russian energy imports, and it faced a new appeal to de, directly from ukrainian president vladimir the laskey. let's have a listen mean the chairman to you have the power on europe, has the power more powerful than any missiles and more powerful than anytime you best with a trade with you, without your companies and you're buying pounds, you russia will not have money for this war the so let there be peace as soon as possible. sleep you can and you must defend yourself. my no one has the right to destroy nations, and no one can tell europe into pieces. we have wandered politicians, that it is dangerous when moscow decides whether you have gotten on how much money it costs. really sushi yet was thus is given gold and a pale there. simon and germany continuing to resists calls for an embargo on rash, russian gas, and ports rather what could realistically happen here, simon, with regard to that well, you know, that debate continues, but to germany makes the case that the dependence on russian fuel gas particularly is so great, it's well over 40 percent according to some figures, and it is so gre

the security threat to russia. ukraine, very large european country would be given that president laskey recently raised a spectre of a nuclear confrontation of reestablishing its nuclear expertise. you think that the russians should have missed that comment that the media security conference so, so let me get, let me get your, your rationale here for countries big enough like ukraine then russia is entitled to invade. no one should take if security interest seriously. and i think it did communicate back to the americans. you can't deny, denies that russia has legitimate security interest, but that doesn't mean that they don't legitimate security interest. can you define that, for example, in terms of b fly time that it takes for the rockets to reach moscow? how would you define that security interests? what would be the comfortable lifetime for you, for rockets to reach russia? well, i don't know russian rock as can reach the united states and 30 manage. that's not very comfortable either. the point is that the, the, the question of what constitutes a legitimate threat to russian securi

interpreted, vice, i'm suggesting his country has a strong position ahead of the talks and waters laskey for instance, said that $16000.00 former service members and mercenaries are headed towards the crane to fight russian troops. letterman put and also showed his determination to follow through on russia's military campaign and a phone call with the president of france. he said that moscow is gone, remain the same. the military is ation of ukraine and ukraine's atrocity while thanks a lot for that. our key is konstantin ross called with the details. now we're going to go live now to special gas survey are just needs their former director general of the united nations office in geneva. to me, let's get him on the screen there. hi there. sorry for watching you butchering your name there, but let's, let's start with the, the 1st question we have, which is russia's foreign minister notes the fall out from nato's eastwards expansion. but could do you think a serious nato dialogue finally can happen given the ukraine crisis? well, to, to, to, to be so big i would say that there is no other p

pose a security threat to russia. ukraine, very large european country would be given that president laskey recently raised a spectre of a nuclear confrontation of reestablishing its nuclear expertise. you think that the russians should have missed that comment that the meaning security conference. so, so, well, let me get, let me get your, your rationale here. if a country is big enough, like ukraine, then russia is entitled to invade, have that no one should take if security interest seriously. and i think it did communicate that to the americans. you can't deny dive denies that russia has legitimate security interests, but that doesn't mean that they don't legitimate security interest. can you define them? for example, in terms of be flight time that it takes for the rockets to reach moscow? how would you define that security interest? what would be the comfortable lifetime for you, for rockets to reach russia? well, i don't know russian rock as can reach the united states in 30 minutes. that's not very comfortable either. the point is that the, the, the question of what constitutes a le

there's a snaffle now, i think laskey speech to congress yesterday was a very serious contribution to that decision being made, considering that joe biden is now under pressure from the opposition of from members of his own party to deliver on the promise you. it's possible if russia were to manage to take keys. what exactly does that mean? does that mean that there is no more chance for diplomacy? does that mean there's automatic regime change? does that mean negotiations continue? what happens if that were to occur? i don't think that russia has right now, the capacity to actually a successful a key if it's a very big city and the russian forces that are there are to the north of the city are just simply not big enough. but russia can bombard kia which you didn't do up to now, but they can begin the kind of see gen, a bombardment, which would make life very miserable and very dangerous in d. f. again, i'm not sure that that's right. now, going to happen immediately. it seems that the russian main military thrust is going to be to do all possible to swiftly capture murray or bowl and

that's a speech by a ukrainian president volunteer, ms. laskey addressing members of the connected, more reaction now on that to to come for sure. when i, russia says it is once again used hypersonic missiles to attack ukraine. the defense ministry saying it hit military facilities. one of the targets was reportedly an armored vehicle repair site in the town of nation. russia said it 5 cruise missiles from the black sea. in nikolai, of a fuel deco was destroyed by high precision missiles fired from the caspian sea and crimea. russia says he also destroyed military training center in all of which were foreign mercenaries are based on a smith has moved from moscow. russia's defense ministry says that it's used hypersonic missiles again for a 2nd time. there's no way of independently verifying this, but they use them to target a fuel storage site in the south of ukraine. and they launched cruise missiles from the caspian sea and the black sea at other targets in ukraine. second time they've used these hypersonic missiles. and this is what the defense ministry had to say, or is looking for t

why the mercy laskey called them specious and told them to go back to russia. he initiated adopting the law about indigenous people among which there is no place for russians who have lived there for centuries. that's quiet in the spirit of low making activities self. nancy, germany, russian language is school years exiled from skills and universities from public areas from everyday life. there are a lot of situation when for the right to speak, the native tongue one can lose not only job healthy but even life, but it's just imagined for the situation where ireland is for leading the english language, belgium for beating french language hastily forbidding term language it is impossible to imagine, but the frontal assault on the russian language in ukraine does not report the light and west it. 7 encouraged by some prison. if you look up any signs of disband, half severe consequences that he has no stolen process of the process of purging the authorities from unwanted and loyal officials has become regular. and the main tool here is the adopted by the parliament

ukraine's president calls again for face to face talks with his russian counterpart . follow to mister laskey said a meeting with letting me put in is the only way to understand his conditions to end the war in ukraine. but he says, any agreement with russia must be put to the ukrainian people in a referendum. also coming up, feller was seen leader alexandra lucas. jenko has embraced his country's role as a staging post for prudence war on ukraine. but he has not committed any valid within troops to the fighting so far. and a russian court find jailed kremlin critic alexa in of all the guilty on new charges, prosecutors seek to move him to a maximum security penal colony. 13 years. ah, i'm simply so misconduct is good to have you with us. the ukranian army says it is repelled russian forces from a strategically important suburb of the capital. key of the defense minister says a battle in the suburb of mockery prevented russia from surrounding the capital from the northwest. and we have some satellite images showing damaged and burning buildings in iraq, pin another northwestern chia suburb, w

interpreted by some as suggesting he's country has a strong position ahead of the talks ladders. laskey said that $16000.00 and former service members at mercy mercenaries, or headed towards ukraine to fight russian troops better repute, and also showed his determination to follow through on russia's military campaign. in a phone call with the president of france, he said that moscow's goal remain the same. the military's age, the military's ation of ukraine and ukraine's neutrality as well as archie is constantine roscoe. there, thanks a lot. now the former director general of the united nations office in geneva told us that the current situation was provoked, making it practically inevitable as the oldest. ringback like negotiations for the go spaces for report administer group made that much better to have 10 years of negotiations. one day of work. but history group is inevitable, whether you would like it or not. but we're in, in this case, was, there was no way actually war several the publicly privately misstatements. then you're going to have your grade. you believe the aggressio

and meet with president laskey, which was, you know, the humming visit of that level to happen. so i think, you know, and it's kind of showing away. but yes, i mean, some issues related to what you mentioned that question out there. you know, on the judicial system they will need to be kind of, you know, discuss further. but at the moment than be important thing is that there is unity is ations. and then there is a determination to actually press or had any post such high on the, on the regime in russia that he will reconsider what he's doing right now. but of course, you know. ready why needs to support the ukrainian sci fi and that's also something that was so very strongly being for so yes, i mean it's, you know, the crisis brings out the best one could say in, in, in those who care about security and support for those victims of a rich, let's pick on pick up on some of that with samuel romney and i want to ask you, at some stage, when your client is no longer dominating the headlines, if there's a negotiated piece or the war becomes one of the one of attrition. and just fall

one of them is the laskey is urging his people not to put down their weapons and not to believe fake announcements that his army has surrendered. because. ringback women, you today is monday, the false and devout struggle and i'm in care for my team is with me or heroes. if the doctors are diplomats, journalists, and everybody, we are all fighting now, we are all contributing to our victory, not today, and tomorrow. we'll protest the occupiers. we are not afraid when they are shooting at us. we are not retreating. those people in russia who say we are retreating, they did not expect our reaction. they forgot that we are not afraid of the tanks and machine guns. in the net skin, easton ukraine, which is held by a rushing back rebels. a funeral has been held for the commander of the separatist . sponsor battalion is unit says he was killed on saturday while attempting to help civilians leave a nearby ukrainian city. furnished. smith reports franzoni ask bloody me as yoga has become one of the 1st heroes of the new russian recognized the netscape people's republic the dpr to much of the

and president laskey addressed nato leaders today, asking for more of that military hardware. we have a bit of video from that. can we play his sound by the name? my name little that i give ukraine does not how powerful and he misses weapons and has a much smaller aircraft fleet than russia. therefore, their advantage in the sky is the use of weapons of mass destruction. and you can see the consequences to day, how many people were killed, how many peaceful cities were destroyed, the ukrainian army has been resisting for months in unequal conditions. and i've been repeating the same thing for months now. to save people and our cities, ukraine needs military assistance without any restrictions, not just thought free, but you know how to ask. it's been really critical of nato in the last week or so. but just in the last day or 2, is he changing his tone a little bit? and if so, what? why what, what's behind that? yes, exactly. if you her today be she had the rhetoric change, he was not criticizing matrix, it was not demanding something. he was not telling that they to even gill

let's imagine that the master on laskey swore on the way imagined with they're all on the imagined. there's no diplomatic. adequate protection. imagine you're looking at me and i'm some in congress man or an m p who adopted these sanctions or took away this well from russia. what would you say to that person? imagine that person slap sanctions on your institution to where you have more longer. i could say a lot of things, i know how not to minutes was but let's look up to the russian president of the role model. the president doesn't engage in name calling. unlike family does include the president of the united states use sharp language. i've never heard the russian president get personal, so i might have a lot to say, but i wouldn't allow myself to do that. more importantly, the restrictive measures against russia will not help those countries get well, they won't back in 2014. i think i won't say that the devil for i'm afraid that came to hold me off to those who impose sanctions and not aware of the russian character. more pressure we face from the outside. the more united we wil

politically bother emotionally for many russians who might not like you quit in president lambert laskey, but many have relatives. many people have visited the city and also the city is a separate way. the russian orthodox, many monasteries and so on. so probably just for mr. the landscape to negotiate on certain tours because the, the russian forces, however radical the president is probably not going to destroy the whole prayer. because it's understandable that no people will tolerate this. even mister, the landscape is gone and replaced by a moscow figure whom i turn into and moscow figure sooner or later because of the situation. but this is the only way to save that ukraine. my actual for the powerful lobby or collapse because it is an artificial space, sadly to say with many nations leaving there during the soviet union. and it was actually, i mean, you're going from really disagree that it's not visual stage at this stage. but in just to go back to how it's viewed in russia, are there any, is there any sense there's any reporting there have kind of frustration from put in that, th

other than notice we leave to find the laskey arctic situation that in the past few days were though service. dear another giving up. it's heart. this woman has travelled for 4 days, but she does not need to stay long on the border because the queue is shorter done before. people seem less exhausted this time. i'm not crying as you can see. mamma daniel does mission has been accomplished for now, but she will return with more goods as long as rushes. missiles and rockets forced people out of ukraine. steadfast and at the bottom, each border in eastern poland. british frontiers, eager to fight against russian forces or signing up to head to the front lines. as despite warnings from ministers and lawyers that they could be breaking the law. if they go. charlie angela reports from london outside the ukrainian embassy in london, a stream of men young and old arrived. although come from reagan at trying to find out how to join the fight in ukraine. the hunted a tiny piece of paper with an e mail address on it and sent on their way. some have military experience, others none, most won't sp