ah ah, deadlines this air rushes delegation says it was ready to leave battery after the deadline for si, fi for conspired, but we'll stay off for information as just come in at the last moment. ukraine will attend, also desire residency crane, 2nd largest city, harker film. what they say a russian forces entering the city. a sporadic fighting is reported in the area. and authorities movie recognized in yes can against public say that the ukrainian military is conducting relentless shelly residential areas and has attacked the fuel depot, sparking and massive blaze plus western powers ramp up sanctions against moscow. preparing to disconnect some brushing banks from the swift international paint system, china they were poses that move saying it won't resolve. be crying crisis. ah,

good afternoon, you watching out international. now rush is delegation, says it will stay in batteries for sci fi talks. despite the deadline, expiring software information came in at the last moment that ukraine will actually attend and send a delegation. so let's get more on the axis. don't quarter, don't. what more do we know than about these latest developments? while moscow set its been ready for talks for days now and to day at reiterated that it sent a russian delegation to bel ruth for negotiations to a location that was a key of choice. actually, according to the kremlin spokesperson, the delegation has assured anyone, any ukrainians who come to negotiate that there are, there are security is going to be guaranteed. and just at the last moment,

at minutes after their deadline had expired, that they had said, did they get word that ukraine was ready to negotiate? let's take a listen promise to paula. we have received information from the ukranian side that it agrees to negotiate to participate in his hopes will take place in the global region. as we proposed earlier. when was now we are creating a part of the ukrainian, sorry to pass through safely. marshall, we awaiting reyes with a ukrainian delegation in the clinical to rooms. now, over the past several days, lensky has kind of gone back and forth earlier. he said he was ready to negotiate, and then russia put a stop to its military offensive so they could work out the details. he then back tracked said he didn't wanna negotiate and today he's changed his mind again. he said he was ready to sit down at the negotiating table. russia sent this delegation and i for a time actually the key key. i've said there was not going to send anyone, but it was only after a conversation actually with lucas shan't go apparently that they decided to come

to the table for my game. so, as far as i know, presidency lensky, just telephone president lou caching code number president, blue cashing, co convince president lensky to save ukraine state sovereignty in the ukrainian delegation will come to the negotiations. now earlier zelinski rejected any sort of negotiations because he said that russia gave him an ultimatum at the, at the last moment saying that they demanded that ukraine put down their it's weapons and surrender. basically, he also didn't like the venue very much. he said he didn't want to negotiate in a country that was allowing russian force to wage war against ukraine on its own territory. but on the other hand, alexander lucas shank. oh said that that was a lie that nobody was waging war against ukraine on valley. russian territory. but let's take a listen to what lensky had to say earlier in an earlier speech. he jazz moving away. now, there is

a lot of news about possible negotiation between ukraine and russia that can end this war and return peace to all of us. a minute because of the dimensions of the platform for these negotiations, a platform that was not chosen by us. now we are saying not minsk, i sincerely hope that better it becomes as kind and safe again as everyone, sorry, i'm not so long ago. he had them so now with another chance for negotiations to take place, we're going to have to see how the situation develops. yeah, thank you for the update that don't, that was there. awesome. don't quarter on the potential for those piece. talks to take place. after all in bella race, now let me putin has given his speech. meanwhile, on the current situation in ukraine, this is what he said a short time ago. okay, i apologize. we will wait a little longer for that. we thought it was going to happen night,

but we will wait a few minutes now. i am told he speaking. so this is our attempting unfriendly actions against us only cannot mclee what i'm talking about of the sanctions you know very well about. but also the highest officials, the top officials of nato nations make aggressive and hostile statements, but towards which because who amused room it so i order them the minister of defense and the general living chief of general stuff is him to boot, rushes army and rushes reserves into the or special regime all for combat readiness.

go. ah, okay, that was a vladimir putin, a speaking just a short time ago on the current situation in ukraine. now it is for the day of this latest conflict and with report advanced by russian troops and don bass forces against the craning army in the east of the country. here are the videos of eye witnesses from you. currently in half golf, showing that russian, the russian army has entered that city hardcopy may himself confirm the information . according to him, part of the russian forces are in the central part of that city, as well as russian defense ministry said you training national audience to attack residential areas. and so there's a mighty auto and of also try to target a school in the city itself. let's listen roscoe oliver, just not on february 26 from 4 pm to 4 20 pm. this ukrainian nationalist from the

up italian muse grabbed rocket launchers to attack residential areas in the suburbs of mario and a school in the city of mario. if this resulted in the destruction of residential buildings and deaths among the civilian population, the rushes defense ministry had warned that ukrainian nationalists were preparing to conduct such provocation. anything other than the worker for me, my fighting is reported in the suburbs of the key and we are seeing some buildings court on the fire there amid the clash, the local man in his video address is d. does say that you currently forces have repelled that russian moves now marked and red hair and blue on this map of the 2 don bass republics, according to the board, is recently recognised by russia. the russian defense ministry has just denies that against the militia forces humphrey taken territory from the ukraine, an army 52 companies beyond the previous frontline walden. yes, the forces have advanced by 12 kilometers. meanwhile, he cried the military units. and i said to be retracing from the borders and yet

scanned guns with publix and local authorities in both republic still claimed that several times were targeted in missile attacks. molly, huge, blaze has erupt. it a few deco in the guns people's republic. local authorities say you train the missile attack caused that blast at least $200.00 tons of fuel catching fire. several people have been reported injured. the exact numbers to so far unclear warner from bowman costs that have in the dorm bus region. the ukrainian army are retreating, but so they are destroying everything on they are on their way on this, on this retreat, according to a local officials, the crating, an army or targeting civilian infrastructure in people's home. and they're using a so called a scorched earth policy against the civilians and not the military. now they added that to ukrainian military, the ones who are still fighting or placing their positions in near us civilians,

homes and schools, and kindergartens, and virtually turning civilians into a human shields. once again, this according to local officials, and of course we can hear artillery strikes here in the nest where i am right now. on saturday, a massive, massive artillery attack was heard throughout the city. and they were 152 millimeter hold, sir haulitz or shoals that set lands. it's about 5 kilometers away for war, around standing right now. and at once, the villian was reportedly killed during those at sax. the city of the nest suspended public transportation. many houses had been destroyed the apartment buildings, and so here is one witness account from saturday night. what can you do? you just can't do anything about it. thank god, at least i am alive. god is looking out for me. well, the total number of civilians who were killed sir during the ukrainians armies

attacks now stands at 8 people this only over the last as 72 hours and the scores of people had been in had been injured as well. like i said before, civilian infrastructure had been targeted here in san nest. as the thousands of thousands of people now have no access to water or electricity. now, over in logan's people's republic and oil depot, a fuel depot was sir, ah, struck by a ballistic missile. ah, creating a huge a fire. apparently the missile is called a tortuga, or it's an native classification assessed $1.00 to $1.00 scarab and it is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. that wasn't the case. in this instance. however, it weighs 2000 kilograms and a very, very 5 frightful weapon. now, people's sir militia reported that there had been no fatalities or there in logan's

. however, some people were, are wounded as a result of this ballistic missile attack, according to a local officials. and according to the russian defense ministry are done. african logans, peoples or militias are moving deeper and deeper into the territory formerly controlled by ukraine and both law. both a republic sir report that they have liberated several settlements in le ganske and in don't ask as well. they're also reporting that a, some ukranian soldiers are actually surrendering and switching sides as that they've been promised a safe package, a passage back home and an amnesty from this a war on our head of the nets people's republic. denise bushland said that, so this operation will, i will last for a few more days, but he said it will not stop until the rest of the nest people's republic is liberated and that's a statement 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 peoples to there will be peace and every one will sleep well. closer to reorder of the enemy is behaving in different ways. and most places they run but circled by the neo nazi as off. but sally, which has been linked to o. war cries by the united nation sends a, reportedly they have a place their positions around the civilians using them as a human shield from across there for forcing an hour and yet, but impulse is of the gray zone independent use website. and she told us that washington's influence is a major factor in the situation in the cray. it's been going on for 8 years. ukraine sovereignty was initially violated in 2014, when the united states supported openly. okay, we just interrupt that report because our president peyton is continuing to give her a statement. he was making just a few minutes ago a co hostile statements with respect to russia. but the more that is why i made the

decision to order the minister of defense and the chief of the general staff hughley to put rushes deterrence forces into your senior. we were com, but readiness ah, okay. that was just a bit more from a statement vladimir putin has been making. just recently this afternoon says to tenants forces in russia and i have been put into combat readiness. now, in other developments artisan, you portray anchor his taking a closer look now at sir. some of the western sanctions that have been put in place against russia and the impact that they are having

i have lost count how many times in the last couple of days i heard european american heavy weight say we stand by ukraine and we're going to punish poodle, russia, like never, ever before, the u. k. is amount to the largest most of your package of economic sanctions. the russia has oversee this package of sanctions that has been approved by unanimity with a member to stage. were heard russia any would hurt a lot the sanctions measures we impose today? i think without question we're the most consequential ever levied on russian arguably than was consequential ever levied in history. those who'd invested in russian stocks woke up to find themselves in the red earlier this week. but soon after, there was relief for rush and 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 noticed something else. how will 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 boring 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, misty far 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 in 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, rushed to the russian military. we 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 pro, limbs 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 voters 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 are 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 a beating. but let's be realistic. no one is ready to go too far. if some business folks are going to suffer back home. it mostly for me, it's the natural gas issue. that is the, the one that is a definite masochistic move. and that sense because it hurts the you were going to have a number of factors affecting the economies of the west and particularly europe with inflation from rising a situation that's going to be much worse. busy than it was in 1973 with the energy crisis, the oil engineer, it's after the 1973 middle east war. so it's very much like shooting on the front

seat. what meanwhile, western powers have an answer. they are imposing one of the severest possible financial sanctions on moscow, disconnecting some russian banks from the swift money transfer system, the world's biggest mechanism for conducting international financial transactions. let's say talk more about this and go to port slays in london, covering these developments. good afternoon, paul. just run through them the implications of removing some of these russian banks from the swift system. well, the implications certainly are far reaching as you quickly say. what we are hearing is a decision by western allies to now remove russia from the international swift manner treat banking system. last night, the united states, canada, and key european countries, including germany, signed off on the proposal and the agreement to remove so called selected russian banks from the swift system. it was a decision that the u. k. had earlier made thrift is the mechanism that

stops people are making payments to vladimir putins, russia. it's incredibly important for tightening good good the ligature, the economic ligature around the putin regime. and today you've seen more and more countries, france and others coming forward to say that they will not block a bad in a boycott of switch. now, but there's also nouns that it's put together a so called hit list when it comes to imposing sanctions. and this includes a number of russian id gas who are closely aligned with the russian president vladimir putin. we have heard from the british foreign secretary less trust saying to quote that they will have no where to hide. and that in the coming weeks, there will be more names who will be added to the sanction list. this long running conflict is about freedom and democracy in europe. because if we do not stop payton and ukraine, we're going to see others on the threats. the voltage, harland,

moldova, it could end up in a conflict with nato. now, greece and we're mania. are the latest countries to announce that they will be sending the fence equipment and humanitarian aid to the ukraine. romania is also offered to take care of people who have been wounded in both the military and civilian hospitals. in a reverse of policy, germany has now announced that it will be sending weapons to ukraine and that these weapons will include anti aircraft missiles and tank busting rockets. we have heard from the german chancellor sholtes saying, and i quote, it is our duty to support ukraine to the best of our ability in defending the country against persons invading army. now the german government has also announced also in a reverse of policy that it will allow the netherlands to saint german made weapons to his and amsterdam has already confirmed that it will be doing so as soon as

possible. put him, let's not kid ourselves prudent will not change his course overnight, but very soon the russian leadership will feel the high price. it is pain already in the last week the russian stock market sank by more than 30 percent. that shows our sanctions are working and we reserve the right to impose further sanctions. now france is the latest country here in europe to announce that it is closing its s space to russian aircraft. the european union has also been mulling over a decision in terms of banding all russian aircraft from a space here. there are a number of individual countries who have already done this earlier. we heard from finland, bulgaria, the czech republic, estonia, germany, and poland. foreign ministers, we'll be meeting later today, and top of the agenda is going to be this option of closing a space and

a wide measure to do this. would then pave the way for a whole new set of sanctions. okay, well that thank you for that. paula, that was awesome, poorest les reporting from london. now, meanwhile, china has opposed the sanctions against russia, saying that they won't resolve the training crisis. and also highlighted previous conflicts involving the united states. among the 248 armed conflicts that occurred in 153 regions across the world from 1945 to 2001, 200. 1 were initiated by the u. s. accounting for 81 percent of the total number of chinese embassy in russia has posted to a list of the conflicts in the united states. and that has been involved in it has been involved in, sorry since world war 2. and you can see the names of cities and years where the armed conflicts did take place. the overwhelming majority of which the embassy added were initiated by one country. the united states. chinese foreign ministry

spokesperson suggested that washington should ask itself, who's been the main aggressor now in international relations expert does warn that sanctions against russia will be destructive to, 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's consent, very destabilizing of peace and stability in that part of the world's 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 mean, the, that estate 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 us not international banking companies. softening will have ammonia in hoffman. i

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy. even foundation, let it be in arms. race is often very dramatic. development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successfully, very critical of time to sit down and talk. it's been 30 years since the soviet union collapsed in misconduct. good or chill on to what the problem yet nuclear you talk so. so show me where you all swore trust on want all of them. ukraine was one of the independent states that emerged from the ruins of a super bow. i'm doing awesome. good. would you also get on google greens? come a little more surely confusing some of the yet and less nutrition west enter deer, better lung or law, a surface, but

a teachable for sure. with water the past 3 decades, green light for ukraine. eye witnesses recall the events. this would be more or less so just to shoot in a deficiency of traverse little here. what i knew about it, i'm not sure. but about 4 months with water. what else? what other forces were at play? the producer whom you show in ship, mushy. in those in you put in the kid what it occurred to when you did the shows us in was the versions, old, least take a look at ukraine, 30 years out, the gaining independence. you go to your phone with us here in unity retorted live, but a will ethridge. if you could give me just a moment. no problem.

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