a with the neo nazi as of battalion says cube has essentially left them to die trapped in a steel factory in marble, despite russian troops having repeatedly offered them a chance to surrender. an american activist and politicians visiting the lugens republic expresses concerns about us and support for neo nazis in ukraine. they train these neo nazis. and not only that, they're neo nazis, united states were a big problem for us. going to the ukraine in getting military training. police force and killing back and creating more terror. g 7 leaders, a pledge to cut russian oil imports despite price inflation rapes already setting

record highs. also ahead we're now all the way towards the red square in the last call of military vehicles, with russia's main military parade, to take place on moscow's red square in just a couple of hours. we bring you special coverage right from the heart of the russian capital with broadcasting live direct, most studios in moscow. this is our international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with neo nazi as of the town leaders, i have lashed out at give saying, the ukranian government has effectively left them to die at the as all steel factory invaluable with about 600 troops wounded there. that's, as russia has repeatedly offered, those entrenched at the plant a chance to surrender, which has so far been rejected. on sunday,

all the civilians were mentally evacuated from the still works by russian troops with the assistance of the un and red cross. moscow had repeatedly express concerns that the civilians were essentially being used as human shields. the radicals had also reportedly been trying to exchange civilians for supplies of food and water. meanwhile, russian and had done yet, forces have been trying to completely pin down any resistance at the plant. as you can see in these images done, yet, the troops are working to destroy a bridge to cut off the remaining ukrainian forces from a key supply line. we heard from a commander in charge of the operations there who says the fighting is almost over mostly justly knows where there is an ideological war unfolding at the moment here in mary, a pull rather than an actual war ship. it's more about symbolism right now. they are trying to make those who defend the as of steel factory into some sort of heroes, like the soviet defenders of service to pull during world war 2. it's not true,

of course, the films will twist. the plot is they won't be the enemies will benefit from this propaganda. they will write books about this. we will write our own. of course, the last part of this time, mary pool saga is devoted to this ideological war. there is serious propaganda work and information war, but we have shown that even without any serious advantage, we have defeated them on. if we have shown that the enemy can be beaten from even in these urban conditions where the ratio is one to one, there are a few who have managed to do this in history. well, you know, from john parker and american activists, writer and leader in the communist workers world party visited the lugens, the people's republic this week to show his support for the reconstruction effort. he also express concerns that the u. s. administration has been backing the neo nazi affiliated government in tiff. they train these neo nazis. and not only that, there are neo nazis in the united states who are

a big problem for us going to the ukraine and getting military training from these forces and coming back and creating more terror. but yes, the u. s. as funded these folks, since 2004, they've given $22400000000.00, the ukraine. and a lot of that money is going to these neo nazi forces. they'd all talk about the, the prisons that these neo nazis have, and death tortured people with. and then we'll talk about the fact that these neo nazis have been infiltrated into the government and parliament. we did get a lot of eye witness testimony about the targeting of civilians in terms of targeting their homes the treatment that they received. the we are very concerned about the push towards world war 3,

which is what every day. it seems like they're increasing their money, the billions of dollars that they're sending to the ukraine, and the weapons, and the stingers in the whatever they call those javelins and the surface to air missiles and very sophisticated machinery of death that they're sending. and there's even information that they're, they're telling the ukrainian military where to target russian generals, this is, these are provocations of war. meanwhile, joe biden is set to sign the lend lease act for ukraine today to facilitate increased military supplies to q. b, u. s. has already given more than $3000000000.00 in a ukraine and has sold an additional $165000000.00 worth of weapons to the country as well. but us, congressman says, american weaponry stockpiles are running low. we just burned through 7 years worth

of javelin, and that's not only important as we continue to try and help you cranium when in ukraine. that's important as we try to simultaneously defend taiwan from aggression from the chinese communist party. they're going to need access to some of the same weapon systems, and we simply don't have the stockpiles at present in order to backfill what we've spent in ukraine. however, despite the incomparably huge flow of weaponry from the west to ukraine, the quality of arms appears far from adequate surrender. ukrainian officer has criticized equipment provided to ukraine from the e. u and the u. s. saying the weaponry didn't live up to all. the hype and ukrainian troops were not actually properly trained on how to use it. over an f one was sent on the u. s. military aid was overrated. hyped up grenade launchers, javelins and, and laws turned out to be flawed. in practice, there were lots of misfires in the only one in 4 shot correctly. it happened that

they could not had to target at just 50 meters. often the batteries had expired. with it written that the expiration day was close, we were trained really quickly at a shooting range. we did manage to thoroughly understand how the equipment works. so we didn't try to use it in combat conditions. just about everyone didn't understand why the misfires were occurring still positively. g 7 countries have pledged to cut imports of russian oil in an effort to punish moscow for its military operation in ukraine. but that's as price inflation rates are sending record highs and concerns are escalating about the potential for a global hunger crisis. for more on this, we can cross lie to our teeth. charlie davinsky was stay crossings for us now. charlotte, the us does not have to rely on russian oil supplies. but what about washington's allies in the g 7? don't they have something to say about it? yes, that's why i mean, we do know that countries like germany would have more need for oil supplies than

the us. but what we've seen here is a big announcement from these 7 countries, these big economic blocks that say they don't want to buy russian oil in the future . they made that announcement, as they were talking to presidents and lensky of ukraine over the weekend. and the idea is that they say that by denying these exports of russian oil to that big economies, they could really hit hard that the artery of president putin's economy in russia, and therefore deny him the funds he needs for this war in ukraine. when is this going to happen? well, the detail has been left out, and that's precisely because certain countries a fall more dependent on the imports of russian oil than others. what they have set though, is that this will be done timely and orderly that for trying to protect those economies that are most at risk from cutting back on that oil. meanwhile, we've seen the e u,

which has similar plans to hold all inputs of rational. so to come under ice this weekend, we know that ministers have been talking for the last few days trying to reach agreement on this package. but so far that seems to have eluded them. we understand that the big hold out remains hungry with when one department saying, you know what they want is a crazy total opt out of this span, which is not going to work. we do know that victor open the countries leader has previously described the idea of stopping in ports of russian oil is being akin to dropping a nuclear bomb on his country's economy. something he says that it couldn't withstand . and we know that that concern about economies in europe is now getting much wider . we heard from an italian minister over the weekend saying his country is now in a war economy. and that is something that could spread to other countries as the sanctions seem to not just hit russia,

but they're biting back here in europe to inflation rate in euro's own has had a new high of 7.5 percent since 1997 us sanctions against russia hurt allies, another reminder of what henry kissinger said. it may be dangerous to be america's enemy, but to be america's friend is fatal. well soaring prices have been hitting the pockets of consumers across the common food goods, such as wheat, vegetable oils and even sugar have seen price increases. in some places, you just simply cannot buy these products at any longer. now, there is no sense of any food insecurity that will take place here in the e u, at least in the near future. however, there is a concern for other regions, poor regions which have more dependency on those exports from ukraine and russia. exports, which at the moment on either getting through or are the products aren't being

planted because of the war taking place. now, germany's development minister has added her voice, the for boarding forecasts that they will be a world famine. the situation is highly dramatic. due to corona extreme droughts, and now the war food prices worldwide have increased by a 3rd and are now at record levels. the world food program currently assumes that far more than 300000000 people are suffering from acute hunger and has to constantly revise its forecasts upwards. the better message is that we are facing the worst famine since world war 2 with millions of dead. well, you lead is a do to me by tuesday again to try and get through this 6 a sanctions package on russia. we know that each package is becoming more and more difficult to get all $27.00 member states to agree on that. but they will try and thrash that out again over the next few days. and it could be,

as the greek prime minister has said, in a number of articles and interviews of late. well, the need to do is to be careful that it's not shooting itself in the foot with the sanctions. and a sanction packages have to have more impact on russia than they do on you countries or to show davinsky. we know as the story develops, increasingly interesting one, you'll still cross it for us. for more we can cross live to dr. jack rasmus, a professor of economics and politics at st. mary's college in california. now jackson for been with us, nothing happens in a vacuum. there's always a knock on effect. what have been the effects of the recent u. s. ban on russian oil? has it also affected us allies as well? well, on the ban on russian oil company, united states is pretty small. it's not going to affect the supply problem much united states, but you know, it's very clearly oil companies, united states are doing everything they can to construct supply before. no coven

didn't 2019 the u. s. was pumping 13000000 barrels a day. they could do that. now, but they're making sure they only pump 11000000 a day. and you know, they're going to have to provide oil to western europe now, which means even more shortages in u. s. and even more oil inflation in the u. s. oil and gas in commodities, inflation is not peaked yet. it whether united states or western europe or, or globally, we're still going to see a further rise in these costs, commodity cost, industrial metals, grains, fertilizers, oil, gas, the, the whole thing. so inflation is going to keep rising largely because of the sanctions, but also there's a series of forces surrounding additionally driving up inflation. we still have a global supply chain problems. we're going to have problems of, you know, supply coming out of china. now that part of their country is shut down because

a covered, we got the big corporations that are using the inflation as an excuse to price gouge. they, they may not have problems to supply, you know, in their own industries and companies may be using in any way, you know, a good example of some food companies and some other companies rants and so forth. that's going on everywhere as well. and now when you got the, the global economy, slower nan, particularly united states and in europe, what you've got is what's called rising unit labor costs and a business are going to start raising your prices to make up for falling productivity. and that's another way that coming here in the rest of the year. so it's like a perfect storm of inflation kind everywhere. and it doesn't appear that there's any policies that me in proposed to do anything about it in the united states. they're proposing the central bank to raise interest rates to precipitate recession

were already almost in a recession. we had a contraction of g. d, p in the 1st quarter. but that's the solution that they're, they're planning on to create a recession in europe. they're a little further behind that, but you know, it's runaway inflation and it looks like recession around the corner, and there's no real solutions being propose, the dreaded our word recession. and as i said earlier, everything happens with a knock on effect. could a full scale ban on russian oil increase inflation rates, which as you just mentioned, are already at record heights. or yes, of course, you know, especially in europe. no, that's going to happen. no one way or another is pretty clear. so yeah, inflation, whenever you get inflation is higher, historically is always followed by recession. no, naturally. and also because the central banks raise their interest rates and, and the slow down the economy. their solution is to walk the aggregate demand. the

numbers make the households and consumers pay for the inflation cost on the supply side of mostly do the oil. over half of the inflation on the consumer side is do the oil prices right now. so yeah, it's, it's, we're going to be facing both. it's a perfect storm coming, i think. right, dr. jack ross, miss a professor of economics and politics and st. mary's college in california. certainly an interesting time to have these types of discussions, push it out right now. in irish european parliament member says that an embargo on russian oil would not save ukrainian lives, because if the e u does not buy the commodity, someone else will and regular europeans would still suffer if europe isn't buying it, some one else will. the ordinary people of europe will be paying that price, not a single ukrainian life will be saved. unity among us member states has been challenged by their failure to agree on new sanctions against the russian energy sector. with

hungary speaking out against the proposed you ban on russian fuel imports. meanwhile, italian and greek officials have emphasized it is regular you citizens who would be effective the most. we are in a war economy in this war economy. some countries will be much more affected by these energy choices than others. we in europe know perfectly well that we are not able to impose sanctions, that will ultimately harm us more that russia and greece insists on this position. the discord comes amid plans to make the e u independent of russian energy sources with the block to embark on its re power initiative next week to cut russian gas imports. the program would see members with energy resources such as spain force to give supplies to those that lack them. brussels also plans to demand energy rationing in the industrial sector. the deputy chairman of russia's security council dmitri madrid of has marked the

ear over their seemingly communist sentiments. the communist spirit has finally reached through to the europeans, or at least it did, according to the media. those fat europeans who have diverse gas supplies will be forced to share them with the poor, but proud neighboring countries that don't want to pay for russian gas in roubles. economist and publisher, i can hammer claims that the economic warfare contradicts the interests of regular europeans. this is entering into this economic war as he does is totally deliberately, it has nothing to do with you. it was a war that americans on the brits, both not members of the u. s. or when do so, and when there was no need at all on it, that still no need to ration the gas. they can just pay the russians in roots as demanded the european receipt does not care about the member states that we have

seen many times in other political affairs, correct? no, no at all. we are the guest is most needed. victory de commemorations are taking place all across russia today and national holiday. when people recall the sacrifices made during world war 2, russian military vehicles are heading to moscow's red square for the upcoming start of the main military parade in the heart of russian capital. this morning. and now on our way towards the red square in the last column of military vehicles. so here there are but put out gary of blood co one. we're writing that b, b 3. but one of the conditions that i did for a rug was what these have for safety reasons. obviously,

that big a huge want to go there are $131.00 military vehicles as part of this whole major taking part of this great, which is much view on that and that is the pause, but even the 2nd thoughts of the conflict that you read it was decided to downsize the deborah vehicle. this is the basic, nevertheless, are wrong. examples of all sorts of vehicles, armored personnel carriers, protected gods. but personnel carriers as well as tags, as well as all sorts of what i, what personal carriers as well as, as all, because i add defense systems multiple,

robert louis just systems tactical miss all a, even a, the called the dental ballistic missiles nuclear me. so yeah, it's conflict with decently and the parade through the red square it get there are also a lot of people. so 11000 versus 12000 last year. meanwhile, russian aviation cruise taking part in the current fighting and ukraine, have joined in on the immortal regiment processions commemorating victory de the airmen displayed photos of relatives fought in the 2nd world war on the sides of their helicopters. the contributions of the ukrainian cit to the triumph over naziism would be very hard to overestimate. as every 6th fighter in the ranks of the soviet red army was ukrainian. in october of 1944, the ukrainian socialist republic was completely liberated from the nazi invaders.

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conflict in ukraine. as the conflicts in ukraine goes on. western countries have been trying to twist certain positive history, especially the role of the soviet union in fighting fascism and naziism. the desecration or demolition of soviet era monuments and cemeteries has been taken to a new level, getting rid of soviet symbols as the responsibility of all local administrations. there are about 60 places on our list where such symbolism needs to be removed. moscow has repeatedly condemned walsall calling on it not to follow the lead of radical politicians. this is not the 1st time we have come across such a shameful phenomenon. the war against soviet monuments and poland. everything that is happening in poland now is happening in violation of bilateral borges andy norms of civilized communication. traditional tokens of awareness have not escaped detention either. the st. george's ribbon, a case symbol in russia and abroad and use for commemorating world war 2 east in

front veterans has been banned in moldova. the president said the ribbons place is in the trash can of history of the western politicians are also not mincing their words. when it comes to comparisons between the conflict and ukraine and world war 2, every russian has learned about the siege of leningrad during world war 2. sadly, history has repeated itself, but now it's the russian government cruelly starving ukrainian cities taking 2 completely different situations, including them together. one that involves starving a city into submission. the other that has attempts at humanitarian corridors and a deliveries. and the western media has been going even further in trying to draw historical parallels. the red army engaged in ramp headed trustees and massacres during its occupation of ethan poland. finn and, and other east european countries and 90. 399041 scenes nowadays from butcher. mary . you pull car, cough and other ukranian cities, shows that russian soldiers over the past 10 weeks have perpetrated atrocities against civilians in ukraine. some articles have given space the new

interpretations of victory day. as russia who on ukraine continues the day will take on you, meaning it's very much rad galvanizing support for russia, the present and showing off the strength of rushes military forces. us diplomats have even accused the soviet union of being an ally of the nazis by cherry, picking specific episodes out of a much bigger historical context. put in like so keys his victims of b. nazis. but it's important to remember that in 1939, that's a germany on the soviet union, son and non aggression pact, only after the knots his launch a surprise attack on the ussr. in june 1941, the, the soviet union joined the anti struggle of this makes not just a revision of the outcome of world war 2 and the bloody sacrifices of the soviet people. they've been canceled. music timber, muslim junction. we hear that lately in the west, there are more and more warts that the documents signed by the savvy to tell terry

regime which consolidate the results of the 2nd world war should no longer be carried out. the results of the 2nd world war, as well as the sacrifices made by our people on the altar of victory over nazis. you are sacred now, but if i give them at madison's mom, i am i lo, in welcoming ross, not we're all things you can send and i'm funeral about 77 years ago. fascism in

europe was bank, which the price for this victory was staggering. that experience remains part of brushes, political and historical dna to this day. on this addition of the program, we discussed why victory day is honored in russia and largely forgotten in the west . ah, to discuss this and more, i'm joined by my guest here in moscow. maxine, stop, he is the wrecker of the center of advanced american studies at moscow state institute of international relations. and we have dmitri bob, she's a political analyst editor, interest me, internet media project for a gentleman, cross stock rolls, and the fact that means you can jump in any time you want, and i would appreciate it. well, let's start out with maxine, maxine, that's a, it's a victory day. i'm a big today in the great, well patriotic war is it's called here in russia. and if you go down the streets i

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