organization of ukrainian nationalists in german occupied polish. and eastern between one nine hundred forty three and one nine hundred forty four this genocide of poles was led by. thirty five thousand to sixty thousand people in vali nya and twenty five to forty thousand eastern. fell victim to this massive ethnic cleansing operation. sensing the inevitable loss of the german troops the organization of ukrainian. nationalists gave up on their former ally and began fighting equally against the germans and the soviet forces. in january nine hundred forty three u.s.s.r. troops started pushing the nazis back liberating one part of ukraine after another . western ukraine was the last ukrainian region held by the germans finally being liberated in october of one nine hundred forty four. bands continue to wage their guerrilla war against the soviet regime carrying out bloody raids on ukrainian villages and towns and leaving behind chaos and casualties. this war went on until the middle of the one nine hundred fifty s. when the last collaborators were eit

in the middle of the seventeenth century ukrainian leader. broke a truce agreement made with poland siding more powerful russia. just over fifty years later as the russian swedish war was raging another ukrainian leader ivan mazeppa bro. the union with russia when he switched sides joining forces with the swedish invaders many times ukrainian history was written by third parties seeking to keep the gains of a revolution at any cost russia agreed to the humiliating conditions of the breast with treaty of one nine hundred eighteen which turned ukraine into a german protectorate another historical document to change the fate of ukraine was the molotov ribbentrop pact of one thousand nine hundred thirty nine one of many such agreements being signed between european countries and rising germany. attempting to protect his nation from the approaching nazi threat. joseph stalin negotiated a treaty of nonaggression with adolf hitler while promising each other piece of the soviet and german foreign ministers molotov and ribbentrop realigned the map of

suffer to the ukrainian church whatever it may be we'll discuss it now and i say to the ukrainian church keeping in mind that it is probably primarily a political process because if it were the politicians the state dept lobbied for that what do you make of this very tight association between state and religious affairs first of all i should explain what fully means because not everyone would understand how to sell fully in course of the tradition means independence the orthodox church unlike the roman catholic church consists of fully independent local churches they are not subordinate to one and there is no single he had of this church is except for jesus christ himself and here from what i understand the constantine ople church gay does claim divide of determining which church is supposed to be independent and which is not yes exactly as a pitcher of constantinople it's as if he were the pope for the course of the church but it has not been the traditional source of the church to have such group and we do not recognize the rights of the preacher of concern to know pope to. carry bring

council or the ukrainian state. which are direct discrimination and marginalization of the ukrainian orthodox church one such a law if accepted will presuppose that the ukrainian orthodox church should change its name and that it should be in the name to the russian orthodox church in the ukraine and that a big deal this is a big deal because it is something like putting the. hilo. star on the jew in the in hitler's germany the year of the yellow star is by itself a sacred symbol but your answer in all due respect i think the level of prosecution which exists in the ukraine is nowhere compared to what we witnessed during the nazi occupation of eastern europe. but do you really think it's going in that direction i hope it will not go and is there action but if the church if a particular church she was a ukrainian or so the church is. condemned as the church of the country aggressor say no. it's is deprived of legal rights we can expect we can expect that my tics will take control over major more on the streets like.

in the ukraine there is one canonical ukrainian church it is the ukrainian orthodox church . which is recognized by all orthodox churches as canonical it twelve thousand parishes more than two hundred monasteries and millions of. and there are also two non-canonical groups which were called schismatic groups which are not recognized by any of the orthodox churches. it is this schismatic groups which are supposed to constitute the basis on which constantine ople wants to be able to build this outer surface church and it is a political project because it is a project instigated by as a current ukrainian political authorities they want to create a united church or for churches the canonical orthodox church the two schismatic groups and also the greek catholic church which belongs to the pope of rome this moment for an independent ukrainian church started back in the nineteen ninety s. and baghdad and its supporters are pretty open about wanting a schism a political schism a religious schism but i think present person cut deep change a tactic a little bit and he presents it as hi

are doing right now you know first of all concerning ukrainians ukrainians are doing right now as a salute to the same mistakes we we did before we tried president saakashvili and he steam did and unfortunately government destroyed their country i don't know maybe they don't understand this but they destroyed the country they lost not only crimea but they lost their own people in two regions calling these people terrorists. not to speak with these people and those things that ukrainians and russians they really have historical very deep roots and to cut roots and to try and just to show yourselves that you are absolutely separate and different. from russians this is absolutely stupid ways this is a way to nowhere i am sure that this will create more problems for ukraine will be very difficult for ukraine what about the. things that mccain and people like him and not only a lot of people in united states and maybe not only in united states they of course wanted just to cut all possible links with georgia with russia and the ukraine with russia how did they in visit to be compensated

cut deep change a tactic a little bit and he presents it as him striving towards the unity of the ukrainian faithful i'm sure you dislike it but don't you think that it's a clever tactic for him we certainly like the idea of the unity of the church and we certainly dislike schisms but the. schismatics and the canonical church. should go through. the process which we call repentance and that is not repentance in the sense. in which we use this word for example when we talk about personal life about morality and so on it's a canonical term the return of as much a group into as the body of the church. is done through the recognition of the fault of the schism in this case it is actually the schism which is good and to be the basis for the outer surface church and it will not be recognized by the majority of the orthodox face while in the ukraine so it is on the one hand it is the desire for unity which is proclaimed as a hint it is impossibility to achieve this unity by these months that's what we usually call politics it's only applied to they really just fear now the constantinople patriarch

selfless church and it is a political project because it is a project instigated by as a current ukrainian political authorities they want to create a united church or for churches the canonical orthodox church the two schismatic groups and also the greek catholic church which belongs to the pope of rome this moment for an independent ukrainian church started back in the nineteen ninety s. and bags and its supporters are pretty open about wanting a schism a political schism a religious schism but i think present deep change a tactic a little bit and he presents it as him striving towards the unity of the ukrainian faithful i'm sure you dislike it but don't you think that it's a clever tactic for him we certainly like the idea of the unity of the church and we certainly dislike schisms but the broken silly ation between schismatics and the canonical church. should go through. the process which we call repentance and that is not repentance in the sense. in which we use this word for example when we talk about personal life about morality and so on it's a canonical term the return of moscow a

media if they're free to do so of course should be now asking questions well let's see the ukrainian authorities now need c.p.i. to rebut refute these allegations from russia and let's see if they actually do that they are able to do it of course they can't produce the documents for me so that they would say they never own but what they can do is show the document trail for all the other missiles that came out which would show that actually this missile wasn't part of that original consignment because the numbers and types of missiles that were deployed in ukraine or were actually part of ukrainian units subsequently the ukrainian armed forces will still be known most documents would still exist ok security analyst former u.k. army officer charles shubert thanks for your expert insight today on that latest evidence from the russian imo. and other headlines crowds have gathered in the midst lee admitted the aftermath was the biggest mistake of his presidency but that's likely to bring little comfort to the civilian still reeling in a shattered nation we spoke to a senior research. for

armed forces and has not been returned to the territory of the russian federation from the ukrainian soviet socialist republic of ukraine or ukraine and the netherlands has been informed about it like the findings related to the new sas production in nine hundred eighty six and its delivery to the army had been confirmed during interviews with long time employees of the dog a prudent research and production enterprise experts have also done extensive research the evidence sourced by us and presented to you today is beyond doubt the evidence is here and available for your review immediately after the briefing also should be g.i. teen investigators have an interest in reviewing it and there will have to send an appropriate request and we will then be ready to meet with them here in russia thank you. thank you ladies and gentlemen this is not all our top russian experts reviewed the video materials that the g.i. to present it as proof that a missile launcher from russia's fifty third. anti aircraft miss our brigade. it was supposedly present in the donetsk and lugansk regions and had so

one of the people they believe to be a ukrainian. we're going to have so much more insight analysis and discussion on at this press conference in the coming hour so do stay with us for that. and other news let's turn to syria on the region of the last major terrorist hub there will dominate talks between the presidents of russia and turkey later on monday in the russian city of sochi with more details here's our correspondent dana koch. is there a second meeting in the last ten days last time at a summit in tiran their leaders couldn't agree on the future cause of action so to date is very important the fate of the last a major terrorist stronghold and we're talking about the province of is going to be discussed at this meeting we also believe that the two parties will discuss the syrian peace settlement as the turkish president has been calling quite unsuccessfully for a cease fire declaration in the province of lip so where do russia and turkey stand well turkey fears that out large scale a fountain of against it will cause a new i

and eastern parts of ukraine the areas where the russian speaking population makes up a majority ukrainian nationalist groups initiated massive protests opposing the law and observing viewer might see some familiar faces there on a five month. one of our last. on february twenty third two thousand and fourteen the very next day after the regime change the new government voted for an a no meant of the official status of the russian language and even though later this decision was vetoed by the acting president alexander turchynov it still sent a message and a powerful one this alarmed the russian speaking cities of eastern ukraine and people took to the streets to show their disagreement. in response oh my don it's conducted their own demonstrate. that's when the two parties would meet it was always tense and eventually it led to tragedy. one person died and over fifty people were wounded in clashes during a pro russian march protesting the new government in kiev. on april sixth the crimean scenario began repeating eastern ukraine where protesters seized government buildings. and the next d

it was behind it not on the the west was behind the ukrainian regime and the ukrainian regime what. its implication that as we go back to the alex and athens i mean it's really quite interesting is that first of all you had to go and his cronies made it pretty well known that they were anti trump during the u.s. presidential campaign you have a basically silence coming out of the e.u. they have their plate full with their own internal problems here they've abandoned ukraine at least overtly is go are people around him trying to force something trying to get things back and get them back on the map as it were politically to get the attention of these other players. yes i mean they're obviously not moving towards reconciliation and they're moving towards conflict and it's no secret like you said peter that ukraine was actively involved in helping hillary clinton and trump knows that and you know does not care about ukraine and the e.u. does not care about ukraine either but the e.u. did remain silent on this i least expected germany france at least to issue some sort of statement or c

in the ukraine there is one canonical ukrainian church it is the ukrainian orthodox church. which is recognized by all orthodox churches as canonical it twelve thousand parishes more than two hundred monasteries and millions of. and there are also two non-canonical groups which were called schismatic groups which are not recognized by any of the orthodox churches. it is this schismatic groups which are supposed to constitute the basis on which constantine or paul wants to be able to build this out of surface church and it is a political project because it is a project instigated by as a current ukrainian political authorities they want to create a united church or for churches the canonical orthodox church the two schismatic groups and also the greek catholic church which belongs to the pope of rome this moment for an independent ukrainian church started back in the nineteen ninety s. and baghdad and its supporters are pretty open about wanting a schism a political schism a religious schism but i think president bush on cut deep change a tactic a little bit and he presents i

orthodox church one such below if acceptance will presuppose that the ukrainian or so that the church should change its name and that it should be a name to the russian orthodox church in the ukraine it is something like put sings the. yellow star on the george the ins the infields this. in twenty forty you know bloody revolution to tikrit the demonstrations going to be relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it just no lawyer here i mean your list put video through in the new bill is out of the new school in needle the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty four g. and. those who took part in it invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. politicians they should be sure they don't you're bombing them yeah but it's not your fault because we're still going to leave this little place with him you're still me i'm a chip just a little son michael with the those washing machine money scheme which little please you just

mikail actively supported my down and very soon was rewarded with a high position in the new ukrainian government first as the president's counselor and then as the governor of odessa the day before taking this position he renounced his citizenship to georgia the country of these birth and became a ukrainian citizen. and the suggest others gordon would have done in the way exhorted. gordon would have done in the way exhorting that road in. as they say the battle is worth the blood both literally and figuratively. now do i not somebody afforded us by the us our meeting up they have to question is now the last thought on my. chest but i have. geoffrey pyatt the u.s. ambassador to ukraine paid a visit to saakashvili just a month after he took office in odessa it is law and the old last administration is delivering results and you raise your voice to see a steady flow of embassy in washington visitors coming here the meeting was fruitful and geoffrey generous. no matter how well saakashvili is job goes it looks like he shouldn't be worried about his own finances on his facebook page he pos

elation makes up a majority ukrainian nationalist groups initiated massive protests opposing the law and observing viewer might see some familiar faces there but look on. one of our last. on february twenty third two thousand and fourteen the very next day after the regime change the new government voted for an a no meant of the official status of the russian language and even though later this decision was vetoed by the acting president alexander turchynov it still sent a message and a powerful one this alarms that complicate the situation. this rebellion had to be extinguished immediately and at any cost and that cost was high. on may second two thousand and fourteen soccer fans flocked to the center of odessa city for the ukrainian championship match surprisingly a great number of these fans who descended into odessa just the night before also turned out to be fighters from the my don self-defense units along with members of radical organizations from all parts of ukraine that these. law. these families asked armed and shouting nationalist mottos began disturbances in the center o

colonel and some other ukrainian officer and well a lot of bomb. left in there on purpose by the russian defense ministry to show that they did not alter or edit that well that recording in any way and here is the key bits from it was me authority to make me rich. but for me what you really would it what. we should do more if you were if you so would you. want that already but the woman your mother already. now official ukraine has already branded this new information that the russian defense ministry has brought to light as fake but rushing it stern is saying that they are open to scrutiny that they are ready indeed to pass on these new documents to the joint investigative team to the official investigation and they can very fine the authenticity of those documents by themselves so definitely a new twist in the investigation over the downing of m h seventeen. more on this now let's bring in julian bray an expert in aviation security and operations unit thanks for joining us good to have you on the program today presented what it claims are hard fa

the new ukrainian government didn't have the power to wage war on too many fronts if odessa were to join the growing uprising in the eastern regions it would seriously complicate the situation. this rebellion had to be extinguished immediately and at any cost and that cost was high. on may second two thousand and fourteen soccer fans flocked to the center of odessa city for the ukrainian championship match surprisingly a great number of these fans who descended into odessa just the night before also turned out to be fighters from the my don self-defense units along with members of radical organizations from all parts of ukraine that these. books. these families asked armed and shouting nationalist mottos began disturbances in the center of the city as they marched to the end time on tent and camp where they attacked. the end time mind on protesters sought shelter in the trade union house but it was a track. down supporters started throwing molotov cocktails into the building until it was engulfed in flames. people burned to death inside for trying to escape jumped from. a low a fire stat

and fourteen and then began sending its battalions and eventually the ukrainian military once it had purged it and got in control to try to subjugate east ukraine to their illegal and unconstitutional seizure of power he rose up through the ranks he was wounded twice in combat he's the type of leader that led from the front lines and he at least successfully held the cities of the nats in the areas around them he will be regarded as a competent leader and that's probably why the it seems to me fairly obvious that the putsch regime in ukraine their intelligence services are the ones who had him assassinated because what if it was a what do they gain here game and what do they gain here what is it was the purpose here i mean to show that these leaders in these breakaway republics are are not safe well first of course the authorities deny it they say that it was whole internal strife inside the people's republic or it was a russia. was f s b but at the same time they all police celebrate the open this set of great that they stare expectable successful. call for his assassination well i

the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty four. those who took. invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. led . to. the main story. washington will face consequences if. the sanctions imposed over the purchase of russian military hardware. also coming up a fall there in germany say he's lost faith in the rule of law in these kind of free carsten hempel sought after a fight with refugees which prosecutors ruled as the facts. here take a look here this born my son has already been knocked out is that self-defense is that. it's really smart phone software designed to track criminals. phones in countries around the world critics say on scrupulous governments are also using it to snoop on the same billion. plus the new york times special reports on russia's alleged interference in america's twenty sixteen presidential election the. journalistic stuff. live from our international news center here in moscow welcome to our company o'neill our top story. china has

perhaps the most striking part of the case is this, admits helping a russian and ukrainian making a $50,000 donation to the trump inauguration committee. of course, foreigners aren't allowed to donate money to inaugural committees. there's no sign trump inauguration committee knew about it. with me nbc investigative reporter kennedy lanian, evelyn farkas, deputy defense secretary kim lee, associate counsel during whitewater association and former u.s. attorney guy lewis. great to have you with us this friday. ken, let me start with you. tell us about this guilty plea and what unfolded. >> ayman, this case appears to have come out of the investigation of paul manafort, donald trump's former campaign chairman, running this massive lobbying on behalf of russian backed ukrainian oligarch. sam patten comes in after the oligarch,ian kovic had fled in exile to russia and manafort trying to reconstitute political party, known as party of regions, formed something called opposition block. according to the documents, patten was lobbying for the opposition bloc. inside the united states he was being p

or what markers are to international ukrainian president petro poroshenko is suing the b.b.c. for libel over allegations he paid me to donald trump then hawkins picks up the story getting that one on one meeting with the leader of the free world himself is a priority for many world leaders as it was for ukraine's president poroshenko last summer russia and ukraine remain firmly in global headlines so get in that chat handshake and photo opportunity with trump early some say before vladimir putin was crucial. as new sanctions against russia were announced and the president spoke of how productive discussions had been some officials behind the scenes may have breathed a sigh of relief mission accomplished but reports of most at the meeting that may have been arranged unconventionally according to the b.b.c. diplomatic routes would have given poroshenko little more than a photo opportunity so ukrainian officials opened a back channel through a chain of contacts including trump's lawyer michael cohen now facing numerous federal charges to secure that tete a tete and the latter wou

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most political analysts believe the compassion of the ukrainian people at that moment tilted the scales giving him the presidency. the number of victims among the protesters during your own my done totaled over one hundred they are called to the heavenly hundred all the sacred victims were immediately mythologized. the beating of students on nov thirtieth two thousand and thirteen was the obvious try. of your own my done those who sent trained provocateurs to the square very well realized that peaceful protesters were the ones who would get hurt the most. it's hard to keep protests going for months on end tensions subside and people inevitably get tired. holidays are also a big danger for revolutionary masterminds people want to be home with their families and friends and one needs to get inventive to keep people in a cold tent city. on christmas day of two thousand and thirteen tabloid journalist and political want to be taught the on a chart of all was chosen to become the tool to whip the protests on my down back up a civic activist in journalist known for investigating corruption am

i'm sure the ukrainians would like it to be that that if that were the case we have a situation where crane and certainly their intelligence agency the s.b.u. has been allowed untrammeled access to this investigation which is being held in the netherlands where uniquely they as a country have been given a veto about what information can actually believe be released by this investigation and i say this with great confidence because i form an associate of the late great investigative journalist robert perry he made his name by breaking the u.s. led iran contra scandal way back in the one nine hundred eighty s. and then set up a wonderful website called consorting news and i have been meeting up with him in europe while he was over here in twenty sixteen attending the joint investigations team hearings and he was absolutely astonished at what he was hearing during the actual events and then what was not being reported in the mainstream news so you write up a lot about this on consortium news as well a lot of the evidence which has not been publicized in the mainstream in the west so you

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be you imagine at the time they have about 10% of ukrainian market and million of ukrainian customers missiles you've been given are very powerful defensive weapons against russia. ukraine is in a much better position. >> this is very important symbolically. these are the first lethal weapons definitely designed for the defense operation, but first lethal weapons we have received. first of all, this has opened the military technical cooperation with other nation which is extremely important. >> once the americans do it, other countries will follow? >> absolutely. we start to be the country with whom we can provide the military and technical operation because we have a right to protect, to defend our own territory, to defend our own people. now we are probably -- tomorrow we receive two american ships, petrol ships from the coast guard. that help us to solve another problem, russian attempt to occupy azof sea. >> where is this? >> that's on the shore of ukraine. we have a black sea and azof sea. the third thing, we will look very much to buy the defense system because also we have a da