a that you for that i think will this fuss around extra supply c crate has only one goal that is to drag out the military conflict as long as possible. in his 1st interview, since the start of the conflict, vladimir putin takes aim up, the huge amounts of western arms being shipped to ukraine, but claims russian defences are quote, cracking them like ah, 5 civilians are killed this weekend. does that then? yes, people's republic comes under ukrainian shelling notes according to local officials . we report from all around me. you can see this is

a residential area very heavily populated. this is one of those around multiple rocket launchers. they in the stories that shape the ukraine fires at human rights commission are in part for spreading unverified information about a legit war fries by russia. the canadian journalists covering the korean conflict is added to a notorious. you printing vigilante website on labeled an enemy of ukraine. eva bartlett tells our team why she won't be swayed by with the intention. this mares is also to just just kind of my name and to frighten me into non speaking or writing. and that's if they don't work, i won't live in here with, with a recap of the big stories over the past 7 days. and right up to the moment developments as well. this is the weekly an rti hello and welcome. the western arm supplies to

ukraine are aimed at dragging the conflict. that's what plumber potent has said in his 1st full interview since the start of russia's military offensive. you also claim the russian military was successfully neutralizing much of the advanced equipments and to key if you ever used to unmanned aerial systems that actually perform strikes can only be effective if there are no military defense systems present. we do have them. the boot has all the pans there. 30. extremely effective . not that i want to offend anyone, but the systems are cracking these vehicles like nuts. dozens of them have already been destroyed. dozens. you might think all this fuss around extra supplies. the crane has only one goal. that is to drag out the military conflict as long as possible. from the meanwhile, the russian defense ministry has confirmed its forces have destroyed the number of tank, found other military equipment on the outskirts of kiev. those armaments were supplied

to ukraine by eastern european countries. other strikes targeted facilities in the done yet republic, where ukrainian military equipment was said to be undergoing repair works. a mis unverified footage from the premium capital is purported to show explosions there and sunday, according to city officials. they followed the rush and strikes on military infrastructure with the ukrainian president's office. also claiming railways were targeted, no casualties reported as a result of the block where intensive artillery fire continued this sunday in the done yet people's republic with local authorities, claiming shells are being fired by ukrainian forces. 5 civilians are reported to have been killed since saturday and 26 more injured the

here this is lead to show the shelling of the capital city done yes. yesterday evening, the authorities there is say ukrainian forces fired dozens of missiles from rob launchers, which can shoot several projectiles at the same time, at key house and yet commented on the incident. the deal here to av residential buildings in done yet severely damaged with many nearby vehicles completely destroyed local fame, the apartments this surrounding areas well were targeted multiple times a year with usually plum. it will do most of the machine to put a little more go with little mobile issues to really do phone

record akira. dan yet came under fire throughout the day on saturday and overnight with 4 schools on the kindergarten suffering extensive damage. ortiz from on cost rep is there and filed us this report of the city of the nest was shelled throughout the day on saturday. and this is just one of many places that were damaged. this is the civilian area right in the center of the city wall, according to local authorities. at least 50 rounds of martin multiple rocket launchers had been used against civilians. here, as you can see, behind me, cars had been damaged. they were on fire on saturday nights. right behind the cars is a kindergarten is just one of the want to kindergarten was damaged and for schools as well, all around me, you can see this is

a residential area very heavily populated. this is one of those around for multiple rocket launchers that's landed right in the center of this area where all the civilians live. mind you. none of the military infrastructure was damaged during the shedding on saturday night. and the shelling to place around at 9 pm where most of the people were already at home. and luckily, no one was killed here, only 2 people have been wounded. but during the day, on the 4th of june, at least 5 civilians were killed both here in the nest and in nevada and wall of as well. and at least 20 people were wounded. and the total amount of people that were killed civilians that were killed by ukrainian shilling since the beginning of the special military operation amounts to more than a $140.00 people after 9 pm on saturday nights or the ground here was shaking

internet's can. this area in particular, it hasn't seen a lot of damage since the conflict began back in 2014. and of course residents here are absolutely outrage. yo mind you the front line of the fighting at the moment is right on the outskirts of the nest. can this civilians are afraid that this is not the last time that they will be targeted by the ukrainian military on friday cruise from r t and the reuters news agency came under artillery fire on the outskirts of the city of several. and yet a driver was killed on some reuters journalist, injured, or correspondent eager shut down. it was in one of the cars targeted. he told us of his experience ah, gaudy. ah,

we're just about to move into the town of several the nets as we were about to move into and drive into the town. we were caught amid a shelling. there were 2 vehicles, both civilians. the 1st one there was there were our colleagues with the reuters news agency behind the wheel. a soldier with the acme, with the chechen act my battalion, we were moving, we were the 2nd vehicle following them. so again, both cars, a civilian, and so 1st we heard a couple of shells. a couple of shells landed a good few doesn't meet his around us. so there was no cause for a lot of rule. this is a war zone. so these things they happen. the 3rd one caught the very 1st vehicle, the one moving in front of us. we did see it. apparently it was a direct hit. we saw a bright flash, the vehicle tipped over to the side and it was and it caught on fire was get caught a blaze. so are the driver, the soldier he died instantly right there and well

a to the 2 of the reuters crew all of them, they were injured. luckily, nothing serious. one of them as a broken arm and another was wounded in the legs. and i just want to stress and point out that are well, obviously the ukrainians, they've saw us. they saw that there were 2 civilian vehicles going towards a towards the town of i sever a de next and they were trying actively trying to head our cars. it wasn't like they were shelling the general area. we were with that target. and so well, they succeeded a full ma gsa to the ukrainian artillery artillery spot as and those who pulled the plug, pulled the trigger. they did manage to catch to john less of a european news agency. reuters in the cross has and they successfully had their vehicle. ukraine has fired its human rights commissioner in part for spreading on verified information about atrocity she alleged were committed by russian trips.

her claims had been widely covered by western media, as you may know, with top political figures also picking up on those statements or senior correspondent, iraq as the of takes a closer look at the story, which just to warn you include some disturbing accusations. day. a nice week sod end month after month. the world over was barraged with stories horrific stories of rape and unspeakable acts committed, allegedly by russian forces in ukraine in such acts of violence, raping children little girls, 11 years old, repeatedly in front of their mothers, or repeat piping their mothers and faces the children with each day, more and more credible reports of re killing st. torture. our merchant is if you so ensure you. hundreds of cases of rape have been recorded, including under age girls, very young children and even a baby. it's just

a scary to talk about it. but it's true, it happened, women and girls right now are facing the worst kind of fear and violence. and we know already i'm from the analyses that have been done. they've been the victims of not just murder and rape, but kidnapping. many of these stories grew to be unbelievable. and that sort of figure of speech, people including ukrainian officials and the government stop taking them seriously . they became an embarrassment. so ludicrous was some of the oh go. the woman behind these stories, nude, nila denise of a who was ironically, ukraine's human rights commissioner was fired a year before her term was officially up the unclear focus of the on buds men's media work on the numerous details of sexual crimes committed in an unnatural way and rape of children in the occupied territories that could not be confirmed by evidence, only harmed ukraine. her stories became so ridiculous that even members of the

ukrainian media, which, which itself isn't war propaganda mode intervene. 89 journalists together with 51 lawyers and human rights activists, and others penned an open let cooling on her to darla down that the graphic stories published by ha about months old douglas being raped with a variety of objects to royal up the people that this wasn't productive or, you know, decent sexual crimes during the war or a tragedy of families, a difficult and traumatic topic. not a topic for publications. in the spirit of the scandalous chronicle. we are forced to trust the official information that comes from officials in a state of martial law a priori. we do not have the opportunity to verify it from other sources. in this way, we are spreading messages from the commissioner for human rights, in fact, taking them on faith. essentially,

they us that the stick to things that actually happened. all of these stories can be tracked back to the needs of the had seem most pacifically, the social media posts made by them. and that's where all the trailed stop, almost all of her raped claims. se ukrainian journalists are without evidence or witnesses. the spot her own less than honest approach. denise, her has been a vocal proponent for an international criminal tribunal to apparently bring russian troops to justice for things that she had lie. the bath, i think we should look at yugoslavia and rolanda. these are the examples that we all know about. there is the un international court of justice and the international criminal court. we need to push for the creation of a special tribunal laterally. the niece of a has been blind to verify reports and footage of ukrainian troops murdering, torturing and mutilating brushing prisoners of war and even ukrainian civilians

deemed to be pro russia ever get the human rights apparently. but these telling isn't it when you own politicians who are bent themselves on making the rush and see was terrible as possible that they fly for being simply too outrageous. now want to bring to light here. story with a lot of potential ramifications. the ukranian presidential adviser has suggested us rockets system sent to the country, cut in the future, have a range of up to 300 kilometers. that's despite depending on saying it will only deliver rockets limited to 80 kilometers. who need to pick nationalistic live. do you remember how this war started when, but they were afraid to give us extra sting is extra javelins and they said it was a precedent. they could never set. and now there are lots of them. the sting is there could be no talk on artillery and yet western artillery has now been received . so where the radius is 80 kilometers there,

you see it will be 300 kilometers in crimea, is ours, it's ukrainian, therefore we will show crimea swiftly if there is such a need. this is considered strategic russian territory. and the fact that we hit crimea during the war, that was a little secret, was just some background to the story washington earlier agreed to send a new $700000000.00 military aid package to ukraine, including a number of advanced rocket launchers. ukraine though, could use the systems with different 300 kilometer range rockets, which would put the russian border city of bery answer within range for an agents valencia also hearing them up would also be at rest. their moscow has repeatedly warned of consequences if such at weapons are used to target sits territory. according to the pentagon, kia has promised they won't use the weapons to strike russia, although the u. s. envoy to the country seemed to suggest key of will ultimately decide how they're put to use. prison biden announced yesterday,

$700000000.00 security assistance package had been signed. this include timers long by truck systems. this will help you create and forces to a more accurately, but also have a longer range. the exact range will be determined by the korean forces. reiser and activists sort of flanders fears the new long range us rocket launchers heading to ukraine, will create a dangerous situation for the whole region. from the very beginning, every stage of this war, it's a proxy why ukraine has no independence whatsoever. proxy means public. and it's a us, it's pulling the strings in every pronouncement, but this will not change the military balance, no matter how many weapons are sent, at least so far, by every measure. the russian military response has been

consolidating the games and dunbar, perio po, see of arise and so on. it's a very dangerous things and it does show how, how much the u. s. is willing to escalate the war to more and more dangerous dimensions. but i don't think it will change the military balance of forces within the ukraine. ukraine is not doing very well in this war, despite all the grand pronouncements. but the danger of these weapon staying in region is enormous. it's enormous for all the possibilities of future peace and it should be clearly denounced and these weapons should be destroyed. hopefully they will be now, there is growing concerned on both sides of the main party lines in washington about the lethal aids heading to key of the pentagon recently admitted it has little control over how ukraine uses on distribute those weapons. risk of diversion

is one of many considerations that we routinely assess when evaluating any potential arms transfer. ukrainian leadership have assured us that they understand the importance of accountability. we're not on the ground with them. and they're not telling us, you know, every round of ammunition that they're firing in, at who and at when we have increasingly concerns voices at this point about the amount of weaponry and the amount of money that's being sent to ukraine. elizabeth warren is the latest to speak up the u. s. senator. the u. s. government ascending billions and humanitarian, economic and military assistance to help the ukrainian people overcome putin's brutal war. and the american people expect strong oversight by congress and full accounting from the department of defense. elizabeth warren has started speaking up and she's joined us. senator ran paul republican and we have a bipartisan call at this point for a, an inspector general to look into the dispensing of funds and weapons from the

united states to ukraine. make sure they're falling into the right hands, according to the global organized crime index published in 2021. ukraine has one of the largest illegal weapons markets of any country in the world. and ily, at least any country in europe, and illegally traffic weapons, are all across ukraine. this is what's been reported. there are 2 primary sources of elicit small arms and ammunition in ukraine. the diversion of domestic holdings and cross border trafficking weapons from eastern ukraine are becoming an important supply source for the black market. and there been examples of this already. one of the crime weapons used by the i'd states and exported by the states around the world. the javelin has apparently been up for sale, illegally costing around $30000.00. and at this point, we were looking over the record what happened in syria? what happened in iraq, what happened in afghanistan, and how so many us weapon had ended up in the hands of terrorists, extremist,

narco gangs and criminal element. there are some pretty legitimate concerns here as more and more us money and more and more us heavy weaponry. be delivered to bring something else to bring attention to a canadian journalist covering the conflict. then ukraine has found herself father to a key of based name and shame website. it's uploads, information of people considered to be enemies of the state. the site has published a slew of accusations against eva bartlet participation in the informational special operation of russia, an aggressive country and terrorists against c. creighton. informational support of the open military attack of fascist russia on ukraine. encroachments on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of ukraine. accomplice in the crimes of the russian authorities against ukraine and its citizens under earlier r t spoke with eva who say she doesn't believe the canadian government her own will

offer her any assistance. an independent journalist of maverick media did reach out to me a week ago and they were quite concerned. they take this issue very seriously. the fact that a canadian citizen is on effectively a kill list. and so they did interview me and they said in the context of the interview that they would be reaching out to canadian media. and i believe starting a petition. and they did inquire if i was going to reach out to the canadian embassy in kev to which i said, you know, essentially there's no point. i already know where i stand with the canadian government. i don't believe that canada would ever support me. despite the apartment dangers, even our faces, canadian mainstream media outlets have been silent on her addition to some consider a kill list. this is what she told me about the experience of being exposed to such threat. i don't believe for a moment that the canadian government would protect me from any of these. these

alternation less extra types that would seek to harm me because they see me as a threat to their country. a cbc journalist has been trying to reach out to me, saying that he would like to interview me on, on my work in the dumbass and on my participation in an international tribunal on ukrainian war crimes in moscow. in early april i think it was. now what i'd like to say about that is, i don't believe for a moment cbc would ever give me a fair hearing on their platform. they are canadian state funded media. they do the bidding of the canadian government and the corporate interests. you did not at once point in his email mention, you know, he's appalled by the fact that i'm listed on this kill list. he didn't say anything about it, but clearly he seen it. that's the only way in my mind that he could have been aware of my participation in this tribunal. so cbc is white washing the cranes kill list. and instead seeking to inflame the fact that i participated in a panel that right lee calls out you cranes for crimes against the people of it on

bass. will your work and reporting be affected by your addition to that site? i know i look, i can't live in fear, i won't live in here. i will take precautions. of course, when i'm reporting, but this is the thing they, they want to prevent people from. they want to scare people from continuing to report and that's not going to work with me just like the smears that have been launched against me since late 2016. the intent of the merits is also to just credit my name and to frighten me into not speaking or writing and that that's simply won't work. i won't live in here was the prospect of a membership is done gold on a stick in front of you. crane by the blocks leading members, it appears it may be harder for key of to obtain the 1st thought. increasing voices are pointing to a number of factors. ukraine, luck, stuff is necessary for membership to solve. such issues normally takes years or even decades. rti, charlotte davinsky reports you queen,

is desperate to be part of you. but as the momentum fades, its demands are getting louder. demon ukraine's quick movement to the european union is needed through its candidate status, which must be granted right now in conditions of war as part of a special short in procedure for e u membership. we do not need alternatives to e u membership. we do not need these compromises. while the president of the european commission continues to be encouraging, it is our moral duty to make it possible that they join our european union and that we pave the path towards our union. hers is becoming a lonely voice. fewer than a 3rd of you members support ukraine's bid to be granted candidate status unconditionally. in the immediate future, the majority a hesitant across the block politicians have even started to squirm. when asked about he abs rapid candidacy status having to admit that the chances are slim,

unsupported kind as of the assertion process is not a matter of a few months or few years. the fact that there are no short cuts on the way into the e. u is also a duty of fairness to the 6 western balkan countries. one mic like alford, you will cry in at. we cannot flam the door in ukraine's face. now, it's not enough to say you belong to europe. we need to say you belong to. the eel does look, and it won't be a fast accession process. there can't be any shortcuts here. quit me immensely. but even if we were to granted candidate status to morrow, the process which would allow them to join would in reality, take several years a most likely several decades. it would, it would, we have to be honest. if you say you crane is going to join the you in 6 months or a year or 2, you were lying. i know it's probably in 15 or 20 years. it takes a long time. hm. so why has the tied apparently turned, could it have anything to do with the mountain of criticism towards european leaders coming like quick fire from president sil lensky? there are plenty of other reasons why ukraine isn't in ship shape and bristol

fashion when it comes to being an e. u. candidate in 2021. ukraine ranked a 100 and 22nd out of a 180 countries on the corruption index that was significantly lower than the most corrupt you country. according to one recent democracy index, ukraine didn't do particularly well there, either. it's called less than 40 percent in democracy with independent media, also seeing a decline in recent years. ukraine, which markets 30th anniversary of independence in 2021 cannot be described as a stable, consolidated democracy. and as the war continues, the idea of a potential candidate being caught up in 1 may not be particularly appealing to the block. while there are also questions over whether ukraine is really pro european or just pro european funds or by then as just put 4 of the his 40000000000 package for ukraine,

which is utterly insane when you consider that economic mass for the united states is in. and i would say the same thing for the you and the u. k. there is no way that the u. s. or the u. k. or any country, any natal member states can give assurances that these are huge. financial packages are going to be followed through and that's a full accountability is going to be provided to the publics of those countries that are effectively providing this money. another argument is that by fast tracking ukraine to candidate status, it would leap frog over western balkan nations who have been in the queue for years . some say that would be unfair. whichever way you look at it, ukraine doesn't cut the membership mustard. and without being the case, if the does say no, it could be about to land itself. once again, is the length skis hall of shame?

well, another aspect of the whole situation in ukraine really has created his own refugee crisis as you will be aware. but the conflict has completely shifted attention from already existing problems elsewhere on the globe. that's according to military and organization, the norwegian refugee council. the war in ukraine has highlighted the immense gap between what is possible when the international community rallies behind the crisis and the daily reality for the millions of people suffering far from the spotlight. in particular and the console highlights the crisis, continuing to play out in the democratic republic of congo, food insecurity there reached the highest recorded level at the end of last year with 27000000 people. that's a 3rd of the country's population going hungry. the d. r c has 5 and a half 1000000, internally displaced people and a further 1000000 fled abroad already. well, the problems in africa are the only ones being overlooked. either hundreds of

a scam, refugees are facing eviction from a hotel in our damian after the u. s. stop making compensation payments as it focuses on ukraine. to date, a r p donors have spent over $2000000.00 supporting you to be clear. we are in this situation because what we were told about u. s. government support and timelines has not been fulfilled. the delays paired with the attention the war in ukraine is receiving his course. the major fundraising issues, dozens of african refugees gathered in the obedient capital to protest their plight . made being temporarily accommodated in hotels ahead of a planned way. sions to north america, but hundreds are still stuff. benuya unable to pay the higher hotel bills that comes with the tourist season. number of them work for washington during the ask i were i'm, we got the chance to speak to someone. what is the difference between the people of afghanistan and ukraine?

people are burning in a war. yeah, no one has their voices. why? if you are in countries in the us, open the borders to ukrainians. look at our situation. the u. s. must not leave us in an uncertain manner. we must not be forgotten because if he cranes, what's our difference from ukrainians? what is this double game on? some moment tele doing on young man the whole world. in particular, the us is responsible for a vacuum eating afghan, so now they're focusing a new crane. they now must have a tension to us again. well, have got this all going well with american re team. we want americans to create us as soon as possible. our children are being deprived of education when living in an uncertain situation for 89 months. we do not call if you'd like to explore any of those stories further to make sure to spend some time over at r t dot com plenty there to keep you informed and entertained as well. good bye for know.