ah, ah ah, deadlines is our falling raft of aggressive native statements and huge new arms deliveries pledged by block members present potent put thrushes, strategic deterrents forces including nuclear units on high alert. pretty good to me. so i'm ordering the defense minister and chief of staff to put the russian army to turn forces on special alert. also to come russian and ukrainian delegations are on their way to the crane. valerie border off the kia the creed to negotiate quote, with act preconditions and residents of ukraine. second largest city are called film, what they say. a rushing force is entering their city. a sporadic fighting is reported in the area and authorities in the newly recognized and yet can against public say

that the ukrainian military is conducting relentless shelly residential areas attacked a field epo, sparking a massive place. ah hello, good. even just on 7 o'clock in moscow, you're watching party international. i person peyton has reacted to aggressive language from late members and big new pledges of weaponry. t crane by putting the countries strategic forces which include nuclear weapons units on high alert. was they really do as you can see western countries and not only taking on friendly actions toward the nation in the economic sector. i'm referring to the illegitimate thinking that everyone is aware of whoever top officials of needs. a member states are also using aggressive language towards

a 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 or russia strategic forces to include both nuclear and non nuclear forces. long range bombers submarine, ships and jets. the high alert also connects miss all attack warning systems and anti space defenses. so let's get more in these latest developments now and speak with our europe correspondent, peter oliver. good evening again, pizza. let's just talk about the reaction. we've heard firstly then see present patients later statement while this has been seen as a major escalation by moscow to place the strategic deterrence forces, which as you said, includes nuclear elements on high alert. it comes as a response to the sanctions that were put in place upon russia following the invasion of ukraine. now we have hard reaction immediately from the united states,

from washington d. c. where the response was that these actions were based on threats that do not exist. washington saying that neither the us nor nato pose any threat to russia . we've also heard from nato secretary general un stalson burg. describe the decision to place these forces on high alert as dangerous. he also said that the alliance would continue to support ukraine. this is dangerous rhetoric. that's the reason why we both provide support ukraine. but also why we did last 2 weeks a months. i have a significant increase the presence of nato in the eastern part, the lions earlier here in berlin, there was a huge anti war demonstration took place over a 100000 people estimated to being out on the streets of the german capital. it came as all f sholtes, the german chancellor was speaking in the bone the stock day he confirmed about

face when it comes to a major german policy saying that germany would now send weapons to ukraine. he also said that there would be major investment in the german military, were talking around a $100000000000.00 euros worth of invest and into the german armed forces. and he said that all of this was due to russia's actions and ukraine. put them off, you know, they put in with the attack food and wanted to wipe an independent country off the world map in ukraine. that's what he puts himself on the sidelines of the entire international community. active in by your side on the right side of history. right, the bigger sister of france, italy and finland as well as denmark have become the latest european countries to close their space to russian commercial air travel. it means pretty much all of european space is currently closed to russian commercial flights. okay, thanks for that. i to that page, that was our to use piece roll over. now we can get more reaction to speak with the

assistance added to the grades. that website has been, norton is with us this evening. good evening. she's been 1st. let's just talk about this latest development presentation. the said that his defense to terence forces, which to include nuclear weapons, will be put on jaila. we should stress, it does not mean an intent to use them, but a very worrying escalation. yeah, and we should understand that this is undergirding, the entire problem here, which is nato. you know, we, the, the western corporate media love to talk about this suppose, military threat of russia. and now they're taking these comments out of context. but we should also keep in mind that nato has been doing exactly the same threatening russia on his borders with missile deployments. i mean even estonia, which is right and rushes borders has been doing military exercises with nato for months. 100 kilometers from the russian border. so i think what all of this underscores, you know, people using the, the nuclear word. i mean, that's

a very scary a word to ever hear. what this all underscore is, is that with there needs to be diplomacy, but the reality is that united states and nato were the ones that sabotaged all attempts at diplomacy. russia was repeatedly asking for diplomacy, going back to december asking for security guarantees. and the united states and nato refused to meet the security guarantees. so i'm one of many people in the united states and one of many americans who is very critical of the u. s. government's policy for creating this entire situation. the 1st place for leading to the situation of war, which is tragic and horrible for every one. and i think that, you know, i, and many americans hope that the u. s. government can now see that they need to actually engage in serious diplomacy to prevent this from escalating further. but what you make of the white house is reaction than to the slightest development. because they say that there's actually a no threat from nice i to russia. well, i mean that, that is preposterous and the u. s. constantly says things like this. they say that

nato is a defensive alliance. i mean, that would be news to the people of libya whose government was destroyed in 2011 in a nato war. that would be news to the former people view islov via you were slightly no longer exists as a country because nato destroyed it. that would be news to the people have gone austin, who were su, suffered under 20 years of a nato u. s. military occupation. so you know, the u. s. constantly says things like this. it always acts as though it's acting defensively. it always acts as though it's innocent, but the reality is that there are at least 2 nato member states right now, directly on russia's borders. and then there are also numerous other nato member states near russia's borders that have missile. some of them have nuclear weapons and they are threatening russia, and this is in contravention of agreements that were made by the western powers back in 1990 at the time of german reunification. we have so many documents from western government showing that the united states, britain, and france,

and then also later, the unified german government, all promised that nato would not expand one inch east after german reunification. and they lied about that. and nato not only expanded once and not only expanded twice it expanded 14 times. and every single country that was added to nato after german reunification was to the east of germany. and many of those countries were former allies of the soviet union and russia. and many of those countries are right near russia's border. so the u. s. says that nato is not threatening russia, but then it constantly insists that every country on russia's border should be part of this military alliance with santa tenable position. then we have got hopes of paste talks. 30 tentatively, we have a russian delegation under declining delegation expected to meet on the better russian. ukraine bowed a shortly. what are your hopes? what are you right? well, i cases veal high for paste oscillation, obviously,

but what can we expect from this? well, i certainly hope that there can be a diplomatic breakthrough that brings peace because war is bad for everyone. i mean, it's bad for the people of ukraine. it's bad for russia, which is now being targeted by all these western sanctions. no one wants war. but the reality is that the u. s. and nato have been the ones that refused to give any concessions. they have to give concession. so what, what i hope to see is that the u. s. finally admits that nato will not add ukraine and also ga, that nato will stop it's eastward expansion. because that is what brought about this war. it is nato's constant, endless goal to surround russia with military bases, potentially with nuclear weapons. nato. it no longer even should exist. frankly, i am one of many americans who thinks of this. this alliance should not exist, it should be abolished, and there should be a new security agreement reached because nato at this point is all about maintaining us control over europe. when we see that countries like germany and

france, actually we're trying to have what they call strategic independence. the reality is that this conflict is only made that worse, that situation worse. so what i hope to see is that finally the u. s. agrees to say that it's going to stop expanding nato, but as we've seen in the past few months, that doesn't look likely well and then they would argue soon either. so recent events in ukraine, the conflict that sand now is the perfect reason to increase the size of night. yeah, and that's why i said that this war is bad for everyone. i mean it's, it's been some ways, you know, it's, it's going to hurt russia, and that's why i think diplomacy really needs to be the path forward. because the u . s. is using this as an excuse to continue to expand russia to, excuse me, to continue to expand nato to strengthen made so. but the reality is that nato, this cold war alliance, the u. s. as it doesn't want a new cold war with russia and also china, within the u. s. continues to expand nato around russia's borders. this is the

attitude of the cold war. this is the strategy of a new cold war. so yes, i really hope that we can have serious diplomatic breakthroughs. the u. s. has refused to give any diplomatic concessions. this could be a turning point. the u. s. could finally say, all right, we're not going to continue this new cold war on russia. we're going to try to have peace in europe. unfortunately, i can't be very optimistic given the long history of u. s. war and aggression. but the, you, there could, there are some people in washington who don't want to see a war with russia. maybe this could be an eye opening moment where they say, wow, we bear responsibility. busy for this crisis in ukraine and we could end it if we're serious about diplomacy. now. okay, ben, appreciate your view. so not that was been the notes from the great same website. thank you for coming on. thank you. ok with that still more than about say, the potential for pace talk sir, which could happen later today because rushes delegation does say, will stay in boundaries for sci fi negotiations despite the deadline. previous

deadline for talks, expiring, that software information did come in at the last moment that ukraine had agreed to attend negotiations with no pre conditions. and that delegation is now on the way reporting from the batteries capital. his constantine brush, cough as of now it seems that it's really not going to happen. i mean, the head of the russian delegation here in valerie library. millions keith said earlier that they were actually about to leave. but then all of a sudden they received a message saying that the training side is ready to negotiate and ready to come to bella rues. he also said that the russian side is now headed to the bell, russian sea of gumble at the bellows, ukraine border. it's a 3 hour drive from where we now and 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 ukrainian side to pass through safely. they wouldn't, we are waiting here. so the ukranian delegation is speech. and while it's hard to tell what exactly caused this turn from the craning side earlier, ukrainian president latimer zelinski told that he, even though he wants to have peace talks, he doesn't want to have them. in valerie, he suggested other european capitals like warsaw protest lava booted past, as well as eastern bull and turkey. and bach, who in here by john. but now he, he actually phoned to the president of valerie alexander lucas, shall go. and he confirm that the training delegation wants to have engage in keys talks invalid bruce, and that the training delegation had advice deputy foreign minister of ukraine is on its way to the city of gamble. now now let's have a listen to what mr. zalinski told him. and we agreed that the

ukrainian delegation would meet with the russian delegation without pre conditions on the ukraine. bella luce border near the primitive river. alexander lou caching co has taken responsibility for ensuring that all airplanes helicopters and missiles stationed on better russian territory remain grounded during the ukraine delegations, travel and talks. the russian delegation invalid includes a deputy foreign minister deputy minister of defense head 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 feel safe and you know, ready to engage in, in dialogue there. 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 zelinski 1st 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 present mitre passcode, he said that even when these new go, these negotiations in belarus are going to happen. it doesn't mean that the 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. okay, well let's have a look at developments then on the ground in ukraine on day 4 of this conflict with report advance is by russian troops and don bass forces against c, ukrainian army in various paul of the country. eye witnesses film, this footage, which say, which they say does show russian forces entering ukraine. second city hawk of something also claimed by its mer. he added that russian troops are already in the city center. meanwhile, fighting its being reported in the suburbs of kiev, some buildings have caught fire amid the clashes their local mat. in the video address said the ukranian forces had repelled russian attacks. and overnight, unverified video did appear from kiev, apparently showing crossfire just kilometer from the heart of the capitol, close to the infrastructure, ministry building, and then 25 kilometers from the capitol. the reported explosion did cause

a large fire at an oil depth. we have been verified video showing the place with claims of smoke blowing into the sky. and there we are now also in the suburbs of here rushes defense ministry says the ukrainian army has used ammunition filled with phosphorus as well as rockets. this is postage of a, of an old epo that was on fire. ukraine has not yet commented on those allegations and we will bring you their response. as soon as we get resilience with rena, ukrainian units are desperate to stop the russian army and begun the mass use of ammunition filled with phosphorus in the suburbs of kiev and near the guster mill airfield. they have used 122 millimeter howitzer, shells and rockets for grad installations from soviet times. the use of these munitions is prohibited by the 3rd protocol of the 1980 united nations convention uncertain conventional weapons reports. now on this map marked in red and blue,

it does show the 2 dumbass republics. according to the board is recently recognised by russia. the russian defense ministry has a nines that began militia forces have retaken tear it free from the ukrainian army . 52 kilometers beyond the previous front line, while dan yeske forces have advanced by 12 kilometers. meanwhile, ukraine, the military units, and i said to be retreating from the board as yet scanned the guns and low to the authorities. and both republics claiming that several times were targeted in missile attack because there are much you are sure. meanwhile, a huge blaze is erupt into the fuel dep o 2 in the and against people's republic, local authority, say he training missile attack cause this blast with at least 200 tons of fuel catching fire. several people have been reported in june, although the exact numbers are so far unclear, with more on the situation in the dumbasses for a man cost of f. 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, 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 to that so 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 next, 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 are 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 not cooper. 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 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 the next, as a thousands and thousands of people. now have no access to water or electricity. now, over in logan's people's republic, an 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 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, 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, peoples or militias are moving deeper and deeper into the territory formerly controlled by ukraine. and both are 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 nest 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 nest 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 peoples to there will be peace and every one will sleep well closer corrosion the enemy has 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 here and anesco this says sunday as the fighting is moving further away a from from the city. some of the most fear. so fierce fighting is taking place in

the south of the republic, near the city of marie rouble, which is currently encircled by the neo nazi us 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 was out roman casa, they're reporting from east, and he cried now and yet, but in pull up the grey zone independent. you sight to tell us that washington's influence is a major factor in the situation in ukraine. it's been going on for 8 years. ukraine sovereignty was initially violated in 2014, when the united states supported openly a coup in ken installed the public government and then sparked off conflict in the country's ease. the suffering of the people of don bass to have experienced shelling and artillery fire at the hands of the ukrainian of anger on his regions

as russian mistaking them for the nails. and logan's republics war tone area is not far from here. that's here. thousands of iraqis have escaped here in the last 8 plein, to fighting the border crossings. just a couple of hour drive away. and we're now taking the same 3, but opposite direction. we now people have taken to summer fresh as big as cities to protest against the conflict. oh yeah. the hundreds took to the streets of central st. petersburg chancing no to war footage to show some protests has been taken into police fans. and there are reports to that. more than 300 people have been arrested in 30 c cities across russia. soon, the demonstrations are being held all around the world. watching our teachers coming to help us an evening more from us at the top of the

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