with, with, 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 of my proven competitor, ukraine's actions primarily in crimea and other border regions to terrorism against russia, warns they will evoke a response that all these remarks, commas, russia conducts, and enormous missiles strike operation on various ukrainian causes, including military command centers and energies. i from the white house to westminster rushers, actions are widely condemned by the west. they are stony in 5 minutes. the even accusing russia of deploying tara talk

with and so into the pm hours, we go here at moscow and a busy hour lined up for you. a correspondence and guests are ready to discuss today's biggest development, so it's great timing on your pot. thanks for joining us. the breaking news, dr. does continue here on oxy international, vladimir putin has about a serious and reciprocal response to any threats made to russia. he made the remarks during a meeting of the national security council commenting on the latest round of missiles strikes against ukraine. on this morning, upon the initiative of the defense ministry strikes using high precision weapons from land sea and air carriers were made against objects in the ukrainian territory . 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. meanwhile, the latest the media reports claim and other wave of miss all stripes and key f and

other ukrainian cities. earlier that a russia launched dozens of missiles target and critical infrastructure across the country. and the defense ministry and moscow says old doesn't any targets were hit the we understand targets were struck and at least 15 cities, ukrainian officials report 5 regions are currently without power of the country. so that will now stop exporting electricity to the e. u from tomorrow, the president zalinski also confirmed a key energy systems where hit the federal power station and key of suffering. i miss all strike with large plumes of smoke bellowing about the facility. zelinski advisor reported the missiles hit

close to the presidential office and ukraine security services headquarters in the capital authority say 10 people were killed and dozens more wounded in kiev. and locals have been sharing for his reactions to the missiles strikes. they witness the footage right there, but then the process gets where the city's thermal power plant has been badly damaged in a rocket strike as we understand heading west now the western ukrainian city of, of off the. so following how much of footage shows a smoker caused by a missile attack there, as we understand, the city has been without power. and currently it's got no water supplies for the mean time. all right, that, so let's cross life now and learn a bit more. we can get to correspond to egos, dental f, a, u r e. go to great to see you. you've been on down dawn back for quite some time

now. and you've been following this breaking news since the early, early hours this morning, where you bring us up to speed. what else do you know today will absolutely, rory, it seems that the ukrainian military that they have decided, well to resume their military activities in the, within the russian territory at least one unmanned aerial vehicle. well, a combat drone has been shot down over russia's crimea at the very border between crimea. and, well, the regions that have been recently added to russia to the territory of russia, the town, the little town of john coy that drone will shut down. and well, the debris, they had a residential area and at least one small girl, 11 years old, was wounded. so there you, there you have it. it seems that everything that russia has done to day it with, well, keep is defying that because basically rushes reasoning. and that was something that president vladimir putin had said earlier in the day that basically ukraine

has recently stepped up its attacks. it has escalated its attacks on russia's territory shelling russian towns shelling russian good of villages and so on and so forth. the even sheldon monastery, the sorta crowning jewel of all this, if i may say. so was the bombing of the crimea. bridget, that was something that, that keith did not really directly take responsibility for, but according to vladimir putin, according to his, one of his most recent addresses and statements, basically all intelligence that he has at his disposal shows that well, it was indeed key of and indeed ukraine that were behind the bombing. so again, the crimean bridge is more than just her and infrastructural object. that is, how well it is a subject of pride. it is a statement if you, if you like, basically it's a message that crimea is russian. it is tethered to the motherland, tethered to the big land, and it is not going anywhere. so when the ukrainians attacked the crimean bridge,

that was the, that red line that russia has been talking about for months now. and so, well, you can see what it resulted in, i mean, key of crossing this red line. basically what we've seen today was a missile attack over an unprecedented scale. we haven't really seen anything like this in the past while since to since the 24th of february, i should say that was it was that massive, according to ukrainian sources. and according to the ukranian statement, more than a 100 strikes were carried out on the ukrainian, on various ukrainian facilities. that includes both missiles of various sorts. and well, of course, ah, unmanned drones or that russia had apparently purchased from iran. so, there you have it. ah, well, a loss of ukrainian energy infrastructure has been well not taken out, but rather badly damaged and it has already impacted the lives of ukrainians. they

have been officially advised and asked to well conserve energy to not light up. the lights are in their homes and basically do everything in their power to not use more than the bare minimum that they need to well to for their households to function. also, they've been advised to charge their phones in advance to charge their power banks and to get ready their warm clothes. at least 5 regions of ukraine have been completely cut off from the energy supply or because of the message strikes that includes dozens of other cities and towns and including major cities like laval, for example of hark, of. even in key of the connection i should say, and the access to the energy great is very, very limited. so, and that is not all are basically a lot of places have been cut off from the water supply. or the cellular connection has been very unstable across the entirety of ukraine. and the country has even

announced that it will stop all energy exports to all and, and to europe in a few days. because because that's how badly the energy infrastructure has been damaged or so again, there you have a very significant, they're a very significant step, which also coincides with a new commander, are basically taking up the, taking up and becoming in charge of this whole operation. now again, we'll have to see whether or not it was a one time event or in the if in the coming days we will see more attacks. maybe not of this massive scale, but something will at least comparable. again, today we've seen not one wave, but several waves of attacks. and again, the rushes message here was stop shelling russian towns stop shelling and operating behind the lines and stop shelling russian towns, villages, and cities like here i've been covering dorm bass for quite a while. and thou,

i've seen the hardship that the people here and look guns, but even more so in the nets have come across and that they have to overcome. because basically the nets doesn't have access to to water doesn't have access to stable water supplies. it has been like that for 4 months now. right now you can only get water in your taps are once every 3 days briefly for a few hours and that is due the direct result of ukraine shelling, civilian infrastructure in the next good. in defiance of all rules of war, they have taking out they have taken out a pump station. so that's, that's the main reason why the network is cut off from water supplies and they have been shelling residential areas then ask is a very civilian town. there's no military infrastructure there, they simply don't have enough to put it in the city. so all of that, all of that military infrastructure is very much closer to the front lines. and the

network is not the only town or like that the little little towns like is in a vaudeville girl. of course, they are being shelled relentlessly as well. civilians basically have to live in their basements. so that was the message from russia stopped shelling the civilian infrastructure. stop shelling civilians again to those shillings are deadly. ah, they were the russian missiles strike. it was deadline. ukraine too. but it is in comparable to the human loss of life that the dome boss has witnessed since the 24th of february and over the years before that. and so, and, but again, the, just the very appearance of this sir, ukrainian drone and there are using combat drones to the very appearance in russian ass space. it is a, an important indicator that while ukraine probably is defying this message, or either you could or will listen, we appreciate that. we also appreciate your hourly updates as since the early this morning. you've been covering this breaking news for us or a naughty international is not just about 10 past 9 on monday evening. appreciate

it. bud. stay safe. will see us. we did speak earlier in the program to a former us marine and geo political analysts or brian ballistic. he believes that 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 carry out the bombing on the caribbean bridge. we have watched ukraine and its 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. it is a red line. well, within russia, a russian bridge, they are hitting civilian infrastructure for political purposes. they could not have imagined that it would have stopped with the supply of military equipment to crimea, but surely they knew it could 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 mind that that policy in kiev and amongst its western sponsor, the well, the russia president putin, has confirmed the explosion on the crimea bridge with a terror attack that was committed by ukraine. he also gave more examples of p s actions and even including claims of nuclear terror. it also equated ukraine to that of a terrorist organization. eastgate is him, was it, the key of regime has long resorted to terrorist methods, such as the assassination of activists. these journalists and scientists, both in ukraine and russia. hewlett. this also includes the terrors shelling of the don best cities and also nuclear terrorism, york,

hillary shelling of this approach in nuclear power plants. will you as me, who benefits from these attacks? the care of regime has placed itself among the most notorious international terrorist organizations. there have been multiple acts of sabotage on our power plants suck 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 willoughby there was also a number of attempted terrorist attacks committed on russian electricity and gas transport infrastructure. now, the russian that strikes on ukraine came 2 days off of the attack on the crimean bridge at the head of the russian investigative committee and formed president putin. the key of security services, as well as russian and foreign citizens were all involved in the incident. also revealing that the main suspect came from bulgaria and crossed the caucuses before reaching the bridge. while i spoke earlier in the program to a canadian journalist, eva bartlett, who has been in the danielle republic since march, she gave us her take to day on a well written ria retaliation. a tax i should say,

against keith. iraq and leadership have been the cool that's, i mean we've seen people have been saying, why hasn't russia retaliated for months now, right. and particularly the terror. how can the bridge send there was a lot of people asking what's going to happen next? but i mean, i really feel like, and i'm here and on. yes, i'm in the done people here of them thing for over 8 years. why? when is it enough? when, when you print stuff showing up and, you know, russia, the russian leadership did push for negotiations and they, all right, until the military operation began. there were options for kids to take people out and they, because of their backers, because of their deliverance. didn't take the options. people in ukraine must be terrified and i am very sorry for them. i really am. and i, i'm, i'm sorry for any loss of life. however, i will say that according to one source i read, it was citing ukrainian police. it was on r t actually thing 10 people had been killed. that is

a normal day here. on september 19th, for example, your training shelling of the center of done yet killed 16 people in the face of less than one week from the 17th of september to the 22nd. the pregnant telling killed 26 people and that's just and done. yes. proper. you know, i'm not talking about the car or my teeth or other areas of the bass or the against . this is the terror that people been living here for over 8 years. and i've been here often since march, you know, and there been huge ukrainian terror attacks. terrorism is exactly the word to be using here. let me put in is not wrong. and that terror attacks on markets in the center to and yes, in areas where there be no military infrastructure. so i hope that maybe the people that were gleefully taking selfies and photos in front of images destroyed personally destroyed bridge. i hope that those people maybe can now step back and have a little compassion. good to have your company as the european commission chief,

also of angela and says russia is using strength and brutality as a weapon. when commenting on today's missile strikes. russia once again as shown to the world, what it stands for, it is carol and good tell those who are responsible have to be held accountable. ukrainian will not be intimidated and ukrainian know that we will stand by our side side as long as it's in other reactions, germany analysis, it'll be providing ukraine with cutting edge at defense systems. the u. k. is foreign minister, branded the miss all attacks today is unacceptable. while the estonian prime minister, depicted russia as a country, was used to deploying terrors tactics and also pledged full support for ukraine. this by literally a few days ago, his own foreign minister contract congratulate the ukraine with blowing out the crime. ambridge was 6. civilians died as a result shilling across ukraine,

including ki, if shows russia terrorist tactics. this makes it even more acute to establish tribune for crime of aggression. i suggested to as live under lion that you could help lead these efforts. estonia certainly welcomes this and congratulate the ukrainian special operations units who are expected to be behind this operation. let's take this further now with our panel of guests and warmly welding all of you to the studio here at arte international. let's just start off with scott ritter in the very middle there. scott ritter for the us marine corps in. tell officer to the right side of the screen. karen korea koski retired us air force. lieutenant colonel. and finally, i met most stuff on the left side of the screen, director of the asia center studies and translation to all of you from all of us here at moscow, a very good evening from the russian capital. first question to you scott: we've just add the words just now from both the estonian prime minister and foreign minister, one congratulating ukrainian special forces on blowing up the coach bridge and

killing 6 civilians. another is accusing russia of using terrorist tactics and they're a fine line. but you're seeing vast, scott no, there's no, there's, there's, there's, there's no fine line. there's a, a massive gap. a giant jasmine attack on the look that the bridge, the, the, the crimea bridge was a legitimate military target. there's, there's no doubt about that. um, but russia has indicated that it, this was not a war. it was friday with the train, but a special military operation that nicely may be lost on some people. i don't think it's being lost on ukraine. now. russia had long said that if there was an attack on the crimea bridge, that it would escalate. and that's what, that's what has happened here, plus the methodology of attack in war. you use weaponry, you use military units organized to carry out strikes, to attack targets that have been deemed worthy attack. you don't use the tools of

terrorism, you know, use a truck on a car bomb that eliminates it is being an act of war to be an act of terrorism. everything rushes done in retaliation is an act of war. so there's just literally mentioned that them a thought of, excuse me, that the methodology of the, of the attacks i wanted to pick you up on that because karen moving to you it, it's so difficult to get a clear picture of what happened when it comes to that the blowing up of the crimean coach bridge a russia says it was a truck bomb attack, others suggest perhaps a submersible drive in its early days. yet, what would your analysis be? i don't have all the information but what i've read it, it seems like it was set up on a truck and that the driver it was not ukrainian and possibly wasn't even aware that he was getting ready to be blown up himself very much in line with what we have come to think of is a terrorist type operation. so right, the language i think is appropriate there. even though it is technically

a military target the way the ukrainians are behaving and not conducting them doesn't. it may be due to desperation in many ways, i mean, the koreans are not well matched against the russians. i mean, i think that's, that's been a parent from day one. they do. they're begging for aid aid that they're receiving from the west is while it's a lot in money, it is very high hazard. much of it doesn't work together, doesn't come with training. it's definitely not enough for what they would need to face the russians and defend their remaining territory. so they are in a bad way and the use of terrorism type tactics in this situation is consistent with where the ukrainians actually stand. so you're, these are the power. so you, are you saying it's, it's almost like a, an act of desperation become let's be clear about this. i mean, a lot of people say, you know, a lot of people say that the war that you know, the conflict ukraine, the war ukraine started 8 years ago. busy a lot of people are saying it already started 6 or 7 months ago on, but it's, you know, when you're getting such

a mixed signal from both sides of the press to day, it is very difficult to really get to the fine point of where exactly is the truth augment, i wanted to bring you into this conversation, we've called various countries now discussing terrorism and, and accusing each other of tara practices. but you know, we getting no such loud reaction. for example, from well powers. when it comes to something like lester, say, africa and africa, africa in certain countries has getting plague by various acts of terrorism. but we really here next and nothing about it. why do we not hear about those? but we hear about these joe, it's expected. oh, look, we have different images of the conflict, dick and i'm a conflict which is the main one because asked to watch in the last week, especially after the annexation after the random of the apple of the crane and moving and not only a crane, but the whole of the social free flow and her food, all this is number one,

number to upper class. so that was expected in order to have some sort of counter attack. also, we hear from a lot of resources in the west that they already give the lensky an opportunity until october because after they've told me it would be difficult for the whole world just to get anything from boucher and the history. just affirming that especially with natalie own and be settler and well go to number 3. don't forget that. such is full of mystery now and we know and we have a lot of confirmation that mel medicine. we come from the whole world and the upgraded poland and some states need by a crane and for money we can do anything. and we, if we check the rotation of such a truck that make these exclusion in discussion bridge, or you will know that maybe yes, some medicine of use where used by money just to do such a thing. but it is a defeated person because now this is the last chance for the land is key again to restore any kind of land. it is really for that matter. it is almost like

you're picking up on what karen was saying as well. and some are also saying that the bombing of the bridge is an act of desperation. but let's be really clear about this. you know, ukraine is the, is the theater. ukraine is, is the ground where it's all happening, right? and you've essentially got russia against nato in ukraine. you've got russia one country guys. ok. they got some help with iranian drones and a few other bits and pieces. but you've got one country taking on 30. and this is something that people need to understand when people say ukraine run out of weapons a few months ago. it's been nato in us weapons pretty much ever since, whether that new cutting edge or some of them pretty antiquated, an old as well. but let's be clear about this. you know, ukraine, this is the staging ground. i wanted to just jump to just to scott, very, very quickly. scott: some stories today in the western press, a saying that russia has nearly run out of miss isles. your thoughts? i think that's just absurd and extreme. um, you said it's russia against 30 nations a. it's been that way forever. russia has been against nato. it used to have

a warsaw pact on side. but since the dissolution, the soviet union is literally been russia against nato. and since i would say the 2008 time period, russian has been preparing for the eventuality of large scale combat against data. which means they have built an arsenal of capable of sustaining that com, a conflict. russia has more than enough missiles, more enough ammunition, more than enough weapons, more enough logistics to sustain. not only the current conflict with ukraine, but whatever might take place in the future with natal. i don't seem to find russia running out of ammunition any time, so it's like, it's like, it was like, i'm a parent who said even a couple of months ago, a few months ago, he said we haven't started anything in earnest yet. so maybe that does kind of stuff tell with what you're saying, that's got current to you every time russia, every time russia attacks key as president zalinski is typically 1st tons to foreign leaders before even addressing his own nation. why,

why do you think that is, it just seems a bit weird. well, he's entirely dependent on his foreign non foreign aid. and his people. it is kind of sad because like you said, ukraine is the theater of war. it is becoming, ah, it is, it will be if, if they don't get to the p stables, it will be destroyed. and there will be no ukraine in any recognizable form if this continues on and on. so he is, i think he's actually kind of afraid of his own people. he has, i don't think in my opinion not well lead is not, he is not served. the ukrainian people well. and he is really not been honest either with them or with the rest of the world in terms of his own role in making the situation far worse and, and again, the for is since 2014 and, and even before the, the shelling and bombing of, of the dumbass region, you know, this, this went on ukrainian wealth was poured into the destruction there. they don't

consider the russians ukrainian, they were trying to kill him. so it's, he, he really is not in a good place, i think, domestically and, and he should be very careful, i think of himself as a politician because the people in a time of war that they can see clearly is fight what the government propagandized is. they, they can figure it out. can i appreciate that? ok, now i wanted to ask you to rector of the asia center for studies and translation. so, so give me the procession for from the asia and africa part of the world. because we know, for example, it's only 15 percent of the world that are sanctioning russia right now. that's basically europe, america, japan, australia, so on and so forth. but what about the part of the world that you specialize in? what, what is the general perception to all of this? not, not only the part of the, what the main sources of the energy, especially on. and if you return to the last week and all the gloss agreement that make america crazy, because how to percent buy them and the bodies were lose in the midterm elections

that make them crazy. they may, inside of, o, b, b might be in, i just, you know, as you let, is that such to do this and it's unfold unhinged. i think that will lead to let us keep to the, you know, the been off the history. and of course now the back stage in oak, randy are preparing another one. we heard about the defense minister was an issue, an applicant became now with russia because they were, i believe we were in iraq. what americans did about via killing a 1000000000 point, half of innocent people, and of course have a great, it was a scandalous act and nobody talk about the genocide that took place for the people, isn't it? or is that that what happened in libya? what happened in somalia coming in central africa and in west africa all you will find america and i was like soon i'm friends. just middling, all such in human acts, the full african people and it is your also or symbol is often talk. and i go to the conversation. i can say that we're going to need an awful lot more time than we

have here at all. but i think you re, some very, very excellent points. i'm running so low on time here guys at scott, i wanted to ask you, massive, massive air stripes across across ukraine today. i mean, this is probably the biggest escalation we've seen now, since the kick off to this conflict. what are your expectations for the next few days? look at this was the united states. i'd expect l to the middle that we'd sustain this a kind of a strike for weeks. that was the strategic air campaign model that we used in desert storm to great success. this is a special military operation of the russians, i don't believe are out to destroy the ukrainian nation. i don't think they're out to do harm to the training people. so i anticipated this is a warning show that the russians pay off. if you find a chance to reassess a rush is prepared to continue this kind of strike as necessary until which time all their objectives have been cheap. so you call it a potentially a warning salvo. today's i asked price against ukraine. karen,

is that how you would describe it as well? how would you look at the short term, immediate time? well, i hope i hope scott is right. i think that would be consistent with the way that the russian government has proceeded with the military operation. they have been conservative in many ways and so if, if they continue on a conservative, then we should see a time frame where they can be reassessment. and i think ideally we need to get to the table and whether it's united states zelinski couldn't with nato. they have this has got to be negotiated. otherwise i, i think it's, it's a disaster for all ukrainians. yeah, yeah. i mean, karen, you lead me to my next point. i've met ha concerning is that there are really no longer any coals for peace told. we certainly heard it from the russian side in recent days, but nothing out of key of he says he wouldn't. he wouldn't talk with putin a mr. to give a discussion. it is a yellow card, according to the sector because we are very close to don't want to cut the for,

it's a yellow card from booted to the lens. otherwise, as we here, i think we have this g 20 in bally. and if the key is not taking this opportunity, just to settle the situation peacefully, will be just in the worst situation of a human in the world. and it is kind of threatening. and if you continue with this, i'm handled, you know, behavior or actions. you will be the only lose that because most of the why it didn't affect you, hold your friend from the beginning because he knows very well that there is a history and a just want his name is clear most of the time. and also just treating with the okay, and people who are away from the, you know, the administration which is zionist club. unfortunately. and the are very kind people we met opinion in moscow when i was doing my boss about about studies. the for you know, i think this is the last chance for the last key to come in.