the ukranian president vladimir zelinski called for a borders to be close to all russians, saying that quote, they should live in their own world until they change their philosophy. west are cross to get the thoughts of our t contributor rachel marston and all this. hi, rachel. it's difficult not to call this year at rest of phobia, isn't that an entire nation essentially being cancelled by another? take us through it. yeah, well, whatever happened to that vaunted european unity that you officials have been celebrating recently. now suddenly there's little more than a shrug from the you when one member state decides to discriminate based on people's nationality and background. what's particular to agree just about this kind of top level zealotry becoming policy is that it's a clarion call to systemic bigotry. everywhere else, here in paris, for example, to female russian visitors were denied entry by officials at the chateau val sen, tourists site. at the end of july, french government had to clarify this week that the checking of visitors, id and nationalities only applies to actual m

earlier this week, ukrainian president vladimir zelinsky warned ukrainians that moscow might attempt to quote something particularly cruel this week as the nation commemorates its declaration of independence from the soviet union more than 30 years ago. ukraine's there are no such bombs that can erase freedom, and there will never be such missiles that can break the will of the people who believe in themselves. meanwhile, gatherings here in kiev have been banned as rockets overnight hit cities just 15 miles outside of kiev. in kiev, ukraine, alex hogan fox news, all right, thank you. alex power has been restored in nuclear plant in ukraine after government officials say it went offline after a russian strike on transmission lines. the plant had to go on backup generators while the damage was fixed. president zelensky said the plant narrowly avoided a radiation accident. the plant is europe's largest and is in an area that has seen fighting for months. international atomic energy experts say they want to send a team to assess the situation. i think now there is a general recognition t

they are joining ukraine's president vladimir zalinski to discuss the future of the annexed crimean peninsula. zelinski to day promised to do everything possible to retake crimea, which was illegally annexed by russia. in 2014 other western leaders have expressed their support during today's summit, germany schanzer, olaf shoulds pledging additional military aid to the tune of $500000000.00 euros. as is part of what would lead us had to say earlier today when the russian regime blames sanctions for the food crisis around the world. they're engaging in disinformation. we need to continue fighting russian dis information. that's why canada will create a dedicated team to help increase our capacity to monitor and detect russian and other state sponsored different dis information. the international community also has to engage actively in the long term reconstruction of ukraine. rearing in mind the size of the challenge, we need to accelerate the work that we started the new randall in support of this process, like capacity as president of the g 7. and together with the pin commission, i will host an inter

vladimir zalinski has a sharply criticized the human rights organisation amnesty international. after it alleged ukraine had endangered civilians by basing its troops in residential areas, zelinski acquainted the claim to victim blaming. and meanwhile, on the ground in ukraine, there are reports of heavy fighting in the south close to the russian held city of her son in the eastern and ask region ukrainian civilians have fled their homes, forced to leave by incessant rushing. shelly, a train station and on etzky, evacuating the old and the young pool exhausted westwards. ordinary ukrainians caught up in fierce fighting and forced to leave their homes with whatever they can carry miss, but we are from a village near lucy chance kids between the hampton donuts regions. village has been ruined. there's no gas, no water, no electricity. we were sitting in the basement for a month, and the army brought us here to the w. 2. the government has ordered civilians to leave combat zones in done at sc but the danger may not be just from russian attacks. misty international accuses ukraine of basing troops and populated areas, putting civilians at risk and violating the laws of war. keith wa

vladimir lensky was broadcast to the players before kick off. the resumption is especially significant to those involved. it's very important or emotionally or socially aspect. are you seeing president zelinski told us some phrases, you know, and promote that the, the football michael won the we showed the people that really, that the craner was to show to the world that we are alive. and the don't forget us. spectators are not allowed at present because of the obvious dangers. even the players are taking a risk. if an air raid siren sounds, they have to run to the nearest shelter immediately, which he has an impact stadium is in the underground copper that's exactly what happened for 2 teams playing in the viv. their match lasted over 4 hours because they had to shelter 3 times. no strikes were detected in the area. scenes like that of many fans weighing the pros and cons of the situation. alas, but divine we hope our country is asia that the air defenses will work. oh, but for now i would not go to an event like that that as yet. no, for the month. exactly. i would not play. i would hook up on it islov. it's difficult, as i hit on the one hand, it is very important that we show all the dif

vladimir putin i would not rule out the possibility it was his own security services that wanted to deliver a message to those old torah nationalists russians who were critical for failing to topple the zelinskin a lot of russian hard-core right wing nationalists who are frustrated with this highly ineffective military campaign that is done not a lot of but just humanitarian catastrophe in ukraine. and roughly according to the pentagon, 80,000 russian casualties. >> neil: so you're saying it's possible it could come from the left or the right to because of the frustration here. but do you think that we will later learn that there were such attacks to take him down or remove him from power? he obviously travels with great confidence. no one has faced a coup in his absence, what do you think? >> i mean, there is no indication right now that his inner circle that would be his minister of defense, the director of the ff's be and national security advisor, nothing to indicate that that inner circle is not holding strong. does not mean that there might not have been attempts on vladimir putin, very difficult for us to detect those. anybody trying we know from the nazis in germany who try to kill hi