ah, ah, as russia's military operation in ukraine enters its 7th day explosions have been reported at a cave tv tower, and in the heart of region, amid heavy fighting, the 2nd round of peace talked to schedule fortunate, terrific destruction of homes in the aftermath of a battle in the dumbass region where a village has come under the control of the la guns militia and the politicians demand, even harsher sanctions against russia. after the block, the fight to ban rti and cut some russian banks out of the international transaction system with

our broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow. this is our international . i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. 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 huck of region with russian troops attempting to advance there . now in this footage, you can see a massive explosion that happened late on tuesday in the city of to give in the huck 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 point. now, here is another video from the region and ukraine's 2nd largest city huck of the flashes revealing intense shelling during the night. we have heard from a local woman hiding in the base that isn't in the court and 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 ceases you from the inside very strongly. this cannot be explained with words. a to blasts have been reported near a television tower and chief with local authority saying 5 people were killed. now some ukrainian tv channels have stopped broadcasting in the area ortiz, mary phenomena reports. we started receiving and verified video's showing keys, tv tower, and black smoke coming out from the facilities around it, and there was one strike caught on the video. the reports were and verified that there were 2 strikes. and later we heard from the credit interior ministry that the control room of the broadcaster on the tv tower in the credit and capital has been heat. shortly after that we heard from the ukraine's culture minister that no one was heard, but lay to local authorities said that 5 people have been kill following the attack . and 5 more have been injured shortly after that several ukrainian channels

reported disruption in their broadcasting. they were also saying that they are trying to restore their work using back up ways. all that came shortly after rushes defense ministry warned that it is going to strike technological objects of ukraine . security cert, calling on all local residents, especially those live in nearby release stations. to emitter, to leave their houses. moscow said that it is going to do that in order to prevent information attack against russia. here's the official statement. information attacks on russia carried out 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 and the 72nd main center of information and 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 relay hubs to leave their homes. clearly it sparked immediate reaction and we started receiving many unverified videos from key, especially from the city's railway stations, showing people running a panic and fear. and there was a one footage, apparently from so called evacuation train organized apparently by the authorities . crowds packed train like people tried to get on, but like you can see that there is no space inside a since the beginning of its operation last thursday, most who has been stressing all the time. it is not going to target residential areas and it will do it's best to prevent innocent civilians from losing their lives, but of course lives. but of course people are panicking and people are afraid and people are trying to escape to leave the country. and of this city,

we hear that i'm following up. russia's defense ministry statement around 800000 people left using this is these evacuation trains are organized by the authorities and un say that around 4000000 people have already fled the country. that's 10 percent of ukraine's population. meanwhile, we expect the 2nd round of peace talks between russia and ukraine. later on, wednesday, i had of it to president zalinski, gave an interview to american media from he's bunker, saying that he is ready to make widen. we're putting, to remind you, the leaders of the to country, we're not physically taking part in the 1st a part of a peace negotiations. so blood mors, lensky, and admin potent were not on the ground. they didn't meet personally, but maybe this time it's gonna be different. but also vladimir zalinski said that

the rest, some conditions that russia should accept. he is war. he has to say 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. at the same time, the russian officials say mosca does not see that ukraine is anyhow, ready, and willing to find a balance solution to this crisis. let's wait and see what the piece talks. the 2nd round of p stokes will bring and in the guns can and done yet sca republics, residents are enduring, intense battles between the ukrainian army and local militia forces. if you take a look at this map and see what's been happening on the ground, the red dots highlighting the major cities were fighting is being reported. russia's defense ministry claims. the lugens people's militia has advanced against the ukrainian army by another 3 kilometers beyond monday's front line. as for don, yet 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 logan's militia forces. reportedly they claim, so with residents showing the aftermath of the fighting. and you can see that homes and infrastructure have been destroyed. and this is footage that we are getting in from the don bus region as well amid apparent showing by the ukrainian army. a missile has destroyed cars and residential buildings in the don. yet republics, capital city, the number of casualties is not yet known, but the city of dynamics, mayor was warning that there may be victims under the rebel as rescue operations. continue even more tragic footage coming in of an abandoned p. 64 tanks near the settlement of bogus after ukrainian troops, apparently left to the vehicle with all of his equipment and ammunition in tax. the guns people's militia has claimed to have liberated the town of shafter in an

offensive now as ukrainian forces left the area 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 landscape militia alleges that ukrainian forces unleashed most of the destruction during their retreat, locals have been sharing their feelings and their thoughts about the situation. whistles that we have been waiting for us saviors. they have helped us a lot. the korean army were monsters. 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 le ganske. i said i hadn't been there for a long time, and 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 ukraine shells are kindergartens, schools houses. what love can they be? thank god they get out of here. we should have happened a long time ago. how long were we supposed to bad is we have received exclusive

video from what needs to be resort dumbass on the see of as of it now, piers completely destroyed. it was used apparently as a base for ukraine's far right. as of battalion before being taken on monday by forces of the people's republic. and in a disturbing you turn, facebook will now let users express praise for the neo nazi ukrainian military group previously band along with islamic state and the ku klux klan. but meanwhile, facebook is banning r t in the e u while promoting ukraine's far right as of battalion and a bid to improve coverage of ukrainian forces. for the time being, we're making a narrow exception for praise of the as a battalion strictly in the context of defending ukraine or in their role as part of the ukraine national guard. now the policy tweak though, is still forbidding any praise of violence committed by the extremist group. the battalion emerged as an anti rush on militia and join the ukrainian national guard

in 2014. it is infamous for its neo nazi ideology and usage of associated symbols. the un has accused of the battalion of committing torture and rape, and the u. s. has blocked military aid to the group due to its not c. d ology. ukraine's army has tweeted a video showing a soldier from the neo nazi regiment dipping bullets and pig fat as part of a threat to kill russian muslims. we have requested a comment from facebook and we'll let you know if they reply. meanwhile, we spoke to independent journalists, benjamin norton, who sees facebook's decision, an obvious inherent to the u. s. stance on the conflict. i wrote an article in my independent news website, multiple arista about this tweet of the national guard. the official verified twitter account of the ukrainian national guard sharing a video of a neo nazi from a's off dipping bullets in big fat to kill chechen muslims from the

russian army. i wrote an article about this completely factual as a journalist, and then i posted a screenshot of that article and instagram and instagram censored it and said that it, it violated their content on, on promoting violence and hateful groups. but ironically, meadow which owns instagram says that it actually allows people that praise a's of the ultimate irony of this is that the european union is attacking russia, claiming that russia's authoritarian and that doesn't care about human rights and press freedom and freedom of speech. meanwhile, the european union, which claims to be democratic, is violating the freedom of speech of its own citizens is violating the freedom of expression and the freedom of press by preventing its own citizens from having access to journalism. not only done by russians, there are a lot of europeans, there are people in spain, people in germany, people in france and britain, who worked for archie, they're not russians. they are journalists who are doing journalistic work. amid

the chaos in ukraine right now, and there's a lot of it, there is an information vacuum about what has been happening and the positions of each side with conflicting reports about who is responsible for certain attacks. now we are trying to independently verify a lot of this, this footages from tuesday morning from ukraine's 2nd largest city hark up with 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 say there were no russian forces in the area from which the projectile had reportedly come. we are waiting for comments from the kremlin about the situation. we heard from military journalist and retired colonel victor barnett's who says the ukrainian side is probably aware that the projectile came from their own forces. keep in mind, this is his opinion, there's him,

the use of it. it's just, i got to talk to experts on the nature of the hardcore bluff. they say look like an artillery hit by a $152.00 millimeter guns, while explosive with enhance gunpowder 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 his considering the density of construction in height 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 provocative step by ukraine to play out an anti russian shows. they took the fact of the explosion and spread it across social media. blaming russia. however, the russian side claims that it is a priori impossible. 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 that the u. s. has joined the e u in closing, if aerospace, to rush and flights and specify the american forces won't participate in the

conflict with russia or 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, adding additional spruce on her. but let me be clear or force you not engage and will not engage in a client think with russian forces in ukraine. our forces not going to europe to fight ukraine, but to defend our nato allies. the events decides to keep moving west. meanwhile, you politicians have called on the block to impose even harsher sanctions against russia. over the conflict in ukraine, as the e. u has already approved banning news outlets like r t and splitting it as well as excluding some russian banks from the swift international transaction system. the block is also considering restrictions on oil

and gas in ports what he's trying. kaminsky reports will. these restrictions directly impact archie international and also our sister station on the front here in france. what it means is that our channels are no longer allowed to put costs with it that be on applications on a telephone via the internet, or even on television subscription services across the european union. 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 low wars, bruce international, audra,

democracy, human did awful, and i thought this is true of political terrorism, pure and simple. well, the ear is using a special sanctions regime to bypass the ordinary media licenses that apply. so to give you an example, artie france or sister station was given a renewed license to put cost in france just back in 2020 a. despite that under the sanctions regime that can be taken off immediately. now our t francis denounced the action, saying that this is simply censorship. 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 of

that 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 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 in a separate development today, european energy mean this is a going to meet to basically look at the use reliance on russian energy supply. so just to give you a sense, 40 percent of gas to use here in the u. 55 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 to 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 relied 4 to 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. they sales their transactions in the russian federation. and in another development, we know on tuesday that president landscape ukraine once again cool on the european

union to look at immediate ascension for his country to the block. as a result of that, m. p 's on tuesday voted to ask for your institution to start looking at how this could happen. now this is a known binding vote to doesn't mean that ukraine is about to join the european union. what he does 2nd also is that there is a re, it's as a result of this war to see ukraine being bought, inclusive to the western fold. not all you politicians share the blocks approach to the conflict in ukraine as a german m p says it is nato that is responsible for the crisis line high. hang this polar feeler. it was a fatal mistake to tease ukraine with impossible promises. joining name to the e u. europe has direct ukraine into these confrontation. it will be smarter to do so, so that ukraine could develop. it cannot be anyone's output. nate, a membership is a red line for russia. the russian federation will not allow. he has been talking

about it for 20 years. we heard from an international affairs expert about the prospects of ukraine, potentially becoming an you member. he says, cheer is still needing to provide further proof that its economy would be ready to join the european block. well, the decision has been made already big because of the rules of the european union itself. there's an exception process which requires candidates 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 your opinion is not

something which could happen quickly. it's probably not something which could have ever happen. a toll 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. and something we heard a lot, he mentioned a little bit earlier. our tv app was removed from apple app store after the u. s. tech company halted sales in russia. that's the mid claims that the news agencies content was upsetting to some users. now the app is to be removed from the app store globally, but remain available only in russia. earlier social media giants, including youtube, tick tock, and meta announced that they would restrict access to russian media outlets r t and split nick in the you are cheese on a boy co says that the network has been caught in the middle of

a massive information war launched by nato countries and their allies. we got a response from mega 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 pollutants, politicians, your estate 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 works and ada 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,

you're heard that warning by the russian defense ministry of the impending attack on the information in psychological center. and keep that center has been responsible for an avalanche of phone terrorism here in russia because of 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. they talk today, rushes foreign ministry of sad. the 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 and most course 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. some of the us politicians most associated with american invasions abroad, have suddenly changed tack now passionately pushing for respecting national sovereignty and international law. notably hillary clinton, secretary of state in the disastrous nato bombing of libya and connelly's arise

national security adviser for the invasion of iraq. well, and i have argued that when you invade a sovereign nation, that is a war. well, i think it is certainly against every principle of international law and international order. we have to provide sufficient military arguments for the ukraine. military and volunteers are t got reaction from former marine corps intelligence officer, scott ritter, who says that american politicians are using the conflict between russia and ukraine to score points in their campaigns for the upcoming election this year. but he warns such rhetoric can have drastic consequences. you know, hillary, clint right now is plain to a domestic political audience. this is, you know, the issue of russia and its military incursion into ukraine. is a hot political button right now. it's cheap. a political points. all american politicians are going to be running around saying bad things about russia and

talking about all the brave things they want to do. you know, but it doesn't solve anything. it certainly isn't going to further the cause of ukrainians. all it will do is cause more people to die. zalinski, the ukrainian president has made a very emotional appeal for special procedures to apply to ukraine so that these can be obviated. and his appeal resonated, i mean, people were in tears over over what he had to say and you know that the europeans are up in arms. ok. so there's a possibility that you could get the kind of unanimous consent on the part of european union to allow ukraine to enter. but i think once people leave the immediacy of the moment to wipe away the tears from their eyes and think, they'll realize that that is probably the most irresponsible and dangerous move they could take to invite your crane in as

a european union member is to create the conditions for further armed conflict between europe and russia over ukraine. of course, this is a volatile and fluid situation. our news team is trying to get the best information that we can is affecting many lives. will bring you more coverage at the top of the r does our international. ah so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is offensive,

very dramatic development. only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult time, time to sit down and talk ah, [000:00:00;00] a with time action or tanzania watching going undergrad as nations around the world continue to react and punish russia over its invasion of ukraine in violation of the un charter, but if the un secretary general was convinced that moscow had violated

international law, why, when joe biden arguably watered down the condemnation of russia for so called chapter 6, violation seeking peace, did not just china and the u. e, with the world so called biggest democracy, india failed to support washington. joining me now has ameritas professor of strategic studies and new delhi center policy research, rama celine. thank you so much for joining me for coming on. what have you made for putins? violation of the you had charge and why have you said india will not be able to escape the largest or the larger strategic ramifications of the ukraine war 1st, what's happening is a watershed moment in international relations. this market segment of a new law whose ramifications will extend to every corner of the world, the russian invasion of ukraine and the sanction center reprisals of deal with him . it's eyes are compounding the national crisis because the politics was

already quite lucky in for the russian emission. but things have come tragic and all the time since a nation began. and the cutting prices have the making of a growing out and dangerous confrontation between russia and the west, particularly nato. and as we all know, the crisis is already affecting the global economy. with high energy prices and supply chain destructions said to fuel inflation then slower nomic growth and india cannot skip these medications. and of course the, the larger issue is that the rest of this snapping is supposed war ties with moscow despite the risk of meeting strategic instability globally. in fact,