ah ah, pass russia's military operation and ukraine enters its 8th day local residence at fleet, fighting with many finding their homes. devastated by shelly don, yet residence stranded in the ukrainian city of hark of since the war broke out says he fears he could be killed by armed locals as the streets descend into chaos . ukrainians of roving stalls, but it was expected. they were given weapons. and now they are behaving as if everything is committed. but if you challenge them, you just get a bullet. and they say russians that in a russian delegation wait. so for the ukrainian side to begin a 2nd round of peace talks, a supposed to take place within hours on the bell. russian border

with a broadcasting live direct from our studios. im also this is art international. let's get right to the situation in ukraine. news just in russia's embassy in australia, says that it was mailed an envelope containing a suspicious white powder. local authorities are reportedly examining the substance while diplomats sage they have received concerning dangerous threats through social media. rushes military operation in ukraine has entered its 8th day with many people, fleeing the fighting and others trying to escape the rebel that used to be their humps. now in this footage, you can see a small village devastated on the outskirts of the ukrainian capital residence, to say a bomb, destroyed several homes on wednesday morning. ukrainian side has reported that 2

people have been killed and 12 injured in the past week. during that event in that village, now you premium claims to people have died and 16 wounded and shelling in the city of. she told me that's about 140 kilometers west of the capital. key of this footage shows damaged buildings and streets strewn with debris. after a massive fire broke out on wednesday, some of the victims were reportedly evacuated from the basements of devastated residential areas of the russian defense ministry says that almost $500.00 of its service members have been killed in ukraine while estimating ukrainian military losses at more than 2800 ukraine's defense ministry, however, has claimed that number of russian military service men killed in the war is much higher. thousands of indian students in ukraine who suddenly found themselves in the midst of a war have now begun to fly back to their homeland and unite with their families.

pressure on the indian government to pull out its citizens has intensified in recent days, especially after one student died in showing in the cranium city of hark of when he left the basement to go buy food. many people across ukraine have been fleeing the violence and i think 2000 students all putting, you know, like look you know, for go back by the side to get it because it wasn't on the they had to, we had to people look people photo that it was everything we talked that you get because when i put it in the unity, i've never seen such a scene before in my life. i remember a siren going off in the morning of february 24th. when we were asked to go into bunkers and 3 or 4 days went by, as we kept returning to the bunkers and advisory was issued to go towards the border and we set out for the polish border. but the real problem began there was, there was nothing to eat, the bombardment was going on and the temperature was minus 10 degrees celsius. you

do? we hide a cab from key to the hungarian border. it took us 4 or 5 days to get the strikes made it very challenging. roads were damaged. there were huge air strikes. tanks were on fire, cars were on fire. there were many blasts by god and in the loo guns, and had done yet people's republics residence continue to endure intense battles between the ukrainian military and local militia forces. this map shows what is been happening with the red, the dots highlighting the major cities where fighting is being reported. russia's defense ministry claims the lugens people's militia has advanced against the ukrainian army by 75 kilometers. and danielle forces have reportedly advanced to 58 kilometers since russia entered the conflict last week. and this is footage that we're getting in from the dumbass region made apparent, showing by the ukranian army. a missile has destroyed cars and damaged residential

buildings in the capital city of the done yet could. people's republic, the number of casualties is not yet known, but the city of done yet has warned that there may be victims under the rebel as rescue operations continue. now we have received this footage from 2 villages in the lou ganske republic where the people militia claim that it's taking control of the cleaning army stronghold and the vehicle checkpoint. the militia says that more than 40 towns and villages in the dawn, guys have now been liberated. meanwhile, the russian military has been handing out humanitarian aid to residence in ukraine's hark of region, including can meet fish bread, fruits, vegetables, and bottled water. here is more video from the region taken in ukraine's 2nd largest city hall of you can see flashes caused by intense shilling throughout the night. the o. s. c e,

which for years monitored the conflict in the dawn bass said one of its members was killed in how to go this week. neither russia or ukraine has given any statement on that as a city streets in ukraine have descended into chaos. as the government is said to be heading out firearms to civilians, done yet scott resident stuck in the ukrainian city of hardy says that he fears for his life is pulled up everywhere here. there is darkness, like in the films of world war 2. it is stuck in the streets because the lights are turned off everywhere, including in the residential buildings. i experience the same in 2014, 2015 and 2016. because i am from mckay of car and don bus. the ukranian nationalists came to us brother against brother, and now they are saying outragious stuff in the media. that putin has hitler, for example. that is nonsense. they are trying to rewrite history. to be honest,

i've been waiting for this moment for the past 8 years. but not at such a price. on the other hand, there is a proverb, a wedge is kicked out with a wedge. and so sooner or later this was going to happen. especially because so many people have died and the next guy and lou, hans during this time there is looting here ukrainians of robbing stores. it was expected, they would give him weapons. and now the other hating is if everything is permitted . but if you challenge them, you just get a bullet and they say russians that it. i haven't eaten anything for 2 days because i can't buy anything. we have a curfew overnight from 4 pm to 6 am. if i go away, it could be a catastrophe for me because i have ukrainian passport. but the next people's republic registration. this is a terrible situation here in hong kong. i don't know when and how it will end, but i would like that to be peace and justice for those who died in 2014 to prevail . ukraine's president of letting me zelinski 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 heavy casualties among the ukrainian military. meanwhile, zelinski says king of needs to guarantee security from the west if it is not allowed to join nato. a 2nd round, a peace talks is scheduled to take place with an ours and bell roofs near the polished border with a russian delegation waiting there since wednesday. for the cranium side to show up the 1st round took place earlier this week, also in belarus, but near the border with ukraine. konstantin, ross, cough reports on the list. the latest news that we heard is that the crane wants to change the meetings location. that's according to one of the members of the delegation. a surprising move because the initial place was agreed by both sides in advance. and the russian delegation already arrived for talks and valor is

yesterday. speaking to the media, the head of moscow's team summed up the 2 size stands before round to one of the luxury, and he came to a mutual understanding on several proposals. but for some of the most crucial of them, the ukrainian started on surprisingly, took some time to consideration and to consult with t n. and where we're expecting the 2nd route of talk to start later today, according to letter murmured even sky. the cranium is one to rest out before the meeting, as there are 2 tired after the trip from ukraine. he didn't wonder negotiators to take a shorter route to valor is despite the russian military offering a safe passage. instead, they made a detour through polish territory. the russian delegation set, it's fine and they can wade but some senior russian officials, including the russian, afford minutes or de la express their concerns over what they believe is an attempt by the cranium side to deliberately postpone the negotiations. the 1st round of talks ended a few days ago without a breakthrough, although both sides agreed to meet again. after consultations were their leadership,

publicly neither side has changed. the fans gave wanted immediate cease fire and the completed withdrawal of russian troops, including from dun, vast region and crimea. moscow wants ukraine to assume a neutral status without a lying with the western powers, as well as are recognized, drive me as russian territory. and gordon scan lugens as independent republics. earlier russian foreign minister, sir, gala robert told the al jazeera news network, how russia gosh, into the current crisis. we'll see it was similar, but the little the, the key is we've been trying to appeal to the conscience of the west and tried to bring reason to this regime which was taking on ultra radical, neo nazi outlines. and the west did not want to do anything because ukraine was used as a tool to deter russia even before 2014. i'm amazed to listen to the comments of european and especially german politicians when they declare that they are obliged to supply weapons to ukraine. what's that supposed to mean?

understanding historical guilt makes germany support neo nazis. it causes strange associations and the live on the land said that europe has never been so close to ukraine. this is probably a signal that as long as you are russ a phobe, as long as you are a fascist, as long as you are a neo nazi, everything is allowed to you recall at least a closely similar reaction to what russia is doing in ukraine restoring justice when hundreds of thousands of iraqis libyan syrians, residents of other countries were killed, where the united states and its allies from the democratic camp directed their eyes thousands of kilometers from the borders. it was enough for the united states. this threatened the national security and look at the hysteria that has risen regarding threat to national security right on our border. i do not rule out that someone wanted russia to get my head and the men made conflict created by the west. we are able to resist any pressure if anyone helped out. i recommend reading russian history or for the small says are mounting on both sides as the war and ukraine

enters its 8th day with civilian deaths reported amid the fighting ortiz, my god, you have spoke with a rushing convoy in south eastern ukrainian city of moleed tubal ukraine is a battlefield, and today we had the front row seats. ah, we joined a russian military convoy making its way across ukraine to the city of mulatto. and for hours on end, we watched convoy after convoy roar, passed us with helicopters, circled back and forth, protecting convoys from ambushes and provides. in cover. the frenzy of activity is sobering, that really drives home that the seas

a vicious fight and losses on both sides. a high linen. so you're not your thought. unfortunately, there are casualties among our comrades taking part in the special military operation. $490.00 russian military personnel were killed during their military duty. their families are being provided with all possible assistance. 1597 of our comrades were injured. eventually we reached the city of mulatto where we were told that we were targets. russian press prime targets for ukrainian nationalists believed to be hiding in relatable and surrounding areas. some armed others have drawn or painted the letter dead on their guards also in the fashion of russian troops here in ukraine. as i said, the situation in the cdsi said that because we were unable to enter,

but we haven't heard any shooting in the vicinity of the city or on our way here. the problem in the city now is, is the humanitarian situation. there supplies is said to be running low, our convoys and logistics are down because of the situation, the current situation a new great, and so it is, we have heard the priority to deliver humanitarian aid to the city. we've also heard that the glue calls have are organized patrols, they're afraid of, of loses. there's been a lot of that apparently in the city. and lucas of war, good eyes patrolled. 5 man grew patrolling the city at night during the day that keep lewters away. but again, as we, as we moved to the outskirts we saw many windows broken and people had obviously boarded up shops. 8 years ago, ukraine was split equally,

roughly half was pro russian and half lean towards europe. since the civil war began, any pro russian sentiment has been brutally suppressed. beatings attacks and killings by nationalists, arrests and intimidation by security services. the question now is, what next guten has promised to de not sci fi ukraine to free its people. he said. but how and how long it'll take you steal unclear. meanwhile, russian forces operating as a 400 anti aircraft missile systems have begun a large scale training exercise in siberia. and the exercise has is seen around $600.00 military service members practice detecting and destroying enemy aircraft. they also prepared their firing positions camouflage, to their weaponry and organized defenses. in the meantime, the

e u has been preparing a 4th set of sanctions against moscow over the ukraine crisis, as announced by austria's foreign minister. that's as some european leaders, including french president emanuel micron have admitted the already imposed restrictions on russia would inevitably backfire on the block. with more, here's our t is charlie davinsky. president macklin of france warned a very difficult days ahead. and he said the whole of europe would be impacted now in that address, which was made on wednesday evening. here in france, he put the blame for the war in ukraine solely on president putin of russia. and he said the pretext that president putin had outlined for that war was false. now he saluted what he said was the ukrainians, who were fighting for their country. and he said that there would be a plan developed to try and mitigate the impact of the sanctions here in europe.

and he said that they would be and knock on effect. and that would include price rises for every day products such as buying fuel or even foods. let's have a listen to what else precedent i can have to say. normally, the sector of many economic sectors are suffering and will suffer either because they depend on imports of raw materials from russia and ukraine, or because they export to these countries. our growth, which is currently at its peak, will inevitably be affected. the increase in the price of oil gas and raw materials has and will have an impact on our purchasing powers. i have asked the prime minister to drive an economic and social resilience plan in the coming days to address all these difficulties and on his own. president mike on also addressed the record g crisis at the moment saying that france was ready to open its arms, its hands to those who are fleeing the war in the country at the moment. just to give you a sense of the scale of that, at least here in europe, at the u. n says around 1000000 refugees have had to flee ukraine. it's describe

this as being an exodus. and it has called for the guns to be put down for the war to stop if only for humanitarian assistance to be able to get in to the country to help millions and millions of others at. meanwhile, companies here in the you are offering free flights and for each trains to those from ukraine who had to flee their country in order to help them get to destinations elsewhere in europe. we have also heard over the last few days of other european politicians, also warning about how those sanctions against russia will come to bite here in europe to and as airlines are facing restrictions with them not being able to fly into russia and russia having band some airlines from the you coming back into the u. this is this tit for tat over who can fly in which as space. some

airline see that they are already feeling the pinch of this bypassing the rushing space length and flight times to age a considerably. and thus, the operation of most of our passenger and cargo flights to asia is not economically sustainable or competitive. there's also the fall out of course, of those individuals who are listed on the sanctions list just for example, in the u. k. room and the problem of it sure has been the owner of chelsea football club. he's only ok. he says he's now selling the club. i'm the reports. he's trying to offload several of his multi 1000000 pound properties in london as a result of what's happening at the moment. and in germany reports that a super york over a russian billionaire has been, sees that c p your said to be worth over 600000000 euros. i'm. there was also been a cultural backlash. in fact, one university in milan attempted to try and ban, of course, or at least postpone

a course on, dost i ask you, the russian writer saying that with these tense times that you know, they could be strong internal disagreements and tensions as a result of that however, there was a backlash to that decision, including from the italian backs, prime minister, imitate renzi who described that decision as insane. and as a result of that, they'll say ascii is back on the menu. while e, you top diplomats, have called on pakistan to condemn russia's military operation in ukraine. we have heard from a pakistani political analyst who believes that the west's supplies of weaponry to ukraine can escalate the conflict and to lead to a humanitarian catastrophe. watson has a very clear policy when it comes to international conflict. mr. con had stated multiple times that she will not lead vargas on into event conflicts anymore. because fox has a very less than desirable history,

i would say with the conference in, in our region. and indeed, box on has been that war flow for the past 20 years, where in find a song has been one of the largest hosts of refugees. so marks on has the concept of neutrality. and this is why box one has given a mutant response to the demand made by the representatives here to some of i think americans and some other western countries are actually fascinated with the idea of army you regular forces in ukraine. and what's that going to do is exactly what has happened before. it's going to roll into an escalated conflict without a settlement. and it will just create a massive humanitarian disaster. and you could natural gas prices in europe, once again, hit record high on wednesday, mid concerns from traders that supplies could be disrupted it due to the war in ukraine. european leaders have been caught between wanting to punish russia and

protect their own economies as about 40 percent of the use oil and gas is from russia. germany is one of the largest you importers of those commodities, yet it still has effectively suspended the newly built nord stream to gas pipeline . supplies of russian liquefied natural gas to europe have also been disrupted, as it remains uncertain whether ships can unload the cargo in e u ports mid. the sanctions against russia. we heard from a german geo political analyst who says that instead of it being guided by ideologies, you political parties should think more about how to stabilize energy prices. different actors are using the development at the moment to both their own agenda. this is not something that the united nation can declare in their political statements. we need

a stable energy provision system. and so far, we don't see any perspective also here in germany for a 100 percent transition to renewable energy. so i think much of the debate now is overloaded with. ringback ideology and not really following the rational that the consumer of natural gas. yeah, it has to look for when it comes to costs and the rationale of the industry, which of course needs to be guaranteed that energy provision will always be stable . otherwise, industry would desert a german market and invest somewhere else. and we're getting news just in the international paralympic committee is now prohibiting russian and bell russian athletes from participating in the beijing games instead of allowing them to compete under a neutral status. the decision was based on those countries, roles in the war against ukraine,

after numerous teams had threatened to withdraw. otherwise you know, the ukrainian crisis has not only affected europe, but also asia. although china and india have had relatively less heated responses to the situation. we spoke with an indian historian and strategist, was sure that the crisis will lead to a revision of the world order in there in russia, a strategic partnership. so any time there's a major crisis, it's natural for indians and union policy makers to state an interest very, very seriously. but certainly that is pressure is and we have to wait, we manage the storm that like many other sort of bars and i think are going to be for doctors and nobody wants to see the united states and russia was just boss or the stage where they put it perhaps even

escalate for a whole range of strategic commodities. i think the idea of sanctions can simply not keep in being because if you have to be stabilized infection economy and of course also there is one sequentially. so at the moment that is something which has left an unfortunate situation. where does explanation now is perhaps going to provide the united states in the west an opportunity to try and sort of look at their foster and quality assurance. and hopefully we would like to do so then get the security order in order that is the box to ship. it may take some time, but that is the only way for. meanwhile, romania has lost 2 military aircraft in one day near ukraine's border with a fighter jet reportedly going off the grid on wednesday evening. while 2 hours

later, a rescue helicopter also crashed in bad weather, leaving 5 people dead. no explanation has been given for either instant has of yeah . that does it for your news this hour. i will be back in just under 34 minutes with another full and fresh look and stay with us as we uncover the situation in ukraine. ah ah, ah. what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy, even foundation,

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