[000:00:00;00] ah ah, as it rushes military operation in ukraine enters its 7 day explosions, have been reported at a key of tv tower and in the heart of region amid heavy fighting. the 2nd round of p talks is scheduled for today or if it could destruction of homes in the aftermath of a battle in the dumbass region where he village has come under the control of that little guns militia. and you politicians demand even harsher sanctions against russia. after the block decides to ban rti and cut some russian banks out of the international transaction system,

swift ah broadcasting more direct from our studios in moscow. this is our to international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. are now russia's military operation and ukraine has entered its 7th day with heavy fighting and explosions reported in several cities around the country. there is an ongoing battle reported in ukraine's eastern harko region with russian troops attempting to advance. in the footage, you can see a massive explosion that happened late on tuesday in the city of chicago eve in the kirk of region. with plumes of smoke filling the sky, it was reportedly observed near a ukrainian air force base. and there is no information about possible casualties. at this moment, time taking will get more video from the area, the ukraine's 2nd largest city hockey flashes revealing intense,

showing during the night if one of the situation on the ground, we can cross life to ortiz, mary. if a notion of reporting from the guns can republic, marcia, how are things unfolding in ukraine and what information do we have right now? had me 1st talk about what happened in key if earlier yesterday we started receiving and verified videos, showing keith tv tower, and black smoke coming out from the facilities around it. and there was ones try caught on the video also heating the, the area near the tower. and there were a reports, unverified reports that they were 2 strikes. and later we heard from several ukrainian channels are that a they are broadcasting was disrupted, and they are look ways to restore their work using back up ways. and later we heard from the ukranian interior ministry that they confirmed that the control room

of the broadcaster on the tv tower of the credit capital has been a heat our we hurried from a culture minister of ukraine shortly after that that no one was hurt, but the ra reports from a local emergency ministry that to 5 people have been killed and 5 more have been injured. and that all came shortly after russia's defense ministry warned that it is going to strike technological objects of ukraine security services. a calling on all local residents, especially those leaving nearby release stations to immediately leave their homes and all that they are. we're going to do in order to prevent information attack against russia. here is the official statement information attack so much a carried up by the 72nd main sensor of information and psychological operations of the ukrainian armed forces,

as well as bus. so bo parishioner units of the security service of ukraine using hardware and software systems and communication facilities in key if in order to suppress information attacks against russia, the technological facilities of the ukrainian security service on the 72nd main center of information of psychological operations. and key of will be hit with high precision weapons. we colon ukrainian citizens who are recruited by ukranian nationalists to carry out provocations against russia as well as residents of ki, of living near the really hubs to leave their homes. it sparked and made it reaction of chorus and we receive and verified videos, showing people are packed in evacuation train people trying to get on those train and running with bags. we know bags in panic and fear since the beginning of its operation. last thursday. moscow has been stressing all the time. it is not going to target residential areas and it will do it's best to prevent ordinary

civilians, innocent civilians from losing their lives. but still people in a kia are a panicking, of course, and we have different numbers about how many people left. but about just yesterday we hear that around 800000 people have escaped and un said that are from the beginning of this crisis around 4000000 people have already left ukraine. that's 10 percent of the country's population. meanwhile, we all expect the 2nd round of peace talks between russia and ukraine. later on, wednesday had of it. a president zalinski spoke from his bunker to american media, saying that he is right now ready to may to latimer poaching. to remind you, the excuse me to remind you the

leaders of the 2 countries were not physically participating in peace negotiations held earlier. they were not on the ground, they were not at the table and maybe this time will be different. but mr. zalinski talked also about conditions that russia should accept in order to find a solution. let's take a listen. you have to speak. first of all, everybody has to stop fighting. and to go back to that point from where it began. 56 days ago. moscow is the same time, says that it does not see you to be ready to be willing to find a balance solution to this crisis. but of course, everybody's waiting for the 2nd round of piece talks to star, and then everybody's hoping you can pave the way to peace. well, wait to hear back to you or marshall finish up there for us in the area in ukraine

. thanks for us for being with us on our international. now. if you look at this footage coming in from tuesday morning, ukraine's 2nd largest city hark of you can see plumes of smoke rising into the sky from a massive explosion reportedly caused by a projectile that landed in the city center near the regional administration. building local authorities have blamed russia, but media reports said there were no russian forces in the area from which the projectile had reportedly come. and of course, we are waiting for comments from the kremlin about the situation referred from a local woman hiding in a basement. and her thoughts accordingly says it is already the 5th day. we are here in the basement. we are worried very much, and it is very scary. we have small children, elderly people, and frankly speaking, it is very frightening. it is a nightmare. and it's due from the inside very strongly. this cannot be explained with words. alright, we heard from military journalist and retired to colonel victor barnett's who says

the cranium side is probably aware that the projectile came from their own forces. though simply because use very just i got to talk to experts on the nature of the heart of bluff. they say look like an artillery hit by a $152.00 millimeter gun, highly explosive with enhanced gunpowder the charges considering the position of russian and ukrainian troops, everybody, even the ukrainians, came to the conclusion that the administration building had been hit from the ukrainian side it's interesting to know how precisely the building with head considering the density of construction in high government is clear that ukrainian intelligence worked on it. the strike might be part of the ukrainian operation. the reasons for that are obvious. it was a provoke to step by ukraine to play out the anti russian show. they took the fact of the explosion and spread across social media, blaming russia. however, the russian side claims that it is a priori, impossible. and in the lugens and done yet, the republics residents are enduring,

intense battles between the ukrainian army and local militia forces. if you take a look at this map and what's been happening with the red dots highlighting the major cities where fighting is being reported, russia, the defense ministry claims that the lucas people's militia has advanced against the ukrainian army by another 3 kilometers beyond monday's front line. as for dynamic forces, they have reportedly advanced 16 kilometers beyond previous front lines. and these are the latest images of a village that has come under the control of the ganske militia forces, reportedly with residents showing the aftermath of the fighting. now you can see that the homes and infrastructure have been destroyed and even more footage were getting from the don bus region, amid apparent showing by the ukrainian army, a missile has apparently destroyed cars and residential buildings in the dummy republics. upon epidermis city the capital there, the number of casualties is not yet known,

but dynamics major has warned that there may be victims under the rebel as rescue operations continue. and even more footage shows it abandoned t 64 tank near the settlement of gus, after ukrainian troops apparently left the vehicle with all its equipment and ammunition intact. alright, the lugens people's militia has claimed to have liberated the town of shuster, in and offensive as ukrainian forces left the town on monday morning. the battle had been ongoing for almost 4 days. residence had to take shelter in basements during the fighting, while infrastructure was severely damaged, the loo, ganske militia, alleges that ukrainian forces unleashed most of the destruction during their retreat. locals have been sharing their feelings about the situation that we have been waiting for the saviors. they have helped us a lot. the korean army were months that they wanted us to die. they wanted to shoot me in my legs. i was sitting on

a bench and they approached me and told me that they'd seen me in la ganske. i said i hadn't been there for a long time. then they threatened to shoot my legs. i was crying when i saw people . thank you for coming. when you moved to super, it is really scary going through these all. we're glad that it's over. well, low concern we know who was showing where when you crane shells are kindergartens, schools houses. what love can there be? thank god they got out of here we should have happened a long time ago. how long were we supposed to bad is joe biden has given his 1st state of the union speech, choosing to focus on the ukraine conflict as domestic problems mount in the u. s. he said the u. s. has joined the you enclosing his aerospace to russian flights and specified that american forces won't participate in the conflict with russia are inflicting pain on russia and supporting the people of ukraine. prudent is now isolated from world more than he has ever been announcing that we will join our

allies in closing off american aerospace to all russian flesh. her. i say it is her free. but let me be clear. our forces you are not engaged and will not engage in conflict with russian forces in ukraine. our forces not going to europe to fight ukraine, but to defend our nato allies. the advantage decides to keep moving west. meanwhile, you politicians have called on the block to impose even harsher sanctions against russia over the conflict and ukraine, as the e. u has already approved banning news outlets. r. t and sputnik, as well as excluding some russian banks from the swift international transaction system. and is also an restrictions on oil and gas imports as well. we can cross the live now to archie correspondence to pinsky in paris. charlotte tells more about the restrictions in place and what is being discussed by you leaders. well,

these restrictions directly impact archie international and also our sister station or t, france here in france. what it means is that our channels are no longer allowed food costs with that be on applications on a telephone via the internet, or even on television subscription services across the european union. and those new sanctions that have come into force on wednesday. no, it comes as the e says it has to stand in solidarity with ukraine as this war plays out. i am well aware that the sanctions will come at a cost far economy too. but i believe the people of europe understand very well that we must stand up against this cruel aggression. it's not only you true that to the touch, international law wars, bruce, international order,

democracy, human did are awful. and i thought this is true, political terrorism. you and symbol well, the ear is using a special sanctions regime to bypass the ordinary media licenses that apply. so to give you an example, arty france or says the station was given a renewed license to broadcast in france, just back in 2020 a bit. despite that, under the sanctions regime that can be taken off immediately. now artie frances denounced the action as saying that this is simply censorship at a on a basis with no legal basis for doing that. in early this week, we heard from the director of artie france, who said that there was nothing that justified what was happening. the decision to banner channel, which currently has $176.00 employees,

including more than $100.00 journalists, is a violation of the rule of law and goes against the very principles of freedom of speech. nothing can justify their censorship. now there has been criticism over decision not just by one union of journalists, but also by the president of serbia. of course, serbia is not an u country, but the president is saying, this is what he said when they talk about freedoms. what they mean really in terms of freedom of the press, is the only freedom that they're thinking of is the freedom for themselves. now archie, u. k, which is another sister channel, isn't impacted by the sanctions in the u. as a result of briggs. however, it has emerged at sky tv, which is the host platform for the channel in the u. k. says it will be removed within 24 hours. that is, despite the fact that it is not going to wait for the media regulator in the u. k.

this is off come to carry out the current investigations that are underway into the channel. now the u. k. foreign secretary has also warned about the repercussions of banding ought fi from broadcasting, not just in the u. k, but essentially across the european union. she says that they would be tit for tat reactions in russia, and that could seep would cost us, such as the b, b, c being banned from broadcasting in russia. and that would deny the russian citizens the option of alternative media with a different narrative of what's happening now in a separate development. today, european energy ministers are going to meet to basically look at the usual reliance on russian energy supply. so just to give you a sense, 40 percent of gas used here in the you 35 percent of crude oil, more than 40 percent of coal supplies all come from russia. and the e. u is desperate to win itself off those supplies. as a result of not just the sanctions,

but the fear that they say that russia could potentially turn off the gas supplies between europe. we've also heard from germany that says it regrets it's heavy reliance in the past on russian energy. as for germany, we have to admit that in the past we rely far too one sided lee on energy imports from russia. germany is more dependent than other european countries in this regard . this means there is an obligation to get rid of this quickly. now other sanctions coming to bite on wednesday include the fact that certain russian banks are going to be excluded from the swift messenger service. all of the sanctions, the idea from the european union and the u. k. is to have a heavy financial and economic burden on the russian economy. we do also know that there has been further help for that via companies from the united states, such as apple, nike,

boeing and food was said that they have now suspended their sales, their transactions in the russian federation. and in another development, we know on tuesday that president landscape, ukraine once again cools on the european union to look at immediate ascension for his country to the block. as a result of thought, m p's on tuesday, routed to ask for you institutions to start looking at how this could happen. no, this is a non binding vote to doesn't mean that ukraine is about to join your opinion. what it does 2nd also is that there is a re, it's so i as a result of this war to see ukraine being bought in closer to the western fold. or it actually shows you've been steve there for us in paris as the situation develops . we know you'll stay on top of that for things right now. not all you politicians share the blocks approach to the conflict in ukraine as a german and piece, as it's nato, that is responsible for the crisis. as mine, i hang this call up, it was

a fatal mistake to tease ukraine with impossible promises of joining nato and the e. u to europe has dragged ukraine into this confrontation. it would be smarter to do so, so that ukraine could develop. it cannot be any one's outpost nato membership is a red line for russia. the russian federation will not allow this. it has been talking about it for 20 years. my tells and we heard from an international affairs expert about the prospects of ukraine, potentially becoming. and you remember, he says kia will needed to provide further proof, its economy would be ready to join the european block where the decision has been made already big because of the rules of the european union itself. there's an accession process which requires candidate states to go through economic restructuring so that they can pull them to a u ideals. and the ukraine has had several years, many years,

actually to prepare for this if it really wish to do so. but it is done nothing to harmonize its economic situation, its rules and regulations and its corruption in particular. so that ukraine could be a candidate, a viable candidate to be your opinion. so really candidacy in the european union is not something which could happen quickly. it's probably not saying which could have ever happened. a tool given ukraine's reluctance to conform to western standards. and in any event, it's looking to be a member of a union which is of declining a relevance, declining strategic importance and declining viability. russian foreign ministry spokeswoman maria, the heart of a has said that cyber attacks on russian embassies have become more frequent in recent days. she emphasized that these attacks can also affect citizens of other countries as well. now, should be less than the courts or the needle,

and they are embassy or under unprecedented cyber attack. this has been done for many years and we have tried to, to our attention to it through the appropriate channels. we have raised this issue and international platforms. the, the threats that did not appear a week ago, and this has been going on for many years, were see threats by phone. now work is largely blocked. but we also need to understand that by blocking our embassies our permanent mission, they cause damage to civilians who need help. they shouldn't stand said by deploying such an information attack with elements of a cyber attack. they're also hitting citizens of their own countries. ortiz app was removed from apple's app store after the u. s. tech company halted, fails in russia. that is amid claims that the news agencies content was upsetting to. some users of the app is to be removed from the app store globally, but remains available in russia still not earlier. social media giants, including youtube, tick tock,

and meta announced that they would restrict access to russian media outlets. r t and splitting it in the you are, are kind of boy co says the network has been caught in the middle of a massive information war, launched by nato countries and their allies. we've got a response from meta on the issue. you are not independent media, you are a state agency of the russian government under the jurisdiction of putin responsible for war crimes. you do not publish independent reports about the statements of putin. politicians. you are a state integrated power propaganda tool that is published in the west with the intention of broadcasting the will of the putting government in our country. you are permanently opposed to the foundations of the german press code. you can't have any claims against us. we are part right in the middle of a major information of war, and i have to tell you that mater analyst and people who work for native for a number of years now have been talking about the so called cognitive warfare reach . they saw as an alternative to

a food kinetic warfare. many of the recommendations that they have been producing, i now use by the ukrainians. i mean, the, your heard that warning by the russian defense ministry of the impending attack on de information in psychological center and keep that center has been responsible for an avalanche of phone terrorism here in russia. because over the last couple of days we've been, there's been a huge wave of various alerts of various building social infrastructure, supposedly being bogged there. we are talking about shopping laws, kindergarten schools, etc. and it's not just a campaign of fakes, it's a very organized, it looks like case, but it's not. it's a, it's an organized deliberate information campaign. in fact, today, russia, foreign ministry is sad that behind the avalanche of bags are special forces of nato countries. there is a degree of censorship or against our channel, against our agencies,

which are actually producing verified information about what a police people here in moscow think about it that is being blog. so the access of european and american citizens, people are citizens of the world. actually to that kind of information is blocked. meantime, we have a huge operation to infiltrate the russian airways to affect the public opinion in this country through the use of various platforms, through the use of various media, which don't even bother to verify the information. there is a deliberate effort to make sure that the russian government crumbles the under the pressure from its, its, its own population. that's so that's actually being the goal of this cognitive warfare. more and more reports are appearing in the media and on social networks about russian citizens facing discrimination in western countries due to their nationality policy or takes

a look at one thing to blame the russian government for ordering movements in ukraine. but it's quite another to put the responsibility on the shoulders of ordinary russians who are now feeling discriminated against and isolated. not to mention being banished, russian, conductor valerie, get, give, has refused to condemn his own country. and he's paying the price with immediate effect. there will be no further concerts by the munich philharmonic orchestra under his direction. other countries of also refused to cooperate with dead give and for not playing the tune. his career is crumbling, internationally, fame, performer net, net trip car has also been banned from the bavarian opera. russian sport is also under attack. and football is, are no longer allowed to play fee for. and you, a for have to day decided together that all russian teams, whether national representative teams or club teams shall be suspended from

participation in both fee for. and you have competitions until further notice. and the olympic committee is following suit. the international olympic committee executive board strongly urges international sports federations and organizes of sports events worldwide to do everything in their power to ensure that no athletes or sports official from russia or bell roofs be allowed to take part under the name of russia or bella. luce, russian, or bell, russian nationals, theaters, individuals, or teams, should be accepted only as neutral athletes or neutral teams. no national symbols, colors, flags, or anthems should be displayed. and not to mention the eurovision song contest whose organizers say russia participation would bring the competition into disrepute. it's certainly flies in the face of the european union in sustain that it's not targeting ordinary people. i want to stay where we are not targeting russia people. many of them focus against the

senseless war and i want to salute the courage. meanwhile, ordinary citizens are being discriminated against just for being russian. i'm not ashamed to say i'm russian, but i'm a bit afraid i'm worried society will have this perception that all russians are bad. and they were many cases of people being put to shame. but also split was only one way to counter this barrage of bruce's phobia. by drawing attention to the double standards that are employed in the west when doing russia. this is currently the only way to release cooled or collective sentiment in regard to russian citizens. in my opinion, the term double standards is widely used. now we see how they're applied in math when russian speaking ukrainians were discriminated against ukraine when the main right the right to life russians. and the don bass was violated. nobody paid attention to that. they thought it had nothing to do with human rights, and that it was a domestic affair with an ukraine. this reaction has led to what ukraine has been doing for a long time. today. they've forgotten what's been happening in the dumbass for over

7 years. they forgotten what's been happening in ukraine lately. now they just talk about russians as the main violators of human rights. this issue requires attention in terms of our athletes. i hope those are just emotional steps that international organizations are taking. i hope that soon people will realize that athletes have nothing to do with politics and with the current situation, i hope the international organizations will considerately, in regard to our athletes. appointment and powerful african proverb says that when elephant fight, it's the grass that suffers. it's one thing that the you and western countries are pushing back on moscow, but it's not clear why they choose to punish ordinary people. and what that can achieve or that does it for me this hour, i will be back in $31.00 and a half minutes with another full infest. look at your news, stay with us. are to international ah,

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