accused ukraine of using civilians as human shields. he called them neo nazis. translation: our soldiers and officers are fighting for| russia, for a peaceful life. for the citizens of the donbas. the denazification and demilitarisation of ukraine so that the anti russia on our borders will not threaten us. the second round of talks held in neighbouring belarus have taken place despite failing to reach an agreement. both sides did agree on the need for humanitarian corridors in order to protect civilians. it could involve an agreement on roads leading out of populated areas. they came and shook hands. with their respective flags on the table, ukrainians and russians
losses. the president was generally defined, however. he accused ukraine of using civilians as human shields. he called ukrainian forces neo nazis. translation: our soldiers and officers are fighting for| russia, for a peaceful life. for the citizens of the donbas. the denazification and demilitarisation of ukraine so that the anti russia on our borders will not threaten us. the united states turned up the pressure on russia earlier imposing fresh sanctions on at least eight oligarchs and associates of president putin. those targeted included the owner of a giant mining company and also a kremlin spokesman. in the state of the union address, i announced that the department ofjustice is going after the crimes of russian oligarchs and the attorney general spoke to that earlier. and who line their pockets with russian people s money while ukraine and their people are hiding in subways
let s speak now to our moscow correspondent steve rosenberg. president putin gave a statement in a few hours ago, ironically as other european leaders were talking about sanctions and what sanctions they would put forward which we understand will be decided later today, but pretty much out of the blue, a short statement, very decisive. , . ., ., . , decisive. yes, a dramatic televised address from decisive. yes, a dramatic televised address from vladimir decisive. yes, a dramatic televised address from vladimir putin - decisive. yes, a dramatic televised address from vladimir putin in - decisive. yes, a dramatic televised address from vladimir putin in the | address from vladimir putin in the early hours today. basically saying russia was going ahead with what he called a special military operation to demilitarise ukraine, he said, and used the speech to try to justify his decision, basically claiming ukraine had become a threat to russia. he ukraine as a hostile anti russia that t
that pro-russian president there that seemed to be the beginning of this era in ukraine, american, russia relations. how did that start things off and where are we now? yeah, that s right, jesse. i mean, it was a coup in 2013, 2014, the idea was that the obama administration the american national security establishment and the europeans would be able to poke at putin and get away with it on the cheap, right? so what happened was interest was a coup. the president went into exile. the state department now back in the biden administration like victoria nuland helped assemble a new ukrainian government pro-u.s. and anti-russia. the problem is this that russia is extremely powerful neighbor of ukraine s. a buffer state in between two other more powerful entities is
for the denazification and demilitarisation of ukraine, so that the anti russia on our borders will not threaten us. total control of the messaging is what the kremlin wants now in this war. this is echo of moscow. they are still broadcasting in social media, but there radio programmes and website have been blocked censorship over their coverage of the war in ukraine. this woman has worked at echo for 18 years. now, russia s oldest liberal radio station says it is being forced to close. we just can say, welcome to north korea, or maybe welcome to the ussr. right now in 2022, you cannot destroy all the voices of the truth.