common ground the great news from the front lines russians military says it has deliberated 12 settlements in the course region, causing significant losses to ukrainian forces over the past 24 hours. also, the continuing and liberal ration of the course to region comes as a russian air defense systems shoot down more than $300.00 ukrainian drones to counter an overnight attack. some of the unmanned aircraft fit residential areas going at least 3 civilians and wounding 18 others. and the o. s. the secretary in general, visiting moscow while the attack occurred, went to residential areas to observe the aftermath of the ukrainian attacks

and also in pakistan, reports say 6 people were killed and potentially hundreds were taken hostage at the military to do project a passenger train the you're watching our team for national, my name is the board of fiscal for welcome to the program and breaking news from the front lines of russia's defense ministry reports that 12 settlements have been liberated in the course of the region to join now live by our tea senior correspondence morag, guys, it is more odd. welcome to the program. what more do we know about the developments on the ground split? in the grand scheme of things. this is a collapse, at least in the sex in the east of the gods. sadly that you can hold

a collapse of the defenses. a dozen settlements recaptured by russian forces, whom is in scott days. russia, as we have decided, has enjoyed complete artillery and drone as superior receipts, which they have used to the utmost in a number of strikes, consecutive strikes. synchronous strikes from the north, from the west, from the east, and they have simply overwhelmed the defenses of you. crazy and troops cardi occupied. that little piece of russia. we will have sheep, dramatic footage, imaginative locals. those who had stage robins evacuated, but opportunity presented itself. and the ways of russian troops were tuck personally personally sway. oh yeah. maybe it's not as much wrapped.

well i see a slap the minus wrapped fuel measure, but i'm wondering if it is a right to move it to move that is this the one that noah which this is it, but i just heard before was go by weight. so for, so it was 4 chords. this was the yes we got the typical you. yes. let's go back to the 4. what do you live? so those 4 courses. so oh, so of so, so budget is bubbles, k, c, r a, c, c, s, one, spastic soaps of the ends of the administrative boundaries of suited to the largest sacraments of about 56000 people in that little piece of the coast region, which was captured taken up by you credits it all aside from the 12 settlements that have been recaptured over the past few days. 100 square columbus is allowed to

visit most would be we'd take it about 80 percent of you. what you grade initially took last year has been re taken by russian forces that is incredibly important politically as well for the credit of government. because the, let's get cut off multiple times. say you would keep, tends to use very, of course, which you create a held as a cheap but the negotiations able to, to, you know, trade away russian lab for you. what he says is ukrainian lab. these may see now as a distant dream, it seems inevitable that bush and forces will quickly clear the coldest of you create in you create in invaders. an especially important considering that the lend skin, the key of administration the spend expended tens of thousands of ukrainian lives soldiers lives, some of the best units in order to seize via for lab,

which they are also again, dramatically using. now we're, i thank you for the expense of this and detailed report as always, this was a r t senior corresponded moran guys of the and this comes as hundreds of ukrainian drones were shot down in the skies or russia as air defense con, con, 10 3rd an overnight attack, federal authorities are calling it an act of terrorism. gifts forces targeted residential areas killing at least 3 people and wounding 18 others, including several children. the video circulating online show a number of residential buildings damaged. several small fires broke out in the affected apartment blocks the kremlin commented on the attack, saying that while keith is attacking the civilian building, so russian forces are striking, nearly 3 targets over now to

r t corresponding donald's quarter with the details. according to moscow's mayor, sir de, so if you're on and this is the largest ukrainian drone attack against the russian capital in history, this is we've seen over 90 drones shot down over moscow suburbs and over 300 shot down across russia at 5 am local time one drone hit, the roof of a building, causing a fire and a number of other buildings in various other residential areas around moscow have been hit by falling drones as well. i wanna show you the damage cause to one of these buildings right now. you should be able to see behind me the fact that the roof of this residential building was hit by a falling drone. you can see that the facade was damaged, and a gaping hole was also left behind. as a result of the crash and the and ceiling explosion. now, a number of other damage was caused in other residential areas as well. we saw

a fires start as a result of falling drones in another area which caused damage to 20 vehicles that were in that area. so again, a lot of destruction has been caused by this attacks versus foreign ministry spokeswoman marie, is a harvest, seems to think that this mass of attack is connected to an upcoming meeting that's expected to take place between the general secretary of the organization for security and cooperation in europe and rushes for administer certainly elaborate. this is not the 1st time that the high ranking foreign delegations visit to moscow has been accompanied by ukrainian drone attacks, like the one last night. the key of regime directed drains at the capital, while the o. s. the secretary general is visiting it. the organization which the landscape sponsors have reduced to a mid talking shop has been stripped of its original purpose, ensuring security and cooperation in europe. this massive drone assault comes just

one day after the key of regime launched a rocket attack on a shopping mall and rushes chorused region, which ended up killing 4 people and injuring another. 10 media reports are suggesting that that attack was using us supplied highmark rockets as well. it's all part of a larger ukrainian campaign of desperation is russian forces had been making successes on the battlefield. for example, on sunday alone, they liberated 3 towns in russia as course region, and also according to russia's ministry of defense. the ukrainian forces are suffering combined casualties of around $1000.00 troops a day along the across the fighting in both done yet. and i rushed his course region so with peace negotiations on the horizon. they can't come soon enough because the key ever seemed continues to strike civilian infrastructure deep within russian territory. often using western supplied weaponry and were heard from a residence of the moscow region. what was the apartment building with trucks

during the drone attack? at 5 am, i wake up had an explosion and there was a flash. it started flying toward the windows from up above. i had noises as if the structure of the building was collapsing. i was very frightened. i gathered everything i needed and went out into the stat case, then cooled the rescue services. we were frightened, we couldn't understand what it was. it turned out to be drones. all the windows were shattered. every one was affected by it. it's good that everyone survived. all the windows in my flat were broken, but thank god there was no fire. the ambulance arrived 1st, then emergency workers, then the police showed up. they began patrolling immediately and started to look around. ahead of his meeting with the rushes for a minute, sir, the secretary general of the organization for security and cooperation in europe

was given a glimpse of the damage cost. you saw the aftermath, the apartment building as well as the damage to the vehicles bureau, which was later asked about it during his press conference with the russian top diplomat. so elaborate slain and gloves on today you witnessed with your own eyes the consequences of the key of regimes attack them civilian areas and the suffering victims who were peaceful civilians. when we have repeatedly heard condemnation from the o. c. e directed at russia, but will there be any statement from the organization today condemning the actions of the key of regime with why has the key of regime intensified its attacks right now at this time? then cool. as i say, this floor has brought a lot of pain and suffering to millions of people. i was in cuba and i saw so similar incidents that i do, that people see that as to the end of the war

and peoples no longer with us. these incidents. ready not the most cold in the holding queue. think. and we spoke to global security analyst and evasion experts, serial till after he says, the attack is an attempt to break you up to provoke retaliation from us go. the green soldiers are completely defeated in the forest regions down. so don't just have the meeting today which is quite an important one. and the timing i would say sorry the breakers, the timing is uh for fillings, be perfect because whether you find to is to provo. okay. and uh, if we do yes and from uh, rushing to the ration from which you would uh say i got frustrated for the, for the piece of or whatever. and this is exactly what he's looking for. so

unfortunately this is a tragedy, but it's not surprising. it's part of the desperate move once again to provo rushing through the ration. ready definitely need be is no it doesn't mean that with those 300 drones sense they. ready have a lake and reserves. i do not know that we can expect some one, unfortunately, didn't expect some more, maybe in the less number. but coming from the brain, brain actually raising is just our state. so this is exactly what we are doing and then we'll proceed with this. and also breaking news from the back of span reports say 6 people were killed and potentially hundreds of others were taking a hostage as the militants group projects, a passenger train. the ballad show of the ration army confirmed in a statement of that it took the train under control and killed by signing those new personnel for on board the group,

which has been fighting the national government for decades threatening that there wouldn't be more invest if back to study forces intervened, we'll keep you updated on the developments at the serial. now the new regime in damascus has been accused of conducting a brutal crime down on religious and minorities and verified footage of mass executions in the province of flood talk here it's streaming across social media with civilians being guns down at point blank range. a warning this report contains disturbing images the, the job, the

most of the violence has been in the country is a north west where many residents and christians are iowa whites. soon as a new defense ministry announced it's completed a so called management operation in the region. it said it's security forces of quote, neutralized a loyalist a former president assad report say the death toll is in the thousands. meanwhile, there's been an exodus of refugees to a neighboring living on in this exclusive footage obtained by a r t scenes from russia's mean air based in syria. as folks are providing refuge to civilians fleeing from the violence heard from a local residence in west back. yeah, who asked that his voice meet, altered because of safety concerns on the go for a large number of residents of the village of community turn to the russian base

for health and we're grateful for the russian military for the reception in shall los otherwise these young people would have been killed, it's good that they saw protection and saved their lives. the rest of the inhabitants of the village of him and were completely destroyed. all the shops were burned and eluded. there was nothing left in the village, no cars. everything was taken away, they went through the villages of rumble. yeah. and also the ox located near the naval college, which are located one or 2 kilometers from seemingly not along the old router towards your ball and there was a complete massacre. no one survive. no people left in these villages. this is understandable, especially after their statements that they want to completely destroy the all the whites they all male children are subjected to total annihilation. they killed everyone, young children, and the elderly quarter syrian journalist as outside of the excess b, i'm going violence is nothing short of ethnic cleansing. the 1st started to guns

and massages, documented by the defunct, to a sort of do a higher, higher assurance. i think it's good to get out of it. you can use it against the d a studio. so despite the today, the spokesman of the municipal defense declared um the end of the this military operation bar can get this the, the situation is going to be and that because this is the beginning, the, the victim is the group which is show as to the defense which is a sick time in minutes. so want to show the other the other copy of the few. i like the news on the prince who does not agree with the policy the like it like and wanting to visit with you

to be your own people like color we've in other as a company to visit aggregate into a policy or to go to a eulogy that's news. see the is going to more highly psych situation. hundreds of holloway so now seeking wreckage and neighboring leveling on with the more are reportedly on the way the young and the old are escaping on fort crossing rivers with everything they have. r t. steve sweeney reports from liberty. this trip for the northern avenue west thousands have arrived off the fleet being suing massacre and syria, as many as $5000.00 people to be killed in a fall from against otherwise. according to a local, i see that at least 15000 people were like not the words of the de facto authorities in damascus do not match their actions on the ground. they talk about nation building, they talk about a new syria. they talk about the unity of the c for young people in the syrian

territory, but we do not see that this applies to be our white muslim community. we are talking about thousands of victims 5 or $6000.00 so far. and this is only what we have been able to record. however, what is left out of our site is perhaps even more terrible. about 15000 missing people. we know nothing about them where they killed. are they in prison or they alive? no one knows. this massacre has forced the aloe whites to seek asylum in lebanon because their villages and towns have become places of brutal massacres. the deadline, the streets and their shops are plundered. they no longer have any livelihood. local officials with preparing for 10000 to arrive here. but this now appears to be a conservative estimate. this is an otherwise heavy of the city west. the 4th of july, only have them opened fire warehouses, terrorizing those who seek century. soon off to the light to some ice, it goes, i still need to state one minutes of both of july and east coast ministration,

threatening violence against the refuge. they accuse him of haul, bring 4 members of the city in our army, who's that your keys? or for mentioned revolution in syria, but local administrators by city on otherwise on maintaining the peace. refusing to allow sent tammy invited us to escalate. most of the victims of domestic and syria on on civilians. survivors told us of the whole village is being built to the ground babies a headache and indiscriminate killings carried out by hyatt tower alshaun militia. we spoke to many who made their way to live with them, with nothing more than the clothes on the box. oh no. they came to our village and said that they would carry out searches when they didn't find anything. they started burning houses, tying people up and bringing them inside their homes. even if there were little children in the house, houses were burned to them and they were asking who get killed 1st. they searched several houses and started murdering residents under the pretext of lighting the

remnants of the house to redeem. although this was not the case. what are we guilty of except that we are our whites problem at all? run them are they attacked and started to kill us screaming that we are aloe whites, and calling us sons of dogs. they started to kill people in front of us. then they herded us into our houses. they called us assad's dogs. my children managed to escape, but i don't know where they have gone or where they are. they killed some of us. i saw them killing women. i don't know what to do was we have nothing left. i don't know where my children are for, but i cannot take this anymore. it seems that if we are al white's, we can just be slaughtered like she won't. i'm the, this is terrifying our region and you don't see it anywhere else. and we are not accustomed to such attentions, most of the attack, cuz i'm not syrians, many speak a foreign language and the faces look unusual to us. they stormed houses in the middle of the night, broke down the doors and roped us. there was

a lots of intimidation and bullying. they looked for weapons demanded i munition and asked us, where is the ammunition? where do you hide it? you must give it to us, the children and women with terrified and cried from the same sort that came to the point where people could die from sheer fright, to remove it wasn't even necessary to kill or torture them properly. no, they slaughtered people, they beat them up and then shot them. they broke into a neighbor's house because one of the family members was allegedly wanted for some unknown reason. they killed him and all his family, including the children, even women and girls. we flayed as quickly as possible without taking anything with us. western government spend more than a decade undermining the government in a bit to allow us to crippling sanctions they want building us the operation timber sycamore. all mean funding is the most militia despises under the government. there was dependency on protection for the minorities. now they go was a wistful,

flood shed continues on serious faces, a very real risk of broken eyes ation on it that the civil war is cc for all c, insipidly sold. another romania is trampling on a democratic principles. that's the accusation. by the kremlin spokespersons need for the preschool, yukon condemned to the e. u. member states of decision to forbid former top candidates, calion until jessica from a running for president at the proper name shift modems, am i correct? this is a violation of all the norms of democracy. we have not yet heard any condemnation of this in europe center. obviously our country is being accused of some kind of involvement. that's complete nonsense. it's an absolutely baseless accusation. it's just romania and this case, let's say it is taking a path that tramples on democracy. any election that takes place without george ask you would be legitimate. l as cross live to i've seen correspondence. charlotte

dubin escaped. charlotte, welcome to the program. could you tell us more about the background of that comment from the new school? oh, yes, that's why that's because that have been accusations that russia was involved in meddling in selection back in november of last year, which calling to jessica one by a quite a significant majority. however, despite the fact that that continues to be dis, accusations, new evidence as being present today. and in fact the investigations that have taken place, buying the authorities, hate and romania actually point to a pro european group. this is the national, liberal politics as have been promoted, caught in georgia school in an attempt to take votes, waive from another conservative kinds of it. so their own kind of that got to the head in that presidential election. now since then, the election is going to be we run in may of the cl calling, who jessica is attempted to become a candidate. once again,

he's been denied the opportunity said to do that by the central elect told bureau. and she is saying that as a result of that decision, romania itself is essentially a box lighting and it has become a country that is under tyranny a direct blow to the heart of democracy worldwide. i have one message left. if democracy in romania falls, the entire democratic world will fall. this is just the beginning. it's that simple . europe is now a dictatorship. romania is under tyranny as well that can decision to deny. calling to adjust to the attempt to be a candidate in the re. well know if that cancel the election is now being discussed by the constitutional court being 9 members of that cool. to do to meet this in the next few hours to consider an appeal by georgia screw that he should be

a candidate in that election. we're expecting to get a decision from the cold later tonight. we understand that that decision will be fine either way, and there will be no further through ability for gesture to p lot decision. if it doesn't go in his way. what's really interesting here is while there are many people in romania who love college who was asked to fulfill with the election most, it was stolen from him there. all those who dislike him as well. and amongst them is a prominent human rights organize. and if she doesn't like called into a jessica certainly wouldn't, but it's him says he shouldn't stand in the election. but despite that says, the reason instead of being used to justify preventing him from standing in that rerun of the election are invalid. the arguments, artificial and inappropriate. the electoral authorities have invoked a contradiction with the values of the rule of law. the legally binding proof must

have been the court verdict. it accuses the candidates of not respecting the sacrosanct formula of the oath taken by the purse and elected for the dignity of president. should each candidate for the position of deputy or send it to be verified to see if he proves, as the oath requires faith to the homeland. and this is a real concern. but these all ideas of being anti democratic equal, the constitutional could be applied so widely, but this could be used against anybody in the future, not just 10, remain it to prevent them from standing in the election, all to cancel actions. but this could be used for the field in the you as well. this is quite concerning indeed. but how has europe reacted to the romania and alex total of thirties decision to banjo just as well. interesting enough, we've not heard anything from brussels, and i say that's interesting because we know the russian for an intelligent service

says that brussels is actually the one directing these decisions in romania. but it's concerned that some of the like calling tools. yes, good. we problem. i think if he's became president, i'm not so because he's seen as being somebody in the same vein as donald trump in the united states. and that concerns that that would mean another link here in eastern europe in addition to robot feet. so and victor open that sees things a little bit differently to how brussels and the mountains they would like the repeating union at work. so that is the concern, a apparently from brussels, who rushes far and intelligent services. so essentially all controlling what's happening here. we've also had this decision by do a pin code of human rights in the last week, which is really interesting to jessica going to them and saying, hey, look, is no okay, but the election was involved in romania. they turned round then said that we can't look at your appeal because we don't have to restriction in this area in the sense that because the presidency remain,

it isn't part of the legislative body. it's not guaranteed to happen for the unfair elections. i think that is an incredible legal position to be taken by that top code in europe. however, we have been hearing from some european leaders, including slack, is robot states. so who he says it's a deep sleep worrying deeply worrying that the european commission has not reacted to what's happening in romania e. u commission must take a position on the presidential elections in romania if the commission remain silent as it did in case of slovakia in 20202023. it will put another nail in the coffin of the on trustworthiness of the entire e. u. as the government wanted to put me in prison without any reason, as the leader of the opposition, i am very sensitive to similar cases the european commission at that time and the relevant commissioners did not give a damn about slovakia. in romania,

it is suspected that this is a similar case to ours. just because a presidential candidate has a different opinion from the obligatory one. does he need to be removed? this is more than a national issue. this is about democracy in the face of the you will judge us cuz campaign is now waiting on that final decision. and he's supposed to say that the election was stolen from him and the cooling for revolution. sorry, what, thank you for the extensive reports of this was our 2 correspondence charla davinsky reporting from romania. thank you. that's united 30 and 8 shipment from russia with about 13 tons of the diesel fuel has arrived in the central african republic. footage has shown vehicles a lining up to deliver the aid with the drivers in barking on a long journey columns of trucks have arrived in the capital. locals have expressed gratitude to russia for the support provided. the local residents have claimed that

the much needed aid will helps the nation emerge from a crisis. as old infrastructure has not been able to keep up with the countries, demands of the fine, truly delighted we along with the national president gives molly br over whelmed, by what russia has done for us pulling us out of at the prices. this is a great relief for the central african republic and its government. lots of structural satisfaction is beyond measure. we are in absolute joy. anyone can see the convoy vehicles heading toward the oil pool. so with this opportunity, i want to sincerely sign crush evans. above all, the president of the republic, his policies and diplomacy continue to bring his great benefits. and we'll have more news for you at the top of the hour. in the meantime, you can always go to our website r t that com for even more stories and analysis year at our to stay with us.