the depot, the court said they still went those no, no do a lot, but it's just not. i'm not going to log into the store if those minute, no echo seattle up us indian though is that the political so ah, we will take serious steps to provide an adequate response. can measure it with the levels of threats to the russian federation. no one should have any doubts about that. a lot, a matter of putting in comparison ukraine's actions in crimea and other regions to terrorism against russia and more ins they will evoke a harsh response. will the remarks come as russia conducts a massive missile strike operation on ukrainian targets, including military command center and communications and energy system. russian defense ministry saying that all designated targets have been destroyed. and also

this, our minsk reports that both the president of bell, bruce and russia have agreed to deploy a joint regional military contention. we expand on what that means and the possible ramifications of with just after 3 pm here in moscow this monday. welcome to the global news roundup in r t. my name's unit o'neill, great to have your company today. we begin with breaking news. vladimir putin has vod a serious and reciprocal response to any threats made to russian. he made the remarks during a meeting of the national security council commenting on the latest round of missile strikes against ukraine doing it will to them this morning upon the initiative of the defense ministry strikes using high precision weapons from land c. an air carriers were made against objects in the ukrainian territory was we will take

serious steps to provide an adequate response, can measure it with the levels of threats to the russian federation. no one should have any doubts about that. well, this monday russia launch dozens of missiles targeting critical infrastructure across ukraine. the defense ministry in moscow say's all designated targets that were lifts upon were hit on here is some footage we received at from the attack yet critical energy communications infrastructure has been struck. we believe in at least 14 cities and waves of missile as strikes. ukrainian officials report that 5 regions are now completely without electricity. prison zalinski no to confirm that crucial energy systems were targeted. what got to do with a thermal power station in kia? it's been hit with large plumes of smoke billowing eyes of the facility fires and

as significant destruction was cause was reported by the attacks. now i top zalinski advisor reported that missiles made lungful close to the presidential office on ukraine security services, hitch q and a capital key at metro, by the way, has been stopped. stations there at turned into bomb shelters, temporary ones, according to the mercy office. authority say 10 people are dead, and dozens more wounded. inclusive on social media, locals have been cheering footage and reaction to the missile strikes. they witness . ah, yet let sure you elsewhere in ukraine, this is footage of dinner pro pet troughs, a number of other major ukrainian hubs, including the western cities of odessa himmel, neat sky. air reportedly came under fire as well on our alert was the current

across. busy all of you train earlier on monday, but no reports are emerging that the alert has been cancelled in most of the regions at less return to ad lavolle that major ukrainian city in the west. all that the country. this ometer footage shows large puffs of smoke caused by a massive and miss sila t actor. the cities been left without water supplies, and electricity, locals report that are red warning. sirens could be heard across the city, right? they are some of the major developments to bring you talking to us through what occurred today. the ramifications of it. let's speak to ortiz eager shutdown of who is in don bos. indeed, eager take us through the major developments on this strikes against ukrainian cities. this monday oh, most definitely, basically at least 5 ukrainian regions, whole regions have been completely cut off from the energy great hand. i mean,

this is just the tip of the iceberg. there are energy shortage is pretty much all across ukraine. the energy giant of u. cray of ukraine, nuclear nat ago has already revealed that there will be rolling blackouts all across the country due to the damage caused to the critical energy infrastructure over the country. now also, water shortages have been reported in many regional centers and smaller towns and villages. and again, the locals and the citizens of ukraine have been officially urged by the authorities to jaw their phones in advance to get their power banks ready and to get warm clothes. because again, the situation is very serious. it's still under assessment. but it, oh yeah, i can already same quite definitively that while the damage has been quite extensive, now it will take more than that. oh, with more than what russia has done to completely take out ukraine's energy systems and again, the facilities can be repaired. but again,

russia can deal more damage with more strikes and does so the situation is very serious for the ukrainians. and while they are panicking, it's safe to say in care of, we've seen massive cues, a people lining up to gas stations, trying to get as much petrol as they can. our people have been sweeping goods off the shelves of the supermarkets, mainly canned foods and water because well again this should, there are shortages of running water in the taps. so there you have it said that this was something that the ukrainians had hoped to see in russia's crimea after they attack. so after a successful attack on the crimean bridge, that didn't happen there, and now that rushes retaliating while they're panicking, and that's despite reports that foreign ensure intelligence. mainly, the british intelligence had apparently, reportedly warned the key of authorities of a missile strike being prepared in moscow. but well, even if they were indeed av well, if they were,

if they indeed knew about the strike, i mean the authorities, they did nothing to alert the population about it. they woke up to air raid sirens, and many were just out and about doing their just dave going about their daily routine. i should say. so are there are civilian casualties, of course, and there are people wounded, nobody it did this attack did catch people of god, now for and now foreign powers are also reacting to the well to this missile strike of an unprecedented scale are the you is urgently pulling out, it's the diplomatic missions in the u. s. has urged all of its citizens to leave ukraine as quickly as possible. so to japan, we're expecting more reaction, as well as people are in the united states wake up and as you're, as the business day starts in europe. now, interestingly enough, russia use the pleased 5 types, may be more of munitions for this strike,

including a rushes cal russian, excuse me, including russia's caliber miss isles. and i, this is interesting because an individual who's full in to the, to the charms of ukraine's propaganda. that would be a surprise for them because since march ukrainian propagandists to have been proposing that well, russia has run out almost run out of these caliber missiles. now today's strike proves them wrong. again, we're about to see as to what happens next. if this is a major shift in russia's foreign policy in russia as well, just approach to waging war on ukraine, or if this is just indeed just retaliation. because ukraine has significantly stepped up a tax on russia's civilian infrastructure. in the past weeks they've been shelling rushes, bought the towns and cities and small villages shelling just people's homes. people's houses are they even shelled a monastery, but the crowning jeweler of all this so to speak was an attack on crime. he has

bridget. it is more for rush for the russian government. it is more than just a and for structural object, it is a symbol, a symbol that crimea is rushes are that it is part of russia. it is tethered connected to the mainland, and that russia is not going anywhere. so when ukraine, according to the words of the russian president vladimir putin chose to attack the crimean bridge, well, it wasn't received well here in russian hill, the dumbass among the population. so it is widely seen that today's strike indeed would talley ation and basically moscow, vladimir putin and the defense ministry showing that one ukraine and a few crane cross. his more red lines, the reaction will be maybe even disproportionate, but adequate, updating us right throughout the day. from don't boss on what has been on falling in ukraine. our tv gracious thank speaker. while a former deputy foreign minister of new zealand spoke to the program earlier. not

robson believes the crimean at bridge attack because he was just describing was just one of the reasons why russia has had to broaden its military response. russia has had to widen its response. and that's understandable. the bombing of the, to the attack on the, on the crime in bridges. but one aspect see the build up and the constant flow of arms and weapons, and training and intelligence by the united states and its allies to consciously try and widen the war. i can see myself that rushes at the no choice, so it's not just the bridge. it's the whole escalation that's been fostered by the united states and nato. and reading that ukraine's president lensky has issued a national address telling everyone to quote, to cover, but no military response has yet been announced. do you think, mr. rumson,

that is ukraine waiting for the attacks to end or for perhaps a policy decision by western allies. or is it coming up with a plan? how did you foresee the reaction here is the latter, are in the key of government is not a, an independent government. the president landscape has shown that he's a pop up on the. he tries to pull the strings himself about, he's a small fish, he's being directed for western governments. this escalates. it can no longer be a war, fought by the ukrainian forces that you've been using as kevin father in this conflict for quite deliberately, quite cynically. you've got to be faced with looking at putting your own troops in there, escalating your own forces, if, if that is the policy that particularly london and washington follow. and i believe that also the other allies in the later camp will be very nervous at the

escalation, which could, of course, spill over into their own territories. russia, as president, has acquainted ukraine to a terrorist organization. he made those comments during a meeting of the national security council. that's it. touch in detail then on what was said with our team. marina cost her of a hi there, marina, the russian leader not holding back. i think it's safe to say in what he had to say about key of actions in particular the recent tax against crimea and border regions . exactly. basically the main gist of what he said today was that it was only a matter of time before russia responded. this time it responded this morning. we saw this massive wave of air strikes on different ukrainian cities. but he really emphasized and summed up inside the terrorist nature of those in charge of ukraine now, so that people understand the reasoning behind what we saw happen in ukraine. and

why the response that they got was like that, let's listen to what flattery putin had to say about the people in charge of ukraine right now. get his him was the key of regime has long resorted to terrorist methods, such as the assassination of activists, journalists and scientists, both in ukraine and russia. and this also includes the terrors shelling of the don best cities and also nuclear terrorism. the artillery shelling of the separation nuclear power plants who benefits from these attack, the kev regime has placed itself among the most notorious international terrorist organizations. now this of course, commerce, just hours after russia chief investigator informed vladimir putin that ukrainian special services were behind the terrorist attack on the bridge. premier 1st said that it was a terrorist attacks that confirmed all the investigation on the ground. the forensic expertise shows that this was orchestrated,

why training and special services and also it was facilitated by not only russian citizens, but also foreign citizens. they know who did it. they know the roots, they took, for example, the trucks that explode, that it came from bulgaria, but with georgia. then armenia, who rushes north, the sets of the cross and our region. and so the massive wave of strikes that we saw this morning, which came just hours after this announcement and confirmation that it was a terrorist attack. this was rushed as a response to that. and basically vladimir putin said that russia has had enough, and now it will respond to any attack that happens on russian soil. and that type will match will match cubes, of course. and this is what he has to say about the latest to terms of cubes. machine at nuclear terrorism, did he get at his teach this up? there have been multiple acts of sabotage on our power plant. look it up several high voltage power lines have been effected using the damage was contained as soon as possible. so there was no significant aftermath. willowbrook, there was also

a number of attempted terrorist attacks committed on russian electricity and gas transport infrastructure. you can utilize so sort of the surprising that ukraine this morning saw their energy and military and communications facilities targeted and latimer brewton said, if he attack russia, get ready to be. it's hacked back. that was the main message. appreciate you breaking that down for us ortiz marina cost river live in the studio. another aspect to bring you on today's the bell at men's busy newsday at bell a russian president, alexander lucas shanker. his at his country will deploy a joint group of military forces with russia. these forces have been formed over the past 2 days. the group mainly consists of belushi and soldiers. we were warned that kias has been planning to attack bell ruffian territory. it would be crazy from a military perspective, for them to open the front against bell roost. 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 bell roofs. and just additionally, mr. lucas shenker suggested that the troops coming from russia would not be significantly large, but added it would be, quote, not a 1000 troops. he insisted that it would still be enough to tackle the threat against his country and also ordered the nation secret services to do whatever it takes to prevent a quote. terrorist attack in belarus, he declared that ukraine would face a night mirror of consequences. his words, if it dirt to attack bella russian territory less cross live now to moscow base political as to me pre babich for his take me for it was a pleasure seeing you at vladimir putin said in a speech today. the key of this government has been acting like the world's most notorious at terrorist organizations, part of that grouping. what was your reaction when you heard that statement?

well, unfortunately, it was the re erica reflection reality. i mean, yesterday when the ukranian officials basically braced the stair respect against the grimy and bridge, despite the fact that these 2 absolutely innocent civilians died. just people who happened to be driving next to that horrible crop that exploded the fact that you've written officials, they're open the door doing about that. it was absolutely you know, in admissible it was hurdle president bush and during his meeting with a security council they revealed the. ringback other details which have not been a bruin, the l, you know, publish the brought, you know, you said the russia gold is not admitted the big sports. 006. are you doing those one

that asked there yet. oh oh, what's the furnace? and that makes the sea creature okay, we've got a little bit of a connection issue there to meet your i'll, i'll keep going just with the questions just to see how's it improve in just a moment. but if not, we'll talk to you off the screen. dmitri, what we just saw there with president lucas shank of the leader of belarus. his comments can i touch upon that? he says that the country is deploying a joint contingent of troops with close ally russia. why do you think ballard bruce is, is doing this now? why was it a nice, couldn't beller roost directly enter the ukraine conflict? well, unfortunately, the ukrainian government is using the same various methods. not only against ross from a both against bellows barrows denounced. do they do that?

i called all the bridges connecting bell russian territory for your great have been destroyed by that you bring in border guts. so oh, of course it's spelled out what's right. the person dying paper just it's a major. yeah. we just haven't. we can't really catch what you're saying there. we'll try and talk to you. busy offer a in just a mom because we really want to hear what you're seeing on today's, at developments we're speaking there to moscow based political analyst dimitry at bob, which we also spoke to former british diplomats and author at william mullins in who says that vladimir putin will continue to stick with russia's military plans unless give agrees to negotiate for peace. other incidents had occurred against russian people, people of dunbar and other regions there. and that he's not going to sit on his

hands essentially. so is this uptick? something likely no to court more and more instead of just a one off response in europe you i think it is likely to the main aim being to, to stop the attacks on civilians in the dawn bus, which has been going on since 2014 and possibly even earlier, so i think it will, but if it does happen, it will be more plan not hysterically done with precision aiming only decision making centers where possible. but one must remember that when one does that there will always be sadly a small amount of what the americans called collateral damage. but they're not targeting, trying to kill civilians. they're trying to kill decision making, which makes complete sense. i think they were testing the russians to see if they meant it. well, how naive can you get? the russians, as i say, are not hysterical. they plan everything they gain so many warnings have actually

for many, many years saying please stop cracking us. please stop the stop. the westgate and the west is not organized. they don't even agree with themselves. they have no specific plan. russia has its plan and it said what its objectives are. and that's what it's trying to do. it's as simple as that, i'm afraid, and we will see a little more of this or unless they sit down and talk something else to tell you about today. the u. s. congress is sent to discuss legislation on whether to officially label russia a state sponsor of terrorism. moscow said that would be a point of no return in its bilateral relations with washington. human rights laura dunn college sees it is advantageous for us to support you create to turn a blind eye to the atrocities committed by q. 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 way, 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. 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. and the war against the cold war against the soviet union. and the u. s. has been supporting nazis and ukraine for decades. so i mean, this is nothing new. and this is not surprising. the us again,

you can even say they're indifferent to nazis. in ukraine, the fact is the u. s. supports not she's in. well, as you may have noticed, the bridge attacked through immediate praise from western media while the fires still indeed burned. many headline said that the infrastructure was of utmost importance to russian art. let's also label the terrorist attack as moscow called it. an important auction for key of the deadly incident was also celebrated. and here was people took pictures in front of a huge poster depicting the blast. on the bridge, several ukrainian officials were quick to rejoice over they attacked 2, including some of mister zelinski advisors, or if one of them later back tracked him what he said and put a new twist on the story saying the attack was orchestrated by russian security services it's not the 1st time either ukraine officials have abruptly changed their stance as r t 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 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 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 crews of most well on the coast, 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 correct. he received such gift. i wish him more of such gifts that 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 terrorist state, but by saturday afternoon there was a distinct shifted tone. a ukrainian official close to zalinski tried to shift blame away from chief, implying that russia blew itself up. now seriously f s b tried to eliminate

leadership of defense ministry before personnel change fs be was a knocked down 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 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 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 did. 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 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 post which stayed up 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 of the establishment are growing less shy about overtly blaming the u. s. for the attack. so what made the

course he 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 walk on the nose with a rolled up newspaper. rachel morrison. well, foreign policy expert george zamarelli is of the ukraine. wouldn't try to implement an action such as blowing up a major civilian bridge without approval from washington. there's no question greenwood number take such a risk, a high profile act without the consent of the united states. us officials tell the new york times that 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 grange the, whatever ukraine does, that is embarrassing and already big. i mean we've,

we've seen those the videos in which they torture and kill prisoners of war flagrant war crime, in which they were very proud of the war crimes. and yet, western officials has nothing to say about it, even as a tear their hair out there is the absolutely on the line of faith, only a trusted 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. now, one notable aspect of the ukraine conflict, helping the number of foreign fighters seeking to get involved on both sides of the bar. a cage next to the document re team asks what drugs someone to take off arms for alarm, they have no way it goes for that. try to hit the

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