me the ukrainians was talking to criminal. moscow is called him to the sedation of them in the russian president would not be inside his residence during the drone strike, which was repelled by electronic defenses who didn't schedule remains unchanged according to spokesman. this kid denies responsibility for the criminal. russia retains the rights to retaliate at any time, and the very will welcome this is all the international with the latest world news updates good to have you, company of the kremlin, save ukraine,

laurence drones drawn from the moscow residence of president putin in the early hours of wednesday, russian official say 2 dwellings with downs y electronic egg defenses, inside the criminal walls, with no casualties or damage on the grounds. video apparently shows one of the drones exploiting weiss above the senate building which houses plasma hooton's office. he was not inside the building during the attack moscow, his label that a terrorist act under the attempted assassination of the russian president, the criminal added that russia reserve the right to take with talia tory measures where and when it sees fit. however, ukrainian officials have played, they know nothing about the attack and deny any responsibility. made lensky has said that ukraine doesn't target pooty nor russia, but he's waging a defensive war. he's all senior will correspondence more garcia, reporting from the embattled against public. while things on the frontline are as tents as can be,

as we speak hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of competed soldiers, troops, i've gathered across the front line almost a 1000 kilometers. we're talking about an immense amount of far power, thousands again and thousands of tags of artillery pieces of various various aerial assets of jets helicopter station on both sides. ukraine that no secret that despite the morning it's air force has received. a has received much more support from the west and we're talking here about old soviet helicopters. mig 29 jets for poland and other countries are certainly think he already pause for the storm. that is about the said with you grades counter offensive. it will be an incredibly bloody affair. we've, you know, we've spoken and we've heard from various officials, for example, the head of p. m t wagner. the private military company has said that he believes the ukrainian counterfeits of his already begun. yes. ship. i believe that the

ukrainian armies offensive has already, in fact, begun me. we're seeing the most intense activity from enemy aircraft on the perimeter and inside our front, even at the same time while we are in control of our front insight. unfortunately, the situation on the perimeter doesn't look great even will. i won't comment on how secure our thanks are out of politeness. good enough. the enemy has also become more active beyond the historical borders of ukraine in the russian federation, where we can see the situation in various areas, trains, drones, and surround them. i believe that all this has already started and things will end to the active phase in the near future. in a matter of days, perhaps, whether you can claim your government has demonstrated that these p are desperate. it has say, you know, e, it has struck previously at marson cities across the board and said, look, we can strike into russia. never mind that. it struck at civilian neighbourhood, slowing stones at electrical sub stations, leaving military targets untouched,

causing a year, inconvenienced at to 1000, but also killing and killing civilians. dozens and dozens of civilians injuring hundreds across the border in russia and various villages, they're the countryside. we've also seen the, the terror attacks against russian journalists and activists. for example, the murder of 2 prominent jonas in rush itself, one in the car bombing, one in a cafe bombing just recently in st. petersburg. we were there in cassandra, i. 1 an american supplied hi mas miss. how struck the hotel we were staying and altogether inactive? is that a form ukrainian, a parliamentary, who's also staying at the hotel? no, no soldiers around us. but again, after every incident that they e, it flies around the world. it's headlines around the world and you pay attention to it. sponsors look, we're, we're taking action. we've done this. we've done. we've done that. so certainly, this will be used domestically, especially by ukraine. but again, there's

a huge risk of, of escalation, but again, presidency. lensky ha! now auditory in finland, planning to travel, perhaps to germany, or somewhere else in europe next, has come out and said that the counter offensive is about to begin and he hopes the gained by it. why am i sure that we will get jets? because sooner will take offense affections after that, i'm sure there will give us planes. i would like it to be the other way around, but it is what it is. as i said, the, the history of this conflict, since they what has been escalation after escalation. we heard that 1st, you know, various was the nation's bait of states reluctant to said the artillery pieces to ukraine will leave the late. so you, that resistance crumbled girl was crushed by other members of, of nasal than they sent tags than they said jets. now they're planning on sending f 16, a fighter bombers from the, from the united states at ease an incredibly dangerous times over the past year. it

has only gotten much more dangerous investigative journalist alex rubinstein. he published an article on ukraine's joins trunks against russia just a date before the attack on the kremlin. tote is the key of his, of his thought into terrorist tactics. it is failing to win the conflict on the battlefield. well, even besides the article that i published, i tweeted it yesterday. ah, noting the increase in not just a tax by drawn strapped with sometimes western made c for explosives, but also the car bombing of daria do. geena the remote destination ah, in st. petersburg, at a public event. these are the kinds of tactics that ukraine is resorting to because they're not winning in a conventional sense of, of conventional warfare. i'm so they're resorting to terrorism, of course, in washington. this is called merely hybrid warfare, but it shows, ah,

the desperation of the ukrainian government. um, and i think that as the alleged spring offensive is um, what will flounder. we're going to see an even more of these kinds of attempted assassinations and i'd, blay, and terrorist acts. washington has washed his hands at the drone attack on the kremlin. as u. s. officials claim they don't know what really happens. as america is stepping up, his military support for ukraine, despite the risk of a big a conflict with russia. here's the latest statements on that from the white house spokesperson. even very clear, i mean, we just were about to announce another another critical security assistance to, to ukraine. i think that shows our commitment, and we have been very clear that we will support ukraine as they defend their country against russia's invasion. they will and that will continue,

that will not stop. and again, we're, we're announcing a security assistance, i think that shows how, how much we are committed to them fighting for their freedom, fighting, recreating people fighting for their democracy. and so we've been very clear in not just security assistance and humanitarian aid and economic aid, and that will continue from here. well, we've heard in addition to what we just heard there from the white house press secretary in the white house spokesperson, we've also heard from antony blanket, the u. s. secretary of state and well, he did not indicate and said the united states had no prior knowledge of this attack, and he certainly did not indicate the united states was endorsing the action. he gave a kind of bland statement that didn't seem to really come down this very dangerous escalation. here's what we heard from anthony blanca, as i said. and as we said, when it comes to ukraine, which is under daily assault. and not just,

it's incredibly courageous military forces, but it's citizens, it's men, women and children being assaulted a daily basis by this russian aggression being bombed out of their homes, their apartments and their streets. children killed, families torn apart. well, we leave it to ukraine to decide how it's going to defend itself and how it's going to try to get back the territory. now, united states is already supplied billions and billions of dollars worth of weapons and others support to the government. and throughout the process, the united states, putting more and more military aid, more and more deadly weapon war and more dangerous missiles into russia has repeatedly pointed out that it appears the united states is enabling the government to attack russia and to attack russian territory. and we've heard numerous times us that that is not the case if they are not enabling or encouraging your brand with

tac russian territory. here's some of the dialogue around this issue. we heard in prior months. we have not provided ukraine with weapons that is to use inside of russia. we've been very clear that these are defensive supplies. we have neither encouraged nor enabled the ukrainians to strike inside of russia. i can say definitively that the notion of the u. s. providing intelligence or information to the ukrainians to target locations inside russia is nonsense. we are not at war with russia, nor do we seek war with russia. now the world is very aware of what just took place and the recent attack. so this can be pointed to as yet another example of the words of us leaders not matching their actions german attorney and lo, professor andre thomas. how's unsafe?

kid is trying to stir up a media storm with such attacks and with a lack of success on the front lines. touch incident, such attacks. i call them terrorist attacks. we'll call them as symmetric warfare attacks that are designed to, to make headlines, to, to show that so that the enemy is not able to 40 protect its territory and possibly it citizens, we will see more and more what is not modern days as symmetric warfare. all in the old days, gorilla or just terrorism. and this is naturally so because the regular forces in the ukraine are clearly losing out, are clearly considerably weakened and will soon be on the retreat. so i'm, i'm, i'm not too concerned with the continual re supplies. i'm more concerned that as the ukranian regular forces will begin to retreat. and as this becomes obvious,

there will be a very strong temptation to nato to intervene direct with, with men on the ground with divisions. and that would lead us into a big european role. military expert are design alexander step and also the trends used in the attack, a pay very similar to those manufactured by ukraine's defense industry. this long last night it is possible that these drones were assembled in nearby territories, including the moscow region. but on the other hand, the video shows that it was a fairly large device with the wing span of about 2.5 to 3 meters. it is possible that they were the very kamikaze attack drones that the ukrainian defense industry, the main manufacture of the military industrial complex of ukraine, announced at the end of last year. it is quite possible that these drones could cross most of the territory of the russian federation due to the fact that today it

is difficult for almost all air defense systems to detect drones. they fly at very low altitudes and can move along preset coordinates without emitting any radiation . they're made as inconspicuous as possible to avoid interception and radar. therefore, there may be different possibilities. the drones could have been delivered in some way to a nearby territorial. this is the easiest option for maximum effective use as well as assembly. but the question is, how were the explosives that were placed in the drones deliver? there could be a similar scheme to the one used in crimea attack where explosives were delivered through other states. and it is quite possible that the components for these drones were brought onto the territory of the russian federation in other ways. in other developments, russian security services they, they have apprehended suspected members of a pro ukrainian terrorist cell. the group was reported a planning to carry out the tax on crimean officials unties. ecos don love takes

his through the case and his report contains interface with suspects who are currently under investigation by russia. this ukrainian patriot victor didn't want his sons to become cannon fodder on the front. so he offered himself instead, except he saw himself as more of a gorilla fighter. and where he lived was so convenient. russian crimea, which cave is obsessing about, getting back. so victor reached out to ukraine's intelligence and swore his allegiance, peninsula ordered or so long ago roman mash corvettes recruited me. in june 2022. i came to poland by agreement with him. that's where the recruitment took place. my pseudonym is socrates. my sons are fleeing from ukrainian mobilization. this factor became a catalyst for the fact that i went to cooperate with the intelligence service of ukraine. it turns out that it was only me who wanted to defend ukraine. oh indeed,

victor's recruiter was no nobody here. hayes sharing the table with none other than vladimir zalinski. i am on my spirits is also a member of the most intimate circle of this man. carol boom, done of ukraine's defense intelligence head, who moscow calls the mastermind behind the blowing up of the crimean bridge. and a number of terrorist attacks in russia. well, his instructions were clear position, who in my task regarding the agent network was to find people willing to cooperate with ukrainian intelligence and ukrainian special services. finding the right men for the job wasn't hard at rule. there's not many things money can't buy like a witness that a work order in december 2022. my main job was coming to an end. and since i needed money, i needed a job. i turned to victor put volley for work. at the end of december, victor asked me to drive up to his house. i arrived, who went into the garage,

then he offered me to corporate with him and with the special services ukraine. he sat, he was corporate and with a good friend of carol baton, of the head of ukrainian intelligence in total victor, the ringleader and rolled 5 men. his network of agents was complete and it was time to put all these people to use. well, the state of ukraine explicitly ordered attacks on civilian officials from your search. my task was despite on the mayor of yalta yanine up have link o the head of the crimean parliament vladimir constantine of and the governor of crimea soj auction of. they wanted to blow him up. my understood when i was asked if i could press the button, they want to destroy pavel anchors. well, the headless was made up of 3 targets. the governor of crimea, the head of the local parliament. and the mayor of y'all to the town where victor

lives, russian operatives discovered, ready to use i. e d's, in every suspects, apartment, they searched, apparently meant for the mayor of yalta. ukraine's agents planned to rent a flat in her apartment building to get access to the parking lot and plant a car bomb zone. the shelley gave him before sending parcels. i was assigned the task of spying upon the 3 crimean officials to monitor how they move, where they live. i needed to gather all possible data. they wanted to eliminate them. this scheme revealed by the detained suspects, was strikingly familiar to russia's counter terrorism offices. in fact, it was the one that once worked out for key of in the assassination of gary, a dog in the last august journalist and daughter of philosopher alexander duncan. the explosive material used for the i. e. d. 's wasn't random. it was military grade, stuff made in the u. k. the same material and identical parts were discovered on

the peninsula. this february, when a railway line was blown up, judging by everything that happened on the railway line in crimea, in february, i'm 100 percent. sure it was a terrorist attack. i understand that it was the parcel that blew up the railway. then clearly the i e. d. 's weren't made in crimea. so how did they get there? well, some of the explosives and detonate as were hidden in electric stove tops and that inevitably caught the attention of investigators. they managed to track the heat as all the way back and well the trail of breadcrumbs took them to bulgaria. and now bear with me in february to unsuspecting business women in st. petersburg. russia were contacted by marina ukrainian, and for printer in capital sophia, she was manufacturing wedding dresses, and the russians owned a wedding dress shop. this is how she was sending her produce from sophia to georgia. there it crossed the border into russia and well then either from merely

topple or from block of cards by regular shipping companies. the cargo which included the dresses and the explosives hidden in electric stove tops, got to russia's northern capital for the sound of that, we got acquainted 3 or 4 years ago since then. we didn't hear anything from her. on january 20th. she wrote to me for the 1st time by a messenger. she offered to buy dresses from her business and deliver them to us through finland. i refused. sometime later, at the end of february, she wrote that it was now possible to send dresses. she wrote that they're based in bulgaria, capital, sophia, now, and so it's possible to send their dresses directly, and she offered very good discounts for us. honestly, these discounts persuaded us and we agreed. everything looked good to good. red flags were raised when with the 1st shipment of dresses, something else,

something astonishingly random came until the electric stove tops, the owner of shelton st. petersburg texted the woman and bulgaria, but she had an explanation for it. when addresses arrived, electric self, tuffs were also in the box. my colleague called the contact number of they had asked the store to talk to the woman she was in contact with. she asked, what was the matter why we ordered crashes, but received electric stove tops. they said it was the delivery companies mistake that they brought the wrong parcel. she claimed the self tops accidentally came to us instead of another address. the woman from the had asked the store, asked us to re deliver the stuff tops by transfer company. she gave us the address, gave the phone number, and the name of the person who is supposed to receive the staff tops at the pick at point of the following orders. also included stoves. in fact, sometimes only the hopes came even without the dresses and every time marina had

a shipment address at the ready, this one belongs to live in anchor. alexander, who turned out to be part of victors terrorist, so explosives were smuggled into russia by a mule, a man from milly topple, who was offering taxi services to the you and russia. then ukrainian intelligence exploited normal commercial schemes and unwitting accomplices to get them in the hands of agents in crimea. jennifer choice, i was looking for a person who would not draw attention to himself. it could be a pensioner. the main thing is that it wasn't me. so i found a pensioner, his wife gave a contacts, an apostle came to their name, fi, a transport company. it was the electric stove, top in this package. and the next package they were already to stove top. i opened it and saw additional wires. i were told they were designate isn't activated and a receiver. when the package was delivered they wrote to me the package has arrived . thank you. that is guys was perfect. it would take

a professional maintenance guy watching the x ray to sport explosives in an electric stove. top, already packed with wise, was the amount of explosive material victor's cell received. they could carry out dozens of attacks. one of the members of the cell turned out to be a professional diver who stockpiled tens of kilograms of explosives and guns on his youth. one could only guess the suit of may ham. this man could have caused following the orders of the king pins in key of constantine constantine. the everman anchor asked me to write an acknowledgement that i am ready to cooperate with the ukraine authorities. and that i have been warned about the responsibility for disclosing these corp. i wrote it, sign it with a signature that was in mine and handed it to constantine. he took a picture of it and said that he would send it to some hiring can official than who burned this receipt in front of me. and through what was left of this and can knowledge went into the see it all happened on my yacht. in this conversation,

konstantin mentioned that they quote, are keeping an eye on the mayor of yalta unit of lancaster. i asked why, but he left it off. i didn't really like it for what purpose? i realized that it was for some criminal purpose. there were no specific expressions or threats from konstantin, but he had a serious expression on his face. from the bombing of the crimean bridge to assassinations of journalists, kia has made it clear that terrorist attacks against russia are an integral part of the state policy. but this case shows that no matter how intricate the ploy is, russian security services are going to when i'm a get done of reporting for r t as the globe marked world press freedom day b, u i state department is launched a program to assist select journalists exclusively outside the u. s. it when it's rated for the nations agency for international development. samantha palace address

the media on the topic. we recognize the importance as a governance means of having free media doing their work all around the world. and we try to support it as the united states. a program called reporters shield aimed to provide legal assistance and coverage. a court expense is full journalists outside the us. he may be targeted by they governments eligible media outlets must pay an annual fee to be supported and meet certain criteria. however, it's launch his box a polarizing reaction among americans. excellent, new opportunity for julian assange and wikileaks to apply for u. s. funding to help their media organization survive law fair from the us government. journalism must be defended from legal threats meant to silence critical voices instead of championing free speech. the u. s. actively persecutes journalists and whistleblowers. oh, pardon brave truth tellers like julian assange and investigate the corruption and

crimes they expose? it's only ok to imprison journalists when the u. s. government does it free of staunch. and we must also protect the journalists who provide be platform for the visibly was to tell us what's really going on. so that we don't think, you know, we don't misunderstand that. richard in america went to get us started to liberate the women, or britain and america went to iraq to protect the people from them and said, no brochures in america were involved in, in legal wars. just as you maybe, you know, you come from a country where you're concerned about the legal wars. we must all be opposed to illegal wars. we're all really civilians killed in vast numbers. and the people who are profiting companies are the weapons manufacturers. and you've been very

wealthy people who have investments listing and this is not good for ordinary people and most people are struggling to survive. and our government and our leaders should be focusing on making sure that people have enough to meet that they have decent health care that they have a good quality of life. they should be, especially in the developed countries, we shouldn't be using our energy to can poor people in the world. and that's really important. so it's important to speak about these things and you know, the junior is in prison for telling the truth about god carnival where someone entered in a p. old. mostly men and boys as young as 14, were held for years without trial charge. at the same time, julianna's songs, one of the most, well no, no news publishers in the world is facing of the 175 years and in the american prison. and so just the founder of the wiki leaks website,

which will is classified information regarding us war crimes in iraq and afghanistan as us regulators on the european counts. paul's wage war against the russian media peace, but nic and other russian media out this have been banned the us and europe since the start of the ukraine conflict last year. american officials have underlines the importance of fighting so called russian propaganda urging the shut down of such channels around the world. here's what the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman had to say about the u. s. approach to media freedom. like in the post. okay. it's not me. i could just, it's just some kind of more cree, honestly, the united nations to general assembly. the side of may freedom of the press unesco, drawing attention to the problem and all the time and their refusal to issue these as to russian journalists who assigned to the united nations. all these am and many as of harassments, of one of the world's leading investigative journalists gin and sons with all this against bullying of any media which doesn't fit into the global trap. that unites

a number of media representatives of the collective who don't fit a black towel to trust out past excuses. do live on the something that the u. s. government cannot leap with and that is expose them. and that is remove their mask. so, so i don't think there is enough detail, you're not in the world that are the united states will accept in exchange for you then sounds because they, they can be crusade against julian because of the young. because beyond anything that has to do, he, he faces 175 years under this act in the united states for a while for, for publishing information that needed to be published for a fact that needed to be said for showing the world what the us us troops were doing it, i can understand and these, these, these, these completely on baled a what the us war machine was doing and how it was being heat and how it was

completed with, with the, with the media, with my media. how western media hasn't been completed with a hiring these from, from, from the public because they need to maintain a quote unquote rules based order for the latest news updates. please give an on our website dot com. thank you for choosing on the news. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered. i'm peter live, l u k. defend secretary ben wallace recently said i'm optimistic between this year and the next year. i think your crane will continue to have the momentum with it

and a position of strength. he also said, there's no magic one moment when russia collapses. in what universe does wallace reside? in the cross talking confused narratives. i'm joined by my guess, calling raleigh and apple valley. she is a retired f b i agent, and a former minneapolis division legal counsel. in belgrade we have stephen guy edge. he is a research associate at belgrade institute for european studies. and in cons we cross to alex hello bridge. he is a veteran reporter and a foreign affairs analyst, hard cross type prose and effect. that means he can jump at anytime you want. and i would appreciate it was go to belgrade. first stephen, let me go to you. i know it's easy to pick on ben wallace glorified nobody, but you know everyone throughout visa leads, they tell you exactly what they're thinking, not what they want us to think. ok, so.