a lisa with breaking news on our g. massive shelling is reported on the dunbar front line. as you praised, president zalinski says, russian forces have started a long prepared, offensive vows that ukraine won't give up any more territory. an italian journalist slams ukraine's president zalinski as an obstacle in the way of peace and says ques, leader is neglecting civilian casualties. attribute to pretty photos. lensky seems like a very dangerous character. he is leading a campaign that can actually bring about massive destruction and casualties among

the ukrainian people. but this doesn't really bother hampton. therefore, i considers a lensky, one of the main obstacles towards achieving peace. and a storm of criticism erupts over the u. k. is decision to deport masses of illegal migrants to rwanda, as some official thinks, it'll affect only people from the middle east and africa, not from ukraine, with broadcasting live from our studios in moscow. this is our international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. we have a lot to cover tonight, so let's get right to it. we start with breaking news, this our ukraine's president zalinski says, quote, the battle for don boss has begun with massive shelling reported on the front line . the, this unverified footage purportedly shows the shilling of ukrainian positions in

the dawn bass. meanwhile, explosions were also reported in the major ukrainian cities of kear park. of nikolai of, and zalinski again says russia has begun a long prepared offensive in the dumbass claim that moscow is yet to confirm. that is not going to do what we can now confirm that russian troops have begun the battle for the don bass, which they have been preparing for a long time. as a large part of the russian army is now dedicated to this offense. no matter how many russian soldiers are brought here, we will fight. we will defend ourselves. we will do it daily. we will not give up anything ukrainian and we do not need what's not ours. from all this. let's cross a live now to archie, is what i got the reporting from the city of don. yes. now what are, how has the situation changed on the front line in the dumbass and what do we know so far? well, this claim that sees 2 of the russian operation here in ukraine has begun

earlier during the night during another artillery rocket artillery salvo that apparently stretched across the front lines from nikolai in the south to the dumbass, the ha craddick of in the north. well, that is a claim that has been made but by president zelinski, along with, with several experts. but i the, the, the sound that we've heard of rocket, artillery and artillery. it isn't quite the same as what we heard in the 24th. when, when the russian operation began proper. nevertheless, there has been footage and verified as of yet online. showing these launches showing missiles, adultery, shrieking towards ukrainian positions. also images of explosions, designations on the ukranian side. but again, not quite as many as we show on the 24th of february when the separation. i kicked off, of course the, the epi sent

a political and military epicenter of what is happening, ease in mary opal for now despite the fact that in marybell that was about $20000.00 to so you creating nationalists and, and regular army troops in the dorm bus. which ukraine believes russia once to surround, there are many as 100000 ukrainian troops battle ready veterans of the 8 years civil war. in easton, ukraine. we have spent most of our time in mary. you both watching the ukranian nationalists that thousands of thousands of as all faces supplied and trained by nato nations. we have watched their numbers dwindle, many of them fallen battle many, many surrender. now at this point, they have foremost entirely been confined to the as of steel industrial side, which is at the heart of the geographic heart of the city. the battle lay easy,

still very much ferocious, but the nationalists of loss. most of the residential areas that they controlled and all those civilians, the 10s of thousands of civilians that were trapped and forbidden to evacuate from those areas by nationalists who use them as human shields thereof. now reports coming in from the nationalist themselves, the a. so i'm a no, no uncertain amount of people are still trapped civilians in the as of steel industrial side. but from what we have heard on the front lines that he's just several 100 people and most of them are supporters and relatives of the nationalist flights as trapped in mario pl. right artes moran. gov. if we know that it's going to be an interesting day ahead and you'll say across it forests as we get more information, thanks for them are now, while most western media outlets seek to demonize russia over its military

operation in ukraine and the dumbass, a prominent italian journalist has gone against the flow, accusing ukraine's president's zalinski of hindering efforts to establish peace. dennis, give me simple and so natural to pity. lensky seems like a very dangerous character. he is leading a campaign that can actually bring about massive destruction and casualties among the ukrainian people. but this doesn't really bother him. therefore, i considers a lensky, one of the main obstacles towards achieving peace. but we must remember that this war, besides everything that we are talking about is a war of the united states against europe, that the e. u is the real object of this war. the united states is interested in severing ties between russia and europe, and also china. sad. yes, ah, not within the u. s. interests, that's how the white house has reiterated. the joe biden does not plan to send american troops to ukraine, to quote, fight a war with russia. it was in response to a suggestion by high ranking democrat,

chris croons, that the u. s. must quote, stop putting before ukraine becomes the next, syria. i deeply worry that what's going to happen next is that we will see ukraine turn into syria and the american people cannot turn away from this tragedy in ukraine. i think the history of the 21st century turns on how fiercely we defend freedom in ukraine, and that will only stop when we stop him. or let's cross live to our t corresponded, killed mop and in new york. caleb, how accurate is this comparison of ukraine to war torn syria? i mean, would sending us rep weaponry to ukraine actually help and the conflict? well, it's pretty wild because the world knows that the situation in syria is largely the fault of the united states since 2011. the united states has been meddling in syria, trying to extend an expand discontent in the country and ultimately try to topple

the government job between 20142017 alone. $12000000000.00 was spent by the united states on trying to conduct regime change and intensive my, the conflict in syria. and if the congress is so concerned about not having syria and their situation becomes something similar to what's on the ground in ukraine, why are they talking about sending more and more rapid? we now know the united states is looking to what heavy artillery into ukraine that'll only exacerbate the fighting years. some of the reason announcements it is true that we believe will be able to begin a process of training ukrainian, and forces on the howitzers that will be shortly heading over that training will occur outside of ukraine. it will be more of a train, the trainers kind of environment, so it will be a small number of ukrainians that will be trained on the howitzers. and then they,

we re introduce back into their country to train their colleagues. these words about not wanting ukraine to become the new syria, are quite hypocritical, and absurd on the part of us leaders as it was the united states that exacerbated and prolong day conflict and syria, which created all kinds of refugees and all kinds of suffering. and it's also important to note that in syria, the united states promise there would be no boots on the grounds. the, by the time obama had left office, he had broken that promise. and there are us troops in syria even up to today. so these words from a member of the u. s. congress, just kind of fall flat for anyone familiar with the situation or give them up and thing across the u. s. reaction there for us. thanks for that. or now we go to the middle east where tensions have been rising as nato member turkey has launched a large scale offensive across its south eastern border into iraq targeting kurdish milton's. now turkey's military have said it conducted airstrikes and

a ground assault against kurdish forces alleging the militants were in the final stages of preparing an incursion into turkey. there has been no comment from iraqi officials so far, although some local media has reported that baghdad had been briefed on those plans ahead of the cross border operation. the offensive came after us congress members met with senior turkish officials in eastern bull on monday. and now there has been a storm of criticism at the case newly announced plan to deport masses of illegal migrants to the east african nation of wanda. it has raised allegations of double standards as the government rejects asylum seekers from africa and the middle east, while simultaneously welcoming refugees from ukraine. buquet government rightly provides asylum, refugee ukrainians, flea in war, but wants to send others seeking asylum, thousands of miles away to rolanda for processing. and you still question whether

this heartless, tory government is institutionally racist. such arrangements simply shift asylum responsibilities of aid international obligations and are contrary to the letter and spirit of the refugee convention cannot carry the weight of our national responsibility as a country formed by christian values. because sub contracting out our responsibility even to a country that seeks to do well like her wanda, is the opposite to the nature of god. who himself took responsibility for our migrants trying to get to britain illegally in recent years have resorted to dangerous efforts. organized by people smugglers hiding on trucks or fairies and even trying to cross the english channel inflatable boats that appear hardly see where they are. now the new deal would see such migrants

transferred to rwanda. thousands of kilometers away from the u. k. who want to have said it would receive $120000000.00 pounds sterling under the agreement, funds supposed to provide quote, opportunities for rwandans and migrants. meanwhile, the total number of ukrainians who have flooded the war is estimated at around 5000000 people with neighboring poland. taking in a substantial portion. poland has provided refugees with accommodation and financial support, both by the government and regular citizens. as polls have opened their homes and raised the funds for arriving ukrainians, but as pope francis has unfortunately noted, ukrainian refugees have been much better received than migrants from other parts of the world. suggesting a potential double standard changed with racism. it is true, refugees are subdivided. there's 1st class, 2nd class, skin color. if they come from a developed country or one that is not developed,

we are racist. we are racists, and this is bad. ah, vladimir putin says russia has endured the west's latest economic onslaught with the rubel strengthening back to its pre conflict levels. despite the sanctions, the russian liter pointed out that such measures have actually backfired against the u. s. and the u, as regular people struggle to cope with skyrocketing costs, that i should, will notice the blue. the aim of the western countries was to quickly destabilized the financial and economic situation in russia to provoke panic on the markets to make the banking system collapse. and to create a massive shortage of goods in our stores. but we can now confidently say that this policy has not worked. the strategy of economic blitzkrieg has failed. furthermore, the sanctions have now swung back to hit the initiators themselves. i mean, the inflation on employment rates, the plummeting economic dynamics in the u. s. and in europe, leading to a decrease of their living standards de valuation and so on. russia has withstood

this unprecedented pressure. the situation is stabilizing. the ruble is now being traded as it was in the 1st half of february and is being defined by a positive trade balance. you leaders have suggested that people cut down on their personal spending in an effort to cope with the soaring prices. as western governments seek to cut russian energy imports, germany's agriculture minister who is a vegetarian, has even suggested that people eat less meat to help them make ends meet. a german newspaper has said that skipping a shower might also help reduce dependence on russian energy supplies. but some you officials have admitted that the sanctions against moscow are having a severe effect on the cost of living in europe. a new poll in the u. k has found that the approval of sanctions has plummeted to 36 percent down from 50 last month . furthermore, 54 percent of respondents believe the financial situation in the u. k. has deteriorated since the latest wave of sanctions against russia that comes

a mid soaring fuel and food prices in europe, sparked by the backlash from western sanctions. and we discussed the effect of anti russian sanctions with a jeep camara. job research editor at india to day and political analyst kindle june and a political analyst at the university of iran. mohammed randi, i think the europeans underestimated the resilience of the russian economy, which is quite foolish, because they should have known from their experience with the rom that sanctions targeting women. and children basically are not going to bring them out of the sort of change that europeans and americans look for the u. u. p. companies are not in a position to impose sanctions or russia in particular on energy sector, usually as the importer, not to the ext port ex portrait which suffers the most if there is

a disruption of this energy supply. and this is what's happening to the european countries, the some photos from this particular economic sanctions are actually the poor. it's the poor who gets the major blunt of it. and the biggest plus the leaders in the euro was claiming that people should be eating less of need. and you know, having less or bob, they'll be the 1st one to have ab wastewater in having a full bought the new thing beat every day. people are suffering across europe because of the increased price fuel because of the increase in the price of food and because of the general rapid increase in inflation. so when the leader speak in that sort of language, i'm calling on people to shower, less or less. i think it's more insulting to the bulk of society than

anything else. and normally people who will probably take him or her seriously are you lease like themselves when the harsh reality bites the people's leaving standard? i think, you know, as we find out in the u. k. i some other countries probably as time goes on, people is really of a whole law. people will tolerate that kind of situation with a refresher. a rising price is all, you know, full price is focused on, so it's really a matter of time and the people, i think the governmental will feel the pressure from the public imposing sanctions against russia would cost serbia dearly. that's according to the balkan countries. president bell great. it has come under heavy criticism for refusing to condemn russia over the conflict in ukraine. president alexander, of which it has defended a continued defense or be an airline flights to russia. every little thing we

earned, we no longer have we keep flies go into russia out of principle because we are a free country. we decide for itself, for those who speak to us about bloody hands, because we are still conducting those flights. i have this to say, shame on you. oh, all of your analysts are also liars. did you cancel your own flights when 19 countries were bumping our country? nobody helped us. nobody. all of you kept silent. earlier serbia did vote in supportive rushes, suspension from the united nations human rights council. the move sparked protests in belgrade with thousands of protesters were seen holding russian flags and portraits of vladimir putin. organizers of the rally demanded the government, seize all action against russia. we got reaction from alexander, publish a political analyst in belgrade, who believes serbia's neutrality is considered hostile by the west being neutral in this atmosphere. that's just poisonous atmosphere that's being developed in europe

. you know, you're, you're considered to be taking the russian side, you know, because the west is now in the modem, you know, with us or against us. and they only accept neutrality and they do have the verse against us. most of our trade is still with europe, so you know, you can close office markets to serbian goods. also lots of european companies, especially german one. so open companies here have opened up plans here and you know, the president of serbia which is said live on t v that he's been threatened by various western governments that they would, you know, pull out of either their investments. so yeah, they still have various leaders and we're various instruments to, to blackmail us. you know, that i can't use a better word than that. outrage is boiling over on social media over what's been

called racist remarks by german political scientists. a top you researcher, who suggested that russians are inferior to europeans, citizen, least higgerson. thus, we should not forget that even if russians look european, they are not european and a cultural sense. they think differently about violence and death. they have no concept of liberal post modal knife, a concept of life, which every individual can choose this instead, life simply can end early with death. russian life expectancies, quite low. you know, that's why they treat death differently. were treated to the sickening spectacle of florence gob, resurrecting her native lands tradition of racial pseudo science. to explain why russians are genetically inferior to europeans, dehumanization f, a group of people is a good clue if someone is not, say no doctor. gov russians are europeans,

eastern europeans with different values than yours. of course, russians do not support new in us is like you, she is talking about russians. really. you should start from germany and say something about hitler very short memory. 3 months ago, florence cow would have been fired and turned into a pariah for her woods. this wall made anti russians and a sober acceptable. the political scientists tried to explain her position shortly after that interview was aired. she argued that most of the russian territory is located in asia, and that the country views the ukraine conflict differently. but that only led the 2 fresh accusations this time of an anti asian stance. a foreign policy expert from india told us, such statements should not be tolerated. this kind of fits man, the best time delta dental topic statement and general statement back to me. beautiful. the whole process and be back to the tuition as thoughts and sensible people who claim been felt to be assigned to the best that those are the sort of

qualified people there should be all the more cautious before occupying any kind of uncivilized statement that i think cultural differences needs to be respected. we all are human being spots and therefore, as human beings, we should respect. i'll handle human beings and we should give love to each and every one. and this is something which is called the basic dignity such but you know, if the cultural differences, if you tried to twist and then you tried to show your van and then please the, to all the people tried to assure your b r e p. and if you're trying to prove that your superior then i think better something which is not acceptable. and this is something which is condra maebelle the president of the european commission has urged e leaders to speed up the delivery of weapons to ukraine. stressing it's the only way for you to maintain its fight against russia. i do not distinguish between

heavy and light weapons. ukraine must get what it needs for defense and what it can handle. 3 you is providing 1500000000 euros for there. many member states provide more ukraine has already seen an influx of arms shipments from the u. s. and some european countries amounting to more than 4 and a half $1000000000.00 worth of weapons has received huge caches of missile launchers designed to be used against tanks and aircraft. the u. s. has reportedly sent one 3rd of its total supply of javelin missiles to ukraine. washington is now expanding the types of arms. it's providing to ukraine with the latest $800000000.00 shipments to include a heavy weapons like howitzers and other artillery plus unmanned boats for coastal defense. other assistance includes body armor, optics and laser range finders, explosives and equipments to protect troops against chemical, biological and even nuclear attacks. however,

some of the western supplied weapons are being seized by russian lead forces inside don bass as ukrainian troops have been abandoning whatever they can carry. when being forced to retreat. the high ranking officer of the gods republics military showed our correspondent, the latest western trophies that they have managed to get their hands on the just a minute. this is an american anti tank grenade launcher, and i'm 72. a 5. it's the most common of the ones we've got. this is a swedish 84 grenade launcher, or an m 136 by its us classifications. come with people. it's a good grenade launcher and we've used it already. works great. ideally at a distance of 300 meters, but it can be use it up to 2 kilometers. we've seen the whole cache of them. thank you sweden, here with this is a british and law missile. we carry it in these boxes. it's not so serious as half of them don't have a properly functioning battery. that's why they almost don't use them in the war.

we've used it though, it works quite well against the tank and the former pentagon analyst, michael maloof, says western countries seem to be running out of spare weapons to send to ukraine or caves. forces are burning through their supplies too quickly. united states and the european countries are dipping now tremendously into their existing storages of, of stockpiles of, of weaponry. they haven't really gotten the production capability geared up for a war time production. and frankly, i don't think the united states even contemplated let alone the european countries contemplated that they would be having to provide this much weaponry to, to ukraine. they probably initially thought that ukraine would fall in just a few days, but they haven't, they're holding on. and, and as a consequence, there supplies, existing stock piles in europe are being depleted. we're coming to

a point where these weapons are going to become a hard to, to come by dependent upon how much ukraine needs a, for example, it takes a week to, to send a shipment of javelin, say, use them in one day, the logistics of all this is mind boggling. 34 minutes. that's when i will be back with another full and fresh look at your news. this is archie international shipping. glad to have you with us. a girl's mom and i think they were creating it made their mistake,

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russia as an enemy. still, nato calls itself a defense of alliance. is it only a matter of time before article 5 is invoked? ah, discussed these issues and more, i'm joined by my guest, george samuel lee in budapest. he's a podcast or at the goggle, which can be found on youtube and locals. and here in moscow we cross due to me pre bobby cheese, a political analyst and editor at interest me internet media project, or gentleman cross stock rules. in fact, that means you can jump any time you want, and i would appreciate ok to start out in budapest, george, you know, over the last few new cycles and it's been made apparent the finland and sweden may want to join nato of all times. but we can talk about that, but one of the things.