Much needed energy supplies, we heard from local, struggling to cope with the prices are only able to give our children now once a day. The counting and gab basic financing for children with broadcasting live direct, more studios in moscow. This is our to international, and john thomas certainly glad to have you with us. Now we start with the latest updates in the war in ukraine, as incoming artillery fire is reported in russias course region in year. The ukrainian border, a massive blaze, reportedly from the showing a has been captured in video posted on social media in the border area. Has it been experiencing incoming fire for weeks . Now . The region is governor. Has said that the Russian Military have you been advanced in nearby and ukraines neighboring to me reaching a. This footage was released by the mayor of the city of got all of the done yet School Public showing what local officials have described as artillery, showing by cubes, forces on a residential neighborhood. Several houses and a cafe were reported damaged. There was no immediate information about casualties. Meanwhile, russian back forces have continued to make advances in the dynamic republic moving towards key strongholds of ukrainian troops located in the front line cities of sever, scanned of cham, oscar r, t. R. Big correspondent, reports on the ground was laquata with allied forces continue to advance in the direction of savage. Solid are our kill musk there. Ukrainian troops have significantly strengthened their positions. Now the fighting is heading in this direction and the allied forces managed to break the defensive lines of the nationalist battalions and foreign mercenaries. There they will be able to move deep into ukraine in hell territory and continued the military operation to protect don bass. The place where we arrived, his being shelled from 3 sides, roger herself that her we continue our offensive in the direction of solid are bankruptcy and beyond. The enemy resists, using all possible means from artillery to large caliber weapons. You can now hear how the suppression of enemy artillery points has been carried out. The loo, ganske peoples militia, which is moving in this direction, has confirmed the seizure of ne to weapons as trophies and villages and towns abandoned by the ukrainian troops. Newtonian credit posted molina, but who knows what this is their lasting 3rd line of defense. It is always the most fortified, therefore, they use all types of weapons here, russian intelligence reports that extremists and mercenaries are concentrated in residential buildings. This fact, as well as the objective to save the lives of civilians is hindering the progress of the allied troops to some extent. Sargon had i, r t, daniel peoples republic. And in the lugens republic, local authorities, se ukrainian troops have been targeting the city of its the hon. Off using it to you as supplied high mars rocket systems. No casualties have been reported so far elsewhere in the gl ganske republic. Heavy fighting for the city of lucy, chance Russian Forces have been tasked with restoring order in the city. Martin with our guardian hasnt visited the area and observed the russian patrols there even when the fighting n and the blood cease, chaos can still thrive at feeds on uncertainty on fear, on lawlessness. And it can be difficult to stomp out here, at least a chance piece settled slowly. It is difficult work with no police force to speak of. It is up to volunteers and soldiers who establish order is patrol is doing just that. This is a hard time for locals, for weeks they hidden basements and expected the worst political. The worst did not happen, that they are still coming out of shock with them. I didnt show the liquidity when we were told to evacuated that. But where would we go . This is my homeland where surviving and we have hope that peace will return and therell be work with the open shops, pension salaries. We probably, we hope that young people would have a reason to study in work layer. This is john sc may be recovering, but it has some ways to go yet. Bear in mind, i reported 15000 ukranian troops was stationed here. They fled in a matter of days. Most of them. Yes, with control that we will we the now calling for back up most of hostile potential, hostile in an Apartment Building and he just took a short police patrol. The problem is that many ukrainian soldiers who deserted, who were left behind were who were left behind, have now changed into civilian clothes and to hides in the apartments that they have broken into obama. When you, who do i get off of them. But im done with weaver, now been us to leave all rather escorted away from the area. The display of special operation on the way reinforcements of a rob. Theyre going to sweep the building a high, high rise 9th floor Apartment Building floor by floor apartment by apartment in order to catch this person who fulfilled a 3rd day that has been taking what shots i would truly truth. Every day, more ukrainian desert is and stragglers found some come in peacefully, others play, hide and seek. Why did you decide to change it to civilian clothes and abandon yamil to re units . Also, there was no sense in going anywhere. Its either a bulletin. It had or a criminal charge. Im a local so i decided to stay there. So you felt it was futile to continue to fight us. Indeed, we were constantly retreating. Where should we go to next . To europe, for michelle, why didnt you try to leave the army earlier if it were so if we left would be shot by our own forces, whatever you captured ukrainian, so has confirmed is that morale amongst their forces was disastrous. The crating, the food was felt abandoned, but they felt like cabin fog and they didnt like it all knew that. We were to look up to the maria and my unit was very low as we were constantly retreating and didnt have enough ammunition. The commander state far from the front and came out only to pillage. I saw that personally while i was in the city or this man was captured by soldiers of the atomic was once exclusively made up of chechnya. And now it accepts any who want to join regardless of ethnicity. That job here is law enforcement. With all that, it entails what you want to hold on for a one focused on foolish alone with not of course you just, you know, put a medicine i didnt know what component of from previous and over you know, with every day the citys commandant tells us chaos and lawlessness. Rashid like order strengthens but there is a long way to go. Yet it is one thing to when the violence and the crime and the looting entirely another can be a public that they will to come back with her before i guys d. A r t family she chance lugens peoples republic. While he was government persists with its demands for increasingly more supplies of western made weaponry. Major u. S. Defense manufacturer has sounded the alarm that the available stockpiles were not meant to provide for a lengthy war. The ceo of Northrop Grumman says the government needs to be clear about exactly how much weaponry it needs. The most important thing now is to get a clear demand signal on what the sustained commitment is. And the level of draw down from those stockpiles is going to be i wouldnt necessarily say that ive heard were running out. But if you do project forward that were going to want to sustain these levels of commitments for another couple of years. Thats certainly not what anyone has built stockpiles to accommodate the Company Makes bushmaster artillery, guns and ammunition that america has supplied to cubes forces. But the American Defense industry has been struggling to source critical components due to constraints in the Global Supply chains. The u. S. Government has committed to provide far more weaponry for the ukranian efforts than any other country. The u. S. Has already provided more than 6000000000. 00 of military aid to ukraine. Meanwhile, Poland Defense minister has announced the purchase of more than 100 used tanks from the u. S. As poland reinforces its own military, while sending masses of arms supplies to neighboring ukraine. That says poland has been seeing its own army liking some key weaponry from on this we can cross live to michael maloof, who formerly served as a senior us Security Policy analyst in the pentagon. Michael was helping me break this down. If you dont mind, the Us Administration has already told out about 6000000000. 00 of military aid to ukraine, since the conflict corrupted in february, what can you say about the concerns . The u. S. Weapons stockpiles might actually be running low. Well, let me, let me correct on one thing its, its going to be upwards over 60000000000. That they, that theyre going to be supply and, and what the u. S. Manufacturers are experiencing is just what the Northrop Grumman, c. E o pointed out that they have some stocks stuck piles, but they dont have endless stockpiles. And i think that, that, thats why theres an appeal or the, the Biden Administration that come to, to, to clarify just what is the policy biden has said that he intends to keep on going to the end, whatever that means and, and us stockpiles are limited. The, not the ability of manufacturers to make this equipment is also running into issues, namely the, the, the, the supply chain issue. But also a lot of these, a lot of the Equipment Technology requires micro chips and what have you. And those are very difficult to get a hold of right now. So theres, theres also that aspect of it that, that creates a problem in their, their project team. Manufacturers are for the equipment that ukraine would need our project in. Its going to take maybe a few years to be able to adequately supply and backfill, not only backfill, but also whenever a country such as poland and the other nato countries provide military equipment. The u. S. Is expected to backfill just like theyre trying to do right now with those used abram tanks to poland. Well, to what extent do we have surplus and thats and that surplus is beginning to dwindle. And a lot of the equipment has been used. Its already seen war, so it long jeopardy is going to be questionable. Now youve brought a good point there about the supply chain issues. Nothing happens in a vacuum. The same supply chains that civilians use the contractors have to use as well. So these challenges have been impacting the u. S. Defense industry with shortages of electronic parts, as you mentioned, such as cables, connectors and power supplies. Could nato countries not be able to fulfill their promises to supply weaponry to ukraine over time because of this big problem . Yeah, i think i think its just a matter of months because they would have to gin up their, their own industries and theyre not doing that. And the, relying upon the United States to be the primary supplier and u. S. Isnt ready for a, a war of this magnitude look what happened in afghanistan. We left 83000000000. 00 worth of equipment. We just left it to them and then, and then deserted the and then deserted afghanistan. And its so theres 83000000000. 00 that of equipment the telephone would be happy to set up to 2 people. But, but again, this is, this is the other problem. The equip lot of the equipment goes that is being supplied is not not tracked. So no, no, no one knows where this equipment goes. Once it gets into ukraine, a lot of its been destroyed. But a lot of it to is going on black market. So this is, this is another terrible problem thats, thats resulting from this course. Its no secret that the u. S. Wants to weaken russia. In fact, the defense secretary said he wants to see russia weekend by the conflict. Do you think that you can change if the us actually starts struggling more to provide weapons to fuel the war . I dont think its gonna last much longer. I think the American People are getting fed up with it. They, they, theres the, by the ministration has not clarified what the National Security imperative of ukraine is for the United States. They didnt have this issue with russia before and at all, it all began as a hoax by the biden crowd. And hillary clinton, clinton declaring that russia was in collusion with trump. And they had to and it was proven to be untrue. And for the election of 2016, and now they have to live with this hoax. And now they want to have a real war over it. And youre right, they want to ultimately contain russia. If not change the, the, the, the government there. Ive heard talk of wanting to partition russia similar to what, what biden has outlined for syria in recent years. So this is, i mean the, by the ministration is just not in touch with reality, and its creating more problems. And now theyre having to live with their decisions and theyre coming up short. And the allies are beginning to see that. Wow, interesting thoughts, theyre now weird question here. Do you think that middle countries, i mean, its kind of a popery, if you will. Right now, some people agreeing with each other, not agreeing with each other. Turkey kind of on the outside. But do you think the nato countries actually have enough oversight over the weapons that they are sending to ukraine . No, absolutely not. Not even the United States. They dont know where its going, i dont think they care once it gets in there. But although, because theyre hoping and relying upon the United States to, to resupply and i dont see that happening. And over next, over a long period of time, maybe over the short term, certainly not with a long term unless the United States invokes the defense production act and turns the Ford Motor Company into reproducing tank. Some things like that, like they did, world war 2. It would take that magnitude of, of production to, to meet and to meet the needs as it is. Ukraine is spending over a 1000000000. 00 a week, i think, and, and equipment and what have you. And now the United States has been called upon to pay for their pay for the, the, the pay of the, of the troops. And its just, its endless. And its in the United States, and we have so many, many resources. And thats, thats aside from the equipment itself. I mean, its, its, and the congress, i think, in the American People certainly are waking up to this reality that there are other issues where america right now. And thats what, by the ministration should be focusing on. And its not now briefly were out of time, id like to go on and talk to you a little bit more about this, but weve got a move on micro maloof, former senior u. S. Security policy policy analyst at the pentagon. Thanks for being with us here. On our International Thanks so much. Bye bye. The sri lanka has been in turmoil over shortages of fuel and other essential goods such as food and medicine with persistent mass protests pushing the president to resign and flee the country. Now the south asian republics government is intox to purchase much needed fuel supplies from russia. Party correspondent runjun sharma, reports a shortage of fuel in a bankrupt country has led to prices of all commodities including rice, wheat, fruits and vegetables. Going to the roof with inflation at more than 50 percent. The prices are burning a hole in the pockets of she lumpkins. Ordinarily this market would be buzzing with people at this hour. But now with the prices of basics going up drastically, things have changed. Something like a banana, see, for example, is also become a luxury for many, its very expensive, some bad people months and will be dont consume brooks like gooseberries be just get their st. Joseph people, debris, read money. This is robin. The beans are not normally at the moment. The island nation is running out to foreign currency deserves to import essential items and its impact is hitting hard look with the now counting on the changing Political Landscape of the country to reshape their economic future. Despite got away roger buck shells, resignation, protest continue, and sri lanka. Its d 100 and the crowd chance have gone from. Got a go back to run and go back. Why are people still your work and not at home . You me ask. Not far from the demonstrations is better sons lean in while or what day in these small alleys. We stop by our house. Its around 7 in the evening. And regina has just started making dinner. She has to feed a family of freaks, including her 2 children. With no gas, she was as kerosene to cook. Her, she is just about finished cooking and as been a bubble, got she, her family are going to eat the meal. Incomplete darkness, just like more states, the power wont come back for the next 5 hours or so. Although the cuts have gotten better from a month ago, but its still a daily affair. By dwelling on godaddy was her only able to give all children. Now, once again, 3 times previously, smiths powder is now too expensive. Well try to feed our children 3 times a day. We can barely manage to do more than once or twice. We counted and gab basics, madsen phone, children. There are no on to by ot, except local pharmacy or even at hospitals reach any story does not just her story. It is the story of many of the 22000000 people in the concrete. And unlike the daily cut out, their plight will last much longer than a few hours with no telling when things will improve for engine sharma in colombo, for ocoee to iran has accused us of spreading iran. A phobic sentiment says joe biden wraps up his 1st president ial visit to the middle east. The u. S. Is once more trying to create tensions and crises across the region through relying on the failed policy of iran, a phobia. Your joint Statement Released after by this trip to israel emphasized u. S. Lead efforts to prevent a t, ron from building a nuclear bomb biden has asserted, there could be a possibility of using force against iran as a quote. Last resort in turn to ron has retorted that its the us that was the 1st country to use nuclear weapons. And the u. S. Cells, massive amounts of arms across the middle east, in flaming tensions. 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