ah, ah, a russian delegation arrives. the beller roof for peace talks with ukrainian officials, but he doesn't approve of the location and refuses to participate. that says, worship, military operation and ukraine and to the 4th day residents of ukraine. second largest city of fillmore, they say, are russian troops entering death with a sporadic fight thing is reported in the area or dorothy is in a newly recognized done yet look, guns, republics, claim that ukrainian military is conducting relentless shelling of residential areas of other types of fuel dep oh, that's a rope that in a massive place, western powers ramp up sanctions against moscow. preparing to disconnect some russian banks from the swift international payment system. china opposes the measures saying they cannot resolve the ukraine crisis.

ah. you're watching international. my name is peter scott and wherever you joining us from, welcome to the program. now peace talks between russia and ukraine and officials appeared to have once again reached a dead end. as moscow's delegation arrives in bella ruth, for the negotiation. kiev says the location isn't appropriate. let's get the latest from our fees donald quarter. don't know what's going on between russia and ukraine on a diplomatic level why these talks struggling to get off the ground. well peter, moscow's long said already that it's ready for negotiations, and it's just reiterated that by sending a russian delegation to bel roost to a location, that key of itself chose, according to the kremlin spokesperson, but we just heard from ukraine that they will not be sending

a delegation to negotiate, they say it's because russia at the very last moment demanded that ukraine, the ukrainian military put down its weapons and surrender. but let's take a listen to what the kremlin spokesperson said earlier today. in accordance with the agreement reached, the russian delegation has arrived in bel roofs for negotiations with the ukrainians. we will be ready to start these negotiations in gl. now, over the past couple days, zalinski has been going back and forth saying he's for negotiations at 1st. at which point the russians stopped their military offensive to work out the details. then zalinski said he wasn't ready for them. and now i just until a couple moments just in court until a couple minutes ago he was saying he was ready again for negotiations. but like i said, the ukrainians have said that they're not going to send a delegation. one of the reasons being that zalinski was not happy with the venue. he says that he doesn't want to negotiate in a country. that's apparently

a waging war against ukraine. he's accusing belarus of basically allowing russian troops to wage war against ukraine from that territory. alexander lucas shank rejected that he called that ally, and that he's not doing that. but let's take a listen to what zalinski said in part of his recent speech. he just moved in to where he was was now there is a lots of news about possible negotiations between ukraine and russia. the can end this war and return peace to all of us. immense is off to mentioned as a platform for these negotiations. a platform that was not chosen by us. now we are saying no minsk, i sincerely hope that bella roost becomes as kind and safe again as ever on sort of not so long ago. she v denisia that them, like i said before, last time, zalinski said he was prepared for negotiations. russia halted. it's offensive in preparation for those that unfortunately didn't pan out. but this time it's important to note. russia said it will not be halting. it's offensive in

expectation for these negotiations. i was the latest on russia's miniature operation in general. i believe a russian force as of recently entered hauled cove, which is in east of the country. that's right, russian forces have entered the city of hark. of this is located in a region that borders both don boss and the russian federation. according to the russian ministry of defense, ha, dreads of ukrainian soldiers laid down their weapons and surrendered almost immediately after that happened and over the space, the span of the past several hours. we've heard a reports of planes flying by gun fights in this area. large explosions, apparently the russian military was actually destroying a several ukrainian military warehouses in the area fence ministry has also described the city of mario pool as a hot spots of fighting at the moment. what do you know about dots?

that's right. the defense ministry is basically saying that neo fascist armed groups in this area have been taking tactics out of the syrian terrorist playbook. they've been using so called ben dera cars that are armed with light artillery, and they've been shelling civilian positions. they even destroyed a school. let's take a listen to what the defense ministry had to say about that. those scores literally just look on february 26th from 4 pm to 4, 20 pm ukrainian nationalists from the ease of battalions, if them use grad rocket launchers to attack residential areas in the suburbs of mar, you pool, and a school in the city of mario. if this resulted in the destruction of residential buildings and deaths among the civilian population, the musical rushes defense ministry had warned that ukrainian nationalists were preparing to conduct such provocations, miscellaneous stuff for them. and what's all the developments are the in watch. russian president vladimir vladimir putin as cold, a special military operation as it ends this 4th day. will

russian forces have recently just blown up a damn, that the ukrainian government built on to stop water from flowing from the north, crimea, and canal to the crimean peninsula. back after crimea determined its will to join the russian federation back in 2014 because they built that damn back. then a crimea has had seen many, a severe water shortages since then. and the russian ministry defense is saying that now, because that's gone soon a full supply of water will be restored to the area. it's also important to note that in the chernobyl exclusion zone, that that was taken by russian forces 2 days ago. and after that happened, the ukrainian military, that was station there agreed to continue to defend the area alongside russian troops. and because of that, staff are still working there. radiation levels are at normal levels and there hasn't been any fighting there at all. so those are basically the major updates

from the fighting in the, in ukraine and the don boss region near the russian federation. world dawn, thank you very much. trevino's those latest oak dates on day full of that russian military operation. ukraine, us artsy correspondent on culture reports from 2nd volkswagen, russia. no earlier political experts, ali risk told us that he still thinks the negotiations are possible. but it's not clear who has the influence. well, i think there's always a chance of the diplomacy, but my fear is the, the influence or the sway, the strength of the object 0. correspond your spanish and the off battalion, which is a well known as a group that has been active in the dorm bus region for quite some time. human organizations like human rights, one shall documented the on the violations carried out by such groups. and it's been said, it's remotely said that it's not necessary,

necessary to the case of zalinski has the final say in matters that he's under the sway over admitting elements like are groups likely? how's off battalion? i'll moving onto the newly recognized don bus republics where incense shelling by ukrainian military units has been reported in residential areas, causing increasingly more damage. the local authorities in both the guns underneath the republic claim that several towns were targeted in overnight artillery and socks. ukrainian military units on national militia groups in the region have allegedly intensified shelling, as they prepared to retreat westward. amongst the fire has a rope that is the fuel deco it'll guns, the people's republic. local authorities claim a ukrainian missile a cause the blast with at least $300.00 suns of fuel touching fire. several people have been reported injured, but the numbers are so far and clear. less cross live now to our correspondence in the dumbass region,

roman culture of roman. what's the latest on the front lines there? well, yes indeed. let's start with the front lines. where are both armies of the donors can legans people's republics? are advancing deeper into the territory are currently controlled by ukraine. and i, we've seen our soldiers, sir, liberating towns and switch, switching ukrainian flags to those over the next people's republic. war logan's peoples, the republic. now, according to officials in both a republic, sir, ukrainian army as they retreat, they're destroying everything on its way. they're targeting civilian infrastructure, they're targeting people's homes, as well as the, as they are retreating from the oncoming. your donors can legacy people's armies are now the head of for the next people's republic. denise bushland says that this operation to a liberator don barza will and very,

very soon brutal only. and once they inside and as people's republic is free and that sentiment is echoed by the soldiers on the ground as well as them here in my personal opinion, we must get our territories back from these evil people. so there will be peace and every one will sleep well closer to roger, the enemy is behaving in different ways and most places they run, but sometimes they fight to the very end. but that's mainly those fighting for political reasons. so basically everyone has running away and giving up obviously the situation on the front lines is a very incense, but it's also very incense here in the city of done that scan to all the nearby towns as a civilian. so her continue hiding in bomb shelters are from the shelling that's, that's coming in here from the ukrainian army. now on a saturday was very loud here in damascus. ukrainian army used

a 152 millimeter ah hobbit sir shelves to her to bomb assistant, a civilian population. i hear as we understand that one person had died, a hearing don't ask as the result to offer those attacks. now eunice, municipal transportation on saturday was suspended until the shelling are stopped. and here's a witness account from one of the local residents who are witnessed their attack. taking the, unless your kid i was ne window, their glass was shattered to you. we covered at ourselves, that was back in 2014 chesko zak. and now this happened when i was near the entrance. so the cell later sir casualty brought, that's all, it's all number of deaths in the last to 72 hours to 8 people and scores of people had been wounded as a result of these attacks. now civilian infrastructure had also been

a targeted over in lieu gone sca, an oil depot was damaged and the massive blazes have been reported there as well. no deaths in that attack. however, as some people were wounded and injured as a result of that attack, they are being treated in the hospitals apparently are ukrainian army use a ballistic missile. it's in may, it's natal classification is assessed, went to one scarab. now it's a 2000 kilogram. a rocket that so capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, obviously, that was not the case. so this time around however, the impact is so definitely her effect. but once again, thankfully, there were no face to face alice, he's in that case, remind thank you very much for beginners that update from the don bus region as r t correspondent raymond caseres. the, it's a of the grey zone. you sides on your part on pill, spoke with those about the beginning of the turbulence in ukraine

a years ago. and besides, in of the u. s. supported it back then and continues to do so now it's been going on for 8 years. ukraine's sovereignty was initially violated in 2014, when the united states supported openly a coo in ken, installed the public government and then sparked off conflict in the country east. the suffering of the people of don bass who 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 u. s. media, i think if you pulled the average american individual u. s. american individual, they wouldn't have even known that there was a war in ukraine for these past 8 years. president biden just approved $350000000.00 in weapons to be released to ukraine to the training government. i

wonder where those weapons will go, considering a 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 u. s. officials, the united states has been covertly training ukrainian horses in order to respond to a potential russian entry into their country. creating the kind of pretext for a situation as we saw in syria where the u. s. isn't officially working with the government or the military, but training paramilitary groups 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 crossfire taking place just kilometers from the hearts of key of

the shooting was reported close to the capital's infrastructure ministry and just 25 kilometers from the capital. an oil depot has a ruptured in flames, reportedly due to an explosion. this on verified video shows the blaze and you can clearly see the fire and vast plumes of smoke billowing into the sky arts, eager to dan of earlier brought me the latest on what's been happening in used 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 were 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 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 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 some of course are saying that sabotage groups, you know, some ukranian officials are saying that russian, sabotage groups are operate all 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 match between those who are captured and key of to some of there may be like social media profiles for example where they would have listed were like there you, 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 will local groups when they just took one another. they took each other for, ah, for like russian saboteur sato groups and they shot at each other. there have even been reports of casualties and also some other people that have been using the fire

power that they got to well tumor road and to scare people. now as we mentioned early the up in numerous reports of explosions, not too far from the capital, including an oil deputy, must be terrifying for local residents. also, threats are they facing what our local officials saying will 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 hidden. all 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 said a blaze by an explosion. and so, yeah, are also the night 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. now we've seen quite

a few emotional videos of, you know, residents of care of doing the rounds on social media. can you tell us more about what they're facing right now? well, the city is scared of rules. remember, they aren't exactly used to living amid, you know, a military operation emitter follow, you know, i mean, you know, asked strikes and gunfire and fire fights. so a lot of people chose to shelter in the tube and the trains in fact have been stop . so it's 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 yet their mother was hiding from all the may. hm. that's going on on the surface . and of course, the ukranian authorities and ukrainian president lensky. he has been trying to calm down and to reassure the population. for example, he is what he said in the evening. simple much 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. western powers have announced the decision to penalize moscow by disconnecting some motion banks from the swift money transfer system, which is the world's biggest mechanism for conducts in international financial transactions. the commissions president announced the measure in a statement. we commit to ensuring that a certain number of russian banks are we moved from swift. this will ensure that these banks disconnected from the international financial system and hom, the ability to operate globally, we will stop approaching 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 golden possible, the sale of citizenship in western countries for wealthy russians. there is also to be a transatlantic task force that's for sure. the implementation of these measures. now, britain's prime minister boys, johnson says the removal of some russia, bangs from the swift payment system is just a stepping stone with more functions yet to come. we've taken decisive action tonight with our international partners to shut russia out to the global financial system, including the important 1st step of attracting russian banks from swift. we will keep working together to ensure putin pays the price for his aggression. in

response to the russian central bank says it has all the necessary tools to keep the countries financial sector operating as normal and will be able to maintain stability despite the pressure of western sanctions. it's a show that's all money stored in motion banks. it's safe and accessible as the other mesh has been taken in response to what putin called a special military operation, france is boosting it supplies a merger equipment, the ukraine, germany is also you turning on. it's not intervention policy confirming now that it will deliver alms to the country. ortiz shot 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 this 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, as 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. meanwhile, chinas, foreign ministry opposes the sanctions against russia, saying those measures cannot resolve the ukraine crisis. the chinese empathy moscow as echoed remarks made by the russian envoy to the un in condemnation of us. among the 248 armed conflicts that occurred and 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's posted a list of the armed conflicts. the u. s. has been involved in since world war 2. you can see the names of cities on years where the armed conflicts took place, more than 80 percent of which the chinese embassy said were initiated by the u. s. a chinese for ministry spokesperson suggested that the u. s. should ask yourself,

who's been the aggressor in those conflicts? meanwhile, big to go and international relations experts at china's suture university won the sanctions against russia will be mutually destructive for the west. 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 a, 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 saw 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 i did. i did state as of the 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. while that's the route for now, for more news and analysis on the crisis in ukraine, head over to r t dot com. my name is peter scotts and i'll be back again in about 30 minutes. ah,

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