ah, ah, the ukrainian president's office confirms a 2nd round of talks with moscow is said to start on wednesday evening. he of ads, it's ready to negotiate, but not accept russian ultimate day 7 of russia's military operation. and ukraine. moscow confirms that attack the television tower and key it rush, also claims to have taken control of the southern city of person. but the ukrainian side says the fighting is still ongoing. and on the other side of the conflict heretic destruction of homes in the aftermath of a battle and the don boss region where the wounded, including children require medical assistance that the will get. but well, it's not very scary, but i'm afraid my room is near the basement and there is a whole right there. hand you politicians demand even harsher sanctions against

moscow. i have to the block bands, r t and associated networks with brussels. also moving to cut some russian banks out of the international financial transaction systems with hello and welcome to our international special coverage of the war and ukraine. i'm your host donald quarter. ukrainian president's office has confirmed that a 2nd round of peace talks are set to take place on wednesday. that's after the 1st round concluded with no immediate deal with russia. ortiz constantine ross called reports from belarus, which has been the hosting place for the negotiations. these are probably the most anticipated talks in the world right now where the russian and ukraine in negotiator is scheduled to sit down, face to face for the 2nd time in 3 days. during the 1st round, moscow and key fail to secure receive fire, although both delegations didn't rule out that some progress might be achieved

during round to. lot of things have been said since then, ukraine's foreign minister neither equally have a claim. that key is ready for target, but not for adoption of ultimatums. russia foreign minister is here to live. ralph said that moscow's also ready to sit down for negotiations, but he believes that key of deliberately dragged that speed on the meeting because that's what had been told to do by the u. s. anyway, the russian delegation is headed to bella. ruth and we'll be waiting for their counterparts. the trainings were out of reach and didn't pick up their mobile phones according to our sources. sources in the bella, russian foreign ministry, but they finally confirmed they will participate publicly though neither side has changed. it's dancer key, wants an immediate cease fire, and a complete withdrawal of russian troops, including from the don bass region and crimea. moscow wants your crane to assume a neutral status without align with the western powers, as well as recognize crimea,

as russian territorial bony ups can. lugens gas independent republics grants president latter was the landscape has also claimed that he is ready to negotiate directly with a, with the latter more important. but the problem hasn't signals any 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 crushes military operation. and ukraine is in its 7th day with heavy fighting and explosions reported in cities across the country. and russia. delegation is meanwhile heading to a meeting place for negotiations. with russia, with ukrainian officials near the poland bell roofs border. this is despite some reports saying that the talks could be postponed. he says that it's ready for talks, but not for all to made them send that a date for the 2nd round is still unclear. russia's top diplomat says moscow is ready for peace talks as well, but ukraine is following instructions by the us to postpone survey lab. rob emphasized rushes position that there should not be offensive weapons on ukrainian

soil, and that russia will never allow the key of 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. there are also reports of ongoing battles in ukraine's eastern hark of region with russian troops attempting to advance. in this footage, you can see a massive explosion that took place on tuesday with coons of smoke filling. the sky was reportedly seen near a ukrainian air force space. as of now, no information is available about possible casualties. here's another video from the region in ukraine. second largest city of harko, you can see flashes caused by intent showing throughout the night. we heard from a local woman hiding in a basement on the accord and says, it is all ready to day. we are here in the basement. we are very, very much, very scary. we have small children, elderly people, and frankly speaking,

i did very frightening the mare you from the very strongly this cannot be explained with or at that. russia's military has confirmed that i conducted a strike on a television tower and kits, and it says, no residential buildings were damaged. it was also reported that it took control of a reach regional center in the south of ukraine, but that has been denied by ukraine's defense ministry, which says that the battle is still ongoing. ortiz maria financial has the details, wishes offense, 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, 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. cronner 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 lesson set of procedures removable, or in order to end information attacks against russia, technological facilities of the ukrainian security system. the 72nd language center for psychological operations would help by high precision weapons and key of the

broadcasting of the elevation power has been disabled. the strike did not last troy residential buildings versus defense ministry war. and about that they said tack on tv tower hours before that called in a local residence, especially those leaving a near relay 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 up people trying to get on an creation train organized hankey by this warranties, while it's already packed than people riding with bags and 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 spreading. the un estimates that these whole crisis could for is around 4000000 people to plea ukraine. that's 10 percent of the

country's population. ukrainian 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 significant casualties among the ukrainian military. meanwhile, zalinski says key of needs security guarantees from the west if it's not allowed to join nato and in the loo, ganske, and done yet, people's republics, residents continue to endure intense battles between the ukrainian military and local militia forces. this map shows what's been happening with the red dots highlighting the major cities were fighting, has been reported. russia's defense ministry claims, though ganske people's militia, has advanced against the ukrainian army by another 3 kilometers beyond monday's front line. as for the dynamic forces, dave reportedly advanced 16 kilometers beyond previous lines. these are the latest images of a village that his claim to have come under the control of the login's people's militia,

with residents showing the aftermath of the fighting and see that homes and infrastructure had been all but destroyed to 30. was. we've received this footage from 2 villages in the lugen screeching where lugens people's militiamen are taking over a ukrainian army stronghold as well as a vehicle checkpoint. the militia add more than 40 towns and villages been don, boss, have now been liberated and this is footage we're getting from don boss as well. and the apparent showing by the ukranian army, a missile has destroyed cars and residential buildings in the capital city of the dance, people's republic. and the number of casualties is not yet no, but the city of dynamics has warned that there may still be victims under the rebel . as the rescue operation contains. this put, it shows an abandoned t 64 tank done yet korean after ukrainian troops apparently left the vehicle with all of its equipment and ammunition intact. showing them the conflict has left homes destroyed and wounded people who have required medical assistance. a mother

and her 2 children were rushed to the hospital in the people's republic. after their home was struck by intense shelley. the doctor said the kids were wounded by glass shattered from a window. we spoke with the family at the moment, 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 one building could be seen through the home. these were ran into the hallway where everything was still intact and cold. my mother, she arrived gate in called an ambulance. we learned in school until at home when you're sharing going on, you couldn't get into the basement. so we hit in the hallway. i was sitting in my room when i heard cherry hall. i was glad it wasn't our house and then i got into a house last or fell into my eyes. i couldn't see anything above 3 in the way me. we're seeing an escalation of the war we were offered to evacuate. he and moreover, there have been fake messages to the hospital in 9th grade or continuing to provide

assistance. we're not going to leave to anywhere, no matter what. the 1st of the study far will wake and normally, but we are ready for anything to happen at any minutes. it's less prepared all the ways to evacuate children. if there is a large attack, we've done this already in 20142015. we're already trained not some employees to live in heavily shout areas even spend the night there in hospital. sometimes i allow that because this situation has been very dangerous. it doesn't. so now what you're looking at now is exclusive footage that we received from of what used to be a resort in the don bottles on the sea of as off it now appears completely destroyed, was used as a base for ukraine's neo fascist as all battalion before being taken on monday by forces of the done yet people's republic shuttle can record more reports are appearing in the media and on social networks about russian citizens facing discrimination and 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 who are now feeling discriminated against and isolated. not to mention being banished. russian, conductor valerie, get, give, has refused to condemn his own country. and he's paying the price with immediate effect. there will be no further concerts by the munich philharmonic orchestra under his direction. other countries have also assumed to cooperate with get, give and for not playing they tune his career is crumbling, international fame performer, annette. ne tape, cat has also been banned from the bavarian opera. russian sports 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 a, for competitions until further notice. and the olympic committee is following suit

. the international olympic committee executive board strongly urges international sports federations and organizes of sports events worldwide to do everything in their power to ensure that no athletes or sports official from russia or bell roofs be allowed to take part under the name of russia or bella. luce, russian, or bell, russian nationals, theaters, individuals, or teams, should be accepted only as neutral athletes or neutral teams. no national symbols, colors, flags, or anthem should be displayed. and not to mention the eurovision song contest whose organizer 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 the courage. meanwhile, ordinary citizens are being discriminated against just for being russian. i'm not ashamed to say i'm russian, but i'm a bit afraid i'm worried society will have this perception that all russians are bad. and they were many cases of people being put to shame, but also was only one way to counter this barrage versus phobia by drawing attention to the double standards that are employed in the west when doing russia. this is currently the only way to release cooled or collective sentiment in regard to russian citizens. in my opinion, the term double standards is widely used. now we see how they're applied in math when russian speaking ukrainians were discriminated against ukraine when the main right the right to life russians. and the don bass was violated. nobody paid attention to that. they thought it had nothing to do with human rights, and that it was a domestic affair with an ukraine. this reaction has led to what ukraine has been doing for a long time. today. they've forgotten what's been happening in the dumbass for over 7 years. they forgotten what's been happening in ukraine lately. now they just talk

about russians as the main violators of human rights. this issue requires attention appointment, and powerful african prophet says that when elephant fight, it's the grass that suffers. it's one thing that the you and western countries are pushing back on moscow, but it's not clear why they choose to punish ordinary people and what that can achieve. meanwhile, the international power olympic committee says russian and bella, russian athletes will now take part in the beijing winter olympics under a neutral status. the committee says it's because of their country's roles in the war against ukraine. several countries had earlier demanded that russian power olympians be thrown out of the games altogether. as for joe biden, he's focused his 1st state of the union speech on the ukranian conflict. surprising critics who note mounting domestic problems in the u. s. he said, washington has joined the e u, enclosing its aerospace to russian flights, but specified that american forces will not participate in the conflict with

russian 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 free, but let me be clear, are forced, you are not engage and will not engage in conflict with russian forces in ukraine. are forces not going to europe to fight ukraine, but to defend our nato allies. the advantage decides to keep moving west. meanwhile, you politicians have called on the block to impose even harsher sanctions against russia over the conflict and ukraine. as you has already band news outlets r t and sport 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 bend ski reports. will these restrictions directly impact archie international and also our sister station or t, france here in france? what it means is that our channels are no longer allowed food costs with that be on applications on a telephone via the internet, or even on television subscription services across the european union. and those new sanctions that have come into force on wednesday. no, it comes as the says, it has to stand in solidarity with ukraine as this war plays out. we are able to get it to do it quickly and to decide the sanctions we message constituencies for russia. but also to be honest, it will have a just for us. but the secretion of convictions is attrition of democratic principles. the depression of international law. well, the you is using

a special sanctions regime to bypass the ordinary media licenses. that applies to give you an example. artie france assistance station was given a renewed license to boot cost in france just back in 2020. but 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 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 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, 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 to use here in the e. u. so 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 came bowing and forth 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 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. despite the european union's ban on r, t and sport next, se 7, the west were scrutinizing this 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 sensors once will do so again. and while loading world leading world powers outside the, the direct us fear of influence including india and china, have given a less heated response to the situation in ukraine. so now we're going to go live to our guest doctor as our award dollar thing in new delhi. thanks a lot for joining us. you're a historian,

strategic strategist and author. so what do you think about states like india? have they tried to refrain from taking sides in this conflict? so you know, in your, in russia a strategic partnership? so any time there's a major crisis, it's natural for unions and union policy makers to state interest basis. so i think our position a united nation security, it's been a sense of an understanding, of course, at the same time a see a concern naturally when we have a use of force. we have an international conflict in crisis to the rep that is going to fix and, and the consequences or something we all in asia about because the ones that can follow up on the very best interest. i mentioned that something really,

really concerned about it. also a lot of indians and because the indian students we created and we really hope that the russian forces are especially in the car already. we have a 2000 and didn't stand there, i believe. and if there is any sort of keep a very, very focused solid on your 2 questions or not sort of, can you give me a quote on the, not some sort of public what do you think washington might try to pressure india's government to take a firm side in this conflict. so at some level there box washington that are really like to reach a conclusion on crime reorient. just want to see, i know, give me the extension of the actually partnership. but i think the government and

mainstream public opinion being in the strategic community and more broadly, i think that's pretty deep support, all relationship with russia. and i don't think that will be in any way by this. but certainly that is pressure is ok. and you have to wait a week, manage the storm. like many other sort of middle bars rising positive and nobody wants to see the united states and are sure she was interested in the stage where they put it, perhaps even escalate for. so it is a deep concern is whether diverse we really don't want to back to me journey or kind of risks to you think the world is facing as the west pushes to arm the ukrainian military further that i think would be a mistake. i think gonna be the west. i've been playing with fire for many,

many years because the since 2014, i think it's quite clear that the decision to try to get what, what should have been bridge between russia and leslie or, and, or even perhaps east asia and western union is a central state and to can we're going to do up front once the suture greece, this is something that we also have a place on the bus on august and our kids. so this is not the way to put the security we believe in the concert. i mean, because it was security, i think there's the action that costs. so at the moment that is something which has left an unfortunate situation. where does explanation now is perhaps going to like the united states in the west, an opportunity to try and sort of look at their foster and want to keep it. and hopefully people like that in. yeah too. so then get the new security order in

order that is in a box to ship there. sure it may take some time. but that is the only reason why does obviously placed a lot of sanctions on russia to what degree do you think this is a double edged sword for europe in the west. so as you can see me, and if you price is already of natural gas fired up by talking 50 percent food, which are the in one of the largest in for a again, a 40 percent of their supplies come sooner actually on a whole range of strategic commodities, i think the idea of sanctions can simply not people being that can if you have to be stabilized infection economy, inflation is going to write it. and of course it is once it went through. so i can understand this idea of docketed sanctions because of the russian economy,

which are integrated with the rest of the world have sort of band our global effects in a sense. or do you see any deeper routes to the russian ukraine crisis than the current war that's going on deeper certain, go back to a power back to eastern europe with the end of the wall. i know that about right. you are not really building up a security architecture that they're embraced or incorporated. so losing sight of the pool. and i think i've seen in cross history bring back to the last 2 centuries and he died. he defeated bach is not incorporated into the all school sacrament. there will be situations when our balance changes that were there that was put into place will be reset in this crisis in a sense, it is doing that in any environment but

guarding factors of international missing mistakes made by the west by the united states in particular. it had an extraordinary opportunity to try and be watered the choice to question. what's interesting, the most maximus question for now again i did meet there is an opportunity to work and i think there are options to west even in the united states that are realistic that up and who recognize that the bar realities of team. hopefully those forces will come to the floor. don't doctors are alar dollar thing, and indian historian, strategist an author, thanks a lot for joining us in the program. well, thanks for sticking with us here on our team international. if you'd like more updates on the war and ukraine, they're coming your way when our special coverage resumes and just about 30 minutes . ah

ah. ah, when i was sure thing wrong. when all just don't hold me you world. yes to safe out is the because the advocate and engagement, it was the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground pressures. special military operation in 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 the question all ukraine a big and rich country that's always been hand in hand with russia until recently. 2014. a qu defines ukraine and leads to fratricidal war and on bus. a war that continues to this.