ah, ah, de 7 of russia's military operation in ukraine. moscow confirms it attack the television tower and key f rush also claimed to have taken control of the city of keratin. but the ukrainian side says the fighting is still on gump. and from the other side of the conflict, horrific destruction of homes in the aftermath of a battle in the dawn boss region where wounded residents have are fired, medical assistance the it's not very scary, but i'm afraid my room is near the basement and there is a whole great there, handy you politicians demand even harsher sanctions against russia. have to the block decides to ban rti and cut some russian banks out of the international transaction system. swift, however, there are voices in the block opposing the establishment approach to the ukraine

crisis. europe has direct ukrainian to these confrontation, it would be smarter to do so, so that ukraine could develop. it can not be anyone out. ah, hello and welcome to our to international special coverage of the war and ukraine. i'm your host donald quarter. now rushes military operation and ukraine has entered its 7th day with fair, heavy fighting and explosions reported in cities across the country. a russian delegation is meanwhile, heading to a meeting place for negotiations with ukrainian officials near the polish bell russian border. despite some report saying that the talks could be postponed, give says that it's ready for talks, but not for ultimatums and a date for the 2nd round is still unclear. russia's top diplomat, sir gay, laugh rob says moscow is ready for peace talks, but you crane is fall instructions by the us to postpone lab rove emphasized.

russia's position that there should not be offensive weapons on ukrainian soil and that russia will never allow key of to have nuclear weapons. he echoed us, president joe biden sentiment that the alternative to sanctions would be war and cautioned that a world war would involve nuclear weapons. there are reports of ongoing battles in ukraine's eastern heart of region with russian troops attempting to advance. and this footed cheer you can see a massive explosion that took place late on tuesday in the city of chicago, yet with plumes of smoke filling, the sky was reportedly seen near a ukrainian air force base. as of now, no information is available about per potential casualties. here's another video from the region in ukraine, 2nd largest city of park us. you can see flashes of calls quite in the 10th showing throughout the night. we heard a lot, a local woman hiding in a basement that there's 2 criminal court and it is all ready to see the day we are

here in the basement. we are read 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 review from the inside very strongly. this cannot be explained with words that russia's military has confirmed that are conducted a strike on a television tower in kiev. and it says that no residential buildings were damaged . it also has reported taking control of a regional center in the south of ukraine, but that has been denied by ukraine's defense ministry. it says that battles there are still going on ortiz maria. phenomenal has the details. brushes 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 every day needs. plus, he added that the armies of danielle and logan's 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 at alt will 1500 ukraine's military infrastructure objects have been damaged and that they'll continue striking military targets uniquely. and yes, mr. cornish shank of also confirm 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 journey 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 tackle and tv tower our as before, that called in a local residence and especially those leaving a near relay stations to emitted 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

a spreading. the un estimates that these whole crisis could force 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 as a lens key, 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 continued 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, she, 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 ukraine's president zelinski says that more than 6000 russian troops have been killed or wounded over the past week. moscow has denied that claim saying it has inflicted more casualties among the ukrainian military. meanwhile, zalinski says kiev need security guarantees from the west if it's, if it's not allowed to join nato. and in the grounds, people's republic, as well as the done yet people's republics, residents continue to endure intense battles between the ukrainian military and

local militia forces. this map you see now has been showing what's happening with the red dots highlighting the major cities where fighting is being reported. russia's defense ministry claims milligrams, people's militia, has advanced against the ukranian army by another 3 kilometers beyond monday's front line. as for danielle forces, they've reportedly advanced 16 kilometers beyond previous lines. now these are the latest images of a village that is claimed to have come under the control of the guns people's militia. with residents showing the aftermath of the fighting. you can see that homes and infrastructure have been destroyed. and this is footage that we're getting from the don boss region, amid a parents showing by the ukrainian army. a missile has destroyed cars and residential buildings in the capital city of the dynamics, people's republic, and the number of casualties is not yet known, but the city of done yet because the city of done yet has warned, there may be victims under the rebel as rescue operations continue this what it

shows and abandoned t 64 tank near the settlement of gas after ukrainian troops apparently left the vehicle with all its equipment and ammunition intact. showing amid the conflict has left homes destroyed and wounded people who required medical assistance. mother and her 2 children were hospitalized and done. yet the people's republic, after their home was struck quite intense, showing the doctor said that the kid for wounded by shattered glass coming out of a window. we spoke with the family at the holy but was not very scary, but i'm 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 the hallway where everything was still intact and call my mother. she arrived and started to evacuate us and called an ambulance . we learned in school what to do at home when there is a sharing going on the couldn't get into the basement. so we have in the hallway, i was sitting in the room when i heard sharing. i was glad it wasn't our house. and

then i got into a house last her felt into my eyes. i couldn't see anything above 3 in your way me, we're seeing an escalation of the war we were offered to evacuate. and moreover, there have been fake messages that the hospital was mine for continuing to provide assistance. we're not going to leave to anywhere, no matter what the stuff will fall, we're working normally, but we're ready for anything to happen at any minutes. was prepared older ways to evacuate children if there is a large attack. we've done this already in 20142015 world ready trained some employees to live in heavily shell area. stephen spend the night there in hospital . sometimes i allow that because the situation has been very dangerous. now we've received exclusive from what you be a resort in the don bus region on the see of as of it now appears completely destroyed with use as used as a base for ukraine's for right. as off battalion before being taken on monday by forces of the don units, the people's republic jim is now in

a disturbing you turn. facebook will now let users express praise for a neo nazi ukrainian military group previously band along with islamic st with the logic state and the ku klux klan. but meanwhile, facebook is banning r t and the e. u while promoting ukraine's far right as a 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 if 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 violence, committed by the extremist group. the battalion emerged as an anti russian militia and joined the ukrainian national guard in 2014. it is infamous for its neo nazi ideology and usage of associated symbols. the one has accused the hours of battalion of committing torture and rape,

and the u. s. has blocked military age to the group due to its nazi ideology. 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. we can show you the video because of its offensive content, but we requested a comment about it from facebook. and we will let you know if they reply in while we talk to independent journalists, benjamin norton, who sees in facebook's decision and obvious adherence to the us stance on the conflict. i wrote an article i my independent news website multiple reached up about the street of the national guard. the official verified twitter account of ukrainian national guard sharing a video of a neo nazi from a soft dipping bullets in pig 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 violated their content on, on promoting violence and hateful groups. but i run a cli meadow which owns instagram, says that it actually allows people that praise is the ultimate irony of this, is that the european union is attacking russia, claiming that russia authoritarian and it 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 r t. they're not russians. they are journalists who are doing journalistic work. amid the chaos and ukraine. right now there is an information vacuum about what's been happening and the positions of each side with conflicting reports about who's

responsible for which attacks. this footage is from tuesday morning from ukraine, 2nd largest city hark 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're waiting for comments from the kremlin, as well as the military about the situation. we did hear from military journalist and retired colonel victor barnett's who says ukrainian side is probably aware that the projectile came from their own forces. those from the usability 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 heads considering the density of construction in height is clear that ukraine in 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 the 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 has domestic problems mount in the united states. he says the u. s. has joined the e u, enclosing its aerospace to russian flights and specified that american forces will not 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 fries on her. 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 events decides to keep moving west in while you politicians have called on the block to impose even harsher sanctions against russia over the conflict and ukraine. the e u has already approved banning news outlets. archie and sputnik as well as excluding some russian banks from the swift international transaction system. block is also considering restrictions on oil and gas imports. ortiz, charlotte berinsky reports, will these restrictions directly impact artie international and also our sisters station r t fronts here in france? what it means is that our channels are no longer allowed to podcast. whether that

be on applications on a telephone via the internet, or even on television subscription services across the european union. those are 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 law 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 build 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 the 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 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 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 he 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 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 keep bowing and forth 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, emmy peas 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 the e u is showing that it has solidarity with ukraine. and it does see crane potentially in the future, being an e member. but i'm all you politicians share the blocks approach to the conflict and ukraine as a german. m p says it's nato. that's responsible for the crisis line. hang this paula. feel. it was a fatal mistake to tease ukraine with impossible promises. joining name to in the you, 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. mate and membership is a red line for russia. the russian federation will not allow. this has been talking about it for 20 years. we also heard from russia's permanent representative to the european union, he commented on moscow was complicated relations with the block as well as on restrictions imposed on our tea. while also mentioning that european sanctions are designed to push the russian government into making policy concessions.

if the aim of the sanctions is to influence rational state policy and the other views of the russian president. that is irrational because that aim will not be by these symbolic sanctions and trying to locate non existent assets of president in, in europe or elsewhere in the world is really just ridiculous. russia you relations have seen their ups and downs over the years. you can call me on the line, but what we witness today is certainly beyond any one comprehension, for perhaps the european union of one of prove its

relevance and the situation. financial war on my direct either can fish or if russia only to prove proceeds to certain countermeasures along their track, our team is so i would say beloved target for our western oh regulators and western governments is portrayed as a propaganda channel. ok though, 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 of oh,

b, like in behind r t. we also spoke to eager juergen, so board member of the russian union of industrialists and entrepreneurs, he told us that the global economy will surely feel the impact of the sanctions. would be my you to say that nothing happened. because for the 1st time in my history and he's still bilateral and multilateral relations, the essence of the central bank of a given country of frozen we have been measures to come through. and the technological stress test took place, both in the financial system of the russian federation and in other branches of our industry. but nevertheless, we have to sacrifice somewhat in the standards of living and that will be filled by the population. definitely the one that can enable it will feel the impact because

we are i would say 20 percent of the world energy and that definitely be already in london. the price of energy quadrupled and people are paying for the apartment for the electricity for the, for the heating system, 4 times more than then for the crisis. and i pull this up and to easily circumvent that is not possible at the moment for doing also. in other news, our tv app was removed from the apple 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. the app is to be removed from the app store globally, but does remain available in russia earlier social media giants, including youtube tech talk,

and meta announced that they would restrict access to russian media outlets r. t and spoof nick in the u. r. t. 's ox on a boy co says 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. 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, 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're 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 made or 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 and now used by the ukrainians. i mean, the, your 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 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, rushes foreign ministry is sad that behind this avalanche of fakes our 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, so that kind of information is blocked. meantime we have a huge operation to infiltrate russian airways to affect 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, ah, the russian government crumbles the under the pressure from it's, it's its own population that so that's actually being the goal of this cognitive warfare. thanks for sticking with us here on our to international. more updates on the war and ukraine are coming your way when our special coverage resumes in just

about 30 minutes. ah fresh, a special military operation and ukraine has changed the world in many ways. it is forcing the u. s. and its allies to rethink 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.

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