ah, ah ah, as it rushes military operation in ukraine continues for its 7th day. moscow confirms it attacked a television tower and kia russia also claimed to have taken control of the city of pearson. but the ukrainian side says the fighting is still ongoing. with the other side of the conflict, or effect destruction and homes, in the aftermath of a battle in the dumbass region where wounded residents have required medical assistance. and like, not very scary, but i'm afraid my room is near amazement and there is a whole right there. and you politicians demand even harsher sanctions against russia after the block decides to ban r t and cut some russian banks out of the international transaction system. swift,

but there are voices in the block opposing establishment approach to the ukraine crisis. europe has direct ukraine into these confrontations. it will be smarter to do so, so that ukraine could develop. it cannot be anyone out ah, broadcasting live direct my studios in moscow. this is our t international. glad to have you with us as we try and put our minds around what's happening in ukraine right now in the conflict. now, russia's military operation in ukraine has entered its 7th day with heavy fighting and explosions reported in several cities around the country. a russian delegation is meanwhile, heading to a meeting place for negotiations with ukrainian officials near the polish bella russian border. despite some report saying, the talks could be respond. now there is an ongoing battle reported in ukraine's

eastern hark of region with russian troops attempting to advance in this footage. and we have to warn you that these are images of war so they can be disturbing. you can see a massive explosion that happened to late on tuesday. the city of true, we're in the heart of region with plumes of smoke filling. the sky was reportedly observing near a ukrainian air force base. there is no information about possible casualties. here's another video from the region in ukraine's 2nd largest city. hark of the flashes revealing intense shelling during the night. we heard from local woman hiding in the basement, her thoughts on the accord 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's the view from the inside very strongly. this cannot be explained with words. at that, russia's military has confirmed that it conducted a strike on

a television tower in camp and said no residential buildings were damaged. it has also reported taking control of a regional center in the south of ukraine, but that has been denied by ukraine's defense ministry, saying the battle is still ongoing. ortiz, my phenomena has details for us. wishes defense ministry spokesperson, major general griffin. a shank of said that his son, a big city on the black sea in the south, original capital, is now under total control of the russian forces. he also added that the civilian infrastructure hasn't been effected anyhow, hasn't been damaged and that the negotiations are currently on to go in with the local authorities on how to organize further cooperation in order to prevent any bad things happen on the ground with local residents to provide security and to meet their everyday needs. plus, he added that the armies of danielle and logan's, the republics advanced, 60 and 75 kilometers. accordingly,

since the beginning of the special military operation here with several towns and villages taken now under the control. and he also said that it was 1500 ukraine's military infrastructure objects have been damaged and that they'll continue striking military targets uniquely. and yes, mr. coroner shank of also confirmed that russia is behind, keeps tv tower. i tag hate said that it was done to prevent information attack against russia. let's take a listen. so that was a journal removable in order to end information attacks against russia, technological facilities of the ukrainian security service and the 72nd main center for psychological operations were hit by high precision weapons. and key of the broadcasting of a television tower has been disabled. the strike did not destroy residential buildings versus defense ministry war and about they said tak on tv tower, our as before, that call in a local residency,

especially those living near release stations to emitter, to leave their homes. and of course, clearly it's parked a panic in the ukrainian capital, and we started receiving many videos, especially from the cities railway station showing people trying to get on an creation train organized apparently by this horse while it's already packed, and people riding with bags and the children and pads in a panic, although moscow has always been stressing it has no plans of occupying ukraine, and it is not going to targets residential areas, but it didn't prevent panic from the spreading. the un estimates that these whole crisis could forest around 4000000 people to flee ukraine. that's 10 percent of the country's population. and all that comes at the time when the world is waiting for the 2nd round of peace talks between ukraine and russia. president,

a zalinski as spoke to american media from his bunker, saying that he is ready to meet vladimir putin to remind you of the leaders of the 2 countries did not take physically part in the 1st round of negotiations, of leyden were put in and mr. zalinski did not meet there were not on the ground, there were no that the table maybe this time is going to be different. but mr. zalinski also said that the rock conditions that russia should accept to continue talking. 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. we also hear from russia that moscow does not see ukraine is ready and willing to find balance solution to this crisis. but of course, let's wait and see what the piece talks will ring. and the very latest is that we hear that it could possibly be delayed. and we can see the 2nd round only at the

end of this week. but we still have to verify this information, actually, all the information that's coming back to you ukraine's president zalinski says that more than 6000 russian soldiers have been killed over the past week. moscow has denied that claim and says that it has inflicted more deaths among the ukrainian armed forces. meanwhile, zalinski says ukraine needs security guarantees from the west if it isn't allowed to join nato and in the loo, ganske, and done. yet, republics, residents are enduring. intensive battles between the ukrainian army and local militia forces. if you take a look at the map and see what's happening on the grounds, you can see the red dots are highlighting the major cities were fighting is being reported. russia's defense ministry claims that the lu ganske people's militia, has advanced against the ukrainian army by another 3 kilometers beyond monday's front line. as for daniel forces, they have reportedly advanced 16 kilometers beyond the previous front months. now

some of these images you will see are disturbing. they are the latest images of a village claimed to have come under the control of lugens can militia forces with residents showing the aftermath of the fighting. and you can see that homes and infrastructure have been destroyed. and then the footage we are getting from the dawn bass region. i made a parents shelling by the ukranian army. a missile has destroyed cars and residential buildings in the dungeons. public's capital city. the number of casualties is not yet known, but the city of done yet 6 mayor has warned that there may be victims under the rebel as rescue operations continued. and even more footage from the area shows and abandoned t 64 tank near the settlement of bogus after ukrainian troops, apparently left the vehicle with all of its equipment and ammunition even intact. showing amid the conflict has left homes destroyed and wounded people who have required medical assistance. a mother and her 2 children were hospitalized in the

done yet to republic. after their home was struck by intense shelley. doctor said the kids were wounded by shattering glass coming out of a window. we spoke with a family, said the husband. well, it's not very scary, but i am afraid my room is near the basement and there is a hole right there. the stone wall was broken and the neighboring building could be seen through the hole, where ran into a hallway where everything was still intact and call my mother. she arrived and started to evacuate us and called an ambulance. we learned at school what to do at home when there is a sharing going on. we couldn't get into the basement, so we hit in the hallway. i was sitting in the room when i heard shelling, i was glad it wasn't in our house. and then i got into a house plaster felt into my eyes. i couldn't see anything. i was to renew a li. we're seeing an escalation of the war, what we were offered to evacuate. and moreover, there had been fake messages that the hospital was mine too. but we're continuing

to provide assistance, we're not going to leave to anywhere, no matter what other level does so far, where we can normally, but we are ready for anything to happen at any minutes. was prepared all the ways to evacuate the children if there is a large attack. we've done this already in 20142015 world ready trained. some employees to live in heavily shelled areas even spend the night there in hospital. sometimes i allow that because the situation has been very dangerous. we have received a exclusive video from what used to be a resort in the dumbass on the sea of as of it now appears completely destroyed. it was apparently and reportedly used as a base for ukraine's far right as off battalion before being taken on monday by forces of the diets, people's republic. i'm in a disturbing you turn. facebook will now let users express praise for a neo nazi ukrainian military group. previously banned along with his la mc state and the ku klux klan. but meanwhile, facebook is banning r t in the

e u while promoting ukraine so far, right as of battalion in 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 god. the policy tweak though, still forbids any praise of the violence committed by the extremist group. the battalion emerged as an anti russia militia and joined 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 eyes of battalion of committing torture and rape, and the u. s has blocked military aid to the group due to its nazi ideology. now ukraine's army has released a video showing a soldier from the neo nazi regiment, dipping bullets into pig fat during a threat to kill russian muslims. now we can't and won't show you the video because of its offensive content, but we have requested

a comment about it from facebook. and we'll let you know if they reply. meanwhile, we spoke to independent journalists, benjamin norton, who sees in facebook's decision and obvious adherence to the us stance on the complex. 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 of 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 work for archie. they're not russians. they are journalists who are doing journalistic work. amid the chaos in ukraine right now, and there is a lot of it, there is also an information vacuum about what is happening on the ground and the positions of each side with conflicting reports about who is responsible for certain attacks. now this footage is from tuesday morning from ukraine's 2nd largest city. huck of 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 that 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 with autism. we heard from a military journalist and retired colonel victor barnett's who comments and says that the ukrainian side is probably aware that the projectile came from their own forces. here is his opinion, though sham nebraska jewels though it is as i go to talk to expose on the nature of the hardcore blast, they say it looked like an artillery hit by a 152 millimeter gun, highly explosive, with enhanced, compel the charges considering the position of russian an ukranian 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 was hit, considering the density of construction in heidegger is clear that ukrainian intelligence worked on it. this 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 show. 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 at the united states has joined the you in closing its air space to russian flight and specified that american forces won't participate in the conflict with russia. are inflicting pain on russia and supporting the people of ukraine. prisoners now isolated from world more than he has ever been. i'm announcing that we will join our allies and closing off american aerospace to all russian flies. i did it. let me be clear for

49, engage and will not engage in a conflict with russian forces in ukraine. our forces are not going to europe to fight ukraine, but to defend our nato allies even to put decide 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 you has already approved banning news outlets. r. t on sputnik as well as excluding summit russian banks, the swift international transaction system. the block is also considering restrictions on oil and gas imports or to throw davinsky has more will these restrictions directly impact artie international and also our sister station? artie france here in france. what it means is that our channels are no longer allowed to broadcast whether 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. now 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 order, democracy, human did are 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 boot cost in france just back in 2020 a. despite that,

under this 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 journalist, is a violation of the rule of law and goes against the very principles of freedom of speech. nothing can justify this. censorship never 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 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 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 t 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 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 key, boeing and foot wall said that they have now suspended at their sales. their transactions in the russian federation and in another development, we know on tuesday that president zalinski ukraine once again called on the european union to look at immediate ascension for his country to the block. as a result of that, emmy peas on tuesday voted to ask for institutions to start looking at how this could happen. no, this is a non binding vote. it doesn't mean that ukraine is about to join the european union. what it does signal though, is that the e u is showing that it has solidarity with ukraine. and it does ukraine, potentially in the future? being an

e member. but not all you politicians share the blocks approach to the conflict in ukraine as a german and p says it is nato that is responsible for the crisis. as i hang the fall of taylor, it was a fatal mistake to tease ukraine with impossible promises. joining me to end, the e. u. europe has direct ukraine into these confrontation. it will be smarter to do so, so that ukraine could develop. it can not be anyone's output. mate, a membership is a red line for russia. the russian federation of will not allow this. he has been talking about it for 20 years. now we heard from vladimir cheese off, who is russians permanent representative to the european union commenting on moscow's complicated relations with the block as well as restrictions imposed on r t. he says that the use sanctions are designed to push the russian government into making policy concessions. you are the aim of the sanctions.

a is the influence r o ration state policy and the are the views of far the russian president. there is irrational because that a more will not be achieved by these symbolic sanctions and trying to locate non existent assets of president boulden in europe or elsewhere in the world. or is it just ridiculous? russia you relations have seen their ups and downs over the years on the line, but what we witness today is certainly beyond any comprehensive farm. perhaps the european union of one rule with relevance and the situation financial war on my

direct other countries. or if all russia, how to proceed to certain countermeasures along their track, our team is, i would say beloved target for our western oh regulators and western governments is portrayed as a propaganda channel. so i believe with beyond just the current crisis, i believe it's a case of unfair competition from those who find themselves lagging behind in terms of popularity. r o b legging behind r t r t is app was removed from apple's app store after the u. s. tech company

halted sales in russia. that's made claims that the news agencies content was upsetting to some users of the app is to be removed from the app store globally, but remain available only in russia. now, earlier social media giants including youtube, tick tock and meta announced that they would restrict access to russian media outlets. r. t and sputnik in the u. r. t is a kind of boy called comments and 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 meta on the issue because you are not independent media. you are a state agency of the russian government under the jurisdiction of person 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 nader analyst and people who work for native for a number of years now have been talking about the so called cognitive warfare, which they saw as an alternative to a food kinetic warfare. many of the recommendations that they have been producing and now used by the ukrainians. i mean, 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 avalon shelf, phone terrorism here in russia because of the last couple of days we've been there's been a huge wave of ferris had alerts of various building social infrastructure, supposedly being bogged there. we are talking about shopping all the 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 a fact the public opinion in this country are through the use of um, you know, various platforms through the use of various media which don't even bother to verify their information. there is

a deliberate effort to make sure that the russian government crumbles the under the pressure from its its own population that so that's actually being the goal of this cognitive warfare washing art international. more news at the top of the r c with ah ah, ah ah

brush and special military operation and ukraine has changed the world in many ways . it is forcing the u. s. and its allies to we think and reassess global security. we should not be surprised by this. after all, the post cold war era is over. what will replace it is still open to question for driven by dreamers shaped banks interest on those with

there's things we dare to ask. aah, ukraine. a big and rich country that's always been hand in hand with russia. until recently. 2014, a qu divides ukraine and leads to fratricidal war and on bus. a war that continues to visit with

on the edge of a large field near low ganske, the mass grave. local say that the people buried here are mostly civilians who are allegedly killed by ukrainian paramilitary groups in the summer of 2014 or does this, what with a mr. alcorda? what did of that? don't batista merely as it would be the when the british got. okay, what's the whole grain said things of us that inform you not to annasae? rocca leads a special committee for collecting evidence of the ukrainian government alleged walk, grimes against the people of la guns. when you go about doing is i'm really impressed . there are many burial sites like this and done bus. i'm here for 5 minutes and then i'm told the 1st 5 people they found it was 5 decapitated head.