ah ah, russia i choose is nationalists, ukrainian battalions of launching intensive miss aisle attacks from civilian areas of har called while much of the city, the pretty and 2nd largest is ruins, paperwork litters. the floor, but high tech areas are left on touch. just one of the contradictions in the claim, not russian forces looted labs that are noble nuclear plants. we report exclusively from the site to this is a research complex that focuses on studying radioactive materials. it is in the direct vicinity of the true noble power plant. and what's peculiar about it is that it has been maintained with the support of the european union screaming about it. our stick has like this placed all over the equipment here. and at the same time as

the you claim to want to de escalate tensions with russia, the block continues to sanction moscow relentlessly. it comes as protests are up in spain against the surging gas prices. but some countries urging against imposing sanctions, which they say could hurt europe more ah or run the clock across the world. this is our team from the team and myself, you know, little hello and welcome to the program. russia has said the 1st stage of its operation in ukraine has been achieved, which moscow states will lead to its overall goal. the liberation of don bus, the russian military said on friday, validates troops had surrounded hard cars in the countries northeast. as you can

see, how much of the country 2nd largest cities and moon res building with include schools and residential houses or many vehicles or crushed them or died. moscow. seas nationalists ukrainian battalion, something continually firing missiles from civilian areas. and this is a train station in the ukranian civil evolve hundreds of people helping, arriving there after fleeing murray. pole at home to some the heaviest bottles of the war. local describe what they left as a living. hell yet the pool just had never seen such horror. there is no marine people. there are no hospitals. there is no theater, no galleries, nothing more ruble is like rodney no schools, nurseries. everything is destroyed, houses are destroyed. it's the horror. i have escaped, but i have my family, i have lost all my family. i have lived my house. i'm. i'm just

well, just echoing those testimonies, this drone footage show shattered buildings in mario will. many of them have been heavily damaged by bombs rocket shelling and gone far. it's not being claim russian forces have taken control over city hall now for a month of intense funding around it. residents of the embattled region have spoken of the dire situation they've faced over the past number of weeks. ah ah, we had your, my, we won't leave, we will stay here until the very end. i'm work or if we are crimea half mary. you paul half crimean, supposedly whose bray is this. this is his off did. did. they were hiding here and they provoke, shoot him, came out a fired and then left, and the little,

there seems to be no sniper. how do you determine if there was a sniper or not? you don't know. they don't shoot at me. so now come on, i'll show you. the street is all destroyed there. i'm so nervous. i can't talk anymore. oh, the missing a shell hit the car. ukraine turned off the water. we couldn't put it out. there is nothing, no water, no gas, no light, no food. we don't have anything. they just abandoned nas. deposit go a court here as our cat. we have 3 of them here. we will never leave them that we will take them with us anyway. this is happiness. how can you leave them? c, a blue deleted the on the left people to the mercy of fate. children and old people hide in basements, hungry, no water, no food. for my sheep,

there is no help the russian army engineers are continuing to the mine operations in ukraine, southern her, some region in wall after retreating. nationalists ukrainian battalions planted mines on root. he can see russian soldier making safe what appears to be an improvised explosive device filled with metal shards, the roadside on one of the mines allegedly planted by the ukrainian military house, drifted across the black sea and ended up. and it's done both phosphorus straight in this video taken from social media. you can see a boat approach with turkish authorities say the mind was diffused, but as a precautionary measure of fishing has been found. the night in the busy waterway earlier, russia said to run 10 mines washed away after the free and at my desk calls and other nearby ford, turkey shirts, black sea borders, with board russia and all ukrainian president plumbers. lensky has accused russia

of abusing his position in the international arena of threatening the use of nuclear weapons against give, which he said could destroy not only ukraine, but jeopardized life on the whole planet. the floor is littered with papers, but high check labs left untouched. that is the condition of a key research lab. there chernobyl, the nuclear power plant, amid media reports that have been looted by russian forces with an exclusive report from the side on those contradictions. your smart tv voice should not well there's maybe only a handful of places in the entire world as iconic as the chernobyl power plant. we've come here for a series of reports, published by some ukranian sauce is that the rob wildfires raging in the area and that the russians aren't letting fire brigades in to let them tackle the blaze. well, hopefully you can see how much fires the rays,

how much smoke there is exactly in the air smaller, there's none, and you have to take my word for it. when i say it doesn't smell like anything is burning for kilometers and kilometers away from here. so we'll come to see how the power plant functions. right now when there's a russian military operation in ukraine. from the abandoned station, we had to a nearby radiation monitoring lab, following reports, it was ransacked and looted. true enough were met with this scene. ah . but as we come through the debris, we start noticing a strange pattern. while the office flows are littered with domestic junk, one of the labs remain unscathed. so this is a research complex that focuses on studying radioactive materials. it is in the direct vicinity of the true noble power plant. and what's peculiar about it is that

it has been maintained with the support of the european union, screaming about it as thick as like this placed all over the equipment here. but it is hard to see where the money exactly went, because you don't have to be an expert in brady reactive science to see that all this equipment here is very, very all you can see rust all over, you know, all over the draws basically all over the place, so again, this is clearly all of it, the legacy of the soviet era. the equipment is in a pristine state. flasks and wiles are still neatly organized. the marauder to nato has very deliberately steered away from them. and as we dive into a dog basement, we're in for a worrying discovery. so here what we have is the only piece of more modern equipment that we have been able to find. in this lab. it has been provided by the european union, at least the funds for it. and apparently radioactive materials are still inside. i

have this dose meter in my hand, it's very old, it's sov. yet you can see it reads 00.32, and then very carefully. i move it towards this container. well, you can see for yourself how high the numbers go. and there are still a couple of containers inside. in nearby rooms we uncovered troves of equipment easily worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions. some of it could have been carried away by a single person, but wasn't plenty of offices. he and the storage facilities have been looted. but it's interesting to see what has been left behind, for example, well toilet paper, soap. and if we move just little further down, this little passage, there are bandages sacks and boxes full of them. so the stuff

and the items most needed on the front, on the front lines have been left behind. so whoever destroyed this place wasn't in for the money or supplies. as more things don't add up, the place begins to look like a massive odd project. you know, pretty well from that we arrived at to receiving information that the russian military had destroyed undiluted the research laboratory. we found a big mess in all the officers and rooms. but the most striking thing was that all the equipment used by the staff was still there and in good condition papers scattered across the floor suggest that employees made the mess while they were leaving the laboratory. most of the paperwork is still neatly in its place. the last documents are dated february, the 21st. all the expensive research equipment is in excellent condition and untouched. a video surveillance survey turned out to be blank. we detected increased radiation on the 1st floor and basement. i think it was criminal carelessness to leave such facilities on its ended. so this place is server room if

i may call it that used to be right here, while it has been completely ransacked along with a c, c, t, v, security post or room, whatever you may call it, whoever created all this may. hm was very much interested. nobody finds out who exactly they were were due diligence. this lab can be said back up and running within days. everything with even the slightest use has been miraculously, or rather intentionally sped by the raiders. i'm because done of reporting from tra, noble artsy, sky high energy prices have plagued europe for the past few months, but no sanctions against russia fueling further discontent by propelling those costs to never before seen levels. and that's led to social unrest in spain. in the ton of i, a mon se near the border with portugal, large slides of smoke blocked a highway. after a run, 40 fishermen set fire to

a barricade made of tires to protest the spiraling course of fuel spain. as a whole has been gripped by demonstrations by various trade unions with protest by truck drivers. throwing the most attention in an effort to address the problem, the government has offered tradition rebate. and one time in the group behind the protest rejected the overture to keep up protest food indefinitely on this video. allegedly, she was a supermarket in the german city of stuff guards with essentially like cooking oil, spaghetti flour, missing from the shelves. the country is experiencing a shortage of goods amid the ongoing conflict in frame with the war already having made itself felt in the price of certain products, experts, a thoughts on uncertainty on the market is likely to continue with the situation that's worse than in the coming weeks now the greek prime minister has admitted the huge,

unprecedented sanctions against russia. quote, do bites. referring to rising energy course, he warned that the you should be careful not to let the measures damage europe more than moscow. that says traditionally neutral countries such as switzerland have also told the use line of anti russian sanctions. european for a specialist, be john thomas. ali is convinced that the sanctions are causing irreparable damage to the continental called me. i think that the european union leaders actually know what the goal of the sanctions they're imposing it because they have no agency in this. they are forced by the americans to do just as they say, europe is shooting itself in the foot is by putting and that's what everyone is saying. oh, we have to suffer a bit because it's for greater cost, but would cost is that and his offering is certainly drake. and, you know, industrial production is down by rec, at numbers, factories are shutting down because production is no longer economically possible.

and these energy prices, many industry groups are saying that we are unable to keep those sanctions for much longer before we go see lasting and permanent damage to the foundation of the european economy law. the europeans are forced to pay roubles. there is lasting, the mob for this currency, and this precipitates and move away from the dollar as the global currency of freight and commerce. no r t has spoken to russia's deputy foreign minister, mchale bog down off who says, quote, washington's hysteria over sanctions can be easily explained. ah, yeah. was because of them. some will witnessing fundamental changes in the very system of international relations. the system is being destroyed because of the west's aggressive and illegitimate actions which violate all norms as well as the un charter. one. my say that we now live under the law,

the jungle i. e. lawlessness, which is based on the west's maniac aspiration, to dominate the unipolar world for decades after the soviet union's collapse. all major economic and political decisions were made in the white house. but nowadays this line is challenged by the sovereign countries who respect their own independence. this is the reason for us hysteria. they understand that the times of their unipolar rule are ending. the modern world can only be multi polar until you are still the very policy of sanctions, if you can call it a policy, is nothing new for russia. we've seen many other countries experience the same state before. for many years, they sanctioned russia as a state or russian companies or our people and the different pretexts. now the pretext are also different, but the general lime remains the same to restrain russia's development or china's venezuela. to has lived on the sanctions for a long time. iran,

syria sanctions do hurt, but we'll cope sanctions or nothing new for russia. we've seen it before. we've venezuela, iran and syria. the goal stays and changed it is to restrain russia and its development. just with different pretexts. ah, loom was of the same azalea snow fins, russia, and are of an african countries are interdependent, and mutually beneficial trades take food supplies for example. both from russia and ukraine, the u. s. is trying to hinder our trade, which is very important to the people in economy, but they won't succeed. how create a think and will always find a way to secure good and mutually beneficial partnerships. now earlier this news block, we discussed how implementing sanctions and russia is also negatively affecting some european countries on the spiraling bills its citizens are having to pay. let's now bring in richard varner on man professor at the center for research on

accountability at dom monford university. thanks for talking to us this saturday. what political impact just 1st of all, cody, could the economic blow back from the anti russian sanctions, perhaps have been ruling parties across at europe. richard? yes, the blow back is going to be, well, it is already visible and it's significant and that is only going to increase in effect the energy that europe needs comes to a significant extent from russia. europe has more or less been forced under us pressure to, to should itself, not just in the foot and maybe amputate a leg or something. and it's going to be extremely painful. the most obvious place we see there's already is of course the, the fuel prices that we've now seen already supply us all of

the diesel, diesel fuels in austria, in germany wanting that there will be rationing, literally rationing because there won't be enough. then it's not just a question of, oh, this is now very expensive and we have to pay much more for our fuel, which affects farmers which affects the whole industrial production chain. it's not just a question of price anymore. it's a question of quantity. there is not going to be enough fuel and this will have a significant effect on almost everything of course, quantity rationing we've experienced in the past. for example, in the early $917.00, there was also rationing. and, but the scale is going to be more significant because also europe has not been prepared for this. the, the energy supply chains have been built up relying on russia. russia has been

extremely reliable, even during the cold war, russian companies and the russian government continued to deliver. but what we see now is a different story where europe says to russia, oh, you know, when we're not allowed to deal with you anymore, and you are a bad guy, and you need to be punished. and you know, all these sanction measures which are at least highly dubious by international law, if not outright illegal. i'm sorry to interrupt inter johnny richard. i'm just wondering, than message you just talked about who's coming from? because how united is the new block on the prospect of slumping yet more sanctions on moscow? is there real unity do you think on reducing dependence on russian energy supplies? there are, are people seeing what the difficulties are gonna be?

and perhaps thinking, you know, what we're brussels is saying maybe is not best for our country itself. i think that sentiment is there, but it has so far been covered up by the enormous amount of propaganda that has been ongoing since. and special military operations of russia started in ukraine and that has as really drowned out voices, voices of reason. those who have a different opinion, those who are wanting to hang on what we're doing here this, this makes sense, is, is justified. and, and as a result, i think what we hear is just everyone joining in this propaganda chorus song. and even when some have doubts because they feel they have to, there's enormous pressure emanating from the us. but of course, there are many voices that are pointing out the problems with this at the moment.

they don't get being elated very much in public, and then it's being suppressed also, even in social media. and perhaps if those countries, if those official step back on thought about it, sanctions have failed to bring about regime change in iran, venezuela, cuba, syria. why do you think the western block then thinks russia is going to be any different? exactly, and you may even add iraq to this because sanctions, although they killed many people, famously, they did not result in regime change that either it was an illegal invasion that, that did that. so yes i sang shows are actually in my view and totally unjustified tool, that amounts in many ways to declaration of war. the sanctions have been used to stop people's entire populations today. i mean, after the,

the 1st world war, when the, when the truce was agreed, you know, the german army, when they read the truce, did not expect that britain would. after this, when a seized, impose a naval blockade on germany. that essentially led to over a 1000000 people starving to death. so these things, these methods happy use, but they are wrong. and they should actually be banned. and they do not themselves affect regime change, but it is a, a method of causing this location for forcing the population to suffer. and as a result, changing the structure of economies and societies as you start to have to wonder, you know, it is the goal really, that actually, you know, where we're supposed to be stopping and you know, using our cost. maybe that's the goal. maybe the climate change again,

agenda behind this, you start to wonder because it doesn't make any sense. yeah. why are they self or legislating this much here? trying to stop in time industries in the, in the truck. yeah it's, it's a big point. just finally, while we have you, because it's something i know that you've talked a lot on russia has requested that europe pay for their gas purchases in rubles big headlines over the last few day. richard, can russia create much leverage with such a move? what was your thoughts when you, when you saw that? yes it is. your colleagues had told me on the day and i immediately recognized that this is a very clever move. and it is actually similar to what the us did. the u. s. policy was far more devious, of course, because they had to invoke the entire middle east, all producers in order to turn the dollar into a petrol dollar. and you know,

by forcing all producers, so they're all only against the u. s. dollar. russia can do this much more elegantly because russia is a producer of raw materials, gas fuel and so but it creates a demand instantaneously for the rule. now the west will find if, if russia can, for example, in these supply contracts invoke the false measure or emergency closes, disaster closes that should be in those contract. and the disaster has been the sanctions which, you know, change things and then create a different environment as a justification, if russia does that, then the, the, the bias in the western europe in particular, will find that they don't have enough rubles. so then they have to go to the russian central bank, which was the sanctions. they're not supposed to do. and therefore they have to

undermine their own sections. of course, it puts russia into a much stronger position concerning its economy and it's international trade. and it's fair enough because you know, contract free suddenly new contracts can be written to be entirely rubles without any problem. much appreciate a break time for us as we do whenever you're on the program. richard richard, fern or professor at the center for research on accountability at the mumford university. many thanks. thanks very much. now after years of criticizing neo nazi elements in ukrainian society, it appears that the b b. c is now similarly prepared to tolerate them. in a news report on friday, the broadcaster interviewed a ukrainian soldier who had a nazi symbol clearly visible on his uniform. yes, davy determination and a little help from wisdom weaponry. but it will not tales as we have to move the global. yet the patch on the soldier's arm is the symbol of nazi germany. s s

division, known as death's head. the division was formed by concentration camp guards at the start of the 2nd world war. it was known for the mass murder of war prisoners, including $97.00 british soldiers. captain france in 1900. 14. no mention of that. indeed, any of that was made during the interview. contrast it to reports in previous years in 2014, the b b. c reported on the rule of neo nazis and the coo and ukraine. 2 years before that, the channel made a documentary central racism and anti semitism in ukrainian as well as polish football stadiums that came out of the euro. 2012 jumping ships held in the 2 countries and showed new nazi gestures being made at ukrainian stadiums. editor of the great, so new sites max blue mintel sees it's particularly important to report on the issue of extremism in the conflict. it's the west who supplying ukraine with weapons as i just revealed at the gray zone, the bbc correspondent in fixer,

who is shaping that networks coverage of the events around mar, you poll, is actually a ukrainian nationalist. public relations operative who is involved in creating a viral app that is being called by the washington post, one of the you top ukrainian information weapons. and so i'm not surprised with the white washing. it is unfortunate though that western audiences are deprived of important context on ukrainian politics. and what brought the situation to this point. ukraine is one of the only countries in the world that has an officially neo nazi unit with nazi inspired insignia incorporated into a national guard who civilian wing. the national corps has operated under the auspices officially of the interior ministry when arms are pouring in. and we are seeing british made light anti tank weapons in the hands of fascist right sector battalions. and the as of battalion,

we should be concerned about what will happen with these weapons after the war, what they will do, and whether they will carry out their plans for a civil war or a wider conflict beyond ukraine. and that's why it's important, as well as the fact that they helped inspire this conflict and accelerate the push to war with their actions in eastern ukraine around the don bast, consistently attacking civilians and violating agreements. max bloom, intel wrapping up her news bulletin nicera, but to stay with us here in our tea because next, george galloway is talking the history of false flag operations and how it relates to date in the ukraine conflict. his show. sputnik gets going in moment. ah

ah ah, the history that you're interested in yet little green since the keyless you only had with humor to pull you up with that you ah welcome just sputnik garbage in the world would me, george galloway and me diety. when joe biden ludicrously described russia as having

its back to the wall into ukraine, and maybe contemplating an attack using weapons of mass destruction, nobody asked, given the maps exactly how in, what way russia has its back to the wall still less how a w m d incident could possibly get their back away from the wall that would have been a far too rational question to ask. given the history of american false flag attacks from the gulf of tonkin through that, a war on terror. the rational assumption was taco bell in one accused, enemy of that with you intend to do the inference has clearly been made from washington and nato. america's foreign legion that such a w m d event would be a red line.