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ah, ah, with ukraine's president fights martial law to temporarily ban 11 opposition parties for they suppose that pro russian stance. the parties warned vladimir, the land is moved, is illegitimate. civilians in the next town, a vulnerable ha, are trapped in a destroyed hospital after ukrainian troops, the legit me open fire at it from a tank with we have been sitting in the basement for more than 2 weeks. i haven't even lost track of what date is. the pie there's, we're always here on the 2nd on 3rd, 4th, and conducted an active hostilities from the hospitals territory. we had about 400 civilians in the basement. here. the fighters knew this and hundreds hit the
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streets of pisa to protest italy and lead shipping of weapons from there to ukraine, under the guise of humanitarian aid. ah hello and welcome taught international. we're coming to you live from a studios to have in moscow. i'm policy and thank you for joining us. let's 1st go over recent developments around the ukraine conflict. equate him president vladimir zalinski has cited martial law to order at 10 pre ban on 11 opposition parties. k, me, they hold pro russian positions china. the deputy foreign minister meanwhile, says punitive measures against moscow a counter productive and only add fuel to the fire, hurting ordinary people and disrupting the global economy. the un says there's a shortage of supplies, including food, water and medicines. in the cities of my reopen. and so me,
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russia has said more than 3600 tons of meditation, a to ukraine. since the start of the coming conflict that says kid officials say they have agreed, 7 escape routes with the kremlin. moscow says the evacuation of civilians is ongoing, although ukraine is not cooperating fully on the issue. russian forces have also destroyed a fuel storage base supply, ukrainian army vehicles in the south of the country, as well as a training center for foreign mercenaries in northern ukraine. the reports are coming from ukraine's 2nd largest city hot calls that at least one person was killed and 11 were wounded. in the shilling of a regional institute whiskers are now searching for survivors. local authorities accused russia of committing the attack. how cove official also reported that another alleged russian sharing incident has left 2 people dead, including an annual child. there wasn't an immediate comment from the russian defense ministry on the matter. more than 3000000 people have said ukraine,
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since the start of the conflict with the 2000000 having arrived in neighboring poland, thousands of refugees has been waiting and choose to receive a local id number to allow them to work and get medical care for the next 18 months, hundreds of thousands of others have gone to hungary, vac yet mil dover and for mania, overwhelming a range of public services. people say they can't return because it just simply is not safe for you don't, you know, lucian, my house is still there, but it's not to be there. people haven't come out of the basement for a day, but there are also some people who haven't come out since the fighting began. in t f. we heard a lot of shooting in our region. it was quieter, but i know that my parents couldn't leave since the beginning, so that's why i realized that we need to evacuate not to end up in the same situation as my parents who now can't believe it's horrible. as i mentioned earlier, your crane's president has cited martial law to suspend 11 opposition parties that
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he claims have progressions dancers, one of the biggest parties to be temporarily bad, says the move is simply an illegal power grab. this decision has no legitimate grounds. all accusations are made up by the government to justify their inadequate actions. the only explanation for this move by the authorities as an illegal political take over and a bad faith political fight against their main opponent. well, let's discuss this live now with a correspondent, elliot franco, who joins me here in the studio for. hi, thanks for coming. and how exactly does the president justify this? and has there been any kind of condemnation from the international community? yes. well, paul, the explanation by president borders lensky was easy to predict. he's accusing the parties of having ties with russia, which crane is constantly calling an aggressor in this conflict. so pretty much he's labeling these 11 parties as freighters. now we do have to understand that
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this is almost a dozen, this is a very long list. and what is very important is that one of the parties is actually the 2nd strongest, political force and the parliament. now, given the scale of this move, this is very serious one. you do expect voices in europe in the west to be heard when it comes to criticizing the move. i mean, this is silent thing, the opposition. we understand that this is happening under martial law. however, still, it's a very serious move, but the thing is that there was actually 0 reaction from the west, from europe. and this is something that's being pointed out by politicians here in russia. europe, for its part, is hiding its head in the sand. we were right to leave the european council. what is the point of this organization if it does not fulfill its main task? when it stands aside while observing obvious violations of ukrainian citizens
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writes. zelinski has finally figured out the intricacies of true democracy, the most democratic president in modern ukraine has taken another step towards western ideals of democracy. this isn't, of course, the 1st time that the lensky has been accused of gagging. the opposition is that while the solve this isn't always about political parties. after the my done cool in 2014, i can remind you that key of then the activities of the communist party altogether, even though the communist party was always winning seats in all the ukrainian parliaments. before that, that was a serious move to. but at least the parties on this list have been operating the socialist party's on that list as well. indeed, this is the 1st time this kind of move was happening. but when it comes to the media to when it comes to tv stations, i can remind you that the earlier 8 media and tv companies were banned from ukraine
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. why? again, president lansky is accusing all of them with some kind of ties with russia. but this is simply a 4th in politics or on the media spectrum that is representing the opinions of certain people in this country. and you can just band them like that outright. and we remember, for instance, when these a media companies were when their actions were suspended, even the chief you, diplomat was up for back then said that this work should not come at the expense of freedom of speech and new grade. but it seems now the situation is different and they're not reacting in any way at all. i mean, if anything, as you say, we've had no reaction from the waist. well, if some action does come, we'll trust that you'll give that to us. patricia, thank you very much for joining us yet. the next were public residents are being
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hit by indiscriminate ukrainian nationalist shedding as the forces retreat the troops and to be open fire as patients hid in a hospital basement with fighting raging around the area. there are no reports of injury so far and we spoke to people still trapped in the damage building. was to children who have been sitting in this basement for more than 2 weeks. i have even lost track of what date is fresh and troops have finally come to help us and manage, at least to talk to my sister yesterday is just genocide. it's lawlessness. they say glory to ukraine. i have nothing to thank them for this morning. is everything burned down? i don't know how to go on living like this. i don't know who will help us. who could. thank god, we're alive. little i'm a trauma told us, there is a lot of work here and we work in unsanitary conditions. the fighters were all based here on the 2nd on 3rd force and conducted an act of hostilities from the
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hospitals territory. we had about 400 civilians in the basement here. the fight is new. this. zora marie, i have acute pancreatitis was very hard here. i went down to the basement only when the donato troops came. we slept on the floor. then when a tank open fired us, the ukrainian soldiers had enough hypocrisy to come and ask how we are here. if we are still alive and only then we went down to the basement. refugees on the burnett, said he and i will pull, have been fleeing to the russian town of tag and walk about a 100 kilometers to the east. they have been receiving safe accommodations, but they still worry about relatives that they had to leave behind. russian, rescuers are trying to do everything they can to help the refugees, distributing food and water and help transport their belongings. one woman shave her heartbreaking story. me. i did do enough bullshit. bombing caused a concrete slab to come lose and fall into my son. his father was also there, but it wasn't even pulled out of the wreckage. my son was screaming for 5 hours.
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neighbors got him out of there and brought him to the hospital. there is no way to reach him and i don't know how to transport my son, he definitely can't walk on his own. they said also that he had something wrong with his hands. i don't know whether he can pres biden's or not. i'm afraid to imagine what will happen if he doesn't undergo surgery. said guns for public has now we taken control of practically its whole territory with residents starting to rebuild the lives of to 8 years of ukrainian bombing ortiz, maria phenomena took a train. finally running again to the capital of the republic. we are at a railway station in the town of that i bear skin, the login's, the people's republic, where for the 1st time in 8 years this suburban train is leaving to day for the capital city. also named logan's, it was impossible before these journey because key of force is in control here.
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things 2014 saw and still see logan's guess occupied territory. there were not many connections with that part of the republic, but today it is possible if i didn't raise for one week before that big fell under the control of the republican forces. and now it's one territory. nobody though, ah, only days with a passport issued by little guns, people's republic and clearance from local authorities are allowed on board for security reasons. of course, that i may ask, has become a hub for civilians, please. the front line areas. this train is a good option for them to go to look on the other passengers here tube. you load them with. oh, i'm coming home now. i was visiting and the circumstances made me stay for longer and happy. of course that the train is now operational. but the train should go further. the connection between the towns is
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a good thing. come alt. i'm heading to lou ganske and then further on to my mother, i'm pleasantly surprised by this. don't you have a passport? don't you? i do. here it is, a passport of the logan's people's republic. frightened and it was indeed install rebels. there once was a really intense shelley. we're going to buy tickets. i was. okay. 26 question roubles, which is the wrong. 20 us benson, and yes, russian rebels are reception here, but i can also pay with your grades are still being used to all they're just 80 kilometers apartments that are based in la guns have been like 2 different countries with different time zones. currencies, flags, tv channels, mobile services, but not any more. this train departed at 7 a. m, moscow time,
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one hour ahead of key if it's the same time. and logan's, this train makes 6 stops before it arrives in logan's. today it's a test trip, so not many passengers by the authorities say that the train will now run daily. with the army advancing and taken control of mo, towns, the trains, buses restored roads and bridges will reunite these long separated areas. ray from ocean on party. from that abyss logan's train. now russia st. more than 3600 tons of humanitarian aged to ukraine. the natives batch of more than 75 tons of food and other essentials was delivered to the southern city of her phone. it comes as the human warnings about the humanitarian situation in parts of the country. meanwhile, in italy, civilian a port workers in the city of pisa have alleged that weapon, me, and munitions, are being sent to ukraine disguised as humanitarian aid. civil workers refused to load one of the flights with the alleged military congo,
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and italian trade union has even struck out in protest against the flights saying the public was being deceived. the cargo was reported me to go to nato bases in poland and then to be shipped to neighboring ukraine. italian, a port workers expressed their discontent at the major deception about some workers at the airport where we are pieces. galileo galloway civil airport called us saying that they had been asked to load us and humanitarian aid flight, but they realized that it was combat materiel. it was weapons. they participated in these are the battalion these weapons paid for with our money and up in the hands of nazis. it's necessary to make that clear. we're in the square because we're against providing weapons to ukraine. this doesn't mean that we're not in solidarity with the ukrainian people, but we're convinced that providing weapons prolonged the war and violates our italian constitution and our laws. italy's news comes as dozens of countries officially send military assistance to ukraine, fallacious coming from the united states. it includes anti
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a coughed and anti tank systems, as well as other weapons in total was $800000000.00. the head of an italian political party told us that if confirmed the country's military shipment violates its constitution, they would come in the italian parliament discussed sending military aid and rejected that idea. our country's coming to you in western pressure is not respecting our fundamental laws in our constitution. article 11 explicitly states that the italian republic repudiate war, so by sending weapons to other countries, we break the rules laid out in our constitution. the overwhelming majority of people is against sending weapons and military equipment to ukraine. and people understand that in this way, italian officials are fueling the conflict to governments across europe do not accept people's demands. they only carry out some formalities to pretend that they respect the long. we really hope that the government changes approach and chooses policies the respect, the real wishes of the people. c. s. for us as ramping up pressure against
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countries traditionally friendly to russia, saying history will be on america side. india is the latest country been lecture 2 by the waste. so if it's appear to be backfiring, at ortiz, donal quarter reports. neutrality is just not good enough for washington any more. as the ukraine conflict rages on an india considers buying discounted russian oil. the white house is telling the world to decide, are you with us, or are you against us or message to into any country continues to be that obviously abide by the sanctions of but that we are, we have put in place and recommended. i don't believe this would be violating that, but also think about where you want to stand when, when the history books are written in this moment in time, i end up support for rush. the russian leadership is support for an, an invasion that i obviously is having a devastating impact. new delhi isn't the only one being pressured by the western
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camp. china to has been accused of picking the wrong side despite beijing saying it would rather stay out of the whole thing. oh, shine is already on the wrong side of history when it comes to our to ukraine and the aggression being committed by russia. as for the us, it seems like no matter how many toes it steps on, washington will say it's still one of the good guys. it doesn't matter that oil prices have risen 40 percent this year, and india could seriously reduce its energy bills with discounted imports from russia. the u. s. even threatened india with sanctions for its recent purchase of s $400.00 missile defense systems from moscow. it's as if the white house things india, the world's largest importer of russian weaponry, should just radically change its trade deals at the drop of a hat. india not only depends on russian weaponry, but it also relies hugely in moscow for military upgrades and modernization as it moves to will self reliance in his defense sector at the top it all off, washington is offering nothing to replace what it's asking india to give up i would
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like to ask our american friends, what kinds of defense technology have you given us? but the u. s. is offering is the f. 16 fighter aircraft rebranded as the f 21. the f 16 is obsolete from the an important view we went for the mig 21 in the 19 sixty's because the f one o 4 was denied india. we're seeing the same kind of thing. on the other hand, it's not for nothing that india's enjoyed friendly relations with russia for so long. over the past 69 years, new delhi and moscow have only diverged a handful of times at un votes. throughout the pandemic, russia has sent 10 tons of medical aids to india. and what is the u. s. offered demands, threats and smack talk. good. you know, we're going to put a question on india because it's one country which has substantial relationship with russia. and that also in whitening sectors of the economy and in national security. i mean you can slow really well that we are not if you can good
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luck mentality. so that to see just to so what are you here also that you feel they don't in this don't know, it becomes all the more difficult. there is a really heavy dependence on russia for india in the us national security will last we don't this relationship. so you know, they're talking to us on the track where there's really no fallback position for and it's not just india. c, u. s. is also pushing china to join and he, russian sanctions. although president, she reported he refused to be cursed in a friday course, with his american counterpart. washington had also warned not to provide material support to russia, and american lawmakers are now seeking to sanction chinese financial institutions, helping russia conduct transactions. after some russian banks with bond on the international swift financial payment system that the messenger,
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unless gregory clark says the west is using the ukraine crisis to provoke china and disruptive, warm relations with russia is china. i will put it in interest 1st, but his interest at the moment, i think, in cooperation with russia because it's quite clear that it will not get much corporation from america. the worse is trying very hard to use the ukraine issue to, i should say, provoke china or to find some something guilty in the chinese response. but for so far they have not had much success. and i don't think they'll have much success in the future. and you probe, such as the us, hasn't just been supplying ukraine with weapons since it began selling the dumbass
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back in 2014 an investigation by yahoo news. and they just also that the c i a has been secretly training specialized, ukrainian, military units, all that time. the report which the cia has yet to comment on, claims that the agencies operatives taught their counterparts. the best skills for warfare is caleb mauppin, reports ca, paramilitary forces have also been preparing them for special operations against quote, russia and its separatist allies. we tried to really focus on operational planning than really hard military skills like long res marksmanship, not just the capacity to do it, but to know how to do it on the battlefield. our job is to have an exponential impact. it's not to get our badge for shooting a russian or something. i think the training really paid off the ca, ukraine program was kept secret for 8 years. some of those involved in setting it
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up worried about what might happen if it was made public. i don't know how we didn't get anybody injured to be honest. but the covert nature of the mission ensured deniability us officials wouldn't want to say we just had a cia officer killed by a russian in ukraine. that would put the president of the white house in a very bad position. they feared that public knowledge of the program could lead to an unpredictable escalation in the crisis. everything we did in ukraine had the chance to be misinterpreted and asking the tensions how far can you go with existing covert action authorities? if god forbid they shot some russians, it's not a problem. do you need special authorities for that? despite concerns, the program went on for years. the cia trained groups of radicals and preparation for conflict, a proxy war with moscow. it seems they were following the old adage, if you want peace, prepare for war. of course with the opposite effect. the united states age ukraine
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and her people so that we can fight russia over there. and we don't have to fight russia here. were waging a proxy war against russia, and rightly so, time to face up to what that implies. because prudent in the russians are a lot weaker and the ukrainians a lot stronger than they look. remember, the russians invaded afghanistan back in 1980. it didn't end well for the russians. we had 8 years of war during which some 14000 people were killed, mostly civilians. so this was a very serious, ongoing conflict. very nasty, very bloody on the lake and the people who are now a so in such anguish about ukrainian lives, they didn't say anything. it's not exactly a surprise. we knew this was over a training program involving the pentagon. the cia is something new
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starting the americans were calculating that they couldn't lose, which is why they were egging ukraine on. encouraging this ukraine is always been useful to washing them as a battering ram to use against russia. despite the words of concern currently echoing through western media, the fact themselves speak volumes. the united states has been planning to use ukraine as a bloody battlefield against russia for years, despite any costs necessary. caleb martin, r. t. new york. joe biden's press secretary has made an unusual defence of her boss after he miss hood misheard or misunderstood a reporter, and then labeled russia's president a war criminal. tim fecky came to biden was speaking from the heart after the us president, 1st offended and then attacked. vladimir putin from global policeman to the world's
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chief judge, america's leadership as taking blame, casting practice his way too far. ah, no. it is war for me. where did the president get his info, intelligence, defense officials? the answer may surprise you. the presence remark speak for themselves, he was speaking from his heart and speaking from what you've seen on television. no wonder why the president might be missing some context. when civilians die in nato strikes, mainstream media doesn't show that much interest. ah . the list is far from complete. is the u. s. president,
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really that misinformed or just forgetting something? i would suggest we bomb belgrade. i would suggest that we send american pilots in and law all the bridges on the adrena. short memory is a blessing. indeed. you'd better watch r t jo. we've a lot to remind you of subscribe to our channels on odessa rumble and telegram weapons as to the end of this bulletin. if you'd like to see more visit our website at ot eat dot com. otherwise, i'll be back with a team at the top of the hour. thanks so much for joining us. ah.
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in the world transformed? what will make you feel safe? isolation or community? are you going the right way or are you being led somewhere? direct. what is true? what is great? in the world corrupted, you need to descend a join us in the depths or remain in the shallows. a minute ago and was signed on february. the 12th 2015, it was meant to end military conflicts in ukraine between government forces and don
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bass militia groups. the agreement stipulated that both sides would withdraw heavy weapons to an equal distance from the contact line. this left several 100 settlements trapped between opposing forces. local civilians became unwitting witnesses to and victims of the continuing civil war. thousands of people still live in small towns and villages that have become the new front line. they call this area the grey zone a with
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