thomas roper thomas, thanks so much for joining us this afternoon. so what do you make of this apparent admission by the form? i am f cheap. i seem to know more than the officially said, prefer a battalion. so for whatever the people who are wanting to fight for the right of kilograms, and that is where as you said, and so on, they are quite a nazi. but it's an interesting is that she announced that they were financed as it seems now. restaurant money from the i don't read. this is quite interesting . this is interesting. this money was meant to help ukraine economy. and now it seems that this money came right into ashes groups, money and consumed which oligarchy, she's talking about. that should be the president who was the one that says sitting on the, on the money from the monitor from and said the next question is whether the money also was used. let's not on purpose. it was planned for i mean this was $18000000000.00 is a lot of money. and now it appears that like god says that some of it did go to these battalions, but somebody must have gone t

all right. author and war correspondent, thomas roper joining us live on our, to international a great privilege, having you here. thank you very much. thank you. thank you. ah, russia's top diplomat has criticized what he has called the western neo colonial mindset of pushing its own interests such the interests of the world. those comments were made that a press conference are following a g 20 foreign ministers meeting in new delhi as okay, left off added that developing countries are aware of washington's tactics and such an approach has now reached an impasse nor left corner of the school. the west is aware that the current approach has reached an impasse, typical they say that that is necessary to inflict a strategic defeat of russia. and that is an existential problem for the english. they are attempting to preserve their head, your money in the international arena, developing countries see and understand all these perfectly. the big new as of the day really is that there is no meeting of minds of yorba fall was and there was no consensus, no joined community could to be adopted.

let's cross live now to author and war. correspondent thomas roper thomas is great to have you on the program today. now, nader's chief says that only 7 out of the 30 members have reached their defense spending goals. what is your take on his statement? well, least 2 percent goal is it's not not new. and the critics also, not you, i'm still val, so conscious that greece, which is summer was bankrupt, is one of the countries, but the highest natural nor will defense payments, defense budgets in the nato. them the re regarding, of the percentage of the b apply. so what, what can i say the not to also always once more money for weapons. um, sometimes they seem to me like a lobby organization of the weapons industry so, so this is not new. they can pay as much as they want. they already said now that 2 percent, the goal which was announced is no show no be the minimum. so it's always about money for weapons. nothing. you know, speaking about lobbying, i mean, as we've seen with the nato alliance, they have lobbied incredibly hard for ukraine over the last year. so what do these results, s

thomas roper. he's a just baton don bass after visiting the region numerous times. now he says that targeting civilians is genuinely a common practice for ukrainian forces. when you look at that part of the world and these villagers in the bronze region along the ukrainian border, these are civilian villages. we can say there are no military facilities in this region. why do you think the region was targeted? i am just come back from the next and why do they should see williams there? so this is nothing new. it's tara, it's hey to, i think. and this is nothing new. i was, i was a times in the dumbass. no. and i've seen a 1st of all there shooting it's cook and hospitals. i was in share san a 2 times. i was then summer when the situation was like, you know, many people were just not really pro russian. i was there 3 months later, and after 3 months shooting from ukraine and every will as fish, that the schools or whatever that was damaged. the people changed their mind just because they saw one was shot. they saw what the ukraine is, the hitting one, and they will al

not miss the opportunity. yet many of them there's other than the author and will, correspondent thomas roper says the west is being hypocritical by turning a blind eye to ukrainian violations while criticizing russia. this is actually not a surprise, and it shows m, what country ukraine became. we can add also the bombing of the nuclear plant and separation and many other things. bonding hospitals don't dance coach. i saw myself . of course there will be no reaction. just what we could go and we have to video where ukrainian soldiers, so russian prisoners of war and the u. n. in this video was authentic, and there was no reaction on the west. nobody in the west knows about it. so how the western media is working, we know, and of course they will not talk, talk about this if it would be, vice versa, it will be a big scandal and all they have another development apparently ignored by the western media. american wife, the premise is linked to the battalion have been charged with crossing of several attacks on us soil for that connection. ukraine, they are not, sees reportedly being hushed up al

are expected to be a 2 percent, but i'll slightly below 2 percent. author in war, correspondent thomas roper feels that on kara and budapest are being criticized because they are the only alliance members. not falling washington's lead. hey, theresa new esl kids, zation. um and the yes is no organizing this so called summit for democracy and quite interesting that he lived to now to alice turkey and, and angry, also not invited us for arsenal. so that countries who are not following of a political course of the u. s. r. officially named no democracy and no natal park apartments and so on. and so this is not really a surprise for me. i am in europe. we also see that that in congress has problems. and that, that the countries are not happy with hungary because of the hungering rigor government. first of all, seeing a things of their own people when they, when and when it comes to sanctions or anti russian pre ukrainian or measures a well. and if you're a pin, countries would think of their own interests and the policy would be different. but we are seeing a policy which is sir, orientation or

and they're certainly as hypocrisy to be found all around author and war, correspondent, thomas roper. thank you so much for your time and inside a polish state own company is planning to see russia in order to receive compensation for the halt of supplies on a major pipeline that transports oil to eastern europe, caused by the ab says 7 agreed upon export pay met to president jo biden's visit. the russians stopped pumping oil to poland. we will now take legal action and assert claims for more details on nestle's cross live now to archie, contributor rachel mars. then rachel is good to see you. now. can you tell us more on poland decision to file suit against russia here? yeah, so let me get this straight. poland is upset that russia won't take pollings money any more. pullin has been going out of its way to act as ukraine's teacher's pat within the ear, going round publicly, bullying its fellow european allies for doing business with russia. just a few days ago, the polish defense minister sat on state tv quote. there is no doubt it was germany's policy that help routine to get money

thomas roper says the west is being hypocritical by turning a blind eye to ukrainian violations while criticizing russia. this is actually not a surprise and it shows m, what country ukraine became. we can add also the bombing of the nuclear plant and separation and many other things. bonding hospitals don't dance coach. i saw i saw myself. of course there will be no reaction. just one week, a goal and we have 2 video where ukrainian soldiers, so russian prisoners of war and the u. n. in this video was authentic and there was no reaction on the west. nobody in the west knows about it . so how the western media is working, we know, and of course they will not talk, talk about this if it will be, vice versa, it will be a big scandal and all they have on key. if i've carried out yet another military prisoner swap, deal rushes, say that service men will under mortal danger while in camp. so to see 130 ukrainian prisoners of war were exchanged for 900 russians who were now being transported to moscow for medical evaluation. and treatment last month, 2 similar swaps were conducted between r

my calling rory, sushi discussed the of sack with war correspondent thomas roper, who is experienced in repulsing from the ambassador. bill must read and he says that targeting civilians is a colon practice or ukrainian forces. when you look at that part of the world and, and, and these villagers in the bronze region along the ukrainian border, these are civilian villages. we can say there are no military facilities in this region. why do you think the region was targeted? i am just come back from the net and why do they i should see williams there. so this is nothing new. it's tara, it's hatred, i think. and this is nothing you are. i was, i was a times in the dumbass now and i've seen a 1st of all, they're shooting at schools and hospitals. i was in sheriffs, on the 2 times, i was then summer when the situation was like, you know, many people were just not really pro russian. i was there 3 months later, and after a 3 month shooting from ukraine and i, every willis fish did this to school or whatever that was damaged. the people changed their mind just because they saw what was shot

thomas roper says ukraine is a massive black hole for western money. this money was meant to help you create new equipment and now it seems that this money came right into cash is groups. you credit gets more money from the west, then the budget of the country was so red, that's the money go. the ross replace the black hole and the black hole and the money went through some purpose. and we see it's, you know, the, some military members of this room specialist groups which are providing well and the bus for since 2014. and the rest seems to know that we read in the western press. so i'm quite sure nobody will ask me questions. i will be less than i will have an extra conference with mr. miss, regarding what could she me but nobody will ask the question in the news, amateurs could not have conducted the operation blue. the nord stream pipelines left the message from seymour hersh, the journalist who broke the story on washington's legit involvements in the bloss, dismissed western media report. so the substance was carried out by a mysterious pro ukraini