Obama phone with one minute past 5 am on saturday morning in the weekends and just getting on the way in moscow and peter scott and welcome to 30 minutes of news and views oxy. We started with the latest developments in ukraine where battles continue for the city of coupons in the heart of region. Ukraine had previously announced the complete takeover of the city, but hes been reported. The fighting is ongoing and Russian Troops continue to hold defensive lines along the obstacle river, which runs through the settlements. Also in call of positions of the ukrainian cracking regiments have been eliminated, according to the russian, m. O. D. And over 400 soldiers have been killed and wounded as a result of russian strikes on ukrainian positions in the nikolai and holly of regions as well as in the den. Yes, the peoples republic. Again, that is according to the russian m. O. D. Meanwhile ukrainian troops shelled the russian border town of valerie and the builder of region this friday, kill
According to the africa director for the International Red cross in comments to we always up with sanctions as they may, adversity effect with very welcome you watching all T International with the latest world news update is good to have you with us. Now, a lot of putin says ukraine is being manipulated by western powers to fight against russia. He says he has, has refused to negotiate to resolve the conflict and is instead seeking to end the war on the battlefield. The partisan, destitute for decades to west, has been cultivating an idea of destroying the soviet union and then russia. Theyve always wanted to see our country disintegrated. Now theyve started using ukraine to achieve that goal. The special military operation that weve watched is not some kind of warning. Its a military operation. Weve seen attempts to launch terrorist attacks to foot damage on our civilian infrastructure. And we have been reacting in a restrained manner up until a certain point at the end of a very be