ah, 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 of my potent compares ukraine's actions primarily in crimea and other border regions to terrorism against russia, warns they will evoke a pass for school that will these remarks calm as russia conduct an enormous missile strike operation on various ukrainian targets, including military command centers and energy from the white house to westminster rushers actions are widely condemned by the west, with a stony and prime minister even accusing russia. look, deploying tara tuck 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 cranium 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 missile strikes in kiev and other ukrainian cities. earlier said

a russia launched dozens of miss alice target and critical infrastructure across the country. the defense ministry and moscow says old doesn't any targets were hit the we understand target was 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. and president, he also confirmed a key energy systems where hit me power station and kia, suffering, a missile strike with large plumes of smoke bellowing about the facility. zelinski advisor reported that miss alt hit close to the presidential office and ukraine security services headquarters in the capital. authorities say 10 people were

killed and dozens more wounded in kiev. and locals have been sharing 40 reactions to the missile strikes. they witness the let's put it 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 afforded chart 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 of course, one of egos is donald k, u r e. go to great to see you. you've been on don bath 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. while 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 boot 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 bridge. if that was something that, that cave did not really directly take responsibility full, but according to vladimir putin, according to his what of his most recent addresses and statements. basically, all intelligence that he has at his disposal shows that well, it was indeed cave. 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 are that russia had apparently purchased from iran. so there you have it. ah, well, a lot of ukrainian energy infrastructure has been well not taken out, but rather badly damaged and it has already impacted the lives of ukrainians. there

have been officially advised and asked to well conserve energy to not light up the lights in their homes and basically do everything in their power to not use more than the bare minimum that they need to roll 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 missiles strikes that includes dozens of other cities and towns and including major cities like low valve . for example, how to cook. even in key of the connection i should say, and the access to the energy grade 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 orland and to europe or 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 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 stopped shelling and operating behind the lines and stopped 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 dynette have come across and that they have to overcome. because basically the next 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 or once every 3 days briefly for a few hours and that is due the direct result of ukraine shelling, civilian infrastructure in the nets. 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 netscape is cut off from water supplies and they have been shelling residential areas then it's because of very civilian town. there's no military infrastructure there are, 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 littler little towns, like you seen

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. stop shelling, civilian infrastructure, stop shelling civilians again to those shillings are deadly. ah, they were the russian miss all strike. it was deadline. ukraine too. but it is in comparable to the human loss of life that the dorm bass 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 ukranian drone and there are using combat drones to the very appearance in russian air space. it is a, an important indicator that while ukraine probably is defying this message, or either you got to 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. 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 analyst are brian by letting 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 creamy and bridge . we have watched ukraine and it's 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. it's well within russia, the 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 would jeopardize the flow of essential for the civilian population. and people have to remember from 2014 until the special military

operation began. 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 was president putin has confirmed the explosion on the crimea bridge was a terror attack that was committed by ukraine. he also gave more examples of pierre's actions and even including claims of nuclear terror. he 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, who and this also includes the terrors shelling of the don best cities and also nuclear terrorism, york hillary shelling of this apparition, 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. 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 willoughby there was also a number of attempted terrorist attacks committed on russian electricity and gas transport infrastructure. and now they are russian that strikes on ukraine came 2 days off of the attack on the crimea bridge. the head of the russian investigative committee informed 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. though i spoke earlier in the program to a canadian journalist, eva bartlett, who has been in the don't ask republic since march, she gave us her take to day on a well the rear retaliation. at times i should say, against keith the russian leadership has been the cool that's, i mean,

we've seen people been saying, why hasn't russia retaliated for months now? right. and particularly since the terror happened the bridge, there was a lot of people asking what's gonna happen next, but i mean, i really feel like, and i'm here and i'm, yes, i'm in the dunbar. people here i've been saying for over 8 years and why, when is it enough? when you print stuff showing up and, you know, russia, 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, successes, they're literally didn't take those options. people and you pray 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 showing killed 26 people. that's just done yes. proper. you know it's, i'm not talking about 4 or less car or mac, he's or other areas in the dumbass or, or the against. this is the terror that people been living here for over 8 years. and i've been here often on 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 tara 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 clear gleefully taking selfies and photos in front of images i've destroyed perfectly destroyed bridge. i hope that those people maybe can now step back and have a little passion. could have your company as the european commission chief

o'sullivan de la ins as rushers 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 brutality. those who are responsible have to be held accountable. ukrainians will not be intimidated, and ukrainians know that we will stand by your side. their side, as long as it takes in other reactions or germany analysis, it'll be providing ukraine with cutting edge at defense systems. the u. k is 4 minutes of branded the missile attacks today is unacceptable. while the estonian prime minister, depicted russia as a country that's used to deploying terrors tactics and also pledged full support for ukraine, despite literally a few days ago, his own foreign minister contract congratulate the ukraine with blowing out the crimea bridge was 6. civilians died as a result shelling across ukraine including key if shows rushes terrorist tactics.

this makes it even more acute to establish trevino for crime of aggression. i suggested to as a live under lion that you could help lead these efforts. estonia suddenly welcomes this and congratulate the ukrainians special operations units who are expected to be behind this operation. well, let's take this further now with our panel of guests and warmly welcoming all of you to the studio here at r t international. let's start off with scott ritter in the very middle there. scott ritter for my us marine corps. and tell officer to the right side of the screen. karen creat koski retired us air force. lieutenant colonel. and finally, us met most stuff on the left side of the screen, director of the age of center for 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. and other is accusing russia of using terrorist tactics. and

is there a fine line, but you're seeing the 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 nicety 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 the methodist, 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 drone. it's early days yet. what would your analysis be? no, 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. the aid that they're receiving from the west is while it's a lot in money, it is very have 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 are, 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 in ukraine, the war ukraine started 8 years ago. a lot of people are saying it only 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 today,

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 terror practices. but you know, we're getting no such loud reaction. for example, from well powers. when it comes to something like, let's just say africa and africa, africa in certain countries has getting plague by various acts of terrorism. but we really hear 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. they cannot make conflict, which is the main one because asked to watch a book and did 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 source of free flow and her food, all this is number one, number 2 off a 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 the already given the line is key. an opportunity until october because after october it will be difficult for the whole world just to get anything from boucher and the history. just affirming that especially with natalie own and counselor 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 madison. we come from the whole world and they are trained in poland and some states need by a crane and for money we can do anything. and we, if we attract the rotation of such a truck that make these exclusion in this course bridge, or you will know that maybe yes, some medicine abuse 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 plan. it is a really, for that matter, it is almost like you're picking up on what,

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. you crate 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 call 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 that the 2000 a 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. a russia has more than enough missiles, more enough ammunition, more than enough weapons, more enough logistics to sustain. not only this current conflict with ukraine, but whatever might take place in the future. with natal, i only dream to find russia running out of ammunition any time. so it's like, it's like you, it was like, i'm a potent who said him 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 dovetailed 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 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 they don't get to the piece tables, 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. he 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 on 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, turn. 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 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 class agreement that make america crazy because 100 percent by them and the bodies were lose in the midterm elections that make them crazy of they may incited, oh, they might be in,

i said, you know, as you let us use that such to do this attack, it's uncontrolled and unheeded attack that will leave the key to the you know, the been off the history and of course now the back stage in oakland. the are preparing another one. we heard about the defense minister was an issue, an applicant became now with russia because they were leave. we were in iraq, what america did about via killing a 1000000 point hub of innocent people. and of course, i believe 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 will find america. and i was like soon and frank just mentally all such in human acts, the full african people and it is you're also or central asia soften talk. and i go to the conversation on my that we're going to need an awful lot more time than we have here at our table. i think you raise 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, only 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? this was the united states, i'd expect pedal to the metal that we'd sustain this, a kind of a strike for weeks. that was the strategic air campaign model that we used to 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 anticipate that this is a warning show that the russians pay off. if you get a chance to reassess the rushes prepared to continue this kind of strike as necessary until which time all their objectives have been achieved. so you call it a potentially a warning salvo. today's i asked rice 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 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 been 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, are there really no longer any coals? the piece 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. i was told to give a discussion. it is a yellow card, according to the sector because we are very close to don't what the for, it's a yellow card from booted to the lens. otherwise, as we here,

i think we have this and g 20 in bally. and if it's a 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 on hand, you know, behavior or action, 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 he just treating with the ok 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 part of a study. the for, you know, i think this is the last chance for the last key to come in bally at the g. 20. just to settle the situation with.