a a russian is defense, ministry stays, it has opened another exit window for ukraine's remaining forces inside the dumbass city of mario paul, who been offered a fresh chance to surrender peacefully. but so far, the fighting that has been raging op on the periphery of the i'll go to steel and i went to industrial compound. as you can hear, battle rages. we report from the final front line in 5 mario poll where russian led for his launch. the latest assault against caves, troops earlier on tuesday, with russia foreign ministers that the country had no choice but to send troops to protect. don't bounce off to the west, refused to respect the red lines that by moscow. my cousin to suggest

with google and even the process you create an environment the regulatory comes to for the sharing. those are problems. plus h, l, a. in american journalist and key of critique is reported to have gone missing inside ukraine, or one of the country's national leaders claims the reporter might have been captured and killed. with thanks for joining us. this is asi international with the latest news update. now as the fight and continues across dumbass, russian and don, yes, republic forces have announced another chance the key of troops inside the city of mario pole, to surrender. even quoting the of a humanitarian car, we do. a local si, fi has been implemented around the entire territory of the as of style. industrial

plans in mario poll, which is the last stronghold of the cranes troops in the city field post to provide food and medical care to any trips who wished to surrender, helping set up in the area by russia, the defense ministry, se ukrainian prisoners of war will be treated in accordance with the geneva conventions, and it's not the 1st time russia has opened such an exit window in mario pole. on sunday, russia's defense ministry offered members of ukraine's nationalist battalion laid down no weapons, but that proposal was ignored by the troops, humanitarian cardoso, also previously been open for civilians. he wanted to leave the embattled city, or the russia accused ukraine's forces of opening fire on some of the locals who were trying to flee. most of the remaining ukrainian troops in mario trying to hold their ground inside the walls, territory of the as of style industrial plans. their exact number is unknown, but they are reportedly in short supply of munition and food. nevertheless as

periods in key of what allegedly, or have allegedly ordered them to keep fighting the ukrainians claim. they still have civilians inside the factory. but these allegations have been denied by the russian defense ministry coughing. negotiate to say the events in mary. oh, paul, are complicating assets to broke. se is fine with moscow. all these more guys, the reports from near the front line and mario paul, where russian let's poses a new offensive early on tuesday. here on the periphery of the as of steel and nod woods, industrial compound. as you can hear, battle rages small arms, mostly as well as armored personnel carriers. but last few residential neighborhoods of all that stands between total encirclement ukrainian nationalist inside the other industrial compound. as you can hear, the fighting is still ferocious, but from what we understand,

nationally ukrainian troops are running as of foods, out of woods, as well as a morale is said to be very low there. because obviously they're running short and supplies, but also because they invariably i understand many of them, but this is the end that their commanders and those and here here which is ordering them not to surrender that they're throwing their lives away. nevertheless, there are a core radical fanatics among the nationalists in the algo steel compound . and they forbid any sort of surrender, any sort of negotiation. they want to keep fighting, as they hope until a diplomatic clap solution is reached by which they will be given a car. door as of mary, and did the ukraine, proper territories controlled by the caribbean. military,

even though that is at this point, incredibly unlikely. meanwhile, the us and its allies want, he trained to keep fighting until the last man standing, according to russia's defense minister, his condemned western efforts to supply more weapons to key f. this is good. the russian army is carrying out the tasks set out by the commander in chief as part of the special military operation by consistently implementing the plans for the liberation of the don't ask and logan's people's republics while taking measures to restore peaceful life. there, the russian military personnel taking part in the operation or displaying their courage and heroism in the line of duty, the u. s. and the western countries controls are doing everything in their power to drag out our military operation. the increasing shipments of foreign weapons are a clear demonstration of their intentions to provoke the key of regime into

fighting until the last ukrainian. earlier russia haughtily launched a heavy barrage of strikes against ukrainian forces across dumbass. this unverified amateur footage allegedly shows some of those attacks taking place in the night. explosions have also been repulsed in the major ukrainian cities of ha, cough and nicholas on visa said to be some of the latest images from the chunk off region and north in ukraine. where rescue is claim they found that he $71.00 bodies or sifting through the rubble of apartment blocks off the heavy shelling. russia has not commented on those allegations. the west left russia no choice but to step in and protect the people have dumbass. thus, the latest message from russia's firm and is to say a law trav who gave an in depth interview to indian media. in november last year, my president suggested the united states and from nathan to sit down to cool

and to discuss how we can agree on the security guarantees results for expansion of nathan eastward, correct. they refused to even bid process, ukrainian army, the regulatory and concert for the shooting of those republics, evolution of fulls use, photo treatments. and we didn't driven the chose but to recognize them, to sign mutual assistance through this with their mother, the response to the request for sim oh, through spoke to the special duration to put their their lives. yes. hi me. k rushes, foreign minister said again love rob gave a big interview to indian media and he spoke a lot about the roots and causes of the current military conflict. a ukraine. what's happening now may still lover of sad is a direct result of us as desire u. s is will to dictate their rules to the rest of the world, including key of miss oliver of remembering 2003 ukrainian presidential elections

in which washington directly opened. land bluntly have been pushing ukraine to choose between the european union and russia at the time when the 3 of them, key of moscow and brussels had a chance of how their relations and corporation without excluding anyone. and without mankey any choice. and when 10 years later, in 2000 and saturday and on the countries president decided to postpone ukraine's closer integration with brussels, bloody violin device known as you are. my don began with a lot of america's house. and it ended up a way they overthrow of then the country's leaders shape. and then you authorities that came to power as a result in key of immediately started i to russian and even worse of father paul. and this is when you cranes, eastern regions often ask and lugens asked for independence that till to day kiev slash washington do not want to happen,

mister lumber of all so sad that the aim of moscow's current military operation in ukraine is to liberate people's republics. often yes, can logan's completely adding that the operation has just now entered its 2nd very crucial phase. speaking about the events in the ukraine in town of boucher makia presented as war crimes committed by the russian army. and that to moscow sees as a complete fake mister law of promise that's russia will find out the truth and had just to remind you, following boucher without any independent investigation. the west supported key of an imposed several packages of economic sanctions against russia, commented on that mister law group said that russia is still strong enough. let's take a listen. no, we have come to a very straightforward conclusion. weekend or 3. why? oh, this them colleagues. in, in a part of,

oh will life which has 30 juke significance when the oh, frozen, the russian essence and doors and euros and young. those were mostly the money kept on the western banks. oh, off to we received bayman from them from, from the western countries for august delivers, in other words, they paid us and they stole the money from us. they would be paying the same amount, which they have to pay under the existing contracts, but they will pay this, this amounts to specially cohen to which they have to open them this bank. i believe this is something which does not come through the conference. they would still be in euro's of dollars or whatever was the currency of the contract. but we will have insurance that this a robbery would not kirkland, again,

speaking about russia's relations with. ain't a mr. oliver, sad that they are a long strategic partnership has recently gone to a much higher level. this is what the minister had to say. but the india is oh, very, very old friend. and the the we called the relationship long ago strategic partnership. then about 20 years ago, the indian france said way, i don't recall it. i don't recall it, a privilege strategic workmanship. and sometime later they said not enough left school it especially privilege that the g butler should this is, this is the unique description of any bilateral relations. oh, i seen coughing and fresh, and on the fence. oh, we can provide anything in do once. and the technology transfer in the context of

defense schools perish is absolutely unprecedented for any offering dis, oh site books. and coming back to ukraine speaking about the long awaited piece. there are mr. oliver of sad that president zalinski is changing his mind too often and bad creates lots of problems. lots of obstacles for peace talks. to remind you, there were already several rounds of negotiations between kia and moscow. very tough, but very productive and even successful as both sides agreed until it all stopped at the end of march. and now hopes are that the 2 countries will be able to get back to the table soon. moving on the white house said it's not in us interest to send american troops to ukraine. however, washington says shipping more weapons to key if, despite the objections from moscow, the white house statements came in response to a suggestion by a high ranking democratic lawmaker who was called for american boots on the grounds

in ukraine. i deeply worried that what's going to happen next is that we will see ukraine turn into syria. 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 putin will only stop when we stop him. 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 expand and expand discontent in the country and ultimately try to topple the government. between 20142017 alone. $12000000000.00 was spent by the united states on trying to conduct regime change and intensive lied the conflict in syria if the congress is so concerned about not having syria and their situation become something similar to what's on the ground and ukraine. why are they talking about sending more and more weapons?

we now know the united states is looking to put 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 armed forces on the howitzers that will be there shortly. heading over that training will occur outside of ukraine. it will be more of a train, the trainers kind of environment, so it'll be a small number of ukrainians that will be trained on the howitzers. and then they, we re introduced 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 prolonged they conflict in syria, which created all kinds of refugees and all kinds of suffering. and it's also important to know that in syria, the united states promised there would be no boots on the ground. the by the time obama had left office, he had broken that promise. i. 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. while your government's are imposing new waves, avante russian sanctions from german business representatives have rallied against a proposed embargo on russian oil cussing off. all supplies of russian fossil fuels is no easy task for you. countries who import around 40 percent of natural gas from russia, experts say this appliance would be most difficult to replace for germany. one of your biggest industrial manufacturers. berlin has so far, refused, and immediate shuts off. instead, proposing to phase out most russian employees by the end of 2024, leaving german officials have stated that any rapid action would devastate the economy. an immediate gas embargo would endanger social peace in germany. a rapid gas embargo would lead to loss of production, shutdowns,

further de industrialization in the long term loss of work positions in germany. close to dow lift, co director of the institute for the analysis of global security. many thanks for joining us on. the program is good to see you. now german business representatives hop strictly opposed to a band of russian oil while you will take on their position. well, i'm not sure if they oppose the ban on russian oil or russian gas. i think it's very important to understand the distinction between those 2 very important commodities. oil is about transportation. oil is a fungible commodity. even if germany doesn't buy any oil from russia, russia will be able to sell this oil to someone else. the problem is with natural gas, with when it comes to natural gas, we talking about electricity. electricity is essential for industrialized

processes. and here, there are no good alternatives for germany or any other european country for that matter. let's not forget that most of the natural gas that europe is buying today from russia is pipe gas. it comes through pipelines. europe now wants to transition to l. n. g, liquified natural gas, and this is a much more expensive gas. so europe, as well as germany and all the other industrialized countries, i essentially talking about replacing cheap gas with much more expensive gas. and that will mean attacks on the european industries de industrialization and more inflation made known that europe continue to import russian gas and oil even now, amid numerous sanctions, have they really no other choice or is it just the master of costs?

there is no other choices in the near term. almost no other choice of course, you know transition some natural gas star plans back into call. but that associates with climate problems. they are. 7 of possibilities to reopen nuclear power plant, but germany is not willing to do that either. all the other alternatives, like for example or more l n g. well, that requires a dedicated infrastructure, rigorous, if occasion, facilities, most countries don't even have access to the c. so they cannot be even receive l n g. so these are long term processes. they cost a lot of money. so yes, over the near term, europe will have to import rush and gas. whether they like it or not,

they are going to do is always to commit because i'm a suicide. but i don't think this is what your wants to see. do you think it could be a case if you can all make interests prevailing over politics? eventually? i think that you cannot cheat the laws of economics. you cannot, you know, run what i call a faith based energy policy. and the end of the day there is a trickle down effect. everybody will believe in their pockets. everybody will feel that in the standard of living, let's not forget that when an industry shuts down, because it's no longer competitive, it's very difficult to bring it back online. it's very difficult to restart factories that have shut down because they went bankrupt. so this could be

a reversible trend, i'm sure that the side of all the hype and all the talk, even european leaders understand those economic reality. and eventually, despite the bluster and they will do the right thing for their people or else they will be replaced with. some of the analysts are saying that new ball go on, russian gas might lead to having to ration supplies between business. if that happens, all sorts of ramifications could that have yes, but even that again, it's the practicality of rationing or redistribution of gast, i guess it's not something if you can pack in a suitcase and move from one place to another gas is it is a non fungible commodity, it requires pipeline, thousands of kilometers of pipeline is required pumping station, a lot, a lot of billions of euro's and it will have to be invested in creating this

infrastructure. it doesn't happen overnight. so all these talks about very simplistic solutions are either designed to mislead voters or they are a reflection of very poor understanding of the realities of energy. but these are the fact you like them. you don't like them, these other facts, and you have to deal with them. i'm experts say it will be extremely hard to replace gas imposed from russia to the e. you. how do you expect the situation to develop? i think that in the long run, we will see a concerted effort to reduce the dependency of europe on russian natural gas. however, however, and i, i don't know that europe will be able to sustain the cost of this transition because i said you're moving from a very cheap natural gas to much more expensive one. that means that there is

a hidden tax that will be imposed on every european business customer in europe. and we have already rising inflation, rising food prices and everything else and wearing about all of this will have to be reconciled. unfortunately, the reality is that that voters are very impatient and they don't want to wait 10 years or, or, or 12 years, or even 5 years for, for improved energy landscape. they want solutions now and they will express their anxieties and frustrations and the bowling stations. when national elections will be coming in and every european country will have to face elections in the coming years. and i think that this will change the political landscape in europe

because in the end of the days, you can make matters more more than anything in the voters minds tell, lift co director of the institute for the analysis of global security. many thanks for your time. we appreciate it now, a to lay an american journalist who's being covering the conflict from inside of ukraine has reportedly gone missing in the city hall, called fellow reporters, now fear for his life, saying gonzalez, lira has been out of contact since last friday. extremely troubling. that gonzalo lira a us citizen in ukraine has disappeared from social media. he was scheduled to interview me last friday about lensky, s b, u kidnapping, and assassinating dissidence. and now i fear he has become its latest victim. if gonzalo lira has indeed been disappeared by ukraine's s p u, he joins a long list of dissidence. leftist human rights activists and local officials kidnapped, tortured and even assassinated by zelinski dest squads and with caves open support

. meanwhile, one of the cranes nationalist leaders has posted a series of tweaks in his private account, mockingly claiming the journalist might have been abducted and killed by quote, some guy with the co sign chile and other posts that he shows a photo of neo nazi 5 is again hinting they might be the ones behind the reporters disappearance and even applauding the prospects of the gender that's being dead. the radical ukrainian commander has it provided any evidence though, so the information cannot be immediately verified. gonzalo, mira is 54 years old and has been living in ukraine for the past few years. he was in kia when a conflict worked in february and then traveled to hong kong to cover the fighting . then he has repeatedly criticized the ukrainian government and armed forces for the actions at the end of march. he tweeted that the that he called the truth about the landscape regime. i think he might disappear as did other critics of key of some of whom were later found that he is one of the things. although there is

latest interviews before he went missing, nato never allowed grain to join formally. but informally, they established training bases for western ukraine. trained all of the ukraine, military in nato tactics, nato communications methods. so very real the armed forces were makes up, but they also integrated these near not the hyper nationalist elements, not just him to the armed forces by the way, also into the government itself. and these new and not see extreme nationalist, extreme grain enact elements are poisoned the well listen, the ukrainian state. you can probably anti russian. this expressed itself in the government itself and also in its armed forces. there is a constant showing of be done by reaching the break away public republics of god.

and over the years, well, about 16000 people were killed there needlessly. and it was really because of the aggression of the ukraine regime, which never wanted to negotiate with the people on the break publish. and pushed forward this extreme radical ukrainian nationalism. we've requested an update on the journalist status and notation from the delay and ministry of foreign affairs and the us department of state. since gonzalez has a g o citizenship so far, there's been no response, but we'll keep you posted on that. and thanks for joining us. have nancy international web back at the top of the hour with the latest ah,

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