sale of citizenship in western countries for wealthy russians. there is also to be a trundle lansing task force to ensure the implementation of these measures. britton's prime minister boys, johnson says the removal of some russian bangs from the swift payment system is just a stepping stone with more sanctions. yet to come. we have taken decisive action tonight with our international partners to shut russia out of the global financial system, including the important 1st step of objective russian banks. from swift, we will keep working together to ensure putin pays the price for his aggression. ortiz, elia pitts rank, takes a closer look at the western sanctions against russia, and whether, when it comes to the energy sector, they're all box, no bites. i've lost count. how many times in the last couple of days i heard your

pin american heavy weight, say we stand by ukraine and we're going to punish prudence. russia like never, ever before the occasion onto the largest, most of your package of economic sanctions. the russia has ever seen this package of sanctions that has been approved by unanimity by the member to stage would hurt russia and he would hurt a lot. the sanctions measures we impose today. i think without question, were the most consequential ever levied on russian arguably than was consequential ever levied in history. those who invested in russian stalks woke up to find themselves in the red earlier this week. but soon after there was relief for russian business. the indexes, as well as the rouble rushes currency recovered slightly, not all the way to the levels of last week, but they did bounce back. why? maybe? because the sanctions didn't live up to the expectations of those who wished russia economic hell. but i notice something else. how

a look at the following. this package includes financial sanctions that cut rush us access to the most important capital markets. and these sanctions will increase rush as borrowing costs raise inflation, and gradually it won't rush us industrial base serious stuff. all the russian energy sector be like ah, because the big hitters gave up the idea of targeting the energy sector. otherwise, are they gonna warm themselves? if an immense share, a few resources comes from russia must, if you must ask yourself if you come to this exclusion, is this a trigger that will cause russia to stop its gas supplies because they can no longer be paid for? and if it ends its gas supplies, what impact will that have on our supply? we will limit russia's ability to do business and dollars. euro's pounds and yen to

be part of the global economy. we're going to start the ability of to finance and grow rush, the russian military. we've cut off rushes largest bank or bank that holds more than one 3rd of russia's banking assets by itself. cut it off the u. s. financial system, but was his biggest thunders. burbank has had fewer problems than expected. their operations are still good to go. the energy sector a bit like would be you, ah, to be clear. our sanctions are not designed to cause any disruption to the current flow of energy from russia to the world. part of the reason is perhaps that the democrats don't want to disappoint american boaters too much. they don't want gas prices to go through the roof even more as we respond. my administration is using the tools. every tools is supposed to protect american families and businesses from rising prices at the gas pump,

especially when 57 percent of americans disapprove of how joe biden is handling affairs. right, so that brings me to my earlier observation. they may be firmly reassuring key of they'll try their absolute best to save ukraine and give the kremlin of beating. but let's be realistic. no one is ready to go too far. if some business folks are going to suffer back home on does for older measures being taken in response to wants. russian president vladimir putin is called a special military operation. francis boost in its supplies of miniature equipment to ukraine. germany is also you turning on his non intervention policy confirming now that it will deliver arms to the country ortiz. it shall davinsky reports for the grave warning coming from president macklin of france, who said that the war will last and there will be consequences. the lease a palace though has said that it is still working to ensure that the collapse of ukraine doesn't happen, and that it's looking for a ceasefire,

and that it will continue to work towards that joseph barrel. who is the use foreign affairs chief? i said that he'll be holding a meeting with you foreign ministers later on sunday to discuss possible defensive and emergency assistance to send to ukraine. he said to support the her ro, wic fight. they're also germany. going to be sending weaponry to ukraine. they're, the country has had a long standing policy of not sending armory to conflict zones. this is what the german chancellor had to say about that. it is our duty to do our best to help ukraine defend against the invading army of putin. other measures that have been announced over the weekend, including more you countries saying that they are banning russian aircraft from not just landing at their airports, but also flying through their space with a stony joining the likes of latvia bulgaria,

and others in the european union is signing up to that particular sanction. and in a further blow to russia, sweden says it's going to try and persuade its other members to boycott sporting links with the country. the swedish sporting minister says that would last for as long as the invasion of ukraine does. now, in a separate development, a russian cargo ship was seized by french port authorities on saturday morning. that cargo ship was then towed to the port of balloon somewhere in the north of france, the largest port in the country. originally, it was overt checking documentations, but it later a merge that, that cargo ship belongs to a russian company that is on the u. s. sanction less than, that's why apparently it was detained, the russian, an embassy here in paris says it has written a note requesting more information,

and it says it will do all it can to protect add the measures and security of the crew are on board that they are apparently being allowed to disembark and to freely move around. but the cargo and the ship itself have been seized. that will now be up to a court to decide whether that will be able to continue to make its journey towards st. petersburg. youtube has blocked access to our videos in ukraine and disabled the monetization of all the channels. that's up to several european countries, took our networks broadcasts of air early on saturday, australian tv service folks, though, so it would no longer distribute artsy due to the situation in ukraine. earlier we heard from ortiz, deputy editor in chief, our teacher was tirelessly worked to bring valuable facts and used to not in the 1000000 around the world where they organizational government either call for or for us, aren't you to be taken off the air?

it simply highlights the policy of media freedoms in the nation. they were present to look at the association of your injury. analysts who i'm the one hand, so practically declared themselves as the federal journalist right yet, so readily turned back on the very founding principle to support the suppression of news. and journalists under political pressure is every time to recognize the importance of all fact gathering news and understanding of all use is now folk style has sent elected to the thing it ended distribution over quote, concern about the situation in ukraine is that he had the right to do so under the license agreement with the network on thursday, poland made artsy one to 5 russian channels to be taken off of britain's culture. sexy asked regulate to of com to review on these license even before the current crisis route. 3rd artsy, german language system, channel r t. d was blocked in germany. a political analyst we spoke to said that, bunning russian news outlet sets a dangerous precedent. i've got

a number of debates, an r t, as i've discussed many times with people who dealt with my disagree on many opinions when a lot of people, i mean, so there are a lot of debates on a lot of different subjects. r t has brought people together from different different political horizons, have brought them to debate, to discuss some agree, some disagree. and that is the purpose of journalism. and that is the purpose of the media meant that people who are watching make their own opinion, art, she's not an ideology, it's a place where people can meet, discuss, debate on ideas. and that's fundamental. if we take that out or democracy's, there is no more democracy. so it's extremely important, maybe the mission down to be set stations. we have to find something on the internet. if it's the internet is closed down, we have to find something else. it will be tough, these times are extremely tough. now, i don't know if they will get better, but we have to continue the fight for free speech. everybody is entitled to free speech or in our democracies us, based on that, isn't that what we're taught, isn't that what's written in, in our constitution, we've got to fight for the right for to free speech. and that means we have access

to all the media and that the people choose what is right and runs wrong. meanwhile, china's foreign ministry, opposed as the sanctions against russia, saying those measures cannot resolve the ukrainian crisis. china has been one of just a handful of countries abstaining from voting on a un resolution against russia. the chinese embassy moscow has echoed remarks made by the russian envoy to the un in condemnation of us. among the 248 armed conflicts that occurred in 153 regions across the world from 1945 to 2001, 201 were initiated by the u. s. accounting for 81 percent of the total number. the chinese embassy in russia has posted a list of the armed conflicts. the u. s. has been involved in since world war 2. you can see the names of the cities and years were armed, conflicts took place. the chinese embassy accused the earth. if having initiated more than 80 percent of those conflicts with the gao and international relations experts at china, su chow university,

says sanctions against russia will be mutually destructive. china believes that ukraine has been very much used by the united states and western countries in attempting to recruit ukraine into nato, which is very, very aggressive. as far as russia is concerned, very destabilizing of peace and stability in that part of the world. such sanctions will be very mutually destructive, are mainly because russia is a very, very important country in the world. politically, militarily, in terms of energy, you cannot make relations of all kinds. and russia is such an important and indispensable energy supplier to so many countries in europe. so by taking out russia from the swift settlement system, for example, as well as making it almost impossible to russia to deal with other countries in europe, in terms of trade export, energy, businesses, et cetera,

is very hurtful to russian interest of cause on the one hand but it's very heartful of the european interest who benefits for all this either the 9 states has an agenda to benefit hugely because they want to sell l and g to europe punches. and they do not want to have european can inches buy more and more of oil and natural gas for russia, which is cheaper and which is more sustainable. today is the 4th day of all putin calls the special military operation in ukraine with a situation developing very quickly on the ground. ah, let's get the latest from ortiz dawn cold. so who's in saga rog, donald the watts, have been the most recent developments in bush's military operation. while peter, the russian military, has now entered the city of hot cove. it's located in a region that borders both don boss and russia. according to the ministry of

defense, a hundreds of ukrainians have dropped their weapons and surrendered. and according to and actually over the past several hours, planes have been flying by. we've heard gunshots, there, there's been a large explosions. apparently the russian military has been destroying ukrainian arms deposed there. and now as for mariano, pull the neo fascist armed groups have been shelling civilian areas and they've even destroyed one school there. and, and also the ministry defense has been saying that they've been taking tactics out of the syrian terrorist playbook using so called van dera cars. let's take a listen to what they said was listed as the book value on the, the nationalist battalions. you so called mendera 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. that is the machine. now the russian military has also

recently destroyed a dam that was cutting off water supplies from the north, crimea, and canal to the crimean peninsula. it's been actually a source of severe water shortages in crimea since the ukrainians built it in 2014 . but the russian defense ministry says that a full supply should be restored soon. now, as for the chernobyl exclusion zone, it was taken by the russian forces just 2 days ago. and the ukrainian forces that were there actually afterwards agreed to jointly defend the area with russian forces. and because of that, staff are still working there. radiation levels there are normal and there is basically no fighting going on there actually no fighting at all. so those are really the main updates from the war a closer to russia's border. well, dawn, thank you very much for those of day, thus ortiz, donald culture reporting from southern was to thank you. that's all for this. all. my name is peter scott, and i'll be back with all the latest developments on the situation in ukraine in around 30 minutes.

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