a a headline stories. this are the russian defense ministry slums. as i pro vacation, disturbing footage from the ukranian town, a butcher in the key of regent stating that no civilians were killed by russian troops. after you've been in officials release pictures of mass graves in the town allegedly filmed after russian forces had left also asia battalion that is said to be nazi affiliated organization, operating as a militia in your country. they are what they are. the answer from the ukranian president, when quiz about the alleged atrocities of the neo nazi a self battalion, which is not the mere zalinski admitted in the same interview fights this part of the country's forces. your reaction from locals,

income the asian fighters were defending themselves not to look at the destruction they left. they had been here for 8. yes, they kept local people. they beat people, abducted them with bags on their hands. on the you feels the heat, self soaring fuel and food prices that crippling sanctions against russia impact more than just the energy supporter ah for every year, catching the program from today. welcome to moscow and then use our in our t. my name's unit russia has dismissed as another provocation, disturbing footage which has emerged from the ukrainian ton of butcher the videos allegedly show the dead bodies of civilians lying in the streets there,

and others piled in moss grades. ukraine insists it's proof of war crimes ortiz. donal quarter has more flaw. russia has since reacted, and the russian defense ministry has accused key of, of actually carrying out these mass killings in boots. this town, it's located northwest of kiev and it was recaptured by the ukrainian military just a couple days ago actually. and that's why it was a bit strange when key of cues russia of war crimes. since this footage of the corpses in the streets, this terrible footage emerged to actually days after the town had already come under ukrainian control. those videos were apparently released by local officials, put on social media and we are going to show them on the screen now. but just a warning to our viewers, you may find them a bit disturbing. now, we do have to understand that future has been under fighting in recent weeks and according to key of almost $300.00 civilians were found in mass graves there. on the other hand, rushes ministry of defense says that when this town was under its control,

not one civilian was harmed during that time. so if that's the case, then there are some serious holes and ukraine stories. so let's take a closer look at what the ministry defense of russia actually said. we would like to emphasize that all russian units completely withdrew from butcher, almost the 30th the day after the face to face round of negotiations between russia and ukraine in turkey. moreover, on march the 31st, the mayor of butcher until the for the route confirmed and his video message that there was no russian military in the city. but he did not even mention any local residents shot in the streets with their hands tied. therefore, it is not surprising that all the so called evidence of crimes in boucher appears only on day 4 when ukrainian security officers and representatives of ukraine and television arrived in the city. now, the whole situation was so strange that before russia's ministry of defense accused kiev of carrying out these mass killings, a number of military observers actually said that this all could have been stage to that. it could have been part of a wider ukrainian propaganda campaign. at misinformation around what happened,

but the vice speaker of re and oversee also commented on this saying that the west in using this video as a sort of pro ukrainian propaganda would be complicit in crimes if it did turn out to be a staged event. after that footage was released though another video came out, apparently showing a ukrainian officer giving his troops the. okay to shoot noncombatants. let's take a look. the little book with now there still is a lot that has yet to be confirmed, but i mean, ukraine's narrative really is questionable at best. and if it really is responsible for these mass killings of civilians, no doubt the international community is going to be furious. meanwhile, the russian defense ministry has confirmed a strike on a ukrainian oil terminal and 3 fuel storage facilities near the city of odessa. in

southern nuclear footage shows terminals out the facility ablaze. smoke billowed skywards emergency workers are battling to bring the situation under control. russia previously said it would target facilities which ukraine uses to replenish its war efforts. on the red cross has paused migrations as fighting and murder you . pl, intensifies blaming a russian blockade for preventing humanitarian deliveries. the russian defense ministry however, has again stress. it's the ukraine in military, which is not allowing humanitarian corridors to open. moscow also reiterated the nationalists, battalions are continuing to target the evacuation roots. something keep denied. we heard from people cramped in the war twins. evelyn, my husband and i were in the basement and i stayed in. he went out to feed the poppies. he didn't return for a long time. i began to shout, he didn't answer,

so i followed him. i saw that he was covered in blood. his arm was broken, he had severe blood loss. a young guy came to help. he cut off pieces of keen that had come off my husband's head. the showing was so strong, i myself was covered in shards of glass. i want the gun fired to stop. it is so scary. 3 though the situation in mario police turns they should constantly. i had to remove the car from my broken leg to pull people out of the rubble of the burned down building. and after all that i had complications and need a surgery. thing god, i managed to get some people out of the city. ok, we're going to return to the story then of the footage which is emerged from the cleaning and ton of boot shop were and the videos that have been released allegedly showed dead bodies as to billions lying in the streets and others piled in mass graves. ukraine blames at russia and russia says it is a provocation by key of international affairs commented or marco gassett joined us

on the program for more on that marco is. so there we have it. we've got conflicting at reports from either side, seeing what happened. how do you see it? well, it's difficult for me to see anything and it's difficult. do i also see anything at this point? are normally when we have bodies appear somewhere, we have a inquests. we have investigations, police are involved, it could take weeks for a single body here with nato involved. it's take a minute to reach a conclusion and how surprising the conclusion to claim and blame the other side. so by the great concerns about the way we're being pushed into a conclusion, we really don't know where these people are, how many of what they died. we have no knowledge and nor do the politicians are currently trying to push us into believing what they're telling us that their enemies are worth of hating. because of course, if we hate their enemies,

we might be more prepared to listen to our positions or saying we should do about them, including accept all the losses to our own freedoms and living standards involved in, in following our leaders policies. can i put this point to as well? russia knows it's very evident that the whole world is watching it on its actions, especially when it comes to civilians, the suffering of them. so why would mos gloucester stressing repeatedly it takes up most precautions to not target civilians, then suddenly killed $300.00 of them? well, or whatever, the figures that are being bandied about, the fact is that the russians have no, no, no good reason to be doing anything of the kind for those who wants to accuse them of this so called, or this claimed atrocity have every reason to accuse them, we have to remember that we are not only in a real well, we're also not an economic war, police pool and a bubble at this point. in this discussion, we're information and media war. and what we have here are simple images,

simple claims, designed to create simple conclusions, and we should always be wary of those. i remember the last geopolitical crisis of europe. in the service course of a province, there was a place to rent check where a $140.00 bodies turned up all dressed in civilian uniform. russia was used as the reason for a peace conference which was the basis of bombing serbia. immediately afterwards, after all the dust had settled, we found out that actually the warriors had been killed and dressed up in seville uniforms by their fellow soldiers. the caly albanian extremists admitted the officers when nobody cared. so it's all about the 1st impression make the 1st impression hit and that's what i think is happening here. but i cannot tell. it's too early the investigation needs to be had. but we come trusted in investigation for the parties who all have every reason to load the dice for one conclusion. yeah,

i should point out a quote from the russian defense ministry states, quote, not a single local residence suffered from any violent actions. while this sentiment was under the control of the russian armed forces on the claims, the atrocities only came to light after the troops left the city on the ukrainian army arrived. if correct, that leads to a lot of hard questions for key f is suddenly the. so the not least from the part of the mayor of boucher himself said that the troops, the russian troops, unless by the 31st of march we now have 3 days later come to the body of be turning up. what happened to me in the missing 3 days? how can these bodies are now showing no signs of having been exposed for 3 days. they haven't got any readable just though in the images that we've seen and how to explain the fact that you can see hundreds of bodies in the, in the st. the 3 whole days during which time a whole lot of people have turned out that to actually make these claims on day full. the other thing i would actually say i have to be a little bit cynical with use this place called boucher. if we are talking about

english language information warfare, the word butcher is an extremely poster word. i wouldn't be surprised to st. use and reuse and misuse over the next few days. but i also wonder if this, if one is to be cynical, will this place was caught was chosen for such claims because of the name it has. and the unfortunate people who have died somewhere for some reason or simply instruments after the death of the media warfare mark. just the final thoughts on the reaction in the west from claims that come from key of do you think there are dissenting voices among journalists, investigative journalists, when they, when they see such claims on just print them, but they're perhaps being forced from higher up on the on the news i, cliff scale to say no, we must say this, or is there just a general block out of questioning on whatever comes from ukraine?

yeah, that's the truth. well, i work with journalists in was zones. i worked for them lots of issues and they are ultimately the creatures of those who send them where they know what the story is, what the stories that need to cover and what kind of effects they need to get it. they need to play on the emotions, they need to get people emotionally involved, which emotions they want to create here. they will be creating them because nothing else will come out there is in the west, the world and information blackouts symbolized by the black. how to see itself. so know all the story is allowed in. if they can stop it, they want. they don't want anything to confuse the simply means they won't. unfortunately, the simple image they want is usually in saudi untrue. and in the ukraine. false claims have been given cause a launch to appear was real, real episodes, real tragedies, human tragedies, or people kill them. both sides are simply not important unless they serve the

purpose of the propagandist. thanks for sharing your thoughts on rti international affairs commentator, marco gassett and q the are what they are. the answer of ukraine's president when quiz by fox news about the new nazi a's off battalion and the atrocities executed a's off battalion that is said to be nazi affiliated organization, operating as a militia in your country said to be committing their own atrocities. i was one of those many battalions, the key of what they are, what they are in bound to interviews. lensky also say the age of battalion is fully integrated into the ukrainian military. the fragments of the interview was later deleted from or fox news online resources. it is not the 1st time either the group has been whitewashed in western media, as was seen attempt by a number of outlets to play, dine. he's also neo nazi settlements. or those outlets include, for instance,

the financial times and the b, b. c, which showed age of troops and one of its recent reports they were seen wearing nazi symbols such as the skull and crossbones below. the battalion has long been accused of atrocities. like, for instance, the recent brickle torture and murder of a young woman who lived in mar, you pull a warning, you may find the following footage district is lucila brought in for those who are you here with just to point out, russia is investigating the murder of the girl in that video allegedly killed by new nazis from the a's off to tell you the earlier i spoke with our teacher on cost rovan than yet, cuz shared with us icons from local residents on the ledge crimes of that group. paul, it is indeed a very, very painful subject for the people of dunbar sits azar battalion ides,

our battalion and numerous other names in that interview residents. zalinski is also talking about the fact that some members of the assault battalion actually received the prison sentences. however, since the aurora russia's special, very minister reparation in ukraine began, most of those people had been released along with the other harden criminal criminals. and they had been remodeling into the ukrainian army. well, as a battalion, they have been accused of committing a war crimes by the united nations before as well. now there were the several documentaries news reports are made about them as well. not just as all battalions, but other battalions were the neo nazi affiliations. of course, are plenty of 1st hand accounts here and on boss, as well, including yours truly. i've been working here for the last 8 years and i've seen

a mass graves left by these nationalist battalions as that were retreating from the oncoming donetta peoples. a republic militia remember a pregnant, so a woman with her arms tied behind her back and she was dug up and her hands were tied behind her back. and it was absolutely horrible to watch, of course. so over the last a month and a half, the fighting has been taking place in murray who pulled many of the local residents have also witnessed their shots. these that have been committed by us off. and they told me earlier as well that that's been happening. not just over the last month and a half, but over the last 8 years as well as they've been the station there. let's say here some of the accounts about us all over the eyes and fighters were defending themselves, not ass. look at the destruction they left. they had them here for 8. yes, they killed local people or know what you one man had his throat cut by one of their members. then he had a daughter. well,

she is 7 or 8 years old. are they beat people? abducted them with bags on their heads. switch go. yes. oh, well this is what was left by them. hopefully they were running here on the 3rd floor with guns in their hands. duncan, then there were tanks shooting thought, we were afraid to go to the toilets. i would need to comment on the can you turn the camera and showed the ground floor? this is the ground floor. this was my flat. the 1st shell hit my room, my belly managed to stay alive than the use farmable liquids in the house burned down. they knew people were hiding in the basements, while, while the fighting in maria will have been taking place for quite a while now, over a month and a numerous times, a russia provider humanitarian corridors in order for the people to leave. but each time local residents were not allowed to do so. as the city was encircled by the others, all for a battalion, they were preventing the people from leaving and using them as a human shields. and that's according to locals who gave their own a witness accounts. now at the moment, according to

a local authorities and 90 percent of marine purple is finally a liberated major. fighting at the moment is taking place at adults steel ha metallurgy plan. and it's, so it's situated on around 7 heck, there's of land in the city of marine people. so that's where the heaviest fighting is taking place. but according to a local source in the local authorities and the russian army, that should be ending very soon as well. as people are finally looking to rebuild the city of maria full and start a peaceful life once again, just another note political analyst dmitri bobby believes western media outlets have done a complete. you turn in their attitude to neo nazi groups and ukraine since the conflict started as old but daily and has joined the ukrainian army. not now, but at least 6 years ago. the same was true about the so called right

sector. just look up the western media from 2014, the worst in media was care that was intimidated by by the sheer insignia on the right sector. the extreme is group during the mind on products. this is part of the strategy of the right sector and of the as old, but alien to intimidate people, to make them scared before committing atrocities. but then the western media preferred to forget that basically a atrocity committed by also, but they don't know by the right sect is going to be excused by the western media. they can always say that it was russia who is to blame because russia might tech and because you know that also, but they didn't have to defend itself or the seat of mario, but the ukrainian army is bigger and better equipped thanks to nieto with the results being demonstrated on the front lines against russia,

that is the assessment of the alliance is secondary general institution berg, who was giving the groupings annual reports earlier. over the years, our lives have changed. tens of thousands of ukrainian troops provide the mall done equipment and supported reforms. ok to another aspect of things, the crippling sanctions being pushed against moscow. they're not just causing pain in russia. let me show you german shells for old up shorts being heckled by an angry cry. during his speech he made in the city of essen. oh, the incident happened at a rally to mark the beginning of the social democratic party state election campaign. the chanting apparently began when the chancellor spoke about the war in

ukraine. european governments are face growing discontent of a rising food and energy bills across the continent. now to help people with their bills, germany's parliament has promised to provide a 300 euro relief payment. however, the money will still be subject to tax, meaning the final some will be smaller. german officials are unlikely to feel the pinch though as the wages of the chancellor and some ministers are set to rise. from this month we ask people on the streets of berlin, what they make, of their governments helping hand. oh very well from what they're saying. there's going to be tax on it. it's so stupid, given that it's been created for families that are not doing so well in need, the money they have been hit hard here in berlin, where the cost of living is so high already. it's not a good situation. i don't touch him time. well, that's simply outrageous as usual. i don't know what to say to that outrages really outrageous. some of you know if he does all that, well,

it's not members of parliament that need to worry about how they're going to get to work tomorrow. actually everybody should resign. now, the way things are going with the ukraine and stuff is not so nice to get these amongst the thoughts of some germans well in neighboring belgium. people are also witnessing soaring fuel prices pushed in part by the relentless sanctions imposed on russia. locos complain, it's not only energy being impacted prices for food and everyday products. continue to rise week by week and mid day, 39 year inflation high in the country. while in italy, demonstrators down in genoa to protest against weapons sales and made the ongoing ukrainian crisis. people voice concerns about what the arms would be used for the also call for peace and an end to civilian casual banking and finance. professor richard berner, give us his take earlier on the current situation. what we see is a pattern of government policy in europe in which europe,

dad seems designed to hurt the economy. and this pattern causes much, much more accelerated with the sanctions. we see now these very dramatic measures that were imposed against russia, but really in practice seemed to be designed to further restrict the western european economies and damaged them seriously. and we could see if this continues and we're likely to see a dramatic deterioration in living spanish. if europe decides we're not going to buy from russia, i mean, because in the short term this is impossible. but even if they are willing to pay. ready much higher price for energy from say the us instead, and they managed to make the switch for which will take will years. then russia will have many other places to deliver its energy to the world. ah, the protesters have gathered across pakistan and in

a show of support for the prime minister, him run, come, he called on the country's president to dissolve parliament and whole fresh elections. just minutes after a move to all they know confidence motion in the p. m. was rejected as unconstitutional by the national assembly and a recent speech to the nation. and i can blame quote, foreign powers for trying to intervene in his country in the policy, in response to on the bus close ties with russia. he claims the political turmoil is being orchestrated by the west. specifically the u. s. washington rejects those allegations. the prime minister's opponents accuse him of economic this management and bungling foreign policy. local correspondents, medulla beads reports that briefly for r t from the i guess we are turning in turns out the problem and the latest on the job. this is why not be 4 major road leading to the parliament building. these are the support of our prime study and mom who just i'm or to before has using is

a cost. if it's already has asked the president of pakistan to dissolve the national assembly. because 2 minutes before the speaker have the upper house god nationalists. i really declared the no country does motion by the opposition, unconstitutional and rejected by majority ward because it was sponsored by a foreign country. have the luck on our tv. it's not about so what are people on the street actually think of a we gauged opinion, islam about about the current situation from the public in the country. i get your ok. how do you think the thieves will be back and take away what belongs to our children? this is not possible. we will not allow. i will never let my children be their slaves younger than them. and when the prime minister m ron con said absolutely not in a media interview on the americans got angry and they sponsored our opposition for

this. so it was a conspiracy and iran con, defeated them last game and on fine on get y'all been a commentator on international security a for a show he runs outlined for us more on the current political turmoil in pakistan. it's been a complete nice one for the box on it for the past 2 weeks or more. we've been seeing this drama unfold. and finally, it climaxed because the speaker of the national assembly acting on the article 5 of the box on the constitution which prevents any foreign intervention inside by science, eternal matters, coursed no confidence motion, and declared it null and white. the motion was not even accepted for rotting in foxtrot national assemblies and judging from the trajectory of the current events, it is not hard to predict whether things are going on is headed for us, not election. the current government is not going to fulfill the term and there are going to be new elections in bias on in the short term. so i think overall the prox

honey state has one from this process, and a strong message has been sent to, to the western countries and to potential l as in box on that box on is willing to look forward to the future. well, that's her news. run up for now here on our team, but our programs are only beginning the coast for that. i mean, no, no, no, the the ah needs to come to the russian state. little narrative. i'm tired of. i'm phoning most. i'm skiing with house. up for a week within the 55 with okay, so mine is professional speaking when else calls with we

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