ah ah, the ukrainian president's office confirms the 2nd round of talks with moscow is set to start on wednesday evening. he have ads, it's ready to negotiate, but not accept rational tomato de 7 of russia's military operation in ukraine. moscow confirms that attack the television tower and kiya rush also claims to have taken control of the southern city of kersin. twenties were out of reach and i didn't pick up their mobile phones according to our services sources in the bell, russian foreign ministry. but they finally confirmed, they will participate publicly though neither side has changed it. stanza keefe wants an immediate cease fire and a complete withdrawal of russian troops, including from the don bass region and crimea. moscow wants ukraine to assume

a neutral status without a line with the western powers, as well as recognized crimea as russian territory. antoniette scan, lugens gas independent republics grants. president latimer, zalinski has also claimed that he is ready to negotiate directly with a, with the vladimir putin. but the kremlin hasn't signals an interest in having talks at that level just yet. so it's anyone's guess whether the 2 sides could come out with anything after this session. russia's military operation and ukraine is in its 7th day with 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 poland bella roost border despite some report saying the talks could be postponed. he have says that it's ready for talks, but not for ultimatums. and that a date for the 2nd round is still unclear. russia's top diplomat does say, though, that moscow is also ready for peace talks,

but ukraine is following instructions by the us to postpone survey lab rove emphasized. russia's position that there should not be offensive weapons on ukrainian soil and that russia will never allow kiev to have nuclear weapons. he echoed us, president joe biden sentiment that the alternative to sanctions would be war and cautions that a world war would involve nuclear weapons. and there are also reports of ongoing battles in ukraine's eastern hark of region with russian troops attempting to advance. and this footage you can see right now you can see a massive explosion that took place late on tuesday with plumes of smoke filling the sky. it was reported, it was reportedly seen near a ukrainian air force base, as of now, no information is available about possible casualties. now here's another video from the region in ukraine's 2nd largest city of hock. up could see flashes caused by intense showing throughout the night. we heard from the local woman hiding in

the basement. there's 2 cords and it is all ready. 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. at that. russia's military has confirmed that had conducted a strike on a television tower and key of and it says that no residential buildings were damaged. it has also reported to taking control of a regional center in the south of ukraine, but that has been denied by ukraine's defense ministry, which also says that the battles are still ongoing. r t 's maria phenomena has the details on that. brushes, defense ministry spokesperson, major general griffin. a shenker 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 it was 1500 ukraine's military infrastructure objects have been damaged and that they'll continue striking military targets uniquely. and yes, mr. cornish. hank 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 the procedure is removable,

or 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 actuation train organized apparently by this warranties, 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 target residential areas, but it didn't prevent panic from a spreading. the un estimates that these whole crisis could for is around 4000000 people to flee ukraine. that's 10 percent of the country's population. ukraine's president vladimir zalinski says that more than 6000 russian soldiers have been killed or wounded over the past week. moscow has denied that claim and says it has inflicted casualties among the ukrainian military. meanwhile, zalinski says key of need security guarantees from the west if it's not allowed to join nato. and in the lugens and on yet people's republics, residents continue to endure intense battles between the ukrainian millet military and local militia forces. this is a map of what's been happening with the red dots highlighting the major cities were fighting is 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 the dynamic people's republic, they've reportedly advanced 16 kilometers beyond previous lines. these are the latest images of a village that is claims to have come under the control of the look on people's militia with residence showing the aftermath of the fighting. you could see their homes and infrastructure had been absolutely destroyed. and this is footage we're getting from the don bus region. i made a parent showing by the ukranian army missile has destroyed cars and residential buildings in the capital city of the done yet people's republic. the number of casualties is not yet known, but the city of done yet has warned that there may be victims still under the rubble as rescue operations continued. now you can see here an abandoned cheese, 64 tank near the settlement of who goth 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 have

required medical assistance. a mother and her 2 children were hospitalized and done yet the people's republic, after their home was struck by intense shelling. the doctor said the kids were wounded by shattered glass coming from a window. we spoke with that family at the moment, but 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 the gooden get into the basement. so we heat 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 blast her felt into my eyes. i couldn't see anything above 3 in the away li, we're seeing an escalation of the war we were offered to evacuate. and moreover,

there had been fake messages that the hospital was mind way, but we're continuing to provide assistance. we're not going to leave to anywhere, no matter what the forecast level does so far, where we can normally. but we are ready for anything to happen at any minute with prepared older ways to evacuate the children. if there is a large attack. we've done this already in 20142015 world ready trained. some employees who live in heavily shelled areas even spend the night there in hospital . sometimes i allow that because the situation has been very dangerous. and we've also received exclusive footage from what used to be a resort in the don boss region to go to see of as of it now appears completely destroyed. it was used as a base for ukraine so far, right as a battalion before being taken on monday by forces of the dynamics, people's republic. 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 ortiz, policy clear,

explains it's 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. gone now feeling discriminated against and isolated, not to mention being banished. russian, conductor valerie dead, 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 have 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 bel ruth be allowed to take part under the name of russia or bella. ruth, 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 and sustained 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 their 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 borrowed from political . there's only one way to counter this barrage of bruce, a phobia, by drawing attention to the double standards that are employed in the west when viewing russia. this is currently the only way to at least cool their 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 mass 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 dom bass 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 u 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 amid the chaos in ukraine, right now, there's 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 footages from tuesday morning, and that's from ukraine. second largest city of hark, up with plumes of smoke rising into the sky from a massive explosion reportedly caused by

a projectile that landed in the cindy in the city center near the regional administration. building local authorities have blamed russia, but media reports are saying that there were not even russian forces in the area from which the projectile had reportedly come, were waiting for commons from the kremlin, as well as the ministry of defense about the situation. where it from russian military expert, alexander st. upon of he says, the missile probably came from the western side considering the location of the impact 1st, the war with her understand how to go the regional administration building. and i said, bought over cranium military infrastructure according to the national want of the presidential decree on all such attacks of objects and all possible system of military buddies. so with distractions correspond with the main goal on the special middle of the ration demilitarization of grant. and other point that we have and

elias, to the location of the object, you can do it easily using an application. so now we understand clearly said that a rocket came from the western side, where the cranium alter a brigade, is located. it is very difficult to identify the type of the rocket and cranium media don't show us these fragments and the bots of the rocket. but we can analyze what type of armaments are in this area. premium brigade. and one possible option is that it was been multiple rocket launch system. it's more than ice washing off russia smash. so maybe it was this option joe biden has given his 1st state of the union speech,

choosing to focus on the ukraine conflict as domestic problems. mountain the u. s. you said the united states has joined the you in closing and airspace 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, add in additional fries on her. but let me be clear for force and you're not engaged and will not engage in a conflict with russian forces in ukraine, are forces not going to europe to fight ukraine, but to defend our nato allies, the event that 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 banned the news outlets r t and spoke nick, as well as approved excluding some russian banks from the swift international transaction system. the block is also considering restrictions on oil and gas imports, as ortiz, charlotte to pinsky reports. will these restrictions directly impact arty international and also our sister station? artie france here in france. what it means is that our channels are no longer allowed to podcast. whether that be on applications on a telephone by 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 u says it has to stand in solidarity with ukraine as this war plays out. really equal to the other 2 are very pretty and to decide the surgeon's risk message consequences for russia. but also,

let's be honest. you through the web address for us, where the secretion of turn veterans is additional for democratic principles does aggression of international law. 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 cast in france just back in 2020. but 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. 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 says, 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 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. he boeing and fought rule said that they have now suspended as they sales that transactions in the russian federation. and in another development. we know in tuesday that president salenti gave ukraine once again cool 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 at to ask for you institutions to start looking at how

this could happen. now, this is a non binding vote. it doesn't mean that ukraine is about to join european union. what he does signal though 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. despite the use ban on archie and sputnik, some in the west were scrutinizing the decision even before it came into force, saying it would set an undesirable precedent for censorship. it sounds like a sensible move to restrict russian war propaganda. but such, censorship would be fundamentally wrong, not only because of the freedom of the press and the freedom of expression, which even applies to false and incorrect information, but also with a view to the future. because any one who censors once will do so again, we heard from russia's permanent representative to the european union commenting on moscow's complicated relations with the block as well as the restrictions imposed

an rti. he says that you sanctions are designed to push the russian government into making policy concessions. if so, the aim of the sanctions is to influence our russian state policy and the other views of the russian president. that is irrational because of that aim will not be achieved by these symbolic sanctions and trying to locate non existent assets of residence in, in europe, or elsewhere in the world. is it 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 to find perhaps the european union of one rule with relevance and the situation financial war on my direct other countries. or if russia only to proceed 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. are though, oh, i believe which are 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. oh, lagging behind our t. we also spoke to eager, you're getting, say, 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 even to say that nothing happened, because for the 1st time in my history and he's still bilateral and multilateral relations. the assets are the central bank of forgiven country frozen. we have the measures to come through and the technology go 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 standards of living and that will be filled by the

population. definitely the one that can enable it will feel the impact because we i would say 20 percent of the world energy. and that definitely already in london, the price of energy quadruple. 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 thought with how that and to easily circumvent that is not possible at the moment for the west. also. all thanks for sticking around with us here at r t international and more updates are coming your way on the war in ukraine as our special coverage. roots continues in 30 minutes.

hello and welcome to cross talk. we're all things are considered. i'm peter lavelle fresh and 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. i cross sucking the situation in ukraine. i'm joined by my guess, daniel nick adams in lake jackson. he is the executive director of the ron paul institute for peace and prosperity intends mania. we have ted see. he is a conflict consultant and a retired u. s. foreign service officer. and here in moscow we have maxime suits. gov. he is the director of the center for advanced american studies at moscow state institute for international relations. hi gentlemen, crosswalk rules and effect. that means you can jump in any time you want and i always appreciate it. i want to say all 3 of you before we.