for ah, roger's delegation says it was ready to leave bella luce after the deadline for si fi, talked it expired, but will stay after information payment at the last minute that ukraine will attend . also this hour, following a raft of aggressive native statements, president tatum puts russia strategic def darren sports is including nuclear forces on high alert was really make believe you, as you can see western countries and not only taking on friendly actions towards on nation in the economic sector by referring to the illegitimate sanction that everyone is aware of over top officials of need to member states are also using aggressive language to water country. that's why i'm ordering the defense minister and chief of staff to put the russian army to turn forces on special alert

residents, ukraine. second largest city have called film what they say are russian forces entering their city. a sporadic fighting is reported in the area and authority from the news recognized yet, and again public say that the training military there is conducting relentless shelly residential areas and is attacked fuel deputy, sparking a massive black ah good afternoon, 5 pm in moscow. you're watching international rushes delegation, say we'll stay in belarus for sci fi talks. despite the deadline, expiring software information came in at the last moment that ukraine will attend and we'll send a delegation of their own. so let's get on this and speak with our correspondent

constantine raj cove and call to think just run through that. what's been happening over the last couple of hours for hello rory. so there's been a lot of back and forth leading up to this meeting. but as of now, it seems that it's really going to happen. i mean, the head of the russian delegation here in ballard. landmark uminski said earlier that they were actually about to leave. but then all the sudden they received a message saying that the training side is ready to negotiate and ready to come to bella cruz. he also said that the russian side is now headed to the bell. russian sea of gumbo at the bellows, ukraine border. it's a 3 hour drive from where we now and that's also where we're going to head to where we're going to go right after this live. so let's have a snippet from mr. meetings. the statement and i was going to

come on. so we have received information from the ukranian side that it agrees to negotiate go talks will take place in the common region as we proposed earlier. now we are creating a path for the ukranian site to pass through safely and they wouldn't we awaiting here. so the ukranian delegation is while it's hard to tell what exactly caused this turn from the craning side earlier, you creating president glamour. zelinski told that he, even though he wants to have peace talks, he doesn't want to have them in valerie, as he suggested. other european capitals like warsaw brightest lava booted past, as well as eastern bull and turkey. and back in here by john. but now he, he actually found to the president of valerie alexander lucas shank, and he confirmed that the delegation wants to have engage in these talks invalid bruce. and that the delegation headed by deputy foreign minister of ukraine is on

its way to the city of gamble. now now let's have a listen to what mister zalinski told him. and he just when i see that now there is a lot of news about possible negotiations. between ukraine and russia, they 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 battery becomes as kind and safe again as ever on. sorry, i'm not so long ago. well, just to bring you up to speed. the russian delegation invalid was, includes a deputy foreign minister deputy minister of defense had of the foreign affairs committee in russia's parliament, russia's envoy and valor roost, as well as an aid to the russian president vladimir putin. later in the den ski, he is a former minister of culture in russia, but now he is. he was appointed as the head of this delegation. in these a peace talks in ballard. he sat mr. medina sky. he said that the russian side did

everything to ensure a safe passage for the cranium, so that they could come from key to the city of guerrmo on the border between bearers, close to the border between valerie and ukraine and understand that right now, the russian delegation is headed from minced to towards the city of gamble, and we were told that there is also preparation, security preparations in place to make sure that both sides i feel safe and you know, ready to engage in, in dialogue there. but, you know, i gotta tell you it's unclear at this point if president zelinski is a really sickening oceans, or perhaps he just wants to buy some time for his own military. i mean, we know from what the russian president said earlier, that the russian military operation in ukraine was put to hold on february 25th when mister resilience kiefer is told that he wants to talk and discuss the neutral

status for ukraine. but then he changed his mind and the operation was resumed. so this is not something that is going to happen right now. according to the spokesperson for the russian president, president mitre, passcode. he said that even when these and you go these negotiations and barriers are going to happen, it doesn't mean that the a military operation by the russian armed forces and ukraine is going to be stopped . but maybe something will change after these talks. we'll see about that. yeah. okay, well i keep an eye on how all of this develops. thank you. constantino's constantine roscoe in barracks. okay, let's go back to our top headline, the sound because in response to what the russian president called aggressive language by 9 members, states fled to mid putin has put the countries strategic forces, which includes nuclear weapons, units on high alert. really do, as you can see,

western countries and not only taking on friendly actions towards the nation in the economic sector. i'm referring to the illegitimate thanks and that everyone is aware of whoever top officials of needs. a member states are also using aggressive language towards our country. that's why i'm ordering the defense minister and chief of staff to put the russian army the term forces on special alerts. mccullough was flat, imitating speaking a short time ago. now in the meantime, as was mentioned, the swift and the removal of russian bangs from the swift financial system was announced by european leaders yesterday. early this morning. we can talk more about the consequences of all of this with our team. paula slayer. good afternoon, paula. i hope you can hear me just run through what has been happening in some major developments. well, if you click, he say the news that just breaking is that the russian president, vladimir putin, has ordered his defense ministry to put strategic missile forces on special alerts

. we are receiving news that this is following what the president has termed aggressive behavior by nato's countries. the order was announced in the last few minutes and a came after meeting between the russian president vladimir putin. he's defense minister and he's, and the chief of the general staff we are waiting here in the u. k to gauge some kind of british or european reaction. already. countries have been moving in the direction of isolating russia from the international stage as much as possible. as you correctly said. the latest move that was announced last night was european countries. the united states and the united kingdom, as well as canada, signing off on an agreement to no longer have a number of russian banks as part of the international swift monetary system. now

there are concerns that this could affect the economies here in europe negatively as well. but what we have heard, particularly from the british prime minister, both johnson, who ready agreed to remove russia from swift earlier, is that countries feel they were left with no other option. take a listen. twist is the mechanism that stops the people are making payments to vladimir putins, russia. it's incredibly important for tightening 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 valley, a boycott of swift. now, britain is also put together what a cause, a hit list. essentially what this is, is the names of ali gas ration billionaires who are closely aligned with the russian president vladimir putin. we have heard from the british foreign secretary

less trust and i'm quoting where she says these people will have no where to hide. we are also being told. busy that this list will be continuously updated, particularly in the coming weeks with new names being added. this long running conflict is of our freedom and democracy in europe. because if we do not stop payton and ukraine, we're going to see others under threats. the ball text holland, moldova, it could end up in a conflict with nato. now, at the same time, one more countries are coming forward and announcing assistance to ukraine. of course, ukraine is not a member of nature. and in the past, you've had countries like germany saying that they will not provide weapon we to kill. germany has now done a u. t. a and has reversed its policy with the german chancellor oliver shots justifying this reverse in policy,

saying that it's all duty to quote support to quain, to the best of our ability in defending against putin's invading army. berlin has also agreed to allow the netherlands to deliver german made weapons to ukraine. the netherlands has said that have plans to do this as soon as possible, and has confirmed that in fact, it will be going ahead with the smooth, hooting. 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 jeremy has also said that amongst the weapons, it will be sending our anti cough muscles and tank busing. rockers. we've also heard now from greece and romania that they'll be sending the defense equipment and

humanitarian aid, romania like other countries offering to help bring the wounded to the civilian and military hospitals. not one of this is coming against the backdrop of more and more european countries, closing their space to rushing across the laces country to announce this. and the last also was france earlier, the and we heard from finland. and then we've also heard from other countries who say that russian cough are no longer be allowed to fly overhead. and these include bulk area, the czech republic, stonier, germany, and poland. later today, you foreign ministers will be meeting to discuss this. and should they go ahead with a blanket agreement to close europe to russian a coffee? this will be part and parcel of a new package of sanctions being imposed from europe on russia. okay, thanks sir. for that sir paula. that was porter slave reporting from london.

now that from 3 what's been happening on the ground in ukraine, it is the 4th day of this latest conflict with reports of advance is by russian troops. and don bass forces 2 against the training army in various parts of the country. eye witnesses have filmed this footage, which they say show russian forces entering the crane 2nd city hall cove. something also claimed by its mer, he added that russian shrieks are already in the city center rushes. defense ministry says he cranium. nationalists battalion meanwhile, use heavy artillery to attack residential areas in the suburbs at the city of multiple in south east and ukraine and ukrainian forces. it's claimed also target is school in the city itself. those courses just not on february 26th, from 4 pm to 4, 20 pm, the ukrainian nationalist from the up, italian use grad 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, russians defense ministry had warned that ukrainian nationalists were preparing to conduct such provocation. for me, while fighting has been reported in the suburbs of kiev, some buildings of cool fire amid the clashes the local man in the video of address as the training forces have repelled russian attacks. and overnight, unverified video here appeared from kiev, apparently showing cross fire just kilometers from the hosp. the capitol close to the infrastructure ministry building around 25 kilometers from the camp that reported explosion has caused a large fire at an oil with that po, dis, unverified video to show you the plays with plumes of smoke billowing into the night sky marked him red and blue on this map of the 2 dawn bashed republics according to the borders recently recognized by russia. the russian defense

ministry has just announced to that against the militia forces have retaken territory from the ukrainian army 50 to come to be on the previous front line. while than yet, forces have advanced by 12 kilometers. meanwhile, the current military units, and i said to be retreating from the borders of the desk and against the public's and local authorities in both republics, a claiming that several times were targeted in miss allan tags. meanwhile, a huge release as erupt it at a fuel depot in the guns people's public local authority. say you trainee missile attack caused that blast with at least 200 tons of fuel catching fire? several people have been reported injured. the exact numbers a so far unclear, but with more on the situation in the don't bass region. his roman casa, the ukrainian army, are retreating, but so they are destroying everything on their, on their way. on this, on this retreat, according to a local officials or 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 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 nets where i am right now. i'm on saturday, a massive, massive artillery attack was heard throughout the city. and they were 152 millimeter hold, sir hollitz or shelves that, that lands, it's about 5 kilometers away for war, around standing right now. and it wants to villian was reportedly killed during those at sac sir. 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 of 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 soul told number of civilians who were killed her during the ukrainians armies at sax. now stands at 8 people this only over the last as 72 hours ends of scores of people had been in, had been injured as well. like i said before, civilian infrastructure had been targeted here in our nest as a 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. are creating a huge a fire. apparently the missile is called a tortuga, or it's an nato classification as, as $21.00 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, it's allergies or there in logan's. however, some people were 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 people's 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 the summer ukrainian soldiers are actually surrendering and switching sides as that they 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 this operation will, i will last for a few more days, but he said it will not stop until the rest of the ness people's republic is liberated and that's a statement is echoed by the soldiers on the ground as well. or in my personal opinion, we must get our territories back from these evil people. so there will be peace and everyone will sleep well. closer to reorder of 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. basically, everyone has running away and giving up. it's been a relatively quiet hearings. anesco this says sunday as the fighting is moving further away a from from the city. some of the most fear, so fierce fighting has taken place in the south of the republic, near the city of farm rouble, which is currently encircled by the neo nazi as off. but sally,

which has been linked to o. war criers by the united nations and reportedly they have a place their positions around the civilians using them as a human shield. i'm sure i'm a customer of that reporting from east and ukraine now and yeah, put in pull is off the gray zone independent each site. and she told us that washington's influence is a major factor in the tensions and the situation in ukraine. it's been going on for 8 years. ukraine's sovereignty was initially violated in 2014, when the united states supported openly a coup in here, installed the public government and then sparked off current conflict in the countries ease the suffering of the people who 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 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 cleaning 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 destabilize ukraine and embroiled

russia in a prolonged conflict. i think that is the worst case scenario we could see play out at this point. now china as opposed highlighted to previous conflicts involving the united states among the 248 armed conflicts that occurred in 153 regions across the world from 1945 to 2000. and 1201 were initiated by the u. s. accounting for 81 percent of the total number. chinese mc and russia has posted a list of the armed conflicts. the u. s. has been involved in since world war 2, and you can see the names of the cities in the years where the armed conflicts took place. the over whelming majority of which the embassy added were initiated by one country. the united states, chinese foreign minister spokesperson suggests that washington should ask itself, who has been the main aggressor now in international relations expert has warned

that sanctions, due against russia, could be destructive also for the west. and 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. it center is very hurtful to

russian interest of cause on the one hand, but it's very heartful, other european interest who benefits for all this. i leave united states has an agenda to benefit hugely because they want to sell l and g to europe conjures. and they do not want to have european can matches, buy more and more of oil and natural gas, more russia, which is cheaper and which is more sustainable. meanwhile, youtube has brought access to asking videos in ukraine and disabled the monetization of all artie channels. after several, he repeating countries took on networks broadcast affair on saturday, streaming tv service, folks thou said it would no longer distribute this channel gee to the situation in ukraine. we heard from our c deputy editor in chief artie journalists tirelessly work to bring valuable facts and use to an audience. millions around the world

where the organizational government either call 4 or $430.00 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 centers of journalists right yet. so readily turned back on the very founding principle to support the suppression of news and journalists under political pressure ever were time to recognize the importance of all gathering news and understanding of old use is now. we'll talk soon. sent a letter to archie, saying it ended distribution over quote, concern about the situation in ukraine. it said it had the right to do so under the license agreement with the network. now on thursday, poland made arty when a 5 russian channels to be taken off. air and britons culture secretary asked regulator of com to review our t license even before the current crisis ruptured artes german language to the channel. our c. d was blocked in germany. a political on this we spoke,

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isn't that what's written 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 right is wrong. wash out. he's coming to help us 5 me afternoon, a mosque. i thanks for watching a back again at the top of the a. ah, the former evil empire standing up to the empire of life like him, important was announcing his decision to di, potentiate you prince military infrastructure. he wasn't just a resurrecting the close of the cold war and he made it clear that the russian us animosity never really and how hot and bloody, but it's still gas in

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