In an explosion on the Underground System in St Petersburg. The explosion happened between two stations Sennaya Plos Chad and Tekhnologichesky Institut stations. Domi tilla sagra moso, lecturer in security and development domitilla sagramoso, lecturer in security and development at Kings College london, talked to me about who might be behind these attacks. Of course it is a bit early, but we can think of potential groups or individuals who could be behind these attacks. The first who come to mind are of course, fighters, jihadists from the north caucasus. They have been running a very long insurgency, a jihadist insurgency against local authorities and the russian state for over a decade. Although they have been severely weakened we cannot exclude that they might be involved in some form of attack. Many of those leaders in these insurgencies throughout the region have sworn allegiance to assess, and many to isis. Many have moved to fight with Islamic State and other groups in iraq. The
will now do. will they divert troops to that area? to that area? i don t think they can. to that area? i don t think they can- they to that area? i don t think they can. they have to that area? i don t think they can. they have got to that area? i don t think they can. they have got troops - to that area? i don t think they i can. they have got troops fighting in so many areas. if they could have afforded the higher quality combat troops to hold their positions here, they would have done it. i think they would have done it. i think they have accepted they have to cede territory. they will probably continue, as they have been, to use helicopter gun ships, aircraft, to bomb positions and artillery, to try to hold on to other areas. it is looking pretty shaky for them. it has been three months of retreats by the myanmar military come of constant defeats, a drip effect on its standing and authority and at this stage, it is hard for us to guess at what point the military may be able
small small scale operations in syria and across border in iraq. the attack on the prison in northeastern syria most certainly their most significant operation to date. and there have been growing concerns that many analysts and experts on the ground and on the global stage have been warning about that isis does still maintain this capability to regroup, resurge, re-emerge and that the u.s. needs to be keeping a bit more skin in the game when it comes to that. but one thing that the u.s. has learned in the battles against isis is that the vast majority of the time when they do go after these isis targets there are civilians in the area, and quite often there are civilians in the very same building. eyewitnesses to the raid that took place took out isis leader say there were helicopter gun ships overhead for hours,
british army on the russian side. in the last 2 1/2 days they ve received additional helicopter gun ships, similar number of gun ships, about 60-plus gun ships and transport helicopters have also been now spotted by satellite imagery in crimea. so it looks like they are getting much closer to the point at which they might actually trigger a d-day, an invasion day, a day for some kind of military action on the russian side. that said, the ukrainians today, later on today it s about 3:00 in the morning now are going to be celebrating what they call unity day in a slightly ironic lampoon briefings that have come out of america suggesting today might be a day the russians choose to invade. but the ukrainians are trying to keep a lid on national panic, effectively. that was slightly shaken in the last few hours by a distributed
lucas: hey, american western diplomats fled to when they evacuated embassies in capital. i spoke to a nun in the ukrainian orthodox church. do you think the russians are going to invade? it s possible. we don t know in the head of putin so we have to be ready. lucas: over 150,000 russian soldiers continue to surround this country from the north, east, south and its sea, russia joint exercise belarus tomorrow after that is anyone s guess what comes after that. half of russia s forces at the border are now poised to invade. new satellite images satellite show russia deployed 2,000 more attack ships to belarus to the north and 50 more helicopter gun ships to southeast in crimea, over 60 more helicopters have been deployed with dozens of world leaders in munich russia