ah ah, breaking news on the international multiple explosions are reported in the ukrainian capital here early on friday, as part of the city are left without the electricity. also ahead is the bustle for murder. you pull and to the final stages and are the crew takes the close to look at positions left by ukrainian soldiers. the head of the european central bank wants the faces rising inflation and economic instability if they abundant russian . just import on the cia confirms the u. s. is expanding its intelligence sharing with ukrainian forces. this comes after the u. s. senate select committee, urge the by did administration to ramp up agency to support with

just on the 7 am on friday morning here in moscow. my name is peter scots, with all the latest news here on r. c international. andre, each in from thank you for joining us. we start with breaking news. this. our multiple explosions have been reported in the ukrainian capital t. f. as air raid sirens bled out across the country was also reported the most part of the city were left without power. according to local media sites in residence is the most intense explosions in the region since the war begun. meanwhile, harker is reported under heavy shelling and yvonne, a phone call, which is in the west of the country. local media claims. the last major oil refinery in ukraine has been destroyed. local

authorities in russia's brianna could region, which is in the west of the country, have accuse ukraine of carrying out an air strike in the border region. the russian investigative committee claims it was carried out by to combat helicopters equipped with heavy weapons. 8 people, including a pregnant woman and child, are reported to have been injured in the attack with sue in a serious condition. authorities in the neighboring belgrade region, also accused of shunning, but with no casualties, reported ukraine's national security and defense council rejects of the allegations . blaming russia for the incidents. this comes amid warnings from the russian defense ministry that moscow could target cubes, command senses, efferson, territories are threatened. video to do so. we see attempts to sabotage and strikes by ukrainian troops on objects on the territory of the russian federation. if such cases continue, the armed forces of the russian federation will strike the decision making centers, including care what the russian army has refrained from doing so falls on the

screens. now you can see the aftermath of the legend shelling in bronze with a number of buildings on cars destroyed. emergency services are said to be working at the scene. political and social commentator alexander pottage, gives his thoughts on the potential ramifications of this alleged attack. the entire strategy of the landscape, and i must say is western handlers is, can be summed up in 3 words, escalade escalate, an escalate, anything to drawing more lessons into ukraine? any saying that ah, digs an even deeper divide between russia, russians and ukrainians. dusty order of the day, they now need of pictures. they need video, they need video clips of russia, marseilles hitting here, which they will immediately on broadcast over the western mass media showing that

the russians are now more apparently attacking civilian targets in historical here . you know, this is now now they're willing, obviously they're willing to yours. not only are ordinary people, civilians are also willing to their own capital city in order just to gain further sympathy for for themselves and to drum up to more hates against russia. fighting in the net destroyed, ukrainian city of multiple continues with the russian defense ministry saying ukrainian troops have been surrounded. ortiz, rod gasdio, takes a look at some apartments in the pool city where ukrainian troops will hold up at every crossing on every street in every yard. the scars of battle are apparent. and today we followed in the footsteps of ukrainian nationalists as they tugged people's homes into firing ranges. as ukrainian troops retreated

deeper into the city. they would then we single residential building. they would break down the doors into apartments to set up new foreign positions. again, during fire on these apartments on themselves, leaving people with no way to leave. tens of thousands of civilians now live in the basements of their apartment blocks. it's warm of a one, but also much safer. that upstairs is another apartment in a residential building that ukrainian nationalists set up a firing posted all over the pay all over the place, bullets empty shell casings, but also here a primed grenade launcher. it has been prime. the, as i said, it may have malfunction. but it would be very dangerous to touch it or disturb,

but in any case, this is the job for suppose the high you are the better the view, the father you can see and shoot even if you have to climb over the heads of civilians. willie was busy with it, there were nationalist hiding up in the top floors over their lease snipers to one of them shot at people walking down the street when he just kept shooting but missed a young woman walking by was in absolute shock. she hid in a local shop for ashlyn with coff. we sat in the closet and prayed to god on because any one of those shells could have hit our apartment when we didn't understand who they were shooting at. there was no one here. no soldiers, no separatist of no russian troops. they just kept shelling here from the factory. you go everywhere, you'll find magazines unexploded shelves, bullets, even grenades that failed to designate. and occasionally,

the vile syringes and beals, that fueled nationalist regiments. here is another apartment broken into by ukrainian nationalists that have a great view out of this window and makes up a set up a foreign position here, a variety of calibers empty shell casings. but also as in many places that we visited empty syringes. apparently the end of a vile here, no idea what this was, but in many of these places, apartments the where they were at station where they fought from, where they have there been drugs that were seized by the, the nets police that have cleaned up the place off to them to an extent, but we know for a fact that you can in national, it's a heavily dependent on amphetamines. this is something we had seen in syria in iraq, whether it was isis fight as will syrian rebels. they, they would take these unsettled means and they could keep going without sleep without rest, without food or drink or,

or water for days and days when we found drugs during the inspections captured, ukrainian soldiers admitted that they use drugs to make it easier for them to fight the population of mary hugo was always seen as pro russian by ukranian nationalists . for years they tried to beat him bully loyalty into the locals. isn't that another 2 of my friends were having a drink and nationalists walked up to them and told them to say, glory to ukraine. one of them refused them, so they broke his fingers. this isn't a story from the internet. this happened to my friend and from that easter but that went both ways. the civilians here never understood the fanatical habit sir. as of and other nationalist battalions. i have m c, r. we were all tattooed and they had these rituals. they had these torchlight marches over there. they also had rights. they even put up

a fence so people wouldn't see what they were up to. the end result was utter disregard for civilians among nationalists, they never saw them as equals as fellow countrymen and women. but as fodder, human shields expendable bodies for the glory of ukraine, or i'd gazda of r t from marry you pull away years ago care of announced, what's it called an anti terrorist operation in the dumbass. this was preceded by turbulence events in ukraine's capital key. i've known as the euro, my done rif in austin, looked back at the roots of the conflicts. 80 years ago, k of announced what had called an anti terror operation against its then eastern most regions of denotes and logans, ukraine's own regions. the reason there disobedience to caves, new rulers that came to power after the brutal events known as euro. my dun and the

overthrow of the president traditionally have enclosed ties with russia. the area known as don boss in east and ukraine, accused kids new authorities of a rooster fabia and refused to recognize them as a legitimate power. and to government protest raged in all major cities in the east . he of branded the regions separatists. when they entered tara operation was declared, i was in danielle and 4 months later, and travelled all across don boss. it was a full scale operation with abbey asian tangs, heavy artillery and thousands of boots on the ground involved. while it was supposed to target terrorists. innocent civilians, often elderly and kids, became victims of this blood emission. the would choose new. ringback with you or do you really need, you wouldn't deal him with an issue with gabriel call my arby or barbara butler browse quarter. you, even when you of the brutal military operation against its own people,

burned the bridges literally and metaphorically, for any peaceful solution between kiev and the countries east. that tragedy in the black sea port of odessa became the final straw for 8 years, the slaughter of so many civilians in the dawn boss has gone almost completely unnoticed by the international community. since april 2014, the ukranian side has been shelling residential areas in the 2 self proclaimed republics using heavy, offensive weapons. at least 5500 civilians have been injured. more than 2600 civilians have been killed. more than 2200 objects of civilian infrastructure were destroyed or damaged. for 8 long years, russia called time off to time for

a peaceful resolution to the conflict, but that fleet turkey of always fell on deaf ears. uminski, the minsk agreements were killed long before yesterday's recognition of the people's republics of dumbass and not by us, not by the representatives of these republics, but by the count authorities in kiev. ukraine's current president vowed to finally end the war, but escalations continued and hatred also grew. the republics backed into a corner, seemed to have little choice, but ask their big neighbor for protection. but helping them russia is also secure in its own borders and interests. mosca says ukraine strongly anti russia policies, and it's alarmingly fast, milder is ation posed a serious threat to russia's own national security. and it was determined to do something about it that should give us both the demilitarization and denot suffocation of ukraine or a compulsory component of the agreements. we have today's on both sides have last

many lives, both military and civilian and seem to be close to losing hope for a quick and non military solution. the aim was to try to be empty. my movement, which was the eastern new printer to print and yeah, which was interesting on the operational the beginning of the search of april is that when the security council, if you're trying to make the decision to stop this recreation this year was, was at the table which is officially recognized and so the question is, where the decision from ukraine or usa, from the point of view of her operation. this was a nice name to cover that they started to war. i really don't want to call it and teacher operation somewhere because it was you don't pick a deter operation with the tanks and planes to 2 cities. this was,

that was from the very beginning. started by key against the dump us after my done know, your trading government was able to make any decisions without the us. 75 percent of the city and casualties are victims of ukrainian arby. this is something leslie media doesn't want to show, but we know that the u. s. a don't care what she again victims, look at the iraq. oh, there are 600000 to what you young people died of the operations of the u. s. a. and after that, but obviously the usa wanted the warranties, the ukraine for one simple reason or from geo political interest of the u. s. u. s . wants to divide ukraine from russia. and what can be right to crunch is better than the civil war with ethical rushes of the best it against your credit government. or was it was we heard from one family you've been living on the concert line between the danielle republic and ukraine controlled territories for the past 8 years. lose william a james?

well, i don't know. we aren't ready to believe the war will and soon we want to end as soon as possible. but i don't think there's enough will for that to happen. isaac, the united states and europe are sending arms digital numbers. if you, it's a little of them. it's hard to live here, but it's difficult to learn. we are right on the borderline. i understand everything, but we want peace. we want to feel protected. you must understand. it's scary. it's hurtful, especially for the children. we had one situation with a woman. she just went out to wash to the kitchen and a shell landed. she was literally ripped apart. but there is so much suffering. we are tired just quite tired. who can we turn to you? nobody. those boys are dying. it's hardest for those who are protecting us. let me putin has slammed western states for delaying payments for russian energy exports. nurses will apply to your failures in the payment of export supplies of russian energy resources, banks from unfriendly countries delay the transfer payments. i remind you the task

is already been set to transfer payments for energy resources to the national currency from gradually moving away from the dollar and new year road. in general, we intend to radically increase the share of payments in the national currency in the foreign trade assistive annella wilder. last month, the russian presidents ordered companies to switch to rouble payments for energy exports. not decision was met with a backlash from the west, which accused moscow of breaking contracts and circumventing sanctions. however, there's still no agreement among member states on banning russian oil and gas. but he meets in also reiterated this an embargo on russian energy resources will primarily inputs european citizens up with attempts by western countries to replace our energy resources with alternative supplies will inevitably affect the entire global economy. supplies from other countries, primarily from the united states, will cost consumers many times more would affect the standard of living of people

and the competitiveness of the european economy. despite these obvious things for every one european countries are constantly talking about refusing russian supplies, which further destabilizes the market and inflates prices themselves, primarily for their citizens. earlier, we spoke to steven gadget or professor at the institute of european studies in belgrade. he thinks that the european politicians aren't fully considering the impacts of their policies on their citizens. these elites have the agenda that are quite the opposite from what the, the state interest would be additional sense or what the interests of their population are. so that is why they're ready to harm on their own relation and their own economies, only to confront russia for somebody else's interest. and we already see a way of protest, and i think this is only the beginning. this is only

a little breeze compared to the hurricane that will happen. and of course the political hurricane which will follow if they continue conducting there as a suicidal on policies. and unfortunately, this will hurt the average the average citizen of western european country. and i honestly don't see how this will change. i mean, i do see how it will change, but i don't know whether these elite can survive politically. what is going to come and what we will, we will see is more strikes or more civil unrest in western europe. that is provoked of course, by this economic handbook being posed by the european countries themselves. the president of the european central bank has won

sanctions on the war, and ukraine are impacting the euro's owns economy, trade disruption, soaring energy, and commodity prices are affecting the outlook for the region is continuing, fighting creates economic uncertainty. so davinsky takes a closer look. it's a storm warning for the urine project action is needed to tackle inflation or that could lead to loss of trust in the currency. and in the european central bank, that is the call from a former pcp executive, the e. c. b faces the biggest challenge for any central bank that it could become in itself an important risk factor. and he is not the only one wanting the cd to make a radical change. policies over inflation, inflation was a sleeping dragon. this dragon has now awoken the e. c. b has contributed massively to this trap in which it is now caught because we're heading towards the risk of

a stagflation. airy environment. inflation measures how much more expensive a set of goods and services have become over a certain period. higher inflation means that the cost of living is going up. so unless your salary also is increasing at the same rate, you're going to get less bang for your buck. now the e. c. be aims to keep inflation to plus 2 percent, but across the u, it's whizzing by plus 7.5 percent. and some countries are experiencing even higher rates. germany's rate to inflation has also reached record highs. vendors at the nuremberg folk fest say they all feeling the strain of those increasing costs. mammals are you believe the energy costs? you can see it with the gas prices over the price is currently 25 percent higher than 2 months ago. and so of course, you have to allocate the prices in some way and we cannot avoid increasing costs rising, but we are willing to guns. if we have more costs,

we have to think about how we can pass them on, although that's pretty bad for us because it's not just millionaires who come here . it's the case that we always want to keep our entrance fee affordable for the people. but we can't do it needs to be on foil. i mean, one thing is clear, everything that's happened is always paid for by the individual. it's the same at the gas station at the supermarket. it's the same everywhere. and of course, the prices have also increased in our marquee now, while inflation is lower here in france, they still has been a traumatic rise in the cost of living too. and that theme is being one of the biggest single factors as to why the hard left and the hard right candidates scolded so well. in the 1st round all the french presidential election, though the war in ukraine has contributed to rising inflation. but then i mix of higher inflation. whoo! already a power. and in the summer of 2021, as the world economy was still battling with cobit 19,

some economists say the c. b should have acted in greasing interest rates back then . it is incomprehensible that the european central bank, unlike the u. s. federal reserve, is taking so much time with the monetary policy turnaround. i don't think it is helpful to wait so many more months, given current inflation rates and inflation expectations. i have been saying for more than a year that we have an inflation problem, a more rapid tightening of monetary policy. but you see if he says it's working on a crisis, tools to support countries facing those, increasing boring costs is the rates rise. but the concern is that it to little she length and a more radical approach may be needed, the longer the c b way, the more difficult the course, maybe to navigate geology, boesky aussie paris ca director william burns confirmed on thursday that is expanding his intelligence sharing with ukrainian forces. this comes after the u. s

. senate select committee sent a letter requesting for more information to be shared with keith is ortiz kenneth moulton. with more sensually you have the senate intelligence committee requesting that intelligence from the united states be shared with you. crane, and they give a unintended purpose what they are helping ukraine to do with that intelligence. and this is the words of the letter. as we watch russia turn its focus to southern and eastern ukraine, we urge you to ensure that our intelligence agencies proactively share intelligence with the ukrainians to help them protect, defend and retake every inch of ukraine sovereign territory, which includes crimea and the don bass. these stated goals, which essentially, you know, our effort to help you crane retake, don bass and crimea flies in the face of peace talks. as these are one of the main points of negotiations with russia. and we also have gen saki, the white house,

the spokesperson, claiming that the united states supports the b stocks, p stocks or something. we're always going to support the president, secretary of state, or national security adviser, always going to support and support the ukrainians in that effort. so we're having mixed messages coming out of washington on the one hand, it seems like they want to fight to the bitter, and they are holding onto some very extreme territorial claims on the part of the ukrainians. on the other hand, it seems like the united states is telling people that it does favor negotiations, and it does what the piece talks to move ahead. it doesn't to deescalate tensions in the country. so the united states seems to be talking out of both sides of its mouth at the moment, not a clear message about where washington stands in regards to the ongoing conflict on foreign fighters operating in ukraine, our allegedly being paid for the services by a u. s. security company, as, according to an interview in a spanish newspaper, with a former fighter from spain. the sniper, who was interviewed,

claims that the reward for each kill was $30.00. the exact songs code very. they also said the balances are not just civilian, so co bombs, book professionals arriving from countries like poland, sweden, and others. as we stress the artsy has been unable to independently verify these claims. meanwhile, back in 2020 us intelligence officials claim to russia was offering balances to taliban fighters, allegedly, to target us troops on the ground. the intelligence was eventually labeled as low to moderate confidence by the whitehouse boats when the story was 1st published by the new york times. media outlets were quick to pick up. bombshell report accusing russia of offering boundaries to the taliban to kill american soldiers in afghanistan, russian military intelligence provided financial incentives to the taliban to target us troops growing scandal about russia. offering taliban linked militants in

afghan. the stan bouncy, money to kill us service members where we discuss those claims with political rights and you want to be sarah flounders. us propaganda always charges any country they are attacking with the crimes that they have already been exposed for committing. to always try to flip it, turn it on its head and show what's already a known fact. and photos and videos try to turn it around the paying bounty. first, snipers is exactly part of the role. us advisors are picking up foreign mercenaries anywhere they can get them and contracting them on any basis now they're using whenever it comes to the ukraine. other names, they call them foreign volunteers, international gauge, military trainers,

military advisors for all mercenary and, and it's absolutely what the way in which the u. s. has always fought it's wars the deputy director of the e u institute for security studies. his bar controversy after saying that russians are, quote, not europeans that they see violence and death in a different way. and because he doesn't need to forget, we should not forget that even if russians look your opinion, they are not european and a cultural sense. they think differently about violence and death. they have no concept of a liberal post modern life, a concept of life that each individual can choose. instead, life simply can end early with death. russian, life expectancy is quite low, you know, that's why they treat death differently. side, other comments, spots, controversy online, even some accusing her of using far. i rhetoric area we spoke to the theo of cozy dot tv and host of america 1st, who says the rhetoric is rissa phobic?

well, i think the rhetoric towards russia says the beginning of this con, like nothing more than a rooster phobia. and they talk about russia, the regime and the people in a way, which is just plain prejudice and big it, it, they talk about russians is all their uncivilized treat them like they're not human beings. and it's a little bit ironic because the opposition to the special military operation ukraine is supposedly about so called human rights about democracy and dignity and all these things. but when you look at the rhetoric coming from nato european union in the united states, you are, you'd actually think quite the opposite. or you would think at least that maybe none of those things apply to the russians themselves. that's all for this are, but you stay tuned for more great programs here on the international i of course, check out our social media pages. my name is peter scott. i'll be back again with more news unused in 30 minutes.

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