at what vladimir putin just said in that speech, it seems to indicate much more ambitious and wider military plans for things like demilitarisation, denazification of ukraine which i take to mean the removal of current ukrainian authorities given put in s slandering of him as a nazi, us puppet regime. and what we have seen and heard on the ground, with explosions happening in multiple ukrainian cities, way outside that region including here in kyiv, where, i mean, we are getting reports so far not yet confirmed, that the airport is being hit, that 0dessa, kyiv and kharkiv, all the cities that are far from donbas, there is violence going on right now,
intelligence officials for some time, and the very fact that the kremlin is now saying that separatists in the disputed region is of the east are calling for russian assistance is itself seen as a false flag occurrence. is itself seen as a false flag occurrence. david, stay with us. we occurrence. david, stay with us- we are occurrence. david, stay with us. we are getting - occurrence. david, stay with us. we are getting reports l occurrence. david, stay with| us. we are getting reports of some explosions happening in kyiv. we are going tojoin some explosions happening in kyiv. we are going to join max hunder, a journalist with the cave independent, who is in care for us now. can we get your initial reaction to vladimir putin coming out and making it official, pretty much everything we have now into the past few days is going to happen, that they are going to do this military operation in donbas. it do this military operation in donbas. , , ., , donbas. it is brutal. it is auoin don
of your president declaring the war? thank you of your president declaring the war? thank you very of your president declaring the war? thank you very much. i l war? thank you very much. must say that i thank the representative of ukraine for his statement and the question is, i his statement and the question is. i was his statement and the question is, i was planning to answer them is, i was planning to answer them because i have already said them because i have already said all them because i have already said all i them because i have already said all i know at this point, we cannot said all i know at this point, we cannot minister lavrov is not something i want to do, this not something i want to do, this is not something i want to do, this is not not something i want to do, this is not a war, this is a special this is not a war, this is a special military operation in the donbas and i will now give the donbas and i will now give the flow the donbas and i will now
however, what vladimir putin has demonstrated in previous conflicts, whether that be in chechnya, syria, georgia, even in the currently ongoing war in donbas, that russia does not necessarily care about hitting civilian targets. that cost to them is not as high as it would be too may be other armies. so, yeah, there is always that concern, that any civilian casualties to russia are seemingly expendable. but you still hope that they would not indiscriminately shell city 3 million people. million people. max, it is mark, here. million people. max, it is mark, here. i million people. max, it is mark, here. i know- million people. max, it is mark, here. i know it- million people. max, it is mark, here. i know it is. million people. max, it is i mark, here. i know it is early in the mark, here. i know it is early in the morning that you are, this in the morning that you are, this wiii in the morning that you are, this will have taken lots of pe0pie this will have taken lots of peo