ah, with a key, a free game has placed itself alongside international terrorist organizations and compares ukraine's actions to terrorism against russian ones that such actions will evoke the hearts response from multiple multiple in that comes as multiple missile strikes hit the ukrainian capital kiev, and several other major cities across the country with net pro put threats seen here was also hits as well as the major western city of la

vall, where a thermal power station struck the plains. president kolinski has confirmed critical infrastructure was targeted on several regions, completely, not without electricity. and also this, our men's reports that both the presidents of bell overdose and russia have agreed to deploy a joint regional military contingent. we expand on the possible ramifications of such image with across the globe around the clock. this is our team. good to have your company today. my name's you know me. we begin with breaking news, rushes, president. how's the equated ukraine to a terrorist organization? he made the comments during a meeting of the national security council about the recent attack on the coach bridge in crimea, gave citizen was like t a regime as long resorted to terrorist methods,

such as assassination of activists, journalist scientists, both in ukraine and in russia. it also includes the terrorists shelling the cities of the don bass and also nuclear terrorism, such as lead artillery strikes against these upper of your nuclear power plant. we know who are the beneficiaries of these attacks do. the key regime has placed itself alongside international terrorist organizations. the most notorious once those are dozens of myth aisles have had critical infrastructure in major cities all across ukraine. critical energy and communications infrastructure has been struck in at least 14 cities. that is, according to ukranian officials, the capital key of was at the forefront of the attack. ah, well, this is some of the latest footage we've received. currently, the extent of the damage is unclear. but as you see,

several vehicles have been destroyed. russia's defense ministry has released footage of a sea bass miss. i launched targeting objects in ukraine, an adviser to ukraine's presidency. lensky reports that strikes london close to the presidential office and ukraine security services offices in the national capital. he of metro has been stopped with stations being turned into shelters. according to the mayor's office, local officials say 8 people have died and dozens wounded in kiev on social media, locals have been sharing footage of the strikes. they witness. ah, well, in this study, you can see the aftermath of a must have missile attack on key of infrastructure fires and significant

destruction was caused by the strikes. sirens could be heard across the city with casualties visible on firefighters trying to contain numerous glazes caused by the bless. also, thermal power station in kiev has been hit with large plumes of smoke billowing out of the facility. also in the major western city of laval, near the polish border, there are reports of a strike on a power station there as well. local media essays that they said he no longer as electricity or hot water following the attack there. the eastern city of dynette pro petrovitch has all sco reportedly come under attack footage, often a pro petroff. so there are a number of other major ukrainian cities including the western cities of a desa need. steve reportedly came under fire as well, and our alert was to carried across all of you train earlier on monday in fact,

but no reports are coming in. the alert has been cancelled in most of the regions. i wanna show you this as well. how much are footage demonstrating a large pots of smoke caused by a massive missile attack on nevada? as we mentioned earlier, it's been left with arch water supplies, and electricity, locals report that are arrayed warning sirens could be heard across the city. me. ok, less said della into some of those developments with our t's igor shit down of high, they're eager to bring us up to date and on the strikes and key of another major ukrainian cities today. some background, if you, what is one absolutely union, basically this missile attack was quite unprecedented and scale. apparently. russia has battered ukraine with the over a 100 strikes using both long range missiles and unmanned drones. this is,

this was revealed by the ukranian authorities themselves now critical energy infrastructure and military infrastructure has been targeted. basically at least 9 ukrainian cities, all major stand completely cut off from all electricity supply as of now, in all of them, shortages with tap water as well. some also completely cut off from water supply to . so this is, these are the apparent results of russia strikes. again, these 9 cities are only the tip of the iceberg. many more little little towns and villages also experience shortages with electricity supply and well basically power outages rush has targeted and number of power plants and power stations. so ukraine's main energy giant has already called on all population to charge their phones in advance to judge their power banks and to world to get ah, to get warm clothes out of closets because, well,

this situation won't be resolved quickly. so they've announced power outage is a clue across the whole country. and again, this may sell attack is something that we haven't seen since probably the 24th of february when russia decided to start what it calls its special military operation . now basically this, this is the aftermath. this is, these are the reports that we're getting right now. and again, it's unclear if this is a one time thing. if this is just one time retaliation of this, or if this is a major shift in how russia views its approach towards waging war on ukraine. now this has the already caused mass panic in capital k. if we've seen footage of empty shelves in local supermarkets, be basically people oh, panic, buying and purchasing all our canned goods, purchasing woods, and so on and so forth. now this was something that they had hoped to see in

russia's crimea when they attacked the crimean bridge. but this did not happen there. and now basically, scenes that there were hoping for our and footage of scenes that there were that they were hoping for are coming out of key of now rushes, president vladimir putin, of who's talked extensively about why russia is a, has decided, has opted to full this measure has opted for this unprecedented missiles strike, basically the cities over the next. the cities over the next can look guns. people's republics. they have been shot relentlessly as well as russian border towns as well. ukraine has escalated its attacks against russian 1000 cities, shelling, civilian infrastructure, shelling monasteries, even. so this was something that they, that russia could not have left left alone that russia could not have just left be . so this is, this is what's happening right now. ukraine and russia both assessing the amount of damage and so we will be standing by to bring you all the latest. of course,

as you, the ukrainians are queueing up. there are massive cues in capital key of to, as people are trying to get as many as much petrol at gas stations as, as they can. and right now, the ukranian authorities can't actually do anything to calm down the population. now there have been reports that the british intelligence did warn care of an incoming attack, but well, even if they did, even if for the authorities in key of new about that, they did nothing to warn the population about this. and now of course, there's mass panic and there's casualties because people were going about their daily business just as usual as if their country wasn't at war. and so yeah, aiden fortunes, either casualties. there are deaths among civilian populations. there are wounded, but the russian foreign ministry has, excuse me, the russian defense ministry has already stepped forward saying that all targets of the energy infrastructure of the critical infrastructure have been hit. and right

now, now the bull is basically a key of schools to see how they will respond if they will choose to escalate further. and again, that has already been revealed by russia, that if cave chooses to escalate, russia won't stand, it won't stand idly. or if they choose a more peaceful path. a great thanks very much for taking us through all of us ortiz igor is anal if with all the latest developments today, where we got reaction from former us marine and geopolitical analysts, brian burlesque, who believes russia had an obligation to retaliate after keith crossed moscow's red lines, i don't think it comes as a surprise at all. we watch ukraine and carry out the bombing on the caribbean bridge. we have watched ukraine and sponsors not only cross rushes red lines, but then on the other side, russia had the obligation to retaliate. if they did not ukraine, it, sponsors would begin to think there are, there was no, nothing,

no consequence for these continued attack than it, it is civilian at the structure of the argument has been made that military equipment moved across it. if that is the argument, ukraine wants to make virtually every road and bridge in ukraine is fair game as well. it is a red line. well within russia, a russian bridge. and we have to think about that is, is that really a military target for ukraine or was it they are hitting civilian infrastructure for political purposes. they could not have imagined that they would have stopped with the why, of military equipment, the crimea. but surely, they knew it would jeopardize the flow of essential for the civilian population. and people have to remember from 2014 until the special military operations. again, ukraine caught all fresh water off who probably to torment the civilian population

. there was no military reason for that. so this is just a continuation of that mindset and that policy in kiev and amongst it's western sponsor. vladimir has promised a serious and adequate response to any threats made to rush it. he made the comments number of hours ago during a meeting with the national security council ortiz marina customer of join me in the studio. now to discuss that, am indeed the developments as we're seeing quite a lot today. marina in ukraine, but in terms of the russian president, what did he feel, chris, on the head of his meeting with a security kind of bring us up to date on that? well, the main gist of it was that if you attack russia, you will get attack back and on the same level. and really, ukraine had a long time coming because we've seen ukraine attack russia in many ways. and vladimir putin actually accused ukraine of nuclear terrorism. this is what he

focused on and he brought for some of the examples he had to get up to 3 terrorist attacks had been made against the current power plant. they have disrupted power supply lines and the latest terrorist attack disrupted 3 of such lines and no serious consequences arose thanks to the mitigation efforts. but a number of other attempts at carrying out similar attacks against power generation and gas transport facilities have been carried out, including attempted explosion on the turkish pipeline. it is impossible to leave these crimes without a response. and of course, the terrorist attack on the bridge and crimea was, it was the final straw. we have seen russia strike care made ukrainian cities this morning. marina dates said, 9 major ones, perhaps more than not as a correspond to the equal or should all of was just going through any comment from

vladimir putin on that today. yes, the massive wave strikes that we saw this morning was the answer. russia's answer to what we saw happened on the bridge and crimea, because this came just hours after russia. chief investigator confirmed the results of the investigation that this was a terrorist attack that was committed by ukrainian special forces. they did all the forensics they spoke, so i witnesses there, they checked on the ground. and like i said, that conducted forensic investigation. and the results of that investigation all pointed c, ukrainian special services. and they also said that it was assisted the person, the people who did that, they were assisted, not only by russian citizens but also foreign citizens. and they even know they, the roof that the truck. so they went from bo, gary, georgia, armenia onto the cross region. so this was an orchestrated move by, by ukraine. so the response that we saw was the massive wave of strikes and boots

and also warns that if you continue, because we've seen ukrainian officials saying that you will see more come in. we'll try and target moscow to see if they were heard from ukraine's former prime minister said we would love to see an attack. such was what happened on the bridge . and crimea happened somewhere in moscow, for example, latimer proof of warrant. and his speech today that they will get a harsh response back on the same level that they are going to do it. let's listen, summarize this morning on the initiative of the ministry of defense. and according to the planned strikes, using high precision weapons from land, sea and air cares were made against objects. in the brain surgery, we will make a serious steps to provide an adequate response, can measure it with the level of threats crated to the russian federation. nobody should have any doubts as to that much. and this is, of course, a natural because we've seen that ukraine constantly target rasa. and we haven't

seen an adequate response yet. a lot of people in russia were actually waiting for a response on that level. and today, the massive wave of strikes that we've seen is on the same level about we saw of the terrorist attack on russian soil. so this is exactly what platinum fruits and is saying, be careful because if you attack russia again, you will get it back. all right, thanks for taking us through those remarks today. marina costs are ever, are correspondent, something else to tell you. a bite development on a busy news day by russian president, alexander lucas shanker, has said his country is to deploy a joint crip of military forces with russia. these forces have been formed over the past 2 days. the group mainly consists of bella, lucy, and soldiers. we were warned that kias has been planning to attack bela lucy and territory. it would be crazy from a military perspective for them to open the front against bella. ruth. but that process has already begun, considering that the threat level has comes to that. this requires deployment of a joint group of forces of the union state of russia and bella,

ruth and mister lucas. shank also suggested that the trip coming from russia would not be significantly large, but did say it would be quote, not a sizing trip. he insisted that it would still be enough to tackle the threat against his country. he also ordered the secret services of barriers to do anything in order to prevent a terrorist attack in bel receive declared also that ukraine would face quote, a nightmare of consequences if there are to attack bell or russian territory where we can cross live no true, retired indian or force marshal m. muffin warren for his take on today's developments on it is indeed a busy news. they are much appreciate your time today, sir. bella ru say's its deploying a joint contingent of troops with close al. i russia. why do you think bella roost is doing this now? could valerie directly enter the ukraine conflict?

what's your take? thank you. both on your chairman. this is interesting development. very significant developmental the buzz is better. this is not the ration and, you know, getting support from russian forces and have a don't in a lot of bonds. it's obviously it was, it was a threat that nuclear might open up fund was they've site, which i think when inexplicable, because basically in the military standpoint, doesn't make sense. why don't we rule out the possibility that we have the name of the external advice may believe that multiple may, i mean we can make the effort of respect progression,

but maybe one of the big but i think the, the larger perspective it's going to when it was in the band open and again member ukrainian cities including the capital kiev, as we've just been going through today. a reported to me hit by significant mis file strikes. the scale of what's occurring in ukraine come as a surprise to you. no, not at all in favor of being known anyone, whatever expected to happen, probably much earlier, given the fact that the claim has any negotiation, the reason condo since then, and also be the problem, the back of the camel will be back on the base like you also had the

impacts on we want to leave won't be significant and that has to be at the end of august and then it has to be significant. be in all significant must be data back. i would see my multiple in the back sounds like a lot of interest in it. i mean, there's been a lot of marketing in the best buy that would be well, i think this shows indicated it was clearly been big said that the way they've been so far, but i would say it needs to be one that if i want to claim that they should be of any kind yeah. was there

a sense that going after crimea, the bridge, also a power station by key of forces that they were almost testing the result of the perhaps the, the reaction to what russia would do in this case. and they saw the reaction to they. that's right, that's right. because i think 1st of all, that seems to be very, very important in all i would say that all of black is very important. and therefore, to create a list to those whether be infrastructure on any of them. i know the address will in by should have been billing, but it's probably going to be and i suppose they would have been bad and a fall response. but maybe these are the log scale response today

will probably make them think that they start to do again. how could the u. s. other western powers, the main supporters i should point out of ukraine in the conflict with russia? hygiene? thank sir. they will respond to these latest missile attacks we have seen in the past. of course, the precedents, more sanctions against russia, and more weaponry for a key f dot keeps flooding into the ukraine conflict. or do you foresee something else? one thing we never hear about from the west, it appears to me, at least our piece talks come to the table, try and resolve this diplomatically that that seems to have just been forgotten by what do you think the reaction will be this time? i think they will have to rethink that by seriously large because the

body shop, by the way, and so energy info, spect chosen 15 decide a low gas up light. and we do that when the phase people are going to be in the terminal will fall water as well, and they like to speak. i think that would invite a lot of pressure from the people on the leader and the governments that are in so i believe, you know, as the real business, it's all gonna happen immediately. but by the time you touched december and probably january, the moment towards these will be paid out of you know, no other option. but the way that people are the reactions from the people from many of the reasons going to be why one trade to what they were giving up her mom. and just finally, if i could the response from ukraine,

it's been hours and hours later this morning. and there hasn't really been one. do you think they need to negotiate? one with western backers before they do one and is not following a pattern itself. not to do something significant without getting the ok 1st. primarily from american the that's been the case otherwise, you know, the be somewhat, almost it'll progress quite well in march and april and there was a company by the handlers from the us and i'm the natal. so why don't they want to wait for that action before they move in the fight in okay, always a pleasure and enlightening to have live on the program and must this warrant retired indian or force martial speaking to us from today? chin i india. thank you sir. thank you. thank you very much. now the u. s. congress

is set to discuss legislation on whether to officially leave russia as a state sponsor terrorism. moscow said that would be a point of no return. it's by law for relations with washington. human rights lawyer dunn complex say's it's advantageous for us to support ukraine and to turn a blind eye to the atrocities committed by here, it is profitable to some very powerful interest in the united states, and that is why the u. s. continues to support ukraine and why they are turning a blind to various acts of terrorism and human rights abuses by the ukraine military. it is profitable to some defense contractors in the u. s. and that's very important to the leaders in washington. i think it's also profitable to the oil and natural gas industry that now wants to sell their wares to europe,

trying to displace russia. so let's go back to operation paperclip. you know, after world war 2, the u. s. brought over 1100, not see side to scale the u. s. and 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 us again, you can't even say there indifferent to nazis in ukraine. the fact is, the u. s. supports not using or the bridge attacked or immediate praise really from western media or not was coming in while the fires were still burning with many headline thing. the infrastructure was about the most important to russia. outlets also labeled the terrorist attack as moscow now called it unimportant auction for a key of the deadly incense was also celebrated in kiev. as people took pictures in front of a huge poster depicting the blast on the bridge,

several ukrainian officials were quick to rejoice over the attack to including some of mister zelinski advisors. however, one of them later back tracked on what he said and put a new twist on the story saying the attack was orchestrated by russian security services. so the 1st time ukrainian officials have abruptly changed their sons either. as archie contributor rachel marston told the program earlier, the problem with the west empowering allies to be its attack dogs against russia is that sometimes the proxy managers to chew through its leash or its harness. it then starts running around doing its business all over the neighbors yards, while loudly barking in 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 happened now between the west and its allies in 3 separate recent incidents. 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. to guided missile cruise, a most gra, i'm the curse bridge to notorious symbols of russian power in ukrainian, crimea. i've gone down watson. it's in line russkies. representatives of 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 on the side. it says it's a bond for the soul. his specially given yes. so there was put his birthday is great. he received such gift. i wish him more of such gifts as of the west congratulated cave 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 keith behaves like a terror estate. but by saturday afternoon, there was a distinct shift in tone. a ukrainian official close to zalinski tried to shift blame away some cheese, implying that russia blew itself up. now seriously f s b try to eliminate leadership of defense ministry before personnel change fs. be was a knockdown, miss putin's bridge explosion. defense ministry canal blame f. s b 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 you, as 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 leash 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 and 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 zalinski to back pedal on his statement. perhaps he felt the pressure of the western hand that feeds him his end was weapons in cash. but which clearly isn't too keen on having keep spark had nuclear football. now.