these measures, it kind of backtracked and recovered at least a little bit. and now it is, well, it's still the official rate. basically, it's not, it is, is not reaching is just below, just under a 100 rubles per dollar. on top of that, the bank of russia has high massively, the key rates. so now it's 20 percent and that's a, that's more than double compared to what it was. well, just yesterday. so that is done, of course, also to support to support the national currency. now of course, some russian, some big russian, you know, businessmen, they have criticize this because of course, with this with the key rates. so high money is so expensive. borrowing money is so expensive for the companies. well, but, well, the russian government says it has to be done, but again, unfortunately for the russian economy, the west is saying that, well, this could be that, that there's more where that came from. so they might impose more sanctions and they have this intention. i spoke to senior politics lecture at britain's birth university told me sanctions to work both ways,

especially for russian exports. i think these kind of, in the men or to me should be temporary because i notice that the negotiation for peace between russia and ukraine is in good progress. and actually the 2nd run often negotiation is being present, i think, to the european union, or like the u. k. in the us, they are more concerned about whether in our food brawn across to brought or are, or one sized fi saw a pro sanction against all russian benz. we'll get a backlash from, from the russians. and in terms of the, our furry rory, if and there would be a southern cut all for energy surprise from russia. because if you are cutting off all the transition on tre, with the russian bands, that means there's no way to tray the oil. and also the air natural gas from russia

. this is, i think that is the main concern, or i live near savannah is exactly a 32 minutes past the hour left. so across to new york, the russian ambassador, the you and speaking at the 11th emergency special session of the un general assembly, let's listen as usual. but i'd rather i'd rather come directly to you and a q and a given that we have a 3 o'clock meeting in the security council, please. thank you for that. thank you so much ambassador for doing this. ah, my question is the ambassador or do you feel is elated on the war stage today? and also have you seen the french there are for resolution in the security council on a crane? of course, in the situation they maintain situation and if yes sir, are you planning to support this? thank you so much. we don't feel isolated at least myself. and

there are a lot of countries that understand what would the ration position is and what that is doing. and why we have briefly it's in the text with french, drafted wasn't formally introduce, think it will be introduced today by the french ambassador. and then we will see where we will go from the, from the honda technical difficulties here. sorry, good. thank you. thanks for the briefing. i'm a bit of a follow on actually from for larry on ukraine from problem from valeria yukon. i, ukraine, president putin started this describing it as a special military operation in easton ukraine. it's now spread across most of ukraine. how would you describe what's happening on the ground now?

and the un michelle bachelor said it more than $100.00 civilians so far been killed . and yet you're saying the russian troops and not targeting civilians. how does that? how do you feel about defending the russian military when civil engineering killed? thank you for the russian person didn't say it was a special military operation or special military operation in one was it said, he said it was a special military operation. you great. ah, look, we have to do to, to understand what is happening. we have to go back into history and that doesn't start and didn't start in you. and in 20132014. the ukrainian conflict on the situation has a long history which dates back those those years. but when, when the there was a, there was a ante constitutional gwin,

keith, in 2014 and ukrainian or assorted to started to persecute those who, who were not. so would you allow me just a 2nd because i need to answer this call, please just received the information that the u. s. so, authorities of have undertaken, in other hostile to get action against the russian mission to the united states into the united nations are grossly violating their commitments on the host country agreement that they undertook no telling us that they are

there. announcing the 1212 people from the person of the, of the russian mission persona non grata and, and demanding that they will live by the semen so much for you. yes. you and diplomats, you are in the province. they just visited the russian mission and, and gave us give us a note. now prescribing us to, to, to do what. so what they demand, you know, that we were raising with the secretary general, the issue of the arbitrage with the host country, which she goes to violates commitments on the cross country agreement. so pipe has not been done, but i think it's right. i'm already, this is just taught news that the right to my at my attention right away, that's why i took the phone. sorry. wow. 12 diplomats? yes. sorry. hey, who are then who are the my thing is i don't know the names yet,

but the number is 12, and i'm sorry, i know none of you at least coming back. this is sad news and again another, another demonstration of growth disrespect or the cross country agreement to the, to their commitments, as i said, it within, within the framework or there. oh, the obligations on the boss on to you and chatter, the host cont, crane. all those years of their independence and resulted in and the constitutional coo and the war of ukrainian regime against its own people who protested and who were opposed to what they might done regime was trying to implement for 8 years. we've been moving, trying, unfortunately, lane to try to make it ukrainian authorities to comply with the means agreements. and we went out of the way to do so. but from day one after 2015, in particular,

the ukranian authorities opted to, to, to sabotage 1st. and then simply to deny and then to the, to cancel to abandon and to cancel their commitments under the min screams before that they were trying to navigate. so to say within means agreements trying to make them the way which here suited them. but then it became obvious, nothing works. and then in february, in january, february of 2022, when the, when the west started to be 5 ukrainian ukranian states with lethal, lethal weapons when ukrainian authorities amassed $120000.00 servicemen at the border at the border of the contact line with the bus and when they ob scaled the

their, their provocations, gisela don, bus shelling and killing people. again, we realized that that leads us nowhere. and that's why that's why person put in took the decision to recognize the next category, publics, and thought for them within the treaty that we concluded with the military assistance. and that's why we started this military operation. and one was in ukraine, which as i said today in the general assembly, that was not the was started whilst this is the end of what it was started, where you agree i, i think that i think that you all know that the, that we, many times we said that we were not planning military military operation

in, in don't boss unless, unless ukrainian of military you get an answer to the new grade in the military would, would, would directly threat those republics, which was the case. and we have the credible information that the military operation was plan, that was, that was a move that was inevitable new services. thank you ma'am. answer for the briefing. it's pamela phone. from cbs news. there have been some reports out of the board meeting and bowers from the between russia and ukraine. what is it in your view that would bring peace to crane and withdrawal of russian for sets? what is that? and then a little follow up to valeri is question person our country after country or coming to the general assembly podium and and supporting ukraine, feeling their rushes,

the aggressor. what is your view of that is not isolation. thank you so much. ok. what will bring piece to grain? we clearly we clearly are set and that is demilitarization dennis, if a cation of ukraine, which creates a clear and immediate danger to us, but also within the context of geopolitical stability. because it's present been said that if not today, or to model one day in sergio 50 years, ukraine might and will perhaps become a member that will move for major to the russian border. and that will be an, an existential threat for us. and that is something that will not allow to happen. what will bring to what will, what will bring peace to great,

great ukraine analysis. i answer on the, on the talks that were held on the board of ukraine and below. so we're, we're finished at this stage, the result, oh, you all the details of that are not known to me. but i know that there was, there was a decision to continue those talks when a, when and where i do not know yet perhaps in the same place for different common ground. i don't know the, the, the, i don't know the details as i said, but i know that today present putting, spoke to person, my problem, he, he leased to those conditions that we, we demand from ukrainians, a well known as i said, the militarization intensification of ukraine commitment to its neutral status, not a genetic nato, and not to move the weapon store. but i did not answer one question that michelle

for post to me, which is about reports about 100 civilians. that there are a lot of reports today. and i said that there are a lot of fake news. there are a lot of fake factors that produce those news that we don't not have. we do not have credible reports on, on those civilian casualties. of course. what about, he's a bad thing and nothing anything can happen. but the goal is to, to consider those reports. credible a very difficult since we are, we are witnessing and we're encountering the massive propaganda company using using a fabrics factor is that produce those news to which we refer to in our recent statement . so on numerous occasions, so you just refer to this as war. this is now all there is a special military operation which, which, which is, which is commonly called,

i wouldn't call to war because because war means and out a still it is. but as you know, we announced it and we, we maintain that we're only targeting military objects and ukraine would not target any civilian civilian infrastructure. northern cities as the report. thank you. back to the sharon bryce, the south african broadcasting. can you talk about your relationship with the secretary general, right, we saw you in the, in the general assembly on wednesday, you had a very animated discussion. we couldn't read lips. we certainly saw the body language . there's been a lot of criticism and even argues that essentially all he's doing is defending the un charter that says states must settle davis needs to peaceful means, which is not. yes. so that's one issue. can you, what should the s t do in this instance? and in addition to that, the, this notion of the d not to be cation of ukraine. ukraine has a jewish president. so it just beggars belief that you are talking about not in the

removing not see that says in ukraine when the president himself is a jew i there was a criticism on my part on all part of the secretary general for the position he took on the crisis, i do not recall, as i said to him directly and out loud that he took similar positions in similar cases. and there were many folks senior take other examples. there were many were his position was much more subdued, but there was no body language. rest assured that was that was a criticism within the diplomatic diplomatic protocol, which i think i didn't overstep on the, on the, on the, on the fact that is in ski of jewish heritage. it doesn't matter because because real power in ukraine, real political weights belongs to,

to the radicals and yeah, and that's us who defy the president. who has they'll have their own agenda, who are all the whole the bully, new grain, in fact, and present soleski who came up with a landslide victory of 74 percent of the population. promising to end the war. the 1st thing on the list of his priorities, but then he was slowly making off this and he finished practically playing into the, into the hands of those radical and they are not so good news. asians, which claim that they represent the battery with the battery or to the part of the ukrainians. the site is she demonstrates that his weak that he has no political will and power in the circumstances. he found himself him to resist the reasons those articles who,

who are the main main political of the driving force in cotton. in the 2 days you are who you great, thank you very much mister ambassador. i'm a follow up on. i'm rushers calling it an existential threat. if i'm ukraine were to join nato. i'm russia is already a neighboring on nato countries. so why? why would i ukraine a coming another laid out country, make it more of an existential threat. that it already is in your eyes. and secondly, um there has been a lot of talk by european later leaders about how and

rushes invasion, aggression on ukraine is going to change the european security architecture. not just today, but for decades to come. i wonder if you could comment on your reaction to that. thank you. yes, we are neighboring the nato countries, and that was the result of cheating by our western partners. so who had to certain, at the time when the berlin wall collapsed, for the time of the remaining vacation of germany were telling us that they would not move beyond borders of the former judea and our naive

leadership. at that time, i got a much oh, and shot, another opted to believe them about it. now our western buttons are army emotionally denying that there was any of such sure of such sure. i wouldn't called in commitment. so pledges even promises a but documents revealed that tell us that that was the case. and again, the naive story of leadership both believed in it. so now we are wrapping, wrapping the fruit of this in a navy there and having indeed, to nato countries at our borders. and we know that, you know that, that, that i know that the meeting infrastructure is moving towards russian borders as we speak, that they are conducting exercises right on the board of the russian federation. we've been offering mater, need to come to an agreement to, to,

to, to move our troops even for the exercises at a certain distance, not to provoke each other. and that the appeal a pos has been a destination a long time ago to which it never reacted. i remember the last conversation between the lower oven stalled under key and new york. the we'll set the segment of the general assembly in 2021. when, when at repeated, repeated that reminders by level to soleberg in the bottom can about that issue was evading the question. he was simply evading the question, as nato did. all the countries did. so the presence of nathan infrastructure around our borders and in close proximity to it, of course it is, it is a threat to us, which is a geopolitical,

that's why we offer to the usa and made to, to engage in serious dialogue. con security guarantees that offer was made to an early as recently as thing october, november, this year we send our proposals in that regard which included non next non expansion of nato long placement or web weapons close to our borders and moving, made to back the world where it was in $1097.00, which would be a fair solution and would bring us to the state of the the security architecture which would, would be beneficial for all the participants. but received a reply, which basically denied all our ideas and that they got

a we were told that any country has the right to choose the allies freely. of course, meaning ukraine, 1st of all. but as we said, they're forgetting about other things. another thing which to which they committed in the always the assignments on the individual, individually, individually bill to your security which, which shows says that security or one or one country can not be reached at the expense of the security of the other. and that was a commitment not, not just, not just a paragraph for in the during statement or russian invasion to change european security architecture. i think nathan has changed european security architecture already back after 1997 when it started to expand to the east country to their promises. unfortunately, not commitments. good

usage of the might say thank you. i'm as it her camilla bergland reporting for norwegian media. the g, the war is costing more and more civilian life. today you have on here and there has been several explosions in here. what are you doing to prevent civilian casualties during your war on ukraine? i already said that i already said that the, the reports that the, that the credible may not be credible at all. we have regular briefings bought mr. minister of defense, which maintains that we are not targeting sweeter civilian objects in ukraine, nor the cities or such. so these are this reports about bombing of article for explorers, and keith could be verified that we were strongly doubtful,

given the number of fakes with spreading these days about the issue. as i told you, the explorers and give is not true because if the ryan explorers, these are in the service of suburbs of queue as far as i know. and they, they, they refer to the military infrastructure infrastructure that the russian, russian, or armed forces are target. we have, we have a porter's ongoing reporting that there are russian bombings in here. so give it, give, i, i do not, i don't have this information. we saw some footages of, oh, for new buildings, bodily destroyed. but it was, it was then, it was then now sad and confirmed by

our military. that was not our missiles, but either a plane of ukraine or wrong missile that wanted the building. we didn't want. and that is of give her, thank you so much about her. i'm cottage really knocked cheech apple tv as i hate. so i you say this is a military operation. not all sol wound. how do you and this operation, and is there a scenario where you would use nuclear weapons how the way and there duration i said what the president boynton said on it. as soon as we have an understanding from the granular shortages that they, they are prepared to demilitarized and to, and the, and that's if i, if i may use that kind of verb in english, or that that'll be

a step towards the end of it. on the use of nuclear, a war nuclear weapons. now god forbid it, but, but present putting ordered to put our nuclear force on high alert because we saw some, some disturbing the disturbing statements. so from made the leaders in that they got in relation to rush. so that is a kind of deterrence that we're accessing. thank you invested for this. we noticed that recently that kuwait supported the draft resolution condemning russia, lebanon, condemned russia. but the u. e. abstained on that very draft resolution, and the u. e is just taking up the presidency of the security council. what do you expect from you a and the arab countries regarding this or this

crisis and is actually going to respond to the to the latest step by the us, by expanding 12. diplomats. thank you for what we expect from the during the presidency. we expect that the we will uphold to the, the integrity or the office of the presidency and that will conducted in a small way. and according to the, we know that to a, has a strong diplomatic school and all that stuff and i'm sure that they will, they will do it hopefully with flying colors in the presence of circumstances, circumstances a what was the last question with how

is actually going to respond to that, well, i'm sure that the respond will follow because it's a diplomatic practice which which sure which provides for 44 that it's not our choice we didn't initiated to. and i think the answer will be given, but it's not for me to say, i have to apologize to we are. we are finishing up less confidence sorted as it was short short today. but the you, i think you will bear with me because of the circle and laughter these, these diplomat serving, expel diplomatic faces are coming to an end. so are these diplomat c, u. s. faces are coming to an end as well as in our database is running out and i have to leave anyway or look where we have. we have many diplomats in the mission who do not have these exceptions. they can stay in the u. s. and continue to her their job. what they can not do is to leave the they can leave the country,

but that's a, that's a 100 percent guarantee that they will not come back because they will not get to the abuse extensions. oh, who of those 12 have for you? the valid us viewers today and who are not. i have no idea because i didn't see the names. i would appreciate any further information you can share. yeah. okay. yeah. and that ended quite briefly. missing a benzo there fielding questions at the you and he's of course, the, a russian un representative, very busy time. it's been him lately. the 11th emergency session of the un general assembly that was brought in after russia earlier had vetoed a proposition put forward at the security council. just go over a bit of it for you 1st question. it was out to the feel isolated on the well stage . you said, no, russia didn't feel isolated in his view. a lot of countries understand the russian position. then the resist news that came in, i'm gonna talk to

a correspondent in the new york city shortly about this caleb, that the us authorities of undertaken what he said, a hostile actually took a telephone call in the middle of the media briefing, announcing that 12 russian diplomats are going to be declared persona non grata, kicked out again. we're going to go and talk to a correspondent about that. shortly. a few responds from him. when asked about.