ah ah, as it rushes military operation in ukraine enters its 8th day local residence, leave the fighting with many finding their homes, devastated by shelley and on the other side of the conflict residence in the dawn, yet scan, lugens, republics suffer amid intensive fighting and explosions reported in several cities, a russian delegation waits for the ukrainian side to begin a 2nd round of peace talks supposed to take place within hours on the belly, russian border. with broadcasting lab direct from our studios in moscow, this is our

t international. i'm john thomas. glad to have you with us as we cover the war in ukraine. now, russia's military operation in ukraine has entered its 8th day with many people seeing the fighting and others trying to escape the rubble that used to be their homes and news that were just getting in an oil bass in the northern ukrainian city of chattanooga, appears to have erupted in flames. it had reportedly been used to provide fuel for the ukrainian army. this is an unverified video, of course. our newsroom is trying to independently verify it for you so that we can get that information as accurate as possible. now in this footage, you can see a small village devastated on the outskirts of ukraine to capital resident say, a bomb destroyed several homes on wednesday morning. ukrainian side has reported that 2 people have been killed and 12 injured in the village over the past week. and ukraine claims to people have died and 16 wounded in shelling in the city of

she told me that's about 140 kilometers west of the capital q. and 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. and in this video, you can see russian armed forces units advancing in the key of the region with damaged buildings and infrastructure following intensive showing and explosions. and you can see some of the burned wreckage in the background. this plan. now the russian military has admitted to attacking a television tower in central queue. it also says that there were no casualties during the precision strike. ukrainian side, however, has said that several people were killed by the russian defense ministry says that almost 500 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 the 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 reunite with their families . pressure on the indian government to pull out its citizens has intensified in recent days, especially after one student died in the shelling in the ukrainian city of hud. gov . when he left a basement to go buy food. many people across ukraine have been fleeing the violence and i didn't go tell them students all pushing you to that new line. milk you know, affordable. her dad minus i began to little sleeping in the glass. it was said was intolerable. but so back to this we had 2 people patients that once he goes to florida that it will be everything. okay. so that was all that good. awesome. when to 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. there was nothing to eat. the bombardment was going on and the temperature was minus 10 degrees celsius. because we hired a cab from key to the hungarian border. it took us 4 or 5 days to get the strikes, made it very challenging. roads with damage. there were huge air strikes. tanks were on fire, cars were on fire. there were many blasts by god 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. now this map shows what has been happening with the red dots highlighting the major cities where fighting is being reported. russia's defense ministry claims the landscape. people's militia has advanced against the ukrainian

army by 75 kilometers and done. yet, forces have reportedly advanced 58 kilometers since russia entered the conflict last week. and we need to warn you that the following images can be disturbing because this is a war zone. this video shows the bodies of killed ukrainian soldiers and burnt military equipment done yet to republic. forces entered this settlement and are now trying to clean up the area. the locals have taken shelter in basements, and this is footage that we are getting in from the don best region, amid parents showing by the ukranian army missile has destroyed the cars and damaged 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 under the rebel as rescue operations continued. now we have also received this footage from 2 villages in the lou ganske republic where the people's militia claims it's taking control of

a ukrainian army stronghold and a vehicle checkpoint. the militia says that more than 40 towns and villages in the dawn bath have now been liberated. and here's another video from the region taken in trains, 2nd largest city, how to go. we can see these intensive flashes caused by showing throughout the night the o. s. c e, which for years monitored the conflict in the dumbass said one of its members was killed in hark of this week. neither russia or ukraine has given any statement on that so far. a city streets in ukraine have descended into chaos as the government is said to be handing out firearms to civilians and done. yet. sc resident stuck in the ukrainian city of harker 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 dark and the streets because the lights are turned off everywhere. including in the residential buildings. i experienced 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. the putin is hitler, for example. it's not 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 kicked down with a wedge. 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 russian 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 the 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 . meanwhile, the russian military has been handing out the humanitarian aid to residence in ukraine's hock of region, including canned meat fish, bread fruits, vegetables, and bottled water. 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 that it has inflicted heavy casualties among the ukrainian military. meanwhile, zelinski says key of needs security guarantees from the west if it is not allowed to join nato. a 2nd round of peace talks is scheduled to take place with an hours in bella. luce, near the polish border with

a russian delegation waiting there since wednesday, for the ukrainian side to show up the 1st rounds took place earlier this week, also and bell roofs. but near the border with ukraine or cheese konstantin rosco reports on the latest. the latest news that we heard is that ukraine wants to change the meeting's 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. he came to a mutual understanding on several proposals that some of the most crucial of them the ukrainian saw, done, surprisingly, took some time for consideration and to consult with t f. anywhere. we're expecting the 2nd round of talk to start later today, according to the ladder myrmidon sky. the craniums want to rest out before the meeting, as there are too tired after the trip from ukraine. he didn't wonder negotiators to

take a shorter route to barriers, 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 foreign ministers, are de la express. their concerns over what they believe is an attempt by the cranium side who deliberately postponed 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 to crane to assume a neutral status without align with the western powers, as well as recognize try me as russian territory and going it's going lugens can as independent republics. russia's top diplomat, sergei lab. rob is to give

a major interview to r. t and international media will bring you that later. today. the losses are mounting on both sides as the war in ukraine enters its 8 day with civilian deaths reported amid the fighting arches. but i got to have spoke, the russian convoy in the south eastern ukrainian city of molly topple. take a look. ukraine is a battlefield. and today we had front row seats. we joined a russian military convoy making its way across ukraine to the city of melli to bull. and for hours on end, we watched convoy after convoy roar, passed us with helicopters, circled back and forth, protecting convoys from ambushes and providing cover the frenzy of activity. ease

sobering, that really drives home, that this is a vicious fight and losses on both sides. a high so really new, so you know, strict, unfortunately there are casualties among our comrades taking part in the special military operation. $498.00 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 ukranian nationalists believe 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, and you crying, as i said,

the situation and 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 prob and the city now ease is the humanitarian situation. their supplies is said to be running low convoys and logistics our down because of the situation. the current situation in ukraine, so it is we have heard a priority to deliver humanitarian aid to the city. we've also heard that the glue calls have are organized patrol, they're afraid of, of loses. there's been a lot of that apparently in the city and locals of organized patrols. 5 man grew patrolling the city at life during the day that keep looters away. but again, as we, as we move through the outskirts, we saw many windows broken. and people had obviously boarded up shops.

8 years ago, ukraine was split equally roughly half way through 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 so far ukraine to free its people, he said. but how and how long it'll take you steal unclear. meanwhile, russian forces operating as of 400 anti aircraft missiles systems have begun a large scale training exercise in siberia. the exercise has been seen around 600 military service members practice detecting and destroying enemy aircraft. they

also prepared their firing positions, camouflaged their weaponry and organized defenses as well. and i had some news just in rushes embassy in australia says that it was mailed an envelope containing a suspicious white powder. no local authorities are reportedly examining the sizes substance, while diplomat save that, they have received concerning dangerous threats through social media. from all of this, we can cross life through russia's ambassador to australia, alexia pavlo, sky. i thank you very much for being with us here on our team international. so has this us substance been identified at this point? what is currently known about the situation? can you give us an update? what we know from the police and the emergency services that the content for the 2 envelopes proved to be safe. in fact, no dangerous. and by now it seems the situation has been the

result. indeed, it's good news to hear that it is safe and that it was more sort of a prank, if you will. but how often does this sort of thing happen when things are mailed of suspicious nature, but to the embassy is the 1st time a we received such a male. but in fact, for these recent days, the situation around the embassy has been very dense. and we haven't been massively targeted with the threatening and insulting messages and actions in fact. now let's talk about that a little bit. there is information that russian diplomats, there had earlier received threats on social media and other outlets. could you comment on that? what types of messages have we been hearing?

all kind of in sold for threads, so we're been receiving them and dozens. so social media by email. i'm so either indeed a, it means very, a strong psychological pressure. but what i would like to know is say that the a law enforcement agencies should be credited, they take very seriously. it seems there are limitations on the, on the convention. and they take measures to protect the embassy, to ensure the security around. the embassy is a, is there. in fact, we've had a troubles with regular protest actions that

from time to time gather near our embassy and in year of the console. in general, in sydney. the, sometimes the protesters can begin to become aggressive. but so far, no incidents have been recorded. now diplomacy is always key. it's always what people strive for. you are the front line if you will. right now, it's a tough position in conflict time. how much pressure is the embassy under right now? do the diplomat there feel safe? i would say a po, we see that the trillion authorities are now making efforts to keep us safe. but of course,

these threats we are receiving and we consider them very serious. and though of course, they may go word here are difficult, that's all this. still, we are trying to explain the position of the russian to duration the reasons for the actions we're taking. and i must say that from time to time in the information healed, it's like a say so office trailer, we can a, discern out some voices of understanding and some voices that i can understand. and they can see the,

the reasons of freshman actions. but i must admit these voices sidestream radio radio you mentioned earlier, the partnership between local law enforcement that help keep you safe there in australia. i'm in a time of war. do you think that the security measures at the russian embassies should be increased and given the current situation? yes, no doubt. so we need to increase measures of security and definitely we take stronger measures according to our own internal security protocols. and we also are in constant touch with the protocol department. so protocol service of the australian forum industry and delete immediately translated to them any emergency situation that comes up in order to

care necessary measures. thank you. all right, alexi pavlov. ski rushes ambassador to australia, as i mentioned earlier, diplomacy is always the frontline, the key, and keep up the good work you're doing. thank you. appreciate it. now in the meantime, the 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, manual con, have admitted it. they already imposed restrictions on russia would inevitably backfire on the block. with more is our case show depends. president mack on 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. he said that they would be a 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 president icon had to say. no low de sick though 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 power. so i have asked the prime minister to drive an economic and social resilience plan in the coming days to address all these difficulties,

not his own. president mike on also address to 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 his 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. meanwhile, companies here in the you are offering free flights and free 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 which as space. some airlines say that they are already feeling the pinch of this bypassing. the rushing space lengthened flight times to asia considerably. and thus, the operation of most of our passenger and cargo flights to asia is not economically sustainable. competitive. there's also the for lack of course of those individuals who are listed on the sanctions list. just for example, in the u. k. a room and a problem of it sure has been the owner of chelsea football club. he's only ok. he says he's now selling the club and there are reports that he's trying to offload several of his multi 1000000 pound properties in london as a result of what's happening at the moment in germany reports that

a super york over a russian billionaire has been seized, that c, p, you said to be worth over 600000000 euros. i'm. there was also been a cultural backlash. in fact, one university milan attempted to try and ban, of course, or at least postpone a course on dostoevsky. 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 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 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 lead it to a humanitarian catastrophe. watson has a very clear policy when it comes to a lot lead vargas on into conflict anymore. because fox has a very less than desirable history, i would say, with the conferencing in our immediate region. and indeed box has been at war for the past 20 years. in san m has been one of the largest hosts of refugees. so fox has the concept of neutrality. and this is why box one has given a mutant response to the demand. i mean by the you representatives here to some of i think americans and some other countries are absolutely fascinated with the idea of army irregular 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 with a settlement, and it will just create a massive humanitarian disaster. and the international paralympic committee is now

prohibiting russian and bella, russian athletes from participating in the winter games in beijing. instead of allowing them to compete under a neutral status, that decision was based on those countries. roles in the war against ukraine, after numerous teams had threatened to withdraw. otherwise, the russian paralympic committee says it's unreasonable for its athletes to be excluded from the games of 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, who is sure that the crisis will lead to a revision of the world order. you're in russia, a strategic partnership. so, any time there's a major crisis, it's an actor for unions and you know, policy makers to take a

a very seriously. but certainly that is pressure is and you have to wait a week manage the storm. like many other sort of middle bars rising bars that are being pulled up and, and nobody wants to see the united states and russia was interested by a stage where they put it perhaps even escalate for a whole range of strategic commodities. i think the idea of sanctions can simply not even be happy to be stabilized with economy. and of course also bad news wants to cancer. 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 and opportunity to try and sort of look at their foster and want to keep it. and hopefully we would like to do so them to get the new 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 incident. a russian government watchdog has band at several domestic media outlets on allegations that they were dis informing the public about the war in ukraine. the echo of moscow radio station dodged television channel and the publication, the village were included on the blacklist following a complaint by prosecutors about allegedly fabricating reporting about russian military actions in ukraine. course our news team is working tirelessly to bring you the latest information will bring you more in about 30

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