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good morning thank you for joining us
live here on india today's digicast i
know everyone's talking about the
elections right now and we're continuing
to stream all those live updates of the
results that are pouring in but even for
a second we don't want to take away from
the ukraine war and get you all of the
updates which is why we're now putting
out the cemeteries live digicast where
over the next few hours i'm going to
continue getting you all the latest
updates on day 15 of the war and the
conflict that's playing out in ukraine
let's begin by summing up all the top
developments for you
ukrainian authorities have said that a
children's hospital in the ukrainian
city of mariopol was destroyed by
russian airstrikes on wednesday russian
occupying forces dropped several bombs
on this hospital leading to colossal
destruction european media reports
stated that at least 17 staff were
wounded several pregnant women and
children
were injured
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the united states condemned russia for
the barbaric attack and bombing of the
children's hospital in ukraine officials
said that a russian airstrike buried
patients in rubble despite a ceasefire
deal for people to flee the besieged
city of mariopol worldwide condemnation
coming in of this airstrike
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ukrainian president vladimir zelinski
called on the vest to impose even
tougher sanctions on russia after the
airstrike on the children's hospital in
mario paul wearing the traditional
wartime army green zelinski said that
the west should strengthen sanctions so
russia no longer has any possibility of
continuing what he referred to as a
genocide
international atomic energy agency has
said that power has been entirely cut to
the chernobyl power plant the site of
the world's worst nuclear disaster back
in 1986
now according to them there's no
critical impact on the safety from the
chernobyl power laws but it's led to
endless speculation as to exactly why
power has been cut off in this defunct
power plant
ukrainian president zielinski has now
signed a law allowing civilians in
ukraine to use weapons against the
russian military and is valid for the
entire period of the martial law that's
already in place
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zalenski has also said that ukraine will
try to evacuate civilians through six
humanitarian corridors today from the
capital city of kiev as well as from
cities of sumit which is in the north
eastern part energon in southern ukraine
mario paul again in south islam as well
as volnovaka
also getting you all the latest
international updates on the story uk
prime minister boris johnson has
informed ukraine president zielinski
that he was committed to further
tightening sanctions to impose maximum
economic costs on russia johnson
discussed the situation in ukraine on a
call with zilensky last evening where he
said that putin will be held accountable
for what he called as terrible crimes
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now what we're also seeing is apple pay
google pay and samsung payment systems
are no longer available in russia today
mastercard visa payment cards issued by
russian banks stop working abroad and in
online stores you can only imagine how
that's dented russians not just in their
country but worldwide
white house press secretary jen saki
said that russian president vladimir
putin's troops may arrange a provocation
and be preparing to use chemical and
biological weapons while passing the
blame onto ukraine
and the european union has said that it
was stepping up sanctions over russia's
invasion of ukraine including targeting
more russian individuals and adding
banks in moscow's ally belarus the 27
nation block is blacklisting 160 more
russian parliamentarians as well as
oligarchs and is also banning exports of
maritime navigation technology to russia
including crypto assets under its
punitive measures
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and the big headline that's emerging
right now from ukraine is that
horrifying update of a children's
hospital being targeted in mario paul
and the kind of images that are emerging
right now from mario paul is
heartbreaking to say the least they were
growing warnings from the west the
moscow's invasion was about to take a
more brutal and indiscriminate turn and
that's exactly what's happening on the
ground ukrainian officials have said
that a russian airstrike devastated a
maternity hospital in the besieged port
city of maryapol at least 17 people have
been wounded this includes staff as well
as patients the ground shook more than a
mile away when this complex was hit it
was not just one plus but a series of
them windows were blown out ripped away
much of the front part of one building
you can see the kind of damage on your
screens as well police soldiers all of
them rushed to the scene to evacuate
victims this was a hospital that was
very much active it was being used to
treat patients heavily pregnant women
were being carried out on stretchers in
the courtyard mangled cars lay there
there was a blast crater extended at
least two stories deep a lot of
condemnation that's pouring in worldwide
for what's played out right now in mario
poll president of ukraine vladimir
zelinsky wrote to twitter wrote onto it
i beg your pardon that there were people
children under the wreckage of that
hospital and referred to the strike as
an atrocity
they want us to feel like animals
because they blocked our cities the
biggest cities
in ukraine and they blocked and and
because they don't want our our people
to get some food water yesterday for
example children i don't know if you if
you know the children in mariopol was
the child
was dead
yes you know that that is the idea of
of this operation or or i don't know how
house putin's
telling about it we can't stop
alone all this
no it's it's it's
only if
the world will unite
around ukraine around uniting around
ukraine they're not there still it's
still very slowly it's still very slowly
but you can feel it only when you are
here because the people from europe or
usa
it's far from ukraine it's far from the
heart of this tragedy and and you you
can't see you you can't understand the
details because you are not fighting
here and i understand why and i don't
want them to fight
but these countries can help can unite
because we can't speak about the close
the i'm sorry that i'm speaking again
and again about this problem but we
spoke about children hospitals etc and
you know the the the
number of this child that's and and
and
so
we are speaking about closing the sky
you can't decide
to close or not to close
you can't decide if you are united
against the nazism and this terror you
have to close
not me don't wait me asking you
several times a lot million times close
the sky no you have to phone us
to our people who lost their children
and say sorry we didn't do it yesterday
one week ago we didn't
push
putin we didn't speak with him a lot we
didn't found
find the dialogue with him we we we did
nothing and it's true yesterday
the world did nothing i'm sorry but it's
true
i have the ukrainian president zelinski
saying that we simply didn't do enough
and lashing out at russia over this
particular incident what i'm also
showing you right now images on your
screen show the before and after
satellite footage of the intense
airstrike by the russian offensive in
mario paul the kind of destruction that
this has caused again let me remind you
that the hospital that's been targeted
in mario paul was one that had patients
that had pregnant women that had little
children babies and this was targeted by
russia it's something that's been
condemned by the entire world mario pole
is one of those cities across ukraine
that's been very very badly affected
that's been targeted time and again by
russian bombardment and by airstrikes
and that is clear on your screens from
the satellite images that we're also
showing you of what mario paul looked
like before versus now
let's focus also on the capital city of
cave it's bracing for a final attack by
russia tanks armored personnel carriers
they've all been deployed at key
strategic locations gaurav savanth who's
in the ukrainian capital spoke to
soldiers who are preparing for an
imminent russian attack it could happen
any moment now the ukrainian troops on
ground know that
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russia is at the gates of kiev the
ukrainian capital readying for an
imminent russian attack
the defenders have deployed tanks and
armored personnel carriers at key
strategic locations to take on the
invaders
ukrainian soldiers in an exclusive
interview to india today revealed that a
few russian forces are already in the
capital city
how close are the russian forces to keep
right now
the russian forces they are in kiev
right now yesterday uh our friends they
saw
them in the forest eight eight uh
russian soldiers they already in kiev
soldiers with weapons yes yes yes
ukrainian troops say that after smashing
kiev suburbs russian forces are
advancing from all directions
preparing for an all-out assault
we are expecting enemies from uh some
parts yeah and so of course they would
like to make a circle a round key
but so we are ready to meet him and so
our military forces they are very nice
in
protecting now really believed that they
will be met by our people with flowers
but they we meet them
with bullets only
even as the war rages on the ground
moscow is bringing the heat down
diplomatically
vladimir putin's administration has said
kremlin is not trying to overthrow the
ukraine government
now ukrainian president vladimir
zelinsky too made a climb down
zelinski says he is no longer pressing
for nato membership
which is the biggest provocation for the
russian invasion
in another statement aimed at placating
moscow
zelensky has said he is open to a
compromise on the status of the two
breakaway pro-russian territories
donesk and lewansk
the climb down comes ahead of talks
between russia and ukraine in turkey on
thursday
this appears to be
new lines being dug new front lines here
in this battle for the defense of keeps
so far these this war this conflict was
being fought in
in bucha or irpin on the outskirts but
now it appears that the battle is coming
much closer if talks do not succeed
to bring peace to bring about a
negotiated settlement then russia's big
assault on cave could begin
and this could happen as early as the
next 24 to 48 hours with cameraman pawan
kumar in cave ukraine god of 7th for
india today
so for 15 days now we've been seeing
this war raging on there's more than two
weeks that russia has been going forward
with its invasion plan of ukraine this
ruthless shelling attacks that continue
perhaps in an unprecedented scale right
now
and what comes along with it coupled
with that is an unparalleled human
tragedy that's playing out on the
streets of ukraine that the world right
now is also watching in kharkiv which
has been seeing massive fighting for the
last many many days a shopping center
was completely destroyed it collapsed
even while rescue operations continue a
factory and a store were on fire uh this
is in the bombarded area of airplane
it's a city that's on the outskirts of
kiev that russia has been trying to
capture so that they can then make their
way into the capital city we've of
course been getting you all those images
from a hospital attack in mario paul
where at least 17 are reportedly injured
several appeared missing work is
continuing on in the debris to try and
identify all the uh patients and staff
who are buried in that rubble european
media reports claim that ukraine wiped
out four russian su-25 aircraft two
helicopters and two cruise missiles in
kiev and the joint force operation
regions more than 50 000 people from
sumi region which has been very hardly
hit by russian airstrikes have in fact
been evacuated in the last 48 hours the
refugee crisis that's playing out in
neighboring countries is also extremely
concerning right now ukrainian president
zelinski has said that 35 000 people
have been rescued through humanitarian
corridors that have been set up and
today five more humanitarian corridors
will be opened from kiev
sumi enerhodar and three other cities
these are all areas that have been very
very badly affected where there's been
maximum shelling and airstrikes which is
why the focus is on ensuring that
innocent civilians aren't targeted don't
become become the victims of this war
we've been here on india today getting
you all the latest updates on the war
from day one and what we want to show
you is an image that perhaps sums up
what's happened from day one to day 15.
yes there's been a lot of politics there
have been a lot of reactions that have
come in but one image is standard and
that's what you see on your screens
there of devastation of destruction of
death this is always the result of a war
or for conflict and you see the kind of
havoc that this war has inflicted on the
people out there from day one to day 15
there's been unbelievable unprecedented
and unfortunate
casualties that have been reported and
that's climbing with every passing day
15 days and counting the question
everyone's asking is how long will this
conflict how long will this war continue
when will it end there's been a supposed
to climb down by ukraine in the sense
that zelinski has said that look we're
willing to talk on the issue of crimea
and donbass does that indicate that
things finally will end with regards to
the violence that's playing out in the
beautiful country of ukraine
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all right big breaking news that's
coming in right now ukraine is
continuing to claim that they're causing
massive casualties to the russian army
and the russian air force ukraine has
wiped out four russian su-25 aircraft
two helicopters and two cruise missiles
in cave and the joint force operation
regions on march eight and nine that's
in the last two days these reports are
coming in from european media which is
site at the air force of the ukrainian
armed forces ukraine has been claiming
time and again that they've been downing
several such jets uh of the russian
forces who've been largely focusing on
airstrikes the updated estimates and
again let me say that this is based on
what ukraine has claimed the updated
estimates of the total russian losses
are 56 aircraft and 82 helicopters so
that's what ukraine has claimed that
they're continuing to suddenly dent uh
the russian offensive and the russian
air force largely air strikes that are
being conducted using their own arsenal
ukraine claims that they've downed
several jets several aircraft
several helicopters we will await some
sort of word that comes in from russia
also on this previously these kind of
claims that have been made by ukraine
has been shot down by russia saying it's
completely untrue
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there is a big announcement that was
made by u.s president joe biden along
with a slew of sanctions he also
announced two days back that russian oil
imports are now banned in america
thereby for obvious reasons the oil
prices have gone up dramatically supply
has also taken a massive hit britain has
claimed it will face russian oil out by
the end of this year be very very clear
that it's not just russia that's going
to suffer with these kind of sanctions
and particularly with the blocking of
oil supply it's the entire
world oil prices headed higher again on
wednesday that after the us moved to ban
russian imports
international benchmark brent crude hit
highs above 130 dollars per barrel in
early european trade the uk also said it
would phase out russian imports by the
end of the year
but it could be a different story for
the eu
robert yoga is an energy futures
strategist at mizuho
here in the united states i mean we
we've imported 200 000 barrels a day so
we can definitely exist without that
it's a spit in the bucket the eurozone
we're talking percentage points double
digits so it's a totally different game
european stock markets meanwhile saw a
sharp rebound in early trade
the regional stock 600 index rose around
three percent from the open hard-hit
banks travel stocks and automakers all
jumped four percent or more
investors picked up shares hammered by
the recent market sell-off but one
analyst told reuters there was little
sign of a change in sentiment
earlier in asia stocks fell again with
the shanghai composite index down more
than one percent
but the big falls of previous days were
avoided one trader said markets had
russia fatigue with all the bad news now
priced in
and my colleague shivaru also gets you
all of the haunting images that have
emerged so far of the russian invasion
of ukraine these images essentially tell
you what the situation is also on the
ground
india today has been relentlessly
getting you every latest defining image
right from the beginning 14 days ago
to two weeks later and where things are
at with this huge expanding military
operation that has been called the
invasion of ukraine the word invasion
has been criminalized in russia here are
those defining images
big defining image number one after a
deadly clash
ukrainian troops are reported to have
seized this russian tank you can see on
your screen a ukrainian
tank or an armored personnel carrier
throwing away a russian tank in an
unidentified
war zone in ukraine it would just be
twisted
big defining image number two on day 14
ukrainian troops shot down or claimed to
have shot down another russian
helicopter close to the mikko live
region in south central ukraine on your
screens you can see the wrecked parts of
what appears to be an attack helicopter
which crashed in the field after being
hit by ukrainian ground forces using air
defense weaponry
big defining image number three on day
14 russia has wreaked havoc in the city
of sumi close to the russian border
horrifying footage of yet another
neighborhood laid to waste
a signal of the kind of destruction
that's escalating in this northern city
from where there was a humanitarian
corridor that was activated over the
last 48 hours from which hundreds of
indian students were also pulled up
defining image number four on day 14 the
aftermath footage of kiev's destruction
continuous heavy shelling has destroyed
the capital city in its suburbs you can
see shelled buildings damaged cars
bodies lying around life around the cave
has come to a standstill but the city
itself is standing tall no damage within
the city there was an air raid siren
just a few moments ago
defining image number five is what the
evacuation from one of the largest
suburbs of kiev irpin looks like from a
drone you can see a sea of people on
foot crossing a destroyed bridge to get
across the river and to leave their city
artillery and airstrikes have caused
heavy damage in and around airplane
india today has been reporting from the
ground here
defining image number six on day 14
appalling images from kharkiv which
continues to be the most damaged city in
ukraine at this time 40 kilometers from
the russian border it is ukraine's
second largest city
a metropolis that was once buzzing with
people now wears a deserted ghost-like
look buildings in many neighborhoods
targeted in heavy shelling cars and
property extensively damaged in this
part of kharkiv
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defining image number seven on day 14
russia continues its onslaught in
ukraine russian troops destroyed a
military dormitory in the jatomir region
just west about 50 kilometers from kiev
images show a shell building and
personnel or people trying to ascertain
the extent of the damage it is not known
just yet what kind of damage was caused
in terms of human life
dividing image number eight on day 14
footage shows ukrainian
a ukrainian group on a tractor pulling a
russian tank amidst snowfall you can see
a man on top of the tank and another one
driving the tractor
this video has been going viral on
social media
meanwhile defining image number nine on
day 14 heavy shelling continues between
russian and ukrainian troops in the
kharkiv region it's just 40 kilometers
from the russian border these images of
shelling and rocket fire lighting up the
night sky becoming one of the most
familiar images in different cities this
is from last night
in the skies over kharkiv according to
reports russian troops attacked a
residential area of kharkiv with heavy
artillery but this is a claim that's
been denied by the russians
defining image number 10 on day 14 as
russia continues to attack at least 11
different cities of ukraine 150 orphan
children mostly babies and toddlers from
la viv arrive at the censil station in
poland volunteers and police officers
are seen giving soft toys to kids as
they're carried from the station and
loaded onto buses towards an uncertain
future in foster care
russian anti-war protesters face a
police crackdown meanwhile on your
screens demonstrator being brutally
arrested during an anti-war protest in
saint petersburg the man was hit several
times by russian police after being
arrested and then taken away in a truck
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as ukraine fiercely continues to battle
russian forces this visual shows
ukrainian servicemen inspecting a
charred russian tank in the sumi region
of ukraine the same city from which over
700 indian students were extracted as
part of operation ganga yesterday
in the face of continuing and escalating
russian assaults members of the
territorial defense unit in cave
guard in odessa i beg your pardon have
guarded stood guard around the national
opera house in the city of odessa in the
south with sandbags and anti-tank
hedgehogs
defining image number 14 on day 14
dramatic images captured on india
today's cameras by our correspondent
didenko in the city of kharkiv footage
exclusive to us showing
what the ukrainians claim to be the
shoot down of a russian air force sukhoi
su-34 fighter bomber
this was on the outskirts of kharkiv
listen to the sounds
defining image number 15 on day 14
ukraine troops in no mood to give up on
your screens thermal imaging footage
from drones capturing what appears to be
a ukrainian attack on a russian
artillery position according to repair
to reports ukraine has managed to
extract quite a bit of damage on the
russian armored column so far
defining image number 16 on day 14
russian planes drop bombs uh on claimed
residential cities of sumi city in the
north leaving many including kids and
women dead and injured on your screen is
the aftermath of destruction that was
brought to bear 24 hours
defining image number 17 on day 14
ukrainian troops claimed to have shot
down another russian plane in the last
24 hours not far from the capital city
cave huge explosion as this aircraft
hits the ground and catches fire massive
plume of smoke from the wreckage as well
defining image number 18 on day 14 cctv
footage captures a russian attack on an
oil depot in the zhitomi region just
west of kiev the attack was followed by
a huge towering inferno as the oil depot
caught fire
similar images from another angle more
realistic not cctv images but captured
from someone who was close by the
zhitomir oil depot
a huge huge blaze that was seen for many
miles around lighting up that night sky
defining image number 20 on day 14
footage from the northern city of
shernihev
north of cave very close to the russian
border where russians are said to have
attacked another residential area
shelled buildings damaged vehicles
broken glass destruction all around
shernihev has been hit with a lot of
shelling in the last few days
defining image
number 21 on day 14 russia has stepped
up the shelling in residential areas of
cave as well we are given to understand
that many different places where this
kind of look with cars damaged a few
people can also be seen trying to
ascertain the extent of the damage in
one neighborhood after the other
russian troops also reportedly attacked
the residential area of bravari on the
outskirts of keep this image from
yesterday shows a church which has been
evidently struck there is no
confirmation of any casualties in this
particular attack just yet brovary is
just east of kiev and is a suburb
defining image number 23 on day 14 as
russian troops advance towards the
capital the nearby city of irpin has
faced a huge amount of heat these images
from india today's cameras yesterday
locals crossing a destroyed bridge as
they get out of their shattered city
defining image number 24 russian
nationals continue to bear the brunt of
the economic sanctions imposed by
several countries of the world these
images from the varadero airport in cuba
where almost 300 stranded russian
tourists were seen going through the
boarding bridge to fly back home the
number of companies exiting russia is
huge moscow citizens are feeling the
heat
big defining image number 25 on day 14
as russia continues the attacks on the
streets of ukraine drone footage shows
refugees fleeing ukraine from the port
of isakia in romania on a ferry like
barge
defining image number 26 on day 14 big
explosion in the separatist luhansk
region in the last 48 hours according to
reports an oil depot was gutted in
firing amidst heavy shelling from
russian forces
defining image number 27 on day 14
russia has also upped the offensive uh
yesterday with shelling battering a
residential building in the northern
city of kharkiv according to reports two
buildings have been destroyed in the
airstrike by russian troops
defining image number 28 on day 14
russian troops target a residential
building once again
a video has emerged in the aftermath of
that shelling in ukraine's second
largest metropolis you can see a
building on fire no confirmation just
yet on any casualties
defining image number 29 on this the
14th day horrific images of bodies of
civilians on the streets of kharkiv in
neighborhood after neighborhood on the
back of russian shelling in this
particular area russia continues to hold
that the military of ukraine is using
civilians as human shields
defining image number 30 on this the
two-week mark in this crisis ukrainian
troops claim to have shot down this
russian fighter jet this was captured on
india today's cameras on the outskirts
of kharkiv ukraine has so far claimed to
have brought down 45 russian
aircraft and helicopters since march the
5th
and we're continuing here on india today
even as the election season is on even
as we're getting you all the live
results to also focus very very
importantly on the ukraine war because
what you see on your screens there
viewers is the kind of death and
destruction that continues in this
country this world ravaged country in a
matter of 15 days there's been a chopper
that's been shot down again by ukraine
ukraine has said that they have now
targeted many more helicopters and also
russian jets besides that in sumi
there's been massive destruction uh as
shelling has in fact increased become
more aggressive in the last few days
keef you've got russian forces inching
closer and closer towards the capital
city particularly with a lot more
shelling and bombardment of neighboring
cities the likes of airplane where
locals you see there on this on your
screens how they're moving through a
broken bridge to get out of their cities
in car caves
these are cities again that have been
saying maximum fighting but what you
have to understand here is that while
russia is upping the ante ukraine is not
giving in either they're not budging
they're saying we'll fight with all that
we have against russia
hello and welcome to an india today's
special broadcast that comes to you from
the strife on ukrainian capital cave i'm
god of savant the situation in cave does
remain extremely tense there was
shelling that was reported in multiple
parts of this country we'll tell you
about that in greater detail during the
course of the hour in the day but for
now we will concentrate on air power and
the effective use of air power and air
defense
russia's attempts to have total air
supremacy and ukraine's efforts and
heroic efforts in places to ensure that
russia does not enjoy that air supremacy
denying the use of air power or at least
checking it as much as possible over the
course of the next half hour india
today's team of reporters
here in ukraine and our producers in
delhi will get you all the details on
this very crucial aspect but that big
story that's coming up is
the united states rejecting poland's
offer of the mig-29 air superiority
fighters now poland yesterday had said
late yesterday poland claimed that they
are willing to offer every operational
mig-29 fighter jet in the inventory of
poland's air force
and give it to ukraine but not directly
here's the catch
poland said they will have all these
mig-29 operational fleets of mig-29
positioned at the ramstein air base in
germany this is a crucial north atlantic
treaty organization air base in germany
it's used by the us air force and u.s
forces very extensively so they said
they'll fly all these aircraft to
germany
position all the fighters there and
ukraine can collect it from germany
point one point two the second catch
ukraine wanted uh poland wanted
corresponding u.s fighters with the same
ever the aircraft same shelf life and
whether it's the airframe engine or
avionics they should be ever these what
they said and they wanted with
corresponding lifespan so even if
they're second-hand aircraft they have
to have the corresponding lifespan
the united states has rejected that
offer the united states says this
requires more discussion with other
partners and this as the u.s put it was
completely untenable
this is the second time that the north
atlantic treaty organization the united
states poland they appear to have
let down let down ukraine and how
i quickly now want to cut across to
india today's executive editor shivaru
joining us for more on this big story
and shiv explains why poland's offer was
untenable as the u.s put it and why
poland has been let down for the second
time
the ukrainians including president
zielinski have said that we need a
no-fly zone or plan b is we need fighter
aircraft that our pilots can fly if not
yours and therefore please give them to
us as quickly as possible poland has
said that we'll give you these fighters
and we will send them to germany we
won't send them to poland but we will
send them to germany to the ramstein air
base it says it's up to they've put it
in the u.s hands they've said we'll send
these jets there it's up to the us to
send the jets to ukraine so there's
there's that uh caveat also the us says
the jet offer is untenable you're
sending them to us and we'll have to
send them uh you know so one of the nato
countries will be seen as indulging in
an act of war against russia the us is
unwilling to get drawn into this war
president biden has already made that
very clear but the us wants these nato
countries
over here you send your jets to ukraine
and help them out but we will not play a
part in this is being seen the reason
why we're saying this is shambolic is
because because
the this this is the second big betrayal
after nato has uh said that we will not
accede to this request from nato saying
please impose impose a no-fly zone over
over um over uh ukraine now the western
jet stunt is this is how it's playing
out in europe that is warsaw that is the
capital of poland that's where that's
the country in which all these mig-29
fighters are the reason why mig-29
fighters are important is because
ukraine also flies mig-29 fighters so
it's being seen as a commonality a
common platform that their pilots can
fly with very little uh you know uh
conversion training they want to send it
from warsaw to ramstein which is in
germany germany doesn't have a border
with uh with ukraine poland does
in ramstein though the plan the the sort
of skeletal plan is ukrainian pilots can
go there train on those aircraft and
those fly those aircraft to ukraine
because germany certainly doesn't want
to have any part of it the pentagon says
we cannot send polish jets to ukraine we
will not do that from ramstein because
that is
something that impacts the entire nato
alliance so it's a bit of a mess you've
got the west uh looking actually quite
silly right now because they there's
already a sense of betrayal in ukraine
right now now they're playing chinese
checkers with their jets as part of the
nato alliance but not actually
substantively sending any forces into
into ukraine it is understandable why
they don't want to do that but these
little moves between poland and germany
and nato and the us just shows that
there is no plan in place ukraine being
let down yet again by the north atlantic
treaty organization countries this offer
of poland was shambolic u.s says it's
untenable but poland
apart ukraine is desperately trying to
protect its its its skies its airspace
it shot a no-fly zone but that no-fly
zone very clearly is not possible but
how is ukraine defending itself ukraine
is using its air defense assets to the
fullest
today is day 14 of that war day 14 of
the war the air defense assets the
surface-to-air missiles the
surface-to-air batteries they remain
intact at least in some portions the
russian forces from day one have
systematically targeted 14 airfields and
those airfields continue to be targeted
even till late yesterday venetia was
targeted yesterday kharkiv was targeted
kirsten was targeted airfields are being
targeted across
ukraine there was a report that boris
bill airfield which is a civilian
airfield that too was targeted by
rockets late yesterday but
ukraine continues to strike and strike
at russian aircraft and these include
these include su-35s fighter bombers
these include su-27s these include
su-30s that is what ukraine has claimed
that they have down close to 100 fighter
jets attack helicopters and transport
helicopters off the russian armed forces
we bring you this report
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russia fiercely escalates air strikes on
ukraine
it is using its fighter jets to hit key
ukrainian cities
in the last 72 hours putin has unleashed
the fury of russia's hellbirds on kiev
and kharkiv
ukraine claims to have shot down a
sukhoi su-34 fighter bomber in kharkiv
on monday
they have released images of the debris
of a russian plane
completely destroyed and demolished
ukraine also claims it has shot down
more than seven russian war machines
in the last three days
including jets and mi-35 choppers
ukrainian authorities have shared
several images of pilots who they claim
are russians
now in their custody
russia is using its formidable air
superiority to control ukraine's skies
the most visible russian aircraft in the
ukraine war is the sukhoi su-25 a tough
soviet era bird that's taken on most
attack duties
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the mi 24 is also being used by the
russian forces
they are sturdy heavily armed and used
to support ground troops
the third russian aircraft seen in the
skies over ukraine is the sukhoi su-34
a supersonic medium-range fighter bomber
used for tactical strikes
su-34 have been in eastern and northern
ukraine
another russian attack helicopter on
combat duty is the kamau ka-52
these images of one such helicopter made
to force land went viral during the
early days of the invasion
several more are said to be flying
sorties on the northern border
the images coming from ukraine show
russia's plans are striking deeper
inside ukraine than earlier believed
these airstrikes could be the prelude to
the real battle for kiev
bureau report
india today
one of the most dramatic images in this
war is the shooting down of a me35
attack helicopter using a stinger
surface to air missile and that image
went viral worldwide that image is being
studied very closely by aviation experts
and analysts
in attack and defense mechanisms now
remember
whether it's the fighter jets or
helicopters they're armed with flares
and chaffs to divert the heat seeking
stinger missiles but the use of these
stinger missiles by the ukrainian
ground forces by the air defense
artillery by the air defense forces is a
study in itself take a look at this
report that went viral globally
perhaps the most dramatic footage in 10
days of russia's invasion of ukraine
cameras from a drone capturing a
low-flying russian me 35 attack
helicopter falling prey to a ukrainian
stinger missile
the chopper flying at low altitude to
avoid radars to avoid ice meets a
devastating end the stinger missile
supplied by nato with infrared homing
systems hitting the helicopter with
deadly accuracy
both germany and the united states have
been pumping in large numbers of stinger
missiles to the ukrainian military over
the last few weeks
in order to challenge
and shoot down russian air power
missile proving its worth in this video
the first of its kind released by the
ukrainian government
reported to be on the outskirts of
capital kiev showing the heavily armed
military helicopter of the russian armed
forces ending in a massive fireball and
a plume of smoke
a rapid and fiery end
to an attack helicopter crew that could
well have been on an attack mission
this mate 35 helicopter and when you
look at these images um it's it's a
young soldier who's actually running
behind that helicopter aims with his
surface-to-air man portable stinger
missile
fires and forgets and it goes and hits
the target it goes and hits the attack
helicopter and the hit attack helicopter
comes crashing down this shows how a
stinger can easily bring down a
low-flying fighter plane it can bring
down a
helicopter
as russian troops advance into several
parts of ukraine and encircle cities
images of the ukrainian residents have
been flooding social media
this time a russian jet apparently being
shot down in the northern city of
chernov
captured on camera by local residents
while they cheered as the jet was
brought down
it was later reported that the russian
pilot of the jet had been captured alive
while his co-pilot didn't survive
another russian plane was shot down in
the city of mikolive a dramatic video of
the plane's pilot being interrogated by
ukrainian forces has also surfaced
meanwhile ukrainian president volody
zelensky claims in a televised address
ukraine has captured wounded and killed
over 10 000 russian soldiers since the
start of the invasion
almost 10 000 russian soldiers killed
10 000.
there's plenty of fighting strikes uh
basically and every day of current
slowly ukraine uh again that's why
ukraine repeats its demand to close of
the sky for the russians russians are
using those planes to hit civilian
targets pedestrian districts uh
reality is this is battle that is raging
all over ukraine and russia using their
fr
advantage to push at the civilians like
in no time since the second world war
president putin meanwhile has blamed the
united kingdom for triggering the
military conflict
can ukraine successfully resist the
overwhelming and intensifying scale of
the invading force
with god of savant and rajesh pavaran
kiev bureau report india today
the use of air power by russia and the
denial of air power by ukraine that's a
study in fact aviation experts are
studying this across the world and the
russian air force they've unleashed
their best whether it's the su-35
fighter bombers state-of-the-art su-30s
or su-27s they have their fighter jets
raining hell from the skies now what are
putin's forces doing they're
systematically taking out with their
precision guided munition
strategic airfields air bases fuel dumps
ammunition depots and air defense assets
not just missile power but also air
power let me now get you more details
india today's shivaru gets us more
details on how russia is deploying its
air power
and how ukraine is denying the use of
skies or at least attempting to even
on day 14.
heart-stopping images of a russian
airstrike caught on camera
the first footage of an actual aerial
bombing in 11 days of a conflict that's
been represented largely by ground
attacks
but only an hour after the bombing of
european went out on india today this
stunning 32 second clip capturing a
russian attack helicopter being shot
down by a ukrainian shoulder-fired
missile exploded from the battlefield
north of kiev
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in the last 48 hours the air power
aspect has taken on a fearsome new
primacy
with aircraft much more visible and
claims of russian pilots taken captive
both ukraine and russia have been old
soviet aviation powerhouses and the war
has generated enormous interest in the
war birds both countries have deployed
over their blazing battlefields
the most visible russian aircraft in the
ukraine crisis
is the sukhoi su-25 a tough old soviet
era bird that's taken on most attack
duties
let me show you what these aircraft are
that are doing the bombing and that the
ukrainians claim that they've actually
shot down these are strikes very close
to keep the jet dropping the bombs is
called a sukhoi 25 it's a sukhoi su-25
it's a ground strike aircraft it is
designed for close air support to ground
forces and there are huge ground forces
of the russian army that's you know
outside on the outskirts of cave right
now these aircraft are designed and
capable of low altitude bombings that's
why you saw them captured so clearly on
mobile camera their weapons include
strike missiles
bombs rockets they've so far been used
in many many different operations around
the world including and most notably in
afghanistan syria iraq and sudan but of
course in many other operations
including in north africa as well
the most visible russian helicopter in
the war is the me 24
seen here being dramatically shot down
by a ukrainian shoulder-fired missile
these are sturdy heavily armed and
armored helicopters deployed to support
ground troops and destroyed tanks and
other ground targets the me 24's export
variant the me 35 is in service with the
indian air force 2.
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the third russian aircraft type seen in
the skies over ukraine is the sukhoi
su-34 a supersonic medium-range fighter
bomber used for tactical strikes in
contested airspace su-34s have been seen
in the air over eastern and north
ukraine
the other russian attack helicopter on
combat duties in ukraine is the cam of
ka52 these images of one such helicopter
made to force land went viral in the
early days of the invasion
several more are said to be flying
sorties in the northern border
also clearly visible in the skies over
ukraine are russian me-8 utility
helicopters captured here in this
airborne assault on the hospital air
base north of kiev in the early days of
the invasion
these workhorse helicopters are a
precursor to the mi 17 that india
currently operates
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ukraine has made the huge claim that its
air defense systems have shot down two
giant il-76 transport jets
though there has been no visual proof of
this
while the iconic russian 295 hasn't been
seen in the skies over ukraine or even
nearby the high flying propeller driven
aircraft has figured in the war of teams
between both sides with ukraine saying
its air defense forces have managed to
shoot down one of these giant airplanes
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as air power becomes more pronounced in
ukraine and as nato continues to refuse
ukraine's plea for the imposition of a
no-fly zone could air strikes define the
second week of putin's invasion
with rajesh pavara nirpin and god of
savant and gita mohan in
bureau report india today
this war between russia and ukraine is
also a litmus test for the
massive russian arsenal its weapons and
systems
and they might globally do keep in mind
india extensively uses russian equipment
be it the su-30 mkis of course that's an
indian version of the su-30 fighter jets
the mig-29s the attack helicopters the
transport helicopters me 35 uh me 24 the
mi 17s the me eights india extensively
uses russian
aircraft helicopters the s 400 state of
the art s 400 system that india has just
acquired despite american threat of
katsa or sanctions this was a deal worth
39 000 crore but that's not all india
employs
and uses russian equipment from the t90
tanks to t72 tanks to armored personal
carriers to infantry combat vehicles
and a lot more
but this war truly is a test for those
russian systems including air defense
systems take a look at this report
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as the russia ukraine crisis escalates
and as the shock waves are felt all
around the world one of those shock
waves is definitely here in india as
well it's a good time to remember that
the indian military happens to be one of
the largest users of soviet era and
russian weaponry and military hardware
and that's one of the reasons why amidst
everything that's happening with all the
unpredictability between russia and
ukraine the indian ministry of defense
has held a high level meeting to assess
the possible aftermath the possible risk
to india's arsenals as a result of this
war between russia and ukraine russian
equipment dominates every aspect of
india's war fighting arsenal across the
three services let's start with the
indian air force the newest equipment is
the s 400 triumph air defense missile
system then you've got a huge fleet of
su-30 mki fighters then there are the
mig-29 the upgraded mig-29 fighters
which are a mainstay in the indian air
force then you've got the old mig-21
fighter jets they've got a
controversial reputation but continue to
operate in large numbers
one of the biggest aircraft operated by
the indian air force is also a russian
origin the elusion il-76 fleet and the
similar il-78 which is india's mid-air
refuelling tanker fleet then you've got
the il-76 falcon airborne warning and
control system aircraft which are based
in agra utility helicopters are also
russian the me 17 helicopters very
visible very iconic they're the mainstay
the backbone of india's medium lift
helicopter fleet then you've got me 35
heavy assault helicopters also of
russian origin operated by india the me
26 heavy lift helicopters the biggest
helicopters in the world also in indian
service are from russia the brahmos
cruise missile is an indo-russian joint
venture much of the technology is from
russia
day 14 of this conflict and india
today's team camera person pawan kumar
india today is foreign and i will
continue to report from ground zero but
that is all we have time for on this
india today special broadcast from
ukraine many thanks for watching
we're continuing to get you all the
non-stop updates on the ukraine war yes
it's election season yes it's resulted
but we're not taking our focus away from
what's happening in ukraine it's day 15
of the war in ukraine and what we're
continuing to do is put out all the
images of the havoc and devastation
you've been with us here on india today
from day one of this conflict and 15
days down two weeks down what you see is
essentially the same picture that's
painted over and over again and that's
what we want to highlight by putting out
these images on your screens these
videos of the kind of destruction that's
caused on the ground how the common
civilian the innocent civilian right now
is facing the brunt of this war that's
been waged by russia in their soil
you're joining us live here on india
today's digicast i'm akshatan and the
gopal constantly getting you the live
updates coming in from ukraine god of
summon is going to be joining us in just
a few moments from now from kiev to get
you all the updates that you need to
know this is the 15th day now of the
conflict of the war in ukraine and i
want to begin by summing up all the big
developments of the day
ukrainian authorities have said that a
children's hospital in the ukrainian
city of mario paul was destroyed by
russian airstrikes on wednesday russian
occupy forces dropped several bombs not
one but several bombs on this children's
hospital leading to colossal destruction
european media reports stated that at
least 17 staff were wounded several
pregnant women several children babies
were also injured
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the united states condemned russia for
what they called a barbaric attack and
bombing of the children's hospital in
ukraine officials said that the russian
air strike buried patients in trouble
despite a ceasefire being called so that
people could flee the besieged city of
mario paul so ukraine is claiming that
the ceasefire also was violated by
russia
ukrainian president vladimir zelinsky
called to the west to impose even
tougher sanctions on russia after this
airstrike on the children's hospital in
mario paul wearing the traditional
wartime army green he said that the west
must strengthen sanctions russia no
longer has any possibility to continue
what he called a genocide
international atomic energy agency has
said that power has been entirely cut to
the chernobyl power plant site of the
world's worst nuclear disaster in 1986
and its security systems right now
they've added that no critical impact
has been reported on the safety of the
chernobyl power loss
ukrainian president zlensky signed a law
allowing civilians in ukraine to use
weapons against the russian military
it's valid for the entire period of the
martial law which was in fact put in
place just to the beginning when war was
first declared by russia
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ukrainian president zelinski has also
said that ukraine will try to evacuate
civilians through six humanitarian
corridors today from the capital city of
keep as well as from the cities of sumi
orphanage mario paul ezio ma and
balnavaca these are all cities where
you've seen maximum airstrikes being
reported
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british prime minister boris johnson
informed ukraine's president zelinski
that he was committed to further
tightening sanctions to impose maximum
economic costs on russia johnson
discussed the situation in ukraine on a
call with zelenski last evening where he
said that putin will be held accountable
for his terrible crimes
apple pay google pay and samsung pay
payment services are no longer available
in russia today in addition you've got
mastercard visa payment cards issued by
russian banks also which have stopped
working abroad and in online stores at
the end of the day the sanctions these
boycotts it's affecting every russian
white house press secretary jen sucky
has said that russian president vladimir
putin's troops may arrange a provocation
and be preparing to use chemical and
biological weapons while passing the
blame onto ukraine
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the european union meanwhile has said
that it was stepping up sanctions over
russia's invasion of ukraine including
targeting more russian individuals and
adding banks in moscow's ally belarus
the 27 nation block was blacklisting 160
more russian parliamentarians and
oligarchs it was also banning maritime
navigation technology to russia and also
a ban on crypto assets under its
punitive measures
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the big headline that's emerged from
ukraine today day 15 russia is upping
the aggression upping the air strikes
and hugely tragic images that are
emerging right now from the city of
mario pole which has been bombarded by
airstrikes from day one this is a
children's hospital that's been targeted
and make no doubt about this the entire
war has taken an even more brutal and
indiscriminate turn if that was even
possible ukrainian officials have said
that a russian air strike devastated a
children's hospital in the besieged port
city of mario paul at least 17 people
including staff and patients were
wounded the ground shook more than a
mile away when this complex was hit it
wasn't one strike it was a series of
blasts the windows were blown out into
bits and pieces
much of the front of one of the
buildings also ripped away and that
essentially gives you a sense of the
intensity of those blasts police and
soldiers immediately rushed to the scene
to evacuate victims carrying out a
heavily pregnant and bleeding woman on a
stretcher they were children who were
injured you see how in the courtyard
mangled cars remain there's a blast
crater extended that's at least two
stories deep mind you i want to
reiterate what you see on your screens
is from a hospital that was active that
was uh taking care and tending to
patients to mothers to pregnant women to
babies
and that's where this strike has
happened this is perhaps the lowest
point that we've reached
in this war president
zelinski of ukraine has taken to twitter
to put his reaction saying that there
were people children under the wreckage
of that hospital and called the strike
exactly what it is an atrocity
they want us to feel like animals
because they blocked our cities the
biggest cities in ukraine and they
blocked and and because they don't want
our our people to get some food water
yesterday for example children i don't
know if you if you know the children in
mariopol was
the child was dead
yes you know that that that is the idea
of
of this operation or or i don't know how
house putin's
telling about it we can't stop
alone
all this
only if
the world will unite
around ukraine around united around
ukraine they are not there still it's
still very slowly it's still very slowly
but you can feel it only when you are
here because the people from europe or
usa
it's far from ukraine it's far from the
heart of this tragedy and and you you
can't see you you can't understand the
details because you are not fighting
here and i understand why and i don't
want them to fight
but these countries can help can unite
because we can't speak about the close
i'm sorry that i'm speaking again and
again about this problem but we spoke
about children hospitals etc and you
know the the the the
number of this child that's and and
and
so
we are speaking about
closing the sky
you can't decide
to close or not to close
you can't decide if you are united
against the nazism and this terror you
have to close
not me don't wait me asking you several
times a lot million times close the sky
no you have to phone us
to our people who lost their children
and say sorry we didn't do it yesterday
one week ago we didn't
push
putin we didn't speak with him a lot we
didn't found
find the dialogue with him
we we we did nothing and it's true
yesterday
the world did nothing i'm sorry but it's
true
so that's the message from zelinski he's
calling out the world saying enough is
not being done here to stop russia
gaurav samantha is joining us live from
cave gaurav you know you've been getting
us constant updates we've seen very very
tragic images from where you are from
cave and from across ukraine but i think
you'd agree with me when i say that this
particular attack on a children's
hospital on a maternity hospital is
perhaps the lowest point we have reached
so far in this war it's heartbreaking to
see those women walking out with their
babies all of them injured because of
that airstrike
akshata there is shock there is despair
there is sadness across ukraine given
these images are now viral across this
country
about this attack on a maternity
hospital in mario pole these images have
stunned people in ukraine and perhaps
across the world and president zielinski
spoke to the international community is
reaching out to the international
community saying you need to help us
now you need to help you need it to have
helped us as on yesterday and not right
now when you're looking at this tragedy
of pregnant women bleeding women
bleeding children and the elderly being
carried out of a maternity hospital
you're broadcasting those images of
mangled remains of cars outside this
hospital and this is just one such in a
series of strikes that have taken place
and this at a time when president
zielinski says that there was ceasefire
the russians had declared ceasefire in
mario pole they declared ceasefire in
sumi and in kiev and in so many other
areas and attacks were taking place at
hospitals now you know we're still
waiting for a response from the russian
side on this if at all but the question
does remain that the human aspect of
this tragedy of this war is actually
mind numbing it's soul numbing the
manner in which
thousands and thousands and thousands
have been displaced in this country we
were at the railway station uh where
soldiers were coming to see off their
families because now kiev is actually
bracing for this
maybe the big assault if these talks do
not succeed between the foreign
ministers of ukraine and russia in case
things deteriorate so soldiers are also
now escorting their families out and
when you look at those trains
women and children inside the elderly
inside and the soldiers or the men
outside because they
by order have to stay back and defend
their country defend their city
it's heartbreaking to see tears on all
sides of this and can a diplomatic
solution still be found uh it it just
appears that
this perhaps maybe the last window of
opportunity if talks between the foreign
ministers work out as many here say let
there be an escalation in diplomatic
dialogue let president zilinski and
president putin have a dialogue and find
a middle path to avoid further bloodshed
akshata you know there are two images
that really stand out for me uh gaurav
uh that perhaps sums up how the
casualties of this war are innocent
civilians one of a heavily pregnant
woman being taken out on a stretcher you
can only imagine how much trauma she's
gone through and the second pictures of
a woman walking through the rubble she's
got a wound on her forehead she's
carrying a baby and she's looking into
the camera with such pain in her eyes
that it breaks your heart make no
mistake here that in a war this is the
price we pay that humanity pays a price
these images no doubt is going to scar
the entire world gaurav and right now
there are many reactions coming
condemning what's happened has there
been any statement from russia why did
they target a hospital that was tending
to patients
you know we're waiting for that official
word uh but so far at times it's being
said that there are systems or military
installations or military hardware not
far from whether it's schools or or
hospitals uh or other such buildings
including an elderly home uh now you
know in in the fog of war it's very
difficult to establish this of course
when we were in mario pole uh we did not
see any military hardware close to
civilian areas but several civilian
areas have been targeted we also did not
see military hardware uh close to
residential buildings when we were
reporting from kharkiv though we did see
a lot of military
infrastructure on roads moving towards
borders at that time but that was just
before the conflict had started uh here
uh in in kharkiv but if i were to come
back to mario pole in a moment mario
pole was always in the line of fire and
we were reporting very extensively for
several days um from mario paul because
donbass region was the first that that
was that even people in ukraine had
expected where russia would launch a
massive offensive with the aim to cut
off
not just donetsk and luhan's portions
that had been declared an independent
country but they portioned the 70
portion that had remained uh with
ukraine now their attempt was to cut off
the entire donbass region
and and that is why that attack was
anticipated it's come later than uh the
initial expectation but the fact remains
on ground it is a a war it is now a
full-fledged uh war which is
which is taking a huge cost on lives of
millions um
here uh in in ukraine and of course
across
when you see other images you know these
are images that are going viral but
every day there are images that are
viral on social media here that show the
you know dead soldiers in drains and
ditches and roadside um and and it's
it's actually very painful to see those
images and yet the conflict only appears
to be escalating or moving towards a
decisive phase
but then again akshita it is hoped that
the talks that are happening right now
between foreign ministers
of of ukraine and
russia
may result in
perhaps the conflict de-escalating and
if it if diplomacy is escalated to the
levels of presidents it remains to be
seen you know whether it will bring an
end to the bloodshed given the fact that
president zielinski at least has said
that he is not going to north atlantic
treaty organization on a bentley begging
for membership
of nato that was the principal demand of
russia he's also made some conciliatory
noises on the donbass region it remains
to be seen whether that will satisfy the
russian president vladimir putin or he
will go ahead to fulfill after this is
day 15 of this conflict takshita it
remains to be seen whether he will
fulfill his agenda which is
the regime change here in ukraine and
demilitarizing this nation what's very
clear is that what's happened right now
in mario paul should serve as a wake-up
call for both countries that somehow
they need to ensure uh that whatever
negotiations are happening work and this
kind of violence this kind of conflict
this war must quite simply end god have
requested you to stay on with me as we
get to those truly terrible and
heartbreaking images from mario paul i
want to show you also satellite images
that shows you the intensity of the
airstrike by russians in mario pole this
is a before and after comparison which
we've constantly been putting out for
you here on india today to establish how
much damage has been reported on the
ground perhaps these images show that
better than anything that we could
really explain to you of how much uh the
intensity of the blast the multiple
explosions the multiple strikes that
were reported in this area that has left
a full building complex there brought
down to nothing but rubble and debris in
the entire area two buildings separate
ones quite distance away both completely
damaged in this particular airstrike
russia has claimed all through that
we're only targeting military
installations which is why there are
questions now why they targeted a
children's hospital in that case and
this perhaps further bolsters ukraine's
claim that civilian settlements are
being targeted before i go back to
gaurav let's just get you this report of
what's happening in the capital city of
cave for the last many days we've been
telling you here in india today of how
russian troops are ranging closer and
closer to the capital they want to
capture what's being referred to as a
citadel of ukraine and he was bracing
for that final attack assault by russia
you've got tanks armored personnel
they've all been deployed at key
strategic locations gauru filed this
report earlier for us from key where he
spoke to soldiers who are preparing who
know full well that a russian attack now
is imminent
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russia is at the gates of kiev the
ukrainian capital readying for an
imminent russian attack
the defenders have deployed tanks and
armored personnel carriers at key
strategic locations to take on the
invaders
ukrainian soldiers in an exclusive
interview to india today revealed that a
few russian forces are already in the
capital city
how close are the russian forces to key
right now the russian forces they are in
kiev right now yesterday uh our friends
they saw
them in the forest eight eight
russian soldiers they already in kiev
soldiers with yes yes yes yes
ukrainian troops say that after smashing
kiev suburbs russian forces are
advancing from all directions
preparing for an all-out assault
we are expecting enemies from uh some
parts yeah and so of course they would
like to make a circle around kill
but so we are ready to meet him and so
our military forces they are very nice
in
protecting now really believed that they
will be met by our people with flowers
but they we meet them
with bullets only
even as the war rages on the ground
moscow is bringing the heat down
diplomatically
vladimir putin's administration has said
kremlin is not trying to overthrow the
ukraine government
now ukrainian president vladimir
zelinsky too made a climb down
zelinski says he is no longer pressing
for nato membership
which is the biggest provocation for the
russian invasion
in another statement aimed at placating
moscow
zelensky has said he is open to a
compromise on the status of the two
breakaway pro-russian territories
done and lewansk
the climb down comes ahead of talks
between russia and ukraine in turkey on
thursday
this appears to be
new lines being dug new front lines here
in this battle for the defense of keeps
so far these this war this conflict was
being fought in
in bucha or irpin on the outskirts but
now it appears that the battle is coming
much closer if talks do not succeed
to bring peace to bring about a
negotiated settlement then russia's big
assault on kiev could begin
and this could happen as early as the
next 24 to 48 hours with cameraman pawan
kumar in cave ukraine god of 7th for
india today back across to gaurav
savanth who's been constantly getting us
updates from the ground from the capital
of cave because god of the moment he
falls that means that russia has managed
to complete the mission that they want
which is to put a government uh and an
establishment that's kremlin friendly uh
we've been hearing for the last many
days that a russian attack is imminent
do you see that on the ground do you
feel that your tensions are heightened
there's a lot more security out there
last 24 hours yes last 24 hours there
has been an immense change on ground and
this change is very visible there are
new defenses that have been uh that have
been made uh and these defenses are much
closer uh to cave earlier this fight was
in bucharest and that is also when it
was coming closer uh and this is day 15
of conflict so day 15 of conflict uh you
see fresh uh dugouts coming up inside
cave you see a lot of movement of
military hardware
including armored personal carriers uh
and anti-tank equipment uh
and anti-tank guided missiles and
surface-to-air missiles uh both tracked
and wheeled coming inside keeve for the
protection so this would indicate that
this the cordon that was earlier outside
is now it's now shrinking and this
indicates that tension is rising and
this is just one of the indicators on
the faces of soldiers you know 15 days
ago and now we've been interacting with
some of them virtually every other day
um in some of these areas
their their their faces are are harder
their expressions are stunned uh and
when they talk to you uh it's it's more
as if the attack is going to happen
anytime and they are receiving a lot of
intelligence inputs there are a lot of
intelligence inputs that are being
shared through satellite imagery um and
and elsewhere from from nato countries
with the army here and that seems to
indicate that that things are
changing
there is hope that conversation will
continue the dialogue will continue and
the dialogue will lead to uh some kind
of a negotiated settlement but things
like these huge attacks that are taking
place for example in mario pole or uh
airfields being targeted or air defense
assets being targeted does indicate that
russia is moving according to a plan and
their plan and this is day 15 of their
plan if they'd expected uh that you know
the moment they amass
their armed forces the moment they bring
in their fighter jets and and just fly a
couple of sorties ukraine will surrender
that did not happen ukraine has fought
and fought hard uh and for 15 days and
counting how long will it continue to
fight given the fact that uh poland also
said that it will place its fighter jets
in germany and ukraine can pick them up
from germany and and united states
saying that's untenable that's an
indication that the west is offering
help but does not want to antagonize
russia beyond the point so defensive
weapons like anti-tank guided missiles
and surface-to-air missiles and small
arms and grenade launchers all of that
will continue to be given but not
offensive weapons not fighter jets uh
because they're dithering on that um u.s
vice president kamla harris of course
now flies into
poland and you know
talks about taking this this cooperation
forward what form and shape does that
take we'll only know ahead
what form and shape uh does the
situation take after this dialogue
between uh
russia and
uh and ukraine in turkey will only know
ahead but as of now keeve is bracing for
that imminent attack
uh gaurav i i want to tell our viewers
what's happened in the last 24 hours
it's day 15 of the war and what we're
seeing as gaurav is saying that in kiev
it's a there's clearly a mood on the
ground that they know that this massive
assault is coming their way but it's
across ukraine right now that things are
going from bad to us in kharkiv which
has witnessed so much of our violence
and bloodshed in the last few days a
shopping center was completely destroyed
it collapsed while rescue operations
continued uh a factory and a store were
on a raging fire after being bombarded
this is in airplane which is very close
to heave it's on the outskirts russia
has been trying to capture the city and
then enter into the capital city of kiev
we've been getting you also all those
updates from mario paul where there's
been the horrifying hospital attack in
which at least 17 reportedly are injured
several are still feared missing rescue
operations are happening right now at
that point uh now what we can also tell
you is that uh european media claims
that there's a fight back like no other
by ukraine that they've wiped out four
russian su-25 aircraft two helicopters
two cruise missiles in heave and the
joint force operation regions
more than 50 000 people from sumi so far
have been evacuated because this city
has been ravaged by russian strikes in
the last 48 hours zelensky the ukrainian
president has said that 35 000 people
have been rescued through humanitarian
corridors and that five more
humanitarian corridors will be opened
this will be from the city of cave where
gaurav has been reporting from sumi from
enerodar and from three other cities
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for the last 15 days here on india today
we've been ensuring that we get your
facts not from usa but from the ground
and while gaurav has been getting us all
those updates gita mohan also has been
traveling through heaven other parts of
ukraine here's an exclusive report that
she filed for us from a bomb shelter in
cave due to security reasons there were
no lights inside the bunker but watch
this report you can hear gita describe
exactly what's around her
it's dark and for security reasons
lights have not been turned on
they're working under a lamp to register
everybody because now the building
lights will not be turned on only the
lights that are inside which cannot be
visible and surely the lights in the
shelter
everyone who's moved to these shelters
to these bombers to ensure they're safe
and these are little children families
they have to sit in pitch darkness while
in fact the shelling reports continue to
come in there is on ground uh a fight
back that ukraine is planning against
russian troops they're saying we will
not allow them to step foot in cave goro
savan spoke to a ukrainian soldier this
is a very very interesting report
because this soldier andre is a lord
krishna devotee who chants hare krishna
as he prepares to defend his motherland
it's snowing in kiev it's biting cold
and we have andre here uh with his
weapon with his team
protecting his city from a russian
attack an imminent russian attack and
andre has an india connection andrei
chants
uh shri krishna bhajans and and strokes
to give him strength and what do you
chant for strength
where did you learn this andre
well about 25 years ago i meet the
krishna movement in the year
and i started reading the books mostly
reading books
visiting
los angeles also
in the center
and i was so so pleased to hear this so
andre you were telling me what did
lord krishna tell arjuna what did he
tell him well he told him
to lose well i i know it's in russian
but in english
it's
it's my translation so
don't don't be afraid just
do whatever you have to do just fight
under arjuna you don't die
souls not die
and does that give you strength yeah
for speaking to us here at india today
many thanks andre i see
you go to heaven if you win
you live on earth as beautiful as heaven
therefore oh son of kunti arjun
take a firm resolve and fight
for joining me here on india today andre
many thanks and namaste namaste
and you can catch such unique reports
from ground zero right here only on
india today let's talk about the action
that other countries have taken against
russia largely sanctions what many have
called an economic war the unprecedented
sanctions against russia's banks over
the invasion of ukraine is taking a toll
on its citizens overseas as well they've
been left scrambling to find cash or
even turn to crypto transactions now to
get by away from the destruction and
death in ukraine russians are feeling
the heat of war from all sides they're
paying the price for putin's decision
when constantine ivanov tried to
withdraw money from his russian bank
account at a cash machine in bali he
quickly realized the transaction was
blocked the 27 year old is one of the
russians abroad feeling the squeeze from
economic sanctions despite living far
away from home
this has created a huge problem for us
basically going to shops to buy products
to pay at the markets paying for staying
at hotels villas or guest houses we have
been left completely stripped of our
finances
it's like they have been completely
frozen and we cannot use our finances at
all over here
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bali is a popular holiday destination
with russian tourists more than 1100
entered indonesia in january according
to data from the statistics bureau
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is a cafe manager he says there's been a
decline in russian customers in recent
days and many now pay with cash instead
of credit card mastercard and visa have
suspended services in russia and many of
the country's banks have been shut out
of international payment systems now
some russians have sought to open bank
accounts in indonesia like ruslan he
says the russian community is banding
together to help each other out
i heard from my russian friends about
their financial troubles
but you know how it is with us russians
we help each other
i have a local bank account and i will
help my friends as they help me too with
their money i will send my money to
their bank and so we russians will help
each other as we are now the only ones
left
we have no one else to help but
ourselves
despite the financial troubles
constantine is hopeful for a peaceful
resolution to the conflict
i think ordinary russian people are very
disappointed with the recent events and
developments
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nobody wanted this war we are really
worried nobody wants war we all need
peace
now a big announcement that was made by
u.s president joe biden was the banning
of russian oil imports to us oil prices
thereby for obvious reasons has gone up
dramatically supply has also taken a
massive hit britain has claimed that
it's going to follow suit after united
states to phase out russian oil by the
end of this year have no doubt in your
mind that this kind of a step is not
affecting just russia but the entire
world
oil prices headed higher again on
wednesday that after the us moved to ban
russian imports
international benchmark brent crude hit
highs above 130 dollars per barrel in
early european trade
the uk also said it would phase out
russian imports by the end of the year
but it could be a different story for
the eu
robert yoga is an energy futures
strategist at mizuho
here in the united states i mean we
we've imported 200 000 barrels a day so
we can definitely exist without that
it's a spit in the bucket the eurozone
we're talking percentage points double
digits so it's a totally different game
european stock markets meanwhile saw a
sharp rebound in early trade the
regional stock 600 index rose around
three percent from the open hard-hit
banks travel stocks and automakers all
jumped four percent or more
investors picked up shares hammered by
the recent market sell-off but one
analyst told reuters there was little
sign of a change in sentiment
earlier in asia stocks fell again with
the shanghai composite index down more
than one percent
but the big falls of previous days were
avoided one trader said markets had
russia fatigue with all the bad news now
priced in
so yes you're seeing sanctions being
imposed by countries but nothing beyond
that and in what seems to be another
betrayal for zelensky and ukraine the
united states rejected poland's proposal
to send fighter jets to ukraine via nato
bases in germany poland wanted to send
jets to germany and thereby put the
owners of the united states to deploy
them which is why many are saying that
this is also a sham by poland that
instead of sending it directly to
ukraine they're putting the onus on nato
over two weeks of relentless attacks by
russia
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multiple ukrainian appeals to nato for
help
mt promises for ukraine
we're in this together we will succeed
together
ukraine is going to prevail
but zillenski is all alone in this war
and now the west has pulled a new stunt
over hapless kiev over sending fighter
jets to take out advancing russian army
nato member poland did a symbolic offer
to send mig-29s to support ukraine's air
defense but with a massive catch
warso said it will merely send its jets
to nato air base and germany's ramstein
putting the owners on the u.s to send
the jets to ukraine
the proposal faced a categorical
rejection pentagon wary of getting drawn
into the war called the offer untenable
adding that deploying jets from nato
base to ukrainian airspace will be an
act of direct conflict and raise serious
concerns for the entire military
alliance
there's already a sense of betrayal in
ukraine right now now they're playing
chinese checkers with their jets as part
of the nato alliance but not actually
substantively sending any forces into
into ukraine it is understandable why
they don't want to do that but these
little moves between poland and germany
and nato and the us just shows that
there is no plan in place
this essentially means zilenski and
ukraine are left to fend for themselves
against putin's army with no help what
coming from the west
they are attacking civilians and attacks
against civilians cannot be left
unresponded for too long that is why i
expect the government of the nato
countries yes to be reacting
in the nearest future
this is not the first time zilensky is
facing betrayal from the west a week ago
nato rejected zylenski's fervent appeal
to enforce a no-fly zone on ukraine's
skies
today the leadership of the alliance
gave the green light for further bombing
of ukrainian cities and villages having
refused to set up a no-fly zone
could the nato and west avert the
massive human suffering and
unprecedented destruction of ukraine are
they simply wilted in the face of
putin's unprecedented show of strength
bureau report india today
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let's get you an update from the city of
sumi where the focus right now is on
evacuation because of massive airstrikes
that have been reported in the city
50 000 people have been evacuated from
sumi in the last two days what about the
indian students who were in sumi
successfully they've been moved out of
ukraine they've now reached poland where
they're currently at a camp and then
they're going to be flown back to india
the last leg of operation ganga thereby
has been declared a success because
you've now got those 700 odd students
who are stranded in sumi brought back
they're out of ukraine they're currently
in poland as was planned and they will
be flying back to india perhaps today or
early tomorrow morning huge huge
successful operation this evacuation
mission that was challenging but we've
pulled it off and now they will be home
very soon in all 50 000 people have been
evacuated from sumi
so this is the breaking news that's
coming in right now the focus is on
evacuation the ukraine president has
also highlighted how they're looking at
setting up more humanitarian corridors
to ensure civilians can leave as far as
india is concerned we've been focusing
largely on the indian students medical
students who were stranded in sumi for
the last many days a very very
challenging operation this that was
balanced out by diplomacy it's resulted
in india managing to pull out these
students from extremely dangerous
situation from an extremely precarious
situation uh first they provided bosses
to them in sumi took them to portova
took them to western ukraine which was
considered to be safer they were in la
vie for some time from there they were
taken to poland right now they are in
poland and from there they'll be taking
uh brought back to india on a flight and
that will be essentially the last leg of
operation ganga as the government called
their evacuation mission that's playing
out in ukraine so we will of course be
tracking the latest reactions that come
in these students have been putting out
one appeal after another saying we need
help that's what prompted in fact the
authorities to take note we saw multiple
conversations between prime minister
modi russian president vladimir putin
the ukrainian president vladimir
zelinsky as well that ensured this could
happen that the students were brought
back to safety
50 000 people in fact have been
evacuated from sumi in the last two days
uh out of which include this includes
the indian students who've been brought
out by our buses from the conflict zone
sumi's been seeing massive airstrikes
there have been images that have emerged
of how uh you know residential buildings
have completely been destroyed which is
why they were there was a lot of concern
a lot of worry for indian students who
are stuck in their hostel of the college
for the last many days running out of
supplies with no help whatsoever and
they couldn't step out of their hostel
either
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let's right now at least cut across uh
to ukraine where yulia is joining us
with olesia only a member of ukraine's
territorial army uh we also have uh
joining us uh mariana with sweat lana
who is also a member of ukraine's
territorial army i just want to show you
uh you know pictures of both
all of them together with their arms uh
you know it's one of the coolest images
i would reckon that you would see uh as
this award ensues julia
will you talk to us a bit about your
weapon and are you prepared right now to
fight it out when your country asks of
you
two weeks ago we
weren't ready
for this and we didn't know how to use a
weapon but
this time we are
learning how to do that and if we
will need to use
our gun we can do it right now
julia will you take us through your
training and can you tell our viewers
who don't know much about you where were
you exactly two weeks before where this
war started what was your understanding
of war of weapons and how has it changed
two weeks from then
two weeks two weeks ago i was a teacher
at a school and i
have never
took taken
weapon in my hand
and
these two weeks was really terrible it's
like a
nightmare
um
but now we are in another reality and
and now we
we know how to use our gun we prepared
to
big fights for the kiev
julia you know you were what were you
teaching
you said you were a teacher what were
your teeth yes i'm a teacher of
ukrainian language and literature
ukrainian language and literature and
who were you teaching what was your age
group of the kids that you were teaching
uh from 10 to 16 years
10 to 16 years
julia i'm sure it's it's deeply personal
but what was your reason and i'm sure
it's this great love for your country
and the freedom of your country that
made you take to arms but what went
through in the mind of a teacher who
decided that she's not going to flee
she's not going to leave the country
she's not going to go to poland but
she's going to stick in ukraine and
she's going to pick up the gun
yes because i can't stay at home right
now and i want to be
um i wanted to help my army my
uh
my land my city and i
try to do everything as i can
and
i don't want that my students my family
don't know what is freedom and i don't
want that live in a country like russia
that's why i
took gun in my hand i'm really scared we
all really scared but we know that's the
only way for us
only one way for us you know
julia stay with me i'm going to come
right back to you i'm going to ask you
about your training process but i want
to cut across to mariana she's also with
you right now mariana can you hear me
yes
all right uh can we see you mariana in
the frame
can we see you can you raise your hand
for us
great hi hi hi mariana hi uh
mariana can you tell us you know it's
fascinating you know
to see all of you women and i think it's
a it's a great privilege uh to be able
to interview all of you women because uh
julia just told us she was a teacher
would you tell us your story two weeks
ago who was mariana who has a gun in her
hand today
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and city mario
and
you are a journalist
yes yes i'm jordan's made mariana
pick up the gun to fight for ukraine
i decided
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i
made you to protect our muslims
and
idea
i saw that the war
right started
you couldn't stay at home you had to
pick up the gun
uh julia you know um because i know
language is a barrier there are many of
these young women behind you will you
help us understand who they are what was
their story uh you know we see three
young women behind you we know you were
a teacher we know maria was a journalist
what about the others can you tell us
their story yeah
uh it's leslie she was a photographer
and it's olam she was a
fighter
fighter and musician
and this is svetlana she
she's murky tallock
and um
we
never
knew how to use the gun in our previous
previous life well you know i'm sure you
know a writer a musician a teacher a
journalist uh you know it's uh
i i you know one can only salute your
spirit all of you i want to ask you
julia for all of you who've come from
very different backgrounds never thought
you would ever take the gun but i want
to ask you what has been the training
process have you been trained in actual
warfare now are you a trained soldier
uh
i'm not sure that we are really soldier
right now because we had
two weeks and it's too
early it's not too it's not enough to
prepare to the war and learn how to use
the gun but every day we had we had
train we
uh trained to
shoot we trained to
have different pose how to shoot
and it's a bit at this moment that's all
but um i hope we will have enough time
in the future to
uh to learn more about that
okay i i understand um i can i can i can
try to translate something through
great from alexa's story will you ask
her julia what was her reason that she
decided not to leave like many other
women in your country but to stay behind
who can do it if it's not would we
well that's a that's a very very strong
statement who can do it if not you
well you know and it's very very
touching julia i want to ask you because
so much is said about you know women uh
especially at the time of war but you
girls you women chose to stay right back
in ukraine i want to ask you how
difficult was it to leave your families
do most of you have children
some of us has
children
i
don't have children but i have a big
family my
parents sisters and say
in another place now it's i hope safe
place
but
for all of us it was really
difficult choice
but we want to protect our families
and we don't want to
we don't want that
see what is war
we want to protect them
are your families and you know it's uh
if i can say it's a very stupid question
to ask but i'm going to ask it anyway uh
are your families very worried about you
are they talking to you are they asking
you to come join them
yes of course first time they
told me that i should be with their safe
place at home but
now they understand why i'm here
and
i know that it's really difficult and
hard for them for me
but
but who
uh who can
be there
if it
wasn't
we
you know i think if i have to take one
line from this conversation is who else
if not uh we uh you know because so many
of us will always look at somebody else
it's uh it's amazing that you all of you
very very brave women have looked at
yourselves can you ask your companions
how was it leaving their children how is
it leaving their family members because
the uncertainty of war is so strong you
know you never know what happens
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we here to protect them and that's why
we're here we want to protect them from
the war from the russia from the protein
and
that's why we're here
the first day when
was started we go to the
uh
military base to the military base and
we
didn't know that we couldn't back
at home at that day and
alessa has birds
and she was really scared about them and
in a few days we can put them to our
military base and know that they um at
the same place in our friend's home
well you know you must tell alessia that
uh you know we i we salute her spirit to
leave your young children uh to salute
your spirit julia and all of your
companions who've left your families and
you've come here you know to fight for
your country
are you it's are you going to be now
facing the enemy or are you waiting
right now is it possible that any time
you would be deployed in action
i'm here to
to fight
to the last meters of our land
and uh if i
need maybe
kill kill someone i'm not sure that i
can do that but i hope and
i really want to
came back to our
our previous life our our
safe life
but i will be here to the
last stage the last minute
uh
to the to the that time where ukrainian
was will free and
without
any russian soldiers at our land
have all of you i'm sure at least that
you know that training would have been
given to you imparted to you but have
all of you now understood learnt how to
fire your weapons
yes
at this moment we know how to use our
weapons
can i ask you
you know with your permission can we
always
we had to
learn that you had to learn that can i
ask you with your permission very
quickly
can you show us your weapons
yes first
our weapons
can you tell me each one of you what
your weapons you know i love the smiles
we i
it's it gives us a lot of heart back
here to watch you know all of you
smiling with your weapons what's your
weapon julia
uh what what his weapon is
74 and that's my
nickname
oh you've got a nickname what's your
nickname julia
hi
what does it mean can you tell us it's
from yeah it's from cartoon chippendale
[Laughter]
so it's from chippendale right
yeah it's a red girl
ukrainian it sounds like
can you tell us all the nicknames of
your other colleagues
yes it's fatima
stroona
nickname of olessa is because she
in the mask
all the time because of pandemia
and that's why she's
awesome she's the only person uh it's a
big building
state in damascus
all right okay uh you know i'm gonna i'm
gonna let you girls go and you women go
but i'm gonna ask you julia what is your
message
because you know you you wear the
bravery so easily all of you uh you know
you're talking about fighting for your
country not many do what you're doing uh
it's it's abject bravery it takes all
heart to do what you're doing and you
know what i am witnessing as a
journalist right here on the other side
is how easily you girls and your women
are wearing uh you know this abject you
know bravery the strength that you have
i want to ask you what's your message to
the world right now to those who are
watching you julia go first and you can
ask your uh you know your friends later
at this moment we
uh we need help from all the world you
need
say to the russia to the pudding to stop
because
now they're at the our land and
today it can be another country and we
we have a lot of pain just now because
russian soldiers killed a lot of
children in ukraine a lot of
other people they ruined our buildings
our house our homes and
world please uh don't think that
uh putin will stop in the ukraine you
can be the next one that's why go to the
your streets uh outside and say to the
russia staff we need your help and at
this moment we need
money because um
a lot of our soldiers didn't have uh
what to wear they didn't have uniform
and if you can't help us with this we
will be very appreciative
uh we we can
send you
link on the page where uh when where you
can help us with it you know
we'd like to get that link sent
please don't
be silent you should to say to the putin
to the russian soldiers say we don't
want to see there at our land at your
land
please don't be silent
julia before i let you women go i'm
going to ask you once again you know
because this is a short
you know which which gives a lot of
strength to a lot of people who are
watching you in your country and even
outside uh to see the kind uh you know
this kind of visual i'm going to let you
go but i want to see your weapons once
again and i want to see you all smiling
and i wish you strength i wish you
fortitude and i wish you so so much luck
may god be with you and i really really
pray and hope that i'm able to talk to
each one of you again when this war is
over and it will be over
can i see your weapons once again as
you know
thank you for doing thank you for doing
this for us and i am sure your country
is so so so proud
and and and i'll speak to you all four
of you again i will speak to all four of
you again may god be with you lots of
strength lots of luck thank you
and we'll continue getting you more such
conversations here on india today i want
to put out now the images that we've
been getting from day one of the war to
now day 15. so for two weeks now over
two weeks we've been seeing havoc and
devastation play out on the streets of
ukraine this is what the russian
invasion looks like right now endless
bombing endless shelling that's being
reported in several of the biggest
cities of ukraine from day one to day 15
it's essentially been the same story for
the people of ukraine where they've been
forced to flee from their homes they've
been forced to leave all of their
belongings and get to safety many of
them choosing to also put up a fight
back like no other like nothing the
world expected against russia
perhaps the images tell you exactly
what's happening better than any other
update that we get you on ukraine and
this one that's why shivaru now gets you
all of the latest truly haunting images
that have emerged from ukraine
india today has been relentlessly
getting you every latest defining image
right from the beginning 14 days ago
to two weeks later and where things are
at with this huge expanding military
operation that has been called the
invasion of ukraine the word invasion
has been criminalized in russia here are
those defining
images defining image number one after a
deadly clash
ukrainian troops are reported to have
seized this russian tank you can see on
your screen a ukrainian
tank or an armored personnel carrier
throwing away a russian tank in an
unidentified
war zone in ukraine
big defining image number two on day 14
ukrainian troops shot down or claimed to
have shot down another russian
helicopter close to the mikko live
region in south central ukraine on your
screens you can see the wrecked parts of
what appears to be an attack helicopter
which crashed in the field after being
hit by ukrainian ground forces using air
defense weaponry
big defining image number three on day
14 russia has wreaked havoc in the city
of sumi close to the russian border
horrifying footage of yet another
neighborhood laid to waste a signal of
the kind of destruction that's
escalating in this northern city from
where there was a humanitarian corridor
that was activated over the last 48
hours from which hundreds of indian
students were also pulled up
defining image number four on day 14 the
aftermath footage of kiev's destruction
continuous heavy shelling has destroyed
the capital city in its suburbs you can
see shelled buildings damaged cars
bodies lying around life around the cave
has come to a standstill but the city
itself is standing tall no damage within
the city there was an aid siren just a
few moments ago
defining image number five is what the
evacuation from one of the largest
suburbs off cave earpin looks like from
a drone you can see a sea of people on
foot crossing a destroyed bridge to get
across the river and to leave their city
artillery and airstrikes have caused
heavy damage in and around airplane
india today has been reporting from the
ground here
defining image number six on day 14
appalling images from kharkiv which
continues to be the most damaged city in
ukraine at this time 40 kilometers from
the russian border it is ukraine's
second largest city
a metropolis that was once buzzing with
people now wears a deserted ghost-like
look buildings in many neighborhoods
targeted in heavy shelling cars and
property extensively damaged in this
part of khakis
defining image number seven on day 14
russia continues its onslaught in
ukraine russian troops destroyed a
military dormitory in the zhitomi region
just west about 50 kilometers from keep
images show a shell building and
personnel or people trying to ascertain
the extent of the damage it is not known
just yet what kind of damage was caused
in terms of human life
dividing image number eight on day 14
footage shows ukrainian
a ukrainian group on a tractor pulling a
russian tank amidst snowfall you can see
a man on top of the tank and another one
driving the tractor
this video has been going viral on
social media
meanwhile defining image number nine on
day 14 heavy shelling continues between
russian and ukrainian troops in the
kharkiv region it's just 40 kilometers
from the russian border these images of
shelling and rocket fire lighting up the
night sky becoming one of the most
familiar images in different cities this
is from last night
in the skies over kharkiv according to
reports russian troops attacked a
residential area of kharkiv with heavy
artillery but this is a claim that's
been denied by the russians
defining image number 10 on day 14 as
russia continues to attack at least 11
different cities of ukraine 150 often
children mostly babies and toddlers from
leve arrive at the censil station in
poland volunteers and police officers
are seen giving soft toys to kids as
they're carried from the station and
loaded onto buses towards an uncertain
future in foster care
russian anti-war protesters face a
police crackdown meanwhile on your
screens demonstrator being brutally
arrested during an anti-war protest in
saint petersburg the man was hit several
times
by russian police after being arrested
and then taken away in a truck
as ukraine fiercely continues to battle
russian forces this visual shows
ukrainian servicemen inspecting a
charred russian tank in the sumi region
of ukraine the same city from which over
700 indian students were extracted as
part of operation ganga yesterday
in the face of continuing and escalating
russian assaults members of the
territorial defense unit in cave have
gone in in odessa i beg your pardon have
guarded stood guard around the national
opera house in the city of odessa in the
south with sandbags and anti-tank
hedgehogs
defining image number 14 on day 14
dramatic images captured on india
today's cameras by our correspondent
ehor didenko in the city of kharkiv
footage exclusive to us showing
what the ukrainians claim to be the
shootdown of a russian air force sukhoi
su-34 fighter bomber
this was on the outskirts of kharkiv
listen to the sounds
defining image number 15 on day 14
ukraine troops in no mood to give up on
your screens thermal imaging footage
from drones capturing what appears to be
a ukrainian attack on a russian
artillery position according to repair
to reports ukraine has managed to
extract quite a bit of damage on the
russian armored column so far
defining image number 16 on day 14
russian planes dropped bombs
on claimed residential cities of sumi
city in the north leaving many including
kids and women dead and injured on your
screen is the aftermath of destruction
that was brought to bear
24 hours
defining image number 17 on day 14
ukrainian troops claimed to have shot
down another russian plane in the last
24 hours not far from the capital city
cave huge explosion as this aircraft
hits the ground and catches fire massive
plume of smoke from the wreckage as well
defining image number eighteen on day
fourteen cctv footage captures a russian
attack on an oil depot in the zhitomi
region just west of kiev the attack was
followed by a huge towering inferno as
the oil depot caught fire
similar images from another angle more
realistic not cctv images but captured
from someone who was close by the
jatomir oil depot
a huge huge blaze that was seen for many
miles around lighting up that night sky
defining image number 20 on day 14
footage from the northern city of
shernihev uh north of cave very close to
the russian border where russians are
said to have attacked another
residential area shelled buildings
damaged vehicles broken glass
destruction all around chernyhev has
been hit with a lot of shelling in the
last few days
defining image
number 21 on day 14 russia has stepped
up the shelling in residential areas of
kharkiv as well we are given to
understand that many different places
where this kind of look with cars
damaged a few people can also be seen
trying to ascertain the extent of the
damage in one neighborhood after the
other
russian troops also reportedly attacked
the residential area of bravari on the
outskirts of keep this image from
yesterday shows a church which has been
uh evidently struck there is no
confirmation of any casualties in this
particular attack just yet brobari is
just east of kiev and is a suburb
defining image number 23 on day 14 as
russian troops advanced towards the
capital the nearby city of irpin has
faced a huge amount of heat these images
from india today's cameras yesterday
locals crossing a destroyed bridge as
they get out of their shattered city
defining image number 24 russian
nationals continue to bear the brunt of
the economic sanctions imposed by
several countries of the world these
images from the varadero airport in cuba
where almost 300 stranded russian
tourists were seen going through the
boarding bridge to fly back home the
number of companies exiting russia is
huge moscow citizens are feeling the
heat
big defining image number 25 on day 14
as russia continues the attacks on the
streets of ukraine drone footage shows
refugees fleeing ukraine from the port
of isakia in romania on a ferry like
barge
defining image number 26 on day 14 big
explosion in the separatist luhansk
region in the last 48 hours according to
reports an oil depot was gutted in
firing amidst heavy shelling from
russian forces
defining image number 27 on day 14
russia has also upped the offensive uh
yesterday with shelling battering a
residential building in the northern
city of kharkiv according to reports two
buildings have been destroyed in the
airstrike by russian troops
defining image number 28 on day 14
russian troops target a residential
building once again
a video has emerged in the aftermath of
that shelling in ukraine's second
largest metropolis you can see a
building on fire no confirmation just
yet on any casualties
defining image number 29 on this the
14th day horrific images of bodies of
civilians on the streets of kharkiv in
neighborhood after neighborhood on the
back of russian shelling in this
particular area russia continues to hold
that the military of ukraine is using
civilians as human shields
defining image number 30 on this the
two-week mark in this crisis ukrainian
troops claim to have shot down this
russian fighter jet this was captured on
india today's cameras on the outskirts
of kharkiv ukraine has so far claimed to
have brought down 45 russian
aircraft and helicopters since march the
5th
mogul is now putin's archenemy
global hero in a t-shirt
this man is putin's target
[Music]
the ukrainian president
now a worldwide icon
zelensky
the full story
in times of aggression
in times of brutal war
particularly when the field is lopsided
the distinction between pushover and
spirited defense often depends on one
rallying force of unification
[Music]
it could be an idea
[Music]
it could be a sentiment
a
desperation or more times than none
the force which steals a line of panicky
defenders is but an individual's rise to
the occasion
a wartime leader that the conflict
itself creates
a hitherto unrealized force
that stands rescued in the face of odds
leading by example
jolting the spirit of compatriots to
steady their nerves
holding the line against immense odds
history is proof that such leaders rise
to the occasion
and in ukraine the defense has studied
behind their wartime leader
one-time comic
president vladimir zelinsky
an unlikely hero
who has fired the imagination
of a nation under siege
[Music]
putting all speculations to rest
vladimir zelensky declared that he's
very much in key russia had claimed that
he had fled to poland but not only did
zielenski share his location he also
dared russia saying that he is not
afraid
he knows he's putin's target number one
he knows his country can't match up to
russia's overwhelming military might but
ukrainian president vladimir zelinsky
remains an image of valor of defiance
and fighting spirit
steadfastly refusing to turn his back on
his bruised battered and bleeding
ukraine
in an open dare to putin's army
zielinski released a video giving out
his exact location
saying he stays right there in cave and
not in hiding
showing the images from the lane outside
his residence in this video message
is
[Music]
every time the russians claim that
zelinski has fled the country fearing
for his life zelinski has released a new
video shattering the russian claims
and never mincing his words while
slamming nato for letting down ukraine
and the united states for rejecting a
no-fly zone
even donning the combat fatigue helmet
and joining the ukrainian troops in the
frontline
[Music]
president
thousands of ukrainians have sent their
families away to safety and stayed back
to fight alongside president zielinski
supporting zilensky in every step is the
first lady of ukraine olenna ziletska
a vocal advocate of social courses
orlando through social media has
continued to inspire and continue to
provide comfort to ukrainians
the big question remains how long the
president and all his loyal men
withstand the might of approaching
russian invasion army bureau report
india today
war rages on as invaders try to capture
cave their single objective is to
overthrow the man who has rallied the
entire nation against russia president
vladimir zelinsky has become a household
name
the puny david against the goliath
russian forces
and his audience today is the world
he has become one of the voices of
freedom of sovereignty and of
territorial integrity
myself my country from the russian
invasion
we will fight for our land and we will
kill all of all russians if
somebody give me a weapon
i will fight i'm not afraid
[Music]
vladimir zelinski the president of
ukraine had everything wrong about being
a wartime leader of a nation invaded
he's from jewish stock in eastern europe
with its history of anti-semitism
his family spoke russian
he grew up speaking the language of the
invader he happened to be a comic by
profession
[Music]
in 2019 the comic actor decided to run
for presidency
and people took that as a joke
he called this party the servant of the
people party
the outcome was comic relief
vladimir zelinski won 73 of the wards
and promised to bring peace to the rest
of eastern regions of luhansk and
donetsk
what came was war
not with russia
but with his
[Laughter]
i appealed to the servicemen of
ukrainian armed forces
don't let neo-nazis and vandalize use
your children your wives and old people
as human shields
take power into your own hands
it seems that it will be easier for us
to come to terms with you than with this
gang of drug addicts and neo-nazis who
settled in kiev and took all ukrainian
people hostage
vladimir zelinski was born in 1978
into a russian-speaking jewish family of
the then soviet socialist republic of
ukraine
his father was a professor of
mathematics and his mother had studied
engineering
the town of his birth kvd
stands next to babiyar where 33
771 jews were shot and thrown into a
revine over the course of two days in
1941
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zelinski studied law and earned a degree
in it only to found a tv entertainment
company
zelinski found success in his vaudeville
act
he and a few friends created a comedy
troupe that became a famous act not just
in ukraine as well as other
russian-speaking regions of a
post-soviet world
the prison through which vladimir
zielinski viewed the world changed when
vladimir putin invaded the land of his
birth in 2014.
that was what made him take his first
political step
he donated a fortune to arm the then
weak army of ukraine
he chose his side when he relocated his
production company to kiev
and began to fully master the ukrainian
language
something that was to be a big help when
he played the most successful comic role
of his life
in the tv series servant of the people
zielinski plays a school history teacher
whose rant against the rampant
corruption in government gets recorded
without his knowledge by a student
and is posted on social media
the video goes viral and without even
wanting the job the teacher gets elected
president of ukraine and then through
set pieces bumbles his way to become a
heroic leader of his country
[Music]
on 20th of may 2019 facts overtook
fiction when the 41 year old vladimir
zelinski took the oath of the highest
office in ukraine
and when the new president had to make
his inaugural address he said it wasn't
just me who took the oath
he said each of us
put a hand on the constitution and each
of us has sworn loyalty to ukraine
it was an oath of loyalty that the
unlikely politician would prove himself
worthy of in the conflicts to come
despite the fact that entertainers
entering politics are viewed if not with
suspicion but certainly with skepticism
ukraine is believed to be number one on
vladimir putin's hit list
western intelligence agencies have
claimed this and zelinski himself has
acknowledged it
he says his family is second on the list
but that he and they will remain in
ukraine
he categorically turned down a u.s offer
of evacuation
instead he asked for arms
nobody will force us ukrainians to give
away our freedom our independence our
sovereignty
but it looks like
the russian
leadership is trying to
uh
to do it just by the way of
destroying their own country
to prove that he is still there and not
running away the president of ukraine
has been regularly posting self-taking
videos in front of the very recognizable
presidential palace
telling the people of ukraine that he is
living up to his promise
even if he has to die
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brother may zelinski the president of
ukraine is playing the role of a
lifetime he has already given a
performance that has made him a hit
across the world
this unlikely wartime leader of his
country has won the hearts and minds of
people around the world
his actions has more than established
the contrast with his nemesis with whom
he shares a first name the meaning of
which ironically means ruler of the
world
when vladimir putin ordered his troops
to invade ukraine he possibly made one
miscalculation
he had not accounted for the stellar
performance that his opponent was
capable of giving
a role that has touched the heartstrings
of audiences across the globe
whatever be the outcome of this war in
ukraine history will record zelinski as
the hero in shining arbor
while putin has already joined the ranks
of all time world villains like hitler
and stalin
when the world's a stage and everyone is
but an actor in it
there is no doubting that vladimir
zelinski of ukraine stands at the edge
of that stage
where life needs performance
and only truth
shines forth
just hours before russia invaded ukraine
vladimir zelensky made an appeal to the
people of russia
made on the morning of 24 february he
reached out to the people of russia and
that speech will be remembered as one of
the most heartfelt speeches of any
leader ever made
he spoke to the people of russia
reminding them of humanity talking about
the aggressor russia and saying that
both russians and ukrainians are being
led down a path to hell
foreign
[Music]
[Music]
me
[Music]
foreign
the russian invasion of ukraine is an
event that will shape the future of the
entire world
at this time it is difficult to say
how the new world order would look like
and how would this be different from the
world order that has existed since the
end of the second world war to get a
macro historical perspective on the
sweeping changes that are upon us at
this moment i am privileged and
delighted to be joined live and
exclusive on india today's news track by
the world's greatest living historian
author of the best-selling book sapiens
a brief history of mankind homodius uh
brief history of tomorrow and 21 lessons
for the 21st century which i'm sure he'd
now need to revise joining us live from
tel aviv in israel is the rock star
historian professor yual noah harari
professor harari it is an absolute honor
to have you back with us on india today
thank you for inviting me
i want to start by asking you about a
recent column that you wrote where you
say that this is not just a war between
russia and ukraine this is an event that
will shape the whole world can you start
by giving our audiences who are watching
you at this time a sense of why you
believe that this is not just a war
between putin and zelensky the russian
army and the ukrainian army but this is
something that impacts everyone the
world over
yes because if the russian aggression
succeeds
we will see more and more of these this
kind of aggression all over the world
you know since 1945 it became
unacceptable
for one country to simply invade a
weaker nation and obliterate it from the
face of the map which is what putin is
trying to do if putin succeeds you know
there are countries all over the world
and tyrants all over the world watching
this to see what will happen if he
succeeds we will see more and more of it
and we will enter a new dark era in
history which everybody will feel to
give just one example just think about
defense budgets
today in the world the average
military budget of countries is about
six percent of government budget
which is the lowest in history
most governments spend far more on
health care education welfare
in history this is very rare most
sultans and emperors and kings they
spent most of their money on their army
and almost nothing on healthcare and
education and welfare if putin succeeds
you we will see defense budgets around
the whole world skyrocket we already saw
germany doubling its military budget in
a day
and this money
will come from healthcare from education
the money that should go to teachers and
doctors will go to tanks
and to airplanes and everybody will feel
it we will also lose the potential
to deal with the main problems of
humankind like climate change and like
the rise of artificial intelligence
because how can you reach an agreement
on fighting climate change or unlimiting
limiting artificial intelligence when
countries are trying to destroy each
other
so this is why this is an existential
danger to the whole humankind what is
happening right now
so you write in the guardian that a week
into the war it is increasingly likely
that vladimir putin is heading towards a
historic defeat he may win the battles
but he will lose the war
what makes you so confident that
vladimir putin is heading towards a
historic defeat
you see it's easier to conquer a country
than to hold it in the long run as we
saw in afghanistan in iraq and in many
other places now this whole war
is about the very existence of the
ukrainian nation it's not about
conquering this city or that city and
it's all based on a lie on a fantasy in
putin's head putin believes that the
ukrainian nation doesn't really exist
putin believes that ukrainians are
actually russians
that they want to
join russia to be absorbed by russia
and that the only thing that prevents it
is a small gang of so-called nazis at
the top
he therefore believed and this explains
the the the failure so far that we are
seeing he believed that in 24 hours the
minute the russian army invades zalenski
will fly the ukrainian army will
surrender and the ukrainian people will
throw flowers on the russian tanks and
he was completely wrong zelensky didn't
fly
didn't flee the country
the ukrainian army is fighting like hell
and the ukrainian people is throwing
molotov cocktails on the russian tanks
not flowers
ukraine is a very real nation fighting
for its survival yes putin may still
conquer the country
but he will not be able to absorb it
every day this woe lasts he is planting
seeds of hatred
between ukrainians and russians which
previously were like family
and this hatred will last for
generations unless he stops this war
immediately
you said that to reestablish the russian
empire putin needed a relatively
bloodless victory that would lead to a
relatively hateless occupation but by
spilling more and more ukrainian blood
putin is making sure his dream will
never be realized how do you think the
war that we've seen this week is likely
to end professor
i don't know i can't predict the future
it could end right now
if putin gives the order because this is
a war of one person only this isn't
russia's war it isn't the war of the
russian people they don't want it there
is just one person in the whole world
that wants this war
and this is putin and you can stop it
immediately
i if it doesn't it can last for months
and years again he can conquer the whole
country but the war will continue for
years he will never be able to actually
absorb it it also depends to a large
extent on the reaction of other
countries
countries whether in europe or whether
in asia like india
russia is actually a weak country people
think that russia is like the soviet
union it isn't it's much much weaker
it's not one of the 10 largest economies
the russian economy is actually smaller
than the economy of italy or of south
korea
you know russia has a a gdp of 1.6
trillion dollars a year
europe combined has more than 20
trillions
if europe and the world unite against
russia putin cannot prevail
i'll say another thing about it you know
the whole russian economy is built just
on gas and oil
and it's like a it's like a gas station
with nukes
if the world unites
to on if even just europe
unites to create a green manhattan
project
to replace oil and gas with alternative
energy the putin regime is finished
when an all-barrel costs 20 dollars
instead of a hundred dollars like now
this is the end of the putin regime
you've made an interesting comparison
about putin casting himself in the role
of hitler why do you think that putin is
shaping up to be the 21st century adult
fiddler
you see the way that he's inflicting
tremendous suffering on tens of millions
of people simply because of his cruel
ambition
there is no rationale for this war as i
said the russian people doesn't want it
and you know people talk about the
security interests of russia nobody was
threatening russia
when this war erupted if russia had
concerns it they could be discussed
peacefully
you know the germans were not about to
invade the french were not about to
invade it it was his decision and in
this sense oh of course there are many
differences also between him and hitler
but in this sense of one person
inflicting a terrible war on the whole
world
there is a comparison there and you know
the other main thing and in this putin
is like many other dictators
not just hitler that when he builds this
lie in his head
nobody around him is brave enough
to confront him a dictator usually has
so much power that the people around him
are afraid to contradict him
so even when he says completely
ridiculous thing
everybody tells him yes yes yes you're
absolutely right you're a genius
and this is why he embarked on this war
assuming completely false things such as
that ukraine is not a nation and that
the ukrainians will not resist in the
past seven decades there hasn't been a
direct conflict between the major powers
of the world and no recognized country
has had
its status changed forever
do you apprehend that in the way events
are shaping up we could be heading
towards a third world war is that within
the realm of your possibilities
i hope very much not
i think the west is is very cautious
about it and again remember that russia
it has nukes that's true but apart from
that it's a relatively weak power it is
not a soviet union
you know if other nations join it like
china or like iran or like iran then
it's a completely different matter but
so far we've also seen that china is
sitting on the fence
just observing what is happening not
committing itself
russia by itself is not strong enough
to to have a third world war it can
destroy humanity with nuclear weapons
that's true and everybody should be
worried about nuclear weapons because if
this war continues we will see nuclear
weapons spreading more and more
you know
germany
and japan
are now
thinking about it again
because they say to themselves in 2024
who knows who the u.s president will be
maybe trump is president again
and if russia or china invades us in
2024 2025 are we really certain that
trump will defend us if not we need our
own nukes
and then iran says wait if germany and
japan now have nukes why can't we and we
will see more and more nuclear weapons
spreading and as there are more and more
fingers
on the button of the nuclear weapons
the
chances increase that somebody somewhere
will press it
and it will be the end of human
civilization
how do you see the global economy change
on account of this war past wars were
about land or they were about minerals
resources now we're in the internet of
things it's about technological progress
ai
ml it's not so much about physically
occupying land so how does this change
the economic dimension of history
professor
because of the change in the economy we
have indeed seen less wars in recent
years
you know previously in history if a
country or a king wanted to enrich
themselves a way to do it was to conquer
the neighbors because the main source of
wealth was wheat fields and rice fields
and cattle and slaves that you can
conquer by war
increasingly now the main sources of
wealth are not material
they are knowledge
like the knowledge to produce a
high-tech industry and you can't conquer
knowledge by war
and you see that recent countries that
became very wealthy like germany like
china like japan they didn't do it by
war
they did it by developing their society
and their economy russia is in distance
moving in a very different trajectory
instead of investing in its people
in education
in health care it's investing in
military
i said earlier that military budgets
around the world today are on average
about five or six percent in russia it
is 11
this is why a relatively poor country
like russia
can develop such a military machine by
taking money from health care and giving
it to tanks
and russian citizens are suffering from
it and the russian economy is suffering
from it
and conquering ukraine ukraine will not
make russia prosperous
it will only make it even even poorer
but putin doesn't seem to care about it
it doesn't care about the welfare
certainly not of the ukrainians but not
even of the russians
and this is again why it's very
important that he loses
and that countries around the world
realize this is not the way to develop
if you want to become a powerful nation
a respected nation you should invest in
the education and health care of your
citizens so they became more educated
they build you know high-tech industries
and things like that you don't invest in
tanks
to become a great nation
in academic circles and in think tanks
there is a debate raging about whether
the west forced vladimir putin to invade
ukraine and this argument is led by
professor john miyashima
the classical international affairs
theorist who propounds the balance of
power theory and he says that after
promising gorbachev that they would not
expand nato eastwards by constantly
doing so and threatening to also include
uh ukraine in the eu and possibly also
in the nato alliance
because of the institutional history of
the russian empire and because putin
sees himself as the new czar the west
has literally forced putin's hand do you
buy this argument to professor miyashima
when you see the bombs falling on kiev
you can't accept this kind of argument
nobody put a gun to putin's head and
said you must invade ukraine it was his
decision
and it should be very clear nato and the
eu
do not expand by force
how does how does the
eu grow it's not doesn't grow by sending
tanks to force a country to join it
countries join the eu and countries join
nato because they want to out of their
own free will and why do they want to
join nato and the eu because they want a
better future for the citizens and also
because they are afraid of russia
and can you blame them for being afraid
of russia can you blame nowadays that
you see what's happening in kiev can you
blame poland can you blame estonia of
wanting to be part of nato
yes russia has security concerns
but the way to discuss them is not by
invading a weaker country
there was nothing urgent that forced
putin to invade now
it's not like people were actually
discussing or about to accept ukraine to
nato it was not on the table
it's not like there was a german army
massing on the borders about to invade
nothing like it who wants to invade
russia the last time somebody invaded
russia was hitler 80 years ago and
nobody wants to repeat it do you think
the germans want to invade russia it's
the last thing they undermined do you
think napoleon will come out of his
grave and lead the french army to moscow
this is ridiculous
you know listening to these arguments
about russian uh uh uh defense interests
it's like seeing a person
standing with his boot on the face of
somebody
and telling you oh please understand my
security concerns no
when you're standing with your boot on
somebody's face
this is not the time to listen to your
fears and to your concerns take your
boot off his face then we can listen to
you
no but in a historical context this is
an interesting uh debate because on the
one side uh there is the view that
you're putting forward about this new
piece which you think isn't a
statistical fluke or a hippie fantasy on
the other side the likes of john myshima
says that a lot of what you barack obama
and the others have been saying is just
a fluke of history that ultimately it
reverts to the medium balance of power
is what it's about and if uh nations get
together to threaten a great empire the
empire will strike back is just the way
human nature has been for hundreds of
years and therefore just this period of
relative peace after the second world
war doesn't take away from the larger
historical context
you know when you say that war is
natural you are excusing criminals
because then it's not their fault it's
not put in fault that there is a war
it's the fault of human nature
and this is unacceptable humans have
proven that they are able to make better
decisions the period of peace that we
saw not just in europe but in most of
the world in recent generations was not
a fantasy it was real and this is why i
started with budgets
not with poems
look in the budgets
and you will see how real the piece was
and if we now accept war as just natural
it means that military budgets all over
the world will again skyrocket
and people will say well what do you
want war is part of human nature so we
have to prepare for it
and this is not true
there were periods of peace in history
there are periods of war in history yes
war is a possibility
but it is not an inevitability
ultimately war is decided upon by humans
it doesn't come from the laws of nature
and i'm afraid that scholars
that try to present war as natural
they are excusing
the criminals who start wars and they
also make it more likely that wars will
happen
because if you think it's natural
then you double your military budget and
then your neighbors become afraid they
double their military budgets and then
you triple your budget and they triple
your budget and this is a race to the
bottom
and you know in in previously in history
wars were destructive but they couldn't
destroy humanity
now with nuclear weapons and with more
and more new weapons
coming from areas like artificial
intelligence
if war is really part of human nature
then we are doomed
then in a couple of decades there will
not be any human beings left
you know previous
conquerors in history
genghis khan
or the mughals or people like that they
could kill millions they couldn't
destroy humanity with the technology of
the 21st century if we don't find a way
to end war
then
war will end us
we will not survive this century if we
don't find a way to overcome war you
seem to be suggesting that it's almost
inevitable that nations uh that don't
have nuclear weapons will now carry
around trying to see if they can get
them ukraine had one of the world's
largest arsenals of nuclear weapons
which after
the breakup of the soviet union in
ukraine voluntarily gave away because
there was a security pact between russia
america and the nato alliance that they
would protect ukraine that didn't happen
given ukraine's flight
is it inevitable that more countries
will scramble to get the hands on nukes
it's not inevitable it depends on what
happens in the next few days and weeks
and months
if putin stops the war or if putin loses
then countries all over the world will
learn the lesson that violence doesn't
pay
and that it's better to go on investing
our money in education and welfare and
not in tanks and nukes but if putin
succeeds
and ukraine is destroyed
then as i said previously more and more
countries germany japan
iran and maybe later on brazil saudi
arabia more and more country will say
hey we also must have nukes otherwise
the same thing that happened to ukraine
will happen to us
and this is the road to hell
and we need to
go in a different direction and we need
to do it now let's spend a moment
reflecting on the response of the world
powers
the united states
countries in the european union would
seem more galvanized than before and
their response to president putin
they're trying to give humanitarian aid
military supplies is there a fear in
your mind that some of this could
potentially cross president putin's red
lines and lead to an escalation
i can't read president putin's mind
especially because we've seen recently
that he can harbor all kinds of
fantasies and lies which have no
connection with reality
uh so it is an extremely dangerous
situation
but we can hope that the world powers
will speak and also act
in a way
that will stop this war and will prevent
putin from winning and because the fate
of the whole of humanity is at stake
it's not just the responsibility of the
united of of the eu
or of the us to do something all
countries including my country of israel
including india
india is a very important country in
this respect not only because of its
ties with russia and because of its
economic uh power it's also
it sees itself as a spiritual leader
of the world as a world guru
and this is the time that we expect you
know when you see a crime you want to
hear
from spiritual leaders about it i know
that
it is difficult in terms of indian
interests
but this is why there is a difference
between interests and morality
sometimes you need to do the right thing
even if it's not in your cold calculated
interest
to do it this is the meaning of morality
otherwise it's it's just interests
and you know if if your friend
kills somebody
and you don't say anything
what does it mean about you
but that's something which can be said
professor harari about israel in
particular on many occasions in terms of
morality
yes israel always puts interest before
morality
i say it also about my government i'm
very disappointed to a large extent you
know jews go around the world telling
people wrongfully but telling people
that we invented morality and we have
been spreading morality around the world
for two thousand years and the bible and
all that
but
then when it comes to an actual real
crisis
they think only about the interests
israel is very very careful not to say
anything or do anything you know the eu
blocked flights from russia but israel
didn't
so again i don't expect israel to send
armed forces or weapons to ukraine
but it can still do a lot
uh it can still at least
voice its opposition to the war you know
putin justifies this war by saying that
he aims to denazify ukraine as if
ukraine is ruled by nazis
now the president of ukraine is jewish
israel should be at the forefront
of saying putin is is either a liar or a
mad person
how can you how can you say that they
are nazis
it desecrates the memory of the
holocaust
to say such things
and yes i'm quite disappointed that my
government is not taking a more forceful
position at least on on on this on on
this front
professor harari if you were to look
back at your book homo dearest brief
history of tomorrow
and
look at how you may need to revise it is
it too soon given that it's just been a
week since this invasion or do you see
there are trends that are emerging dots
which you can join would suggest that
you know some of this or even if it's
21st less 21 centuries so the 21 lessons
for the 21st century that it would
require revision and if so could you
explain how and why
well my main thesis was that humanity
now has the power to control plagues
and wars and famine which were the most
important threats to humanity throughout
history
and that it now needs to focus in
attention on it on the new threats of
artificial intelligence and climate
change and so forth
i never said that wars or plagues became
impossible
i just said that we now for the first
time in history can control them
we have the tools to stop them
but we need to use the tools
if politicians don't use the tools
correctly then as we saw with the corona
i mean you know with the coveted
epidemic
for the first time in history we had the
scientific and technological ability to
understand and stop the epidemic but we
didn't use them wisely
it's the same with this war
it's not inevitable we now have the
institutions we now have the culture
necessary to stop wars
but it doesn't mean that we always have
the political wisdom
to actually do it
now if again wars and epidemics and so
forth because of in the end because of
human stupidity
if they again spread
then this means we have no chance
of dealing with the new threats of
artificial intelligence of climate
change
and this as i said could lead to the
extinction
of our species
so i can't predict the future and i
never try to predict the future i just
try to give different scenarios
hoping that humans will make wise
decisions
but knowing that we should never
underestimate human stupidity it's one
of the most powerful forces in history
and especially when it comes to war
there is a built-in imbalance there
because to have peace
you need a lot of wise people to
cooperate
to have war you just need one person one
leader
to act in a cruel and senseless way
and this is enough to start a war you
spoke of stupidity you also right of
hatred being the ugliest of emotions for
oppressed nations hatred being a hidden
treasure and you write about how nations
are built on stories so with the passing
days how do you see the story of ukraine
being rewritten professor
you know a week ago two weeks ago many
people around the world didn't know
anything about ukraine
didn't know anything about its history
about its people
now almost everybody around the world
know that ukraine is not just a very
real nation
it's a very proud a very brave nation
fighting for its survival
and i think
the images the stories coming out of
ukraine kind of electrified the whole
world
and gave courage to the whole world you
see people fighting with their bare
hands trying to stop a tank
you see civilians sitting
in front of a tank to prevent it from
from from progressing
and this i think is what gave courage
to the europeans to impose sanctions
to the americans to kick russia out of
swift and so forth and so on so stories
are extremely powerful in the long run
they are more powerful than thanks
what defines defeat for putin what
defines victory for putin you write
about how
humanity is hurtling towards disaster
and we're on the edge of the abyss given
the military superiority of the russian
army vis-a-vis the ukraine army and
given the fact that the nato isn't
coming militarily to ukraine's alliance
how would you define victory how would
you define defeat and how can putin get
a face saver that helps him get off this
ramp
and putin's aim in the war and this is
now very clear is really to destroy
ukraine to destroy the ukrainian nation
and to absorb ukraine back into a new
russian empire
and
i think that he just can't do it because
it's based on a lie on a lie that there
is no ukrainian nation and that the
ukrainian ones won't resist
so in this sense he is already lost he
will not be able to absorb ukraine into
russia every day that passes only
increases the hatred of the ukrainians
towards the russians and ensures that
they will not
agree
to be absorbed into russia i hope that
he can stop the war and if necessary you
know if he needs a face saver
so somebody may count on the chinese
would intervene the indians will
intervene as mediators
and offer him a ladder to climb down
from this high tree he climbed to and
offer him you know some some small
victory symbolic victory so he can go
around and say hey i didn't really want
to destroy ukraine i only wanted this
little thing and now that i have it i
can stop the war and um i i hope that it
will end like this
and not with months and years of
terrible slaughter
of millions of refugees
and of hatred that will persist for
generations and finally will russia's
invasion of ukraine embolden china to
make a bid for taiwan militarily or will
it actually given the swift sanctions
the economic pushback will it actually
lead xi jinping to realize the futility
of trying to invade taiwan
everybody is watching exactly for that
not just china
all kinds of tyrants and and dictators
and and regimes throughout the world are
watching what is happening and they are
sitting on the fence
if putin
looks like winning
they will become emboldened they will
think aha
you can do that now you can now invade
another country and conquer it and get
away with it
and they will also do it
if however they see putin fail
then they will learn the lesson no no no
it's not a good idea
let's continue in different ways
let's not risk it
this is why this war is so important for
for the whole world
if aggression is allowed to triumph in
ukraine
we will see more and more aggression and
misery and death all over the world
over the past half an hour i felt as if
i've been back in college
listening to a history lesson but this
is
live events as they play themselves out
and your ability to give a macro
historical perspective is par excellence
and we deeply appreciate professor
harari that you took out time we
realized that you've got requests coming
in from media the world over in the
hundreds and therefore for you to choose
to accept our invitation means a lot to
us and it's been fantastic to have you
back with us on india today once again
thank you very much and i hope that
peace will come soon in sha allah and i
hope that peace does come as soon as
possible god willing professor yuval
noah harari for joining us today live
and exclusive from tel aviv in israel
thank you very much we appreciate your
time sir
a very good afternoon you're watching
india today i'm nabila jamal despite our
election coverage extensively india
today has been
getting you all the minute details
coming in from ukraine the war-torn
country india today they're bringing you
all these images here of the havoc and
destruction that started off from day
one today to day 15. the russian
invasion there
destroying everything in its path images
here very clearly showing you how
these images have really haunted
the different cities of ukraine many of
them fleeing the country lacks in
millions of them in fact fleeing to
neighboring countries these are images
that are left behind of massive
destruction devastation on day 15.
now even as we enter day 15 of the war
we're looking at several developments
coming in from ukraine as the russian
invasion of ukraine enters day 15 here
here are the top developments of the day
ukrainian authorities have said that a
children's hospital in ukrainian city of
mario paul was destroyed by russian
airstrikes on wednesday russian
occupying forces have dropped several
bombs on the children's hospital leading
to colossal destruction in fact european
media media reports there have now
stated that at least 17 staff were
wounded and several pregnant women and
children were injured
these are
images they're
really upsetting now meanwhile we're
looking at the united states condemning
russia for the barbaric attack and
bombing of the children's hospital in
ukraine officials have said that a
russian air strike buried patients in
rubble despite a cease-fire deal for
people to flee the besieged city of
mario paul
despite ceasefire we're looking at
widespread devastation ukrainian
president vladimir
zelensky has called on the west to
impose even tougher sanctions on russia
after the airstrike on the maternity
hospital in mario paul now
wearing the traditional wartime army
green he said that west should
strengthen the sanctions so russia no
longer has any possibility to continue
this genocide
meanwhile we're looking at the
international atomic energy agency that
has said that power has been entirely
cut off to the chernobyl power plant
in fact this is the site
of the world's worst nuclear disaster
that happened in 1986 and its security
systems adding that no critical impact
on the safety from
chernobyl power loss
we're looking at ukrainian president
vladimir zelensky has now signed a law
allowing civilians in ukraine now to use
weapons against the russian military and
is valid for the entire period of
martial law
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ukrainian president
zelinsky has said that ukraine will try
to evacuate civilians through six
humanitarian corridors today from the
capital city of kiev as well as from
cities of sumi
engodar mario paul izum and walowaka
british prime minister boris johnson has
informed ukraine's president vladimir
zielinski that he was committed to
further tightening sanctions to impose
maximum economic cost in russia johnson
has discussed the situation in ukraine
on a call with zelensky last evening
where he said that putin will be held
accountable for his terrible crimes
meanwhile we're looking hefty sanctions
being imposed on russia and several
companies boycotting the country apple
pay google pays samsung pay payment
service services are all now
no longer available in russia
in addition mastercard and visa payment
cards issued by russian banks stopped
working abroad and in online stores as
well
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now white house press secretary jenn
saki has said that russian president
ladamir putin's troops may arrange a
provocation and be preparing to use
chemical and biological weapons while
passing the blame onto ukraine
now the european union has said that it
was stepping up sanctions over russia's
invasion of ukraine including targeting
more russian individuals and adding
banks in moscow's alley belarus in fact
the 27 nation bloc was blacklisting 160
more russian parliamentarians and
oligarchs was banning exports of
maritime navigation technology to russia
and was including crypto assets under
its punitive measures
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now even as we speak on day 15 we're
looking at large-scale devastation here
let's take you through some of those
images now coming in from bravoski the
district in ukraine ukrainian troops
here fighting back and repealing the
russian attack a russian tank has been
set on fire as volunteer battalions and
the ukraine forces are currently going
all out to stop russia from capturing
these cities remember we're looking at
day 15 and yet russian forces they're
inching closer to the main cities in
ukraine we're looking at these images
coming in from bravarsky district in
ukraine where ukrainian troops are
fighting back repealing russian attacks
a russian tank as you see here has been
set on fire as volunteer battalions and
ukraine forces are currently going all
out to stop russia from capturing their
cities now gita mohan they're joining us
right from ground gita we're looking at
images here as terrifying as day one a
russian tank has now been set on fire in
this district of bravarski give us some
details
well uh nabila this is uh this is a
retaliation by the
people of ukraine they are doing
everything they can from day one we've
seen roadblocks human chains uh people
trying to ensure that these tanks do not
move into various parts and cities of
the country and uh we also have seen the
molotov cocktails being hurled at the
very same tanks uh that uh
the the standing uh tanks and uh and uh
them uh and and the tanks being set on
fire so this is uh this is a way to
basically try to stall the russian
forces from entering the key cities and
key areas of ukraine uh we do know that
the russian forces nabila have already
uh reached very close to airplane they
are in the european region and that's
the reason why after all all the
shelling that uh
the
uh the people over there suffered there
it was massive there has been massive
evacuation that is underway and has been
going on for the past a couple of days
uh and despite that uh bridges have been
blown by the ukrainian side to ensure
that they stall these tanks but it is
only uh we will have to wait and see how
the russian forces are going to take
things forward uh there is a very
crucial meeting between
the
ukrainian foreign minister foreign
minister kulepa and foreign minister
russia
the
sergey lavrov that is taking place in
antalya turkey now what that really what
the outcome of that meeting is going to
be is going to be critical because this
is the first foreign minister level
meeting between the two countries we've
seen negotiators negotiate peace between
the two sides but that didn't work and
putin was very clear that despite
negotiations talks do what you may uh
cease fire is something that will not uh
that that will not be declared in the
whole of ukraine so certain parts these
fire was declared and it was maintained
but many other parts suffered the wrath
of the russian army and the russian
forces uh and uh and and and continued
to do so so it is a rather state's sad
state of affairs when it comes to the uh
to the kind of damage absolutely
despite the talks between foreign
ministers and not the countries we don't
uh we don't see russia stopping their
invasion they continue to
inch closer to several main cities even
as stocks currently underway
absolutely they uh the the russian
forces have been given instructions
that despite and in spite of all the
negotiations and talks that they are not
to stop that the that their objective is
the fall of keep the fall of this regime
uh so it is not about invading which is
what putin very clearly spelled out
yesterday as well nabila uh and he has
been saying this from day one while we
do know that the west keeps saying that
russia is trying to annex the whole of
ukraine russia uh
russia certainly has said that they do
not
they particularly i suppose are looking
at a regime change and now for zelinski
it has become a difficult position while
the spirits and determination very high
here in ukraine there that every
individual you speak to cells that
they'll fight their uh the the russian
forces till the very last breath but the
negotiations on crimea and recognizing
crimea was uh was what the demand was
earlier now it has come to recognizing
crimea donetsk and lohan right because
russia has an advantage they have an
advantage over ukraine and they're
trying to squeeze as much as they can
will uh zilenski's team will coleba
accept this will there be a compromise
if that happens it is political suicide
for zelensky because they would be
giving up ukrainian land so a lot
depends on what really happens in the
negotiations and of course the demand
for neutrality when it comes to nato
do stay with us we're going to continue
tracking those details bravoski is one
area where we're looking at russian
forces that have already now bombed
several of those tankers images coming
in that are really unsettling ukrainian
military has now reported that they have
meanwhile regained control of the
dirhachi and harkiev areas of ukraine
russian forces were allegedly trying to
encircle the city but they were stopped
by
ukrainian attack in fact several
european media reports have now revealed
that the head of our key regional state
administration ole senegu
he's announced that russian forces were
attempting to encircle the city but they
were repelled by the ukrainian
counter-attack a night strike too has
taken place in slobozenski region of
harkee
two women two children were killed in
the attack
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foreign
some really disturbing images coming in
amid growing warnings from the west that
moscow's invasion was about to take a
more virtual and indiscriminative turn
ukrainian officials have now said a
russian airstrike has devastated a
maternity hospital in the besieged port
city of mario paul and wounded at least
17 people including staff and patients
the ground shook more than a mile away
when the mario paul complex was hit by a
series of blasts that blew out windows
ripped away much of the front of that
one building police and soldiers have
rushed to the scene to evacuate victims
carrying out a heavily pregnant and
bleeding woman on a stretcher in the
courtyard meanwhile mangled cars burn
and blast craters extended at least two
stories deep
president vladimir zilensky has written
on twitter now that there were people
children under that wreckage many of
them trapped in the debris as well of
that hospital after it was bombed and
called this strike an absolute atrocity
ukraine
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very disturbing to see that russian
forces bombing many of those hospitals
in ukraine one of which we saw in mario
paul a maternity hospital that was
bombed where well
the president confirmed that there were
women there were children many of them
still stuck in debris doesn't seem like
the russian forces are hesitating by no
means to capture ukraine at the earliest
well nabeela that's the sad part that
you know civilians are taking the hit of
uh of the war that uh that russia is
waging against ukraine uh this is not
the time or the age where they don't
know exactly what building is where they
have exact images exact geolocations of
what exists where so hitting a hospital
really hits at the heart of what they
say is not going to be a
killing of civilians this is uh this is
against humanity this certainly will go
really badly against uh putin if he
in any way wants a regime that's
pro-russia this certainly will not go
down well hitting out at uh civilians
and certainly targeting uh key uh key
civilian places such as hospitals this
is a maternity hospital so certainly not
a good sign for russia uh we do not have
details of our as to why in terms of
strategy and planning would they ever
look at a maternity hospital but we have
seen uh the kind of devastation the kind
of destruction in european area as well
uh uh has hit uh with the civilian areas
and that certainly is is not something
that uh that uh russia claims uh to to
be doing they they claim that they are
only looking at military installations
uh key infrastructure
in ukraine and that certainly should not
be residential areas or hospitals
very very tragic like you did mention
many of the civilians in ukraine there
gita who are now taking up arms only to
protect their country and we're looking
looking at situations like this unfold
whether maternity hospitals with women
children are being targeted we're
looking at civilians now coming out in
full spirit to protect their country we
have some more breaking news coming in
on this gita stay with us ukraine now
claiming that five russian tanks have
been destroyed near the capital city of
kiev according to the interior minister
the ukrainian military has carried out a
counter attack near kiev and destroyed
five tanks of russia this is the big
news that's coming in from
ukraine ukraine now claiming that five
russian tanks have been destroyed near
the capital city of kiev according to
the interior minister ukrainian military
has carried out a counter-attack near
kiev destroyed five tanks of russia
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capital city of kiev they're being
bombarded left right and center we're
looking at five tanks russian tanks that
have uh been bombed by or in fact the
ukrainian military now saying that
they've carried out a counter attack
and destroyed at least five tanks of
russia give us the confirmation
right uh so these are clear reports and
uh claims made by the ukrainian side
nebula also it is not
the capital city that's being bombarded
uh it's the the keeve region so uh the
areas around kiev capital is is uh
suffering the most irpin one of them uh
because that's where all the tanks are
uh we have eyewitness accounts we spoke
to a few people in airpin where they
said that their neighborhood has been
surrounded by russian forces now when
the tanks are halt when they stand when
they're where they're standing and
they're not moving that's when the
community that's when people start doing
things to ensure that these tanks become
redundant and useless then they fire
they they
they set them on fire that we've seen in
the past as well so five tanks is is a
loss for the russian forces and these
are claims being made by the ukrainian
forces uh but certainly uh
that is no that is not something that
will stop the russian forces from
advancing should the negotiations today
completely fail should there be a
forward movement there still will be a
forward movement by russian forces into
uh the capital region into the kiev
region uh but will they really breach uh
keef city today the capital city today
that is something we will have to wait
wait for the talks to end to really see
gita thank you very much to stay with us
i'm going to cut across to some of those
really compelling images that we're
showing here on your screens images on
your screens here show the before and
after satellite footage of the intense
airstrike by the russian offensive in
mario paul
here's
how the city looked before
the airstrike in mario paul the
satellite images here clearly showing
the aftermath as well an absolute
destruction that we see in the city of
mario paul as russian forces they're
bombarding
every corner of that city here's a
before and after image very
self-explanatory a satellite image that
shows
how thriving that the city was in place
on the left and the airstrike aftermath
on the right completely destroying that
populist city of mario paul
now the capital city of kiev is bracing
for a final attack by russia tanks
armored personnel carriers have now been
deployed at key strategic locations in
fact my colleague gaurav savant who's
right there on ground in the ukrainian
capital spoke to soldiers preparing for
an imminent russian attack
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russia is at the gates of kiev
the ukrainian capital readying for an
imminent russian attack
the defenders have deployed tanks and
armored personnel carriers at key
strategic locations to take on the
invaders
ukrainian soldiers in an exclusive
interview to india today revealed that a
few russian forces are already in the
capital city
how close are the russian forces to keep
right now
the russian forces they are in kiev
right now
yesterday
our friends they saw uh them in the
forest eight eight
russian soldiers they already in kiev
soldiers yes yes yes yes
ukrainian troops say that after smashing
kiev suburbs russian forces are
advancing from all directions
preparing for an all-out assault
we're expecting enemies from uh some
parts yeah and so of course they would
like to make a circle a round key
but so we are ready to meet him and so
our military forces they are very nice
in
protecting now really believed that they
will be met by our people with flowers
but they we meet them
with bullets only
even as the wall rages on the ground
moscow is bringing the heat down
diplomatically
vladimir putin's administration has said
kremlin is not trying to overthrow the
ukraine government
now ukrainian president vladimir
zelinsky ii made a climb down
zielinski says he is no longer pressing
for nato membership
which is the biggest provocation for the
russian invasion
in another statement aimed at placating
moscow
zelensky has said he is open to a
compromise on the status of the two
breakaway pro-russian territories
doneesk and luansk
the climb down comes ahead of talks
between russia and ukraine in turkey on
thursday
this appears to be
new lines being dug new front lines here
in this battle for the defense of keith
so far these this war this conflict was
being fought in
in bucha or irpin on the outskirts but
now it appears that the battle is coming
much closer if talks do not succeed
to bring peace to bring about a
negotiated settlement then russia's big
assault on cave could begin
and this could happen as early as the
next 24 to 48 hours with cameraman pawan
kumar in cave ukraine god of 7 for india
today
now more than two weeks into russia's
invasion on ukraine ruthless shellings
attacks continue along with unparalleled
human tragedy in harkee the shopping
center was completely destroyed
collapsed while rescue operations
continue a factory and a store were on
raging fire after being bombarded in
airplane on the outskirts of kiev in
fact horrific image is coming in as a
hospital went under attack in mario paul
at least 17 are injured several are
feared to be missing european media has
claimed that ukraine wiped out four
russian su-25 aircrafts two helicopters
and two cruise missiles in kiev and the
joint force operation regions meanwhile
more than at least 50 000 people from
sumi have now been evacuated ravaged
from that ravaged ukraine
at least in the last 48 hours subi was
said to be a very sensitive region where
several indians were also trapped for a
while many of them have been evacuated
ukrainian president vladimir zelenki has
now said that 35 000 people have been
rescued through humanitarian corridors
and that five humanitarian corridors
will be open from kiev sumi
and erhodar and three other cities
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now india today has its largest team of
reporters on ground in ukraine bringing
us all the real true factual details
india today's foreign affairs editor
gita mohan brings you this exclusive
report from all those bomb shelters in
kiev due to security reasons there were
no lights inside that bunker but here's
what we manage
russian soldiers are russians who want
to enter and infiltrate ukraine can
speak the language but can they read it
and that's the reason why they have this
so they have this text as a as a test
and not just this quite a few others in
the documents and
genie here will try to explain it to me
uh as to what this really means what why
do you have this text and why do you
really need to
have people come and take the test
so we created this sentence actually if
you translate it it doesn't make sense
but uh this text helps us to tell if
ukrainian is here or russian because
it's very difficult for russians to
pronounce those sounds because some of
them are purely ukrainian and
uh only ukrainian can pronounce it
correctly and you can hear uh very
clearly if it's ukrainian or russian
when you ask to pronounce this sentence
it's a very very smart technique to
ensure that russians do not infiltrate
the shelters these this is just one test
there are many others they make them
read documents to ensure that only
ukrainians come to the shelter and
russians do not infiltrate they have not
entered the city yet the the city still
has still not been breached by the
russians but uh staff who have been
trained are going to take no chance
meanwhile india today's gaurav savanth
has also spoken to ukrainian soldier
andre a lord krishna devotee who chants
hari krishna as he prepares to defend
kiev let's have a listen
it's snowing in kiev it's
and we have andre here with his weapon
with his team
protecting his city from a russian
attack an imminent russian attack and
andre has an india connection andrei
where did you learn this andre
well about 25 years ago i need the
krishna movement in the year
and i started reading the books mostly
reading books
visiting
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me what did lord krishna tell arjuna
what did he tell him
well he told him
well i i know it's in russian but in
english
it's it's my
translation so
don't don't be afraid to just
do whatever you have to do just fight
under arjuna you don't die
souls not die
and does that give you strength yeah
for speaking to us here at india today
many thanks andre i see you have the
prayer beat is this from
yeah this is from hari krishna
he has the prayer beads with him and
that that shlok from the shrimad
bhagavad-gita is
prophesied
if you die in battle you go to heaven if
you win
you live on earth as beautiful as heaven
therefore oh son of kunti
arjun
take a firm resolve and fight
for joining me here on india today andre
many thanks and namaste namaste
thank you good luck my friend with
cameraman kumar in kiev ukraine
now meanwhile we're looking at
unprecedented sanctions against russia's
banks over its invasion of ukraine and
now taking a toll on its citizens
overseas as well who have now been left
scrambling to find some cash or turn to
cryptos transactions to get by now away
from destruction and death in ukraine
russians too are currently feeling the
heat of war from all sides let's have a
look at this detailed report
when constantine ivanov tried to
withdraw money from his russian bank
account at a cash machine in bali he
quickly realized the transaction was
blocked the 27 year old is one of the
russians abroad feeling the squeeze from
economic sanctions despite living far
away from home
this has created a huge problem for us
basically going to shops to buy products
to pay at the markets paying for staying
at hotels villas or guest houses we have
been left completely stripped of our
finances
it's like they have been completely
frozen and we cannot use our finances at
all over here
um
bali is a popular holiday destination
with russian tourists more than 1100
entered indonesia in january according
to data from the statistics bureau
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rivki saldi yanto is a cafe manager he
says there's been a decline in russian
customers in recent days and many now
pay with cash instead of credit card
mastercard and visa have suspended
services in russia and many of the
country's banks have been shut out of
international payment systems now some
russians have sought to open bank
accounts in indonesia like ruslan he
says the russian community is banding
together to help each other out
i have a local bank account and i will
help my friends as they helped me too
with their money
i will send my money to their bank and
so we russians will help each other as
we are now the only ones left
we have no one
despite the financial troubles
constantine is hopeful for a peaceful
resolution to the conflict
i think ordinary russian people are very
disappointed with the recent events and
developments
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absolutely no one needs a war
people of our country do not need a war
and neither do the people of ukraine
nobody wanted this war we are really
worried nobody wants war we all need
peace
now as united states has banned russian
oil imports oil prices have now gone up
dramatically and supply has also taken a
massive hit britain has now claimed that
it will phase the russian oil out by the
end of this year here are the details on
that
oil prices headed higher again on
wednesday that after the u.s moved to
ban russian imports
international benchmark brent crude hit
highs above 130 dollars per barrel in
early european trade
the uk also said it would phase out
russian imports by the end of the year
but it could be a different story for
the eu
robert yoga is an energy futures
strategist at mizuho
here in the united states i mean we
we've imported 200 000 barrels a day so
we can definitely exist without that
it's a spit in the bucket the eurozone
we're talking percentage points double
digits so it's a totally different game
european stock markets meanwhile saw a
sharp rebound in early trade the
regional stock 600 index rose around
three percent from the open hard-hit
banks travel stocks and automakers all
jumped four percent or more
investors picked up shares hammered by
the recent market sell-off but one
analyst told reuters there was little
sign of a change in sentiment
earlier in asia stocks fell again with
the shanghai composite index down more
than one percent
but the big falls of previous days were
avoided one trader said markets had
russia fatigue with all the bad news now
priced in
now as civilians there are torn apart in
this war
two weeks into russia's invasion on
ukraine amid this ruthless shelling and
attacks unparalleled human tragedies as
we see unfolds a young girl there is
seen singing a song inside a bunker
i'm going to leave you with that
oh
hello and welcome at this moment the
whole world's eyes are fixed on the
russian ukraine conflict there are
dozens of questions swirling in people's
minds and there are no certain answers
about how things could actually end up
and when there is so much global turmoil
who better than farid zakaria to try and
give us his sharp perspective on what's
happening at this moment how this could
end and the impact on the global world
order i am delighted to be joined uh
at this moment by one of the world's top
foreign affairs gurus farid zakaria
welcome again and thank you for agreeing
to do this
always a pleasure rahul
it's really early in the morning and we
deeply appreciate you agreeing to
participate in this conversation at such
short notice i have lots of questions i
want to run past you
because these are questions that nobody
has any clear answers to but i'm very
curious to see your take on each of
these i want to start by asking you how
do you think this russian invasion of
ukraine will end
um
it is an unequal fight it's a david and
goliath contest uh the russians have
one of the best armies in the world the
largest army in europe
highly sophisticated and putin has
rebuilt it from
the devastation during uh the the
collapse of the soviet union to a
formidable fighting force
um
they operate very well
they operate very well they are they
know how to uh
particularly this operation so
i i hate to say but it's the odds are
stacked against the ukrainians um
at that point
listening to putin's rhetoric my sense
is that regime change is absolutely
a number one priority for him he talks
about ridding the country of the nazis
and drug dealers who are now running it
which is
you know
absurd the president and prime minister
of ukraine are both jews so the idea
that you
he characterizes them as nazis is
private facing absurd but it tells you
his intentions so i assume that he wants
to conquer ukraine replace the
government
and then probably demilitarize it and
withdraw um and leave behind a kind of
puppets uh regime
much like the one he has in belarus for
example
i think that that last part will be very
hard because there what he's trying to
do is keep
a 44 million person country i mean
ukraine is the size of france
um
stable and viable and and
and you know kind of obedient
but they don't want the ukrainians uh
don't want that so i think there will be
uprisings there will be insurgencies
there will be all kinds of things if
there is this effort to put in place a
kind of puppet regime your best sense at
this time for either how long the
ukrainian army will be able to withstand
this russian assault we're hearing two
different takes one that the ukrainian
army so far has been able to push back
much more than the russian generals
would have expected and given the
hostility of the population this could
be bloody it could be long the other is
given just the sheer force that's been
unleashed against the ukrainians it's
only a matter of a few days
unfortunately i think it is probably
only a matter of a few days maybe but
longer than that the ukrainians are
fighting very hard um
on the other hand as i said they face a
form of formidable army and also
remember
the russians don't play by the same
rules
that the americans do they are not
careful about civilian casualties they
are not careful about collateral damage
you can see what they've been doing
despite what they claim um there are
apartment buildings in kiev but you know
being being bombed out
they are trying to instill a certain
amount of generalized fear in the
population um
and
given the firepower that you know given
for example the air dominance that
russia will have uh almost certainly
within a day
it's hard for me to see how the ukraine
is hold on it doesn't mean that there
won't be many parts of the country that
have not been subdued many neighborhoods
of cave that haven't been subdued but in
large measure the russian army will be
able to move into cities to particularly
the big cities
after the end of the cold war and the
disintegration of the ussr
many global pundits believe that this
kind of full-scale military invasion by
one large country
of another
relatively decent sized country is
unlikely to happen uh president putin
has completely smashed that notion which
many in europe till the last one believe
was just posturing
and was unlikely to happen
what's your reading of president putin's
mind at this moment what's the message
he's sending internally externally and
how much of this is to do with russia's
own politics
it's a very good question raul obviously
nobody can really
read his mind i have met putin several
times i interviewed him once for the
show but met him off the record several
times
the man i met and i this is consistent
with uh what others who have been in
similar positions and
many u.s officials have met him many
more times than i uh have said putin was
a
it was always a tough guy he was always
a russian nationalist but he was also
um rational calculating
um weighing the uh the odds
most of his other military interventions
have been limited
uh they have been fairly precise here he
goes into georgia
carves out these two parts of georgia
declares them independent republics and
then leaves um when he went into syria
it was a calculated largely air-only
operation so russian soldiers were not
on the ground and
withdrawals the minute he fails his
interests have been achieved
this feels much much larger
a more of a reckless uh move more of a
gamble i'm not sure even he knows what
the exact end game is um
it also feels like
ukraine for for putin is an emotional
issue if you listen to him um you know
he doesn't make a whole lot of sense as
i said he's talking about the the nazis
and drug dealers running the the
government he he's calling on the
ukrainians to rise up against the
government as if it's an unpopular
regime remember that zolinski was
elected with 70 of the vote
um and if anything you know putin's
actions have made him more popular and
the government more uh popular so
there's something slightly um weird to
be honest about the way putin is acting
now it feels more emotional it feels
that ukraine is neuralgic for him
and it feels as though he has not
worried too much about the fairly
significant costs
he could have got
the thing he wanted ukraine not being a
member of nato he had already got the
europeans had already made it clear that
they were not going to go along with
that
the german chancellor told putin this in
their in their one-on-one meeting uh
that you know look ukraine is not going
to become a member of nato for the
foreseeable future so that was not
enough
for putin what he needed was the
destruction of an independent ukraine
and the subjugation of it and that's a
different goal and as i say that seems
like a goal that is more about a
romantic emotional idea of uniting the
you know russia he sees himself as a
great czar and one of the things the
great tsars did
was add more territory to the russian
empire
and perhaps this is his effort to do
that russian experts and journalists who
are coming on our broadcast insist that
there are parts of ukraine especially in
the east where the russian army
is being welcomed with open arms and
that it's only in the west in the
ukraine and speaking part of ukraine
that there is opposition to
the presence of the russian army
your broad sense of how in general the
people of uh ukraine view this russian
invasion and is it true that you know
large parts of the population actually
don't mind russia's presence quite as
much as the east as the western part of
ukraine does
ukraine is a complicated country um the
crimea
which which putin annexed in 2014 was
both russian-speaking
and largely pro-russian and the people
in crimea were glad to be part of russia
because remember crimea was always part
of russia it was in a rather bizarre
moment given to ukraine in the 1950s by
khrushchev
then you have the eastern part of
ukraine which is
largely russian speaking it is not by by
the way a majority of ukraine or
anything like that it's about seven
percent of ukraine um
that is a little bit more complicated
there are russian speakers there but
that doesn't mean they're pro-russian
and that certainly doesn't mean they're
pro-putin we can't be sure what's going
on there uh because there is this these
two puppet uh regimes set up by putin
who are you know these these ukrainian
separatists so and there clearly are
some ukrainians uh in that seven percent
of the country who want uh a closer
relationship with russia but look you
don't have to speculate that much in a
country like ukraine because they've had
several elections uh the russians you
know the kind of pro-russian
segment of the ukrainian parliament
it was about
10 15 maximum in the last election and
there that that group has become much
smaller in a sense because the one thing
vladimir putin has done he has created a
much stronger ukrainian nationalism than
ever existed before he has created a
sense of a nation he has you know in the
way that threats often do
putin has made ukraine realize that it
thinks of itself as a nation so i
actually think
far from
uh the russian army being welcomed
by sending the russian army and he has
turned a lot of people who might have
been ambivalent about where they stood
uh inter ukrainian nationalists let's
spend a moment on president zelinski
you'd recall he was quite a star of the
world economic forum when he'd come to
davos soon after
being sworn in he was trying to remake
ukraine in a younger more business
friendly image
and here he is a former comedian actor
now
uh
you know fighting against immense odds
and emerging as a hero not just for the
people of ukraine but being praised
across the world how long can he and his
government last will he stay right till
the end or will is he likely to leave in
your view
um i i think that so far one would have
to say i'm i'm extraordinarily impressed
by
his courage i mean this is a man who's
still there he's still there with all
his top aides uh with the speaker of the
parliament with the defense minister uh
they are all in ukraine uh the former
president of ukraine poroshenko uh as
you probably saw the video is out uh
with a with a volunteer group with
rifles
this is a very different uh situation
than uh
afghanistan if you recall when ashwagani
got on a plane and led and left
so i think that
one has to be impressed by
zielinski's determination and courage
uh you know has he played everything
perfectly no he is a somewhat
inexperienced guy and he started talking
about maybe ukraine finding some way to
be to be neutral
i mean look if you had said that three
weeks ago
this crisis might have been averted
though again i i doubt it because if you
look at the
the the complexity the the thoroughness
of the russian operation and the degree
to which they're going
it feels to me like putin's goals were
much larger always um so yeah i think
zelda zelinski has been a good president
a good leader at a difficult time by the
way he's not just a comedian uh i've you
know i met him several times uh he built
a fairly impressive media business he
had his own you know kind of production
company and things like so he's he
started out as a comedian but he's also
a very successful businessman i mean you
know
successful by any standards in any
country you know tens of millions of
dollars of revenue and things like that
so many many employees so he's he's a
sophisticated person he's not quite uh
the you know the image that comes up
sometimes as a comedian is not quite
right
is the invasion of ukraine or comma or a
full stop in president putin's designs
and his vision of a new russia
because
many countries
joined the nato alliance after the
disintegration of the ussr
do you think that putin would want to
extend beyond
ukraine his attempt to try and add land
mass to russia or do you think this this
is the message he wants to send and this
is where it's likely to end
it's dangerous
to say uh to say uh anything about putin
because as i say he's become very
volatile and quite emotional
my own sense is that putin that right
ukraine
is centrally important to him that that
it is it ranks far above anything else
georgia and ukraine to him and in
ukraine in particular seem to be the
kind of crown jewels of the old uh
russian empire this is not just about
the soviet union which was a 70 year old
empire this is about the tsar's russia
which was 300 years i mean ukraine has
been part of the russian empire for a
long time but it's worth pointing out
ukraine has kept trying to
to free itself from that situation um
i don't think he would dare attack the
baltic republics which is the next and
closest
uh place he could go because they are
members of nato because it would trigger
the article 5 commitment and then he
would be facing
not just a nato but the united states
with nuclear weapons and i'm not sure
that even putin wants to do something
like that so what i think what he wants
at this point is that is a
defanged uh
subdued subordinated ukraine just like
belarus is like some of the other states
around him are
what the russians call their near abroad
and i suspect that he would regard this
as a great historical achievement in his
own mind as i say the kind of the tsar
who brought back ukraine after it had
dared to stray from the fold
president zielenski is making desperate
pleas for help
could and should the world have done
more could president biden
countries in europe have done more to
prepare ukraine for the scale of the
invasion that they're facing and
everyone's talking about hell but what's
the realistic help that ukraine can
expect now that the russian army is on
them
yeah great questions as as always rahul
in retrospect of course people could
have done more
but i think very few people believed
that there would be a russian onslaught
of this magnitude um you know even the
ukrainian government didn't believe it
for several weeks while the united
states was announcing the intelligence
had had predicting the moves of the
russian uh government and the military
which turned out i have to say to be
remarkably accurate i mean the u.s
intelligence in this case was almost
close to 100 percent accurate and the
ukrainians weren't willing to believe
that that putin was going to do what he
ended up doing so everyone has been in
some sense taken aback and in retrospect
more i think the most important thing
would have been more military hard way
it would not have deterred the russian
attack
but it could have helped ukraine defend
itself one of the things that seems to
be very effective has been the javelin
missiles uh which allow um
essentially anti-tank weapons and they
have allowed ordinary ukrainian soldiers
to be able to attack russian tanks it it
changes that david goliath uh equation a
little bit
um
and you're right about the you know the
challenge here is we're trying to do
something very very big and important um
but we don't have the means to do it
uh we don't have no no no western
country wants to try to go to war with
russia over ukraine
um ukraine is not a member of nato it is
not a you know does not have
self-defense treaties with any of those
countries um
and the russian army is as i say you
remember at the height of the cold war
the reason in the 1980s the united
states deployed short-range nuclear
missiles in europe
was that even then at that point the u.s
and nato did not believe that they could
be sure of winning a land battle against
the soviet army and so they wanted to
add in a nuclear component to say you
know this is the the threat it's not
just that we will feel a larger land
army against you but that we will use uh
our nuclear nuclear weapons so the the
russian army has always on that
p area been quite formidable it's an
easy area to move through ukraine is a
large flat country so
very hard to know
what could be done now other than raise
the costs
for russia in every possible way uh and
i think that is the steady path that the
the western world that a large part of
the international community is on
president zielenski has dialed prime
minister modi what do you make of
india's position at the united nations
security council india along with china
and the uae abstained
from passing from being part of a
resolution against the russian invasion
of ukraine which in some sense is
understandable given india's dependent
strategically on weapon systems from
russia which no other country including
the united states at this moment is
willing to give india trying to walk a
very fine line here how is that being
perceived internationally in your
view uh
not very well honestly uh i look
i think that
this is the greatest diplomatic crisis
for india since the end of the cold war
india has to figure out
what its strategic posture and and
vision
uh is going forward in a in a new world
and i think it still has not come to
terms with the fact that it has to make
strategic choice it cannot try to
continue to play this game of being
multi-aligned and all all this kind of
thing these are slogans these and this
is not strategy
um i understand
india's dependence on the
russians for military hardware nuclear
submarine aircraft carrier
but the truth is the real question is
should india be
moving in a different direction on that
front as well it's not entirely true
that no other country would give it
those things the us has offered to
engage in much deeper defense
cooperation with uh with india which
would clearly lead to that but the
indians have you know a long legacy of
dealing with uh with moscow and they
have a comfortable relationship in the
defense area and they want to preserve
that
and at the same time they want to
preserve a new uh they want a new
relationship with the united states it's
very simple it seems to me rahul we've
talked about this before the central
strategic fact for india the central
strategic fact probably for
the next 25 to 40 years
is the rise of china
india has to figure out in that context
what are its national interests and
therefore what is its grand strategy you
will notice that the much talked about
quad
is now a three-legged stool because
the other members of the court have come
out very resonately against the russian
aggression uh they are putting in
sanctions they are coordinating with all
the european countries
it is just india that is the odd man out
can i counter what you're saying to say
a quad was never about russia it was
about uh security in the indo-pacific
and it's a bit like america's
relationship with pakistan you know that
there are many things that are wrong
with what pakistan does but the
americans very often say we just hold
our nose and let it be india is the more
important partner there is no question
about that and if you speak to the
mandarins at the ministry of external
affairs they'll say the same thing that
yes what russia has done is wrong we
don't need to say so publicly we just
need to hold our nose as america does
when it comes to pakistan and focus
resolutely on india's national interest
first what america thinks doesn't matter
quite as much as what india needs to do
in its own larger interest
right and my the point i'm making is
what is in india's larger interests what
are what is in india's long-term
interest
given that the central reality is the
rise of china um i i have always
advocated that india have a much closer
strategic relationship with the united
states and if they had begun to do so
which to be fair prime minister manmohan
singh took india a long way forward in
that in that regard and if that process
had continued i'm i have no doubt
that the united states would be willing
to be india's
you know defense partner and by the way
one doesn't need to point out u.s
military hardware is a lot better than
russian military hardware
and so
there's first of all the practical
reason to do it secondly i understand
that there has to be a balancing but
even china
said
ukraine's independence and sovereignty
should not be breached no country
sovereignty should be breached um you
haven't even heard words like that come
out of out of new delhi and finally
this is not just about the the specifics
here in there is a broader issue of the
kind of rules-based international order
that india
and all countries benefit from uh if you
normalize the idea that a country can
simply take away territory from another
country
and there are no there are no norms
around it there is there are no
sanctions about it there is no deterrent
effect about it
you know does india really want a world
like that where the chinese army could
just come in and take more of kashmir
and it would there would be no you know
there would be no international uh uh
reaction uh does it want a world in
which this you know the the strong rule
this is entirely contrary to the vision
of you know uh nehru and india's
founders
look at what the kenyan
government did in the united nations the
kenyan
ambassador made this eloquent speech
saying look all africa's borders are
made up by colonial powers but we
decided that rather than go through
generations of war and insurgencies
encounter war we would live
within the u.n system within
international law within the
multilateral groups based international
order because we don't want a world
where the strong uh rule over the of the
weak and where might makes right
india has always talked that game uh
surely this is an important test case of
how it should walk on that on that on
the on this as i say on this most
central issue it's not a minor issue
this is going to be one of the defining
uh uh events for the post-cold war world
and let's face it india is on the wrong
side of it farid you spoke of the
chinese army coming in to kashmir and
taking parts of
ladakh i think what we've seen during
the galwan fist fight is that if the pla
came in they'll get as good as they give
and therefore uh that message has gone
across to beijing as well they've
amassed their forces india standing up
uh
with the belief that in a battle like
the one that we're facing with china
you're on your own and in the manner in
which the united states didn't
ultimately come to ukraine's rescue
nobody will come to india's rescue if it
had to take on the pla and therefore in
that very complex situation india must
do what india must
well look of course india must defend
itself and
what the chinese did in that case as you
and i talked about was totally
illegitimate um but
international legitimacy matters
international accountability master
matters these are these are not bogus
concepts look rally this is a
major violation of the rules based in
international order but let's keep in
mind that that that international order
that was set up largely by the united
states after world war ii
has held it remarkably well
if you look
at the 75 years since 1945 there are
very few instances of countries changing
borders by force acquiring territory and
annexing it by force
this was something that was routine in
international life if you look at the
hundred years before 1945 this was some
one of the most common things that
happened all the time a par province
like alsace lorraine which borders
france and germany went back and forth
between those two countries four times
in in 70 years these things happen very
rarely uh since 1945 so there has been a
very strong
uh
normative rules-based uh
uh system that has worked for the most
part okay and it only works if the
violations are held up as illegitimate
and i think what india would want in a
situation like that is that the world
condemned china yes it's going to be
hard to you know just to get into a
world war with china about it but
just as in 1962 the united states
uh condemned uh uh china and actually
helped india you would ex
i think hope for a lot more if more if
the chinese were to do it again
president after president trump was
voted out of power in the united states
president biden signaled that america
was once again
willing to engage more closely with its
allies and play in some sense as leader
of the free world of the democratic
order
how has president biden done in your
estimate so far he failed to invoke
swift sanctions against russia which
would have crippled uh the oligarchs and
impacted putin and all those around him
and hit the russian economy hard so the
one nuclear missile he had he held back
when he could have fired it and many
people are watching in india wondering
if he hasn't
invoked swift sanctions when russia
invaded ukraine in the way that it did
what's he waiting for
i think they've played a difficult hand
reasonably well
they have tried to mix
a degree of deterrence with the degree
of diplomacy they
offered russia several diplomatic
off-ramps at several points uh they
enlisted the
the europeans to do the same you know
macron and schultz so i think there was
a fairly
strong deterrent component and there was
a fairly strong diplomatic component
which is what you'd want in a situation
like this um and now that the russians
were not deterred they are trying to
pile on the costs
um you're right that he has not invoked
swift and as you probably know because
this has been well reported uh the
germans and the italians basically
refuse and swift can really only be
put in place with european approval the
italians want to continue to be able to
sell their luxury goods to the russians
the germans worry about their energy
relationship so
look everyone is is
trying to do what they can without
incurring too many costs on themselves
i think it's a mistake
i think that this is such an egregious
violation that it is very important that
it be called out that it it really
undermines the rules-based international
order and if you know it's important
that russia pay a price i would like to
see
the biden administration surprise us
with some of the counter measures you
know so far it's all been
fairly predictable
and it's the russians who have surprised
us with the brazenness
of their advance of the of the totality
of their military moves
what the west should be looking for is
what could it do
that would surprise the russians um you
know the part of what's going on here is
that there is a russian elite that uh
denounces
the west denounces the united states but
keeps all its money there buys all its
houses there sends its children to go to
school there uh there is this
extraordinary grand hypocrisy in russia
where they all want the fruits of the
of the western world western life
western civilization but while
denouncing it uh during you know while
denouncing it during the day they are
enjoying it uh during the in the night
and that process has to end that process
has to be called out uh if russia wants
to live as an isolated pariah state
that's its decision
but there should be some way to force
them to have to cut you know come to
terms with this hypocrisy before i enfor
it i want to ask you about the impact
that the ukrainian invasion of russia by
russia could have on china we know
president xi has signaled quite clearly
that he would like before his term is
over uh to win back the taiwan straits
to really to win back taiwan and to show
that he's been able to unify mainland
china will russia's invasion of ukraine
embolden president xi to make a bid for
taiwan especially given the fact that
neither europe nor the united states
came to ukraine's health
in a word yes how could it not right it
it it would embolden him because you are
seeing
the fraying of this of this of this
uh rules-based order that's all that's
restraining him in a certain sense
because he he knows that the military
has the capacity to do it what is what
is stopping him is the
the moral political and perhaps economic
costs that china would pay uh in in
doing it
china and russia are different russia
has basically turned into a kind of
geopolitical rogue state um
you know if you think about the invasion
of georgia if you think about the way in
which intervened in syria on behalf of
assad while assad was killing civilians
they actually assisted him in in killing
civilians bombing civilian targets um
the russian government goes out and
kills its dissidents even if they're in
germany or britain that's very different
it seems to me from china
china is not a declining power
desperately searching for some way to
pump itself up into a kind of moment of
glory china is a
rising power that continues to rise
economically technologically is looking
for greater political influence that
comes out of that
that's a much more difficult child
different challenge and and china has
so far at least again been fairly
rational and calculating in what it does
uh it does it it is not i mean there's
no example like ukraine or even georgia
that you that you've seen uh with regard
to china
but
without any question this would embolden
china this would make china feel that
there are no restraints left that the
barriers uh to entry for bad behavior in
the in the international system have
been lowered and that's one of the
reasons why i think india should think
very long and hard does it wander china
on its board it doesn't want to live
with the china for the next 30 40 years
that is far more powerful than than
india and and feels completely
unrestrained by international law by
international legitimacy uh and by
international rules
free they've asked you all kinds of
questions to which there were no easy
answers and i don't think there are too
many people in the world who could have
given as much sharp insights as you have
over the past half hour deeply
appreciate you taking out time
enjoy your chai i thought you'd be a
black coffee person in new york but i
see you still have your assam chai going
assam tea with hot milk as exactly as my
father used to have it and taught me to
do it in in bombay
at 35 years ago 40 or 40 years ago so no
matter which part of the world you're in
there's always a bit of india you carry
with you which is why it's so terrific
to have you back on india today once
again for your really sharp insights on
this russian invasion of ukraine and
what it means for the world thank you
right here are the images
right from day one all the way to day
15. india today has been bringing you
all these images in detail coming in
from the war-torn country of ukraine as
havoc in destruction continues even as
we speak on day 15 these are images
coming in right from day one of the
russian invasion images on your screens
here most haunting
from day one of the war all the way to
day 15 even as russian forces now
brutally inching closer to several
cities of ukraine in a bid to capture
this country at the earliest
and india today continues its relentless
coverage our largest team of reporters
on ground in ukraine i'm nabila jamal
i'm going to take you through all the
top developments coming in from the
water owned country as the russian
invasion of ukraine now enters day 15
here are the top developments ukrainian
authorities now saying that a children's
hospital in ukraine city of mario paul
was destroyed by russian airstrikes on
wednesday russian occupying forces
dropped several bombs on the children's
hospital leading to colossal destruction
disaster as we see
right here
mario paul images showing how the
hospital has been gutted down european
media there states that at least 17
staff
were wounded several pregnant women and
children were injured
the united states has condemned russia
for the barbaric attack of bombing of
children's hospital in ukraine officials
have said that a russian airstrike
buried patients in rubble despite a
ceasefire deal for people to flee the
besieged city of mario paul
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we have ukrainian president vladimir
zelinsky calling on the west to impose
even tougher sanctions on russia after
the airstrike on the maternity hospital
in mario paul wearing the traditional
water army green he said that the west
should strengthen the sanctions so
russia no longer has any possibility to
continue this genocide
an international atomic energy agency
has said that power has been entirely
cut to the chernobyl power plant the
site of the world's worst nuclear
disaster that happened in 1986 and its
security systems adding that no critical
impact on the safety from chernobyl
power loss
ukrainian president vladimir zelinsky
has now signed a law allowing civilians
in ukraine to use weapons against the
russian military and is valid for the
entire period of martial law
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president volatilinski now saying that
ukraine will try to evacuate civilians
through six humanitarian corridors today
from the capital city of kiev as well as
from cities of sumi and ergudar and
mario paul izum and walnujka
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british prime minister boris johnson has
informed ukraine's president vladimir
zelinsky that he was committed to
further tightening sanctions to impose
some maximum economic cost on russia
johnson has discussed the situation in
ukraine on a call with zelinski last
evening where he said that putin will be
held accountable for his terrible crimes
meanwhile big companies apple pay google
pay samsung pay all these payment
services no longer available in russia
today in addition mastercard and visa
payment cards issued by russian banks
have stopped working abroad and in
online stores
white house press secretary jen saki has
said that
russian president vladimir putin's
troops may arrange a provocation and be
preparing to use chemical and biological
weapons while passing the blame onto
ukraine
the european union has said that it was
stepping up sanctions over russia's
invasion of ukraine including targeting
more russian individuals and adding
banks in moscow's alley belarus
the 27 nation bloc was blacklisting 160
more russian parliamentarians as well as
oligarchs they were banned they've now
banned exports of maritime navigation
technology to russia and was including
crypto assets under its punitive
measures
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and now here's some big breaking news
coming in russian defense ministry has
now published a video of destruction of
fortified objects in ukraine by me 28
and k-52 attack helicopters
this is a video that's now just been
released by russia this fresh video here
shows russia
invading ukraine
and how this defense ministry video
that's been published by russia shows
destruction of fortified objects in
ukraine by the me28 and k-52
attack helicopters remember just moments
ago we had russian troops in fact the
ukrainian troops then
outrightly stating that they had
destroyed five russian tanks and right
after now we're looking at russia
releasing this new video that shows the
aftermath of quite some destruction
there in ukraine the destruction of
fortified objects in ukraine by their
knee 28 and ka 52 attack helicopters
this is the fresh video that's coming in
yesterday's largest report team of
reporters there on ground bringing us
all those details coming in even as
russian troops they're closing in on
some populist cities of ukraine
millions of them have already fled many
of them standing
with great spirit to fight for their
country
now amid growing warnings from the west
that moscow's invasion was about to take
a more virtual and an indiscriminate
turn ukrainian officials have now said
that a russian airstrike devastated a
maternity hospital in besieged sport
city of mario paul wounded at least 17
people including staff and patients the
ground shook more than a mile away when
the mario paul complex was hit by a
series of glass that blew out windows
ripped away much of the front of that
one building that you see here images
there that's really really upsetting and
very tragic police and soldiers there
have rushed to the scene to evacuate
victims carrying out a heavily pregnant
bleeding woman on a stretcher these are
sites coming in from mario paul the city
where
which has now come under severe attack
by russian forces constant bombarding
shelling and attacks
now has led to one hospital in mario
paul that's now been gutted in the
courtyard in the courtyard here the
images that we see of mangled cars that
have been burnt a blast crater extended
at least two stories deep you have
president olamir zelensky writing on
twitter that there there were people
there indeed children
women who were all buried under the
wreckage of that hospital and called
this strike an absolute atrocity
they want us to feel like animals
because they blocked our cities the
biggest cities in ukraine and they
blocked and and because they don't want
our our people to get some food water
yesterday for example children i don't
know if you if you know the children in
mariopol was
the child was dead
yes you know that that is the idea of
of this operation or or i don't know how
house putin's
telling about it
all right let me quickly cut across to
maria basarenko from kiev she joins us
to give us an understanding of what the
situation is like maria you've been
reporting extensively on ground bringing
us all the latest updates from uh the
capital city of kiev as we know uh many
of those russian tankers have been
destroyed this is what ukraine claims
give us the reality on ground what's the
situation when it comes to civilians we
see mario paul still being bombarded one
of the hospitals there that's been
completely torn apart
you're right so the news about mariupol
was really striking and it's largely
talked about here in kiev and kiesky
prepares for the great battle for kiev
which is still upon us and uh analysts
say that it can happen um in the nearest
future let's say the next week so maybe
on monday but we are waiting for days
already for you know the military
actions to proceed but russians have not
had any success so far so back to the
news from marigold um it is still um it
is in use which just put everybody uh
under shock and uh it's just the
striking pictures of of uh people of
women being evacuated pregnant women and
we know that 17 people were injured
three people were killed one of those
killed is a small child small
girl so these are kind of what ukraine
have
has been contemplating over um this last
day uh and today in kiev it is very
frosty very cold but um sunny you see
kind of spring weather this year is
really strange and by the way these cold
temperatures
is uh one thing which is um believed to
help ukrainian army because um if if the
temperatures will go down and the
weather forecast says that they can go
down even up to minus 20
degrees celsius it means that for
russians the um boeing uh the russian
russian convoy convoys of military
equipment would be just block blocked in
the fields because of this cold weather
and um they won't be you know
approaching kiev uh and in and the great
battle of kiev is also could be
postponed even further so this is kind
of how how the nature kind of helps his
ukrainian army to combat uh russians and
back to the news frankie
you know maria but before we come to
kiev i'd like you to give us uh a quick
insight into what happened in maria paul
we want to understand this hospital the
maternity hospital that has now been
bombed many in fact uh zielinski
claiming that many of them women
children still buried under the debris
and that's shocking we we want to know
the number of casualties what has
happened then was this a deliberate
target by the russian forces
yeah right so as i've mentioned official
number of casualties is 17 injured three
uh dead people
all of them are civilians so these are
uh women and children who wear at that
time at this hospital in mariupol and um
everybody is trying to understand why on
earth russians would do so and um we see
the news that a russian
spokesperson for the ministry of foreign
affairs announced just
less than an hour before the strike
during briefings that allegedly in this
mariupol hospital um as she said
ukrainian nazis we're hiding and this is
absolute uh lie straight lie coming from
the official of russia the spokesperson
of ministry of foreign affairs and this
is how they are trying to justify this
attack on civilians with 17 casualties
17 injured and three dead people so this
is this is uh how russians try to cover
their war crimes the um kind of
so-called operation of denasification
and everybody here in ukraine are asking
this question which is kind of in the
air uh how the bombing of maternity
house in mariupol um that has to do with
what has to do with the nessification
operation and uh i need to also mention
that in marijuana the situation is
really close to humanitarian crisis
because um here in kiev it is also kind
of compared with aleppo in syria the
situation is bad so russians did heavily
bombard the left bank of mariupol and um
there has been
no connections no news from zero coming
from there people couldn't reach their
relatives who live in mariupol because
of this heavy situation people are like
we see we see that there have been some
really intense attacks on several
residential areas here including that
maternity hospital that was targeted at
no civilian is safe mario paul we hear
the mayor declares that at least
thousand people have died so far and it
is a miserable state of affairs maria i
hope you are staying safe thank you very
much i'm going to come back to you but
here we're looking at the ukrainian
military that have now reported that
they have regained control of the harchi
and haruki barriers of ukraine this is
of course with great spirit that the
ukraine forces uh declare this russian
forces meanwhile have allegedly already
tried to encircle the city but they were
stopped by ukrainian is that these are
claims coming in from ukraine troops
several european media reports have
revealed that the head of our regional
state administration ole senegal
has announced that russian forces were
attempting to encircle the city but
we're repelled by the ukrainian
counter-attack a night strike two took
place in the sobohansky region of
marquee two women two children were
killed as well in this attack
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now some serious destruction in the port
city of mario paul meanwhile the capital
city of arkiv is currently bracing for a
final attack by russia it could happen
any time we're looking at tanks armored
personnel carriers that have been
deployed at key strategic locations in
fact my colleague god of servants right
there on ground in the ukrainian capital
he's speaking to soldiers preparing for
an imminent russian attack let's have a
listen
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russia is at the gates of kiev
the ukrainian capital readying for an
imminent russian attack
the defenders have deployed tanks and
armored personnel carriers at key
strategic locations to take on the
invaders
ukrainian soldiers in an exclusive
interview to india today revealed that a
few russian forces are already in the
capital city
how close are the russian forces to keep
right now
the russian forces they are in kiev
right now yesterday
our friends they saw
them in the forest eight eight
russian soldiers they already in kiev
soldiers yes yes yes yes
ukrainian troops see that after smashing
kiev's suburbs russian forces are
advancing from all directions
preparing for an all-out assault
we're expecting enemies from
some parts yeah and so of course they
would like to make a circle a round key
but so we are ready to meet him and so
our military forces they are very nice
in
protecting now really believed that they
will be mad by our people with flowers
but they we meet them
with bullets only
even as the war rages on the ground
moscow is bringing the heat down
diplomatically
vladimir putin's administration has said
kremlin is not trying to overthrow the
ukraine government
now ukrainian president vladimir
zelinsky too made a climb down
zielinski says he is no longer pressing
for nato membership
which is the biggest provocation for the
russian invasion
in another statement aimed at placating
moscow
zelensky has said he is open to a
compromise on the status of the two
breakaway pro-russian territories
doneesk and luansk
the climb down comes ahead of talks
between russia and ukraine in turkey on
thursday
this appears to be
new lines being dug new front lines here
in this battle for the defense of kids
so far these this war this conflict was
being fought in
in bucha or irpin on the outskirts but
now it appears that the battle is coming
much closer if talks do not succeed
to bring peace to bring about a
negotiated settlement then russia's big
assault on cave could begin
and this could happen as early as the
next 24 to 48 hours with cameraman pawan
kumar in cave ukraine god of 7th for
india today
has been more than two weeks into
russia's invasion into ukraine ruthless
shelling attacks still continue along
with unparalleled human tragedy in har
cave a shopping center was completely
destroyed by the ukrainian military
reported that they have regained control
of the hachi anhar key barriers of
ukraine a factory and a store were on
raging fire after being bombarded in
airplane on the outskirts of kiev now
meanwhile in the bravawski district in
ukraine today we saw a russian tank that
was set on fire as volunteer battalions
and the ukraine forces are going out all
out in fact to stop russian
forces from capturing their cities
they're fast approaching and advancing
we're seeing ukrainians putting up a
tough fight horrific images of a
hospital under attack from mario paul
that came to four at least 17 people
have been injured we're looking at a few
who've been killed as well in this
attack several are feared missing
you european media has reported claims
that ukrainian
troops have wiped out four russian su-25
aircrafts two helicopters and two cruise
missiles in kiev and the joint force
operation regions meanwhile more than 50
000 people from sumi have been evacuated
from the ravaged war-torn country of
ukraine in the last 48 hours remember
many of them being indians as well
most of them we hear have now been
evacuated from the sumi region ukrainian
president
vladimir zilinski has meanwhile said
that 35 000 people have been rescued
through humanitarian corridors and at
least five humanitarian corridors will
be opened up from kiev sumi
and nerhodar and three other cities
our india today reporters have been
along those areas where we're seeing
large-scale devastation in ukraine
they're on ground india today's foreign
affairs editor geeta mohan in fact gets
us this exclusive report coming in from
a bomb shelter in kiev and due to
security reasons there was no lights
inside the bunker but whatever we've
managed here let's have a look
russian soldiers or russians who want to
enter and infiltrate ukraine can speak
the language but can they read it and
that's the reason why they have this
so they have this text as a as a test
and not just this quite a few others in
the documents
and uh
genie here will try to explain it to me
uh as to what this really means what why
do you have this text and why do you
really need to
have people come and take the test so we
created this sentence actually if you
translate it it doesn't make sense but
this text helps us to tell if ukrainian
is here or russian because it's very
difficult for russians to pronounce
those sounds because
some of them are purely ukrainian and
only ukrainian can pronounce it
correctly and you can hear very clearly
if it's ukrainian or russian when you
ask to pronounce this sentence it's a
very very smart technique to ensure that
russians do not infiltrate the shelters
these this is just one test there are
many others they make them read
documents to ensure that only ukrainians
come to the shelter and russians do not
infiltrate they have not entered the
city yet the the city still has still
not been breached by the russians but uh
staff who have been trained are going to
take no chance
here's some big breaking news coming in
in sitome region the airstrikes by
russia there continues a massive fire
was reported in a building and as a
result of that explosion one person has
been killed two have been injured
here day 15
scenes coming to four india today
bringing you all those factual details
from ground zero massive blaze there
that's adopted after the russian
airstrike in zithome region the air
strikes by russia there continues
unabated a massive fire that's now
broken out was reported in a building
and as a result of that explosion we're
looking at one person who's lost your
life too injured in this airstrike
russia there relentlessly attacking
different areas regions of ukraine we're
looking at this area that's been
bombarded by air missiles a massive
glaze that has erupted after russian
airstrikes that's coming in images
coming in with one person that's been
killed two injured in this airstrike
unfortunate state of affairs as
ukrainians there in the zhitomi region
fight back
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now cutting across to goddess 7th who's
on ground zero
in ukraine he's having a conversation
with ukraine's deputy foreign minister
emin on the talks between russia and
ukraine here's what he had to say
and joining me now on this india today's
special broadcast from kiev is the first
deputy foreign minister of ukraine
amnesty zapparova many thanks for
speaking to us here on india today
what is your appreciation what do you
expect from the talks that are happening
between russia and ukraine and turkey in
turkey do you think there could be a
breakthrough
greetings from ukraine um
for us
for ukrainian diplomacy that has been
captained by president zelinski
according to the constitution
there are some
uh notions and some stents
that are of vital interest
and that are of our principled uh
position and that are of international
law and international order
and for today we have three elements of
this uh
stand and position that pro and that
will also be discussed tomorrow
during the meeting uh between two
foreign ministers kuliaba and lavrov
under the mediation of minister
chavusabu and these positions are very
clear and this is the ceasefire
this is the deoccupation of ukrainian
territories because territorial
integrity is the very sacred frame and
basis for
international law in order that we are
fighting for and that ukrainian soldiers
and people are dying for
and the third is the resolution of the
humanitarian disaster because
unfortunately the consequence of the war
for average people is is is really
disastrous uh thousands hundreds of
thousands of ukrainian people
have been uh left without electricity
water and food supply because of the
shillings and air strikes people dozens
of people people have been killed in a
very barbaric way
the heavy artillery has been used
against ukrainian people so humanitarian
corridors that have been agreed on the
previous days were failed and we even
had um casualties when people were their
buses and cars with people were just
were just attacked and short because
they were failed and i think that russia
has been and was doing it on purpose
just to make the evacuation by the
russian territory thus showing itself as
a glorious and uh
noble savior
do you also anticipate that there could
be
perhaps conversation or conversation
between president zielinski of ukraine
and president putin of russia in in the
times ahead and is there a window when
this conversation could take place
it is difficult to say for now if there
will be a breakthrough again let me be
crystal clear about our position which
stands on international law this is not
something that we artificially put on
the top you know just to trade or to
negotiate
these are the very bases that we stand
on and uh we believe that this is
something that we all have to understand
and protect because this is the very
basis of international order and law
uh i'm sure
again that the war that we have today is
by the way a direct consequence of our
inability to stop aggression in 2014 and
if you ask me uh
my personal feeling is that if we are
not able to stop aggression today
here uh in ukraine the the the
aggression will be bigger and it will
grow
and we have this case in 2014 so this is
something that we will stand on
with regards to our position again these
three elements are crucial and vital for
us my minister minister kuleva was clear
saying that he expects a serious and
constructive conversation with minister
lavrov and that he wants minister of not
be also constructive not just bringing
this you know classic
uh propaganda narratives about uh their
special operation russian special
operation to save ukrainian people from
war or these false allegations of of uh
committing genocide in ukraine on nashes
and fascists and this kind of narratives
and propaganda which is an absolute
different reality all those who
came to ukraine and all those who know
ukraine this is really far beyond the
reality here so we expect minister
lavrov to be constructed and and a
serious conversation should take place
the other issue is that president
zilensky was also clear that he thinks
that there should be a direct contact
with president putin to discuss these
issues
and uh this negotiation tomorrow might
be also the pretext meeting for the
meeting between two presidents that
ukrainian side expects
your ambassador to india had indicated
that prime minister narendra modi could
play a role in persuading the russian
president vladimir putin to stop
hostilities in your appreciation what
role can and should india play apart
from of course providing all the
medicines and supplies that are required
it's really difficult to say but what we
see so far is a tremendous solidarity
both of ukrainian society and
international community
in ukraine what amazes everyone and
myself
is that people are that much united that
they are trying to stop russian tanks
with bare hands that they try to build
up
live shields to protect for example
nuclear plants and this is something
which is a great bravery the other issue
is the international community
consolidation and the sanctions that we
see because the policy behind
is that sanction is the only way to
deter russian aggression because the
price of the war should be high for
russian people and russian leadership
and
what we see is a step-by-step policy
what we see is that thousands of
business
brands have been already left the
russian markets we see the
trade embargo we see the import embargo
for the russian oil so we think that the
russian economy should be weakened to
that state
president putin
understands that he committed a mistake
and to that state that the russian side
could could ray trade and put back to
the civilized way of interaction with
states not by war and blackmail and
threat but by communication by going
back to the international order and
international law and this is crucial
deputy foreign minister of ukraine for
joining me here on this india today
special broadcast many thanks
all right even as we get some voices
coming in from ukraine two weeks on into
russia's invasion to ukraine amid
ruthless shelling attacks and
unparalleled human tragedy we're seeing
some signs of hope a young girl seen
singing a song inside a bunker i'm going
to leave you with that
oh
[Laughter]
[Applause]
india today has been relentlessly
getting you every latest defining image
right from the beginning 14 days ago
to two weeks later and where things are
at with this huge expanding military
operation that has been called the
invasion of ukraine the word invasion
has been criminalized in russia here are
those defining images
big defining image number one after a
deadly clash
ukrainian troops are reported to have
seized this russian tank you can see on
your screen a ukrainian
tank or an armored personnel carrier
throwing away a russian tank in an
unidentified
war zone in ukraine it would just be
big defining image number two on day 14
ukrainian troops shot down or claimed to
have shot down another russian
helicopter close to the mikko live
region in south central ukraine on your
screens you can see the wrecked parts of
what appears to be an attack helicopter
which crashed in the field after being
hit by ukrainian ground forces using air
defense weaponry
big defining image number three on day
14 russia has wreaked havoc in the city
of sumi close to the russian border
horrifying footage of yet another
neighborhood laid to waste a signal of
the kind of destruction that's
escalating in this northern city from
where there was a humanitarian corridor
that was activated over the last 48
hours from which hundreds of indian
students were also pulled up
defining image number four on day 14 the
aftermath footage of kiev's destruction
continuous heavy shelling has destroyed
the capital city in its suburbs you can
see shelled buildings damaged cars
bodies lying around life around the cave
has come to a standstill but the city
itself is standing tall no damage within
the city there was an air raid siren
just a few moments ago
defining image number five is what the
evacuation from one of the largest
suburbs of cave earpin looks like from a
drone you can see a sea of people on
foot crossing a destroyed bridge to get
across the river and to leave their city
artillery and airstrikes have caused
heavy damage in and around airplane
india today has been reporting from the
ground here
defining image number six on day 14
appalling images from kharkiv which
continues to be the most damaged city in
ukraine at this time 40 kilometers from
the russian border it is ukraine's
second largest city
a metropolis that was once buzzing with
people now wears a deserted ghost-like
look buildings in many neighborhoods
targeted in heavy shelling cars and
property extensively damaged in this
part of kharkiv
defining image number seven on day 14
russia continues its onslaught in
ukraine russian troops destroyed a
military dormitory in the jatomir region
just west about 50 kilometers from kiev
images show a shell building and
personnel or people trying to ascertain
the extent of the damage it is not known
just yet what kind of damage was caused
in terms
dividing image number eight on day 14
footage shows ukrainian
a ukrainian group on a tractor pulling a
russian tank amidst snowfall you can see
a man on top of the tank and another one
driving the tractor
this video has been going viral on
social media
meanwhile defining image number nine on
day 14 heavy shelling continues between
russian and ukrainian troops in the
kharkiv region it's just 40 kilometers
from the russian border these images of
shelling and rocket fire lighting up the
night sky becoming one of the most
familiar images in different cities this
is from last night
in the skies over kharkiv according to
reports russian troops attacked a
residential area of kharkiv with heavy
artillery but this is a claim that's
been denied by the russians
defining image number 10 on day 14 as
russia continues to attack at least 11
different cities of ukraine 150 often
children mostly babies and toddlers from
la viv arrive at the censul station in
poland volunteers and police officers
are seen giving soft toys to kids as
they're carried from the station and
loaded onto buses towards an uncertain
future in foster care
russian anti-war protesters face a
police crackdown meanwhile on your
screens demonstrator being brutally
arrested during an anti-war protest in
saint petersburg the man was hit several
times by russian police after being
arrested and then taken away in a truck
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as ukraine fiercely continues to battle
russian forces this visual shows
ukrainian servicemen inspecting a
charred russian tank in the sumi region
of ukraine the same city from which over
700 indian students were extracted as
part of operation ganga yesterday
in the face of continuing and escalating
russian assaults members of the
territorial defense unit in cave have
got
i beg your pardon have guarded stood
guard around the national opera house in
the city of odessa in the south with
sandbags and anti-tank hedgehogs
defining image number 14 on day 14
dramatic images captured on india
today's cameras by our correspondent
didenko in the city of kharkiv footage
exclusive to us showing
what the ukrainians claim to be the
shootdown of a russian air force sukhoi
su-34 fighter bomber
this was on the outskirts of kharkiv
listen to the sounds
defining image number 15 on day 14
ukraine troops in no mood to give up on
your screens thermal imaging footage
from drones capturing what appears to be
a ukrainian attack on a russian
artillery position according to repair
to reports ukraine has managed to
extract quite a bit of damage on the
russian armored column so far
defining image number 16 on day 14
russian planes drop bombs uh on claimed
residential cities of sumi city in the
north leaving many including kids and
women dead and injured on your screen is
the aftermath of destruction that was
brought to bear
24 hours
defining image number 17 on day 14
ukrainian troops claimed to have shot
down another russian plane in the last
24 hours not far from the capital city
cave huge explosion as this aircraft
hits the ground and catches fire massive
plume of smoke from the wreckage as well
defining image number 18 on day 14 cctv
footage captures a russian attack on an
oil depot in the jatomi region just west
of kiev the attack was followed by a
huge towering inferno as the oil depot
caught fire
similar images from another angle more
realistic not cctv images but captured
from someone who was close by the
jatomir oil depot
a huge huge blaze that was seen for many
miles around lighting up that night sky
defining image number 20 on day 14
footage from the northern city of
shernihev uh north of key very close to
the russian border where russians are
said to have attacked another
residential area shelled buildings
damaged vehicles broken glass
destruction all around shernihid has
been hit with a lot of shelling in the
last few days
defining image
number 21 on day 14 russia has stepped
up the shelling in residential areas of
kharkiv as well we are given to
understand that many different places
where this kind of look with cars
damaged a few people can also be seen
trying to ascertain the extent of the
damage in one neighborhood after the
other
russian troops also reportedly attacked
the residential area of bravari on the
outskirts of keep this image from
yesterday shows a church which has been
evidently struck there is no
confirmation of any casualties in this
particular attack just yet brobari is
just east of kiev and is a suburb
defining image number 23 on day 14 as
russian troops advance towards the
capital the nearby city of irpin has
faced a huge amount of heat these images
from india today's cameras yesterday
locals crossing a destroyed bridge as
they get out of their shattered city
image number 24 russian nationals
continue to bear the brunt of the
economic sanctions imposed by several
countries of the world these images from
the varadero airport in cuba where
almost 300 stranded russian tourists
were seen going through the boarding
bridge to fly back home the number of
companies exiting russia is huge moscow
citizens are feeling the heat
big defining image number 25 on day 14
as russia continues the attacks on the
streets of ukraine drone footage shows
refugees fleeing ukraine from the port
of isakia in romania on a ferry-like
barge
defining image number 26 on day 14 big
explosion in the separatist luhansk
region in the last 48 hours according to
reports an oil depot was gutted in
firing amidst heavy shelling from
russian forces
defining image number 27 on day 14
russia has also upped the offensive uh
yesterday with shelling battering a
residential building in the northern
city of kharkid according to reports two
buildings have been destroyed in the
airstrike by russian troops
defining image number 28 on day 14
russian troops target a residential
building once again
a video has emerged in the aftermath of
that shelling in ukraine's second
largest metropolis you can see a
building on fire no confirmation just
yet on any casualties
defining image number 29 on this the
14th day horrific images of bodies of
civilians on the streets of kharkiv in
neighborhood after neighborhood on the
back of russian shelling in this
particular area russia continues to hold
that the military of ukraine is using
civilians as human shields
defining image number 30 on this the
two-week mark in this crisis ukrainian
troops claim to have shot down this
russian fighter jet this was captured on
india today's cameras on the outskirts
of kharkiv ukraine has so far claimed to
have brought down 45 russian
aircraft and helicopters since march the
5th
14 days marked by doom
damage
debris
aired sirens in the heart of kiev
on the 14th day of war it appears to be
a cause for concern
six war reporters
one unmissable broadcast
with continued heavy bombing and
shelling in the second largest city of
ukraine that is car cave it is the
children who've become the worst victim
of this war
most extensive broadcast from the war
zone
24 hours seven days
all the time uh kiev right now is like
he's like a castle
india today reports from eight besieged
cities
journalists
this
fearless and uncompromising in the real
war zone for india today for india today
for india today
world watches
india today
hello and welcome to an india today
special broadcast on day 14 of the
ukraine russia conflict i'm gaurav
savant over the course of the next half
hour india today and our biggest team of
reporters on ground zero from kiev to
kharkiv from mario pole to
irpin we will get you the latest ground
reports on the battle and the various
twists and turns in this battle on
ground
and on the diplomatic front
day 14 of the battle is really close to
the capital kiev right behind me
preparations on to make sandbags very
close to the presidential palace is that
an indication that the security cordon
is now increasingly getting shrunk while
russia may have announced
a corridor of silence
that means russia says it's a unilateral
ceasefire on its side in cities like
kiev kharkiv churny hive mario pole so
that people can leave these cities what
does that indicate is this then the lull
before the big storm
two weeks into russia's invasion on
ukraine
ruthless shellings missile strikes and
aerial attacks continue unabated
and so does the unparalleled human
tragedy
air raid alerts continued to blare in
capital kiev second largest city of
kharkiv and winistia
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residents still hold up in the
devastated cities had to run for their
lives for the nearest bomb shelter
an air raid siren over cave yet again
we're in the heart of cave and you can
look around the air red sirens once
again people are being asked to rush to
evacuate vehicles uh security asking
vehicles to get off the road but these
area sirens despite russia saying that
there will be no action
enters the air raid sirens continue to
go off of course there have been air
attacks and missile attacks in some
other areas but right now aired sirens
in the heart of kiev
on the 14th day of war it appears to be
a cause for concern
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khaki buildings were reduced to ruins
after heavy shells
smoke engulfed cars
trees burnt and charred
the aftermath of an air attack a broken
bridge in urban
a kiev suburb narrated the fierce
destruction
fleeing locals had to cross the broken
bridge putting themselves in grave
danger
here right now is like it's like a
castle
uh with lots of blog posts with lots of
uh people around who are working working
together and they don't don't get about
their occupations they're just
taking guns they're
taking everything they can they're
organizing themselves
they are communicating they're
searching for information they're
checking the information they are
helping to poor people they do a lot of
things humanitarian things military
things assisting things a lot of it
and i just want to mention that to
alex's previous wars
more than 50 children
become a victim of this pudding
innovation
a massive russian attack on a military
dormitory in saitomar left it in
drawings
the entire area was demolished beyond
recognition
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sumi the northeastern city of ukraine is
flattened after successive attacks
ukraine said russian bombardment claimed
over 21 lives including that of three
children on wednesday
india had used the green corridor from
sumi to evacuate stranded students
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but the ukrainians continue to fight
with resilience
they shot down a russian chopper in the
v hours around the micro lav region
seized russian tanks were seen being
towed away but amid unending crisis
there were first signals of a possible
truce
president zelinski in a big climb down
said that he is no longer seeking for a
nato membership for ukraine
adding that nato is not prepared to
accept ukraine and he understood this a
long time ago
he said nato is afraid of confrontation
with russia
the war is going exactly the way
russians expected it to go
these are small small setbacks here and
there technical setbacks they are not
major strategic setbacks they are very
tactical nature and they can be overcome
sooner or later but see how things are
changing diplomatically and on a
political front yeah zelinski who
appeared to be so adamant until a few
days back about negotiating with russia
and with putin directly he's now you see
his stance changing now and he's coming
down and he's willing for a negotiation
yeah not only that ukraine probably will
not be pressing for its membership of
nato but also that they are ready to
talk about crimea and those donbas yes
and that's a major shift in policy what
russia anticipated and what russia
planned and what russia executed it's
going exactly as they wanted
will zelensky's conciliatory note strike
a chord with putin
with gaurav savant and rajesh power in
kiev
bureau report
india today
has ukraine been led up the garden path
poland offered to give all its
functional mig-29 fighters to ukraine
but not directly
poland says it will park them at the
ramstein air base in germany and it
wants aircraft in turn from the united
states for its air force
what does this indicate i want to cut
across to india today's foreign affairs
editor geeta mohan who joins us for more
on the story gita bring us the
diplomatic front battles that are on and
is ukraine increasingly
getting only lip sympathy and service
from the rest of the world gita
ukraine has been left to its own devices
to take on russia in the latest the
united states of america has rejected
poland's offer to send mig-29s via nato
base in germany this even as nato
continues to reject ukraine's pleas and
requests to declare ukrainian airspace
as no-fly zone
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over two weeks of relentless attacks by
russia
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multiple ukrainian appeals to nato for
help
mt promises for ukraine
we're in this together we will succeed
together uh ukraine is going to prevail
but zillenski is all alone in this war
and now the west has pulled a new stunt
over hapless kiev over sending fighter
jets to take out advancing russian army
nato member poland did a symbolic offer
to send mig-29s to support ukraine's air
defense but with a massive catch
warso said it will merely send its jets
to nato air base in germany's ramstein
putting the owners on the u.s to send
the jets to ukraine
the proposal faced a categorical
rejection pentagon wary of getting drawn
into the war called the offer untenable
adding that deploying jets from nato
base to ukrainian airspace will be an
act of direct conflict and raise serious
concerns for the entire military
alliance
there's already a sense of betrayal in
ukraine right now now they're playing
chinese checkers with their jets as part
of the nato alliance but not actually
substantively sending any forces into
into ukraine it is understandable why
they don't want to do that but these
little moves between poland and germany
and nato and the us just shows that
there is no plan in place
this essentially means zilenski and
ukraine are left to fend for themselves
against putin's army with no help
forthcoming from the west
they are attacking civilians and attacks
against civilians cannot be left
responded for too long that is why i
expect the governments of the nato
countries yes to be reacting uh in the
nearest future
this is not the first time zelensky is
facing betrayal from the west a week ago
nato rejected zelensky's fervent appeal
to enforce a no-fly zone on ukraine's
skies
today the leadership of the alliance
gave the green light for further bombing
of ukrainian cities and villages having
refused to set up a no-fly zone
could the nato and west avert the
massive human suffering and
unprecedented destruction of ukraine are
they simply wilted in the face of
putin's unprecedented show of strength
bureau report india today
i now hand over to my colleague rajesh
pavar who brings you the latest on the
big statement delivered by president
zilensky
ukrainian president vladimir zelinsky
has made a huge climb down by saying
that ukraine is no longer interested in
a nato membership there is a sense of
betrayal here in ukraine
nato so far has just been about talk and
ukrainians feel that they have been left
alone in their fight against the russian
zelinski says that the alliance is
afraid of taking bold decisions and a
confrontation with russia
yes
um today i've asked 27 european leaders
whether ukraine will be in nato
i've asked directly everyone is afraid
no one answers
but we are not afraid we are not afraid
of anything
we are not afraid to defend our country
we are not afraid of russia we are not
afraid of talking about neutrality
we are not nato members at the moment
but what guarantees will we get
ukraine's bid to get membership of the
north atlantic treaty organization
is at the heart of the russia-ukraine
conflict that has now triggered a
full-blown war
the two countries are at each other's
throats
the third player nato is silent over the
key issues
while thousands are displaced and
hundreds dead nato is not committing to
a membership for ukraine so far
ukrainian president vladimir zelinsky
has also urged nato to enforce a no-fly
zone over his country's skies and
protect them from russian missiles and
warplanes
nato has not agreed to either of his
demands
nato is a defensive alliance
our core task is to keep
our 30 nations safe
we are not part of this conflict
and we have a responsibility to ensure
it does not escalate and spread beyond
ukraine
because that would be even more
devastating and more dangerous
feels let down by his western allies
he said the west could have helped
ukraine but they witnessed our city get
bombed
as the war rages in ukraine nato allies
seem to have made distinctions in the
help they offer
while they may supply weapons to ukraine
they will not enter the war in any
active role
ukrainians will have to defend their
land themselves
bureau report
india today
over to segee now who will take us
through ukraine's big and unexpected
fight back
14 days on ukraine has put
up a kind of resistance that wasn't
expected russia from the first day had
impressed upon the ukraine troops to lay
down arms
but that has not happened
from home ground
advantage to information world war
we record five reasons how ukraine has
showed russia's
advance
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when russia invaded ukraine on 22nd
february
many felt it would be only a matter of
days before the mighty russian military
got the better of the ukrainian forces
here's some big breaking news coming in
from ukraine we're looking at trilateral
talks between the foreign ministers of
ukraine russia and turkey that have
started now in turkey with ankara hoping
that they could make a turning point in
this conflict
ukrainian foreign minister mitro kuleba
has tempered expectations here for a
ceasefire agreement or other results
from the meeting with russian
counterparts sergey lavrov moscow has
now said that all of its demands
including that of kiev taking a neutral
position and drops aspirations of
joining the nato alliance must be met
with
to end this assault
remember we're looking at talks now
that's taking place
attempt to peace talk that comes for the
first time since the invasion trilateral
talks that's currently underway between
foreign ministers of ukraine russia and
turkey
now
we've started
these talks in turkey with ankara now
hoping hard that they could make a
turning point in this conflict ukrainian
foreign minister mithro coleba has now
tempered expectations for a ceasefire
agreement or other results from the
meeting with the russian counterpart
sergey lavrov
moscow has now said that all of its
demands including that kiev takes the
neutral position and drops aspirations
of joining the nato alliance must be met
with to end its assault
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[Applause]
yeah we're looking at peace talks for
the first time since the invasion
remember this is day 15 of war in
ukraine russia's forces there in quick
succession advancing towards
the ukrainian cities and even as
bombarding and shelling and bombing
takes place in several districts of
ukraine we're looking at trilateral
talks that's taking place simultaneously
between the foreign ministers of ukraine
russia and turkey they've started in
turkey with ankara now hoping that they
could mark a turning point in this
conflict remember all talks in the past
have uh have failed in fact ukrainian
foreign minister this time the mithra
coleba has now tempered expectations for
a ceasefire agreement or other results
from the meeting that could take place
now in fact even as talks happen here
with russian counterparts sergey lavrov
we're looking at ukraine's softening it
stands moscow has said that all of its
demands including that of kiev taking a
neutral position and dropping
aspirations of joining the nato alliance
must be met with to end this assault
very recently we heard
well other mayor zilinski the president
of ukraine very clearly stating that
they're not insisting no more to join
the nato they're not insisting on a nato
membership anymore this is a huge step
down
from those
points that ukraine has been adamant on
but now looking at several of their
cities now being bombarded by russian
forces we're looking at ukraine now
softening its stance they're hoping for
a turning point in this conflict with
these stocks that's currently taking
place peace talks that's still underway
with foreign ministers of ukraine the
mithra coleba as well as russian
counterpart sergey lavrov
hello and welcome to an india today's
special broadcast that comes to you from
the strifed on ukrainian capital cave
i'm gaurav savant the situation in cave
does remain extremely tense there was
shelling that was reported in multiple
parts of this country we'll tell you
about that in greater detail during the
course of the hour in the day but for
now we will concentrate on air power and
the effective use of air power and air
defense
russia's attempts to have total air
supremacy and ukraine's efforts and
heroic efforts in places to ensure that
russia does not enjoy that air supremacy
denying the use of air power or at least
checking it as much as possible over the
course of the next half hour india
today's team of reporters
here in ukraine and our producers in
delhi will get you all the details on
this very crucial aspect but that big
story that's coming up is
the united states rejecting poland's
offer of the mig-29 air superiority
fighters now poland yesterday had said
late yesterday poland claimed that they
are willing to offer
every operational mig
fighter jet in the inventory of poland's
air force
and give it to ukraine but not directly
here's the catch
poland said they will have all these
mig-29 operational fleets of mig-29
positioned at the ramstein air base in
germany this is a crucial north atlantic
treaty organization air base in germany
it's used by the u.s air force and u.s
forces very extensively so they said
they'll fly all these aircraft to
germany
position all the fighters there and
ukraine can collect it from germany
point one point two
the second catch ukraine wanted uh
poland wanted corresponding u.s fighters
with the same
ever the aircraft same shelf life and
whether it's the airframe engine or
avionics they should be ever these what
they said and they wanted with
corresponding lifespan so even if
they're second-hand aircraft they have
to have the corresponding lifespan
the united states has rejected that
offer the united states says this
requires more discussion with other
partners and this as the u.s put it was
completely untenable
this is the second time that the north
atlantic treaty organization the united
states poland they appear to have let
down let down
ukraine and how
i quickly now want to cut across to
india today's executive editor shivaru
joining us for more on this big story
and shiv explains why poland's offer was
untenable as the u.s put it and why
poland has been let down for the second
time
the ukrainians including president
zielinski have said that we need a
no-fly zone or plan b is we need fighter
aircraft that our pilots can fly if not
yours and therefore please give them to
us as quickly as possible poland has
said that we'll give you these fighters
and we will send them to germany we
won't send them to poland but we will
send them to germany to the ramstein air
base it says it's up to they've put it
in the us hands they've said we'll send
these jets there it's up to the us to
send the jets to ukraine so there's
there's that uh caveat also the u.s says
the jet offer is untenable you're
sending them to us and we'll have to
send them uh you know so one of the nato
countries will be seen as indulging in
an act of war against russia the us is
unwilling to get drawn into this war
president biden has already made that
very clear but the us wants these nato
countries
over here you send your jets to ukraine
and help them out but we will not play a
part in this is being seen the reason
why we're saying this is shambolic is
because because
the this this is the second big betrayal
after nato has
said that we will not accede to this
request from nato saying please impose
impose a no-fly zone over over um over
uh ukraine now the western jet stunt is
this is how it's playing out in europe
that is warsaw that is the capital of
poland that's where that's the country
in which all these mig-29 fighters are
the reason why mig-29 fighters are
important is because ukraine also flies
mig-29 fighters so it's being seen as a
commonality a common platform that their
pilots can fly with very little uh you
know uh conversion training they want to
send it from warsaw to ramstein which is
in germany germany doesn't have a border
with uh with ukraine poland does
in ramstein though the plan the the the
skeletal plan is ukrainian pilots can go
that train on those aircraft and those
fly those aircraft to ukraine because
germany certainly doesn't want to have
any part of it the pentagon says we
cannot send polish jets to ukraine we
will not do that from ramstein because
that is
something that impacts the entire
nato alliance so it's a bit of a mess
you've got the west uh looking actually
quite silly right now because they
there's already a sense of betrayal in
ukraine right now now they're playing
chinese checkers with their jets as part
of the nato alliance but not actually
substantively sending any forces into
into ukraine it is understandable why
they don't want to do that but these
little moves between poland and germany
and nato and the us just shows that
there is no plan in place ukraine being
let down yet again by the north atlantic
treaty organization countries
this offer of poland was shambolic u.s
says it's untenable but poland
apart ukraine is desperately trying to
protect its its its skies its airspace
it shot a no-fly zone but that no-fly
zone very clearly is not possible but
how is ukraine defending itself ukraine
is using its air defense assets
to the
fullest today is day 14 of that war day
14 of the war the air defense assets the
surface-to-air missiles the
surface-to-air batteries they remain
intact at least in some portions the
russian forces
from day one have systematically
targeted 14 airfields and those
airfields continue to be targeted even
till late yesterday venetia was targeted
yesterday kharkiv was targeted kirsten
was targeted airfields are being
targeted across
ukraine there was a report that boris
bill airfield which is a civilian
airfield that too was targeted by
rockets late yesterday but
ukraine continues to strike and strike
at russian aircraft and these include
these include su-35s fighter bombers
these include su-27s these include
su-30s that is what ukraine has claimed
that they have down close to 100 fighter
jets attack helicopters and transport
helicopters of the russian armed forces
we bring you this report
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russia fiercely escalates air strikes on
ukraine
it is using its fighter jets to hit key
ukrainian cities
in the last 72 hours putin has unleashed
the fury of russia's hellbirds on kiev
and kharkiv
ukraine claims to have shot down a
sukhoi su-34 fighter bomber in kharkiv
on monday
they have released images of the debris
of a russian plane
completely destroyed and demolished
ukraine also claims it has shot down
more than seven russian war machines in
the last three days
including jets and mi-35 choppers
ukrainian authorities have shared
several images of pilots who they claim
are russians
now in their custody
russia is using its formidable air
superiority to control ukraine skies
the most visible russian aircraft in the
ukraine war is the sukhoi su-25 a tough
soviet era bird that's taken on most
attack duties
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the mi 24 is also being used by the
russian forces
they are sturdy heavily armed and used
to support ground troops
the third russian aircraft seen in the
skies over ukraine is the sukhoi su-34
a supersonic medium-range fighter bomber
used for tactical strikes
su-34 have been in eastern and northern
ukraine
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another russian attack helicopter on
combat duty is the kamau ka-52
these images of one such helicopter made
to force land went viral during the
early days of the invasion
several more are said to be flying
sorties on the northern border
the images coming from ukraine show
russia's plans are striking deeper
inside ukraine than earlier believed
these airstrikes could be the prelude to
the real battle for kiev
bureau report india today
one of the most dramatic images in this
war is the shooting down of a me 35
attack helicopter using a stinger
surface to air missile and that image
went viral worldwide that image is being
studied very closely by aviation experts
and analysts
in attack and defense mechanisms now
remember
whether it's the fighter jets or
helicopters they're armed with flares
and chaffs to divert the heat seeking
stinger missiles but the use of these
stinger missiles by the ukrainian
ground forces by the air defense
artillery by the air defense forces is a
study in itself take a look at this
report that went viral globally
perhaps the most dramatic footage
in 10 days of russia's invasion of
ukraine
cameras from a drone capturing a
low-flying russian me-35 attack
helicopter falling prey to a ukrainian
stinger missile
the chopper flying at low altitude to
avoid radars to avoid ice meets a
devastating end
the stinger missile supplied by nato
with infrared homing systems hitting the
helicopter with deadly accuracy
both germany and the united states have
been pumping in large numbers of stinger
missiles to the ukrainian military over
the last few weeks
in order to challenge and shoot down
russian air power
the missile proving its worth in this
video the first of its kind released by
the ukrainian government
reported to be on the outskirts of
capital kiev
showing the heavily armed military
helicopter of the russian armed forces
ending in a massive fireball and a plume
of smoke
a rapid and fiery end
to an attack helicopter crew that could
well have been on an attack mission
this mate 35 helicopter and when you
look at these images um it's it's a
young soldier who's actually running
behind that helicopter aims
with his surface to a man portable
stinger missile
fires and forgets and it goes and hits
the target it goes and hits the attack
helicopter and the hit attack helicopter
comes crashing down this shows how a
stinger can easily bring down a
low-flying fighter plane it can bring
down a surf a helicopter
as russian troops advance into several
parts of ukraine and in circle cities
images of the ukrainian residents have
been flooding social media
this time a russian jet apparently being
shot down in the northern city of
cherneyhev
captured on camera by local residents
while they cheered as the jet was
brought down
it was later reported that the russian
pilot of the jet had been captured alive
while his co-pilot didn't survive
another russian plane was shot down in
the city of mikolive a dramatic video of
the plane's pilot being interrogated by
ukrainian forces has also surfaced
meanwhile ukrainian president volumizing
claims in a televised address ukraine
has captured wounded and killed over 10
000 russian soldiers since the start of
the invasion
almost 10 000 russian soldiers killed
ten thousand
this is dreadful
there's plenty of fighting strikes uh
basically an everyday occurrence over
ukraine uh again that's why ukraine
repeats its demand to close off the sky
for the russians russians are using
those planes to hit civilian targets
pedestrian districts uh
reality is this is battle that is raging
all over ukraine and russia using their
air power advantage to push at the
civilians like
in no time since the second world war
president putin meanwhile has blamed the
united kingdom for triggering the
military conflict
can ukraine successfully resist the
overwhelming and intensifying scale of
the invading force
with god of savant and rajesh pavaran
kiev bureau report india today
the use of air power by russia and the
denial of air power by ukraine that's a
study in fact aviation experts are
studying this across the world and the
russian air force they've unleashed
their best whether it's the su-35
fighter bombers state-of-the-art su-30s
or su-27s they have their fighter jets
raining hell from the skies now what are
putin's forces doing they're
systematically taking out with their
precision guided munition
strategic airfields air bases fuel dumps
ammunition depots and air defense assets
not just missile power but also air
power let me now get you more details
india today's shivaru gets us more
details on how
russia is deploying its air power
and how ukraine is denying the use of
skies or at least attempting to
even on day 14.
heart-stopping images of a russian
airstrike caught on camera
the first footage of an actual aerial
bombing in 11 days of a conflict that's
been represented largely by ground
attacks
but only an hour after the bombing of
european went out on india today this
stunning 32 second clip capturing a
russian attack helicopter being shot
down by a ukrainian shoulder fired
missile exploded from the battlefield
north of kiev
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in the last 48 hours the air power
aspect has taken on a fearsome new
primacy
with aircraft much more visible and
claims of russian pilots taken captive
both ukraine and russia have been old
soviet aviation powerhouses and the war
has generated enormous interest in the
war birds both countries have deployed
over their blazing battlefields
the most visible russian aircraft in the
ukraine crisis is the sukhoi su-25 a
tough old soviet era bird that's taken
on most attack duties
let me show you what these aircraft are
that are doing the bombing and that the
ukrainians claim that they've actually
shot down these are strikes very close
to keep the jet dropping the bombs is
called a sukhoi 25 it's a sukhoi su-25
it's a ground strike aircraft it is
designed for close air support to ground
forces and there are huge ground forces
of the russian army that's you know
outside on the outskirts of cave right
now these aircraft are designed and
capable of low altitude bombings that's
why you saw them captured so clearly on
mobile camera their weapons include
strike missiles bombs rockets they've so
far been used in many many different
operations around the world including
and most notably in afghanistan syria
iraq and sudan but of course in many
other operations including in north
africa as well
the most visible russian helicopter in
the war is the me 24th
seen here being dramatically shot down
by a ukrainian shoulder-fired missile
these are sturdy heavily armed and
armored helicopters deployed to support
ground troops and destroyed tanks and
other ground targets the me 24's export
variant the me 35 is in service with the
indian air force too
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the third russian aircraft type seen in
the skies over ukraine is the sukhoi
su-34 a supersonic medium-range fighter
bomber used for tactical strikes in
contested airspace su-34s have been seen
in the air over eastern and north
ukraine
the other russian helicopter on combat
duties in ukraine is the cam of ka52
these images of one such helicopter made
to force land went viral in the early
days of the invasion
several more are said to be flying
sorties in the northern border
also clearly visible in the skies over
ukraine are russian me eight utility
helicopters captured here in this
airborne assault on the hospital air
base north of kiev in the early days of
the invasion
these workhorse helicopters are a
precursor to the mi 17 that india
currently operates
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ukraine has made the huge claim that its
air defense systems have shot down two
giant il-76 transport jets
though there has been no visual proof of
this
while the iconic russian 295 hasn't been
seen in the skies over ukraine or even
nearby the high flying propeller driven
aircraft has figured in the war of teams
between both sides with ukraine saying
its air defense forces have managed to
shoot down one of these giant airplanes
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as air power becomes more pronounced in
ukraine and as nato continues to refuse
ukraine's plea for the imposition of a
no-fly zone but airstrikes define the
second week of putin's invasion
with rajesh pavari nirpin and god of
savant and gita mohan in kiev bureau
report india today
this war between russia and ukraine is
also a litmus test for the
massive russian arsenal its weapons and
systems and they might globally do keep
in mind india extensively uses
russian equipment be it the
mkis of course that's an indian version
of the su-30 fighter jets the mig-29s
the attack helicopters the transport
helicopters me 35 uh me 24 the me 17s
the meats india extensively uses russian
aircraft helicopters the s 400 state of
the art s 400 system that india has just
acquired despite american threat of
katsa or sanctions this was a deal worth
39 000 crore but that's not all india
employs
and uses russian equipment from the t-90
tanks to t-72 tanks to armored personal
carriers to infantry combat vehicles
and and a lot more but this war truly is
a test for those russian systems
including air defense systems take a
look at this report
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as the russia ukraine crisis escalates
and as the shock waves are felt all
around the world one of those shock
waves is definitely here in india as
well it's a good time to remember that
the indian military happens to be one of
the largest users of soviet era and
russian weaponry and military hardware
and that's one of the reasons why amidst
everything that's happening with all the
unpredictability between russia and
ukraine the indian ministry of defense
has held a high level meeting to assess
the possible aftermath the possible risk
to india's arsenals as a result of this
war between russia and ukraine russian
equipment dominates every aspect of
india's war fighting arsenal across the
three services let's start with the
indian air force the newest equipment is
the s 400 triumph air defense missile
system then you've got a huge fleet of
su-30mki fighters
then there are the mig-29 the upgraded
mig-29 fighters which are a mainstay in
the indian air force then you've got the
old mig-21 fighter jets they've got a
controversial reputation but continue to
operate in large numbers
one of the biggest aircraft operated by
the indian air force is also of russian
origin the illusion il-76 fleet and the
similar il-78 which is india's mid-air
refueling tanker fleet then you've got
the il-76 falcon airborne warning and
control system aircraft which are based
in agra utility helicopters are also
russian the me17 helicopters very
visible very uh iconic they're the
mainstay the backbone of india's medium
lift helicopter fleet then you've got me
35 heavy assault helicopters also of
russian origin operated by india the me
26 heavy lift helicopters the biggest
helicopters in the world also in indian
service are from russia the brahmos
cruise missile is an indo-russian joint
venture much of the technology is from
russia
day 14 of this conflict and india
today's team camera person pawan kumar
and i will continue to report from
ground zero but that is all we have time
for on this india today special
broadcast from ukraine many thanks for
watching
let's right now at least cut across
to ukraine where yulia is joining us
with alessia only a member of ukraine's
territorial army uh we also have uh
joining us
mariana with swetlana who is also a
member of ukraine's territorial army i
just want to show you uh you know
pictures of both
all of them together with their arms uh
you know it's one of the coolest images
i would reckon that uh you would see uh
as this war on sues
julia
would you talk to us a bit about your
weapon and uh are you prepared right now
to fight it out when your country asks
of you
uh
two weeks ago we
weren't ready
to this and we didn't know how to use a
weapon but
this time we are
learning how to do that and if we
will need to use
our gun we can do it right now
julia will you take us through your
training and can you tell our viewers
who don't know much about you where were
you exactly two weeks before where this
war started what was your understanding
of war of weapons and how has it changed
two weeks from then
uh
two weeks two weeks ago i was a teacher
at a school and i
um
have never
took taken
weapon in my hand
and
these two weeks was really terrible it's
like a
nightmare
but now we are in another reality and
now we
we know how to use our gun we prepared
two
big fights for the kiev
julia you know you were what were you
teaching
you said you were a teacher what were
your
yes i'm a teacher of ukrainian language
and literature
ukrainian language and literature and
who were you teaching what was your age
group of the kids that you were teaching
uh from 10 to
16 years
10 to 16 years julia i i'm sure it's
it's deeply personal but what was your
reason and i'm sure it's this great love
for your country and the freedom of your
country that made you take to arms but
what went through in the mind of a
teacher who decided that she's not going
to flee she's not going to leave the
country she's not going to go to poland
but she's going to stick in ukraine and
she's going to pick up the gun
uh yes because i can't stay at home
right now and i wanted to be
i wanted to help my army my
uh
my land my city and i
try to do everything as i can
and
i don't want that my students my family
don't know what is freedom and i don't
want that live in a country like russia
that's why i
took gun in my hand i'm really scared we
all really scared but we know that's the
only way for us
only one way for us you know uh julia
stay with me i'm going to come right
back to you i'm going to ask you about
your training process but i want to cut
across to mariana she's also with you
right now mariana can you hear me
yes
all right can we see you mariana in the
frame
can we see you can you raise your hand
for us
great hi hi hi mariana hi uh yeah
mariana can you tell us you know it's
it's fascinating you know um to see all
of you women and i think it's a it's a
great privilege uh to be able to
interview all of you women because uh
julia just told us she was a teacher
would you tell us your story two weeks
ago who was mariana who has a gun in her
hand today
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and sitting
and
you are a journalist
yes yes i'm jones we made mariana pick
up the gun to fight for ukraine
i decided
made you to protect our muslims
and
idea
i saw that the war
right started
idea
i couldn't stay at my phone
you couldn't stay at home you had to
pick up the gun uh julia you know
because i know language is a barrier
there are many of these young women
behind you
will you
help us understand who they are what was
their story uh you know we see three
young women behind you we know you were
a teacher we know maria was a journalist
what about the others can you tell us
their story yeah
uh it's leslie she was a photographer
and it's olam she was a
fighter
fighter and musician
and this is svetlana she
she's murky tallock
and
we
never
knew how to
use the gun in our previous our previous
life
well you know i'm sure you know a writer
a musician a teacher a journalist uh you
know it's uh
i i'd you know one can only salute your
spirit all of you i want to ask you
julia for all of you who've come from
varied different backgrounds never
thought you would ever take the gun but
i want to ask you what has been the
training process have you been trained
in actual warfare now are you a trained
soldier
uh
i'm not sure that we are really soldier
right now because we had
two weeks and it's too
early it's not too it's not enough to
prepare to the war and to
learn how to use the gun but every day
we had we had train we
uh trained to
shoot we trained to
uh have diff different pose how to shoot
and it's a bit at this moment that's all
but um i hope we will have enough time
in the future to
uh to learn more about that
okay i i understand um i can i can i can
try to translate something from
great from alexa's story will you ask
her julia what was her reason that she
decided not to leave like many other
women in your country but to stay behind
who can do it if it's not would we
well that's a that's a very very strong
statement who can do it if not you
well you know um and it's very very
touching julia i want to ask you because
so much is said about you know women uh
especially at the time of war but you
girls you women chose to stay right back
in ukraine i want to ask you how
difficult was it to leave your families
do most of you have children
some of us has
children i
don't have children but i have a big
family my
parents sisters and say
in another place now it's i hope
safe place
but um for all of us it was really
um difficult choice
but we want to protect our families
uh and we don't want to
we don't want that
see what is war we want to protect them
are your families and you know it's uh
if i can say it's a very stupid question
to ask but i'm going to ask it anyway uh
are your families very worried about you
are they talking to you are they asking
you to come join them
yes of course first time they
uh told me that i should be with their
safe place at home but
now they understand why i'm here and
i know that it's really difficult and
hard for them for me
but
but who
who can
be there
if it
you know i think uh if i have to take
one line from this conversation is who
else if not uh we uh you know because so
many of us will always look at somebody
else it's it's amazing that you all of
you very very brave women have looked at
yourselves can you ask your companions
how was it leaving their children how is
it leaving their family members because
the uncertainty of war is so strong you
know you never know what happens
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we're here to protect them and that's
why we're here we want to protect them
from the war from the russia from the
protein and
that's why we're here
the first day when
was started we go to the
uh military base to the military base
and we
didn't know that we couldn't back
at home at that day and
alessa has birds
and she was really scared about them and
in a few days we can put them to the our
military base and now that they um at
the safe place in our friend's home
well you know you must tell alessia that
uh you know we
i we salute her spirit to leave your
young children uh to salute your spirit
julia and all of your companions who've
left your families and you've come here
you know to fight for your country
are you it's are you going to be now
facing the enemy or are you waiting
right now is it possible that any time
you would be deployed in action
i'm here to
to fight
to the last meters of our land
and if i
need maybe
kill kill someone i'm not sure that i
can do that but i hope and
i really want to
came back to our
our previous life our our
safe life
but i will be here to the
last stage the last minute
uh
to the to the that time where ukrainian
was will free and
without
any russian soldiers at our land
have all of you i'm sure at least that
you know that training would have been
given to you imparted to you but have
all of you now understood learnt how to
fire your weapons
yes
at this moment we know how to use our
weapons
can i ask you you know with your
permission can we always
we had to
learn that you had to learn that can i
ask you with your permission very
quickly
can you show us your weapons
yes where's
our weapons
can you tell me each one of you what
your weapons you know i love the smiles
we i
it's it gives us a lot of heart back
here to watch you know all of you
smiling with your weapons what's your
weapon julia
uh
what his weapon is
74 and that's my
nickname
oh you've got a nickname what's your
nickname julia
mike what does it mean can you tell us
it's from yeah it's from cartoon
chippendale
[Laughter]
so it's from right yeah it's it's a red
girl
ukrainian it sounds like
can you tell us all the nicknames of
your other colleagues
yes it's fatima
is because she
in the mask every uh
all the time because of pandemia
and that's why she's patient
she's only a person
it's a big building
state in
damascus
all right okay uh you know i'm gonna i'm
gonna let you girls go and you women go
but i'm gonna ask you julia what is your
message
because you know
you wear the bravery so easily all of
you uh you know you're talking about
fighting for your country not many do
what you're doing uh it's it's abject
bravery it takes all heart to do what
you're doing and you know what i am
witnessing as a journalist right here on
the other side is how easily you girls
and your women are wearing uh you know
this abject
you know bravery the strength that you
have i want to ask you what's your
message to the world right now to those
who are watching you julia go first and
you can ask your uh you know your
friends later
um at this moment we
uh we need help from all the world you
need say to the russia to the pudding to
stop because um
now they're at the our land and
today it can be another country and we
we have a lot of pain just now because
russian soldiers killed a lot of
children in ukraine a lot of
other people they ruined our buildings
our house our homes and um
world please
don't think that
putin will stop in the ukraine you can
be the next one that's why go to the
your streets
outside and say to the russia stop we
need your help and at this moment we
need
money because
a lot of our soldiers didn't have
what to wear they didn't have uniform
and if you can help us with it we will
be very appreciative
of the page
uh we we can
send you a
link on the page where uh when where you
can help us with it you know
we'd like to get that link sent to the
other world please don't
be silent you should to say to the putin
to the russian soldiers say we don't
want to see there at our land at your
land please don't be silent
julia before i let you women go i'm
going to ask you once again you know
because this is a short uh
you know which which gives a lot of
strength to a lot of people who are
watching you in your country and even
outside uh to see the kind uh you know
this kind of visual i'm going to let you
go but i want to see your weapons once
again and i want to see you all smiling
and i wish you strength i wish you
fortitude and i wish you so so much luck
may god be with you and i really really
pray and hope that i'm able to talk to
each one of you again when this war is
over and it will be over
can i see your weapons once again as
you know
thank you for doing thank you for doing
this for us and i am sure your country
is so so so proud and and and i'll speak
to you all four of you again i will
speak to all four of you again may god
be with you lots of strength lots of
luck thank you
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is now putin's arch enemy
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the ukrainian president
now a worldwide icon
zelensky
the full story
in times of aggression
in times of brutal war
particularly when the field is lopsided
the distinction between pushover and
spirited defense often depends on one
rallying force of unification
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it could be an idea
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it could be a sentiment
a desperation
or more times than none
the force which steals a line of panicky
defenders is but an individual's rise to
the occasion
a wartime leader that the conflict
itself creates
a hitherto unrealized force
that stands resolute in the face of odds
leading by example
jolting the spirit of compatriots to
steady their nerves
holding the line against immense odds
history is proof that such leaders rise
to the occasion
and in ukraine the defense has studied
behind their wartime leader
one time comic
president vladimir zelinski
an unlikely hero
who has fired the imagination
of a nation under siege
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putting all speculations to rest
vladimir zelensky declared that he's
very much in key russia had claimed that
he had fled to poland but not only did
zielenski share his location he also
dared russia saying that he is not
afraid he knows he's putin's target
number one
he knows his country can't match up to
russia's overwhelming military might but
ukrainian president vladimir zelinsky
remains an image of valor of defiance
and fighting spirit
steadfastly refusing to turn his back on
his bruised battered and bleeding
ukraine
in an open dare to putin's army
zielinski released a video giving out
his exact location
saying he stays right there in cave and
not in hiding
showing the images from the lane outside
his residence
key
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every time the russians claim that
zelinski has fled the country fearing
for his life zelinski has released a new
video shattering the russian claims
and never mincing his words while
slamming nato for letting down ukraine
and the united states for rejecting a
no-fly zone
even turning the combat fatigue helmet
and joining the ukrainian troops in the
front line
foreign
taking a cue from their brave president
thousands of ukrainians have sent their
families away to safety and stayed back
to fight alongside president zielinski
supporting zylenski in every step is the
first lady of ukraine helena ziletska
a vocal advocate of social courses
orlando through social media has
continued to inspire and continue to
provide comfort to ukrainians
the big question remains how long the
president and all his loyal men
withstand the might of approaching
russian invasion army bureau report
india today
war rages on as invaders try to capture
cave their single objective is to
overthrow the man who has rallied the
entire nation against russia president
vladimir zelinsky has become a household
name
the puny david against the goliath
russian forces and his audience today is
the world
he has become one of the voices of
freedom of sovereignty and of
territorial integrity
premier ministers
his is the voice of defiance
a call from the heart that has gone out
and formed the defense of ukraine
against the forces of
i'm invasion
to protect my wife my family myself my
country from the russian invasion
we will fight for our land and we will
kill our russians if
somebody give me a weapon
i will fight i'm not afraid
vladimir zelinski the president of
ukraine had everything wrong about being
a wartime leader of a nation invaded
he's from jewish stock in eastern europe
with its history of anti-semitism
his family spoke russian
he grew up speaking the language of the
invader he happened to be a comic by
professional
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in 2019 the comic actor decided to run
for presidency
and people took that as a joke
he called this party the servant of the
people party the outcome was comic
relief
vladimir zelinski won 73 percent of the
warts and promised to bring peace to the
rest of eastern regions of luhansk and
donetsk
what came was war
not with russia
but with his russian namesake vladimir
you sure sir
once again i appealed to the servicemen
of ukrainian armed forces
don't let neo-nazis and vendorites use
your children your wives and old people
as human shields
take power into your own hands
it seems that it will be easier for us
to come to terms with you than with this
gang of drug addicts and neo-nazis who
settled in kiev and took all ukrainian
people hostage
vladimir zelinski was born in 1978
into a russian russian-speaking jewish
family of the then soviet socialist
republic of ukraine
his father was a professor of
mathematics and his mother had studied
engineering
the town of his birth kvd stands next to
babiyar where 33
771 jews were shot and thrown into a
ravine over the course of two days in
1941
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zelinski studied law and earned a degree
in it only to found a tv entertainment
company found success in his vaudeville
act
he and a few friends created a comedy
troupe that became a famous act not just
in ukraine as well as other
russian-speaking regions of a
post-soviet world
the prism through which vladimir
zielinski viewed the world changed when
vladimir putin invaded the land of his
birth in 2014
that was what made him take his first
political step
he donated a fortune to arm the then
weak army of ukraine
he chose his side when he relocated his
production company to kiev
and began to fully master the ukrainian
language
something that was to be a big help when
he played the most successful comic role
of his life
in the tv series servant of the people
zielinski plays a school history teacher
whose rant against the rampant
corruption in government gets recorded
without his knowledge by a student
and is posted on social media
the video goes viral and without even
wanting the job the teacher gets elected
president of ukraine
and then through set pieces bumbles his
way to become a heroic leader of his
country
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on 20th of may 2019 facts overtook
fiction
when the 41 year old vladimir zelinski
took the oath of the highest office in
ukraine
and when the new president had to make
his inaugural address he said it wasn't
just me who took the oath
he said each of us
put a hand on the constitution and each
of us has sworn loyalty to ukraine
it was an oath of loyalty that the
unlikely politician would prove himself
worthy of in the conflicts to come
despite the fact that entertainers
entering politics are viewed if not with
suspicion but certainly with skepticism
yes
of ukraine is believed to be number one
on vladimir putin's hit list
western intelligence agencies have
claimed this and zelinski himself has
acknowledged it
he says his family is second on the list
but that he and they will remain in
ukraine
he categorically turned down a u.s offer
of evacuation
instead he asked for arms
nobody will force us ukrainians to give
away our freedom our independence our
sovereignty
but it looks like
the russian
leadership is trying
to
uh
to do it just by the way of
destroying their own country
to prove that he is still there and not
running away the president of ukraine
has been regularly posting self-taking
videos in front of the very recognizable
presidential palace
telling the people of ukraine that he is
living up to his promise
even if he has to die
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the president of ukraine is playing the
role of a lifetime he has already given
a performance that has made him a hit
across the world
this unlikely wartime leader of his
country has won the hearts and minds of
people around the world
his actions has more than established
the contrast with his nemesis with whom
he shares a first name the meaning of
which ironically means ruler of the
world
when vladimir putin ordered his troops
to invade ukraine he possibly made one
miscalculation
he had not accounted for the stellar
performance that his opponent was
capable of giving
a role that has touched the heartstrings
of audiences across the globe
whatever be the outcome of this war in
ukraine history will record zilinski as
the hero in shining armor
while putin has already joined the ranks
of all time world villains like hitler
and stalin
when the worlds are staged and everyone
is but an actor in it
there is no doubting that vladimir
zelinski of ukraine stands at the edge
of that stage
where life needs performance
and only truth
shines forth
just hours before russia invaded ukraine
vladimir zelinsky made an appeal to the
people of russia
made on the morning of 24 february he
reached out to the people of russia and
that speech will be remembered as one of
the most heartfelt speeches
of any leader ever made
he spoke to the people of russia
reminding them of humanity talking about
the aggressor russia and saying that
both russians and ukrainians are being
led down a path to hell
foreign
ukraine
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it
india today has been relentlessly
getting you every latest defining image
right from the beginning 14 days ago
to two weeks later and where things are
at with this huge expanding military
operation that has been called the
invasion of ukraine the word invasion
has been criminalized in russia here are
those defining images
big defining image number one after a
deadly clash
ukrainian troops are reported to have
seized this russian tank you can see on
your screen a ukrainian
tank or an armored personnel carrier
throwing away a russian tank in an
unidentified
war zone in ukraine if we
big defining image number two on day 14
ukrainian troops shot down or claimed to
have shot down another russian
helicopter close to the mikko live
region in south central ukraine on your
screens you can see the wrecked parts of
what appears to be an attack helicopter
which crashed in the field after being
hit by ukrainian ground forces using air
defense weaponry
big defining image number three on day
14 russia has wreaked havoc in the city
of sumi close to the russian border
horrifying footage of yet another
neighborhood laid to waste a signal of
the kind of destruction that's
escalating in this northern city from
where there was a humanitarian corridor
that was activated over the last 48
hours from which hundreds of indian
students were also pulled up
defining image number four on day 14 the
aftermath footage of kiev's destruction
continuous heavy shelling has destroyed
the capital city in its suburbs you can
see shelled buildings damaged cars
bodies lying around life around the cave
has come to a standstill but the city
itself is standing tall no damage within
the city there was an air raid siren
just a few moments ago
defining image number five is what the
evacuation from one of the largest
suburbs off cave earpin looks like from
a drone you can see a sea of people on
foot crossing a destroyed bridge to get
across the river and to leave their city
artillery and airstrikes have caused
heavy damage in and around airplane
india today has been reporting from the
ground here
defining image number six on day 14
appalling images from kharkiv which
continues to be the most damaged city in
ukraine at this time 40 kilometers from
the russian border it is ukraine's
second largest city
a metropolis that was once buzzing with
people now wears a deserted ghost-like
look buildings in many neighborhoods
targeted in heavy shelling cars and
property extensively damaged in this
part of khakis
defining image number seven on day 14
russia continues its onslaught in
ukraine russian troops destroyed a
military dormitory in the jatomi region
just west about 50 kilometers from kiev
images show a shell building and
personnel or people trying to ascertain
the extent of the damage it is not known
just yet what kind of damage was caused
in terms of human life
dividing image number eight on day 14
footage shows ukrainian
a ukrainian group on a tractor pulling a
russian tank amidst snowfall you can see
a man on top of the tank and another one
driving the tractor
this video has been going viral on
social media
meanwhile defining image number nine on
day 14 heavy shelling continues between
russian and ukrainian troops in the
kharkiv region it's just 40 kilometers
from the russian border these images of
shelling and rocket fire lighting up the
night sky becoming one of the most
familiar images in different cities this
is from last night in the skies over
kharkiv according to reports russian
troops attacked a residential area of
kharkiv with heavy artillery but this is
a claim that's been denied by the
russians
defining image number 10 on day 14 as
russia continues to attack at least 11
different cities of ukraine 150 orphan
children mostly babies and toddlers from
la viv arrive at the sem sail station in
poland volunteers and police officers
are seen giving soft toys to kids as
they're carried from the station and
loaded onto buses towards an uncertain
future in foster care
russian anti-war protesters face a
police crackdown meanwhile on your
screens demonstrator being brutally
arrested during an anti-war protest in
saint petersburg the man was hit several
times by russian police after being
arrested and then taken away in a truck
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as ukraine fiercely continues to battle
russian forces this visual shows
ukrainian servicemen inspecting a
charred russian tank in the sumi region
of ukraine the same city from which over
700 indian students were extracted as
part of operation ganga yesterday
in the face of continuing and escalating
russian assaults members of the
territorial defense unit in cave have
got a in in odessa i beg your pardon
have guarded stood guard around the
national opera house in the city of
odessa in the south with sandbags and
anti-tank hedgehogs
defining image number 14 on day 14
dramatic images captured on india
today's cameras by our correspondent
didenko in the city of kharkiv footage
exclusive to us showing
what the ukrainians claim to be the
shoot down of a russian air force sukhoi
su-34 fighter bomber
this was on the outskirts of kharkiv
listen to the sounds
defining image number 15 on day 14
ukraine troops in no mood to give up on
your screens thermal imaging footage
from drones capturing what appears to be
a ukrainian attack on a russian
artillery position according to repair
to reports ukraine has managed to
extract quite a bit of damage on the
russian armored column so far
defining image number 16 on day 14
russian planes drop bombs uh on claimed
residential cities of sumi city in the
north leaving many including kids and
women dead and injured on your screen is
the aftermath of destruction that was
brought to bear
24 hours
defining image number 17 on day 14
ukrainian troops claimed to have shot
down another russian plane in the last
24 hours not far from the capital city
cave huge explosion as this aircraft
hits the ground and catches fire massive
plume of smoke from the wreckage as well
defining image number 18 on day 14 cctv
footage captures a russian attack on an
oil depot in the jatomi region just west
of kiev the attack was followed by a
huge towering inferno as the oil depot
caught fire
similar images from another angle more
realistic not cctv images but captured
from someone who was close by the
jatomir oil depot
a huge huge blaze that was seen for many
miles around lighting up that night sky
defining image number 20 on day 14
footage from the northern city of
shernihev
north of key very close to the russian
border where russians are said to have
attacked another residential area
shelled buildings damaged vehicles
broken glass destruction all around
shernihid has been hit with a lot of
shelling in the last few days
defining image
number 21 on day 14 russia has stepped
up the shelling in residential areas of
car cave as well we are given to
understand that many different places
where this kind of look with cars
damaged a few people can also be seen
trying to ascertain the extent of the
damage in one neighborhood after the
other
russian troops also reportedly attacked
the residential area of bravari on the
outskirts of keep this image from
yesterday shows a church which has been
uh evidently struck there is no
confirmation of any casualties in this
particular attack just yet brobari is
just east of kiev and is a suburb
defining image number 23 on day 14 as
russian troops advanced towards the
capital the nearby city of irpin has
faced a huge amount of heat these images
from india today's cameras yesterday
locals crossing a destroyed bridge as
they get out of their shattered city
defining image number 24 russian
nationals continue to bear the brunt of
the economic sanctions imposed by
several countries of the world these
images from the varadero airport in cuba
were almost 300 stranded russian
tourists were seen going through the
boarding bridge to fly back home the
number of companies exiting russia is
huge moscow citizens are feeling the
heat
big defining image number 25 on day 14
as russia continues the attacks on the
streets of ukraine drone footage shows
refugees fleeing ukraine from the port
of isakia in romania on a ferry like
barge
defining image number 26 on day 14 big
explosion in the separatist luhansk
region in the last 48 hours according to
reports an oil depot was gutted in
firing amidst heavy shelling from
russian forces
defining image number 27 on day 14
russia has also upped the offensive uh
yesterday with shelling battering a
residential building in the northern
city of kharkiv according to reports two
buildings have been destroyed in the
airstrike by russian troops
defining image number 28 on day 14
russian troops target a residential
building once again in the city of
kharkiv a video has emerged in the
aftermath of that shelling in ukraine's
second largest metropolis you can see a
building on fire no confirmation just
yet on any casualties
defining image number 29 on this the
14th day horrific images of bodies of
civilians on the streets of kharkiv in
neighborhood after neighborhood on the
back of russian shelling in this
particular area russia continues to hold
that the military of ukraine is using
civilians as human shields
defining image number 30 on this the
two-week mark in this crisis ukrainian
troops claimed to have shot down this
russian fighter jet this was captured on
india today's cameras on the outskirts
of kharkiv ukraine has so far claimed to
have brought down 45 russian
aircraft and helicopters since march the
5th
14 days marked by doom
damage
debris
aired sirens in the heart of kiev
on the 14th day of war it appears to be
a cause for concern
six war reporters
one unmissable broadcast
with continued heavy bombing and
shelling in the second largest city of
ukraine that is car cave it is the
children who've become the worst victim
of this war
most extensive broadcast from the war
zone
24 hours seven days
all the time uh cave right now is like
he's like a castle
india today reports from eight besieged
cities
journalist barbara kumar god
fearless and uncompromising in the real
war zone for india today for india today
for india today
world watches
india today
hello and welcome to an india today
special broadcast on day 14 of the
ukraine russia conflict i'm gaurav
savant over the course of the next half
hour india today and our biggest team of
reporters on ground zero from kiev to
kharkiv from mario pole to
irpin we will get you the latest ground
reports on the battle and the various
twists and turns in this battle on
ground
and on the diplomatic front
day 14 of the battle is really close to
the capital kiev right behind me
preparations on to make sandbags very
close to the presidential palace is that
an indication that the security cordon
is now increasingly getting shrunk while
russia may have announced
a corridor of silence
that means russia says it's a unilateral
ceasefire on its side in cities like
kiev kharkiv churny hive mario pole so
that people can leave these cities what
does that indicate is this then the lull
before the big storm
two weeks into russia's invasion on
ukraine
ruthless shellings missile strikes and
aerial attacks continue unabated
and so does the unparalleled human
tragedy
air raid alerts continued to blare in
capital kiev second largest city of
kharkiv and winistia
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residents still hold up in the
devastated cities had to run for their
lives for the nearest bomb shelter
an air raid siren over cave yet again
we're in the heart of cave and you can
look around the airaid sirens once again
people are being asked to rush to
evacuate vehicles uh security asking
vehicles to get off the road but these
area sirens despite russia saying that
there will be no action
enters the air raid sirens continue to
go off of course there have been air
attacks and missile attacks in some
other areas but right now aired sirens
in the heart of kiev
on the 14th day of war it appears to be
a cause for concern
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kharki buildings were reduced to ruins
after heavy shells
smoke engulfed cars trees burnt and
charred
the aftermath of an air attack a broken
bridge in urban
a kiev suburb narrated the fierce
destruction
fleeing locals had to cross the broken
bridge putting themselves in grave
danger
here right now is like it's like a
castle
uh with lots of blockbusters with lots
of
people around for working working
together and they don't don't get about
their occupation they're just
taking guns they're
taking everything they can they're
organizing themselves
they are communicating they're
searching for information they're
checking the informations there are
helping to poor people they do lots of
things humanitarian things military
things assisting things lot of it
and i just want to mention that to
alex's previous wars
more than 50 children
become a victim of this pudding
innovation
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a massive russian attack on a military
dormitory in saitomar left it in
drawings
the entire area was demolished beyond
recognition
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sumi the northeastern city of ukraine is
flattened after successive attacks
ukraine said russian bombardment claimed
over 21 lives including that of three
children on wednesday
india had used the green corridor from
sumi to evacuate stranded students
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but the ukrainians continue to fight
with resilience
they shot down a russian chopper in the
v hours around the micro lav region
seized russian tanks were seen being
towed away but amid unending crisis
there were first signals of a possible
truce
president zelinski in a big climb down
said that he is no longer seeking for a
nato membership for ukraine
adding that nato is not prepared to
accept ukraine and he understood this a
long time ago
he said nato is afraid of confrontation
with russia
the war is going exactly the way
russians expected it to go
these are small small setbacks here and
there technical setbacks they are not
major strategic setbacks they are very
tactical nature and they can be overcome
sooner or later but see how things are
changing diplomatically and on a
political front yeah zelinski who
appeared to be so adamant until a few
days back about negotiating with russia
and with putin directly he's now you see
his stance changing now and he's coming
down and he is willing for a negotiation
yeah not only that ukraine probably will
not be pressing for its membership of
nato but also that they are ready to
talk about crimea and those donbas and
that's a major shift in policy what
russia anticipated and what russia
planned and what russia executed it's
going exactly as they wanted
will zelen's keys conciliatory note
strike accord with putin
with god of savant and rajesh power in
kiev
bureau report
india today
has ukraine been led up the garden path
poland offered to give all its
functional mig-29 fighters to ukraine
but not directly
poland says it will park them at the
ramstein air base in germany and it
wants aircraft in turn from the united
states for its air force
what does this indicate i want to cut
across to india today's foreign affairs
editor gita mohan who joins us for more
on the story gita bring us the
diplomatic front battles that are on and
is ukraine increasingly getting only lip
sympathy and service from the rest of
the world gita
ukraine has been left to its own devices
to take on russia in the latest the
united states of america has rejected
poland's offer to send mig-29s via nato
base in germany this even as nato
continues to reject ukraine's pleas and
requests to declare ukrainian airspace
as no-fly zone
over two weeks of relentless attacks by
russia
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multiple ukrainian appeals to nato for
help
mt promises for ukraine
we're in this together we will succeed
together ukraine is going to prevail
but zilensky is all alone in this war
and now the west has pulled a new stunt
over hapless kiev over sending fighter
jets to take out advancing russian army
nato member poland did a symbolic offer
to send mig-29s to support ukraine's air
defense but with a massive catch
warso said it will merely send its jets
to nato air base in germany's ramstein
putting the owners on the u.s to send
the jets to ukraine
the proposal faced a categorical
rejection pentagon wary of getting drawn
into the war called the offer untenable
adding that deploying jets from nato
base to ukrainian airspace will be an
act of direct conflict and raise serious
concerns for the entire military
alliance
there's already a sense of betrayal in
ukraine right now now they're playing
chinese checkers with their jets as part
of the nato alliance but not actually
substantively sending any forces into
into ukraine it is understandable why
they don't want to do that but these
little moves between poland and germany
and nato and the us just shows that
there is no plan in place
this essentially means zilenski and
ukraine are left to fend for themselves
against putin's army with no help
forthcoming from the west
they are attacking civilians and attacks
against civilians cannot be left and
responded for too long that is why i
expect the governments of the nato
countries yes to be reacting
in the nearest future
this is not the first time zelensky is
facing betrayal from the west a week ago
nato rejected zylenski's fervent appeal
to enforce a no-fly zone on ukraine's
skies
today the leadership of the alliance
gave the green light for further bombing
of ukrainian cities and villages having
refused to set up a no-fly zone
could the nato and west avert the
massive human suffering and
unprecedented destruction of ukraine are
they simply wilted in the face of
putin's unprecedented show of strength
bureau report india today
i now hand over to my colleague rajesh
pavar who brings you the latest on the
big statement delivered by president
zilensky
ukrainian president vladimir zelinsky
has made a huge climb down by saying
that ukraine is no longer interested in
a nato membership there is a sense of
betrayal here in ukraine
nato so far has just been about talk and
ukrainians feel that they have been left
alone in their fight against the russian
zelinski says that the alliance is
afraid of taking bold decisions and a
confrontation with russia
yes
today i've asked 27 european leaders
whether ukraine will be in nato
i've asked directly everyone is afraid
no one answers
but we are not afraid we are not afraid
of anything
we are not afraid to defend our country
we are not afraid of russia we are not
afraid of talking about neutrality
we are not nato members at the moment
but what guarantees will we get
ukraine's bid to get membership of the
north atlantic treaty organization
is at the heart of the russia-ukraine
conflict that has now triggered a
full-blown war
the two countries are at each other's
throats
the third player nato is silent over the
key issues
while thousands are displaced and
hundreds dead nato is not committing to
a membership for ukraine so far
ukrainian president vladimir zelinsky
has also urged nato to enforce a no-fly
zone over his country's skies and
protect them from russian missiles and
warplanes
nato has not agreed to either of his
demands
nato is a defensive alliance
our core task is to keep
our 30 nations safe
we are not part of this conflict
and we have a responsibility to ensure
it does not escalate and spread beyond
ukraine
because that would be even more
devastating and more dangerous
zelensky feels let down by his western
allies
he said the west could have helped
ukraine but they witnessed our city get
bombed
as the war rages in ukraine nato allies
seem to have made distinctions in the
help they offer
while they may supply weapons to ukraine
they will not enter the war in any
active role ukrainians will have to
defend their land themselves
bureau report
india today
over to siggy now who will take us
through ukraine's big and unexpected
fight back
14 days on ukraine has put
other kind of resistance that wasn't
expected russia from the first day had
impressed upon the ukraine troops to lay
down arms
but that has not happened
from home ground
advantage to information world war
we declared five reasons how ukraine has
showed russia's advance
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when russia invaded ukraine on 22nd
february
many felt it would be only a matter of
days before the mighty russian military
got the better of the ukrainian forces
a fortnight later the end game remains
unclear
ukraine has put up a resistance that was
least expected by russia
especially with civilians voluntarily
joining the war to resist the russian
might
with the fall of curson russian forces
were expected to take control of other
key cities like kiev and kharkiv
the nature of fight back indicates a
detailed battle plan at play
ukrainian forces have been preparing and
readying for a russian invasion since
2014 when crimea was the next
the country's entire military is in tune
to fight russia as they don't have any
threats from its other neighbors like
poland hungary slovakia or romania
putin's soldiers have been surprised by
ground tactics of ukraine troops
including anti-tank weaponry and sniper
fire russia is also on the back foot in
urban warfare because its air force was
pressed into action late after the
initial bombardment by cruise missiles
on february 24th
lastly ukraine might have an inferior
military but it is winning the
information battle
they have successfully convinced the
world that russia is the only aggressor
and villain in this war while claims
made by ukraine about the russian losses
the death of 11 000 troops 46 aircrafts
68 helicopters might not be accurate
but the images of damage to military
platforms
show russians have faced a stiff
resistance from the ukrainian forces
what was expected to be a lopsided
contest
ukraine's military might not be a match
for the firepower and the numbers of the
russians but they continue to resist
this is rajesh pawar reporting from kiev
for india today
the temperature is minus one here in
cave at this point of time it is snowing
a little but at least there's sunshine
will this bring hope or is this then the
lull before the storm and while the
temperatures may be plummeting
the diplomatic and strategic tempers are
all set to soar that is all
my team and i have for you on this
special broadcast from kiev many thanks
for watching for all the latest news and
updates stay with india today
why did russian president vladimir putin
invade ukraine what's going on
in his mind does he see himself as the
new czar
what is his end objective
what would he think
one week into this invasion are things
going as per his plan and most
importantly
how serious is that nuclear threat these
are questions that are swirling in the
minds virtually everyone who's watching
us on tv or online at this moment and
there are no clear answers but the one
man who could provide some sharp
insights into the way putin's mind works
is stephen lee myers he is the author of
one of the most high profile biographies
of vladimir putin the new tsar the rise
and reign vladimir putin is the current
new york times beijing bureau chief he's
in exile so joins us uh from seoul
uh he's not in exile he's not allowed to
report from beijing so which is why he's
in seoul so uh bureau chief in exile as
it were and
stephen lima is fantastic having you
with us on this broadcast and thank you
so much for your time
i'm glad to be here stephen's worked
with the new york times for 26 years uh
seven of them were in russia that's the
time when president putin was
consolidating his power he's also
written this book and i want to
ask you whether you think
that the invasion of ukraine would lead
to the title of your book potentially
changing at some point in time in the
future
the news are the rise rain
and fall
of vladimir putin mr mayas welcome
thank you
it's a great question and it's hard to
predict the future of course but
vladimir putin has shown an amazing
resilience and power over
now 22 years and there have been times
before where people have looked
whether it was mass protest in moscow
or or the invasion of crimea in 2014 and
said how can this man survive
and yet here we are today so i i think
it's it's premature yet to call for the
fall of putin
okay let's use all the wealth of
experience you have all the research
that you've done on vladimir putin to
try and get you to explain why president
putin did what he did at this time why
did he in 2022 at a time when his
actions are generating so much global
flack and sanctions and pain for the
russian economy why did the new czar
order the russian army to go into
ukraine
you know i think first of all it was an
enormous shock to everyone i think it
was that the american government was
telegraphing this through the
intelligence they were
releasing but i don't think anybody
believed
that putin would launch
a military offensive on the scale that
he has and that includes china one of
his close uh allies uh he had just met
xi jinping
in beijing for the olympics i was there
then and you know i think that people
feel like this came out of nowhere when
in fact
his obsession with ukraine
is long standing uh it it even predates
his time and power you know he
honeymooned in in ukraine he drove
around the country when he was a young
man in university um and you know he had
an affinity for
uh the place
um that you know dates dates back
decades now and i i think that that part
of it is that this notion that this that
ukraine
uh belarus russia they were all part of
this fraternal
uh nation the soviet union and in
putin's mind you know it's that that
should never have broken up
um and it did he accepted that he he
joined the democratically um elected
governor of saint petersburg he rose
through the ranks of a democratic russia
but i think all along he looked back uh
with longing at the idea that you know
ukraine and belarus were essential parts
of the same country they shouldn't be
splintered into uh into separate
republics as they were after the soviet
union collapsed
how do you think
mr putin would view the progress of this
war
a week from the time it started on the
outside it seems in the manner in which
he mobilized the russian army he was
probably expecting another crimea that
the ukrainian people government and army
would just roll over he'd establish
russian army supremacy over over ukraine
that didn't happen so how would putin's
mind be working in your view at this
moment
you know it's an interesting question
whether or not putin intended to invade
on the scale that he did
say a month ago
i there there are definitely signs that
he hoped that this show of force at the
borders
you know would intimidate um the
ukrainian government and force some kind
of political resolution you know
close to his aim
when that didn't happen you saw the
tensions rise um and you know some will
argue that he always intended to um to
move uh and because he assembled the
force that he did
this is an invasion force and um you
know i think that you know
what what's surprising about it and i
think what he
underestimated was the resilience the
tenacity the willingness of the
ukrainian people
and the army there uh to fight
uh and i think that you know the crimea
annexation was a special operation it
was done furtively it was almost
bloodless by the way um and you know it
and crimea holds a special place both in
putin's heart but also for russians but
to move across all of ukraine to send
hundreds of thousands of troops
in essentially a war of conquest
i don't think he anticipated the
consequences of that both on the
battlefield but also diplomatically
your book is full of rich anecdotes
about the rise of vladimir putin and
since many may not have read your book i
want to take you back to the start and
get you to explain
uh what
is it about
vladimir putin's childhood in leningrad
that's now saint petersburg that has
cast such a deep impact on his mind
which brings out some of the anger the
frustration the irritation with the west
which we're seeing manifest itself in
this ukrainian invasion
i would say there are two important
things to understand about him one is
the role of the war the great patriotic
war as it's known uh inside russia his
father was a veteran of that he was
wounded during the siege of leningrad
you know that's a searing experience um
for for the entire soviet union and all
the countries that were affected um and
the defeat of nazi germany was one of
the great accomplishments of stalin's
soviet union whether you like stalin or
not and the um i think he grew up with
that nostalgia
for you know the the unified soviet
effort uh against nazis and it's
interesting that he's using that
language he's using the idea that
ukraine has somehow been recaptured by
nazis um to you know to justify this
attack um the other thing i would say is
that you know he grew up um in in
relative poverty um and you know i think
it was not unusual um for his time i
mean he grew up in in you know the
aftermath of the war in st petersburg um
you know he did not have luxury he
didn't have his own apartment until he
was a grown man uh even after he started
working for the kgb um and so i think
that idea of like you know um you know
the the poverty and the the
embarrassment that russia went through
was not in keeping with his vision of
the great state um that the russian
nation should be and when he came to
office it seemed like he was more open
to the kind of liberal reforms the
democratic uh and capitalistic uh you
know evolution of the country and you
know that's happened to a large large
extent i mean he he came to office at a
time of war and chaos and economic
hardship and he he brought stability um
to a large degree to russia and it made
him genuinely popular even as he was
tightening the reins on on the
democratic process so that it stopped
being a democracy at a certain point and
basically became you know a one-party
state or even a one-man state um and i i
think his desire to like recreate the
soviet past that he had this glorious
past of the soviet union i mean despite
his poverty he felt like he grew up um
in a kind of comfortable life you know
something he was proud of he joined the
kgb
because he wanted to be
an intelligence officer who would help
save the world from nazis
so a lot of this language that you see
in him
it's obviously more extreme it's
involved evolved over the years
but it's it's stuff that you've seen
from the very beginning of his time in
office
you touched upon
his time as a young military officer
there's this very interesting story
about what happens in dresden in 1989
towards the end of the east german
nation and
how lieutenant colonel putin virtually
intimidates
people are really angry and want to
attack the kgb residents over there and
sends them away just because of how
sharp he is but give our viewers a sense
of what is it about that young putin
that saw him emerge through the ranks
take over from borussia elsin and
continue to rule russia in the decades
then yes
what was important to remember while he
had a military rank he was he was an
agent of the of the kgb not not in the
uniform military service he did wear a
uniform sometimes but i i think what was
interesting about the um his time in
east germany he was there for the fall
of the berlin wall he saw the soviet
empire collapse um the you know the
soviet influence over eastern europe um
and he was forced like
tens of thousands of other soviet um you
know agents military officers back to
russia in the sort sort of humiliating
way and then two years later the soviet
union itself collapses
after the failed coup against gorbachev
in 91 that left him basically without a
job
and he ended up falling in with the
democratic leader
of saint petersburg and became a very
loyal assistant to him and
through that experience i think some
sometimes by
happenstance he ended up rising into the
ranks of the kremlin administration he
moved to moscow only in 1996 and and
really started out at a not very high
ranking job in the administration of the
kremlin dealing with property um but
within three years he was the the prime
minister and then yeltsin who was under
attack decided that he was a loyal uh
soldier he was a loyal uh and competent
administrator and that yeltsin could
trust him uh to take over the country
and frankly protect yeltsin from any
kind of consequence for the chaos of his
rule um including legal consequences um
and then that's that's what brought
putin to power and this he was sort of
almost thrust into this position
uh to be um you know the leader of this
vast country and i think in the
beginning he was not entirely
up to it or at least was less confident
about it but he stepped into the job and
you know over the last 22 years now he's
you know clearly searched for a kind of
rationale
for this greater russia that he
envisions
i don't think he's trying to recreate
the soviet union i think what he's
trying to do is recreate something much
older um the old russian empire this
notion it's a it's a nationalistic view
of you know the the you know historic
russian state you know kiev ruse
is the foundation of of russia and and
recording stopped
andy and he hopes to
in that find a rationale for his
governance for his for his leadership
over the years it's become more and more
strident over the years
but nonetheless i think he's found it in
this and he believed that somehow
ukraine as now an independent nation
after the soviet union would tilt
towards the european union or towards
nato even worse
was somehow an assault on the very
russian state that he leads
and this has been building this is not
new it's been building for years i
remember going to the first mass protest
in ukraine and and and that was in 2004
and it toppled the fraudulent election
putin took that as a personal affront he
took that as an as an attack on russia
um and and has has loathed you know
democratic ukraine ever since this is
what was called the color revolutions
you know it began in ukraine and the um
and he believes that these are being
orchestrated by enemies of russia to
split russia apart the russia that
should naturally be and i think that's
what's driving all of this and it's been
building it feels like he just got to a
point where he couldn't take it anymore
and he's cracked
and says he's going to resolve this once
and for all
and he's doing it in a way that i think
has shocked everybody
in his attacks on ukraine uh president
putin talks constantly of denuzification
of the ukrainian government and
administrative systems he talks of
getting the countries rid of drug
addicts
there is a historical context to that
can you explain it as you see why putin
keeps talking about the nazification of
ukraine
you know it
frankly i think that's just a
distraction i think that that's a
rationale
the um you know i mentioned already this
notion that he had about the the war you
know are are there neo-nazis running
around ukraine sure there are in most
countries there are many more in russia
but they're not running the government
of ukraine i mean you look at the
government now and these are not
drug-addicted nazis um so this this
irrational aspect um of his uh rhetoric
around the
around the war really undercuts his um
his
his point of view is his uh
justification for the war because you
know you can look at the government in
ukraine and see that they're not what he
says they are and what's interesting is
i think a lot of the um russian people
know that i think a lot obviously the
ukrainian people know that and so the
people who do believe this i think are a
minority and i i it there are signs have
been anecdotal cases where even
the the russian soldiers don't seem to
buy this rationale um and and i think
that's a real weakness in the strategy
of putin and i don't know how much of it
is fed to him um
by uh you know by the intelligence
reports he's receiving by his aides um
who who want to affirm what he already
believes
that
that that ukraine has descended into
some sort of fascist state um which is
completely
the opposite of what's happened in in
ukraine for all of its faults it's it's
sought to establish a more democratic
system
and that i think is what really
frightens putin more than
nazism there's been so much commentary
around
uh president putin's mental state
especially during the pandemic the fact
that he's isolated himself from all
except his closest advisors when he
meets people he sits on one end of a
ridiculously long table uh his defense
minister his chief of staff sitting on
the other side looking very unhappy
taking orders from him at least that's
what the body language seems to suggest
give our viewers a sense of
what the last two years of the pandemic
have been like for president putin
they've been disruptive for citizens
across the world but why is it that
putin is more isolated in russia today
than he's been in the past
you know i think that you know he has
genuine concerns
about exposure to the coronavirus and
that stems out also i think because of
his concern that you know
his departure um
in the most extreme sense would be
catastrophic russia would fall apart
without him in power and i think you
know like many people who've been in
power too long he's become increasingly
paranoid they're paranoid of external
threats they're paranoid of internal
threats and now you have a pandemic
which is kind of the ultimate you know
threat to everybody around the world as
we've seen and so i think that partly he
was just reacting in the sense of
wanting to
um you know make sure that he stays
healthy
and what's interesting you mentioned his
close aides is that his close aides are
also sitting a long way from him so you
wonder if they're not in the room with
him um when these decisions are being
made or on their they're not on the
other side of the room and they're not
involved in the intimate sort of kitchen
counter uh
discussions that that leaders often have
with their closest advisors you know who
does have his ear you know after work
late at night
you know these these meetings that he
has on television of course keep in mind
they're sort of performative you know
they're they're
carefully choreographed what you see is
what you know the state wants you to see
there's no spontaneity in them so
everything has a kind of purpose the
dressing down of his foreign
intelligence officer who somebody who's
worked with him for decades
was an extraordinary moment and you
wonder then again i think this is why
people are saying you know is he somehow
off his rocker because it just seems
like
an extreme version of that temper that
we've seen over the years
and it's led people to ask you know has
he just been too isolated
you know we we can't from a distance
you know evaluate his his mental health
um i i think only people close to him
only professionals can do that um but
there's no question that he spent
less time
hearing advice outside of the narrow
circle of people who are around him so
he may not be aware of the intensity of
the ukrainian opposition to this
invasion of or even just more broadly of
ukraine's sense of national identity
as much as he wants ukrainians to be
little brothers of russia there is a
strong component of ukrainian
nationality not nazism not not
nationalist in a negative way but just
people who want to
aspire to have their own country um you
know and and you feel that very strongly
when you're in ukraine um and that you
know it's it's something that i think
russia uh not not all of russia but that
vladimir putin can't really tolerate he
can't it can't abide by the notion that
they would somehow be separate from
uh from the russian state or russian
influence at a minimum
in 1964 there was a coup against nikita
khrushchev
and the cr the leaders of the kremlin
got together and stripped him off uh his
powers and leonid brezhnev came in his
first secretary
a lot of people watching would wonder
can things reach a past where the
ollycocks the billionaires the people
around him think this man's gone off his
rocker as you said and find a way of
ousting him how complete is this grasp
on power
is a coup against putin possible in your
view
you know i i would say no to be honest
and you know i was reading a historian
today who knows much more of course than
i do and you know the the the khrushchev
coup is is is the example it almost
proves the rule there haven't been that
many there was a failed coup against
gorbachev of course
but for the most part even even stalin
as brutal as his rule was people were
afraid to rise up against him
and you know he died
in his sleep or of a stroke i guess um
and you know i think that
people
hope for this silver bullet somehow
but honestly i don't see any
circumstance inside the elite in russia
where people would be able to do that
the business oligarchs are certainly not
part of that quick equation the only
plausible
scenario would be if the security
services
decided they've had enough but these are
his most loyal supporters so i i i would
expect putin to remain in power even if
this goes as badly as it seems to be
going with the international opposition
and and the you know brutal effects that
these sanctions are going to have on the
russian economy putin keeps talking
about the use of nuclear power
meant as a deterrence is this just saber
rattling or do you think i mean first
nobody expected him to invade
ukraine but he did given that he's done
so now people are wondering is that just
bluff and bluster or should this man's
nuclear threat be taken seriously
you know what circumstances could he go
nuclear
i think he's brandishing the um the
nuclear threat
as a way to try to intimidate uh
nato and the united states to not
intervene
i think he worries about an intervention
because frankly that might be a bigger
even bigger fight for the russian
military and you know his ultimate trump
card uh is that you know russia remains
a nuclear superpower and as long as they
are as long as they're able to threaten
um you know the the uh cities major
cities of the united states which by the
way they discussed on tv um last sunday
uh you know how they would strike
american cities uh i think they feel
like as long as they have that then that
gives him the right or at least the
ability to be able to you know exert
russian influence and power over its
uh
its neighborhood
and they want the united states to stay
out and not be part of
deciding the fate of ukraine
i want to ask you about the relationship
of
president putin with xi jinping they
just bought born a few months apart
their close on the outside but a lot of
said about what putin actually thinks of
xi jinping one was born on october 7
1952 the other one 15 june 1953 only
eight months apart
uh from what you know
does he trust xi jinping because he
thinks of himself as the great tsar and
the great tsar won't think of himself as
being any less than great she who thinks
he's uh going to be ruler of the free
world
you know what's interesting is this
relationship is also something that's
been building um you know there was
obviously a history of animosity between
the soviet union and china
dating back to the foundation of the uh
people's republic of china
but i think that under under putin even
before she
but certainly since she came to power um
you know has has sought an accommodation
uh with china understanding its value to
him in this confrontation that he feels
he's um uh that he has with the the the
liberal west uh broadly speaking but
mostly it means the united states in his
mind he thinks the u.s runs europe and
tells him what to do and so i think he
feels like if he has china at his back
literally um that that gives him a freer
hand and and you know there's been an
enormous amount of trade uh which is uh
risen now to 140 billion a year
and
you know i think that that's been
beneficial especially when russia faced
uh sanctions after 2014 in crimea and um
you know when they came to the olympics
i mean you remember of course that
biden a lot of other leaders you know
boycotted the olympic ceremony um and
and refused to attend even if the
athletes attended and putin was there
um you know to be the leader you know to
sort of give
she the appearance of this um you know
grand event uh that he wanted that you
know and you know in the hours before
the opening ceremony they sat down and
met they put out this extraordinary
statement uh that basically listed the
ways they were friends and allies and
that included for the first time really
explicit
chinese
expression of opposition to nato
expansion uh it they both and this is
not new but they both expressed you know
opposition to external interference by
which they mean the united states you
know in in promoting colored revolutions
they use the word colored revolutions
which again originated um in the in the
former soviet states uh at the beginning
of putin's reign so you're i think
you're seeing the
convergence of
world views and interest
between these two leaders that said
there's a debate going on right now
about how much she knew did putin
actually tell him he was planning to
launch his invasion and you know i think
that the evidence is still unclear on
that and it whatever the case i think
china has been surprised too
by the scale of the assault but also by
the unified international reaction
against it
from what you know
how do you think this war will end so
far president putin hasn't achieved the
military objectives he would have hoped
for in the first week the ukrainians are
fighting hard they're being armed by the
west lots of
stinger missiles
lots of japan missiles coming in giving
them extra firepower to push the russian
army back the russian army has been
escalating but still trying to avoid
mass casualties
if you were trying to get into putin's
head how do you see the escalation
spiral from here on and how do you think
this could end
well as somebody who's covered a couple
conflicts i would caution that you can't
really tell
in the early days how things are going
even the initial um you know uh
progress that a military is making i i
think we just have to wait and see
but that said
in the last day or so the russian
military has begun to gain a little bit
more momentum
that's not to say the ukrainians are
still not putting up an incredible fight
the president's been incredibly
heroic in leading the people um but you
know it's it's it seems like now
putin's aim is the conquest of uh at
least the government at least the
capital uh and some sort of you know
capitulation um by the ukrainian state i
i don't know if that will happen um i
wouldn't want to predict uh i i do
believe that
even if that were to happen um it would
not be
um a welcome
subjugation by the ukrainian people they
don't want to live under the rule of
putin or some crony that he installs
you know they wanted to separate from
the soviet union for the large reason
that they didn't want to live under the
soviet state not under a sort of
moscow-centric russian-centric
political system
and i don't see how that's changed and i
definitely don't see how that's changed
when you see the kind of destruction
that you have in the last few days the
loss of lives and and and property uh
it's staggering and so i think even if
he were to uh succeed in his military
aims he has an enormous political
problem that's going to haunt him i
believe through the rest of his time in
office however long that is everyone has
a taken of you on
what's happening and why but you've been
able to layer it with a lot of insights
into the personality into the psyche and
mind vladimir putin on the back of your
research stephen lee myers
beijing bureau chief of the new york
times author of the book the new czar
the rise and reign of vladimir putin for
joining us on india today thank you very
much i really enjoyed this conversation
i think our viewers would have benefited
from your insights as well thank you sir
thank
you we'll slip into a quick break a lot
more coming up on india today we have a
big interview later this evening 8 p.m
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break status
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now here's some big breaking coming in
on the talks between ukraine and russia
no breakthrough as yet so far in russia
ukraine foreign ministers talks in fact
this is one of the
first high-level face-to-face talks that
both the countries have had in ontario
russia says there has been no progress
in ceasefire russia's foreign minister
sergey lavrov has claimed that ukraine
does not intend to fulfill demands put
forward by moscow russia has maintained
that all of its demands including that
of kiev taking a neutral position and
dropping aspirations of joining the nato
alliance must be met to end its assault
in fact
while ukrainian foreign minister dimitro
koleva has said that the country will
not surrender in front of moscow these
trilateral talks between the foreign
ministers of ukraine russia that took
place in turkey
antara it appears has not made the
required headway as they expected to in
fact they were hoping that this could
mark a turning point in the conflict but
unfortunately so far it doesn't seem
like this conversation between the two
foreign ministers of russia and ukraine
have really made much headway we're
looking at russian forces there
who are
in fact invading continue to invade
ukraine with much force bombing shelling
missile strikes continue to take place
unabated while that said you have
trilateral talks that was taking place
parallelly with foreign ministers of
ukraine and russia but it appears now no
breakthrough in the foreign minister
level talks which is one of the only
high-level talks that has taken place so
far a face-to-face meeting that happened
mediated in antara we're looking at
these stocks
falling flat yet again let me cut across
to gita mohan joining us for more on
that gita give us an insight into what
was discussed in this high-level meet
between the two foreign ministers we
understand that a request for cease-fire
for at least 24 hours was made by
ukraine so that aid humanitarian aid
could reach those civilians those who
had to be rescued could have been pulled
out but it doesn't seem like russia has
budged
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well absolutely not it seems like russia
is trying to corner
ukraine as much as they can and put
pressure uh with the demands only
increasing earlier it was about uh uh
the neutrality of ukraine and crimea uh
recognizing crimea now we've seen uh the
demand also of recognizing the two
republics of dynasty and luhansk which
was uh which would uh declared
independent by russia unilaterally by
russia uh
so the demands on the russian side are
increasing on the ukrainian side the
human humanitarian corridor that that
the ukraine is really seeking to ensure
that there is evacuation of civilians is
something that the two sides have been
working on but it doesn't seem like the
russian side is going to give
in to the demand of a ceasefire remember
even when there were humanitarian
corridors that were given to certain
cities where russia had planned an
announced attack uh even then
president putin and his uh
administration very very very clearly
said that they are not going to have a
complete ceasefire so while there was
humanitarian corridor in certain parts
and certain pockets of ukraine there
were other parts that were being shelled
and bombed and tanks have come in uh
they're rolling in from wherever they
can especially from belarus uh so there
and and they're these long convoys that
you see uh we've been putting out the
satellite images as well so it doesn't
seem like things are abating or a stand
to
come to a come to a position where both
sides can negotiate peace it just seems
like things will get tough for ukraine
the position is quite dicey a precarious
position that president zilenski is in
wherein he cannot really uh accommodate
the recognition of these uh these two
areas crimea and the donbass regions of
donetsk and lohan's because that would
mean giving up territory and he will
lose political clout on the other hand
if this continues there is lots of life
and damage i'm standing right in front
of the motherland monument this this
this is the irony of ukraine it was a
part of the soviet union celebrated
second world war and
the war heroes in this very same war
museum today she is the epitome of
freedom for anyone who's inspired to
fight russia
gita do stay with us i'm going to
quickly get across to rajesh babar as
well joining us for with a little more
details there from on ground rajesh uh
we know that the high level talks
between russia and ukraine so far hasn't
made any breakthrough a ceasefire
request was made so that aid could be
brought in civilians could be rescued
but here you have the ukrainian foreign
minister claiming that he has no promise
coming in from russia that they would
allow for ceasefire so that uh rescue
operations can be carried out but in the
same breath he also says the foreign
minister of ukraine also says that we
will not surrender they stay put they
are of course fighting and fighting hard
rajesh can you hear us
i can hear you rajesh yep yep we're
looking at bilateral we're looking at
trilateral talks here uh mediated there
in ankara uh not uh coming out with a
breakthrough this was expected to be a
turning point the talks today was
expected to be a turning point in this
war while you have ukraine appealing for
ceasefire for at least 24 hours to stop
any kind of attack on ukraine so that
evacuation can take place medical aid
can reach those civilians but they've
got no promise from russia as yet this
is what the foreign minister of ukraine
claims while also saying they will not
surrender
look we can we can draw two three
messages out of this right when they say
we will not surrender this is basically
um
the audience is the
ukrainian army the ukrainian militia and
the citizens that ukrainian ukrainian
government is not going for these talks
because they are lost or they have a
fear of losing so the
the primary audience for this statement
that we will uh we will continue
fighting and we have not lost basically
for psychological reasons so that the
morale of the army the morale the morale
of the militia which is fighting the
russian army now at various fronts can
be kept high
regarding ceasefire see russia cannot
have a
complete ceasefire right now ukraine for
military reasons there is something
called momentum of war
russia has that in its favor right now
and the momentum of war is in the favor
of russian forces they are rolling in
from north from east from south towards
nipro river and towards kiev and they've
encircled major cities in most of
eastern southern ukraine so they would
not like to break this momentum of war
and that is the reason for military
reasons they cannot have a
complete ceasefire as demanded by
ukraine however i don't think these
stocks have actually failed they might
not have yielded any results right now
but i think uh there will be more we
will see more rounds of negotiations and
talks mediated by turkey in the coming
days what's happening today on ground
where are you show us what's behind you
uh give us an insight into how
far have the russian troops uh otherwise
of course as they are surrounding the
border areas of many cities how far have
they come in terms of invading ukraine
what's been the situation on day 15
see on day 15 for last five days now
cave has been quiet the skies have been
quite there have been no air raids there
have been no
missiles falling here rockets falling
here no artery shelling happening in the
city the city has been more or less
quite there has been no attack on cave
city as as expected or as predicted by a
lot of
uh specialists or
think tanks it didn't happen
about the russian forces advanced
towards key what my information is which
all of us know there's a huge force of
russian army which is waiting for orders
to attack eve in the north west in the
north now the latest which is coming in
from pentagon which was released
yesterday is that
russian army is also advancing towards
the keefe from northeast from the side
of sumit town so they are also
coming towards kiev from north east now
besides this what pentagon has said is
that there's still fighting going on in
pockets in kharkiv and other northern
northern part
north
areas of
ukraine but in the south and east as i
have been reporting for last three four
days russian forces continue to make
advance and they are closing in towards
nepal river over to you
rajesh thank you very much please do
stay safe here today's reporters on
ground bringing us the latest in detail
we're looking at day 15 as russia
continues with its invasion to ukraine
it enters day 15 of this war here we are
looking at all the top developments of
this day here's a look
ukrainian authorities have now said that
children's hospital in the ukrainian
city of mario paul was destroyed by
russian airstrikes on wednesday russian
occupying forces have dropped several
bombs on children's hospital leading to
colossal destruction european media
reports have stated that at least 17
staffers were wounded several pregnant
women and children were injured
the united states condemned russia for
the barbaric attack and bombing of
children's hospital in ukraine
officials have said that a russian
airstrike buried patients in rubble
despite a ceasefire deal
for people to flee the besieged city of
mario paul
meanwhile you have ukrainian president
well other mayor zelensky who's called
on the west to impose even tougher
sanctions on russia after airstrikes on
maternity hospital in mario paul wearing
the traditional water army green he said
that the west should strengthen the
sanctions so russia no longer has any
possibility to continue this genocide
meanwhile
international atomic energy agency has
said that power has been entirely cut to
the chernobyl power plant site of the
world's
worst nuclear disaster that happened in
1986 and in security systems adding that
no critical impact on the safety from
chernobyl power loss
ukrainian president olamir zelensky has
now signed the law allowing civilians in
ukraine to use weapons against the
russian russian military and is valid
for the entire period of martial law
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[Music]
now ukrainian president zilinski has
also said that ukraine will try to
evacuate civilians through six
humanitarian corridors today from the
capital city of kiev as well as from
cities of sumi and ergod mario paul
izum and walnuja
british prime minister boris johnson
informed ukraine's president zielinski
that he was committed to further
tightening sanctions to impose maximum
economic cost on russia johnson has
discussed the situation in ukraine on a
call with zielinski last evening where
he said that putin will be held
accountable for his terrible crimes
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[Music]
meanwhile apple pay google pays samsung
pay all these payment service giants are
no longer available in russia in
addition mastercard and visa payment
cards issued by russian banks have
stopped working abroad and online stores
[Music]
and white house press secretary jenn
saki has said that russian president
ladamir putin's troops may arrange a
provocation and be preparing to use
chemical and biological weapons while
passing the blame onto ukraine
the european union has said that it was
stepping up sanctions over russia's
invasion of ukraine including targeting
more russian individuals and adding
banks in moscow's alley belarus now the
27 nation block was blacklisting 160
more russian parliamentarians and
oligarchs
was banning exports of maritime
navigation technology to russia and was
including crypto assets under its
punitive measures
now the ukrainian
military here we're looking at the
ukrainian military that's reported that
they have regained control of their
hachi and haruki barriers of ukraine
russian forces were allegedly trying to
encircle the city but they were stopped
by ukrainian attack who've been pushing
back relentlessly since the time the
invasion began 15 days ago several
european media reports have revealed
that the head of our key regional state
administration ole sirigubov has
announced that russian forces were
attempting to encircle the city but they
were repelled by the ukrainian
counter-attack a night strike two has
taken place in slovakia
two women two children unfortunately
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now we're looking at more than two weeks
into russia's invasion on ukraine
ruthless shelling still continues
attacks continue along with unparalleled
human tragedy in her cave a shopping
center was completely destroyed but the
ukrainian military reported that they
have regained control of the derhachi
and the haruki barriers of ukraine a
factory and tour were on raging fire
after being bombarded in airplane on the
outskirts of kiev in fact today in the
browarski district of ukraine a russian
tank was set on fire as volunteer
battalions and the ukraine forces are
going to in fact they're going all out
to stop the russia russian forces from
capturing its cities horrific images
here of a hospital attack from mario
paul that have come to four at least 17
are said to be injured several appeared
missing in fact zielinski has said many
of them are still buried under debris
european media has claimed that ukraine
wiped out four russian su-25 aircrafts
two helicopters and two cruise missiles
in kiev and the joint joint force
operations regions
in fact meanwhile 50 000 people from
sumi a very sensitive area where
hundreds of indian students were also
trapped have now all been evacuated from
the ravaged water and country of ukraine
all in the last 48 hours ukrainian
president vladimir zelenki has said that
35 000 people have been rescued through
humanitarian corridors and that five
humanitarian corridors are now
uh in fact they're setting up
to open from kiev sumo
in erdohar and three other cities
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now india today's largest team of
reporters on ground bringing us the
finest of details on
russia's invasion into ukraine they're
looking at deadly images and amid all
that chaos our reporters on ground are
giving us the real insight and all the
facts that we see as it unfolds i'm
going to cut across to goddess savant
who brings us this ground report
talks between russia and ukraine remain
inconclusive no results so far the
anticipation and the apprehension now is
that this would result in escalation of
tension between russia and ukraine we
are here at the mother of ukraine
memorial her big statue that inspires an
entire country and all the soviet-era
weapons and missiles from a mig-21 to a
mig-27 to missiles and tanks including
the t-55
all parked here
these weapons inspire the people of
ukraine there are anti-tank guns there
are mortars that are here at this
memorial the hope in this country is
that peace talks will result in
less blood bloodshed or stopping
bloodshed but that doesn't appear to be
happening the temperature right now
is minus two degrees from the flutter of
the flag you can very easily see that
it's very windy feels like -5
and in this sub-zero temperature people
are preparing for the siege of ukraine
the siege of cave tension palpable in
the air tension as multiple new
checkpoints have now come up
tension is also visible with new
defenses being prepared
not just on the outskirts of kiev but
now inside the city air defense
equipment surface-to-air missiles tanks
armored personal carriers
troops are now moving closer to the city
or inside the city to protect
kiev from an imminent russian attack and
that attack could come as early as
tonight or in the next 24 to 48 hours
and there is a reason for this the
reason very clearly is
probe missions being mounted by the
russian army some russian tanks tried to
enter the city they were engaged
according to ukrainian army officers
india today spoke to
some of the commandos spetsnaz commandos
have already infiltrated inside the city
with their weapons and there are reports
of firing that were reported late last
night at one of the checkpoints
the situation remains tense and is
likely to worsen in the hours and days
ahead with cameraman pawan kumar in cave
ukraine god of seventh for india today
now india today today's foreign affairs
editor gita mohan gets you this
exclusive report from a bomb shelter in
kiev due to security reasons there was
no light inside that bunker but here's
what we've managed let's have a look
soldiers or russians who want to enter
and infiltrate ukraine can speak the
language but can they read it and that's
the reason why they have this
so they have this text as a as a test
and not just this quite a few others in
the documents
and uh
genie here will try to explain it to me
uh as to what this really means what why
do you have this text and why do you
really need to
have people come and take the test
so we created this sentence actually if
you translate it it doesn't make sense
but
this text helps us to tell if ukrainian
is here or russian because it's very
difficult for russians to pronounce
those sounds because some of them are
purely ukrainian and
only ukrainian can pronounce it
correctly and you can hear very clearly
if it's ukrainian or russian when you
ask to pronounce this sentence it's a
very very smart technique to ensure that
russians do not infiltrate the shelters
these this is just one test there are
many others they make them read
documents to ensure that only ukrainians
come to the shelter and russians do not
infiltrate they have not entered the
city yet the the city still has still
not been breached by the russians but uh
staff who have been trained are going to
take no chance
it's dark and for security reasons
lights have not been turned on
uh they're working under a lamp to
register everybody because now the
building lights will not be turned on
only the lights that are inside which
cannot be visible and surely the lights
in the shelter
with all the devastation and the chaos
and the state of affairs it's been too
close to two weeks now into russia's
invasion on ukraine amid that ruthless
shelling attacks unparalleled human
tragedy we are seeing some signs of hope
a young girl here seen singing a song
inside a bunker i'm going to leave you
with that
red
[Laughter]
is
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the russian invasion of ukraine is an
event that will shape the future of the
entire world
at this time it is difficult to say
how the new world order would look like
and how would this be different from the
world order that has existed since the
end of the second world war to get a
macro historical perspective on the
sweeping changes that are upon us at
this moment i am privileged and
delighted to be joined live and
exclusive on india today's news track by
the world's greatest living historian
author of the best-selling book sapiens
a brief history of mankind homodius a
brief history of tomorrow and 21 lessons
for the 21st century which i'm sure he'd
now need to revise joining us live from
tel aviv in israel is the rock star
historian professor yual noah harari
professor harari it is an absolute honor
to have you back with us on india today
thank you for inviting me
i want to start by asking you about a
recent column that you wrote where you
say that this is not just a war between
russia and ukraine this is an event that
will shape the whole world
can you start by giving our audiences
who are watching you at this time a
sense of why you believe that this is
not just a war between putin and
zelensky the russian army and the
ukrainian army but this is something
that impacts everyone the world over
yes because if the russian aggression
succeeds
we will see more and more of these this
kind of aggression all over the world
you know since 1945 it became
unacceptable for one country to simply
invade a weaker nation and obliterate it
from the face of the map which is what
putin is trying to do if putin succeeds
you know there are countries all over
the world and tyrants all over the world
watching this to see what will happen if
he succeeds we will see more and more of
it and we will enter a new dark era in
history which everybody will feel to
give just one example just think about
defense budgets
today in the world the average
military budget of countries is about
six percent of government budget
which is the lowest in history most
governments spend far more on healthcare
education welfare
in history this is very rare most
sultans and emperors and kings they
spent most of their money on their army
and almost nothing on health care and
education and welfare if putin succeeds
you we will see defense budgets around
the whole world skyrocket we already saw
germany doubling its military budget in
a day
and this money
will come from health care from
education the money that should go to
teachers and doctors will go to tanks
and to airplanes and everybody will feel
it we will also lose the potential
to deal with the main problems of
humankind like climate change and like
the rise of artificial intelligence
because how can you reach an agreement
on fighting climate change or unlimiting
limiting artificial intelligence when
countries are trying to destroy each
other
so this is why this is an existential
danger to the whole humankind what is
happening right now
so you write in the guardian that a week
into the war it is increasingly likely
that vladimir putin is heading towards a
historic defeat he may win the battles
but he will lose the war
what makes you so confident that
vladimir putin is heading towards a
historic defeat
you see it's easier to conquer a country
than to hold it in the long run as we
saw in afghanistan in iraq and in many
other places now this whole war
is about the very existence of the
ukrainian nation it's not about
conquering this city or that city and
it's all based on a lie on a fantasy in
putin's head putin believes that the
ukrainian nation doesn't really exist
putin believes that ukrainians are
actually russians
that they want to
join russia to be absorbed by russia
and that the only thing that prevents it
is a small gang of so-called nazis at
the top
he therefore believed and this explains
the the the failure so so far that we
are seeing he believed that in 24 hours
the minute the russian army invades
zalenski will fly the ukrainian army
will surrender and the ukrainian people
will throw flowers on the russian tanks
and he was completely wrong zelensky
didn't fly
didn't flee the country
uh the ukrainian army is fighting like
hell
and the ukrainian people is throwing
molotov cocktails on the russian tanks
not flowers
ukraine is a very real nation fighting
for its survival yes putin may still
conquer the country
but he will not be able to absorb it
every day this woe lasts he is planting
seeds of hatred
between ukrainians and russians which
previously were like family
and this hatred will last for
generations unless he stops this war
immediately
you said that to reestablish the russian
empire putin needed a relatively
bloodless victory that would lead to a
relatively hateless occupation but by
spilling more and more ukrainian blood
putin is making sure his dream will
never be realized how do you think the
war that we've seen this week is likely
to end professor
i don't know i can't predict the future
it could end right now
if putin gives the order because this is
a war of one person only this isn't
russia's war it isn't the war of the
russian people they don't want it there
is just one person in the whole world
that wants this war
and this is putin and you can stop it
immediately
if he doesn't it can last for months and
years again he can conquer the whole
country but the war will continue for
years he will never be able to actually
absorb it it also depends to a large
extent on the reaction of other
countries
countries whether in europe or whether
in asia like india
russia is actually a weak country people
think that russia is like the soviet
union it isn't it's much much weaker
it's not one of the 10 largest economies
the russian economy is actually smaller
than the economy of italy or of south
korea
you know russia has a a gdp of 1.6
trillion dollars a year
europe combined has more than 20
trillions
if europe and the world unite against
russia putin cannot prevail i'll say
another thing about it you know
the whole russian economy is built just
on gas and oil
and it's like a it's like a gas station
with nukes
if the world unites
to on if even just europe
unites to create a green manhattan
project
to replace oil and gas with alternative
energy the putin regime is finished
when an all barrel costs 20 dollars
instead of a hundred dollars like now
this is the end of the putin regime
you've made an interesting comparison
about putin casting himself in the role
of hitler why do you think that putin is
shaping up to be the 21st century adult
fiddler
you see the way that he is inflicting
tremendous suffering on tens of millions
of people simply because of his cruel
ambition
there is no rationale for this war as i
said the russian people doesn't want it
and you know people talk about the
security interests of russia nobody was
threatening russia
when this war erupted if russia had
concerns it they could be discussed
peacefully
you know the germans were not about to
invade the french were not about to
invade it it was his decision and in
this sense oh of course there are many
differences also between him and hitler
but in this sense of one person
inflicting a terrible war on the whole
world
there is a comparison there and you know
the other main thing and in this putin
is like many other dictators
not just hitler that when he builds this
lie in his head
nobody around him is brave enough
to confront him
a dictator usually has so much power
that the people around him are afraid to
contradict him
so even when he says completely
ridiculous thing
everybody tells him yes yes yes you're
absolutely right you're a genius
and this is why he embarked on this war
assuming completely false things such as
that ukraine is not a nation and that
the ukrainians will not resist
in the past seven decades there hasn't
been a direct conflict between the major
powers of the world and no recognized
country has had
its status changed forever
do you apprehend that in the way events
are shaping up we could be heading
towards a third world war is that within
the realm of your possibilities
i hope very much not
i think the west is is very cautious
about it and again remember that russia
it has nukes that's true but apart from
that it's a relatively weak power it is
not the soviet union
you know if other nations join it like
china or like iran or like iran then
it's a completely different matter but
so far we've also seen that china is
sitting on the fence
just observing what is happening not
committing itself
russia by itself is not strong enough
to to have a third world war it can
destroy humanity with nuclear weapons
that's true and everybody should be
worried about nuclear weapons because if
this war continues we will see nuclear
weapons spreading more and more
you know
germany
and japan
are now
thinking about it again
because they say to themselves in 2024
who knows who the u.s president will be
maybe trump is president again
and if russia or china invades us in
2024 2025 are we really certain that
trump will defend us
if not we need our own nukes
and then iran says wait if germany and
japan now have nukes why can't we and we
will see more and more nuclear weapons
spreading and as there are more and more
fingers
on the button of the nuclear weapons
the
chances increase that somebody somewhere
will press it and it will be the end of
human civilization
how do you see the global economy change
on account of this war past wars were
about land or they were about minerals
resources now we're in the internet of
things it's about technological progress
ai ml it's not so much about physically
occupying land so how does this change
the economic dimension of history
professor
because of the change in the economy we
have indeed seen less wars in recent
years
you know previously in history if a
country or a king wanted to enrich
themselves a way to do it was to conquer
the neighbors because the main source of
wealth was wheat fields and rice fields
and cattle and slaves that you can
conquer by war
increasingly now the main sources of
wealth are not material
they are knowledge
like the knowledge to produce a
high-tech industry and you can't conquer
knowledge by war
and you see that recent countries that
became very wealthy like germany like
china like japan they didn't do it by
war
they did it by developing their society
and their economy russia is in distance
moving in a very different trajectory
instead of investing in its people
in education
in healthcare it's investing in military
i said earlier that military budgets
around the world today are on average
about five or six percent in russia it
is 11 percent
this is why a relatively poor country
like russia
can develop such a military machine by
taking money from health care and giving
it to tanks
and russian citizens are suffering from
it and the russian economy is suffering
from it and conquering ukraine ukraine
will not make russia prosperous
it will only make it even even poorer
but putin doesn't seem to care about it
he doesn't care about the welfare
certainly not of the ukrainians but not
even of the russians
and this is again why it's very
important that he loses
and that countries around the world
realize this is not the way to develop
if you want to become a powerful nation
a respected nation you should invest in
the education and health care of your
citizens so they became more educated
they build you know high-tech industries
and things like that you don't invest in
tanks
to become a great nation
in academic circles and in think tanks
there is a debate raging about whether
the west forced vladimir putin to invade
ukraine and this argument is led by
professor john miyashima
the classical international affairs
theorist who propounds the balance of
power theory and he says that after
promising gorbachev that they would not
expand nato eastwards by constantly
doing so and threatening to also include
uh ukraine in the eu and possibly also
in the nato alliance because of the
institutional history of the russian
empire and because putin sees himself as
the new czar the west has literally
forced putin's hand do you buy this
argument to professor miyashima
when you see the bombs falling on kiev
you can't accept this kind of argument
nobody put a gun to putin's head and
said you must invade ukraine it was his
decision
and it should be very clear nato and the
eu
do not expand by force
how does how does the eu grow it's not
doesn't grow by sending tanks to force a
country to join it countries join the eu
and countries join nato because they
want to out of their own free will and
why do they want to join nato and the eu
because they want a better future for
the citizens and also because they are
afraid of russia
and can you blame them for being afraid
of russia can you blame now that you see
what's happening in kiev can you blame
poland can you blame estonia of wanting
to be part of nato
yes russia has security concerns
but the way to discuss them is not by
invading a weaker country
there was nothing urgent that forced
putin to invade now
it's not like people were actually
discussing or about to accept ukraine to
nato it was not on the table
it's not like there was a german army
massing on the borders about to invade
nothing like it who wants to invade
russia the last time somebody invaded
russia was hitler 80 years ago and
nobody wants to repeat it do you think
the germans want to invade russia it's
the last thing they undermined do you
think napoleon will come out of his
grave and lead the french army to moscow
this is ridiculous
you know listening to these arguments
about russian
uh uh uh defense interests it's like
seeing a person
standing with his boot on the face of
somebody
and telling you oh please understand my
security concerns no
when you're standing with your boot on
somebody's face
this is not the time to listen to your
fears and to your concerns take your
boot off his face then we can listen to
you
now but in a historical context this is
an interesting uh debate because on the
one side
there is the view that you're putting
forward about this new piece which you
think isn't a statistical fluke or a
hippie fantasy on the other side the
likes of john nyoshima says that a lot
of what you barack obama and the others
have been saying is just a fluke of
history that ultimately it reverts to
the medium balance of power is what it's
about and if uh nations get together to
threaten a great empire the empire will
strike back is just the way human nature
has been for hundreds of years and
therefore just this period of relative
peace after the second world war doesn't
take away from the larger historical
context
you know when you say that war is
natural you are excusing criminals
because then it's not their fault it's
not put in fault that there is a war
it's the fault of human nature
and this is unacceptable humans have
proven that they are able to make better
decisions the period of peace that we
saw not just in europe but in most of
the world in recent generations was not
a fantasy it was real and this is why i
started with budgets
not with poems
look in the budgets
and you will see how real the piece was
and if we now accept war as just natural
it means that military budgets all over
the world will again skyrocket
and people will say well what do you
want war is part of human nature so we
have to prepare for it
and this is not true
there were periods of peace in history
there are periods of war in history yes
war is a possibility
but it is not an inevitability
ultimately war is decided upon by humans
it doesn't come from the laws of nature
and i'm afraid that scholars
that try to present war as natural
they are excusing
the criminals who start wars
and they also make it more likely that
wars will happen
because if you think it's natural
then you double your military budget and
then your neighbors become afraid they
double their military budgets and then
you triple your budget and they triple
your budget and this is a race to the
bottom
and you know in in previously in history
wars were destructive but they couldn't
destroy humanity
now with nuclear weapons and with more
and more new weapons
coming from areas like artificial
intelligence
if war is really part of human nature
then we are doomed
then in a couple of decades there will
not be any human beings left
you know previous
conquerors in history
genghis khan
or the mughals or people like that they
could kill millions they couldn't
destroy humanity
with the technology of the 21st century
if we don't find a way
to end war
then
war will end us
we will not survive this century if we
don't find a way to overcome war you
seem to be suggesting that it's almost
inevitable that nations uh that don't
have nuclear weapons will now carry
around trying to see if they can get
them ukraine had one of the world's
largest arsenals of nuclear weapons
which after uh the breakup of the soviet
union ukraine voluntarily gave away
because there was a security pact
between russia america the lesson that
violence doesn't pay
and that it's better to go on investing
our money in education and welfare and
not in tanks and nukes
but if putin succeeds
and ukraine is destroyed
then as i said previously more and more
countries germany japan iran and maybe
later on brazil saudi arabia more and
more country will say hey we also must
have nukes otherwise
the same thing that happened to ukraine
will happen to us
and this is the road to hell
and we need to
go in a different direction and we need
to do it now let's spend a moment
reflecting on the response of the world
powers uh the united states
countries in the european union would
seem more galvanized than before and
their response to president putin
they're trying to give humanitarian aid
military supplies is there a fear in
your mind that some of this could
potentially cross president putin's red
lines and lead to an escalation
i can't read president putin's mind
especially because we've seen recently
that he can harbor all kinds of
fantasies and lies which have no
connection with reality
so it is an extremely dangerous
situation
but we can hope that the world powers
will speak and also act
in a way
that will stop this war and will prevent
putin from winning and because the fate
of the whole of humanity is at stake
it's not just the responsibility of the
united of of the eu
or of the us to do something all
countries including my country of israel
including india
india is a very important country in
this respect not only because of its
ties with russia and because of its
economic uh power it's also
it sees itself as a spiritual leader
of the world as a guru
and this is the time that we expect you
know when you see a crime you want to
hear
from spiritual leaders about it
i know that
it is difficult in terms of indian
interests
but this is why there is a difference
between interests and morality
sometimes you need to do the right thing
even if it's not in your code calculated
interest
to do it this is the meaning of morality
otherwise it's it's just interests
and you know if if your friend
kills somebody
and you don't say anything
what does it mean about you
but that's something which can be said
professor harari about israel in
particular on many occasions in terms of
morality and interest yes israel always
puts interest before morality
i say it also about my government i'm
very disappointed to a large extent you
know jews go around the world telling
people wrongfully but telling people
that we invented morality and we have
been spreading morality around the world
for 2000 years and the bible and all
that
but
then when it comes to an actual real
crisis they think only about the
interests israel is very very careful
not to say anything or do anything you
know the eu blocked flights from russia
but israel didn't
so again i don't expect israel to send
armed forces or weapons to ukraine
but it can still do a lot
uh it can still at least
voice its
opposition to the war you know putin
justifies this war by saying
that he aims to denazify ukraine as if
ukraine is ruled by nazis
now the president of ukraine is jewish
israel should be the forefront
of saying putin is is either a liar or a
mad person
how can you how can you say that they
are nazis
it desecrates the memory of the
holocaust
to say such things and yes i'm i'm quite
disappointed that my government is not
taking a more forceful position at least
on on on this on on this front professor
harari if you were to look back at your
book homo dears a brief history of
tomorrow
and
look at how you made to revise it is it
too soon given that it's just been a
week since this invasion or do you see
there are trends that are emerging dots
which you can join which suggests that
you know some of this or even if it's
21st less 21 centuries so the 21 lessons
for the 21st century that it would
require revision and if so could you
explain how and why
well my main thesis was that humanity
now has the power to control plagues
and famine which were the most important
threats to humanity throughout history
and that it now needs to focus in
attention on it on the new threats of
artificial intelligence and climate
change and so forth
i never said that wars or plagues became
impossible
i just said that we now for the first
time in history can control them
we have the tools to stop them
but we need to use the tools
if politicians don't use the tools
correctly then as we saw with the corona
i mean you know with the covet epidemic
for the first time in history we had the
scientific and technological ability to
understand and stop the epidemic but we
didn't use them wisely
it's the same with this war
it's not inevitable we now have the
institutions we now have the culture
necessary to stop wars
but it doesn't mean that we always have
the political wisdom to actually do it
now if again wars and epidemics and so
forth because of in the end because of
human stupidity
if they again spread
then this means we have no chance
of dealing with the new threats of
artificial intelligence of climate
change
and this as i said could lead to the
extinction
of our species
so i can't predict the future and i i
never try to predict the future i just
try to give different scenarios
hoping that humans will make wise
decisions but knowing that we should
never underestimate human stupidity it's
one of the most powerful forces in
history and especially when it comes to
war
there is a built-in imbalance there
because to have peace
you need a lot of wise people to
cooperate
to have war you just need one person one
leader
to act in a cruel and senseless way and
this is enough to start a war you spoke
of stupidity you also ride of hatred
being the ugliest of emotions for
oppressed nations hatred being a hidden
treasure and you write about how nations
are built on stories so with the passing
days how do you see the story of ukraine
being rewritten in professor
you know a week ago two weeks ago many
people around the world didn't know
anything about ukraine
didn't know anything about its history
about its people now almost everybody
around the world know that ukraine is
not just a very real nation it's a very
proud a very brave nation fighting for
its survival
and i think the images the stories
coming out of ukraine kind of
electrified
the whole world
and gave courage to the whole world you
see people fighting with their bare
hands trying to stop a tank
you see civilians sitting in front of a
tank to prevent it from from from
progressing
and this i think is what gave courage
to the europeans to impose sanctions
to the americans to kick russia out of
swift and so forth and so on
so stories are extremely powerful in the
long run
they are more powerful than tanks
what defines defeat for putin what
defines
victory for putin you write about how
humanity is hurtling towards disaster
and we're on the edge of the abyss given
the military superiority of the russian
army vis-a-vis the ukrainian army and
given the fact that the nato isn't
coming militarily to ukraine's alliance
how would
you define victory how would you define
defeat and how can putin get a faith
saver that helps him get off this ramp
and putin's aim in the war and this is
now very clear is really to destroy
ukraine to destroy the ukrainian nation
and to absorb ukraine back into a new
russian empire
and
i think that he just can't do it because
it's based on a lie on a lie that there
is no ukrainian nation and that the
ukrainian ones won't resist
so in this sense he is already lost he
will not be able to absorb ukraine into
russia every day that passes only
increases the hatred of the ukrainians
towards the russians and ensures that
they will not
agree
to be absorbed into russia
i hope that he can stop the war and if
necessary you know if he needs a face
saver so somebody may count on the
chinese would intervene the indians
would intervene as mediators and offer
him a ladder to climb down from this
high tree he climbed to and offer him
you know some some small victory
symbolic victory so he can go around and
say hey i didn't really want to destroy
ukraine i only wanted this little thing
and now that i have it i can stop the
war and um i i hope that it will end
like this
and not with months and years of
terrible slaughter
of millions of refugees
and of hatred that will persist for
generations and finally will russia's
invasion of ukraine
embolden china to make a bid for taiwan
militarily or will it actually given the
swift sanctions the economic pushback
will it actually lead xi jinping to
realize the futility of trying to invade
taiwan
everybody is watching exactly for that
not just china
all kinds of tyrants and and dictators
and and regimes throughout the world are
watching what is happening and they are
sitting on the fence
if putin
looks like winning
they will become emboldened they will
think aha
you can do that now you can now invade
another country and conquer it and get
away with it and they will also do it
if however they see putin fail
then they will learn the lesson no no no
it's not a good idea
let's continue in different ways let's
not risk it
this is why this war is so important for
for the whole world
if aggression is allowed to triumph in
ukraine
we will see more and more aggression and
misery and death all over the world
over the past half an hour i felt as if
i've been back in college
listening to a history lesson but this
is
live events as they play themselves out
and your ability to give a macro
historical perspective is par excellence
and we deeply appreciate professor
haradi that you took out time we
realized that you've got requests coming
in from media the world over in the
hundreds and therefore for you to choose
to accept our invitation means a lot to
us and it's been fantastic to have you
back with us on india today once again
thank you very much and i hope that
peace will come soon
in sha allah and i hope that peace does
come as soon as possible god willing
professor yuval noah harari for joining
us today live and exclusive from tel
aviv in israel thank you very much we
appreciate your time sir
hello and welcome to an india today
special broadcast that comes to you from
the strifed on ukrainian capital cave
i'm god of savant the situation in cave
does remain extremely tense there was
shelling that was reported in multiple
parts of this country we'll tell you
about that in greater detail during the
course of the hour in the day but for
now we will concentrate on air power and
the effective use of air power and air
defense
russia's attempts to have total air
supremacy and ukraine's efforts and
heroic efforts in places to ensure that
russia does not enjoy that air supremacy
denying the use of air power or at least
checking it as much as possible over the
course of the next half hour india
today's team of reporters
here in ukraine and our producers in
delhi will get you all the details on
this very crucial aspect but that big
story that's coming up is
the united states rejecting poland's
offer off the mig-29 air superiority
fighters now poland yesterday had said
late yesterday poland claimed that they
are willing to offer every operational
mig-29 fighter jet in the inventory of
poland's air force and give it to
ukraine but not directly here's the
catch
poland said they will have all these
mig-29 operational fleets of mig-29
positioned at the ramstein air base in
germany this is a crucial north atlantic
treaty organization air base in germany
it's used by the us air force and u.s
forces very extensively so they said
they'll fly all these aircraft to
germany
position all the fighters there and
ukraine can collect it from germany
point one point two
the second catch ukraine wanted uh
poland wanted corresponding u.s fighters
with the same
ever the aircraft same shelf life and
whether it's the airframe engine or
avionics they should be ever these what
they said and they wanted with
corresponding lifespan so even if
they're second-hand aircraft they have
to have the corresponding lifespan
the united states has rejected that
offer the united states says this
requires more discussion with other
partners and this as the u.s put it was
completely untenable
this is the second time that the north
atlantic treaty organization the united
states poland they appear to have
let down let down ukraine and how
i quickly now want to cut across to
india today's executive editor shivaru
joining us for more on this big story
and shiv explains why poland's offer was
untenable as the us put it and why
poland has been let down for the second
time
the ukrainians including president
zielinski have said that we need a
no-fly zone or plan b is we need fighter
aircraft that our pilots can fly if not
yours and therefore please give them to
us as quickly as possible poland has
said that we'll give you these fighters
and we will send them to germany we
won't send them to poland but we will
send them to germany to the ramstein air
base it says it's up to they've put it
in the us hands they've said we'll send
these jets there it's up to the us to
send the jets to ukraine so there's
there's that uh caveat also the us says
the jet offer is untenable you're
sending them to us and we'll have to
send them uh you know so one of the nato
countries will be seen as indulging in
an act of war against russia the us is
unwilling to get drawn into this war
president biden has already made that
very clear but the u.s wants these nato
countries
over here you send your jets to ukraine
and help them out but we will not play a
part in this is being seen the reason
why we're saying this is shambolic is
because because
the this this is the second big betrayal
after nato has uh said that we will not
accede to this request from nato saying
please impose impose a no-fly zone over
over over
ukraine now the western jet stunt is
this is how it's playing out in europe
that is warsaw that is the capital of
poland that's where that's the country
in which all these mig-29 fighters are
the reason why mig-29 fighters are
important is because ukraine also flies
mig-29 fighters so it's being seen as a
commonality a common platform that their
pilots can fly with very little uh you
know conversion training they want to
send it from warsaw to ramstein which is
in germany germany doesn't have a border
with uh with ukraine poland does
in ramstein though the plan the the sort
of skeletal plan is ukrainian pilots can
go there train on those aircraft and
those fly those aircraft to ukraine
because germany certainly doesn't want
to have any part of it the pentagon says
we cannot send polish jets to ukraine we
will not do that from ramstein because
that is
something that impacts the entire nato
alliance so it's a bit of a mess you've
got the west uh looking actually quite
silly right now because they there's
already a sense of betrayal in ukraine
right now now they're playing chinese
checkers with their jets as part of the
nato alliance but not actually
substantively sending any forces into
into ukraine it is understandable why
they don't want to do that but these
little moves between poland and germany
and nato and the us just shows that
there is no plan in place ukraine being
let down yet again by the north atlantic
treaty organization countries
this offer of poland was shambolic u.s
says it's untenable but poland
apart ukraine is desperately trying to
protect its its its skies its airspace
it shot a no-fly zone but that no-fly
zone very clearly is not possible but
how is ukraine defending itself ukraine
is using its air defense assets to the
fullest
today is day 14 of that war day 14 of
the war the air defense assets the
surface-to-air missiles the
surface-to-air batteries they remain
intact at least in some portions the
russian forces from day one have
systematically targeted 14 airfields and
those airfields continue to be targeted
even till late yesterday venetia was
targeted yesterday kharkiv was targeted
carson was targeted airfields are being
targeted across
ukraine there was a report that boris
bill airfield which is a civilian
airfield that too was targeted by
rockets late yesterday but
ukraine continues to strike and strike
at russian aircraft and these include
these include su-35s fighter bombers
these include su-27s these include
su-30s that is what ukraine has claimed
that they have down close to 100 fighter
jets attack helicopters and transport
helicopters of the russian armed forces
we bring you this report
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russia fiercely escalates air strikes on
ukraine
it is using its fighter jets to hit key
ukrainian cities
in the last 72 hours putin has unleashed
the fury of russia's hellbirds on kiev
and kharkiv
ukraine claims to have shot down a
sukhoi su-34 fighter bomber in kharkiv
on monday
they have released images of the debris
of a russian plane
completely destroyed and demolished
ukraine also claims it has shot down
more than seven russian war machines
in the last three days
including jets and mi-35 choppers
ukrainian authorities have shared
several images of pilots who they claim
are russians
now in their custody
russia is using its formidable air
superiority to control ukraine's skies
the most visible russian aircraft in the
ukraine war is the sukhoi su-25 a tough
soviet era bird that's taken on most
attack duties
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the mi 24 is also being used by the
russian forces
they are sturdy heavily armed and used
to support ground troops
the third russian aircraft seen in the
skies over ukraine is the sukhoi su-34
a supersonic medium-range fighter bomber
used for tactical strikes
su-34 have been in eastern and northern
ukraine
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another russian attack helicopter on
combat duty is the kamau ka-52
these images of one such helicopter made
to force land went viral during the
early days of the invasion
several more are said to be flying
sorties on the northern border
the images coming from ukraine show
russia's plans are striking deeper
inside ukraine than earlier believed
these airstrikes could be the prelude to
the real battle for kiev
bureau report
india
today one of the most dramatic images in
this war is the shooting down of a me35
attack helicopter using a stinger
surface to air missile and that image
went viral worldwide that image is being
studied very closely by aviation experts
and analysts
in attack and defense mechanisms now
remember
whether it's the fighter jets or
helicopters they're armed with flares
and chaffs to divert the heat seeking
stinger missiles but the use of these
stinger missiles by the ukrainian
ground forces by the air defense
artillery by the air defense forces is a
study in itself take a look at this
report that went viral globally
perhaps the most dramatic footage in 10
days of russia's invasion of ukraine
cameras from a drone capturing a
low-flying russian me 35 attack
helicopter falling prey to a ukrainian
stinger missile
the chopper flying at low altitude to
avoid radars to avoid ice meets a
devastating end
the stinger missile supplied by nato
with infrared homing systems hitting the
helicopter with deadly accuracy
both germany and the united states have
been pumping in large numbers of stinger
missiles to the ukrainian military over
the last few weeks
in order to challenge
and shoot down russian air power
the missile proving its worth in this
video the first of its kind released by
the ukrainian government
reported to be on the outskirts of
capital kiev
showing the heavily armed military
helicopter of the russian armed forces
ending in a massive fireball and a plume
of smoke
a rapid and fiery end
to an attack helicopter crew that could
well have been on an attack mission
this made 35 helicopter and when you
look at these images
it's it's a young soldier who's actually
running behind that helicopter
aims with his surface to a man portable
stinger missile
fires and forgets and it goes and hits
the target it goes and hits the attack
helicopter and the hit attack helicopter
comes crashing down this shows how a
stinger can easily bring down a low
flying fighter plane it can bring down a
surf a helicopter
as russian troops advance into several
parts of ukraine and encircle cities
images of the ukrainian residents have
been flooding social media
this time a russian jet apparently being
shot down in the northern city of
cherniv
captured on camera by local residents
while they cheered as the jet was
brought down
it was later reported that the russian
pilot of the jet had been captured alive
while his co-pilot didn't survive
another russian plane was shot down in
the city of mikolai a dramatic video of
the plane's pilot being interrogated by
ukrainian forces has also surfaced
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meanwhile ukrainian president volody
zelensky claims in a televised address
ukraine has captured wounded and killed
over ten thousand russian soldiers since
the start of the invasion
almost ten thousand russian soldiers
killed
ten thousand
this is dreadful
there's plenty of fighting strikes uh
basically an everyday current slower
ukraine uh again that's why ukraine
repeats its demand to close off the sky
for the russians russians are using
those planes to hit civilian targets
pedestrian districts
reality is this is battle that is raging
all over ukraine and russia using their
fr
advantage to push at the civilians like
in no time since the second world war
president putin meanwhile has blamed the
united kingdom for triggering the
military conflict
can ukraine successfully resist the
overwhelming and intensifying scale of
the invading force
with god of savant and rajesh pavaran
kiev bureau report india today
the use of air power by russia and the
denial of air power by ukraine that's a
study in fact aviation experts are
studying this across the world and the
russian air force they've unleashed
their best whether it's the su-35
fighter bombers state-of-the-art su-30s
or su-27s they have their fighter jets
raining hell from the skies now what are
putin's forces doing they're
systematically taking out with their
precision guided munition
strategic airfields air bases fuel dumps
ammunition depots and air defense assets
not just missile power but also air
power let me now get you more details
india today's shivaru gets us more
details on how russia is deploying its
air power
and how ukraine is denying the use of
skies or at least attempting to even on
day 14.
heart-stopping images of a russian
airstrike caught on camera
the first footage of an actual aerial
bombing in 11 days of a conflict that's
been represented largely by ground
attacks
but only an hour after the bombing of
european went out on india today this
stunning 32 second clip capturing a
russian attack helicopter being shot
down by a ukrainian shoulder fired
missile exploded from the battlefield
north of kiev
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in the last 48 hours the air power
aspect has taken on a fearsome new
primacy
with aircraft much more visible and
claims of russian pilots taken captive
both ukraine and russia have been old
soviet aviation powerhouses and the war
has generated enormous interest in the
war birds both countries have deployed
over their blazing battlefields
the most visible russian aircraft in the
ukraine crisis
is the sukhoi su-25 a tough old soviet
era bird that's taken on most attack
duties
let me show you what these aircraft are
that are doing the bombing and that the
ukrainians claim that they've actually
shot down these are strikes very close
to keep the jet dropping the bombs is
called a sukhoi 25 as a sukhoi su-25
it's a ground strike aircraft it is
designed for close air support to ground
forces and there are huge ground forces
of the russian army that's you know
outside on the outskirts of cave right
now these aircraft are designed and
capable of low altitude bombings that's
why you saw them captured so clearly on
mobile camera their weapons include
strike missiles bombs rockets they've so
far been used in many many different
operations around the world including
and most notably in afghanistan syria
iraq and sudan but of course in many
other operations including in north
africa as well
the most visible russian helicopter in
the war is the me 24th
seen here being dramatically shot down
by a ukrainian shoulder-fired missile
these are sturdy heavily armed and
armored helicopters deployed to support
ground troops and destroyed tanks and
other ground targets the me 24's export
variant the mi 35 is in service with the
indian air force two
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the third russian aircraft type seen in
the skies over ukraine is the sukhoi
su-34 a supersonic medium-range fighter
bomber used for tactical strikes in
contested airspace su-34s have been seen
in the air over eastern and north
ukraine
the other russian attack helicopter on
combat duties in ukraine is the cam of
ka52 these images of one such helicopter
made to force land went viral in the
early days of the invasion
several more are said to be flying
sorties in the northern border
also clearly visible in the skies over
ukraine are russian me-8 utility
helicopters captured here in this
airborne assault on the hostimal air
base north of kiev in the early days of
the invasion
these workhorse helicopters are a
precursor to the mi 17 that india
currently operates
ukraine has made the huge claim that its
air defense systems have shot down two
giant il-76 transport jets
though there has been no visual proof of
this
while the iconic russian 295 hasn't been
seen in the skies over ukraine or even
nearby the high flying propeller driven
aircraft has figured in the war of teams
between both sides with ukraine saying
its air defense forces have managed to
shoot down one of these giant airplanes
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air power becomes more pronounced in
ukraine and as nato continues to refuse
ukraine's plea for the imposition of a
no-fly zone could air strikes define the
second week of putin's invasion
with rajesh pavari nirpin
bureau report india today
this war between russia and ukraine is
also a litmus test for the
massive
russian arsenal its weapons and systems
and they might globally do keep in mind
india extensively uses russian equipment
be it the su-30 mkis of course that's an
indian version of the su-30 fighter jets
the mig-29s the attack helicopters the
transport helicopters me 35 uh me 24 the
mi 17s the m8s india extensively uses
russian
aircraft helicopters the s400
state-of-the-art 400 system that india
has just acquired despite american
threat of katsa or sanctions this was a
deal worth 39 000 crore but that's not
all india employs
and uses russian equipment from the t90
tanks to t72 tanks to armored personal
carriers to infantry combat vehicles
and and a lot more but this war truly is
a test for those russian systems
including
air defense systems take a look at this
report
as the russia ukraine crisis escalates
and as the shock waves are felt all
around the world one of those shock
waves is definitely here in india as
well it's a good time to remember that
the indian military happens to be one of
the largest users of soviet era and
russian weaponry and military hardware
and that's one of the reasons why
amidst everything that's happening with
all the unpredictability between russia
and ukraine the indian ministry of
defense has held a high level meeting to
assess the possible aftermath the
possible risk to india's arsenals as a
result of this war between russia and
ukraine russian equipment dominates
every aspect of india's war fighting
arsenal across the three services let's
start with the indian air force the
newest equipment is the s 400 triumph
air defense missile system then you've
got a huge fleet of su-30 mki fighters
then there are the mig-29 the upgraded
mig-29 fighters which are a mainstay in
the indian air force then you've got the
old mig-21 fighter jets they've got a
controversial reputation but continue to
operate in large numbers
one of the biggest aircraft operated by
the indian air force is also a russian
origin the illusion il-76 fleet and the
similar il-78 which is india's mid-air
refueling tanker fleet then you've got
the il-76 falcon airborne warning and
control system aircraft which are based
in agra utility helicopters are also
russian the me 17 helicopters very
visible very uh iconic they're the
mainstay the backbone of india's medium
lift helicopter fleet then you've got me
35 heavy assault helicopters also of
russian origin operated by india the me
26 heavy lift helicopters the biggest
helicopters in the world also in indian
service are from russia the brahmos
cruise missile is an indo-russian joint
venture much of the technology is from
russia
day 14 of this conflict and india
today's team camera person pawan kumar
india today's foreign affairs editor
gita mohan and i will continue to report
from ground zero but that is all we have
time for on this india today special
broadcast from ukraine many thanks for
watching
let's right now at least cut across
to ukraine where yulia is joining us
with olesia only a member of ukraine's
territorial army uh we also have uh
joining us mariana with swetlana who is
also a member of ukraine's territorial
army i just want to show you uh you know
pictures of both
all of them together with their arms uh
you know it's one of the coolest images
i would reckon that you would see uh as
this war on sues
julia
would you talk to us a bit about your
weapon and uh are you prepared right now
to fight it out when your country asks
of you
uh
two weeks ago we
weren't ready
for this and we didn't know how to use a
weapon but
this time we are
learning how to do that and if we
will need to use
our gun we can do it right now
julia will you take us through your
training and can you tell our viewers
who don't know much about you where were
you exactly two weeks before where this
war started what was your understanding
of war of weapons and how has it changed
two weeks from then
uh two weeks two weeks ago i was a
teacher at a school and i
um
have never
took taken
weapon in my hand
and
these two weeks was really terrible it's
like a
nightmare
um
but now we are in another reality and
and now we
we know how to use our gun we prepared
to
pick fights for the kiev
julia you know you were what were you
teaching
you said you were a teacher what were
your team yes i'm a teacher of ukrainian
language and literature
ukrainian language and literature and
who were you teaching what was your age
group of the kids that you were teaching
uh from 10 to
16 years
10 to 16 years julia i'm sure it's it's
deeply personal but what was your reason
and i'm sure it's this great love for
your country and the freedom of your
country that made you take to arms but
what went through in the mind of a
teacher who decided that she's not going
to flee she's not going to leave the
country she's not going to go to poland
but she's going to stick in ukraine and
she's going to pick up the gun
yes because i can't stay at home right
now and i want to be
i wanted to help my army my
uh
my land my city and i
try to do everything as i can
and
i don't want that my students my family
don't know what is freedom and i don't
want that live in a country like russia
that's why i
took gun in my hand i'm really scared we
all really scared but we know that's the
only way for us
only one way for us you know uh julia
stay with me i'm gonna come right back
to you i'm gonna ask you about your
training process but i want to cut
across to mariana she's also with you
right now mariana can you hear me
yes
all right uh can we see you mariana in
the frame
can we see you can you raise your hand
for us
great hi hi hi mariana hi uh
mariana can you tell us you know it's
it's fascinating you know um to see all
of you women and i think it's a it's a
great privilege uh to be able to
interview all of you women because uh
julia just told us she was a teacher
would you tell us your story two weeks
ago who was mariana who has a gun in her
hand today
uh
um
you were a journalist
yes yes i'm jones we made mariana pick
up the gun to fight for ukraine
uh i decided
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i
made you to protect our muslims
i saw that the war
right started
idea
i couldn't stay at my phone
you couldn't stay at home you had to
pick up the gun uh julia you know uh
because i know language is a barrier
there are many of these young women
behind you will you
help us understand who they are what was
their story uh you know we see three
young women behind you we know you were
a teacher we know maria was a journalist
what about the others can you tell us
their story yeah
it's less she was a photographer
and it's william she was a
fighter
fighter and musician
and this is svetlana she
she is mercator
and um
we
never
knew how to use the gun in our previous
our previous life
well you know i'm sure you know a writer
a musician a teacher a journalist uh you
know it's um
i i'd you know one can only salute your
spirit all of you i want to ask you
julia for all of you who've come from
very different backgrounds never thought
you would ever take the gun but i want
to ask you what has been the training
process have you been trained in actual
warfare now are you a trained soldier
uh
i'm not sure that we are really a
soldier right now because we had
two weeks and it's too
early it's not too it's not enough to
prepare to the war and to
learn how to use the gun but every day
we had we had train we
uh trained to
shoot we trained to
have different pose how to shoot and
it's a bit at this moment that's all but
um i hope we will have enough time in
the future to
uh to learn more about that
okay i i understand um i can i can i can
try to translate something from
great from alexa's story will you ask
her julia what was her reason that she
decided not to leave like many other
women in your country but to stay behind
who can do it if it's not would we
well that's a that's a very very strong
statement who can do it if not you
well you know and it's very very
touching julia i want to ask you because
so much is said about you know women
especially at the time of war but you
girls you women chose to stay right back
in ukraine i want to ask you how
difficult was it to leave your families
do most of you have children
some of us has children
i
don't have children but i have a big
family my
parents sisters and say
in another place now it's i hope safe
place
but
for all of us it was really
difficult choice
but we want to protect our families
and we don't want to
we don't want that
see what is war
we want to protect them
are your families and you know it's uh
if i can say it's a very stupid question
to ask but i'm going to ask it anyway uh
are your families very worried about you
are they talking to you are they asking
you to come join them
yes of course first time they
uh told me that i should be with their
safe place at home but
now they understand why i'm here
and
i know that it's really difficult and
hard for them for me
but
but who
uh who can
be there
if it's
what wasn't
we where aren't we you know i think uh
if i have to take one line from this
conversation is who else if not we uh
you know because so many of us will
always look at somebody else it's uh
it's amazing that you all of you very
very brave women have looked at
yourselves can you ask your companions
how was it leaving their children how is
it it leaving their family members
because the uncertainty of war is so
strong you know you never know what
happens
is
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we here to protect them and that's why
we're here we want to protect them from
the war from the russia from the protein
and that's why we're here
the first day when
was started we go to the
uh
military base to the military base and
we
didn't know that we couldn't back
at home at that day and
alessa has birds
and she was really scared about them and
in a few days we can put them to the our
military base and now that they
at the safe place in our friend's home
well you know you must tell alessia that
you know we i we salute her spirit to
leave your young children to salute your
spirit julia and all of your companions
who've left your families and you've
come here you know to fight for your
country
are you it's are you going to be now
facing the enemy or are you waiting
right now is it possible that any time
you would be deployed in action
i'm here to
to fight
to the last meters of our land
and if i
need maybe
kill kill someone i'm not sure that i
can do that but i hope and um
i really want to
came back to our
our previous life our our
safe life
but i will be here to the
last stage the last minute
uh
to the to the that time where ukrainian
was will free and
without
any russian soldiers at our land
have all of you i'm sure at least that
you know that training would have been
given to you imparted to you but have
all of you now understood learnt how to
fire your weapons
yes
at this moment we know how to use our
weapons
can i ask you you know with your
permission can we had to
learn that you had to learn that can i
ask you with your permission very
quickly
can you show us your weapons
yes first
our weapons
can you tell me each one of you what
your weapons you know i love the smiles
we i
it's it gives us a lot of heart back
here to watch you know all of you
smiling with your weapons what's your
weapon julia
uh what what his weapon is a car 74 and
that's my
nickname
oh you've got a nickname what's your
nickname julia
hi
what does it mean can you tell us it's
from yeah it's from cartoon chippendale
[Laughter]
so it's from chippendale right
yeah it's a red
girl ukrainian it sounds like hi
can you tell us all the nicknames of
your other colleagues
yes it's fatima
strung
is because she
in the mask
all the time because of pandemia
she's only a person uh it's a big
building
state in indonesia
all right okay uh you know i'm gonna i'm
gonna let you girls go and you women go
but i'm gonna ask you julia what is your
message because you know you you wear
the bravery so easily all of you uh you
know you're talking about fighting for
your country not many do what you're
doing uh it's it's abject bravery it
takes all heart to do what you're doing
and you know what i am witnessing as a
journalist right here on the other side
is how easily you girls and your women
are wearing uh you know this abject you
know bravery the strength that you have
i want to ask you what's your message to
the world right now to those who are
watching you julia go first and you can
ask your uh you know your friends later
this
um at this moment we
uh we need help from all the world you
need
say to the russia to the pudding to stop
because um
now they're at the our land and
today it can be another country and we
we have a lot of pain just now because
russian soldiers killed a lot of
children in ukraine a lot of
other people they ruined our buildings
our house our homes and
worlds please
don't think that
uh putin will stop in the ukraine you
can be the next one that's why go to the
your streets uh outside and say to the
russia's top we need your help and at
this moment we need money because
a lot of our soldiers didn't have uh
what to wear they didn't have uniform
and if you can't help us with it we will
be very appreciative
we can
send you
a link on the page where uh when where
you can help us with it you know
we'd like to get that link sent to the
other worlds please don't be silent you
should to say to the putin to the
russian soldiers say we don't want to
see there at our land at your land
please don't be silent
julia before i let you women go i'm
going to ask you once again you know
because this is a short uh you know
which which gives a lot of strength to a
lot of people who are watching you in
your country and even outside uh to see
the kind uh you know this kind of visual
i'm going to let you go but i want to
see your weapons once again and i want
to see you all smiling and i wish you
strength i wish you fortitude and i wish
you so so much luck may god be with you
and i really really pray and hope that
i'm able to talk to each one of you
again when this war is over and it will
be over
can i see your weapons once again as
you know
thank you
thank you for doing thank you for doing
this for us and i am sure your country
is so so so proud and and and i'll speak
to you all four of you again i will
speak to all four of you again may god
be with you lots of strength lots of
luck thank you
media mogul is now putin's arch enemy
global hero in a t-shirt
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the ukrainian president
now a worldwide icon
zelensky
the full story
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in times of aggression
in times of brutal war
particularly when the field is lopsided
the distinction between pushover and
spirited defense often depends on one
rallying force of unification
it could be an idea
it could be a sentiment
a desperation
or more times than none
the force which steals a line of panicky
defenders
is but an individual's rise to the
occasion
a wartime leader that the conflict
itself creates
a hitherto unrealized force
that stands resolute in the face of odds
leading by example
jolting the spirit of compatriots to
steady their nerves
holding the line against immense odds
history is proof that such leaders rise
to the occasion
and in ukraine the defense has steadied
behind their wartime leader
one time comic
president vladimir zelinsky
an unlikely hero who has fired the
imagination
of a nation under siege
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putting all speculations to rest
vladimir zelensky declared that he's
very much in key russia had claimed that
he had fled to poland but not only did
zelinski share his location he also
dared russia saying that he is not
afraid
he knows he's putin's target number one
he knows his country can't match up to
russia's overwhelming military might but
ukrainian president vladimir zelinsky
remains an image of valor of defiance
and fighting spirit steadfastly refusing
to turn his back on his bruised battered
and bleeding ukraine
in an open dare to putin's army
zielenski released a video giving out
his exact location
saying he stays right there in cave and
not in hiding
showing the images from the lane outside
his residence in this video message
richard
every time the russians claim that
zelensky has fled the country fearing
for his life zelinski has released a new
video shattering the russian claims
and never mincing his words while
slamming nato for letting down ukraine
and the united states for rejecting a
no-fly zone
even turning the combat fatigue helmet
and joining the ukrainian troops in the
frontline
president
thousands of ukrainians have sent their
families away to safety and stayed back
to fight alongside president zelinski
supporting zilenski in every step is the
first lady of ukraine or lena zaletska
a vocal advocate of social courses
orlando through social media has
continued to inspire and continue to
provide comfort to ukrainians
the big question remains how long the
president and all his loyal men
withstand the might of approaching
russian invasion army bureau report
india today
war rages on as invaders try to capture
cave their single objective is to
overthrow the man who has rallied the
entire nation against russia president
vladimir zelinsky has become a household
name
the puny david against the goliath
russian forces and his audience today is
the world
he has become one of the voices of
freedom of sovereignty and of
territorial integrity
his is the voice of defiance
a call from the heart that has gone out
and firmed the defense of ukraine
against the forces of invasion
i'm here to protect my wife my family
myself my country from the russian
invasion
we will fight for our land and we will
kill our russians if
somebody give me a weapon
i will fight i'm not afraid
vladimir zelinsky the president of
ukraine had everything wrong about being
a wartime leader of a nation invaded
he's from jewish stock
in eastern europe with its history of
anti-semitism
his family spoke russian he grew up
speaking the language of the invader
he happened to be a comic by profession
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in 2019 the comic actor decided to run
for presidency
and people took that as a joke
he called this party the servant of the
people party
the outcome was comic relief
vladimir zielinski won 73 of the wards
and promised to bring peace to the rest
of eastern regions of luhansk and
donetsk
what came was war
not with russia
but with his russian namesake
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once again i appealed to the servicemen
of ukrainian armed forces
don't let neo-nazis and vendorites use
your children your wives and old people
as human shields
take power into your own hands
it seems that it will be easier for us
to come to terms with you than with this
gang of drug addicts and neo-nazis who
and took all ukrainian people hostage
vladimir zelinski was born in 1978
into a russian-speaking jewish family of
the then soviet socialist republic of
ukraine
his father was a professor of
mathematics and his mother had studied
engineering
the town of his birth kvd
stands next to babiyar where 33
771 jews were shot and thrown into a
revine over the course of two days in
1941
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zelinsky studied law and earned a degree
in it only to found a tv entertainment
company
zielinski found success in his
vaudeville act
he and a few friends created a comedy
troupe that became a famous act not just
in ukraine as well as other
russian-speaking regions of a
post-soviet world
the prism through which vladimir
zielinski viewed the world changed when
vladimir putin invaded the land of his
birth in 2014.
that was what made him take his first
political step
he donated a fortune to arm the then
weak army of ukraine
he chose his side when he relocated his
production company to kiev
and began to fully master the ukrainian
language
something that was to be a big help when
he played the most successful comic role
of his life
in the tv series servant of the people
zielinski plays a school history teacher
whose rant against the rampant
corruption in government gets recorded
without his knowledge by a student and
is posted on social media
the video goes viral and without even
wanting the job the teacher gets elected
president of ukraine
and then through set pieces bumbles his
way to become a heroic leader of his
country
on 20th of may 2019 facts over to
fiction
when the 41 year old vladimir zelinski
took the oath of the highest office in
ukraine
and when the new president had to make
his inaugural address he said it wasn't
just me who took the oath
he said each of us
put a hand on the constitution and each
of us has sworn loyalty to ukraine
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it was an oath of loyalty that the
unlikely politician would prove himself
worthy of in the conflicts to come
despite the fact that entertainers
entering politics are viewed if not with
suspicion but certainly with skepticism
of ukraine is believed to be number one
on vladimir putin's hit list western
intelligence agencies have claimed this
and zelinski himself has acknowledged it
he says his family is second on the list
but that he and they will remain in
ukraine
he categorically turned down a us offer
of evacuation
instead he asked for arms
nobody will force us ukrainians to give
away our freedom our independence our
sovereignty
but it looks like
the russian
uh leadership is trying to
uh
to do it just by the way of
destroying their own country
to prove that he is still there and not
running away the president of ukraine
has been regularly posting self-taken
videos in front of the very recognizable
presidential palace
telling the people of ukraine that he is
living up to his promise
even if he has to die
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vladimir zelinsky the president of
ukraine is playing the role of a
lifetime he has already given a
performance that has made him a hit
across the world
this unlikely wartime leader of his
country has won the hearts and minds of
people around the world
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his actions has more than established
the contrast with his nemesis
with whom he shares a first name the
meaning of which ironically means ruler
of the world
when vladimir putin ordered his troops
to invade ukraine he possibly made one
miscalculation
he had not accounted for the stellar
performance that his opponent was
capable of giving
a role that has touched the heartstrings
of audiences across the globe
whatever be the outcome of this war in
ukraine history will record zelinski as
the hero in shining arbor
white putin has already joined the ranks
of all time world villains like hitler
and staggered
when the world's a stage and everyone is
put an actor in it
there is no doubting that vladimir
zelinski of ukraine stands at the edge
of that stage
where life needs performance
and only truth
shines forth
just hours before russia invaded ukraine
vladimir zelinsky made an appeal to the
people of russia
made on the morning of 24 february he
reached out to the people of russia and
that speech will be remembered as one of
the most heartfelt speeches of
any leader ever made
he spoke to the people of russia
reminding them of humanity talking about
the aggressor russia and saying that
both russians and ukrainians are being
led down a path to hell
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india today has been relentlessly
getting you every latest defining image
right from the beginning 14 days ago
to two weeks later and where things are
at with this huge expanding military
operation that is being called the
invasion of ukraine the word invasion
has been criminalized in russia here are
those defining images
big defining image number one after a
deadly clash
ukrainian troops are reported to have
seized this russian tank you can see on
your screen a ukrainian
tank or an armored personnel carrier
throwing away a russian tank in an
unidentified
war zone in ukraine
big defining image number two on day 14
ukrainian troops shot down or claimed to
have shot down another russian
helicopter close to the mikalive region
in south central ukraine on your screens
you can see the wrecked parts of what
appears to be an attack helicopter which
crashed to the field after being hit by
ukrainian ground forces using air
defense weaponry
big defining image number three on day
14 russia has wreaked havoc in the city
of sumi close to the russian border
horrifying footage of yet another
neighborhood laid to waste a signal of
the kind of destruction that's
escalating in this northern city from
where there was a humanitarian corridor
that was activated over the last 48
hours from which hundreds of indian
students were also pulled up
defining image number four on day 14 the
aftermath footage of kiev's destruction
continuous heavy shelling has destroyed
the capital city in its suburbs you can
see shelled buildings damaged cars
bodies lying around life around the cave
has come to a standstill but the city
itself is standing tall no damage within
the city there was an air raid siren
just a few moments ago
defining image number five is what the
evacuation from one of the largest
suburbs of cave earpin looks like from a
drone you can see a sea of people on
foot crossing a destroyed bridge to get
across the river and to leave their city
artillery and airstrikes have caused
heavy damage in and around airplane
india today has been reporting from the
ground here
defining image number six on day 14
appalling images from kharkiv which
continues to be the most damaged city in
ukraine at this time 40 kilometers from
the russian border it is ukraine's
second largest city
a metropolis that was once buzzing with
people now wears a deserted ghost-like
look buildings in many neighborhoods
targeted in heavy shelling cars and
property extensively damaged in this
part
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defining image number seven on day 14
russia continues its onslaught in
ukraine russian troops destroyed a
military dormitory in the zhitomi region
just west about 50 kilometers from kiev
images show a shell building and
personnel or people trying to ascertain
the extent of the damage it is not known
just yet what kind of damage was caused
in terms of human life
dividing image number eight on day 14
footage shows ukrainian
a ukrainian group on a tractor pulling a
russian tank amidst snowfall you can see
a man on top of the tank and another one
driving the tractor
this video has been going viral on
social media
meanwhile defining image number nine on
day 14 heavy shelling continues between
russian and ukrainian troops in the
kharkiv region it's just 40 kilometers
from the russian border these images of
shelling and rocket fire lighting up the
night sky becoming one of the most
familiar images in different cities this
is from last night
in the skies over kharkiv according to
reports russian troops attacked a
residential area of kharkiv with heavy
artillery but this is a claim that's
been denied by the russians
defining image number 10 on day 14 as
russia continues to attack at least 11
different cities of ukraine 150 orphan
children mostly babies and toddlers from
la viv arrive at the censil station in
poland volunteers and police officers
are seen giving soft toys to kids as
they're carried from the station and
loaded onto buses towards an uncertain
future in foster care because there's
lots of small kids lots of
russian anti-war protesters face a
police crackdown meanwhile on your
screens demonstrator being brutally
arrested during an anti-war protest in
saint petersburg the man was hit several
times by russian police after being
arrested and then taken away in a truck
as ukraine fiercely continues to battle
russian forces this visual shows
ukrainian servicemen inspecting a
charred russian tank in the sumi region
of ukraine the same city from which over
700 indian students were extracted as
part of operation ganga yesterday
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in the face of continuing and escalating
russian assaults members of the
territorial defense unit in cave have
gone
in in odessa i beg your pardon have
guarded
stood guard around the national opera
house in the city of odessa in the south
with sandbags and anti-tank hedgehogs
defining image number 14 on day 14
dramatic images captured on india
today's cameras by our correspondent
didenko in the city of kharkiv footage
exclusive to us showing
what the ukrainians claim to be the
shootdown of a russian air force sukhoi
su-34 fighter bomber
this was on the outskirts of kharkiv
listen to the sounds
defining image number 15 on day 14
ukraine troops in no mood to give up on
your screens thermal imaging footage
from drones capturing what appears to be
a ukrainian attack on a russian
artillery position according to repair
to reports ukraine has managed to
extract quite a bit of damage on the
russian armored column so far
defining image number 16 on day 14
russian planes drop bombs
on claimed residential cities of sumi
city in the north leaving many including
kids and women dead and injured on your
screen is the aftermath of destruction
that was brought to bear
24 hours
defining image number 17 on day 14
ukrainian troops claimed to have shot
down another russian plane in the last
24 hours not far from the capital city
cave huge explosion as this aircraft
hits the ground and catches fire massive
plume of smoke from the wreckage as well
defining image number 18 on day 14 cctv
footage captures a russian attack on an
oil depot in the getume region just west
of kiev the attack was followed by a
huge towering inferno as the oil depot
caught fire
similar images from another angle more
realistic not cctv images but captured
from someone who was close by the
zhitomir oil depot
a huge huge blaze that was seen for many
miles around lighting up that night sky
defining image number 20 on day 14
footage from the northern city of
shernihief
north of key very close to the russian
border where russians are said to have
attacked another residential area
shelled buildings damaged vehicles
broken glass destruction all around
chernihev has been hit with a lot of
shelling in the last few days
defining image
number 21 on day 14 russia has stepped
up the shelling in residential areas of
kharkiv as well we are given to
understand that many different places
where this kind of look with cars
damaged a few people can also be seen
trying to ascertain the extent of the
damage in one neighborhood after the
other
russian troops also reportedly attacked
the residential area of bravari on the
outskirts of keep this image from
yesterday shows a church which has been
uh evidently struck there is no
confirmation of any casualties in this
particular attack just yet brobari is
just east of kiev and is a suburb
defining image number 23 on day 14 as
russian troops advance towards the
capital the nearby city of irpin has
faced a huge amount of heat these images
from india today's cameras yesterday
locals crossing a destroyed bridge as
they get out of their shattered city
defining image number 24 russian
nationals continue to bear the brunt of
the economic sanctions imposed by
several countries of the world these
images from the varadero airport in cuba
where almost 300 stranded russian
tourists were seen going through the
boarding bridge to fly back home the
number of companies exiting russia is
huge moscow citizens are feeling the
heat
big defining image number 25 on day 14
as russia continues the attacks on the
streets of ukraine drone footage shows
refugees fleeing ukraine from the port
of isakia in romania on a ferry like
barge
defining image number 26 on day 14 big
explosion in the separatist luhansk
region in the last 48 hours according to
reports an oil depot was gutted in
firing amidst heavy shelling from
russian forces
defining image number 27 on day 14
russia has also upped the offensive uh
yesterday with shelling battering a
residential building in the northern
city of kharkid according to reports two
buildings have been destroyed in the
airstrike by russian troops
defining image number 28 on day 14
russian troops target a residential
building once again in the city of
kharkiv a video has emerged in the
aftermath of that shelling in ukraine's
second largest metropolis you can see a
building on fire no confirmation just
yet on any casualties
defining image number 29 on this the
14th day
horrific images of bodies of civilians
on the streets of kharkiv in
neighborhood after neighborhood on the
back of russian shelling in this
particular area russia continues to hold
that the military of ukraine is using
civilians as human shields
defining image number 30 on this the
two-week mark in this crisis ukrainian
troops claim to have shot down this
russian fighter jet this was captured on
india today's cameras on the outskirts
of kharkiv ukraine has so far claimed to
have brought down 45 russian aircraft
and helicopters since march the 5th
14 days marked by doom damage
debris
aired sirens in the heart of kiev
on the 14th day of war it appears to be
a cause for concern
six war reporters
one unmissable broadcast
with continued heavy bombing and
shelling in the second largest city of
ukraine that is car cave it is the
children who've become the worst victim
of this war
most extensive broadcast from the war
zone
24 hours seven days
all the time uh kiev right now is like
he's like a castle
india today reports from eight besieged
cities
this is rajesh pawar fearless and
uncompromising
in the real war zone for india today for
india today for india today
world watches
india today
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hello and welcome to an india today's
special broadcast on day 14 of the
ukraine-russia conflict i'm gaurav
savant over the course of the next half
hour india today and our biggest team of
reporters on ground zero from kiev to
kharkiv from mario poll to
irpin we will get you the latest ground
reports on the battle and the various
twists and turns in this battle on
ground and on the diplomatic front
day 14 of the battle is really close to
the capital kiev right behind me
preparations on to make sandbags very
close to the presidential palace is that
an indication that the security coding
is now increasingly getting shrunk while
russia may have announced a corridor of
silence
that means russia says it's a unilateral
ceasefire on its side in cities like
kiev kharkiv churny hive mario pole so
that people can leave these cities
what does that indicate is this then the
lull
before the big storm
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two weeks into russia's invasion on
ukraine
ruthless shellings missile strikes and
aerial attacks continue unabated
and so does the unparalleled human
tragedy
air raid alerts continued to blare in
capital cave second largest city of
kharkiv and winistia
residents still hold up in the
devastated cities had to run for their
lives for the nearest bomb shelter
and a red siren over cave yet again
we're in the heart of cave and you can
look around the air red sirens once
again people are being asked to rush to
evacuate vehicles uh security asking
vehicles to get off the road but these
air raid sirens despite russia saying
that there will be no action
enters the air raid sirens continue to
go off of course there have been air
attacks and missile attacks in some
other areas but right now aired sirens
in the heart of kiev
on the 14th day of war it appears to be
a cause for concern
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kharki's buildings were reduced to ruins
after heavy shells
smoke engulfed cars
trees burnt and charred
the aftermath of an air attack a broken
bridge in europe
a kiev suburb narrated the fierce
destruction
fleeing locals had to cross the broken
bridge putting themselves in grave
danger here right now is like it's like
a castle
uh with lots of blog posts with lots of
uh people around for working working
together and they don't don't get about
their occupation they're just taking
guns they're
taking everything they can they're
organizing themselves
they are communicating they're
searching for information they're
checking the information there are
helping to perform people they do lots
of things humanitarian things military
things assisting things a lot of it
and i just want to mention that to
alex's previous wars
more than 50 children
become a victim of this pudding
innovation
a massive russian attack on a military
dormitory in saitomar left it in ruins
the entire area was demolished beyond
recognition
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sumi the northeastern city of ukraine is
flattened after successive attacks
ukraine said russian bombardment claimed
over 21 lives including that of three
children on wednesday
india had used the green corridor from
sumi to evacuate stranded students
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but the ukrainians continue to fight
with resilience
they shot down a russian chopper in the
v hours around the microlave region
seized russian tanks were seen being
towed away
but amid unending crisis there were
first signals of a possible truce
president zelinski in a big climb down
said that he is no longer seeking for a
nato membership for ukraine
adding that nato is not prepared to
accept ukraine and he understood this a
long time ago
he said nato is afraid of confrontation
with russia
the war is going exactly the way
russians expected it to go
these are small small setbacks here and
there technical setbacks they are not
major strategic setbacks they are very
tactical nature and they can be overcome
sooner or later but see how things are
changing diplomatically and on a
political front yeah zelinski who
appeared to be so adamant until a few
days back about negotiating with russia
and with putin directly he's now you see
his stance changing now and he's coming
down and he's willing for a negotiation
yeah not only that ukraine probably will
not be pressing for its membership of
nato but also that they are ready to
talk about crimea and those donbas yes
and that's a major shift in policy what
russia anticipated and what russia
planned and what russia executed it's
going exactly as they wanted
will zelen's keys conciliatory note
strike accord with putin
with gaurav savant and rajesh power in
kiev
bureau report
india today
has ukraine been led up the garden path
poland offered to give all its
functional mig-29 fighters to ukraine
but not directly
poland says it will park them at the
ramstein air base in germany and it
wants aircraft in turn from the united
states for its air force
what does this indicate i want to cut
across to india today's foreign affairs
editor gita mohan who joins us for more
on the story gita bring us the
diplomatic front battles that are on and
is ukraine increasingly getting only lip
sympathy and service from the rest of
the world gita
ukraine has been left to its own devices
to take on russia in the latest the
united states of america has rejected
poland's offer to send mig-29s via nato
base in germany this even as nato
continues to reject ukraine's pleas and
requests to declare ukrainian airspace
as no-fly zone
over two weeks of relentless attacks by
russia
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multiple ukrainian appeals to nato for
help
mt promises for ukraine
we're in this together we will succeed
together uh ukraine is going to prevail
but zillenski is all alone in this war
and now the west has pulled a new stunt
over hapless kiev over sending fighter
jets to take out advancing russian army
nato member poland did a symbolic offer
to send mig-29s to support ukraine's air
defense but with a massive catch
warso said it will merely send its jets
to nato air base and germany's ramstein
putting the onus on the u.s to send the
jets to ukraine
the proposal faced a categorical
rejection pentagon wary of getting drawn
into the war called the offer untenable
adding that deploying jets from nato
base to ukrainian airspace will be an
act of direct conflict and raise serious
concerns for the entire military
alliance
there's already a sense of betrayal in
ukraine right now now they're playing
chinese checkers with their jets as part
of the nato alliance but not actually
substantively sending any forces into
into ukraine it is understandable why
they don't want to do that but these
little moves between poland and germany
and nato and the us just shows that
there is no plan in place
this essentially means zilenski and
ukraine are left to fend for themselves
against putin's army with no help
forthcoming from the west
they are attacking civilians and attacks
against civilians cannot be left
unresponded for too long that is why i
expect the governments of the nato
countries yes to be reacting
uh in the nearest future
this is not the first time zilensky is
facing betrayal from the west a week ago
nato rejected zilensky's fervent appeal
to enforce a no-fly zone on ukraine's
skies
today the leadership of the alliance
gave the green light for further bombing
of ukrainian cities and villages having
refused to set up a no-fly zone
could the nato and west avert the
massive human suffering and
unprecedented destruction of ukraine are
they simply wilted in the face of
putin's unprecedented show of strength
bureau report india today
i now hand over to my colleague rajesh
pavar who brings you the latest on the
big statement delivered by president
zilensky
ukrainian president vladimir zelinsky
has made a huge climb down by saying
that ukraine is no longer interested in
a nato membership there is a sense of
betrayal here in ukraine
nato so far has just been about talk and
ukrainians feel that they have been left
alone in their fight against the russian
zelinski says that the alliance is
afraid of taking bold decisions and a
confrontation with russia
today i've asked 27 european leaders
whether ukraine will be in nato
i've asked directly everyone is afraid
no one answers
but we are not afraid we are not afraid
of anything
we are not afraid to defend our country
we are not afraid of russia we are not
afraid of talking about neutrality
we are not nato members at the moment
but what guarantees will we get
ukraine's bid to get membership of the
north atlantic treaty organization
is at the heart of the russia ukraine
conflict that has now triggered a
full-blown war
the two countries are at each other's
throats
the third player nato is silent over the
key issues
while thousands are displaced and
hundreds dead
nato is not committing to a membership
for ukraine so far
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ukrainian president vladimir zelinsky
has also urged nato to enforce a no-fly
zone over his country's skies and
protect them from russian missiles and
warplanes
nato has not agreed to either of his
demands
nato is a defensive alliance
our core task is to keep
our 30 nations
safe
we are not part of this conflict
and we have a responsibility to ensure
it does not escalate and spread beyond
ukraine
because that would be even more
devastating and more dangerous
zelinski feels let down by his western
allies
he said the west could have helped
ukraine but they witnessed our city get
bombed
as the war rages in ukraine nato allies
seem to have made distinctions in the
help they offer
while they may supply weapons to ukraine
they will not enter the war in any
active role
ukrainians will have to defend their
land themselves
bureau report
india today
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over to siddhi now who will take us
through ukraine's big and unexpected
fight back
14 days on ukraine has put
other kind of resistance that was
unexpected russia from the first day had
impressed upon the ukraine troops to lay
down arms
but that has not happened
from home ground
advantage to information worldwear we
decode five reasons how ukraine has
showed russia's
advance
so
when russia invaded ukraine on 22nd
february
many felt it would be only a matter of
days before the mighty russian military
got the better of the ukrainian forces
a fortnight later the end game remains
unclear
ukraine has put up a resistance that was
least expected by russia
especially with civilians voluntarily
joining the war to resist the russian
might
with the fall of kursan russian forces
were expected to take control of other
key cities like kiev and kharkiv
the nature of fight back indicates a
detailed battle plan at play
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ukrainian forces have been preparing and
readying for a russian invasion since
2014 when crimea was the next
the country's entire military is in tune
to fight russia as they don't have any
threats from its other neighbors like
poland hungary slovakia
or romania
putin's soldiers have been surprised by
ground tactics of ukraine troops
including anti-tank weaponry and sniper
fire
russia is also on the back foot in urban
warfare because its air force was
pressed into action late after the
initial bombardment by cruise missiles
on february 24th
lastly ukraine might have an inferior
military but it is winning the
information battle
they have successfully convinced the
world that russia is the only aggressor
and villain in this war while claims
made by ukraine about the russian losses
the death of 11 000 troops 46 aircrafts
68 helicopters might not be accurate
but the images of damage to military
platforms
show russians have faced a stiff
resistance from the ukrainian forces
what was expected to be a lopsided
contest
ukraine's military might not be a match
for the firepower and the numbers of the
russians but they continue to resist
this is rajesh pawar reporting from kiev
for india
today the temperature is -1 here in cave
at this point of time it is snowing a
little but at least there's sunshine
will this bring hope or is this then the
lull before the storm and while the
temperatures may be plummeting the
diplomatic and strategic tempers are all
set to soar that is all
my team and i have for you on this
special broadcast from kiev many thanks
for watching for all the latest news and
updates stay with india today
hello and welcome at this moment the
whole world's eyes are fixed on the
russian ukraine conflict there are
dozens of questions swirling in people's
minds and there are no certain answers
about how things could actually end up
and when there is so much global turmoil
who better than farid zakaria to try and
give us his sharp perspective on what's
happening at this moment how this could
end and the impact on the global world
order i am delighted to be joined uh
at this moment by one of the world's top
foreign affairs gurus farid zakaria
welcome again and thank you for agreeing
to do this
always a pleasure rahul it's really
early in the morning and we deeply
appreciate you agreeing to participate
in this conversation at such short
notice i have lots of questions i want
to run past you
because these are questions that nobody
has any clear answers to but i'm very
curious to see your take on each of
these i want to start by asking you how
do you think this russian invasion of
ukraine will end
it is an unequal fight it's a david and
goliath contest
the russians have
one of the best armies in the world the
largest army in europe
highly sophisticated and putin has
rebuilt it from
the devastation during the the collapse
of the soviet union to a formidable
fighting force um they operate very well
they operate very well they are they
know how to uh
particularly this operation so
i i hate to say but it's the odds are
stacked against the ukrainians
at that point
listening to putin's rhetoric my sense
is that regime change is absolutely a
number one priority for him he talks
about ridding the country of the nazis
and drug dealers who are now running it
which is
you know
absurd the president and prime minister
of ukraine are both jews so the idea
that you
he characterizes them as nazis is
private facing absurd but it tells you
his intentions so i assume that he wants
to conquer ukraine replace the
government
and then probably demilitarize it and
withdraw
and leave behind a kind of puppets
regime much like the one he has in
belarus for example
i think that that last part will be very
hard because there what he's trying to
do is keep
a 44 million person country i mean
ukraine is the size of france
um
stable and viable and and
and you know kind of obedient
but they don't want the ukrainians uh
don't want that so i think there will be
uprisings there will be insurgencies
there will be all kinds of things if
there is this effort to put in place a
kind of puppet regime your best sense at
this time for either how long the
ukrainian army will be able to withstand
this russian assault we're hearing two
different takes one that the ukrainian
army so far has been able to push back
much more than the russian generals
would have expected and given the
hostility of the population this could
be bloody it could be long the other is
given just the sheer force that's been
unleashed against the ukrainians it's
only a matter of a few days
unfortunately i think it is probably
only a matter of a few days maybe but
longer than that the ukrainians are
fighting very hard
on the other hand as i say they face a
formula formidable army and also
remember
the russians don't play by the same
rules
that the americans do they are not
careful about civilian casualties they
are not careful about collateral damage
you can see what they've been doing
despite what they claim
there are apartment buildings in kiev
but you know being being bombed out
they are trying to instill a certain
amount of generalized fear in the
population
and
given the firepower that you know given
for example the air dominance that
russia will have uh almost certainly
within a day um
it's hard for me to see how the
ukrainians hold down it doesn't mean
that there won't be many parts of the
country that have not been subdued many
neighborhoods of cave that haven't been
subdued but in
large measure the russian army will be
able to move into cities to particularly
the big cities
after the end of the cold war and the
disintegration of the ussr
many global pundits believe that this
kind of full-scale military invasion by
one large country of another
relatively decent sized country is
unlikely to happen uh president putin
has completely smashed that notion which
many in europe till the last woman
believe was just posturing and was
unlikely to happen
what's your reading of president putin's
mind this moment what's the message he's
sending internally externally and how
much of this is to do with russia's own
politics
it's a very good question raul obviously
nobody can really
read his mind i have met putin several
times i interviewed him once for the
show but met him off the record several
times
um
the man i met and i this is consistent
with uh what others who have been in
similar positions and
many u.s officials have met him many
more times than i uh have said putin was
a
it was always a tough guy he was always
a russian nationalist but he was also
um rational calculating
um weighing the uh the odds
most of his other military interventions
have been limited
uh they have been fairly precise here he
goes into georgia
carves out these two parts of georgia it
declares them independent republics and
then leaps um when you entered to syria
it was a calculated largely air-only
operation so russian soldiers were not
on the ground and
withdrawals the minute he fails his
interests have been achieved
this feels much much larger
a more of a reckless uh move more of a
gamble i'm not sure even he knows what
the exact endgame is um
it also feels like
ukraine for for putin is an emotional
issue if you listen to him um you know
he doesn't make a whole lot of sense as
i said he's talking about the the nazis
and drug dealers running the the
government he he's calling on the
ukrainians to
rise up against that the government as
if it's an unpopular regime remember
that zolinski was elected with 70 of the
vote
um and if anything you know putin's
actions have made him more popular and
the government more uh popular so
there's something slightly um
weird to be honest about the way putin
is acting now it feels more emotional it
feels that ukraine is neuralgic for him
uh and it feels as though he has not
worried too much about the fairly
significant costs
um he could have got
the thing he wanted ukraine not being a
member of nato he had already got the
europeans had already made it clear that
they were not going to go along with
that
the german chancellor told putin this in
their in their one-on-one meeting uh
that you know look ukraine is not going
to become a member of nato for the
foreseeable future so that was not
enough
for putin what he needed was the
destruction of an independent ukraine
and the subjugation of it and that's a
different goal and as i say that seems
like a goal that is more about a
romantic emotional idea of uniting the
you know russia he sees himself as a
great tsar and one of the things the
great czars did
was add more territory to the russian
empire
and perhaps this is his effort to do
that russian experts and journalists who
are coming on our broadcast insist that
there are parts of ukraine especially in
the east where the russian army is being
welcomed with open arms and that it's
only in the west in the ukraine and
speaking part of ukraine uh that there
is opposition to uh the presence of the
russian army your broad sense of how in
general the people of
ukraine view this russian invasion and
is it true that you know large parts of
the population actually don't mind
russia's presence quite as much as the
east as the western part of ukraine does
ukraine is a complicated country um
the crimea
which which putin annexed in 2014 was
both russian-speaking
and largely pro-russian and the people
in crimea were glad to be part of russia
because remember crimea was always part
of russia it was in a rather bizarre
moment given to ukraine in the 1950s by
khrushchev
then you have the eastern part of
ukraine which is
largely russian speaking it is not by by
the way a majority of ukraine or
anything like that it's about seven
percent of ukraine um
that is a little bit more complicated
there are russian speakers there but
that doesn't mean they're pro-russian
and that certainly doesn't mean they're
pro-putin we can't be sure what's going
on there uh because there is this these
two puppet uh regimes set up by putin
who are you know these these ukrainian
separatists so and there clearly are
some ukrainians uh in that seven percent
of the country who want uh a closer
relationship with russia but look you
don't have to speculate that much in a
country like ukraine because they've had
several elections uh the russians you
know the kind of pro-russian
segment of the ukrainian parliament
it was about
10 15 maximum in the last election and
that that group has become much smaller
in a sense because the one thing
vladimir putin has done he has created a
much stronger ukrainian nationalism than
ever existed before he has created a
sense of a nation he has you know in the
way that threats often do
putin has made ukraine realize that it
thinks of itself as a nation so i
actually think
far from
the russian army being welcomed
by sending the russian army and he has
turned a lot of people who might have
been ambivalent about where they stood
uh inter ukrainian nationalists let's
spend a moment on president zielenski
you'd recall he was quite a star of the
world economic forum when he'd come to
davos soon after
being sworn in he was trying to remake
ukraine in a younger more business
friendly image
and here he is a former comedian actor
now
uh
you know fighting against immense odds
and emerging as a hero not just for the
people of ukraine but being praised
across the world how long can he and his
government last will he stay right till
the end or will is he likely to leave in
your view
um
i i think that so far one would have to
say i'm i'm extraordinarily impressed by
his courage i mean this is a man who's
still there he's still there with all
his top aides uh with the speaker of the
parliament with the defense minister
they are all in ukraine uh the former
president of ukraine poroshenko uh as
you probably saw the video is out uh
with a with a volunteer group with
rifles um this is a very different uh
situation than uh
afghanistan if you recall when ashwagani
got on a plane and and left
uh so i think that
what has to be impressed by
zielinski's determination and courage
uh you know has he played everything
perfectly no he's a somewhat
inexperienced guy and he started talking
about maybe ukraine finding some way to
be to be neutral
i mean look if he had said that three
weeks ago
this crisis might have been averted
though again i i doubt it because if you
look at the
the the complexity the the thoroughness
of the russian operation and the degree
to which they're going
it feels to me like putin's goals were
much larger always um so yeah i think
zelda zelinski has been a good president
a good leader at a difficult time by the
way he's not just a comedian uh i've you
know i met him several times uh he built
a fairly impressive media business he
had his own you know kind of production
company and things like so he's he
started out as a comedian but he's also
a very successful businessman i mean you
know
successful by any standards in any
country you know tens of millions of
dollars of revenue and things like that
so many many employees so he's he's a
sophisticated person he's not quite uh
the you know the image that comes up
sometimes as a comedian uh is not quite
right
is the invasion of ukraine a comma or a
full stop in president putin's designs
and his vision of a new russia
because
many countries
joined the nato alliance after the
disintegration of the ussr
do you think that putin would want to
extend beyond
ukraine his attempt to try and add
landmass to russia do you think this
this is the message he wants to send and
this is where it's likely to end
it's dangerous uh to say uh to say uh
anything about putin because as i say
he's become very volatile and quite
emotional uh my own sense is that putin
that right ukraine is centrally
important to him that that it is it
ranks far above anything else georgia
and ukraine to him and in ukraine in
particular seem to be the kind of crown
jewels of the old uh russian empire this
is not just about the soviet union which
was a 70 year old empire this is about
the czars russia which was
300 years i mean ukraine has been part
of the russian empire for a long time
but it's worth pointing out ukraine has
kept trying to
to free itself from that situation um
i don't think he would dare attack the
baltic republics which is the next and
closest uh place he could go because
they are members of nato because it
would trigger the article 5 commitment
and then he would be facing
not just a nato but the united states
with nuclear weapons and i'm not sure
that even putin wants to do something
like that so what i think what he wants
at this point is a is a
defanged uh uh subdued subordinated
ukraine just like belarus is like some
of the other states around him are uh
what the russians call their near abroad
uh and i suspect that he would regard
this as a great historical achievement
in his own mind as i say the kind of the
tsar who brought back ukraine after it
had
dared to stray from the fold president
zielenski is making desperate pleas for
help
could and should the world have done
more could president biden uh countries
in europe have done more to prepare
ukraine for the scale of the invasion
that they're facing and everyone's
talking about hell but what's the
realistic help that ukraine can expect
now that the russian army is on them
yeah great questions as as always rahul
in retrospect of course people could
have done more
but i think very few people believed
that there would be a russian onslaught
of this magnitude
you know even the ukrainian government
didn't believe it for several weeks
while the united states was announcing
the intelligence had had predicting the
moves of the russian
government and the military which turned
out i have to say to be remarkably
accurate i mean the u.s intelligence in
this case was almost close to 100
accurate and the ukrainians weren't
willing to believe that that putin was
going to do what he ended up doing so
everyone has been in some sense taken
aback and in retrospect more i think the
most important thing would have been
more military hard way it would not have
deterred the russian attack but it could
have helped ukraine defend itself one of
the things that seems to be very
effective has been the javelin missiles
which allow
essentially anti-tank weapons and they
have allowed ordinary ukrainian soldiers
to be able to attack russian tanks it
changes that david goliath
equation a little bit
um
and you're right about the you know the
the challenge here is we're trying to do
something very very big and important um
but we don't have the means to do it uh
we don't have no no no western country
wants to try to go to war with russia
over ukraine
um ukraine is not a member of nato it is
not a you know does not have
self-defense treaties with any of those
countries
and the russian army is as i say you
remember at the height of the cold war
the reason in the 1980s the united
states deployed short-range nuclear
missiles in europe
was that even then at that point the u.s
and nato did not believe that they could
be sure of winning a land battle against
the soviet army and so they wanted to
add in a nuclear component to say you
know this is the the threat it's not
just that we will feel a larger land
army against you but that we will use uh
our nuclear nuclear weapons so the the
russian army has always on that
area been quite formidable it's an easy
area to move through ukraine is a large
flat country so
very hard to know
what could be done now other than raise
the costs for russia in every possible
way
and i think that is the steady path that
the western world and a large part of
the international community is on
president zielenski has dialed prime
minister modi
what do you make of india's position at
the united nations security council
india along with china and the uae
abstained
from passing from being part of a
resolution against the russian invasion
of ukraine which in some senses is
understandable given india's dependence
strategically on weapon systems
from russia which no other country
including the united states at this
moment is willing to give india trying
to walk a very fine line here how is
that being perceived internationally in
your view
uh
not very well honestly uh i look
i think that this is the greatest
diplomatic crisis for india since the
end of the cold war
india has to figure out
what its strategic posture and and
vision
is going forward in a in a new world
and i think it still has not come to
terms with the fact that
it has to make strategic choice it
cannot try to continue to play this game
of being multi-aligned and all all this
kind of thing these are slogans these
and this is not strategy
um i understand
india's dependence on the
russians for for military hardware
nuclear submarine aircraft carrier but
the truth is the real question is should
india be
moving in a different direction on that
front as well
it's not entirely true that no other
country would give it those things the
u.s has offered to engage in much deeper
defense cooperation with uh with india
which would clearly lead to that but the
indians have you know a long legacy of
dealing with with moscow and they have a
comfortable relationship in the defense
area and they want to preserve that
and at the same time they want to
preserve a new uh they want a new
relationship with the united states it's
very simple it seems to me rahu we've
talked about this before the central
strategic fact for india the central
street in fact probably for the next 25
to 40 years
is the rise of china
india has to figure out in that context
what are its national interests and
therefore what is its grand strategy you
will notice that the much talked about
quad
is now a three-legged stool because
the other members of the quad have come
out very resonately against the russian
aggression
they are putting in sanctions they are
coordinating with all the european
countries
it is just india that is the odd man out
can i counter what you're saying to say
a quad was never about russia it was
about
security in the indo-pacific and it's a
bit like america's relationship with
pakistan you know that there are many
things that are wrong with what pakistan
does but the americans very often say we
just hold our nose and let it be india
is the more important partner there is
no question about that and if you speak
to the mandarins at the ministry of
external affairs they'll say the same
thing that yes what russia has done is
wrong we don't need to say so publicly
we just need to hold our nose as america
does when it comes to pakistan in focus
resolutely on india's national interest
first what america thinks doesn't matter
quite as much as what india needs to do
in its own larger interests
right and my the point i'm making is
what is in india's larger interests what
is in india's long-term interests
given that the central reality is the
rise of china um i i have always
advocated that india have a much closer
strategic relationship with the united
states and if they had begun to do so
which to be fair prime minister manmohan
singh took india a long way forward in
that in that regard and if that process
had continued i'm i have no doubt
that the united states would be willing
to be india's
you know defense partner and by the way
one doesn't need to point out u.s
military hardware is a lot better than
russian military hardware um and so
there's first of all the practical
reason to do it secondly i understand
that there has to be a balancing but
even china
said
ukraine's independence and sovereignty
should not be breached no country
sovereignty should be breached um you
haven't even heard words like that come
out of out of new delhi and finally
this is not just about the the the
specifics here in there is a broader
issue of the kind of rules-based
international order that india
and all all countries benefit from uh if
you normalize the idea that a country
can simply take away territory from
another country
and there are no there are no norms
around it there is there are no
sanctions about it there is no deterrent
effect about it you know does india
really want a world like that where the
chinese army could just come in and take
more of kashmir and it would there would
be no you know there would be no
international uh uh reaction uh does it
want a world in which this you know the
the strong rule this is entirely
contrary to the vision of you know uh
nehru and india's founders
look at what the kenyan uh government
did in the united nations the kenyan
ambassador made this eloquent speech
saying look all africa's borders are
made up by colonial powers but we
decided that rather than go through
generations of war and insurgencies and
counter war we would live
within the un system within
international law within the
multilateral groups based international
order because we don't want a world
where the strong uh rule over the or the
weak and where might makes right
india has always talked that game uh
surely this is an important test case of
how it should walk on that on that on
the on this as i say on this most
central issue it's not a minor issue
this is going to be one of the defining
uh
events for the post-cold war world
and let's face it india is on the wrong
side of it farid you spoke of the
chinese army coming in to kashmir and
taking parts of
ladakh i think what we've seen during
the galwan fist fight is that if the pla
came in they'll get as good as they give
and therefore uh that message has gone
across to beijing as well they've
amassed their forces india standing up
uh with the belief that in a battle like
the one that we're facing with china
you're on your own and in the manner in
which the united states didn't
ultimately come to ukraine's rescue
nobody will come to india's rescue if it
had to take on the pla and therefore in
that very complex situation india must
do what india
must well look of course india must
defend itself and
what the chinese did in that case as you
and i talked about was totally
illegitimate um but
international legitimacy matters
international accountability master
masterminders these are these are not
bogus concepts look probably this is a
major violation of the rules based in
international order but let's keep in
mind that that that international order
that was set up largely by the united
states after world war ii
has helped remarkably well
if you look
at the 75 years since 1945 there are
very few instances of countries changing
borders by force acquiring territory and
annexing it by force
this was something that was routine in
international life if you look at the
hundred years before 1945 this was some
one of the most common things that
happened all the time
par province like alsace lorraine which
borders france and germany went back and
forth between those two countries four
times in in 70 years
these things happened very rarely uh
since 1945 so there has been a very
strong
uh
normative rules-based uh uh uh system
that has
worked for the most part okay and it
only works if the violations are held up
as a legitimate and i think what india
would want in a situation like that is
that the world condemned china yes it's
going to be hard to you know just to get
into a world war with china about it but
just as in 1962 the united states
condemned uh china and actually helped
india you would ex you would you would i
think hope for a lot more if more if the
chinese were to do it again president
after president trump was voted out of
power in the united states president
biden signaled that america was once
again
willing to engage more closely with its
allies and play in some sense as leader
of the free world or the democratic
order
how has president biden done in your
estimate so far he failed to invoke
swift sanctions against russia which
would have crippled uh the oligarchs and
impacted putin and all those around him
and hit the russian economy hard so the
one nuclear missile he had he held back
when he could have fired it and many
people are watching india wondering if
he hasn't uh invoked swift sanctions
when russia invaded ukraine in the way
that it did what's he waiting for
um i think they've played a difficult
hand reasonably well
they have tried to mix
a a degree of deterrence with the degree
of diplomacy they
offered russia several diplomatic
off-ramps at several points uh they
enlisted the
the europeans to do the same you know
macron and schultz so i think there was
a fairly
strong deterrent component and there was
a fairly strong diplomatic component
which is what you'd want in a situation
like this um and now that the russians
were not deterred they are trying to
pile on the costs
um you're right that he has not invoked
swift and as you probably know because
this has been well reported uh the
germans and the italians basically
refuse and swift can really only be
put in place with european approval the
italians want to continue to be able to
sell their luxury goods to the russians
the germans worry about their energy
relationship so
look everyone is is
trying to do what they can without
incurring too many costs on themselves i
think it's a mistake
i think that this is such an egregious
violation that it is very important that
it be called out that it really
undermines the rules-based international
order and if you know it's important
that russia pay a price i would like to
see
the biden administration
surprise us with some of the counter
measures you know so far it's all been
fairly predictable
and it's the russians who have surprised
us with the brazenness
of their advance of the of the totality
of their military moves
what the west should be looking for is
what could it do
that would surprise the russians um you
know the part of what's going on here is
that there is a russian elite that uh
denounces
the west denounces the united states but
keeps all its money there buys all its
houses there sends its children to go to
school there uh there there is this
extraordinary grand hypocrisy in russia
where they all want the fruits of the
of the western world western life
western civilization but while
denouncing it uh during you know while
denouncing it during the day they are
enjoying it uh during the in the night
and that process has to end that process
has to be called out uh if russia wants
to live as an isolated pariah state
that's its decision
but there should be some way to force
them to have to you know come to terms
with this hypocrisy before i enfor it i
want to ask you about the impact that
the ukrainian invasion of russia by
russia could have on china we know
president xi has signaled quite clearly
that he would like before his term is
over uh to win back the taiwan straits
to really to win back taiwan and to show
that he's been able to unify mainland
china will russia's invasion of ukraine
embolden president xi to make a bid for
taiwan especially given the fact that
neither europe nor the united states
came to ukraine's health
in a word yes how could it not right
it it it would embolden him because you
are seeing
the fraying of this of this of this
uh rules-based order that's all that's
restraining him in a certain sense
because he he knows that the military uh
has the capacity to do it what is what
is stopping him is the
the moral political and perhaps economic
costs that china would pay uh in in
doing it
china and russia are different russia is
basically turned into a kind of
geopolitical rogue state
you know if you think about the invasion
of georgia if you think about the way in
which intervened in syria on behalf of
uh assad while assad was killing
civilians they actually assisted him in
in killing civilians bombing civilian
targets
the russian government goes out and
kills its dissidents even if they're in
germany or britain that's very different
it seems to me from china
china is not a declining power
desperately searching for some way to
pump itself up into a kind of moment of
glory china is a rising power that
continues to rise economically
technologically is looking for greater
political influence that comes out of
that
that's a much more difficult child
different challenge and and china has
so far at least again been fairly
rational and calculating in what it does
uh it it does it is not i mean there's
no example like ukraine or even georgia
that you that you've seen
with regard to china
but
without any question this would embolden
china this would make china feel that
there are no restraints left that the
barriers uh to entry for bad behavior in
the in the international system have
been lowered and that's one of the
reasons why i think india should think
very long and hard does it wander china
uh on its border doesn't want to live
with the china for the next 30 40 years
that is far more powerful than than
india and and feels completely uns
unrestrained by international law by
international legitimacy uh and by
international rules free they've asked
you all kinds of questions to which
there were no easy answers and i don't
think there are too many people in the
world who could have
given as much sharp insights as you have
over the past half hour deeply
appreciate you taking out time enjoy
your chai i thought you'd be a black
coffee person in new york but i see you
still have your assam chai
with hot milk as exactly as my father
used to have it and taught me to do it
in in bombay
35 years ago 40 or 40 years ago so no
matter which part of the world you're in
there's always a bit of india you carry
with you which is why it's so terrific
to have you back on india today once
again for your really sharp insights on
this russian invasion of ukraine and
what it means for the world thank you
for it
india today continues this extensive
coverage right from the water-owned
country of ukraine i'm nabila jamal here
some breaking news that's coming in
zilensky now calls out russia over mario
paul's hospital attack says that russia
is lying
in fact women and children were present
in that hospital during the attack these
are claims made by ukrainian president
zielinski who calls for global unity
against russia's war crimes
here's a big update coming in from
ukraine as
president of ukraine voldemort
has now
called out for unity against russia and
russian invasion in fact zilinski calls
out russia over mario paul's hospital
attack says that russia is lying women
and children were present in the
hospital during the attack this is a
claim made by ukrainian president who
calls for global unity against russia's
war crimes remember we're looking at
mario paul's hospital a maternity
hospital that was
in fact struck at it was bombed when
zielinski says there were women and
children very much inside that hospital
during the attack and he calls this an
absolute atrocity let's take a listen
president zielinski speaking on the same
russian
russians lied to that that there were no
patients in the hospital and that there
were no women and children in the
maternity ward russians lied to that
nationalists set up positions there like
always they lie confidently
war crimes are not possible without
propagandists who cover them up
i would like to tell them one thing
you will be held accountable just like
those who give the orders to drop bombs
on civilians
we made growing warnings from the west
that moscow's invasion was about to take
a more virtual and indiscriminate turn
ukrainian officials have now said that a
russian airstrike devastated a maternity
hospital in the besieged port city of
mario paul wounded at least 17 people
including staff and patients the ground
shook more than a mile away when the
mario paul complex was hit by a series
of blasts that blew out windows ripped
away much of the front of that one
building the police and soldiers have
rushed to the scene to evacuate victims
carrying out a heavily pregnant and
bleeding woman on a stretcher in fact in
the courtyard mangled cars burned and a
blast crater extended at least two
stories deep president volatilinski has
written on twitter now that they wear
people indeed children
and women are currently under the
wreckage of that hospital under buried
under debris those are his claims
and he's now called this strike an
absolute atrocity zilinski saying that
russia deliberately targeted that
maternity hospital in mario paulo
they want us to feel like animals
because they blocked our cities the
biggest cities in ukraine and they
blocked and and because they don't want
our our people to get some food water
yesterday for example children yeah i
don't know if you if you know the
children in maroocl was
the child was dead
yes you know that that is the idea of
of this operation or or i don't know how
i was putting space telling about it we
can't stop
alone
all this
only if
the world will unite
around ukraine iran or uniting around
ukraine they're not there still it's
still very slowly it's still very slowly
but you can feel it only when you are
here because the people from europe or
usa
it's far from ukraine it's far from the
heart of this tragedy and and you you
can't see you you can't understand the
details because you are not fighting
here and i understand why and i don't
want them to fight
but these countries can help can unite
because we can't speak about the close
the
i'm sorry that i'm speaking again and
again about this problem but we spoke
about a children hospitals etc and you
know the the the the
number of this child that's and and
and
so
we are speaking about closing the sky
you can't decide
to close or not to close
you can't decide if you are united
against the nazism and this terror you
have to close
not me don't wait me asking you several
times a lot million times close the sky
no you have to phone us
to our people
who lost their children and say sorry we
didn't do it yesterday one week ago we
didn't
push
putin we didn't speak with him a lot we
didn't found i find the dialogue with
him we we we did nothing and it's true
yesterday the world did nothing
now i'm going to cut across some images
here on your screens that shows the
before and after satellite footage of
the intense air strike by the russian
offensive in mario paul now these are
aerial footages satellite footage here
that very clearly shows a kind of
destruction
in fact on the left you can see the
mario paul city before the attack a very
established structured city that has now
been demolished and desecrated the
airstrike aftermath on the right hand
side of your screen shows how the city
has been under constant attack day 15
we're looking at constant bombarding
shelling strikes
a latest uh hospital in mario paul that
was bombarded
in fact we're looking at mario paul the
port city now that's been completely
come under attack by ukrainian by
russian forces ukrainian civilians there
and their forces they're trying hard to
resist but here we see the kind of
damage the extent of damage that's been
carried out in the port city of mario
paul by the russian forces
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now it is day 15 of russia ukraine war
and the peace talks between the two
nations have ended without any
conclusion the trilateral talks between
the foreign ministers of both the
nations in turkey could not find a
breakthrough as ukraine claims that it
does not intend to fulfill demands put
forward by moscow and that the country
will not surrender in front of moscow
this this in fact came after russia
maintained that all of its demands
including that of kiev takes a neutral
position and drops aspirations of
joining the nato alliance must be met
with to end its assault at the earliest
in fact turkey was hoping to be able to
mark a turning point in the russia
ukraine conflict through these
trilateral talks but so far there hasn't
been a breakthrough
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mr
everyone is well aware that president
putin
never refuses contact we just want these
meetings to be organized not for their
own sake
but in order to focus on specific
agreements
by the way we touched on this topic
today
mr kuleba outlined the topic that you
just quoted
and i reminded him that we are always in
favor of meeting if we can achieve some
added value and we can solve problems
where has it been seen the right of
private property has been trampled on
simply by the click of two fingers where
has it been seen that the presumption of
innocence
a pillar in the legal system of the west
has simply been ignored
and grossly violated
i assure you
we will cope
we will definitely cope with it but we
will do everything to ensure
that we never again depend on the west
in those areas of our life which have a
significant meaning for our people
now it's been more than two weeks into
russia's invasion on ukraine ruthless
shellings attacks still continue along
with unparalleled human tragedy in her
cave a shopping center we see has been
completely destroyed but the ukrainian
military has reported that they have
regained control of their hachi and
haruki barriers of ukraine a factory and
a store were on raging fire after being
bombarded in airplane on the outskirts
of kiev
in the bravoski district in ukraine a
russian tank was set on fire as
volunteer battalions and the ukraine
forces are going all out to stop russia
from capturing its cities
now horrific images here of a hospital
that's come under attack in mario paul
came to four images there that shows how
deadly this attack on that hospital was
in mario paul at least 17 people are
said to have been injured several are
still feared missing many of them may
have been caught up in under the debris
these are claims made by
ukrainian president zielinski himself
now the reports
finally also claiming that ukraine's
ukrainians there have put up stiff
resistance in fact
media reports claiming that ukraine has
wiped out four russian su-25 aircrafts
two helicopters and two cruise missiles
in kiev and the joint force operation
regions meanwhile more than 50 000
people from sumi have been evacuated
from the ravaged ukraine
in at least the last 48 hours many of
them including indians indian students
who are stranded in sumi have now
finally been evacuated ukrainian
president vladimir zelinsky has said 35
000 people have so far been rescued
through humanitarian corridors and that
five humanitarian corridors will be
opened up from kiev
sumo in erhodar and three other cities
[Music]
this is the
let's take a quick look of
at this point of time you see this is an
active combat zone this is an active war
zone uh there are there is fight going
on between the russians and the
ukrainians here uh ukrainian
force has just destroyed some russian
tanks and you can see some of these
armored personal carriers are coming
this side uh we are stopping here we are
trying to go ahead but the situation
here is extremely grim at this point of
time there are there is a twin pronged
attack that's happening on kiev even as
we speak one from airpin and the second
year from bravery side
here certain tanks have been destroyed
of the russian army it is being said
that a russian regimental commander has
also been killed
the battle is intense you can hear
shelling in the backdrop here some of
these forces are coming back we are
trying to get more details about the
operations that are taking place um
no vehicle is permitted beyond this
point because there's shelling going on
beyond this point um here in cave but
the twin pronged attack on kiev now is
extremely significant because the
russians are now closing in with talks
having failed between ukraine and russia
in turkey the situation
taking a turn for the worse virtually
every second by the second with
cameraman pawan kumar in kiev ukraine
gaurav 7th for india today
now let's take you through another
exclusive ground report filed by gaurav
savanth in fact he's on ground right
from the mother of ukraine memorial
let's have a look
talks between russia and ukraine remain
inconclusive no results so far the
anticipation and the apprehension now is
that this would result in escalation of
tension between russia and ukraine we
are here at the mother of ukraine
memorial her big statue that inspires an
entire country and all the soviet-era
weapons and missiles from a mig-21 to a
mig-27 to missiles and tanks including
the t-55
all parked here
these weapons inspire the people of
ukraine there are anti-tank guns there
are mortars that are here at this
memorial the hope in this country is
that peace talks will result in less
blood bloodshed or stopping bloodshed
but that doesn't appear to be happening
the temperature right now
is minus two degrees from the flutter of
the flag you can very easily see that
it's very windy feels like -5
and in this sub-zero temperature people
are preparing for the siege of ukraine
the siege of cave tension palpable in
the air tension as multiple new
checkpoints have now come up
tension is also visible with new
defenses being prepared
not just on the outskirts of kiev but
now inside the city air defense
equipment surface-to-air missiles tanks
armored personal carriers
troops are now moving closer to the city
or inside the city to protect
kiev from an imminent russian attack
then that attack could come as early as
tonight or in the next 24 to 48 hours
and there is a reason for this the
reason very clearly is
probe missions being mounted by the
russian army some russian tanks tried to
enter the city they were engaged
according to ukrainian army officers
india today spoke to
some of the commandos spetsnaz commandos
have already infiltrated inside the city
with their weapons and there are reports
of firing that were reported late last
night at one of the checkpoints
the situation remains tense and is
likely to worsen in the hours and days
ahead with cameraman pawan kumar in cave
ukraine god of 7th for india today
now the capital city of kev is bracing
for a final attack by russia tanks and
armored personnel carriers have been
deployed at key strategic locations in
fact gorham savant who has been
traveling to the length and breadth of
ukraine currently brings us this report
from the capital he spoke to soldiers
preparing for an imminent russian attack
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russia is at the gates of kiev
the ukrainian capital readying for an
imminent russian attack
the defenders have deployed tanks and
armored personnel carriers at key
strategic locations to take on the
invaders
ukrainian soldiers in an exclusive
interview to india today revealed that a
few russian forces are already in the
capital city
how close are the russian forces to keep
right now
the russian forces they are in kiev
right now yesterday
our friends they saw
them in the forest eight eight
russian soldiers they already in kiev
soldiers yes yes yes yes
ukrainian troops see that after smashing
kiev suburbs russian forces are
advancing from all directions
preparing for an all-out assault
we're expecting enemies from
some parts yeah and so of course they
would like to make a circle a round key
but so we are ready to meet him and so
our military forces they are very nice
in
protecting now really believed that they
will be mad by our people with flowers
but they we meet them
with bullets only
even as the war rages on the ground
moscow is bringing the heat down
diplomatically
vladimir putin's administration has said
kremlin is not trying to overthrow the
ukraine government
now ukrainian president vladimir
zelinsky too made a climb down
zelinski says he is no longer pressing
for nato membership
which is the biggest provocation for the
russian invasion
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in another statement aimed at placating
moscow
zelensky has said he is open to a
compromise on the status of the two
breakaway pro-russian territories
doneesk and luansk
the climb down comes ahead of talks
between russia and ukraine in turkey on
thursday
this appears to be
new lines being dug new front lines here
in this battle for the defense of keeps
so far these this war this conflict was
being fought in
in bucharest on the outskirts but now it
appears that the battle is coming much
closer if talks do not succeed
to bring peace to bring about a
negotiated settlement then russia's big
assault on cave could begin
and this could happen as early as the
next 24 to 48 hours
pawan kumar in cave ukraine god of 7 for
india today
all right let me cut across to our
reporters on ground who are bringing all
the my new details coming in from the
water and country of ukraine god of 7th
gita mohan joining us gaurav over to you
we just saw a report of you traveling
through those one of those ravaged areas
give us a sense of the situation on
ground where you are on day 15.
so the situation is extremely tense on
day 15. uh if i may there are the
attacks are happening already from two
different flanks irpin is to the east
and burberry to the west and russian
forces are trying to move in they've
launched several probe attacks and we
were on the front lines
in burberry where five russian tanks
have been destroyed in the past 12 hours
uh the russians launched a probe attack
they fired they moved in
and they were they were permitted to
come a little deeper when they were a
little distance away from the main body
of the russian column uh there was a
there was an ambush and five russian
tanks were destroyed and several russian
soldiers neutralized we spoke to one of
the commanders on ground and this is
about about two hours from kiev so we
drove about two hours from cave went to
the front lines reported from where uh
the the ukrainian tanks are now deployed
and they're poised so they're poised uh
in the next couple of hours we are told
that there will be an offensive there
will be an offensive from the russian
side and there will be a
counter-offensive uh from the ukrainian
side and these are these are real front
lines um in the virtually it's like
you know between delhi and gurgaon if i
may so that the russian tanks are
crossing gurgaon and uh they have been
in a way being challenged from delhi
side it's that close that much in urban
areas is where this this conflict is
happening between kiev and and burberry
burberry where we were
and right the fight is actually intense
we caught up with some soldiers they
didn't want us to photograph them they
were they were sleeping they were
resting on the roadside
after a hard fight last night and
preparing for the next fight either
tonight uh or early tomorrow morning but
we saw some of the weapons that they had
some of the systems that they had and
they have the defenders advantage at
least in this point given the fact that
they are they are well placed on a
higher ground that tanks are there their
armored personal carriers are there you
saw in in that report of mine some
additional tanks and and equipment
coming in right and there and their
anti-tank guided missiles uh and and in
in a forested area there are more troops
so this is this is like urban warfare in
the heart of the city um and and it's
it's likely to become more intense
especially when talks did not succeed
right and that's precisely the question
that gita gita
this was today the highest level talks
between two of the foreign ministers
ukraine and russia attempted at speaking
in ankara who tried to mediate but
doesn't seem like there was much headway
at all in fact ukraine we believe uh
urged russia to uh allow for 24 hours of
ceasefire so that aid can be reached to
those
in need civilians can be rescued
evacuation process can be carried out
but ukraine says there has been no
positive response from russia as yet
what really happened during those talks
today please take us through
well the stance of both sides is so hard
and so difficult when it comes to a
climb down from either side because it
could mean a political disaster
for zelensky if there's a step down a
climb down on the demands that russia
has and if he meets them if he
accommodates those demands and on the
other hand for putin
much at stake given the kind of risk
that putin has taken he's now only
pushing the envelope in in terms of what
the demands are and those demands are
increasing so every time they go back to
the talking table if demands increase it
becomes untenable for ukraine to accept
and that's the reason why there has been
no headway but it is uh certainly a
disappointment because if there is no
headway on the humanitarian corridor
it's a problem for ukraine what was
paramount was the humanitarian aid
reaching mario paul and other cities
that are in dire need of a humanitarian
aid and evacuation space uh that
certainly has not moved forward and that
is a concern for ukraine uh we again
will have to wait and see what really
happens like gaurav is pointing out
russian force is already in the key
region and just outside kiev city the
capital city and uh and putin's orders
were very clear that uh irrespective of
whether negotiations are on at whichever
level there is going to be no ceasefire
so apart from the city-wide ceasefire
that we've seen in ukraine the whole of
ukraine is not under cease fire and nato
has refused to declare ukraine no-fly
zone in such a scenario expect only the
worst
but i just am uh have come from
an undisclosed location in downtown cave
where uh there is at the territorial
defense force base camp and uh the
spirits there nabila we'll be putting
out that story in a short while from now
the spirits there totally high a lot of
women signing up training uh to be a
part of the ukrainian force a lot of
young boys uh training they were they
were not part of the force they never
wanted to be one a singer the other a a
computer scientist
women who won a yoga teacher a computer
scientist and
they do not really want to
be did not really want to join the army
but today they're in the forces hoping
only that this war comes to an end with
a victory for ukraine and that they can
go back to their normal life right gita
thank you very much i hope you are safe
a quick question from gaurav gaurav we
know that the next 24 hours for kiev is
going to be very crucial um we're seeing
russian forces there inching closer
what's expected in the next 24 hours
according to you how do you foresee the
situation with ukraine having very
little military power and capacity for
that matter no help coming in from the
west uh they're left to fend for
themselves how do you see ukraine to be
reacting to this advance advances these
advances by ukraine forces
you know nabila we had the uh advantage
of having direct access to some of the
ukrainian military commanders on ground
who are in charge of various sectors um
of kev's defense and they they showed us
sometimes on camera sometimes without
camera the kind of defenses they've been
able to mount and it will not be a
cakewalk for russia that's very clear uh
the kind of defenses they've mounted and
they can stall the advance uh you know
today's already day 15 of the battle uh
coming to an end uh you know so they've
they've withstood the russian assault
for 15 long days while they've lost
portions of their country um but they've
they've stalled the advance of the
russians they haven't given up without a
fight and they continue to fight they're
not giving up they will be able to hold
on to key for quite some time it depends
on the kind of assault that russia
mounts and russia
their army has mounted several probe
operations and probe operations is is
very typical of the tactics that's
employed that you keep pushing if you
find mush or you find softer ground you
keep pushing deeper so those kind of
missions are on um and wherever they
find chinks they move in deeper their
special forces are already inside the
russian special forces they're already
inside the city and over the next 24 to
48 hours perhaps there would be some
sabotage of taking down ukrainian
defenses before that big assault is
mounted whether it comes from the air or
it comes from you know whether it's
aircraft or missiles uh the
surface-to-air batteries are still
operational and that's remarkable 15
days into this war ukraine still has its
surface to air assets
we've seen some movement we've seen some
movement from other areas moving towards
key which means so far they were
guarding the the skies in some other
sectors now they've realized uh it is
more essential to protect and guard the
skies around cave so their defenses are
shrinking they're coming closer it's a
tighter net uh where they want they all
have their backs to the wall and this is
this is the big fight that's likely to
happen whether this happens tonight and
incidentally tonight uh the weatherman
has predicted that the temperature would
be nine below zero so minus nine is what
is expected in key of tonight and early
morning tomorrow and in this temperature
it's not as if they will be in their
bunkers or in their buildings they will
be out on the streets because you have
to guard those streets uh from from the
russian attack they have the equipment
they have night vision devices we've
seen that they have atgms anti-tank
guided missiles and to protect the skies
they have surface-to-air missiles of
various kinds um you know we did not
film some of those equipment because
they said it would expose their defenses
to the to the russian advance so there
will be the moment there is a fight it
will be a bitter fight how long will
that fight continue depends on how long
do do they have their resources and
replenishments coming in if that is a
crisis then there will be a crisis in
kiev well uh
we're waiting to see what happens but
gita a quick word on whether these
stocks will continue for tomorrow as
well what's going to be really uh the
agenda for both the foreign ministers to
be uh trying to establish some kind of
headway through those stocks is it going
to continue for tomorrow too since there
was no result or headway today
no it was a one day talk uh so but both
of both sides said that they're open to
negotiations and talks we only have to
wait and see whether the talks will
continue between russia and ukraine at
the foreign minister's level meanwhile
the negotiators have been meeting in
belarus and uh sergey lavrov had said
that uh that uh the negotiations will
continue in belarus as well so uh again
right now we do not know whether if the
foreign ministerial level talks will
continue uh at that level or whether it
will be again tone down to uh or down
or uh uh go back to a negotiation chief
negotiators level talk uh that that have
been taking place regularly in belarus
right thank you very much uh thank you
gaurav for joining us with those details
india today's largest team of reporters
on ground bringing us all the real
factual details as we see unfolding in
the water and country ukraine now the
ukrainian military has now reported that
they have regained control of the
vehicle and harkief areas of ukraine
russian forces were allegedly trying to
encircle the city but they were stopped
by a ukrainian attack you know several
european media reports have revealed
that head of harkie regional state
administration orlais
has announced that russian forces were
attempting to encircle the city but they
were repelled by the ukrainian
counter-attack a night strike two took
place in the slow hall slobohusky region
of harki two women two children
unfortunately killed in the attack
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hello and welcome to an india today
special broadcast that comes to you from
the strifed on ukrainian capital cave
i'm gaurav savant the situation in cave
does remain extremely tense there was
shelling that was reported in multiple
parts of this country we'll tell you
about that in greater detail during the
course of the hour in the day but for
now we will concentrate on air power and
the effective use of air power and air
defense
russia's attempts to have total air
supremacy and ukraine's efforts and
heroic efforts in places to ensure that
russia does not enjoy that air supremacy
denying the use of air power or at least
checking it as much as possible over the
course of the next half hour india
today's team of reporters
here in ukraine and our producers in
delhi will get you all the details on
this very crucial aspect but that big
story that's coming up is
the united states rejecting poland's
offer of the mig-29 air superiority
fighters now poland yesterday had said
late yesterday poland claimed that they
are willing to offer every operational
mig-29 fighter jet in the inventory of
poland's air force
and give it to ukraine but not directly
here's the catch
poland said they will have all these
mig-29 operational fleets of mig-29
positioned at the ramstein air base in
germany this is a crucial north atlantic
treaty organization air base in germany
it's used by the u.s air force and u.s
forces very extensively so they said
they'll fly all these aircraft to
germany
position all the fighters there and
ukraine can collect it from germany
point one point two
the second catch ukraine wanted uh
poland wanted corresponding us fighters
with the same
ever the aircraft same shelf life and
whether it's the airframe engine or
avionics they should be ever these what
they said and they wanted with
corresponding lifespan so even if
they're second-hand aircraft they have
to have the corresponding lifespan
the united states has rejected that
offer the united states says this
requires more discussion with other
partners and this as the u.s put it was
completely untenable
this is the second time that the north
atlantic treaty organization the united
states poland they appear to have
let down let down ukraine and how
i quickly now want to cut across to
india today's executive editor shivaru
joining us for more on this big story
and shiv explains why poland's offer was
untenable as the u.s put it and why
poland has been let down for the second
time
the ukrainians including president
zielinski have said that we need a
no-fly zone or plan b is we need fighter
aircraft that our pilots can fly if not
yours and therefore please give them to
us as quickly as possible poland has
said that we'll give you these fighters
and we will send them to germany we
won't send them to poland but we will
send them to germany to the ramstein air
base it says it's up to they've put it
in the u.s hands they've said we'll send
these jets there it's up to the u.s to
send the jets to ukraine so there's
there's that uh caveat also the us says
the jet offer is untenable you're
sending them to us and we'll have to
send them you know so one of the nato
countries will be seen as indulging in
an act of war against russia the us is
unwilling to get drawn into this war
president biden has already made that
very clear but the u.s wants these nato
countries
over here you send your jets to ukraine
and help them out but we will not play a
part in this is being seen the reason
why we're saying this is shambolic is
because because
the this this is the second big betrayal
after nato has uh said that we will not
accede to this request from nato saying
please impose impose a no-fly zone over
over um over uh ukraine now the western
jet stunt is this is how it's playing
out in europe that is warsaw that is the
capital of poland that's where that's
the country in which all these mig-29
fighters are the reason why mig-29
fighters are important is because
ukraine also flies mig-29 fighters so
it's being seen as a commonality a
common platform that their pilots can
fly with very little uh you know uh
conversion training they want to send it
from warsaw to ramstein which is in
germany germany doesn't have a border
with uh with ukraine poland does
in ramstein though the plan the the the
skeletal plan is ukrainian pilots can go
there train on those aircraft and those
fly those aircraft to ukraine because
germany certainly doesn't want to have
any part of it the pentagon says we
cannot send polish jets to ukraine we
will not do that from ramstein because
that is something that impacts the
entire nato alliance so it's a bit of a
mess you've got the west uh looking
actually quite silly right now because
they there's already a sense of betrayal
in ukraine right now now they're playing
chinese checkers with their jets as part
of the nato alliance but not actually
substantively sending any forces into
into ukraine it is understandable why
they don't want to do that but these
little moves between poland and germany
and nato and the us just shows that
there is no plan in place ukraine being
let down yet again by the north atlantic
treaty organization countries
this offer of poland was shambolic u.s
says it's untenable but poland
apart ukraine is desperately trying to
protect its its its skies its airspace
it shot a no-fly zone but that no-fly
zone very clearly is not possible but
how is ukraine defending itself ukraine
is using its air defense assets to the
fullest
today is day 14 of that war day 14 of
the war the air defense assets the
surface to air missiles the
surface-to-air batteries they remain
intact at least in some portions the
russian forces from day one have
systematically targeted 14 airfields and
those airfields continue to be targeted
even till late yesterday venetia was
targeted yesterday kharkiv was targeted
kirsten was targeted airfields are being
targeted across uh ukraine there was a
report that boris bill airfield which is
a civilian airfield that too was
targeted by rockets late yesterday but
ukraine continues to strike and strike
at russian aircraft and these include
these include su-35s fighter bombers
these include su-27s these include 230s
that is what ukraine has claimed that
they have down close to 100 fighter jets
attack helicopters and transport
helicopters of the russian armed forces
we bring you this report
russia fiercely escalates air strikes on
ukraine
it is using its fighter jets to hit key
ukrainian cities
in the last 72 hours putin has unleashed
the fury of russia's hellbirds on kiev
and kharkiv
ukraine claims to have shot down a
sukhoi su-34 fighter bomber in kharkiv
on monday
they have released images of the debris
of a russian plane
completely
ukraine also claims it has shot down
more than seven russian war machines
in the last three days
including jets and mi-35 choppers
ukrainian authorities have shared
several images of pilots who they claim
are russians
now in their custody
russia is using its formidable air
superiority to control ukraine skies
the most visible russian aircraft in the
ukraine war is the sukhoi su-25 a tough
soviet-era bird that's taken on most
attack duties
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the mi 24 is also being used by the
russian forces
they are sturdy heavily armed and used
to support ground troops
the third russian aircraft seen in the
skies over ukraine is the sukhoi su-34
a supersonic medium-range fighter bomber
used for tactical strikes
su-34 have been in eastern and northern
ukraine
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another russian attack helicopter on
combat duty is the kamau ka-52
these images of one such helicopter made
to force land went viral during the
early days of the invasion
several more are said to be flying
sorties on the northern border
the images coming from ukraine show
russia's plans are striking deeper
inside ukraine than earlier believed
these airstrikes could be the prelude to
the real battle for kiev
one of the most dramatic images in this
war is the shooting down of a me35
attack helicopter using a stinger
surface to air missile and that image
went viral worldwide that image is being
studied very closely by aviation experts
and analysts
in attack and defense mechanisms now
remember
whether it's the fighter jets or
helicopters they're armed with flares
and chaffs to divert the heat seeking
stinger missiles but the use of these
stinger missiles by the ukrainian
ground forces by the air defense
artillery by the air defense forces is a
study in itself take a look at this
report that went viral globally
perhaps the most dramatic footage
in 10 days of russia's invasion of
ukraine
cameras from a drone capturing a
low-flying russian mi-35 attack
helicopter falling prey to a ukrainian
stinger missile
the chopper flying at low altitude to
avoid radars to avoid ice meets a
devastating end
the stinger missile supplied by nato
with infrared homing systems hitting the
helicopter with deadly accuracy
both germany and the united states have
been pumping in large numbers of stinger
missiles to the ukrainian military over
the last few weeks
in order to challenge and shoot down
russian air power
the missile proving its worth in this
video the first of its kind released by
the ukrainian government
reported to be on the outskirts of
capital kiev
showing the heavily armed military
helicopter of the russian armed forces
ending in a massive fireball and a plume
of smoke
a rapid and fiery end
to an attack helicopter crew that could
well have been on an attack mission
this made 35 helicopter and when you
look at these images um it's it's a
young soldier who's actually running
behind that helicopter aims with his
surface to air man portable stinger
missile
fires and forgets and it goes and hits
the target it goes and hits the attack
helicopter and the hit attack helicopter
comes crashing down this shows how a
stinger can easily bring down a low
flying fighter plane it can bring down a
surf a helicopter
as russian troops advance into several
parts of ukraine and encircle cities
images of the ukrainian residents have
been flooding social media
this time a russian jet apparently being
shot down in the northern city of
cherniv
captured on camera by local residents
while they cheered as the jet was
brought down
it was later reported that the russian
pilot of the jet had been captured alive
while his co-pilot didn't survive
another russian plane was shot down in
the city of mikolai a dramatic video of
the plane's pilot being interrogated by
ukrainian forces has also surfaced
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zielenski claims in a televised address
ukraine has captured wounded and killed
over 10 000 russian soldiers since the
start of the invasion
there's plenty of fighting strikes uh
basically an everyday currency over
ukraine uh again that's why ukraine
repeats its demand to close off the sky
for the russians russians are using
those planes to hit civilian targets
pedestrian districts
reality is this is battle that is raging
all over ukraine and russia using their
power
advantage to push at the civilians like
in no time since the second world war
president putin meanwhile has blamed the
united kingdom for triggering the
military conflict
can ukraine successfully resist the
overwhelming and intensifying scale of
the invading force
with god of savant and rajesh pavaran
kiev bureau report india today
the use of air power by russia and the
denial of air power by ukraine that's a
study in fact aviation experts are
studying this across the world and the
russian air force they've unleashed
their best whether it's the su-35
fighter bombers state-of-the-art su-30s
or su-27s they have their fighter jets
raining hell from the skies now what are
putin's forces doing they're
systematically taking out with their
precision guided munition
strategic airfields air bases fuel dumps
ammunition depots and air defense assets
not just missile power but also air
power let me now get you more details
india today's shivaru gets us more
details on how
russia is deploying its air power
and how ukraine is denying the use of
skies or at least attempting to even on
day 14.
heart stopping images of a russian
airstrike caught on camera
the first footage of an actual aerial
bombing in 11 days of a conflict that's
been represented largely by ground
attacks
but only an hour after the bombing of
european went out on india today this
stunning 32 second clip capturing a
russian attack helicopter being shot
down by a ukrainian shoulder fired
missile exploded from the battlefield
north of kiev
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in the last 48 hours the air power
aspect has taken on a fearsome new
primacy
with aircraft much more visible and
claims of russian pilots taken captive
both ukraine and russia have been old
soviet aviation powerhouses and the war
has generated enormous interest in the
war birds both countries have deployed
over their blazing battlefields
the most visible russian aircraft in the
ukraine crisis
is the sukhoi su-25 a tough old soviet
era bird that's taken on most attack
duties
[Music]
let me show you what these aircraft are
that are doing the bombing and that the
ukrainians claim that they've actually
shot down these are strikes very close
to keep the jet dropping the bombs is
called a sukhoi 25 as a sukhoi su-25
it's a ground strike aircraft it is
designed for close air support to ground
forces and there are huge ground forces
of the russian army that's you know
outside on the outskirts of cave right
now these aircraft are designed and
capable of low altitude bombings that's
why you saw them captured so clearly on
mobile camera their weapons include
strike missiles bombs rockets they've so
far been used in many many different
operations around the world including
and most notably in afghanistan syria
iraq and sudan but of course in many
other operations including in north
africa as well
the most visible russian helicopter in
the war is the me 24th
seen here being dramatically shot down
by a ukrainian shoulder-fired missile
these are sturdy heavily armed and
armored helicopters
deployed to support ground troops and
destroyed tanks and other ground targets
the me 24's export variant the mi 35 is
in service with the indian air force too
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the third russian aircraft type seen in
the skies over ukraine is the sukhoi
su-34 a supersonic medium-range fighter
bomber used for tactical strikes in
contested airspace su-34s have been seen
in the air over eastern and north
ukraine
the other russian attack helicopter on
combat duties in ukraine is the cam of
ka-52 these images of one such
helicopter made to force land went viral
in the early days of the invasion
several more are said to be flying
sorties in the northern border
also clearly visible in the skies over
ukraine are russian me eight utility
helicopters captured here in this
airborne assault on the hostimal air
base north of kiev in the early days of
the invasion
these workhorse helicopters are a
precursor to the mi 17 that india
currently operates
ukraine has made the huge claim that its
air defense systems have shot down two
giant il-76 transport jets
though there has been no visual proof of
this
while the iconic russian 295
hasn't been seen in the skies over
ukraine or even nearby the high-flying
propeller driven aircraft has figured in
the war of teams between both sides with
ukraine saying its air defense forces
have managed to shoot down one of these
giant airplanes
[Music]
as air power becomes more pronounced in
ukraine and as nato continues to refuse
ukraine's plea for the imposition of a
no-fly zone but air strikes defined the
second week of putin's invasion
with rajesh pavari nirpin and god of
savant and gita mohan in kiev bureau
report india today
this war between russia and ukraine is
also a litmus test for the
massive
russian arsenal its weapons and systems
and they might globally do keep in mind
india extensively uses russian equipment
be it the su-30 mkis of course that's an
indian version of the su-30 fighter jets
the mig-29s the attack helicopters the
transport helicopters me 35
me 24 the mi 17s the me eights india
extensively uses russian
aircraft helicopters the s 400 state of
the art s 400 system that india has just
acquired despite american threat of
katsa or sanctions this was a deal worth
39 000 crore but that's not all india
employs
and uses russian equipment from the t90
tanks to t72 tanks to armored personal
carriers to infantry combat vehicles
and and a lot more
but this war truly is a test for those
russian systems including air defense
systems take a look at this report
as the russia ukraine crisis escalates
and as the shock waves are felt all
around the world one of those shock
waves is definitely here in india as
well it's a good time to remember that
the indian military happens to be one of
the largest users of soviet era and
russian weaponry and military hardware
and that's one of the reasons why
amidst everything that's happening with
all the unpredictability between russia
and ukraine the indian ministry of
defense has held a high level meeting to
assess the possible aftermath the
possible risk to india's arsenals as a
result of this war between russia and
ukraine russian equipment dominates
every aspect of india's war fighting
arsenal across the three services let's
start with the indian air force the
newest equipment is the s 400 triumph
air defense missile system then you've
got a huge fleet of su-30 mki fighters
then there are the mig-29 the upgraded
mig-29 fighters which are a mainstay in
the indian air force then you've got the
old mig-21 fighter jets they've got a
controversial reputation but continue to
operate in large numbers
one of the biggest aircraft operated by
the indian air force is also a russian
origin the illusion il-76 fleet and the
similar il-78 which is india's mid-air
refueling tanker fleet then you've got
the il-76 falcon airborne warning and
control system aircraft which are based
in agra utility helicopters are also
russian the me 17 helicopters very
visible very iconic they're the mainstay
the backbone of india's medium lift
helicopter fleet then you've got me 35
heavy assault helicopters also of
russian origin operated by india the me
26 heavy lift helicopters the biggest
helicopters in the world also in indian
service are from russia the brahmos
cruise missile is an indo-russian joint
venture much of the technology is from
russia
day 14 of this conflict in india today's
team camera person pawan kumar india
today's foreign affairs editor gita
mohan and i will continue to report from
ground zero but that is all we have time
for on this india today special
broadcast from ukraine many thanks for
watching
all right india today has been bringing
you all the images coming in of the
havoc and devastation that we've seen in
ukraine right from day one of the
russian invasion images on your screen
here show the most haunting
pictures from the first day of the war
till date on day 15 these are the
developments that we bring to you here
are the top developments of the day as
president of ukraine voladimir zilinski
has signed a new law on the forced
seizure of property of russia and its
residents on the territory of ukraine
here is zielinski there signing a new
law on the fourth seizure of property of
russia and its residents on the
territory of ukraine meanwhile u.s vice
president kamala harris on thursday has
embraced calls for an international war
crime investigation of russia over its
invasion of ukraine and the bombing of
civilians that carries on
ukrainian authorities have said that
children's hospital in ukrainian city of
mario paul was destroyed by russian
airstrikes on wednesday russian
occupying forces have dropped several
bombs on children's hospital leading to
colossal destruction european media
reports have stated that at least 17
staff
staff members were wounded several of
them pregnant women and children have
been injured in fact the president
claims that a few would
have been buried under debris
now president vladimir zelinsky has now
called on the west to impose even
tougher sanctions on russia after the
airstrike on the maternity hospital in
mario paul wearing the traditional water
army green he said that the west should
strengthen sanctions on russia no longer
has any possibility to continue this
genocide
international atomic energy agency has
said that power has been entirely cut to
the chernobyl power plant site of the
world's worst nuclear disaster in 1986
and its security systems adding that no
critical impact on the safety from china
bill power loss
the ukrainian president a lot of
mercedes said that ukraine will try to
evacuate civilians through six
humanitarian corridors today from the
capital city of kiev as well as from
cities of sumi and ergodor mario paul
ezum and walnu waka
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now let's take a quick look at this
report here filed by my colleague god of
seventh right from the outskirts of kiev
as russian forces inch closer this
active board zone let's have a look
this is the bravery area of
cave at this point of time you see this
is an active combat zone this is an
active war zone uh there are there is
fight going on between the russians and
the ukrainians here uh ukrainian force
has just destroyed some russian tanks
and you can see some of these armored
personal carriers are coming this side
uh we are stopping here we are trying to
go ahead but the situation here is
extremely grim at this point of time
there are there is a twin pronged attack
that's happening on keefe even as we
speak one from airpin and the second
here from bravery side
here certain tanks have been destroyed
of the russian army it is being said
that a russian regimental commander has
also been killed the battle is intense
you can hear shelling in the backdrop
here some of these forces are coming
back we are trying to get more details
about the operations that are taking
place um
no vehicle is permitted beyond this
point because there's shelling going on
beyond this point um here in kiev but
the twin pronged attack on key now is
extremely significant because the
russians are now closing in with talks
having failed between ukraine and russia
in turkey the situation
taking a turn for the worse virtually
every second by the second with
cameraman pawan kumar in kiev ukraine
gaurav 7th for india today
meanwhile unprecedented sanctions
against russian banks over its invasion
of ukraine are taking a toll on citizens
overseas russian citizens have now been
left scrambling to find cash or even
turn to crypto transactions only to get
passed away from destruction and death
in ukraine russians too are now feeling
the heat of war from all sides let's
have a look at this detailed report
when constantine ivanov tried to
withdraw money from his russian bank
account at a cash machine in bali he
quickly realized the transaction was
blocked the 27 year old is one of the
russians abroad feeling the squeeze from
economic sanctions despite living far
away from home
at a
this has created a huge problem for us
basically going to shops to buy products
to pay at the markets paying for staying
at hotels villas or guest houses we have
been left completely stripped of our
finances
it's like they have been completely
frozen and we cannot use our finances at
all over here
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bali is a popular holiday destination
with russian tourists more than 1100
entered indonesia in january according
to data from the statistics bureau
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rivki
is a cafe manager he says there's been a
decline in russian customers in recent
days and many now pay with cash instead
of credit card mastercard and visa have
suspended services in russia and many of
the country's banks have been shut out
of international payment systems now
some russians have sought to open bank
accounts in indonesia like ruslan he
says the russian community is banding
together to help each other out
i have a local bank account and i will
help my friends as they help me too with
their money
i will send my money to their bank and
so we russians will help each other as
we are now the only ones left
despite the financial troubles
constantine is hopeful for a peaceful
resolution to the conflict
i think ordinary russian people are very
disappointed with the recent events and
developments
absolutely no one needs a war
people of our country do not need a war
and neither do the people of ukraine
nobody wanted this war we are really
worried nobody wants war we all need
peace
now as the united states has banned
russian oil imports oil prices have now
gone up dramatically and supply has also
taken a massive hit britain has claimed
that it will phase the russian oil out
by the end of this year here's the
detailed report
oil prices headed higher again on
wednesday that after the u.s moved to
ban russian imports
international benchmark brent crude hit
highs above 130 dollars per barrel in
early european trade
the uk also said it would phase out
russian imports by the end of the year
but it could be a different story for
the eu
robert yoga is an energy futures
strategist at mizuho
here in the united states i mean we
we've imported 200 000 barrels a day so
we can definitely exist without that
it's a spit in the bucket the eurozone
we're talking percentage points double
digits so it's a totally different game
european stock markets meanwhile saw a
sharp rebound in early trade the
regional stock 600 index rose around 3
percent from the open hard-hit banks
travel stocks and automakers all jumped
four percent or more
investors picked up shares hammered by
the recent market sell-off but one
analyst told reuters there was little
sign of a change in sentiment earlier in
asia stocks fell again with the shanghai
composite index down more than one
percent
but the big falls of previous days were
avoided one trader said markets had
russia fatigue with all the bad news now
priced in
now in what seems to be another betrayal
for zilinski and ukraine us has now
rejected poland's proposal to send
fighter jets to ukraine wire nato base
in germany poland wanted to send jets to
germany and put the onus on the united
states to deploy them but here's what
happened
over two weeks of relentless attacks by
russia
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multiple ukrainian appeals to nato for
help
mt promises for ukraine
we're in this together we will succeed
together ukraine is going to prevail
but zilensky is all alone in this war
and now the west has pulled a new stunt
over hapless kiev over sending fighter
jets to take out advancing russian army
nato member poland did a symbolic offer
to send mig-29s to support ukraine's air
defense but with a massive catch
warso said it will merely send its jets
to nato air base in germany's ramstein
putting the owners on the u.s to send
the jets to ukraine
the proposal faced a categorical
rejection pentagon wary of getting drawn
into the war called the offer untenable
adding that deploying jets from nato
base to ukrainian airspace will be an
act of direct conflict and raise serious
concerns for the entire military
alliance
there's already a sense of betrayal in
ukraine right now now they're playing
chinese checkers with their jets as part
of the nato alliance but not actually
substantively sending any forces into
into ukraine it is understandable why
they don't want to do that but these
little moves between poland and germany
and nato and the us just shows that
there is no plan in place
this essentially means zilenski and
ukraine are left to fend for themselves
against putin's army with no help
forthcoming from the west
they are attacking civilians and attacks
against civilians cannot be left
unresponded for too long that is why i
expect the governments of the nato
countries yes to be reacting uh in the
nearest future
this is not the first time zelensky is
facing betrayal from the west a week ago
nato rejected zylenski's fervent appeal
to enforce a no-fly zone on ukraine's
skies
today the leadership of the alliance
gave the green light for further bombing
of ukrainian cities and villages having
refused to set up a no-fly zone
could the nato and west avert the
massive human suffering and
unprecedented destruction of ukraine are
they simply wilted in the face of
putin's unprecedented show of strength
bureau report india today
now the capital city of kiev is bracing
for a final attack by russia tanks and
armored personnel carriers have been
deployed at key strategic locations in
fact michael gaurav sawant who is right
there in the ukrainian capital spoke to
soldiers preparing for an imminent
russian strike let's take a look
[Applause]
russia is at the gates of kiev
the ukrainian capital readying for an
imminent russian attack
the defenders have deployed tanks and
armored personnel carriers at key
strategic locations to take on the
invaders
ukrainian soldiers in an exclusive
interview to india today revealed that a
few russian forces are already in the
capital city
how close are the russian forces to keep
right now
uh the russian forces they are in kiev
right now yesterday
our friends they saw
them in the forest eight eight uh
russian soldiers they already in kiev
soldiers yes yes yes yes
ukrainian troops say that after smashing
kiev suburbs russian forces are
advancing from all directions
preparing for an all-out assault
we are expecting enemies from
some parts yeah and so of course they
would like to make a circle a round key
but so we are ready to meet him and so
our military forces they are very nice
in
protecting now really believed that they
will be met by our people with flowers
but they we meet them
with bullets only
even as the war rages on the ground
moscow is bringing the heat down
diplomatically
vladimir putin's administration has said
kremlin is not trying to overthrow the
ukraine government
now ukrainian president vladimir
zelinsky too made a climb down
zelinski says he is no longer pressing
for nato membership
which is the biggest provocation for the
russian invasion
in another statement aimed at placating
moscow
zelensky has said he is open to a
compromise on the status of the two
breakaway pro-russian territories
doneesk and luansk
the climb down comes ahead of talks
between russia and ukraine in turkey on
thursday
this appears to be
new lines being dug new front lines here
in this battle for the defense of kids
so far these this war this conflict was
being fought in in bucharest on the
outskirts but now it appears that the
battle is coming much closer if talks do
not succeed
to bring peace to bring about a
negotiated settlement then russia's big
assault on cave could begin
and this could happen as early as the
next 24 to 48 hours with cameraman pawan
kumar in cave ukraine god of 7th for
india today
all right now let's take you through
this exclusive ground report that's been
filed by god of savant who's on ground
in ukraine from the mother of ukraine
memorial let's have a look
talks between russia and ukraine remain
inconclusive no results so far the
anticipation and the apprehension now is
that this would result in escalation of
tension between russia and ukraine we
are here at the mother of ukraine
memorial her big statue that inspires an
entire country and all the soviet-era
weapons and missiles from a mig-21 to a
mig-27 to missiles and tanks including
the t-55
all parked here
these weapons inspire the people of
ukraine there are anti-tank guns there
are mortars that are here at this
memorial the hope in this country is
that peace talks will result in
less blood bloodshed or stopping
bloodshed but that doesn't appear to be
happening the temperature right now
is minus two degrees from the flutter of
the flag you can very easily see that
it's very windy feels like minus five
and in this sub-zero temperature people
are preparing for the siege of ukraine
the siege of cave tension palpable in
the air tension as multiple new
checkpoints have now come up tension is
also visible with new
defenses being prepared
not just
on the outskirts of kiev but now inside
the city air defense equipment
surface-to-air missiles tanks armored
personal carriers
troops are now moving closer to the city
or inside the city to protect
kiev from an imminent russian attack
then that attack could come as early as
tonight or in the next 24 to 48 hours
and there is a reason for this the
reason very clearly is
probe missions being mounted by the
russian army some russian tanks tried to
enter the city they were engaged
according to ukrainian army officers
india today spoke to
some of the commandos spetsnaz commandos
have already infiltrated inside the city
with their weapons and there are reports
of firing that were reported late last
night at one of the checkpoints
the situation remains tense and is
likely to worsen in the hours and days
ahead with cameraman pawan kumar in cave
ukraine god of 7th for india today
now india today's foreign affairs editor
geeta mohan brings us this exclusive
report from the bomb shelter in kiev now
due to security reasons there has been
no light inside that bunker but here's
what we could manage let's have a look
russian soldiers or russians who want to
enter and infiltrate ukraine can speak
the language but can they read it and
that's the reason why they have this
so they have this text as a as a test
and not just this quite a few others in
the documents and uh
genie here will try to explain it to me
uh as to what this really means what why
do you have this text and why do you
really need to
have people come and take the test
so we created this sentence actually if
you translate it it doesn't make sense
but
this text helps us to tell if ukrainian
is here for russian because it's very
difficult for russians to pronounce
those sounds because some of them are
purely ukrainian and
only ukrainian can pronounce it
correctly and you can hear very clearly
if it's ukrainian or russian when you
ask to pronounce this sentence it's a
very very smart technique to ensure that
russians do not infiltrate the shelters
these this is just one test there are
many others they make them read
documents to ensure that only ukrainians
come to the shelter and russians do not
infiltrate they have not entered the
city yet the the city still has still
not been breached by the russians but
staff who have been trained are going to
take no chance
it's dark and for security reasons
lights have not been turned on
they're working under a lamp to register
everybody because now the building
lights will not be turned on only the
lights that are inside which cannot be
visible and surely the lights in the
shelter
now it's been more than two weeks into
russia's invasion on ukraine and amid
the ruthless shelling attacks in
unparalleled human tragedy we see some
signs of hope a young girl there seen
singing a song inside that bunker
[Applause]
um
[Laughter]
let's right now at least cut across uh
to ukraine where yulia is joining us
with alessia only a member of ukraine's
territorial army uh we also have uh
joining us uh mariana with swetlana who
is also a member of ukraine's
territorial army i just want to show you
uh you know pictures of both
all of them together with their arms uh
you know it's one of the coolest images
i would reckon that uh you would see uh
as this war on suez
julia
would you talk to us a bit about your
weapon and uh are you prepared right now
to fight it out when your country asks
of you
two weeks ago we
weren't ready
for this and we didn't know how to use a
weapon but
this time we are
learning how to do that and if we
will need to use
our gun we can do it right now
julia will you take us through your
training and can you tell our viewers
who don't know much about you where were
you exactly two weeks before where this
war started what was your understanding
of war of weapons and how has it changed
two weeks from then
uh two weeks two weeks ago i was a
teacher at a school and i
um
have never
took taken
weapon in my hand
and
these two weeks was really terrible it's
like a
nightmare
um
but now we are in another reality and
and now we
we know how to use our gun we prepared
two big fights for the kiev
julia you know you were what were you
teaching
you said you were a teacher what were
your teeth yes i'm a teacher of
ukrainian language and literature
ukrainian language and literature and
who were you teaching what was your age
group of the kids that you were teaching
uh from 10 to 16 years
10 to 16 years julia i i'm sure it's
it's deeply personal but what was your
reason and i'm sure it's this great love
for your country and the freedom of your
country that made you take to arms but
what went through in the mind of a
teacher who decided that she's not going
to flee she's not going to leave the
country she's not going to go to poland
but she's going to stick in ukraine and
she's going to pick up the gun
yes because i can't stay at home right
now and i want to be
i wanted to help my army my
uh
my land my city and i
try to do everything as i can
and
i don't want that my students my family
don't know what is freedom and i don't
want that live in a country like russia
that's why i
took gun in my hand i'm really scared we
all really scared but we know that's the
only way for us
only one way for us you know uh julia
stay with me i'm gonna come right back
to you i'm gonna ask you about your
training process but i want to cut
across to mariana she's also with you
right now mariana can you hear me
yes
all right uh can we see you mariana in
the frame
can we see you can you raise your hand
for us
great hi hi hi mariana hi uh yeah
mariana can you tell us you know it's
it's fascinating you know um to see all
of you women and i think it's a it's a
great privilege uh to be able to
interview all of you women because uh
julia just told us she was a teacher
would you tell us your story two weeks
ago who was mariana who has a gun in her
hand today
uh
you are a journalist
yes yes i'm jones we made mariana pick
up the gun to fight for ukraine
i decided
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i
made you to protect our muslims
i saw that the war
right started
idea
i couldn't uh stay at my phone
you couldn't stay at home you had to
pick up the gun uh julia you know um
because i know language is a barrier
there are many of these young women
behind you
will you
help us understand who they are what was
their story uh you know we see three
young women behind you we know you were
a teacher we know maria was a journalist
what about the others can you tell us
their story yeah
it's less she was a photographer
and it's william she was a
fighter
fighter and musician
and this is svetlana she
she's murky tallock
and um
we
never
knew how to
use the gun in our previous our previous
life
well you know i'm sure you know a writer
a musician a teacher a journalist uh you
know it's uh
i i'd you know one can only salute your
spirit all of you i want to ask you
julia for all of you who've come from
very different backgrounds never thought
you would ever take the gun but i want
to ask you what has been the training
process have you been trained in actual
warfare now are you a trained soldier
uh i'm not sure that we are really
soldier right now because we had
two weeks and uh it's too
early it's not too it's not enough to
prepare to the wire and
learn how to use the gun but every day
we had we had to train we
trained to
shoot we trained to
have different pose how to shoot and
it's a bit at this moment that's all but
um
i hope we will have enough time in the
future to
uh to learn more about that
okay i i understand um i can i can i can
try to translate something from
great from alexa's story will you ask
her julia what was her reason that she
decided not to leave like many other
women in your country but to stay behind
who can do it if it's not would we
well that's a that's a very very strong
statement who can do it if not you
well you know and it's very very
touching julia i want to ask you because
so much is said about you know women uh
especially at the time of war
but you girls you women chose to stay
right back in ukraine i want to ask you
how difficult was it to leave your
families do most of you have children
some of us has
children i
don't have children but i have a big
family my
parents sisters and say
in another place now it's i hope
safe place
but
for all of us it was really
difficult choice
but we want to protect our families
and we don't want to
we don't want that
see what is war
we want to protect them
are your families and you know it's uh
if i can say it's a very stupid question
to ask but i'm going to ask it anyway uh
are your families very worried about you
are they talking to you are they asking
you to come join
them yes of course first time they
told me that i should be with their safe
place at home but
now they understand why i'm here
and
i know that it's really difficult and
hard for them for me
but
but who
who can
be there
if it's
what wasn't
we where aren't we
you know i think uh if i have to take
one line from this conversation is who
else if not uh we uh you know because so
many of us will always look at somebody
else it's uh it's amazing that you all
of you very very brave women have looked
at yourselves can you ask your
companions how was it leaving their
children how is it it leaving their
family members because the uncertainty
of war is so strong you know you never
know what happens
is
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we here to protect them and that's why
we're here we want to protect them from
the war from the russia from the protein
and that's why we're here
the first day when
was started we go to the
uh
military base to the military base and
we
didn't know that we couldn't back
at home at that day and
alessa has birds
and she was really scared about them and
in a few days we can put them to the our
military base and now that they
at the safe place in our friend's home
well you know you must tell alessia that
you know we
i we salute her spirit to leave your
young children to salute your spirit
julia and all of your companions who've
left your families and you've come here
you know to fight for your country
are you it's are you going to be now
facing the enemy or are you waiting
right now is it possible that any time
you would be deployed in action
i'm here to
to fight
to the last meters of our land
and if i
need maybe
kill kill someone i'm not sure that i
can do that but i hope and
i really want to
came back to our
our previous life our our
safe life
but i will be here to the
last stage the last minute
uh
to the to the that time where ukrainian
was will free and
without
any russian soldiers at our land
have all of you i'm sure at least that
you know that training would have been
given to you imparted to you but have
all of you now understood learned how to
fire your weapons
yes
at this moment we know how to use our
weapons
can i ask you you know with your
permission can we we had to
learn that you had to learn that can i
ask you with your permission very
quickly
can you show us your weapons
yes first
our weapons
can you tell me each one of you what
your weapons you know i love the smiles
we i
it's it gives us a lot of heart back
here to watch you know all of you
smiling with your weapons what's your
weapon julia
uh what what his weapon is a car 74 and
that's my
nickname
oh you've got a nickname what's your
nickname julia
mike what does it mean can you tell us
it's from yeah it's from cartoon
chippendale
[Laughter]
so it's from chippendale right
yeah it's a red girl
ukrainian it sounds like hi
can you tell us all the nicknames of
your other colleagues
yes it's fatima
struna
iloruska
all the time because of pandemia
and that's why she's fatima
she's the only person
it's a big building state in damascus
all right okay uh you know i'm gonna i'm
gonna let you girls go and you women go
but i'm gonna ask you julia what is your
message
because you know you you wear the
bravery so easily all of you uh you know
you're talking about fighting for your
country not many do what you're doing uh
it's it's abject bravery it takes all
heart to do what you're doing and you
know what i am witnessing as a
journalist right here on the other side
is how easily you girls and your women
are wearing uh you know this abject you
know bravery the strength that you have
i want to ask you what's your message to
the world right now to those who are
watching you julia go first and you can
ask your uh you know your friends later
um at this moment we
we need help from all the world you need
say to the russia to the putin to stop
because
now they're at the our land and
today it can be another country and we
we have a lot of pain just now because
russian soldiers killed a lot of
children in ukraine a lot of
other people they ruined our buildings
our house our homes and
world please
don't think that
uh putin will stop in the ukraine you
can be the next one that's why go to the
your streets uh outside and say to the
russia stop we need your help and at
this moment we need
money because
a lot of our soldiers didn't have
what to wear they didn't have uniform
and if you can't help us with it we will
be very appreciative
where you can help us with it you know
we'd like to get that link sent to the
other world please don't
be silent you should to say to the putin
to the russian soldiers say we don't
want to see there at our land at your
land
please don't be silent
before i let you women go i'm going to
ask you once again you know because this
is a short uh
you know which gives a lot of strength
to a lot of people who are watching you
in your country and even outside uh to
see the kind uh you know this kind of
visual i'm going to let you go but i
want to see your weapons once again and
i want to see you all smiling and i wish
you strength i wish you fortitude and i
wish you so so much luck may god be with
you and i really really pray and hope
that i'm able to talk to each one of you
again when this war is over and it will
be over
can i see your weapons once again as
you know
thank you for doing thank you for doing
this for us and i am sure your country
is so so so proud and and and i'll speak
to you all four of you again i will
speak to all four of you again may god
be with you lots of strength lots of
luck thank you
is now putin's arch enemy
global hero in a t-shirt
this man is putin's target
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the ukrainian president now a worldwide
icon
zelensky
the full story
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in times of aggression
in times of brutal war
particularly when the field is lopsided
the distinction between pushover and
spirited defense often depends
on one rallying force of unification
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it could be an idea
it could be a sentiment
a desperation
or more times than none
the force which steals a line of panicky
defenders
is but an individual's rise to the
occasion
a wartime leader that the conflict
itself
creates a hitherto unrealized force
that stands resolute in the face of odds
leading by example
jolting the spirit of compatriots to
steady their
holding the line against immense odds
history is proof that such leaders rise
to the occasion
and in ukraine the defense has studied
behind their wartime leader
one time comic
president vladimir zelinsky
an unlikely hero who has fired the
imagination
of a nation under siege
putting all speculations to rest
vladimir zelensky declared that he's
very much in key russia had claimed that
he had fled to poland but not only did
zielenski share his location he also
dared russia saying that he is not
afraid
he knows he's putin's target number one
he knows his country can't match up to
russia's overwhelming military might but
ukrainian president vladimir zelinsky
remains an image of valor of defiance
and fighting spirit
steadfastly refusing to turn his back on
his bruised battered and bleeding
ukraine
in an open dare to putin's army
zielenski released a video giving out
his exact location
saying he stays right there in cave and
not in hiding
showing the images from the lane outside
his residence in this video message
is
every time the russians claim that
zelinski has fled the country fearing
for his life zelinski has released a new
video shattering the russian claims
and never mincing his words while
slamming nato for letting down ukraine
and the united states for rejecting a
no-fly zone
even turning the combat fatigue helmet
and joining the ukrainian troops in the
front line
thousands of ukrainians have sent their
families away to safety and stayed back
to fight alongside president zelinski
supporting zielenski in every step is
the first lady of ukraine olena zeledska
a vocal advocate of social courses
orlando through social media has
continued to inspire and continue to
provide comfort to ukrainians
the big question remains how long the
president and all his loyal men
withstand the might of approaching
russian invasion army bureau report
india today
war rages on as invaders try to capture
cave their single objective is to
overthrow the man who has rallied the
entire nation against russia president
vladimir zelinsky has become a household
name
the puny david against the goliath
russian forces and his audience today is
the world
he has become one of the voices of
freedom of sovereignty and of
territorial integrity
premier
his is the voice of defiance
a call from the heart that has gone out
and firmed the defense of ukraine
against the forces of invasion
i'm here to protect my wife my family
myself my country from the russian
invasion
we will fight for our land and we will
kill our whole russians if
somebody give me a weapon
i will fight i'm not afraid
vladimir zelinski the president of
ukraine had everything wrong about being
a wartime leader of a nation invaded
he's from jewish stock
in eastern europe with its history of
anti-semitism
his family spoke russian he grew up
speaking the language of the invader he
happened to be a comic by profession
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in 2019 the comic actor decided to run
for presidency
and people took that as a joke
he called this party the servant of the
people party
the outcome was comic relief
vladimir zelinski won 73 of the wards
and promised to bring peace to the rest
restive eastern regions of luhansk and
donetsk
what came was war
not with russia
but with his russian namesake vladimir
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you're sure
i appeal to the servicemen of ukrainian
armed forces
don't let neo-nazis and vendorites use
your children your wives and old people
as human shields
take power into your own hands
it seems that it will be easier for us
to come to terms with you than with this
gang of drug addicts and neo-nazis who
settled in kiev and took all ukrainian
people hostage
vladimir zelinski was born in 1978
into a russian-speaking jewish family of
the then soviet socialist republic of
ukraine
his father was a professor of
mathematics and his mother had studied
engineering
the town of his birth kvd
stands next to babiyar where 33
771 jews were shot and thrown into a
ravine over the course of two days in
1941
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zelinski studied law and earned a degree
in it only to found a tv entertainment
company
zielinski found success in his
vaudeville act
he and a few friends created a comedy
troupe that became a famous act not just
in ukraine as well as other
russian-speaking regions of a
post-soviet world
the prism through which vladimir
zielinski viewed the world changed when
vladimir putin invaded the land of his
birth in 2014
that was what made him take his first
political step
he donated a fortune to arm the then
weak army of ukraine
he chose his side when he relocated his
production company to kiev
and began to fully master the ukrainian
language
something that was to be a big help when
he played the most successful comic role
of his life
in the tv series servant of the people
zielinski plays a school history teacher
whose rant against the rampant
corruption in government gets recorded
without his knowledge by a student and
is posted on social media
the video goes viral and without even
wanting the job the teacher gets elected
president of ukraine
and then through set pieces bumbles his
way to become a heroic leader of his
country
on 20th of may 2019 facts overtook
fiction
when the 41 year old vladimir zelinski
took the oath of the highest office in
ukraine
and when the new president had to make
his inaugural address he said it wasn't
just me who took the oath
he said each of us
put a hand on the constitution and each
of us has sworn loyalty to ukraine
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it was an oath of loyalty that the
unlikely politician would prove himself
worthy of in the conflicts to come
despite the fact that entertainers
entering politics are viewed if not with
suspicion but certainly with skepticism
yes
president vladimir zelinski of ukraine
is believed to be number one on vladimir
putin's hit list western intelligence
agencies have claimed this and zelinski
himself has acknowledged it
he says his family is second on the list
but that he and they will remain in
ukraine
he categorically turned down a us offer
of evacuation instead he asked for arms
nobody will force us ukrainians to give
away our freedom our independence our
sovereignty
but it looks like the russian
uh leadership is trying to
uh
to do it just by the way of
destroying their own country
to prove that he is still there and not
running away the president of ukraine
has been regularly posting self-taken
videos in front of the very recognizable
presidential palace
telling the people of ukraine that he is
living up to his promise
even
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the president of ukraine is playing the
role of a lifetime he has already given
a performance that has made him a hit
across the world
this unlikely wartime leader of his
country has won the hearts and minds of
people around the world
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his actions has more than established
the contrast with his nemesis
with whom he shares a first name the
meaning of which ironically means ruler
of the world
when vladimir putin ordered his troops
to invade ukraine he possibly made one
miscalculation
he had not accounted for the stellar
performance that his opponent was
capable of giving
a role that has touched the heartstrings
of audiences across the globe
whatever be the outcome of this war in
ukraine history will record zelinski as
the hero in shining arbor
white putin has already joined the ranks
of all time world villains like hitler
and staggered
when the worlds a stage and everyone is
put an actor in it
there is no doubting that vladimir
zelinski of ukraine stands at the edge
of that stage
where life needs performance
and only truth
shines forth
just hours before russia invaded ukraine
vladimir zelinski made an appeal to the
people of russia
made on the morning of 24 february he
reached out to the people of russia and
that speech will be remembered as one of
the most heartfelt speeches of
any leader ever made
he spoke to the people of russia
reminding them of humanity talking about
the aggressor russia and saying that
both russians and ukrainians are being
led down a path to hell
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