ah, a ah final referendum result in ukraine's oper. oh, she and her san breed is with 93 and 96 percent, respectively saying yes, joining russia. that preliminary data and the don boss republic shows over 90 percent of the voters are in favor. our correspondents report on location with video evidence emerges, showing what's been described as an unprecedented damage to the north stream pipeline system with german media, claiming sabotage may be possible. also ahead

with this situation has not changed. it's a complete sham from western countries. russian president vladimir, who says the west of broken promises for ukrainian green to go to countries and need as only a small fraction of the supplies went to africa and with from lost out to the world. this is our t international. i'm rachel blevins and here are the top stories this hour. we begin this hour with our special coverage of the referendum in the dawn bass republics, and to break away ukrainian regions as the voting has finished. and the ballots are now being counted to determine whether they will join russia. ah.

as the polling stations have now closed after several days of accepting ballads, let's take a look at the numbers we have there ever. and notice final results have come in for ukraine's break away region, zapper roshi and her son with respectively 93.11 percent and 96.75 percent reporting in favor of joining russia. preliminary tallies. and then don, ask republic show 98.63 percent in favor. and in lugens republic,

98.53 percent the head of google's republic says the results testify to the unity of the people there. oh, the most important thing is that the referendum took place and we cast our boats as in the distance 2014 were united and showed our unity to the whole world. despite the fact that the ukranian nationalists did everything to prevent the referendum from taking place, the intimidated people they shot at us. the palace for the referendum in which we voted for joining russia are now being counted. as the final ballads are being counted, were updating you on the results as we get them. so let's cross live now to our correspondent in the darnedest republic roman kosar up. now roman, what is the mood like there at the moment? how are people reacting so far?

oh, we are currently a located at the referendum information center here in don't ask you can see there's quite a lot of media here, a lot of local and for in positions and for, and observers as well. we are all waiting for the final results to come in at any moment. so we are receiving a briefings here every half an hour or so, so far as i understand further or faraway region. so the next people's republic have voted for foreign pulling stations. have voted as well a 100 percent of the vote has had been accounted already and from what we know, so for at least 98 percent of the population have voted in favor of adjoining russia. now the chairman of the committee here said that only 0.77 percent have voted against her join

in russia. so i'm very small in significant percentage. sure. meanwhile, like i said, the result could come in at any 2nd. we're expecting results from the capital that has people's republic or the city of the desk itself that should be coming in at any given moment, perhaps even during our live conversation or right now. meanwhile, the referendum itself was held over the period of 5 days. 4 of those days, mobile referendum committees were walking around from apartment building to apartment, building from a private home to a private home, calling on people to cast their vote. and a lot of people have turned up in the 1st 4 days before the official ah,

polling station is opens up. in fact, the 1st 4 days, 88 percent of the population had already voted in this referendum. now, something has to be said about the mob referendum groups as well. they consisted mostly of 5 teachers from my high schools, middle schools, elementary schools and universities as well. most of them were women, brave women, mind you because they worked for performing their civic duty under stress because a ukrainian nationalist continues showing that the next people's republic all the time. they were trying to disrupt this vote from taking place. but said their attempts did just the opposite. as a more and more people came out to a vote in this referendum. now the people themselves who were coming out to vote in how they had to different feelings. obviously some were very happy to have

the very festive mode. some were crying saying that to this day had finally arrived to obviously my crew. and i will join to these referendum mobile referendum committees and as spoke to some of the voters. and this is one there to say you are in the program to renew and forces us to come. you can see it yourself. people can voluntarily, i'm so happy. i'm about to cry, you blocker. people are crying with choice, but there were people from the russian control territories in ukraine, said, would you please there has finally called them. i'm so glad a leader to see a i'm really happy. we've come a long way and i've been waiting for it for ages. yes, if something else has to be said about these mobile groups and there are people who are coming out to vote. so during this referendum now we've heard quite a lot from a western media that people were casting their votes. well under

duress said they were forced to do that. i believe a german politician also said that before they were forced to vote, they were even raging. this is a statement from the foreign ministry of germany. obviously the people who i've spoken with their 1st reaction to that was a laugh of course. and they said this is completely untrue. they devoted completely involuntarily. and many of them have been waiting for this day for the last 8 years . and in fact, this is very s to day. but for many, it's marked by tragedies that been happening here in dumbass for the last 8 years. as a thousands of people have been killed by ukrainian nationalists, including women and children. so with this referendum over,

people are hoping that the tragedies will also, and as they joined russia, are tears roman, coaster of thank you so much for that update. the united nations security council has convened to discuss the situation in ukraine, russia as a master to be when is currently speaking. let's listen in neither. it's so far as your procedure or how it's viewed in the eyes of the internal community or the roster. phobic, a trend that we are suffering from. i'd like to under school that there are, we are categorically against double standards. when there is discrimination, a practiced in the you and member you and member state. oh, find themselves in a difficult to better get into a situation. however, the leadership don't a subject to the same thing. and so there's also the international humanitarian assistance that's targeting ukraine or emma will you? green?

rand millions of dollars, however, are spent on you are my still here. however, there's double standards there. in the treatment of migrant is when o refugees from ukraine are welcomed with open arms into european countries, but those from africa in the middle east and others are rejected. we would ask all members of the you and to take a principle deficient on this. thank you. for, for a result, and you are listening to russia as ambassador to be you at. now let's move on to our next story. ortiz eager as you'd are not in the low gods republic. and he brought us the details about the referendum results as the final votes were being tallied. well, this place is the new heart of the referendum here in the la guns people's republic . this is the place where all the information, all the results from every single election committee flocked to and this is where the they're being made public at the screen over there. and indeed here it is. the

atmosphere is quite celebratory. the referendum came and is successful despite all efforts of the key of government, of the key of military who were trying to intimidate the local population here as much as possible to make them stay at home and not come to vote. despite all that, people here are happy. people here can't wait to finally see and find out the final figures. and this is the reality you won't really see are on the western media won't see on your t v. 's. if you're living in europe, for example, according to them, this referendum is a forced one. for example, according to the take of the german foreign minister, this referendum here and all others were happening at gunpoint. this vote it did happen at gunpoint at the guns were pointing from the side of the cave forces. and again, i can't reiterate this enough. they were shelling civilian infrastructure. they were shelling people's homes and houses and well trying to make them stay at home,

trying to scare them into not voting again. this did not happen, but our crew did prepare a report on this. here you go. cave has repeatedly claimed ownership over the citizens of don bass, and at the same time has been doing everything in its power to antagonize them. it's military has been shelling the population here with how it is and have you rocket launchers. planes dropped bombs on people's homes and children. and now the authorities and cave making it abundantly clear that anyone who is dropping ballots into the ballot boxes at the referendum will be persecuted with no mercy. you cream proposed up to 5 years in prison for anyone who dares to vote. and that's just the tip of the iceberg. repression, there's a plethora of ways to lose all humanity and keeps eyes here and be condemned with the stigma of being a so called russian collaborator, 8 years of war, have somewhat numb the people here to the outright abhorrence coming from caves.

government, which considers them its subjects. but while they're used to it, it doesn't mean they aren't hard broken. no, it was. it's such a bitter feeling when your mother land turns its back on you. well, the land you would always thought to be your mother land. it's very sad me that the one you i am so angered by this, but this is wool. that's all i can say when you know crazy. we owns living in ukraine. we are living in the la guns republic. and we do hope they won't be able to get the hands on us an awesome you. thus donald and sure all these threads could have been bluff grandstanding at an international level. a tray can ukraine's domestic policy game, but key itself shattered. all hopes of that. all calibrators who somehow reveal their names. there is a whole list of the surnames. they are all people who have signed that death sentences. we are not bloodthirsty. we are officially saying that will only accept a legal decision. life sentences for traitors as citizens of the don boss flocked

to the polling stations in the millions. it's not just to crane that remains oblivious to their plea. germany's tub diplomat annalee in a book ow did cave's own propagandists when she suggested the real situation with the vote here resembles a poorly written r rated movie and it does, yes. people have voting with a gun pointing at their heads. and this is exactly what touch referendums are about . people are shot at rapes and then obliged to very while a soldier onto the kalashnikov is standing right next to them. if we now accepted and let it be, then it will be repeated in other places. it will serve as an invitation to further violate international laws. as western politicians and media pushed the narrative of a people voting at gunpoint, reality on the ground points to a very different threat facing those, wanting to cost their vote at polling stations public areas. and don bass are being

shared by the ukrainian military every day. he was under cover hitman bomb pro russian officials and liberated regions on a regular basis. diversion groups are also active behind the defensive lines, but the german foreign minister chose to emit all of that. it doesn't fit ukraine's heroic facade, promoted so hard in the west. they're locked into this narrative. and it's so mean ongoing since 2014, that the people of the dumbass have no agency of their own, that they are essentially ultimate owns, are doing bidding. so that was obvious and that's how the west will interpret any election or referendum outcome. the problem is that they haven't come up with any evidence of this. show us the evidence that that people are being forced at gunpoint to go and vote there. isn't it about a quarter of the population here are holders of russian passports, just under

a 1000000 people whom you crane is eager to evict to the 21st century gulags. and that's to start with, under the proposed bill drawn up in co authorship with members of the as of neo nazi group, freedom of speech goes out of the window support. every whim of ukraine's government will be jailed. collaborators will be considered those citizens who have denied the armed aggression against ukraine and the occupation of its territories or publicly called for support for the aggressor, for cooperation with the occupiers. the final, in the most decisive day of the referendum is here. and it's about to show just how many people have decided to personally sign the divorce papers with ukraine once and for rule, i'm again done a reporting from the la guns people's republic ot see around one and a half 1000000 people had cast their votes and then donna's republic, by the end of the 4th day of voting and logan's republic,

latest data shows the turn out exceeded 90 percent on the hearse on and southboro. she regions their turn out was roughly the same. at 63 and 66 percent, respectively. we spoke to the president of the bricks international forum who came did it on bass as an international observer, as says, the mood of the people there contradicts the western establishment narrative. i found that to people about home, we were hearing that the ada gunpoint are having controlled by that issue. and i mean, we found that they had very fee their participating. and i think them like gay celebration and frustrated lee really giving message to the world that there is no fear nor any pressure and they are taking their own right window. sion garment did not by display do. they only provided logistic and infrastructure to the along the

lines and don't stick people to conduct developing. when you come to the ground, then you will understand what did that he energy from my united nation office. you can not see everything. so this is not what they were in international media is going on. i knew most of the time there is a fake news doing last 9 months. we observed that so many fake news said related to the by the western media to we still word in poland. and now as the polls are now closed, and luc oscar public international observers from france and italy have shared their 1st hand accounts of how the voting was conducted. there i, we worked as international observers in as upper osha region in the city of multiple, based on what we saw, i can say that the problem is not the ukrainian artillery, which can create fear. but actually it's saboteurs and intelligence groups. once

during im, inspection of a polling station, people who came to cast their ballots head from journalist cameras. they didn't want to show their faces. they wanted to keep their voting secret. so you've asked me whether i'm afraid of returning to france. it's hard to give an unequivocal answer to that question. i write for many media outlets under my own name. and of course, that causes a certain degree of distress. when it comes to my job in france, there's less and less to do there. that's partly because france as a member of the e. u, has pivoted towards the globalist agenda. i know a frenchman who stayed in the don bass on a humanitarian mission, and part of the funds he had collected in france for children's hospitals in the dawn. bass was confiscated by the french authorities. he is even currently under investigation. it's evident that the french political system is now faltering, and that can explain such a hysterical reaction. last cross live now to stephen gach, a professor at the institute of european studies and belgrade steven,

it's great to have you on the show to day. now isn't surprising to see such a high number of votes in favor of joining russia in those regions as well. as such a high turn out i don't surprised at all because many of these people waited for this for a long time, especially during the last 8 years. and this especially. busy goes for the people who are a russian speakers and who felt russian are and they were under the authority of the ukrainian state, which was denying them the modern tongue and the political rights. so i'm not surprised, i'm also not surprised by the results because of people who might still be sympathetic to ukraine. would probably prefer not to participate in indirect address around them in the 1st place. so,

but the high turnout says that the vast majority of population wanted to join russia, and i think that many of them are actually not even thinking that this the dish should have happened years ago. yeah. now, speaking of the people who are voting and of course why they're voting, we've heard from germany's foreign minister as well as the head of the council of europe. they've both claimed 2 days before the referendums that people would be forced to vote at gunpoint. does that not suggest a collective effort by the west to undermine the process before the voting has even started? well, this is really funny that here's our statement, staples, especially from, from germany because the 1st of foreign and the 1st serious foreign political move to germany did offer unification. was that it broke the international law by

recognizing illegal professionals, slovenia, and croatia from yugoslavia which opened the front door of ox. later on, germany supported and participated in natal aggression against the u. s. flavio ah, serbia, montenegro. that is and, and now they are still saying that the serbian bryce of also mentor he off a should be in independence faith although ah, it was a forcefully taken by nato as a result of a campaign that did not get the green light from the uh, from the security council of the united nations, which means that the international law. busy was brutally or broken and then at the same time, they are really worried about the, the international borders of ukraine, which says that we are dealing with double standards. and of course, i don't think that they will recognize that this,

these referendums or any future wants that i do expect to come because i'm sure there are other people will see that what happens after a friend, meaning that there won't be a war on the surgeries so, so i only expect after some kind of a yoga or points them sound conference that he'll come after this world to dribble us. ah, the only then the western countries will actually a recognize the, the facts on the ground. yeah, we've definitely heard from the last and they've been very clear about where they stand on this. now when it does come to those claims that people of the don bass as well as her son and zap hiroshi were being forced to vote at gunpoint. have you seen any evidence to back up those claims whatsoever? i mean, see, you have gone points. i wander,

want to what is happening with the people in our recently they can, the bars have recently taken by ukrainian forces. i'm talking about the harper, our region, and easyhome. there were photos of people not being or how all the ad, the gone boys, but actually shot and some, some really shocking our reports from there. but i don't see any. i see and i reporters are rushing to investigate this. on the other hand, a, there was no or any kind of a really hard evidence that that was such events were happening during these references referendums, as i said, these regions already had a mini uprising after day officer to who the thought had happened in on, on my donnie, he having to 1014 so, ah, and they were the people who didn't want to agree with what happened. i in kiev,

who did not agree with the r forceful bar regime change that they are, their voices were shots and they were not able to speak or many of them vanished. i think that the only years to come, we will see the full picture of what happened in the last 8 years in these regions that are now joining russia. so i think that that at what we are seeing now is the highest level of hypocrisy, especially coming from the western leaders, especially from germany. ah, which really doesn't have to write to to make these are really bold ah claims after what they have done in 91 and 1999. i would just like to when we talk about the, the, the, the pressure from, from the west, the, i would like, like to mention what is happening here in belgrade. the american ambassador at christopher hill, who was an active participant during the clinton administration of practically he.

busy was in favor of bombing and, and also met with the terrorists from the caly. he and he asked, he had the audacity to ask her to, to see the document signed between foreign ministers of serbia and russia in new york recently. so of this kind of colonial approach is, is absolutely outrageous but, but we don't really deal here with any kind of standards or principles, but with a brute force and brutal impudence by the western politicians. so i only expect this to continue, but i don't think that people in these 4 regions or in russia are in the rest of the world for that matter should really care about. yeah, that's an excellent point. now speaking of all of the threats that were issued and

of the fact that you had high such a high voter turnout, you had people getting out anyway. what is the precedent that has been set by these referendums? and how do you see the west responding in the years to come? i think that we are going to enter a new kind of a cold war, where actually the greatest victim with will probably be continental western europe . germany in the 1st row and france because of the high energy prices on one side. they did deteriorate as there are relations with russia. and it seems to me that ever since brags it's on the atlantic part of europe client. the western coalition actually abandons continental european western countries. so britain is practically joining a britain from the united states. shaylee or canada and some other

countries are making a military and economic alliance. but there is no place for continental western european. basically for the you countries in that, and that's a new architecture which means that the economies there are going to deteriorate them for the years to follow, which will just the 3rd to pull it to the political situation there. so what happened yesterday in italy should not surprise anyone because of all the people are not satisfied with the political lilies that are currently eating their countries. and that's why they will hold. busy for radical change, and that is exactly what is happening now in europe. yeah, certainly a lot at state care and we will continue to follow it as it goes on. stephen gas it professor at the institute of european studies and belgrade, thank you so much for your time and insight and you with the fine, although it's still being counted or won't keep you updated on the results and what

the future holds for these regions. ah, the u. s. congress has received a delegation from the ukranian armed forces including soldiers from the notorious, neo nazi as a battalion. just a few years ago, washington had banned weapons supplies to the extremists unit, but now the u. s. is welcoming them with open arms. as details of the recent meeting emerge when a ukrainian activists posted a report from the visit, daria colleen yak, posted a photo showing the as of soldiers dressed in black suit, along with a female armed service members. she explained that during a one week visit the female soldiers met with us congressman and asked them for

more arm supplies for key as war effort. they also did interviews with us media outlets including fox news and the new york times. but while the capitol hill meeting was declared the most emotional part of the trip, it didn't go down well with everyone. magnet americans where it's used to being nazis and were shot and killed in capitol hill. meanwhile, literal nazis are being emotionally welcomed in capitol hill. makes sense. republicans are the real nazis said the left us to proudly welcomed you. cranes is of battalion members to capitol hill? only 4 years ago, the u. s. congress band, the supply of weapons to the ukrainian neo nazi is of battalion to day. the neo nazi is of battalion as emotionally honored on capitol hill, returned to a longstanding and despicable practice of honoring nazi collaborators, criticism and the visit comes. i show biden's administration battles is own.