cuz to convince you delayed to support the western stuff from ukraine with coming to you alive from moscow this saturday morning. welcome to archie international. my name is peter stuart scott, bringing you 30 minutes of news and analysis, and we start this out with the latest from ukraine. yes, state department claims ukrainian forces in murder. you pull, continue to hold their ground. now, despite russia earlier saying this city had been cleared of ukrainian troops with remaining national battalion fights is now blockaded inside the us all star industrial plants, russian foreign minister spokeswoman, he is a carver, said such davis from washington aimed at further escalating the conflict of a could solemnly ear as greyish, we assess these statements as provocative and aimed at escalating the conflict. the main objective of such statements is to make the conflict gain momentum. come at the same time. you said these briefings are these very same people, declare their intentio