fraction of civilian infrastructure, like it was a personal job at russian president vladimir putin on his birthday, kind of like, you know, neighborhood, teenagers had thrown raw eggs in his garage door, some western media pin, the incident on ukrainian special services effectively echoing the kremlin assertion that he behaves like a terrorist state, but by saturday afternoon there was a distinct shifted tone. a ukrainian official close to zalinski tried to shift blame away from keith, implying that russia blew itself up. now seriously f. s be tried to eliminate leadership of defense ministry before personnel change. espy was a knocked down miss putin's bridge explosion. defense ministry, canal blame fs. be for the future style floss. isn't it obvious? who made an explosion? the truck arrived from russian federation, the pentagon for once, didn't really have much to say interestingly enough, not even some spin or encouragement in favor of ukraine as u. s. defense secretary lloyd austin has

a chronic tendency of offering up. so what accounts for the shift may be washington managed to get heave back on leach sometime during the day on saturday. a similar pattern was evident after zalinski called for a nato preemptive strike on russia last thursday. she'll pull when little boy. what should nato do? eliminate the possibility of russia using nuclear weapons. i once again appeal to the international community as it was before february 24th. we need preemptive strikes, so that russia would know what awaits them if they use nuclear weapons. by friday, zalinski was already trying to gaslight every one m pretending that he didn't actually say what he said. and i said you have to do preventive kinks, not a dex. so again, what happened that led zelinski to back pedal on his statement. perhaps he felt the pressure of the western hand that feeds him his endless weapons in cash. but which clear isn't too keen on having t spark a nuclear football match,

or actually setting off world war 3. also recall what happened in the wake of the attacks on the nord stream pipelines that run from russia to europe. right afterwards. poland former foreign minister tweeted thank you usa, that host which stayed up for a few days is now deleted. amid the ongoing debate over who's actually responsible, several voices in the us, including some prominent members of the establishment, are growing less shy about overtly blaming the us for the attack. so what made sikorsky decide days later, that publicly thanking his pals, america maybe wasn't such a good idea. perhaps washington made an appearance and gave him a little whack on the nose with a rolled up newspaper. rachel morrison, while foreign policy expert, george, i'm a welly believes ukraine couldn't undertaken actions such as blowing up a major civilian bridge without some approval from washington. there's no question

greenwood member takes such a risky, high profile act without the consent of the united states. us officials tell the new york times the, well, we really don't know what your crane is doing. i mean, we basically have very little intelligence into the activities of ukrainian forces . we know very well what the russians are doing. so we don't know what the range, whatever ukraine is embarrassing and already big. i mean we, we've seen the videos in which they torture and kill prisoners of war, flagrant war crimes, in which they were very proud of the war crimes. and yet, western officials has nothing to say about it, even as they get their hair out there is the absolutely we saw on the line the atrocities such as the butcher. if there is an operation

united states is behind this bub ukrainians. make sure not to inform the americans in detail as to what they intend to do.

very strong and he's very knowledgeable about tactics. and i think that this bridge probably coincides with that, and rushes just decided that they're not going to stand for this any longer yet. we should point out ukraine authorities have not yet, and declared their involvement in, not per se, rushing towards the topic. heard of an act of terrorism by key of forces is not a red line. what's occurred? you had 3 people killed. it's used as a civilian crossing at seen as part of russian or of course, as well with that happening with what is occurring today. you're seeing this is

almost seen as, as likely to have happened. yeah, i think it's a red line. yeah. i mean, i think the 1st red line was the north stream pipeline. nobody believes that russia get it to themselves. that's just absurd. nobody believes that the crimean bridge was done by russia itself. ah, you know, but this is the narrative that the west keeps pushing. russia has been quite quiet on these incidence because they don't want to keep their hand. but we know what the truth is. and the truth is that this is orchestrated by the grinning government. and even while details are scarce, the russian government, they know exactly what has happened here. you mentioned there's new can under the operation in ukraine also today, john mark, we know that the russian security council will convene aspect to lot of mir. and

in light of events today, what do you think is expected from the meeting? you know, i think they're going to come up with some new doctrine. they're going to come up with some additional strategy. we don't know what is going to happen, what the response from ukraine is going to be yet. i think the west is largely trying to rethink its position. the people of europe. they're not falling for it anymore. i mentioned nord scream, the people from europe. they don't believe that it was russia, they did this to themselves. and i think the west has been put into a pretty difficult corner now. because if they keep shoveling these weapons into ukraine, you know, it's going to look like exactly what it's been all along, which is they are just trying to perpetuate this war at the detriment of ukraine in

the west. so we're, i'm just waiting to see what the response from ukraine is going to be and to see where russia is going to take that from there. what about the wider response then in the west to these missile strikes? it's going to be a more direct one. do you foresee sanctions against russia? more of those coming are. how do you view it? i love the west is played there. sanctions hand. you know, it's been, it's been a disaster for the west. ah, it hasn't been easy on russia, but it hasn't been, it hasn't had the effect that they want. you know, so i don't, i don't see additional sanctions, you know, the united states, i feel the united states started this infrastructure war with the nor dream pipeline. and now they're just going to have to deal with the consequences of

this type of activity that they introduced into this conflict. and just to bring up a point that you said earlier, john mark, but perhaps this not moving from a special operation as russia called the military operation into more of a direct conflict because we know that strikes against at ukrainian targets in the past have targeted and military nationalists battalions and, but rarely, at other infrastructure now today with the thermal power plants reportedly hit as well. you know, this now looks to be an uptick of sorts, doesn't it? ah, it does, it does. but i don't really think that russia's goal, i think russia's goal is to tell them that they are not going to take it. and these actions are not going to be tolerated. or else it will

met be met with very significant response. and you know, the fact that russia was so restrained in these, in these actions for so long goes to show a lot about the mentality of the the situation as it's been playing out. ok, interesting. all was good to hear your thoughts. thanks for joining us in the program . this monday john mark to inform us marine on geo political analysts. thanks a lot. been traveling by now as the commander in chief of ukraine's armed forces. another story to bring, you'd say, generating quite a lot of interest has in advert lee published a photo of himself dawning. what appears to be a 3rd like symbol. let's go through it here at valerie solution. they posted a photo on twitter with users noticing the general wearing a bracelet that features a swastika wherever some ukrainians posted another photo. in the incident with the

so named roon insignia, trying to disprove the bracelet containing nazi symbols and was simply distorted by the quality of the photo taken. however, it is far from the 1st time he has been highlighted over its embrace of extremism. last may this photo with a soldier wearing an emblem of an infamous nazi tongue division, was posted by president zelinski himself, but later deleted after a public backlash. this picture was taken last month in the heart of region. here, a lot of years lensky seen guarded by soldiers with the same symbols on their attire. that's shot also by the way, deleted later. some reaction to this michael maloof, a former security policy on the list in the office of the us secretary of defense, a neo nazi groups openly operating within ukrainian military has been an issue for some time until it this is one of the concerns that

a lot of us have and, and obviously it was also a point that the president made when he decided to undertake his special military operation to go to rid the country of the, of the nazi wants to for all. but for the, the commander and chief as commander chief, he has had right wing groups and neo nazi groups, this part of his own armed forces. so it's not surprising and i looked at that braces very carefully and the room is, it's ancient. but the way this one was tilted and comprised, definitely represented and reflected accurately the, the actual nazi symbol. it's not the 1st time and you see these group. so walking around openly displaying these symbols. well, we knew it back in 2014, when the qu actually was staged. you didn't hardly hear

a whimper out of any of the you countries or the united states who was working with these right wing groups was especially as off as off actually has representatives in the united states and our, and have been actively recruiting us per se. us people, ukrainian army advances were successfully repelled on several fronts in the loop ganske republic, according to the russian defense ministry. and recently r t z courage del of visit a small village. there were local said they've been shell by ukrainian forces long before the star of the russian military operation. eager also be looking into the involvement of foreign groupings including notably the o. s. c. possibly involved in the target. the touch.

one key of attack the dumbass back in 2014. it immediately opened an inflammation front. waging the war both on the ground as well as for hearts and minds and was fer, it seems in that battle how it gets done of reporting from the dumbass r t. okay, time. now to recap our breaking news from ukraine where there have been reports of new missile strikes on t of after the capitol was earlier rock by

a massive barrage of strikes on monday morning along with several other major cities across the country. as of right now, the extent of the damage is on clear. as you can see across the cities, several vehicles have been destroyed. buildings hit, a large craters emerging to president til lensky has confirmed strikes on infrastructure through ukraine. advisor also said that the strikes are close to the presidential office and ukraine security services building in the copper thermal power stations in here on the wall of re ported lead being targeted with the cities metro lines. and key of they've all been stopped. and stations have been turned into shelters, according to the city murders office, local official, say, 8 people are dead and 24 wounded in a kia, but as we mentioned, it's not just at that region. the cities of the net pro thrives odessa on the camera neat sky at reportedly have come under fire, as well as her alerts has been carried across all of ukraine. the city of harcourt

is reportedly completely with all its electrical power after strikes on critical infrastructure to on social media, locals, or sharing footage of the moments. the strikes that they personally witnessed the murder of harko reports that strikes their crippled water and electricity supplies to some areas with the energy distribution network also damaged in the shop to me or region. according to local media, there is no longer electricity or hot water in the vault of the western parts here and following a tax there. and just the also to mention all classes in kiev schools are reported to be canceled with schools in the western regions of ukraine. switching over to distance learning. ok. any and all significant updates in our breaking news today, i will be here to bring them to you. this is our t international. see you again at the top? ah

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