the chickens, we're not and are not a people for me, it's time to move on and see what we can do for the child. the said committee to return back home. there is no support from the nomination. high commissioner, if again, united michigan don't care about chug or send people ah, it is latest odds of sense the ship of russian media that you targets are the parent company with another round of sanctions. ordering a freeze of the company's assets in europe. the un condemns the terror attack on russia's humanitarian offices in the central african republic, which left the head of the mission seriously wounded. under the sources claim, us manufactured and supplied drones, were used by ukraine in recent strikes on russian surgery. despite washington saying that u. s. weapons have not been used to hit targets in russia with

july from our studio here in the russian capital. you're watching artsy international. i'm pizza. scott's here with all the latest this saturday afternoon . welcome over the you is tightening the screws on media. freedom says latest package of sanctions, freezing arts, his european assets in an effort to silence russia. earlier, my colleague fiorella, isabel discussed the developments with our team. marina calls me back. all this is now the nines package of sanctions and they are supposed to be hard hitting as the european union has called them. and basically what we're seeing with our t's that they're sanctioning ours, he's pam company and also the novice, the in europe. so basically brussels is season funds and acids belonging to our c as well as some other over channels. and not only that,

they also want to make sure that there are no funds or economic resources made available to them whether it's directly or indirectly. and this not only affects entities, but also people associated with the company. this is what's interesting. and also another aspect to this is that there are more russian channels being sanctioned as well. some of them have just one news broadcast every day, for example. and what else do we know about this latest round of e u sanctions? well, it's a huge list of. busy not only people being sanctioned, but also different industries. so for example, we have now the latest, the number is up there. $1386.00 people who are sanctioned in total and $171.00 organizations. and they're really wants to make sure that it, it hits rush out where it hurts according to them. so for example, there are really target thing, the rosters military industrial complex. they're looking at export restriction when it comes to technologies that contributes rushes,

military takes abilities and also its ability to work on certain technologies. they're trying to, we can russia when it comes to its military, there is also and other and the energy sector. for example, no new investments can be made by a foreign companies with rushes energy sector. there's also a v, a sion and for example, more banks have been added. and what's interesting, they're cutting rushes access to drones. so not only is the direct exports of drone engines now forbidden to russia. so to other countries that may circumvent this. and then, for example, through other countries, exports it to russia. so that's also not allowed. so this is a multifaceted attack on russia. absolutely. and through different industries, but particularly the military industrial complex. this is what they're really focusing on. and they want to make sure that russia is weekends on the battle

ground, and some experts have already come out and set it. for example, with the freezing of the assets when it comes to our table. clearly what they've done so far by binding the channel on soup, for example, that hasn't worked. we know that there was a pole in germany recently where people that still wants to watch or still find ways to watch it. and you and i know that you can watch or is he not just on satellite cd buddy, you can go online and the people have been posting lots of videos. so that's what they're not happy with. and they're trying to make sure that it's sub found by cutting any funds that are made available to our tea or any ways in which russia confer convent the sanctions and is remaining up and running that. and also the military aspect is very important. that's what they're trying to do to weaken it, but also the same time, this is what we're talking about. the european union has been saying all along that it's all for freedom of speech. well, this doesn't look very much like freedom of speech when you're trying to completely shut down the other angle of the story. we spoke to former c i a analyst and ceo of

burg associates ly johnson. and he says that the west is telegraphing its weakness by censoring alternative viewpoints. the you cannot handle the truth. they keep projecting their own weakness their own faults, their own inability, just to maintain proper armies and field, the ammunition to keep them supplied. governments that engage in this kind of conduct are reflecting their own weakness their own impotence, because they have their powerless to stop russia from working with other countries like india, like china, like south africa, even brazil, to form an independent group of nations that are not beholden to the west it's, i've done a lot of television, i've done all the major american media, abc, cbs, nbc, all the cable channels, fox news, and are done the b, b, c. r t is the only news channel were i've been asked to come on and you don't

interview me in advance to find out if i'm going to say what you want to hear. you let me speak what i think. and i think that is a remarkable tribute to r t. so this is a desperate attempt by the west to try to keep their people blinded in an ignorance . but what's going to happen is reality will intrude. one of these days ukraine will collapse, and russia will have its victory. and at that point, the west europe in particular, is going to have to decide whether they want to continue to freeze in the dark b without a oil and gas. or if they want to become grown ups and start dealing with russia in a respectful way and have proper relationships on the same day that you targeted russia, media, germany is foreign ministry ross to protect press freedom so they could not be quote, switched off. and that's in reference to the suspension of twitter account. so civil us journalists, freedom of the press,

must not be switched on and off at will. as of today, the journalists below can no longer follow comment or criticize us. we have a problem with that. the u. n has condemned a terror attack on the russian humanitarian mission and the central african republic was left its chief and hospital officer possible exploded in his hands on that particular incident. oh, we obviously very much hope. oh, that is germany mixer recovery oh we have not been asked or in any way to assist with with the investigation. we obviously condemn for these types of for of attach the local police in the central african republic. continued to comb through the scene of the incident that injured her, the head of the russian mission in central africa. mister dmitri city, if understood from what we know, that the local police have found pieces of evidence,

things like notes that were part of the package that exploded in the hands of mister c t. and they are right now as far as we know, the only authorities that are investigating this and that the russian foreign ministry has re edge some, some speed with regards to finding out who is behind us. then, gathering some of the evidence, but less the cta evidence to have been a person of, of great influence, especially with regards to warming relations between bang ye and moscow of recent years. russia has really been a partner of choice for many of the conflict laden countries that are former french colonies that have really decided to turn their back on and on france, because of the way paris has treated their governments. and they, in the way they felt that they haven't been listened to over decades following this attack unless that dimitry city, a quick statement was issued by

a russian business, lynn and co founder of the private military group. wagner, on november 11th, dmitri city received a package from togo with a photograph of a son who lives in france. it contained a note saying that next time he would get the head of his son. if the russians do not get out of the can continent and open the doors for the french to day, he got another package. despite all the instructions for observing security measures. dmitri city, being in an emotional state, open to the parcel. there was an explosion before losing consciousness. dmitri city managed to say that he saw a note saying, this is for you from all the french, the russians will get out of africa. the russian foreign ministry has come out with a favor and they go on further to say that this was not only an attempt to to so other relations within the central african republic, but to do so with,

with that malicious intent by those that do not wish for peace in the region and the warm relations that bang ye and moscow now enjoy, we strong re condemned this criminal act, which is clearly aim to guest activities of the russian house in bungie. and more broadly, i guess, a successful development of friendly relations between our 2 countries left the city were said to be a moderator of sanford between some of the local revo groups and government forces . and this is the role that he said to have played in twin t lane team for a manually averse with the current situation in central african republic. and never have led to saw my speculation as to who could be involved. but a man who knew mister cynthia well, is his colleague in the russian house who also told as the following thing about one country. there isn't any good in what happened. i know, dmitri,

he works for the benefit of peace in the central african republic. he works around the clock for the betterment of our society, those who want to bring chaos and make our country vulnerable to everything, to stop our society, achieving peace locals. no, dmitri, everybody knows him. people ask us how dmitri feels, and i can assure you that our hearts and thoughts on our with him. we hope he gets better, so we need his help in our work to bring peace to the country. we hope state and law enforcement will conduct a proper investigation, some punish those responsible for the attack. these people are enemies of the central african republic. we count on our governments and those really to assist us to paved the way to peace. many thanks to those who have been asking about to me to his condition, look, we hope he will recover as soon as possible. what we know so far is that the police continued to gather evidence at the ration house that security has been ramped up at that particular facility and that the investigation is ongoing. but doctors have

fed that missouri city remains in critical condition in hospital, in the central african republic, and then he is now facing a fight for his life. the u. s. has produced and supplied jose ukraine to target's russian infrastructure. well, that's what's being claimed by some r t sources as defies washington, claiming that weapons have not been used to hits russian territory. it's been determined that the avi onyx and control stations of the drones were manufactured by american company scepter works, which performed their initial calibration and testing at scottsdale airport. and arizona analysis of the electronic units of intercept drones showed that the ukrainian military also used these. you avi's to attack infrastructure facilities in several stapo, as well as the belgrade curse can varone as regions south as familiar with the

story claim that's final drone assembly and test flights were conducted near a polish airport. that was used as the main nato hoped for supplying weapons to key . if you a these are said to have been launched from the ukranian cities of odessa and cree void rogue. the allegation contradicts washington's claims that weapons of by, to give, have not been used to bomb sites in russia. we have not provided ukraine with weapons that is to use inside of russia. we've been very clear that these are defensive spots. we are, the president said very clearly, some time ago. we are not enabling ukraine to strike the i'm beyond its borders. were tied us force. lieutenant colonel carn krakowski says that the use of us manufacture drones would be a dangerous step. it is concerning and alarming, and it is consistent with some of the other things we've seen leading up to this

point. you know, the intelligence sharing that has been going on us intelligence and that kind of thing. i certainly the assistance with some of the american weapon systems that are been sent to ukraine along with american operators and trainers for that equipment concerns about special forces being forward being forward located in this surrounding countries including poland but also the latter lithuania lapierre. those guys are allies there. so this is just one more step in a very dangerous direction. providers of arms and making a lot of money. their stock is growing. it's, it's doing well. there are they have guaranteed contracts well into the future. in part because of conflicts around the world, and specifically in due to the kind of money that's been spent on their company's products, going into ukraine and going into this war effort relating to ukraine to them. this

is good business. we have asked the pentagon to comments on those reports, but we're yet to hear anything back. ah, elise, turner explosions have rocked the done yet city overnight. local authorities say that the number of drug missiles were fired at the residential area. one of the buildings that was hit report to the co fire while windows were blown out for the entire floor was destroyed. and another. when is to say that without fragments also struck a car and during the family inside asked if the general r t r. a big has heard from local residents about life under siege lee and furious units of blood, the auction. the ukrainian regime ignores all the rules and targets purely civilian areas. there are no military personnel, they're only local residents. small children leave here. i have no idea what they're doing and when it will end those 3 of our little there was massive shelling . 2 old women got so scared they fainted. we hope someone will help us. not

a day goes by and announced without casualties and destruction. and the reason for this is the key of regimes heavy shelling of residential areas. this shelling only grows more powerful day by day. mother, ukrainian shells on fires and western weapons are raining down on the heads of civilians, residential neighborhoods, places of worship and hospitals have become legitimate targets of the key of regime . the shelling by ukrainian forces of this church and the center of don't ask is irrefutable evidence of cubes, deliberate, and planned crimes. medical who's lists of targets is consuming more and more sold at the curb, but it was easy. meanwhile, the russian president, vladimir putin, has visited the command center for the military operation in ukraine. there he heard a report on the progress of the operation and held meetings with commanders. while he became acquainted with the work of the joint staff of bushes armed forces. us all from me for now, but before we had off, here's a story of

a mobilized ukrainian. so just 2 month journey from civilians captive. he spoke to archie in an exclusive interview. we should warn you though that he may have been given under duress. sleep can you introduce yourself? where'd you come from? how did you join the ukrainian military wire from it up of the bit boy long ridge? yes, my name is put bed paddle ivana village. i'm from violin region from the city of koval. so i was mobilized back in may, i underwent a medical examination and then i was told to wait for then in september they called me and gave me a draft notice. so my service was to start in october in february. this is how i ended up in the ukrainian army. why didn't you leave the country? will suddenly her thumb, it was too late to leave. if one wanted to go abroad, then they had to prove that they had been placed on the military office registry list. plus you needed to specify the exact reason for travel before you couldn't simply travel there for work. a coil put a chimney year,

her marvelling of this is as often as i know the while in is located in western ukraine. how do people their view mobilization? would you say you were living there from may till september and knowing they could mobilize you at any time? result? yes, i got that. and so how did your relatives and friends react to nadia? that the poor, her sibling authority, it was really bad. my city suffered from explosions as well as other regions. everything sounds bad when you talk about war. many guys didn't want to go to war. who wants to go to war? honestly, those of you and those who didn't go to war. what exactly did they do to avoid service? the versace, who usually so they were just sitting there waiting for those who manage to leave. we're lucky. so what happened next while once you are called up for service, i began training. what training will will i was abroad in england? it was, but don't tell me how exactly you were selected today. why did they choose? you do have it as special skills or military occupation. you may be an outstanding

level of physical training. hook it yet north. no, nothing like that. when we were drafted, we only went through a little athletic training, a short run, some pushups, that was it. and then they just followed the list in alphabetical order from the beginning, and thus sent a number of fighters to england. those at the end of the list had to stay in ukraine. i wish racial will still suffer when me through was this discussed in advance in some way or, you know, they just picked this from the list randomly. no, look, they made a list of say 200 people was then they went from a to b, c, d. and further don't know. once the quarter was filled up like a 180 people, they stopped there. so she's julia who so you say 180 of you were sent to england. julia talked about it with others. janice, what was the sentiment among the troops? who did you have an expectations of the level of the training?

sure. yeah. so we all expected something more actual concrete. who how exactly did you imagine it until you got there to the annual plan? well yeah, additional charlotte a little. i personally expected it to be different at times it wasn't even interesting. well, no. what any of those are in curious, manuel got was to die. how do you get there? what kind of transport did you use was on google earth? well, some are not on the, on a plane. and then by bustle with them, was it a direct flight about them so well, the middle, they dropped us off somewhere in england. i couldn't see the exact location of the airport with then we rode a bus for around 9 hours to do the postal service. with the blane, take off from ukraine. no, no, the dog, nor did it. a sport from poland. and we left from ukraine from poland as well. after again, traveling by bus, somebody, you forceful. which base will your training asthma bug? from what i saw, it was called world war cops. so war cult,

yes. you will. what was your 1st training day? like better? we didn't watching a caputo that i didn't what we just started packing our bags for the next day. they give us clothing equipment, a lot of it. what exactly did you get? so everything from underwear and socks to bullet proof vests that helmets and medical aid kits. film was all full set, including a warm uniform resume crockett. does that show? when did the training itself start would be one of the assembly and appeal, where did some so on the 1st day we just spent 2 or 3 hours packing our bags of publishers. the 2nd day was more useful that we learned to take capital. had some classes on medicine and history. we received british made weapons and started to learn how to use them. got this thought here with acquired the snow. oh, your instructors. we had instructors from sweden, were there any british instructors there? there were some british personnel at the base of it, but they weren't the ones teaching us shoot. what exactly did the instructors teach

you to do? did you have any military service experience at all to start with you? no, not at all. crucial chima, and were there any who served in the military among those 180 recruits w come with a solution one or 2? well really yes, i'm you still to reschedule a good they in any way compared the level of the training they had received in the ukrainian army to that in england, or when you prefer the will pseudo women. there was a big difference on what exactly was difference. so it's about the program. i'd only spent 3 days on the frontline of it. but what the swedish instructors taught us wasn't any useful for me in war. sure. nothing is like that. but they have their training standards that they follow marshall door. okay, let's put it into details. what exercises did you do? a key, a country of moly garcia, you know, which it is. it's a funny thing for 2 days. they taught us to hold the weapons. so that you wouldn't keep your finger on the trigger all the time. something of

a beginner level. we had nothing like that in the ukrainian army with them. if as you say, none of their 180 recruits had ever held weapons in their hands. maybe that was the right thing to do is to put up on the instructors, were shocked that i worked with timber. the others worked in i t or somewhere else . it's like when you get an a, b, c book in 1st grade, when people see a weapon for the 1st time in their life, it's hard for them to handle it and they were always shouting before, you'll shoot one of your own like that. feel a little so the reason noah will she did. so you spent about 2 days learning to handle weapons. what did you do next? with newman and show us that us war, we learned how to disassemble weapons and assemble them again. then the tactics of movement just with unloaded weapons, which you would run when take cover behind a tree doctor to put a design you. but what machinery did you say and learned to handle german caricature, no machinery? now no storage, we only learn to use british as say, 80 rifles and

a k. 40 sevens at the end of the shooting practice lasted for 7 days. there was no machinery, but we learned to use and la grenade launcher. gus little did. you should the and law not, i mean we had copies with nobody would give us real launchers. thought i would. how long did the training last will soon which the whole training plus the road to and from lasted 35 days. that spin was there and examined the ent next on no exam. just a lesson, we went out and held firing positions that was in chicago. what were your impressions of that the start of this interview? you said you were waiting for something. difference was that it was boring sometimes why chewable a school and it was thought their car through overstretched in the army. if you failed to do something, you must learn how to do it in 5 minutes. and there, if something happens, they just pat you on the hello. sure. they're in the army. if an order is given,

it must be done immediately. and there everything lasts too long. everything is different. so what happened after the training will last, but it is little they sent us back to ukraine. we had to be trained for the specialty as we were assigned to, but nobody trained us for it. they just assigned us to brigades. here we joined the 25th grade. we went, there are specialties, were just written in our military service cards. we studied nothing from the other who was supposed to train you to the specialties. you were assigned to your north 4 year than our military. now somebody had a handle a grenade launcher, somebody had to handle a mortar on the milt move the cordon and in reality, a perfect all in reality, i hold the specialty of senior shooter. such was but i served as a subordinate to the grenade launcher operator. promotion going on the merchant. when did you get your specialty? who will poster when we came to the military base they, they took our military cards and just stamped them. first of them reach out to florida doors previously,

so you were taken back to crane assigned to units. where did they send you then, sir? uh so that was last roster. they sent us to different places, even squadron after squadron. i was in the 8th squadron, but to we never smiled was speedy. a shell is where you mixed with those ukrainians who weren't trained in the west virginia. no, that was it was designed to keep it. we'll adopt for them. yes, yes, we were mixed. around 30 of us joined my squadron. from what i understood. they sent us to a squadron that suffered heavy losses. faith that is to proportion globally as a machine you. how did those trained in england get along with those left without this opportunity? the c o will ensure that there was models, there were no conflicts with your company now conflicts. and between those trained simply and with the business of lower conflicts between ourselves sorted, there were polemics about who was higher up. people threatened each other, or somebody wouldn't like the other person pointing at them. well,

why are you doing this? i'll cut your finger off or for example, conflicts along the lines of, i put a vase somewhere and you put it somewhere else. why in the conflict rages on such disputes over little things happened to the 30 or maybe because the people are a war we of possible conflict. but you don't. the hood awaited those conflicts come from your training together for a month. did you fail to become brothers in arms war? barstow was on the bull. june. kirk thump, thump as he beard. it's like everybody is on his own. what if that's what we were told and there's no friendship between us. there were seniors, sergeants, who said, you have no collectivity from and we had none the worth net correct human with was your 1st combat mission, delaware. we were tasked to capture a settlement desert crusted, gorski or cross no petto capsicum or something like that. our mission was to clear the wood and we drove an infantry fighting vehicles. there was a platoon of around 50 people, of the squadron is supposed to have $200.00,

but there was only our platoon. there were other squadrons that went earlier. we went there last. we drove 3 vehicles. mine was the last and we started to clear the area. sure. it was in the direction of lyman. things began badly before we didn't even have time to jump off the info chief fighting vehicle. artillery started to hit us if the fire was very intense, 0 very intense. many of us were wounded, but the order was still to move forward from re 15. did you move the way the swedish destructors told you stork for follow. come on the co, every one moved in their own way. the commander behaved poorly was a commander in our squadron, meaning 12 people did not ran away and disappeared the next day. and before that, he didn't understand where we were supposed to go. that's the commander. we had as all, every one moved their own way. when we reached a high point, we came under intense fire, including from firearms. we cleared the area and reach to firing position in the

fields. we were told the changed position. it was around a 150 meters from main forces that we got there got in the trench and came under fire. they fired everything they had it as if there were 5 of us left behind before i surrendered. and there wasn't any held a key. i had hurt my eye and was supposed to be evacuated. but nobody came for me. the guy with the radio sat said, i'll come back later. he went and didn't return. well, so yes, he just did. lou were full in. you, blissful go so you surrendered. what next war? but did it or no, they took me to the commander and put a bandage on my i then moved me to another place by car i spent the night there. then they took me to the interrogation and the detention facility you to pavel with multiple yet, but it been thorough leo hoff before your mobilized? did you watch or read ukrainian hughes? yes. lou cook. and after being mobilized up to your 1st battle,

what can you say about the news? they're really sure. most of it before go north. it won't go in. so the news told us that ukraine is reclaiming its territories, but nobody talks about our losses. and we have heavy losses, or what i saw by the 4th or 5th day. there was nothing left of our squadron visible . me. what do you think now, look, when i return home, i won't go to war any more. she what have they won't ask your opinion if you are mobilized again. warner to what was arch if they will threaten me with jail, i'll just refuse the commanders, let me down. i was left on my own and to be honest, i was lucky. the others are dead and i am alive and speaking now were for the 1st time i saw people, even though i didn't spend a lot of time with them. but when you talk to someone and right after they lose half of their head with their gut slang. everywhere it's hard to visual.