trying to displace rushes, let's go back to operation paperclip. you know, after world war 2, the u. s. brought over 1100 nazi side to scale the u. s. in the war, against the cold war, against the soviet union. and the u. s. has been supporting nazis in ukraine for decades. so i mean, this is nothing new and this is not surprising. the u. s. ah, again, you can't even say there indifferent to nazis in ukraine. the fact is, the u. s. supports not using done collect for the bridge attack, drew immediate praise from western media, while the fire still burned. many headline said that the infrastructure was of utmost importance to russia, an art. let's also label the terrorist attack as moscow now calls it. unimportant action for key of the deadly incident was also celebrated and t f. as people took pictures in front of a huge poster depicting the blast on the bridge,

several ukraine officials were quick to rejoice. so are they attacked to including some of mister. so lensky advisors were one of them later, but tracked on what he said about a new twist on the story thing. the attack was orchestrated by russian security services. it's not the 1st time ukrainian officials have abruptly changed their stance either as our take contributor rachel morrison told the program earlier. the problem with the west empowering allies to be its attack dogs against russia is that sometimes the proxy manages to chew through its leash or its harness. it then starts running around doing its business all over the neighbors yards while loudly barking its excitement and even causing simple minded creatures to bark along with it. that is until the master shows up and drags it back into the yard and gets it under control. this is exactly what seems to have happen now between the west and its allies in 3 separate recent incidence. most recently there was the crimea bridge explosion on saturday morning in the wake of the attack,

ukrainian official celebrated on social media, crimea, the bridge, the beginning. everything illegal must be destroyed. everything stolen must be returned ukraine. everything occupied by russia must be expelled. the guided missile cruise of moscow on the coast, bridge. 2 notorious symbols of russian power in ukrainian, crimea. i've gone down. watson at sin line russkies representatives that european states also cheered what appeared to have been a terrorist act. i believe this target has been around for a very long time. it's tanya certainly welcomes this and congratulations, ukrainian special operations units who are expected to be behind the separation motivation. alicia said at such a it's a bump for the soul, especially given yes. so there was put his birthday is correct. he received such gift. i wish him more of such gifts as the west. congratulated keith while cavalierly treating the destruction 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 heave, implying that russia blew itself up. now seriously f s b try to eliminate leadership of defense ministry before personnel change. espy was a knock down miss putin's bridge explosion. defense ministry canal blame f. s b for the future. south los, 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 us defense secretary lloyd austin has a chronic tendency of offering up. so what accounts for the shift may be washington

managed to get tv 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 clearly isn't too keen on having keep spark had 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 out for a few days is now deleted. amid the ongoing debate over who's actually responsible, several voices in the u. s. 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. in terms of reaction to this foreign policy expert, george zamarelli say is ukraine, he believes wouldn't try and implement an action such as blowing up a major civilian. busy badge with some approval from washington. there's no question you greenwood member takes such a risk,

a 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. we don't know what the range they, whatever ukraine they, that is embarrassing and already big. i mean, we, we've seen those 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 when the truck is such as the butcher. if there is an operation the

united states is behind this bub ukrainians. make sure not to inform the americans in detail as to what they intend to do. something else to notice here a president potent will hold the meeting with the russian security council on monday when details from not an emerge. we will of course, bring them to you. so let's just recap then the breaking news today from ukraine. there have been reports of new missile strikes on key to the capital was rocked earlier by a massive garage of strikes on monday morning along with several other and major cities across the country. as of right now, the extent of the damage is unclear. so as you can see across the city, several vehicles have been destroyed, and buildings had ukraine's president lensky has confirmed strikes on infrastructure throughout the country. one of his advisors also said that strikes had close to the presidential office and ukraine security services building in the

national capital, thermo power stations in key on the western city of laval, of have reportedly being targeted, he abs, metro has been stopped with stations turned into temporary shelters, according to the murders office, local officials say 8 people are dead and 24 and more winded in the cities of the pro patrol sco desa. chemo need ski proportionately come under fire, as well, or alert sounds, been declared across all of ukraine. the 2nd largest city hall called is reportedly no completely what types of electrical power after strikes it critical infrastructure and social media locals are sharing footage of the strikes the personally witnessed. meanwhile, the mirror of hark up just to odd reports that strikes, they have cut off water and electricity supplies to some early is at the energy distribution network also damaged in the show to mirror and reach out

according to local media. there, there's no longer hoss washer in this city of devolve near the polish border following the strike. all classes in kiev schools are reportedly counselled with educational institutions in western regions of ukraine, switching over to distance learning. well, let's welcome live onto the program. now journalist and analyst wyatt read for his take wide pleasure to talk to you today. thanks for your time. as we mentioned, tia of other major premium cities hit with miss our tech's, just a few days after the crimea bridge at bombing was what is happening today the, the scale of it was an expected response by russia in your eyes. well, i don't think the response was expected by the regime. certainly we have seen reports coming out from ukrainian media suggesting that for example,

the appointment of army general survey. so can top commander of this special military operation wouldn't signal a significant shift. we know now that that was untrue. we have seen a serious intensification, dramatic intensification of the russian military campaign, which many observers have been predicting for the past several weeks. but in clear now that the terrorists strike on the bridge and find me, i was the catalyst for this. and now of course, all across your brain power, internet and water are down in much of the territory held by the regime. strikes are ongoing against military and energy infrastructure. we've seen dozens of cruise missiles strikes and the nikolai of region in lavonne, the need of a death report. as you noted the offices of the cranium at the you, the cranium, security service have been struck and it's hard not to view all this, obviously as

a decision to take the gloves off, so to speak. that top commander, now in charge of this special military operation is being quoted as having said earlier today that for the enemies of russia, the morning does not start with coffee. and of course, president putin as called that attack on the bridge and crimea and active terrorism . you said it was aimed at destroying critically important civilian infrastructure . you said it was devised, carried out and ordered by ukrainian special services and ukrainian president vladimir the lent. he who is now reportedly hiding in a bunker claims that russian federation forces are trying to quote, destroy us and why off the face of the earth. you says the main targets are energy infrastructure and people. he says, such targets were specifically chosen to cause as much damage as possible. but as

you noted, just 8 civilians are being reported killed and you have after strikes of this magnitude certainly does not indicate that the billions are the targets of the strike. it does appear then, doesn't it stop? a red line was crossed concerning the crimean bridge on saturday, because before just a point perhaps to, to some of the audience that russia has repeatedly stated that they target military infrastructure that their, their, their hits are specifically targeted against those missiles coming the other way. know with an electric hill stations being hit, is this why is this a direct response on the, the civilian infrastructure that bridge which was hit? is that what it looks like? certainly difficult to view it in a different way. for me personally, i think this is quite clearly a response to the decision by the regime,

by their masters in washington and london to attack critical infrastructure civilian infrastructure belonging to the russian federation. and it's hard not to see. this is a decision by the armed forces of the russian federation to say, well, you know, to can play that game on. the thing is now as you went through its weather, what russia call it says special military operation now is, is moving to a more direct stage of a conflict. we know that the russian security council is set to meet with the mirror and that's expected very shortly. what decision is that, why do you, do you think's going to come out of this? was today's have been more of a direct response or that something that we're going to see more and more in the future. to me, it appears that there is, in some sense a dial in the army command headquarters,

which i believe on some level they, they want to communicate can be turned up and it can be turned down. and obviously, the ukranian regime has been the aggressor, the initiator of much of the most deadly attacks on civilians. so far they have kind of played a leading role in terms of escalating tensions. and now it seems on some sense that the power in that dynamic is returning back to the russian federation. they are going to take the leading role and deciding the rules and the limits that are going to be applied going forward. certainly my understanding from certain russian people that i've spoken with people in the don bus. people are very pleased to see this here in the net. i have not heard any artillery strikes coming from the

ukranian side so far today. unlike when i 1st got here saturday night and was immediately greeted with an artillery strike on my hotel, just a 100 meters in front of me. it seems that today, the ukrainian regime forces are on the backs. why if the u. s. so the western powers, the mean support of ukraine, of course in the conflict, had yet to respond. i believe it's a very flux situation right now, but as of now, there hasn't been a direct real response. what come they do though, in terms of that more sanction? against russia, more weaponry for kids is something else planned. what's your feelings? if there are other tools in the western arsenal they have not showed them to us yet . mainly the weapons deliveries. as you noted, mainly the sanctions seems to be their preferred course for attempting to punish moscow or its special military operations. i wouldn't be shocked to find out that

this vacation leads to any real desire from the west to become direct participants in the conflict. frankly, i think the fact that so far they have held their tongues suggest that they simply do not know yet how to respond. is there an argument though that said this kind of escalation is only going to lead to more escalation, that we're not going to see a solution to the conflict any time soon because we know the playbook from the west here, they're going to just pump more weapons into ukraine, ukrainian lives are going to be part of the bus lives, of course, on russian lives are going to be put on the live on the line. here it is, there is, is there a sense here that this new escalation is here for, for some time it's not going to be temporary and the thought is just going to lead to, to worse situation for civilians. well, if we view this decision as, as having come from top general, said gay sort of again,

and i think there is reason to believe that it did. then i would suggest that this indicates a more permanent shift in terms of strategy that the gloves really are off. although obviously i not speaking from any direct information from russian federation forces. that certainly seems to be the sense that, that i've gotten from those other journalists that i've talked to today, why it's always talk a thanks pretty much for your time, your thoughts? white read journalist analysts, american journalist knows live on r t international. thank you. thank you. now as something else to tell you by today, the commander in chief of ukraine's armed forces has inadvertently published a photo of himself darling, what appears to be a 3rd reich, a symbol for larry dilution. it posted a photo on twitter with users noticing the gen. busy was wearing

a bracelet on features a swastika wherever some ukrainians posted another photo on the internet with the so called roon insignia. trying to disprove, really about the bracelet contain the nazi symbol in question on was simply distorted by the quality of the photo or it's far from the 1st time kids courted controversy over its embrace of extremism. just to give you a few of that last may. this photo with a soldier wearing an emblem of an infamous nutsy tongue division was posted by prisons when he himself, but was later deleted for a public backlash on this picture was taken last month in the heart of region. here mister zelinski can be seen guarded by soldiers with the same symbols on their attire. the photo just to say was also later deleted. well, michel maloof, a former security policy analyst in the office of the us secretary of defense phase, the neo nazi groups openly operating within the ukrainian military. it's

a huge issue. this is one of the concerns that a lot of us have and obviously it was also a point that person and made when he decided to undertake his special military operation to, to rid the country of the, of the nazis once and for all. but for the, the commander in 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 it 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 the symbols. well, we knew it back in 2014,

when the crew actually was staged. you didn't hardly hear a whimper out of any of the e u 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, the ukrainian army advances have recently been successfully repelled on several fronts in the loo, ganske republic, according to the russian defense ministry. our teeth eager shadonna visited a small village. there were local se they've been shell by ukrainian forces. long before the start of the russian military operation, eager has also been looking into the entanglements of foreign powers, such as the organization for security and cooperation in europe with militant battalions. the ukrainian forces have repeatedly been accused of staging, deadly provocations to then pin the blame in the media and officially on their

enemies. now we've come to a small village that was recently abandoned by the ukrainian forces. and now it's locals are telling us stories of how the ukranian artillery, they believe, showed their homes. distant bangs of artillery rumble through the yale, this once sleepy village locals here and strangers to cannon aids of war. some of their homes had been shug long before rushes military campaign was remote still more at midnight. on may 18th, 2018. we were sheldon, which half of the family died in the house which was hit 2 died and 2 survived. the attack came from their 3 shells. people were hurt. everywhere, here was the ukrainian army groans golden rule. this man only agreed to talk to us on the conditions of complete and the limits. he, his relatives live on the ukraine control territory and retaliation for this interview. he fears might be inevitable. little's changed here since key of forces left. they are fed now just as they were feared before. for all those years,

they used to be in control of this village. in fact, without any hesitation, locals explained that it were the ukrainians who showed this house. and i went up regularly in a suburb in the morning, the military came and collected all the shining debris south. first they shall dust and then our neighbor euro. it was strong, all the trees were ripped out and was curious things that at the time of the shelling there was nobody at the checkpoint. think about it, nobody. i was running towards them in screaming so loud when they shelled us, but i couldn't hear myself because it was shell shocked. i ran to ask for help but there was nobody there even though there usually is at all point during the day and night. don't you understand ukrainian army itself shelled us really bristol richard was born cool. bank representatives came and said they wanted to give me financial help. i said, all right. and so we went to the village council where they 1st asked me to write down on a piece of paper that we were shelled by the illegal formations of done. it's can

logon school, but i refused. i said, i don't know who sheldon because i believe there is a possibility. it was ukrainians. it was way too close for it to be the l. d p r. out of the blue. this of great village in the middle of nowhere became a star attraction for foreign press. people here have a hard time believing these 2 events were a coincidence. rumor loosely, little nearby wouldn't blew your honey. western journalists were here, they came one day prior to the shelling, and then on the day after the shell, him, they were filming the funeral. and everything else, like the journalists came right after. it was crazy. it was like a show for them. but we almost went mad because we had the worst suspicions of them . western media, along with other international institutions, have long been accused of effectively becoming puppets. in the hands of ki, of back in june, our crew discovered a military headquarters where fighters of ukraine's neo nazi right sector battalion shared bed and board with

o as c observers. what is particularly interesting about this place is that the right sector militants, again, one of the most notorious, neo nazi formations in ukraine, very much akin to resolve or ida for example. they shared this building with the members of the o is see mission. we found their insignia on the floor just above us. so again, members of the international community, the always see, they owe to the roof over their heads to neo nazis. they shared food with neo nazis, a very peculiar symbiosis, and allegations against the you and media watchdog mount in a conversation with us, a former ukrainian soldier claims he personally witnessed a was c. observe as effectively operating as intelligence agents of ukraine's forces were very much for commander in headquarters, commanders of the so called a lead battalions such as i'd are at the right sector. interacted with always c e.

i personally so always see in our headquarters twice based on the talks of the soldiers of higher station or those who serve for a year or longer. oh, i see spite of the l d. p r positions and gave the coordinates to the credit army because they went to the other site and when they would come back to our site immediately either evening showing of the l. d. p, our army would start, ukrainians would already know where their positions were. was it those who served a while always used to say, oh oh i see here. so in the evening, we are going to show the other side one key of attack, the don bass back in 2014. it immediately opened an inflammation front, waging the war both on the ground as well as for hearts and minds and all was fer, it seems in that battle. i'm a good done of reporting from the dumbass r t, the get 5 minutes to 1 pm here in moscow, just time to recap her breaking news from ukraine. the country was rocked by

a massive barrage of missile strikes. this numb the morning. let's go through it. as of right now, the extent of the damage is unclear, but as you can see, vehicles being destroyed on buildings hit, your grains. president lensky has confirmed strikes on the infrastructure throughout the country. one of his advisors also said that strikes had close to the presidential office and ukraine security services building in the national capital thermal power stations in kiev on the western city will evolve reportedly been targeted. his metro has been stopped with stations being turned into shelters, according to the mirrors office, nor in terms of casualties local mer, and local officials, excuse me, say 8 people are dead and 24 more wounded in t f. we know that the cities are gonna pro petrov scare odessa and mel neat ski. they came under fire as well on our rate alerts has been declared across all of ukraine. the 2nd largest city hart called its reportedly completely without the

electrical power after a strike. some critical infrastructure and social media locals have been sharing footage of the strikes, the personally witness, which is some of what we're bringing to, you know, they mirror of har called reports that strikes there, of crippled water and electricity supplies to some areas the energy distribution network also damaged in the g to mirror at region, not according to local media. there is no longer electricity or hot water in the city of laval at western key f as well or west off key f as following the attack. they're all classes in kias schools. the are at reportedly consults with educational institutions in western regions of ukraine, switching over to distance learning. ok for all significant updates in are breaking used they, i will be here to bring them to you, including in 2 minutes from now stay with our t international. we have got the updates you need.

ringback ah, ah what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy even

foundation, let it be an arms race is very dramatic. development only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very political time to sit down and talk with ah, well, a a ah, with

right now way cross to a lot of europe live on pm here. he has just finished talking with the national security council. let's listen a bridge to do so. those are the forensic assessments really under the investigator. it sort of speak to the fact that it was a terrorist attack and the destroying name for a critical piece of civilian infrastructure. russia are going use up to a.