find themselves worlds apart. we choose to look for common ground. ah, russian forces target military facilities on the outskirts of key of this. after several provocations from ukraine were reported on russian territory, the latest was prevented earlier by air defense systems in the border region of belgrade. also later set up a foreign position here, a variety of caliber empty shell casings, but also as in many places that we visited empty syringes. as the birth of former you pull enters its final stages and are see crew takes a closer look at the positions left by ukrainian soldiers. and washington is upping on the shipments to ukraine,

who in spite of such weapons ending up in the hands of criminals and extremists and the wife of a captured ukrainian opposition leader claims her husband has been tortured and the beast, and by authorities it comes as clear a position in the country. victor med bet you is not just a citizen of ukraine. he is a peoples deputy of ukraine. what is happening to victor as human disgrace? ah. it's 7 pm here in the russian capital. my name's eager, done up a very warm welcome to r t international. and we'll begin with the top story and russian air defense systems have reportedly been. inaction in the border city of belgrade, locals reported to explosions that could be heard in the city center. witnesses of also posted video footage. here it is of what looks like the air defense is working

. russian forces also had a ukrainian helicopter in the tr niga region in russia. according to officials, the aircraft was the one that yesterday had a hacked, a village in the border region of brands that were an in response to ukraine's actions on russian territory. a military facility in the outskirts of care has been targeted. the machine building plant was said to produce and repair long and medium range antea craft missile systems, as well as anti ship missiles. the russian defense ministry has said it will directly respond to each attack on russia room, as you would have to give you the of the number and scale of missile strikes on targets in kiev will increase in response to the key of national regime. committing any terrorist attacks or sabotage on russian territory. it wasn't the commons follow yesterday's air strikes on the brand sc and belgrade regions of western russia. the country as accused ukraine's armed forces of being responsible. the

russian investigative committee claims the air strikes were carried out by 2 convert helicopters equipped with heavy offensive weapons. at least 9 people, including a pregnant woman and child were injured in the shelling. 2 of the casualties, including the child are said to be in a serious condition. on wednesday, the russian defense ministry said moscow could target he of decision making centers . if ukraine keeps bombing russian border regions, locals and browns have told of how their houses were destroyed as a result of these strikes. here, listen of love, sal is we've been through a lot of cried a lot. we, everything has been exploding there. the neighbors have a bomb creator. the house was also hid the beams broke in the barnes and noble hulu . when there was an explosion i was lying on the couch. glass rained down, i fell to the floor, flowerpots that were on the window sill fell on me. a yo do me bill. i was in the house. then i went out on the porch. it's good that i didn't reach the gate, otherwise i would have been lying here. when i came out, i saw

a blast wave that was like this way. will you do me? we were in the house. we looked out of the window. there was dust everywhere and then it started shaking. i went to another house, there was black smoke there. that was the one that was burned down and where a woman was injured. we discussed the possible motivation of caves attacks on russia with military expert. victor, the tough can if you lost your route, so you have demonstrates its invincibility by attacking russian territories. keith wants to show that it's winning. ukraine wants to show that despite russia fighting in the east of ukraine, and it's as strikes ukrainian fuel and ammunition stores, military equipment, air fails. that's not all. kiev has. he crane has a lot of forces and it can attack russia. and so ukraine strikes at border territories, demonstrating its strength and insubordination. it's intriguing the well community showing that the assistance provided by the west to ukraine is not wasted. meanwhile, fighting in the devastated city of mario po, continues,

the city has been a hot bed for weeks now. and now the russian defense ministry is claiming ukrainian troops have been surrounded. ortiz, senior correspondent, more gasdio, has been taking a look at some apartments in the key port where nationalist forces world 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 warmer for one, but also much safer that upstairs is another apartment in a residential building. that ukrainian nationalists set up a foreign posted all over the pay all over the place, bullets empty show casings, but also here a primed grenade launcher. it has been prime to 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, the sap of 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 really would visibility. there were nationalist hiding up in the top floors over there snipers to one of them shot at people walking down the street. he

just kept shooting but missed a young woman walking by was in absolute shock. she hid in a local shop for osmond with cuz we sat in the closet and prayed to god 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. everywhere you'll find magazines unexploded shells, 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 they set 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, he had 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, than yet police that have cleaned up the place off to them to an extent, but we know for a fact that euclidean nation so heavily dependent on amphetamines. this is something we had seen in syria in the rock, 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 o water. for days and days, very new. 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 mario upa was always seen as pro russian by ukrainian nationalists. for years they tried to beat and bully loyalty into the locals. isn't the liver?

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, so they broke his fingers. this isn't a story from the internet. this happened to my friend from it. but that went both ways. the civilians here never understood the fanatical habits of as of and other nationalist battalions. i knew bumps. yeah. they 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 the 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 if haughty from mario pl. what's more, it's been reveal the canadian military has helped to train soldiers from the

nationalist as of battalion. it's led to condemnation, including from human rights organizations. we'll be covering that and more detailed later in the program. but meanwhile, we go to soldiers from the captured ukrainian, 36, the brigade they have claimed they were threatened with execution. if they didn't go to the battlefield. more than a 1000 soldiers have been captured, according to russian defense, ministry, and injured service. men are now said to be receiving medical care in the den at st republic, and they say they are being treated well. some of the soldiers added that they were abandoned by their command. a warning, their words may have been made under duress. most good. we were abandoned by our command. we were abandoned by everyone. we didn't want to fight. the high authority said we will leave. they will shoot immediately. we wanted to leave mario paul. the as of didn't accept us. they only had a helicopter,

but they said they would only take their own out. we were told to go to mario polk . they said that people would come, but in the end no one came to us through the leadership of the $36.00 left breaking through from mary paul leaving all of us. we're meet. no one would police out office model or is just is is he were taken out taking in here, bandaged, fed, and watered. we are very grateful for the fact that they provide further assistance . i hope that everything will be fine and that we will all recover. ah, well, and it's not only ukrainian soldiers who have been captured, in fact, russia says it's detained several military personnel from nato countries who were fighting as mercenaries in ukraine. one british fighter known as casa gandhi, who came to ukraine long before the war erupted, is one of those whose been captured, his relatives have called him vladimir putin to forgive him, and let him go. the prisoners of war convention though, does not apply to mercenaries, meaning he can stand trial,

he himself is claiming he never wanted to join the fight against russia and also alleges the inhuman treatment of ukrainians by their own soldiers. and that was for him quote, the 1st time seeing reality. just another warning again that his words too could have been said during the rest will be sent to you, not someone you will fail for me to be true. most recently, i think you're correct from day one. when we went to murder you pool. i always said like, we need to leave because because as i said before, don bus right is recognized as independent and hands as well. and if, if ukraine really wanted to avoid this conflict, they could have easily just said ok, we will leave, we will recognize independence. fortune beginning ukraine was good side

wouldn't then eventually pay, see, they don't make the right decisions. that would end war good. a good example was how to media everytime, new part of media they, they didn't want to negotiate with steps that could help. and the war like peacefully, it was like 1st time seeing reality may looted from like supermarkets, like civilians need food like survive after like in circles. and so they would take like food from the supermarkets, they would stop civilians from going out to get water like making

a supermarket that was being looted. they would stop civilians from taking like water. so stuff like that, which they themselves would take well, in staying with a subject of for an aide to ukraine, the pentagon is upping its supply of arms. that's after president biden announced an additional $800000000.00 in military assistance to the country. footage from an air force base in the us state of delaware shows, weapons systems believe to be javelin, anti tank missiles being prepared for shipment. the armaments are being sent and are intended for the ukrainian military, but as donald quarter explains such weapons ending up in the hands of criminals and extremists. another $800000000.00 of us military aid on route to ukraine. that's on top of the billions of dollars worth of weapons that the west has already sent key. and for some reason, nobody seems to care about where these guns are actually going. there is the real

threat that the ukrainian government can potentially not control of this weapons. where exactly is anywhere, well, kia has been handing out weapons to random people on the street with no military experience since the beginning of russia's military operation. ukraine's leadership also thought it would be a good idea not only to release felons on to the chaotic streets of a war zone, but also to give them guns will move. william was stung under martial law participants in hostilities. ukrainians with real combat experience will be released from custody and will be able to compensate for their guilt in the hall to spots of the war. o sanctions lifted from those people who took part in the anti terrorist operation of the key now is defense. these people aren't all thieves who stole candy from the corner store. many of them were convicted of murder, ideal candidates for soldiers, who will respect the laws of war. i guess it's not exactly the time for keys to be picky though, since, according to its own military,

$15000.00 ukrainian troops have been killed in the conflict so far. at the same time, russia destroys more of ukraine's command structures with every passing day. and the outcome we're starting to see is chaotic and out of control wyoming citizens in a disorderly way, as is currently the case the you transforms them into fighters and therefore also into potential targets. furthermore, without command, without operational purposes, the distribution of weapons inevitably leads to settling of schools, banditry and actions that are more lethal and effective within ukraine. a number of volunteer battalions with ambiguous loyalties to kiev have already begun stockpiling these weapons. but beyond the countries borders, there's no telling to what extent these arms will help international weapons traffickers. even before all these guns were released, ukraine had one of the largest markets for illegal arms in europe. there are 2 primary sources of elicit small arms and ammunition in ukraine. the diversion of

domestic holdings and cross border trafficking officials estimated that at least 300000 small arms and light weapons were looted or lost between 201320. 15. of these, only 4000 weapons were reportedly recovered. weapons from eastern ukraine are becoming an important supply source for the black market. according to some sources, key of has long had problems with theft and corruption and it's military. when an official investigation was launched, the defense official in charge of it was court martialed, and that was the end of the matter. none the less, he have says it's in control. ukraine's current export control system makes a legal arms transfers from or via ukraine. practically impossible. sure ukraine might say that. but history tells us situations like these and badly look at all the state of the art american weapons that the taliban got its hands on. when it came to power in afghanistan, libya, iraq, syria, all examples of how weapons plus chaos equals

a lot of bad people getting their hands on guns so shore even though the west wouldn't send its own people to fight for its ukrainian ally, it can give itself a pat on the back for flooding the country with weapons, but it remains to be seen what criminal elements the west is once again, inadvertently creating and we'll have to fight further down the line. the wife of the arrested ukrainian opposition lead a victim of it shook has slammed the detention of her husband and criticized the ukrainian government. her words came during a press conference in moscow and you did is the village shuttle. they crossed the line. the situation got out of control. i want to emphasize once again that victor met, that jack is not just a citizen of ukraine. he is a peoples deputy of ukraine who is acting. he legally continues to fulfill his duties and he represents the people to day. i emphasize once again, i oppose torture violence against all political prisoners. what is happening to victor as human disgrace? i beg you to carefully look at these photographs. there are no signs of damage in

any of the photos. the next one shows large bruises and bruises that they tried to cover with hair, which means that these pictures were taken at the beginning and during the interrogation. there is no doubt that he was beaten in the 1st hours after his arrest. now these are the photos of victrum edward took reference to by his wife. there were posted by the ukrainian president himself who claimed the opposition leader had been detained in a special operation. you can see his handcuffed on the photo with signs of beating, clearly visible on his face. it is unclear if mad would choke was captured weeks prior to this photo. now, who is victor madrid true? well, his a ukrainian politician and one of the leaders of the opposition from 2018 all the way until his arrest. he was the chairman of the pro russian party in care. he had played a key role in negotiations between ukraine, russia and the people's republics of the nets, until ganske his wife also complained of how all opposition media channels have

been completely shut down in ukraine. ah, 6 channels were closed before i left to ukraine. as far as i know, all tv channels are now closed except for one. this is the only platform. this is a country with one channel that to lensky controls. there can be no more alternative opinions what freedom of speech. this is no longer journalism. and well, over to a story that we had previously announced in the program, canada has spent around $700000000.00 training the ukraine and military, but including it's still fighting force. the nationalist as all battalion that despite earlier pledges by candidates defense minister, that also would not help the regimen which he claimed it was just a small group of quote rotten apples. about 2000 members of the ukrainian national guard conducted training as parts of canada as bid to help give strengthen its

forces photos posted by ukraine's military on social media. here they are clearly show some soldiers wearing as a battalion patches. as the trained with canadian service members auto has tried to distance itself from the group and its neo nazi links with the defense ministry insisting it was in fact killed responsibility to check which soldiers were taking part. the canadian armed forces have never given any training whatsoever to members of days off italian service, men participating, and operation unifier, have always been ordered not to train with members of these up italian and not to have any contact with them. while we spoke to dr. efraim, sir, of director of the human rights organization, the simon these and fall center in israel. and he begs to differ saying the actions of the canadian armed forces in fact, amount to negligence. the flag, the problem is that the canadian defense ministry did not do proper diligence and

did not fully verify exactly whom they were training. and you know, they want to spend millions of dollars on a, something is nebulous as, as trade a bunch of guys who have no idea who they are. i mean, this negligence there, certainly people don't know who don't want the money, spent the taxpayer money spent training, training, neo nazis, the so the site is the days of regimen minority in the troops and they're only part of this of the regiments with surgery. so there's no question about their identity, it problematic ideology that they have. but the question is how much, how much influence these people add and whatever, whatever it is. ready they should the western troop, so any to should not be training them. those who knows the direct guns in one

direction today was against the direct guns later on. it was exactly 8 years on thursday since k of announced what it called an antique terrorist operation. and the don't bass, it came off to the turbulent events in the ukraine's capital k of a known as the euro. my done, which eventually so the overthrow of the government. r t. 's. maria phenomenon has been looking back 8 years ago, key of announced to what had called an anti terror operation against its then eastern most to 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 don and the overthrow of the president with

traditionally have enclosed ties with russia. the area known as don boss in east and ukraine accused kids new authorities of russo fabia and refused to recognise them as a legitimate power. and to government protest raged in all major cities in the east here branded the regions separatists. when the anti terror variation was declared, i was in danielle, and 4 months later 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 do with you,

or do we is we need, you wouldn't deal him was renewed. she wouldn't with gabriel farmers co my or be, or barbara earl butler, browse quarter years ago when you of the brutal military operation against its own people, burned the bridges literally and metaphorically, for any peaceful solution between kia and the countries east. that tragedy in the black sea of a death became the final straw. ah 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 ukrainian 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 really took care of always fell on deaf ears. amuse skia. the misc agreements were killed long before yesterday's recognition of the people's republic of dumbasses and not by us, not by the representatives of these republics, but by the count authorities in key have ukraine's current president vowed to finally end the war, but escalation is continued and hatred also grid euro, but the lose you left, i'm assuming that when you more than the product or the principal budget, i get in touch with you, my primary task is a ceasefire. and i've often been asked, what are you willing to do for the sake of a ceasefire?

it's a strange question. what are you willing to do for the sake of the people close to you? i can assure you, in order for our hair is not to die anymore, i'm ready to do anything. the republic 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 you'd give a demilitarization and denot suffocation of ukraine or a compulsory component of the agreements. we have 2 days on both sides have lost 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 in eastern european south supreme. and yeah,

what was interesting on the operational, the beginning of the searching of april is that what the security concept, your trade made the decision to stop this to terror peroration this was was at the table which is officially recognized. and so the question is, where the decision from ukraine or u. s. a. 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 opperation somewhere because it was you don't pick to reparation with with the tanks and planes to to bub cities. this was, it was from the very beginning started by key if against the bus. after my dont know, your trading government was able to make any decision without the u. s. 75 percent of the civilian casualties are victims of ukrainian arby. this is something less to me that doesn't want to show, but we know that the u. s. a don't care about civil again,

victims look at iraq. there are 600-0021 1000000 people died. the operations of the u. s. ready and after that, it's quite obvious that the u. s. a wanted to warn you, said ukraine, for one simple reason from jail. the political interest of b, u. s. u. s. wants to divide ukraine from russia. and what can be right to countries better than the civil war with ethic or russians the best against your credit government or why so was well, that's all that we've had time for this hour, but be sure to join us in just under half an hour's time. my name is donna, thank you for being with

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