ukrainian ships set sail from run -- one ukrainian port to another ukrainian port. they attempted to do so by the only possible way to go, and both russia and ukraine use this straight -- strait routinely. this is no way for a law- abiding and civil nation to act. impeding the lawful transit through the strait is a violation under international law. is an arrogant act that the international community must condemn and will never except. in may, the united states condemned russia's construction and opening of the bridge between russia and occupied crimea. in august, the united states condemned the harassment by russia of international shipping in the sea of azaf and the straight. the united states will continue to stand with the people of ukraine against the russian aggression. it is our expectation that our european partners will lead this effort through the normandy format, which we support. we call on russia to respect its international obligations and not obstruct or harass ukraine's transit in the straight -- strait, and to de- escalate the tension it has created

and became an incubator for leaders of ukrainian citizens. in one thousand nine hundred one one of them new book founded svoboda an openly radical nationalist party preaching the good old principles of bondage era. feel good. just to. please. her jew crane from the jews in russia ukraine for ukrainians and so on his statements got him fifth place in the simon visa center top ten anti-semitic world leader rankings of two thousand and twelve. but also sadly attracted numerous follow ups. dimitri are founded another extreme right organization treason or trident in one thousand nine hundred four. in april two thousand and thirteen became an assistant to a member of parliament from the opposition party who died. later that same year he would become the leader of the most radical ukrainian nazi group the right sector. laundry paro be would soon appear leading a whole army of ultra nationalist warriors. and the torch marches would once again light up the streets of ukrainian cities. with. the world drastically changed in august one thousand nine hun

and became an incubator for leaders of ukrainian citizens. in one thousand nine hundred one one of them new book founded svoboda an openly radical nationalist party preaching the good old principles of bondage era. just to. please. her jew crane from the jews in russia ukraine for ukrainians and so on his statements got him fifth place in the simon visa center top ten anti semitic world leader rankings of two thousand and twelve. but also sadly attracted numerous follow ups. dimitri are founded another extreme right organization treason or trident in one thousand nine hundred four. in april two thousand and thirteen became an assistant to a member of parliament from the opposition party who died. later that same year he would become the leader of the most radical ukrainian nazi group the right sector. andriy paro be would soon appear leading a whole army of ultra nationalist warriors. and the torch marches would once again light up the streets of ukrainian cities. but. the world drastically changed in august one thousand nine hundred ninety o

ukrainian ships set sail from one ukrainian port to another ukrainian port. they attempted to do so by the only possible way to go, through the kirch strait. both russia and ukraine used the strait ue teenly. but this time russia decided to prevent passage of the ukrainian ships, rammed them, and opened fire on them. this is no way for a w-abiding civil advised -- civilized nation to act. this is a violation under international law. it is an arrogant act that the international community must condemn and will never accept. in may the united states condemned russia's construction and opening of the kirch strait bridge between russia and occupied crimea. in august, the united states condemned russia's harassment of international shipping in the sea of azof and the kirch strait. the united states will continue to stand with the people of ukraine against the russian aggression. it is our expectation that our european partners will lead this effort through the normandy four format, which we support. we call on russia to respect its international obligations and not

it's the closest ukrainian city. both of which are now controlled by russian backed separatists since sunday's naval clash with russia ukraine has begun to impose martial law. so you are the country's president petro poroshenko has warned there could be a russian invasion. these tanks have not yet been removed their will there i don't want anybody to think that those are toys the country is under threat of a food scale war with russia. and with russia and ukraine have blamed each other for sunday standoff in the catch strait which links the black sea and the sea of a zone of russian naval officers fired on and seized three ukrainian vessels capturing the crew twelve ukrainians have now been charged with unlawfully entering russia thanks face up to six years in jail but russian president vladimir putin blames the ukrainian president for the standoff claiming it's a move to boost his ratings. it if this is a school it's clearly a product of. a provocation. and i think it was the president himself should head of the pre

ukrainians can not forgive these deaths. can ukraine and its new church now build a country of unity and understanding, oi’ country of unity and understanding, orare country of unity and understanding, or are the scars and divisions just too deep? i m with a priest of the ukrainian 0rthodox church. —— i am. father nikolai is taking me to have a look at the church that was his four decades. and this is your church of almost a0 yea rs ? like many priests kia, father nikolai is part of the moscow patriarch it, a branch of the 0rthodox patriarch it, a branch of the orthodox church with historic ties to russia. and that has turned him into an outcast of his own community, by those who want those ties cut. is this where you raised your children? nikolai's church and home have been taken over i are growing ukrainian 0rthodox church. the kyiv patriarchate. had you see when you —— how do you feel when you see it now? for decades, the kyiv patriarchate has been in the shadow of the more powerful moscow patriarch it. but now

in the russian ship rams the ukrainian boat head on. the incident escalated further a russian tanker blocked a tight underpass between the black sea and the sea of us off a vital trade route for ukraine it was later announced that the russian coastguard had shot at three ukrainian ships the ships were seized by russia with authority saying that boats had illegally entered russian waters but the ukrainian navy says it had announced the ship's transit in advance. in kiev ukrainian president petro poroshenko called on parliament to introduce martial law. this doesn't mean we are declaring war. ukraine is not planning for a war with anyone it is implemented solely to protect ukrainian land our territory territorial integrity and sovereignty of. russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov accused ukraine of deliberate provocation we do the principles of the international law were violated including the united nations charter and other legal instruments that require all states to respect the sovereignty of another state school moscow views the wa

of ukrainian nationalists in german occupied polish. between one nine hundred forty three and one nine hundred forty four this genocide of poles was . thirty five thousand to sixty thousand people. and twenty five to forty thousand eastern. fell victim to this massive ethnic cleansing operation. sensing the inevitable loss of the german troops the organization of ukrainian nationalists. gave up on their former ally and began fighting equally against the germans and the soviet forces. in january nine hundred forty three u.s.s.r. troops started pushing the nazis back liberating one part of ukraine after another . western ukraine was the last ukrainian region held by the germans finally being liberated in october of one nine hundred forty four. bands continue to wage their guerrilla war against the soviet regime carrying out bloody raids on ukrainian villages and towns and leaving behind chaos and casualties. this war went on until the middle of the one nine hundred fifty s. when the last collaborators were either detained or fled the coun

ukrainian ships set sail from one ukrainian port to another ukrainian port. they attempted to do so by the only possible way to go, through the kerch strait. both russia and ukraine used the routinely, but this time russia decided to prevent passage of the ukrainian ships, rams them, and then opened fire on them. this is no way for a law-abiding, civilized nation to act. impeding ukraine's lawful transit through the kerch strait is a violation under international law. it is an arrogant act that the international community must condemn and will never accept. in may, the united states condemned russia's construction and opening of the kerch strait bridge between russia and occupied crimea. the united states condemned russia's harassment of international shipping in the sea of azov, and the kerch strait. continued states will to stand with the people of ukraine against the russian aggression. it is our expectation that our european partners will lead this effort through the normandy four format, which we support. call on russia to respect its international oblig

the question see causing waves of international concern a russian military ship rams into a ukrainian tugboat off the coast of crimea the vessel was later fired at him captured by the russians along with two other ships and dozens of ukrainian seamen several of whom were injured. the united nations security council held an emergency meeting where western countries accused russia of stoking an already deadly war with ukraine. what we witnessed this weekend is yet another reckless russian escalation it is an arrogant act that the international community must condemn and will never accept. in response russia's representative said the ukrainian ship had violated its territorial waters with moscow says the incident was a provocation by ukrainian president petro poroshenko to boost his support and upcoming elections. because of them in kiev publishing co has declared a state of martial law for thirty days but insisted it would not interfere with the looming presidential vote. in brussels nato secretary-general warned russia that its actions would have consequences that is no justification f

the ukrainians sailors being held and the president president putin's accusation that the ukrainian vessels were carrying intelligence agents so they've all now being given two months of an issue of arrest what happens later if they get further sentence we don't know yet i think the legal details less important they have become essentially pawns in a bigger political game in terms of present putin's remarks about those ukraine security agents that's a little disingenuous it's been widely reported in the international press in the ukrainian press that russia's equivalent the f.s.b. has been very active in those cat straits and has been participating in checks and what the ukrainian side call harrison if you crane ship the shipping moving into the hands of sea head even ahead of this weekend's clash so the fact that ukrainians would have to those agents on board at least here seen from kiev doesn't look like anything particularly unusual. meanwhile efforts to solve this diplomatically continue who's doing what and how effective are they being. well it definitely seems like outside help is nee

and ukrainian himself generously gave the crimean region to ukraine. historians would argue about the legitimacy of this transfer for many years to come and sixty years after khrushchev's gift dramatic new events would take place in crimea was around the world are on ukraine as a crisis in crimea continues dozens of heavily armed men seize government buildings in crimea shit you crazy. just shrug your shoulders and say ok crimea is lost and the old arguments would heat up once again. the cold war would heat up and cool down by turns while both rivals were obsessive leave building up military capacity the turning point took place when the new era perestroika came to the u.s.s.r. with its new leader mikhail gorbachev in the middle of the one nine hundred eighty s. . perestroika meant restructuring towards liberalization and democratization it certainly had a positive impact on the international situation astonishing news from east germany by the east german authorities have said that in essence of the berlin wall doesn't mean anything anymore. but inside

ukrainian ships set sail from one ukrainian port to another ukrainian port. they attempted to do so by the only possible way to go, through the kerch strait. both russia and ukraine used the strait routinely. but this time, russia decided to prevent passage of the ukrainian ships, rammed them, and opened fire on them. this is no way for a law-abiding civilized nation to act. impeding ukraine's lawful transit through the kerch strait is a violation under international law. it is an arrogant act that the international community must condemn and will never accept. in may, the united states condemned russia's construction and opening of the kerch strait bridge between russia and occupied crimea. in august, the united states condemned russia's harassment of international shipping in the sea of azov and the kerch strait. the united states will continue to stand with the people of ukraine against the russian aggression. it is our expectation that our european partners will lead this effort through the normandy four format, which we support. we call on russia to resp

ships it has in its custody ukrainian military personnel it blocks ukrainian access to the as all see which ukraine has a coastline on so you know there by agreement russia and ukraine share access to that body of water and ukraine is hoping that it can get as much support as possible from its international friends partners people in the united nations people in. people in the european union to back it up a century on this side against russia chalons for inside story in moscow so what's the background to this latest escalation will occur straight is an important trade route for ukraine as it gives ships access to the port of mali a pole in the sea of as of east of crimea russia's been inspecting all vessels going in and out of ukrainian ports on sunday it blocks the shipping route between the black sea in the sea of as off by placing a tanker beneath a new bridge linking russia with crimea the crimean peninsula was seized in twenty fourteen by russian backed separatists after the overthrow of ukraine's president viktor yushchenko bitch more than ten thousand people died in the fightin

ukrainians can't forgive these deaths. can ukraine and its new church now build a country of unity and understanding, or are the scars and divisions just too deep? i'm with a priest of the ukrainian orthodox church. father nikolai is taking me to steal a look at the church that was his for decades. and this is your church of almost a0 years? like many priests here, father nikolai is part of the moscow patriarchate — a branch of the orthodox church with historic ties to russia. and that has turned him into an outcast in his own community, by those who want those ties cut. is this where you raised your children? nikolai's church and home have been taken over by a growing ukrainian 0rthodox church — the kyiv patriarchate. how do you feel when you see it now? for decades, the kyiv patriarchate has been in the shadow of the more powerful moscow patriarchate. but now it is on the brink of recognition by most of the global 0rthodox community, led by the patriarch of constantinople, breaking over three centuries of spiritual d

ships there and several ukrainians being injured there are three ukrainian vessels that are now basically seized by russia russia said that the ukrainian vessels had been trying and have actually trust trespass into russian territorial waters without their permission to do so so there's a kind of. claim and counterclaim situation going on here which has become very very hostile in the last few hours it's a situation that has actually been brewing for months this has been a very tense area with both countries various points seizing the vessels of the other country there was a ukrainian seized a russian fishing vessel called the north back in march and the russia has done similar things since then so this is think a significant escalation in tensions between russia and ukraine at the moment and the center of it at the moment is the c. of s. over and the coach straits all right to reach islands and moscow really thank you. well russia has increased its military presence in the sea of as of in recent months as rory was saying there's been inspecting all vessels going to or from ukrainian port

ukrainians can't forgive these deaths. can ukraine and its new church now build a country of unity and understanding, or are the scars and divisions just too deep? i'm with a priest of the ukrainian 0rthodox church. father nikolai is taking me to steal a look at the church that was his for decades. and this is your church of almost a0 years? like many priests here, father nikolai is part of the moscow patriarchate, a branch of the orthodox church with historic ties to russia. and that has turned him into an outcast in his own community, by those who want those ties cut. is this where you raised your children? nikolai's church and home have been taken over by a growing ukrainian 0rthodox church— the kyiv patriarchate. how do you feel when you see it now? for decades, the kyiv patriarchate has been in the shadow of the more powerful moscow patriarchate. but now it is on the brink of recognition by most of the global 0rthodox community, led by the patriarch of constantinople, breaking over three centuries of spiritual domin

and ukrainian himself generously gave the crimean region to ukraine. historians would argue about the legitimacy of this transfer for many years to come and sixty years after khrushchev's gift dramatic new events would take place in crimea was around the world are on ukraine as a crisis in crimea continues dozens of heavily armed men seize government buildings in crimea should you crazy. just shrug your shoulders and say ok crimea is lost and the old arguments would heat up once again. the cold war would heat up and cool down by turns while both rivals were obsessive leave building up military capacity the turning point took place when the new era perestroika came to the u.s.s.r. with its new leader mikhail gorbachev in the middle of the one nine hundred eighty s. . perestroika meant restructuring towards liberalization and democratization it certainly had a positive impact on the international situation astonishing news from east germany by the east german authorities have said in essence of the berlin wall doesn't mean anything anymore. but inside th

and ukrainian himself generously gave the crimean region to ukraine. historians would argue about the legitimacy of this transfer for many years to come and sixty years after khrushchev's gift dramatic new events would take place in crimea was around the world are on ukraine as a crisis in crimea continues dozens of heavily armed men seize government buildings in crimea should you crazy. just shrug your shoulders to say ok crimea is lost and the old arguments would heat up once again. the cold war would heat up and cool down by turns while both rivals were obsessive leave building up military capacity the turning point took place when the new era perestroika came to the u.s.s.r. with its new leader mikhail gorbachev in the middle of the one nine hundred eighty s. . perestroika meant restructuring towards liberalization and democratization it certainly had a positive impact on the international situation astonishing news from east germany by the east german authorities have said in essence of the berlin wall doesn't mean anything anymore. but inside the

agents ukrainian intelligence agents they'll be charged. tomorrow i believe but so far what we what we know is what the federal security service said revealed yesterday that aboard the ukrainian flotilla were to counter espionage s.b.u. agents that the f.s.b. believes was directing orchestrating these provocative acts and they believe it was ordered by the highest echelons of ukraine's government would by the very top in order to bring about an environment just the big ation to establish martial law in ukraine just four months before elections making it illegal to protest that criticize the government in giving the government the right to sense that all media outlets nevertheless what happened in kut yesterday was credibly dangerous russia made clear at no point says that they could straighten the crossing between the black sea and the as oxy. exclusive territory this in its territorial waters but according to the u.n. the sequel vention on the law of the sea all shipping international other ships composite through the cut straight so long

personnel were injured or wounded and the ukrainian say six so neither side really disputes that what is happening but it is the interpretation is different in so how do these interpretations play into what kind of escalating conflict there might be in the coming days. well the obviously the both sides accuse the other side the russians have said that the ukrainians unlawfully entered a temporarily closed area of russian territorial sea and they've called this a provocation ukrainians are taking this very seriously indeed they have called this are the prosecutor general has called it an act or is looking into whether this was an act of war aggression and the president has called his security council and there to discussing whether to introduce martial law into the country right now so it's obviously for the ukrainians it's a very serious situation indeed. of course there's a there's a as you know better better than either frozen conflict of sorts in the in eastern ukraine how does this all fit into the larger context where russia is the target of sanctions because it's an extension of

ukrainian navy says russia has seized three of its ships in the black sea after firing on the vessels two boats were damaged and two crew members were wounded in the current straight off the coast of russia controlled crimea ukrainian president petro poroshenko has called an emergency meeting of his military commanders moscow he's accused of provocative behavior. to bring us more on this developing story i'm joined now by our correspondent david stern in the ukrainian capital kiev david just could you take us through what happened off the waters of crimea today. well it's a very quickly escalating situation we've been watching the developments all day after three ukrainian naval vessels try to go to the port of monte you pull on the hours of sea that's ukraine's mean port on the eyes of sea and also clear located close to the conflict zone between ukrainian forces and moscow backed in supplied rebels now they were stopped by russian russian ships one of the ukrainian ships was rammed by a russian ship and then we had heard later in the evening that the that the russians had opened fir

the russian ship rams the ukrainian boat head on. with. the incident escalated further a russian tanker blocked a tight underpass between the black sea and the sea of us of a vital trade route for ukraine it was later announced that the russian coastguard had shot at three ukrainian ships the ships were seized by russia with authorities saying the boats had illegally entered russian waters but the ukrainian navy says it had announced the ship's transit in advance. in kiev ukrainian president petro poroshenko called on parliament to introduce martial law. this doesn't mean we are declaring war. ukraine is not planning for a war with anyone it is implemented solely to protect ukrainian land our territory territorial integrity and sovereignty of. russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov accused ukraine of deliberate provocation we do the principles of the international law were violated including the united nations charter and other legal instruments that require all states to respect the sovereignty of another state school moscow views the wa

coming to you live from berlin a dangerous crisis escalates after russia fires on then seizes three ukrainian ships russia's holding the vessels and the your cranium personnel at the black sea port of couch after claiming they entered waters off crimea illegally the u.n. security council is due to meet today in an emergency session to discuss the clutch also on the program. on her return from brussels british prime minister theresa may faces the mammoth task of persuading u.k. lawmakers to back her breaks a deal she'll tell them it's the only option on the table. and a landing on mars starting today the spacecraft called insight is set to offer just that to two scientists restlessly awaiting its data on the red planet the probe will look beneath the martian surface to explain how the planet for billions of years ago. oh i'm sorry martin welcome to the program the united nations security council has called emergency meeting up to russia fired on and seized three ukrainian ships off the coast of the crimean peninsula two of the ships have been seen more did harm. in catch crimea ukraine ukraine

tugboat that am in the russian ship rams the ukrainian boat head on. with. the incident escalated further a russian tanker blocked the tight underpass between the black sea and the sea of us of a vital trade route for ukraine it was later announced that the russian coastguard had shot at three ukrainian ships the ships were seized by russia with authority saying that boats had illegally entered russian waters but the ukrainian navy says it had announced the ship's transit in advance. in kiev ukrainian president petro poroshenko called on parliament to introduce martial law. for him this doesn't mean we are declaring war. ukraine is not planning for a war with anyone it is implemented solely to protect ukrainian land our territory territorial integrity and sovereignty of. russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov accused ukraine of deliberate provocation. principles of the international law were violated including the united nations charter and other legal instruments that require all states to respect the sovereignty of another state school moscow views

authorities release detained ukrainian sailors but i don't think that will happen soon some of the ukrainians by the way have reportedly been brought to moscow now for the medical treatment russia claims that the visit was a danger provocation by ukraine that's what's what kremlin spokesperson to visit discuss bischoff called of the incident so from the russian point of view ships should have applied for permission to pass through the catch trade moscow says that's not by by not doing so ukraine broke international law and so from the russian point of view they detained sailors are criminals and should be out at least for the time being. david is the main concern for kiev that moscow is trying to belong look access to what are essentially shared what is well he has a lot of concerns and needs to be said but what can what actually applies to this situation well there's an economic and there's a military side the economic is that russia is trying to control the hours of sea which is according to agreement is shared by the two countries this would have a. commercial impact on ukraine. the port t

a russian coastguard ship opened fire on then seized three ukrainian vessels. it happened in the black sea off the coast of crimea after the russian ships blocked access to the sea of as of via the narrow carriage street which separates the crimean peninsula from the russian mainland although a bilateral treaty gives both russia and ukraine access tensions are very in the sea have escalated since russia's annexation of crimea in twenty fourteen and the opening of a bridge linking the two earlier this year this latest incident has led ukraine's president to ask parliament to consider drastic action. order to fix martial law would be introduced in order to strengthen ukraine's defense capabilities amid increasing aggression and according to international law a cold act of aggression by the russian federation martial law would not mean our refusal to resolve the issue of liberating ukrainian territory by political and diplomatic means. through rushed through anger outside the russian embassy in kiev protesters shouting death to russia officials from both countries

naval philatelic there were two members of ukrainians ukraine's s.b.u. counter-intelligence counter espionage service they were. on board the flotilla ukraine kiev has confirmed their presence it didn't say why exactly these two counter-espionage agents were on board but the russian side believes that they orchestrated they directed this provocative incident they also believe that it was ordered from the very top by authorities by the government in ukraine they believe they wanted this provocation and they got it the russians also offered us a timeline a chronological set of how all of this happened they said that they detected the ukrainians approaching early on they told them that they were approaching. russian territorial waters but the ukrainians said they wouldn't go in to cross the strait of could show they need any notification to pass under the bridge through the very narrow crossing between the eyes of c. in the black sea they continued on and then suddenly they declared that they were going to pass through the through the through the could stra

ukrainian spawn's. well yes these crewmen have been all sentenced to two months of pretrial detention but of course the larger picture of that is that this is really a pawns they're really pawns between the two governments mr putin's accusations obviously have a great raise a great deal of attention but it should be said that the tensions between ukraine and russia have been rising for a great a long time now since two thousand and fourteen ever since russia annexed the crimean peninsula and in the sea of azoff so actually it shouldn't be of any surprise that there are intelligence agents on either side it should be said in the in the hours of sea or wherever else they might be coming into contact and what about. to solve this crisis diplomatically. well those are going nowhere at the moment we heard about president trump who sent sort of mixed messages but at the moment is discussing possibly not meeting with mr putin on the sidelines of the g. twenty summit otherwise the the ukrainians have been good

and ukrainian himself generously gave the crimean region to ukraine. historians would argue about the legitimacy of this transfer for many years to come and sixty years after khrushchev's gift dramatic new events would take place in crimea was around the world are on ukraine as a crisis in crimea continues dozens of heavily armed men seize government buildings in crimea should you crazy. just shrug it shell business say ok crimea is lost and the old arguments would heat up once again. the cold war would heat up and cool down by turns while both rivals were obsessive leave building up military capacity the turning point took place when the new era perestroika came to the u.s.s.r. with its new leader mikhail gorbachev in the middle of the one nine hundred eighty s. . perestroika meant restructuring towards liberalization and democratization it certainly had a positive impact on the international situation astonishing news from east germany by the east german authorities have said in essence of the berlin wall doesn't mean anything anymore. but inside the

ships it has in its custody ukrainian military personnel it blocks ukrainian access to the as all see which ukraine has a coastline on so you know there by agreement russia and ukraine share access to that body of water and ukraine is hoping that it can get as much support as possible from its international friends partners people in the united nations people in. people in the european union to back it up a century on this side against russia chalons for inside story in moscow so what's the background to this latest escalation will occur straight is an important trade route for ukraine as it gives ships access to the fourth of mali a pole in the sea of as off east of crimea russia's been inspecting all vessels going in and out of ukrainian ports on sunday it blocks the shipping route between the black sea in the sea of as off by placing a tanker beneath a new bridge linking russia with crimea the crimean peninsula was seized in twenty fourteen by russian backed separatists after the overthrow of ukraine's president viktor yushchenko bitch more than ten thousand people died in the figh

a russian coastguard ship opened fire on then seized three ukrainian vessels. it happened in the black sea off the coast of crimea after the russian ships blocked access to the sea of as of via the narrow carriage street which separates the crimean peninsula from the russian mainland although a bilateral treaty gives both russia and ukraine access tensions are very in the sea have escalated since russia's annexation of crimea in twenty fourteen and the opening of a booming somewhat itself which martial law would be introduced in order to strengthen ukraine's defense capabilities amid increasing aggression and according to international law a cold act of aggression by the russian federation martial law would not mean a refusal to resolve the issue of liberating ukrainian territory by political and diplomatic means. right through. russia anger outside the russian embassy in kiev protesters shape day to russia officials from both countries have accused the other of provocative behavior nato and the european union have called for restraint as fears grow that tensio

russia has entered a new phase of aggression this after the russian coast guard on sunday so used to ukrainian naval ships and a tugboat off the crimean peninsula also on the program at accountant parent. that's the celebrates as its space craft inside lands on mars the probe will dig beneath the red planet's surface and send back vital test of that scientists have been dreaming about for decades and mexico says it's deporting dozens of migrants who tried to rush the border near san diego into the united states but has demanded an investigation into the use of tear gas by u.s. police firing across that border. following terry martin welcome to the program ukraine has imposed martial law on parts of the country following russia's seizure of ukrainian warships on sunday the measures apply to mostly border regions to prevent what ukraine's president called an extremely serious threat of a russian invasion number of western nations have condemned moscow but the kremlin insists that it was provoked in a moment we'll cross to our correspondents in kiev and moscow but first a look back on how this la

in the russian ship rams the ukrainian boat head on. with. the incident escalated further a russian tanker blocked a tight underpass between the black sea and the sea of us of a vital trade route for ukraine it was later announced that the russian coastguard had shot at three ukrainian ships the ships were seized by russia with authorities saying the boats had illegally entered russian waters but the ukrainian navy says it had announced the ship's transit in advance. in kiev ukrainian president petro poroshenko called on parliament to introduce martial law. this doesn't mean we are declaring war. ukraine is not planning for a war with anyone it is implemented solely to protect ukrainian land our territory territorial integrity and sovereignty. russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov accused ukraine of deliberate provocation. principles of the international law were violated including the united nations charter and other legal instruments that require all states to respect the sovereignty of another state school moscow views the water surround

false and that was confirmed i think by the commander of the ukrainian put. lots of evidence to support the argument that the you just made and yet the western powers consistently blaming russia over this in the incident do you think that they're being objective. no not at all they're trying to achieve a strategic outcome which they have predetermine the evidence that the u.s. participation in the planning of this incident in other words contrived the incident forced to and can order to achieve a specific outcome is quite apparent and we've seen that in the past resort when for example the us defense forces during the obama administration supported the turkish air force in the shooting down over syria of that so called twenty four in order to get provocation which they hoped would lead to so now comes from the government of turkey being able to close the bosphorus for example so we see this is a is a pattern of behavior. and i think that the us ambassador to the u.n. and nicky howley is either unconscious of this planning or or is or is part of that strategic

crew for example now in marry you pool which is a ukrainian city in the south of ukraine they've been. opinions from people in the interview for example one woman among others who says that she has relatives in russia. relatives that you know it's going to be harder to contact because because of this new band there are millions of russians and ukrainians on both sides of the border that have relatives on the other side and she identified herself as one of those if we had a normal president she says women work like this in this kind of job you know that she had good president's. name but brought the old smile among the. strange while the c.n.n. correspondent may be surprised that there are ukrainians who want friendly relations with russia the situation politically socially economically in ukraine isn't black and white there are many many people who share similar opinions who want three consult who want friendly relations and it's rare that we hear their opinions voiced in the mainstream media and western press nevertheless there are many many ukrainians who share similar opinions and

servicemen and ukrainian ships. poroshenko also said the authorities would take all necessary steps to release the ukrainian sailors detained on sunday when russia ceased three vessels off the crimean coast captured sailors appeared in a russian court and were charged with unlawfully entering the country carrying weapons they face up to six years in prison. earlier other sailors were shown on russian television saying they had deliberately entered russian waters as a provocation kiev denounced what it described as forced confessions moscow accuses kiev of sparking the sea skirmish to boost support ahead of an election. most probably this provocation took place in order to achieve certain political decisions which are beneficial for the current president of ukraine. if. ukraine accuses russia of illegally capturing its ships and sailors off the coast of crimea president petro poroshenko now claims moscow is preparing for an invasion together with the country's parliament he has imposed martial law in the regions bord

ukrainian spawn's. well yes. the krooman have been all sentenced to two months of pretrial detention but of course the larger picture of that is that this is really a pawns they're really pawns between the two governments mr putin's accusations obviously have a great race a great deal of attention but it should be said that the tensions between ukraine and russia have been rising for a great a long time now since two thousand and fourteen ever since russia annexed the crimean peninsula and in the sea of azoff so actually it shouldn't be of any surprise that there are intelligence agents on either side it should be said in the in the hours of c. or wherever else they might be coming into contact and what about. to solve this crisis diplomatically. well those are going nowhere at the moment we heard about president trump who sent sort of mixed messages but at the moment is discussing possibly not meeting with mr putin on the sidelines of the g. twenty summit otherwise the the ukrainians have been good hav

ships it has in its custody ukrainian military personnel it blocks ukrainian access to the hours of c. which ukraine has a coastline on so you know there by agreement russia and ukraine share access to that body of water and ukraine is hoping that it can get as much support as possible from its international friends partners people in the united nations people in. people in the european union to back it up a century on this side against russia chalons for inside story in moscow so what's the background to this latest escalation will occur straight is an important trade route for ukraine as it gives ships access to the port of mali a pole in the sea of as of east of crimea russia's been inspecting all vessels going in and out of ukrainian ports on sunday it blocks the shipping route between the black sea in the sea of as off by placing a tanker beneath a new bridge linking russia with crimea the crimean peninsula was seized in twenty fourteen by russian backed separatists after the overthrow of ukraine's president viktor yushchenko bitch more than ten thousand people died in the figh

offices that is ukrainian intelligence agents so this cross. seemingly wasn't just an ordinary three stationing of naval assets but rather a special operation it seems with a mission overseen by intelligence agents if indeed the case perhaps the mission was to give the president a reason justification for the implementation of martial law as he has done so i mean put in describe the coach straight clash with a provocation by kiev time perfectly for the upcoming ukrainian a presidential elections and political analyst a gregory company agrees saying that the ukrainian president is trying hard to boost his currently dire ratings it was a premeditated event it was designed specifically to create a confrontation in order to give president poroshenko ukraine the opportunity to declare martial law which he has not done in even more serious security situations in the past but he's facing elections on march thirty first presidential elections in ukraine so he has to do something to bring his ratings out with this thirty days of martial law gives him a

the ships and then they blame ukrainians for doing that. so what's the united states going to do about it well i think the first thing is we're coordinating very closely with our european allies and partners we have a robust policy of sanctions in place we work with the ukrainians of strengthening their defense capabilities trying to strengthen resiliency in ukraine and our european allies are doing the same there's talk as we just saw this report about possible additional sanctions from europe we think that's worth considering alternatively there are sanctions on the books that perhaps are not being implemented as rigorously as they could be and that's something else that's on the for europe you know as you see the world looks all it says it will have already been applied and russia just keeps marching around the area around crimea and so yet despite the such as this is out this is out we'll have that well and i think i think that misses a couple of things first off i think this could have been a lot worse and i think the pressure that the

reported that abroad this ukrainian naval flood flew till. two agents count to espionage agents of the ukrainian intelligence agency s b u two of them something that ukraine has since confirmed the russians believe that these two men were directing orchestrating this incident with full intent to provoke they believe the order to do so came from the very top from ukraine's government to justify the ensuing martial law that we've seen established across many regions of ukraine the ukrainians however stand on their own they're adamant they're saying that this was an act of war provocation by russia that russia behaved aggressively towards ukraine that they shouldn't have done this that they had filed a notification of intent to posture the strait of of kutch but that the russians had carried out this aggressive action that they're now calling. russia to release the twenty four sailors officers and agents that have been detained and to release the three vessels that are impounded here in curch. ok that's my guess the of with from many thanks let'

russia has entered a new phase of oppression do suffer the russian coast guard on sunday seizing two ukrainian naval ships anna tugboat off the crimean peninsula also on the program mexico says it's to portraying dozens of migrants who tried to rush the border near san diego into the united states but is demanding an investigation into the use of tear gas by u.s. police firing across that border. also coming up bravery in the face of a child be in russia and our special series we meet one man who's living very publicly with the virus that causes aids his pain to fight the stigma attached to those who are hiv positive in his hometown. can compare. not so subtle breaks as it spacecraft inside lands on mars probe will dig beneath the red planet's surface and send back vital data that scientists have been deployed dreaming about for decades. hello i'm terry martian good to have you with us ukraine has imposed martial law on parts of the country following russia's seizure of ukrainian warships on sunday. the measures applied to mostly border regions to prevent what ukraine's president called an ext

security council has been meeting in emergency session will ask who will martial law ukrainians from russia also coming up next down. nasser celebrates a spacecraft inside lands on more are to dig beneath the red planet's surface to find out how when was formed billions of years ago. it's good to have you with us we begin with that emergency u.n. security council meeting and the question are russia and ukraine headed for the u.s. as u.n. ambassador has accused russia of committing an outrageous violation of ukraine's sovereignty on sunday russia seized several ukrainian naval vessels near the disputed crimean peninsula moscow says that it was provoked by and just about an hour ago the ukrainian parliament voted to impose martial wall inside the country. a clash at sea causing waves of international concern a russian military ship rams into a ukrainian tugboat off the coast of crimea. the vessel was then fired at and captured by the russians along with two other ships and dozens of ukrainian sailors several of whom were injured. the united nations security council held an emergency me

well yes it's been a day of mounting tensions here in ukraine it all began when three ukrainian ships left the odessa port of adesa on the black sea they're heading for which is in the hours of c. that's even further east and close to the the war zone is between ukrainian forces and and moscow backed and supported separatists they were however blocked from entering the entering the as of c. . the streets have been narrowed there because the russians have recently completed a bridge and apparently this is over the ukrainians version of events one of their ships one of the ukrainian ships was rammed by a russian ship damaging the ship and then they were prevented from entering into the as of c. the ukrainians then said that the russian sent helicopters and jets and then later on they announced that the russians had opened fire on the ships and injured actually it seems to be more than two or the the reports and now have to change all three ships president parching because you said has called an emergency meeting of his military cabinet it's not quite clear who exactly enters into that b

ships it has in its custody ukrainian military personnel it blocks ukrainian access to the as all see which ukraine has a coastline on so you know there by agreement russia and ukraine share access to that body of water and ukraine is hoping that it can get as much support as possible from its international friends partners people in the united nations people in nato people in the european union to back it up a century on this and take it side against russia chalons for inside story in moscow. so what's the background to this latest escalation will occur straight is an important trade route for ukraine as it gives ships access to the port of mali a pole in the sea of as of east of crimea russia's been inspecting all vessels going in and out of ukrainian ports on sunday it blocks the shipping route between the black sea in the sea of as off by placing a tanker beneath a new bridge linking russia with crimea the crimean peninsula was seized in twenty fourteen by russian backed separatists after the overthrow of ukraine's president viktor yushchenko bitch more than ten thousand people di

ukrainian spawn's. well yes. the krooman have been all sentenced to two months of pretrial detention but of course the larger picture of that is that this is a really a pawn they're really pawns between the two governments the mr putin's accusations obviously have. raised a great deal of attention but it should be said that the tensions between ukraine and russia have been rising for a great a long time now since two thousand and fourteen ever since russia annexed the crimean peninsula and in the sea of azoff so actually it shouldn't be of any surprise that there are intelligence agents on either side it should be said in the in the hours of sea or wherever else they might be coming into contact and what about. to solve this crisis diplomatically well those are going nowhere at the moment we heard about president trump who sent sort of mixed messages but at the moment is discussing possibly not meeting with mr putin on the sidelines of the g. twenty summit otherwise the the ukrainians have been good hav

agents that's ukrainian intelligence why they were there we don't know but the ukrainian government has confirmed that the two agents were indeed bored perhaps giving this patrol this their mission you know are higher profile than an ordinary fleet maneuver rebasing from dessa to the as of sea as they initially said the russians or the russian federal security service also corner logically. detailed what exactly happened they said that they detected the ukrainian vessels approaching russian territorial waters they warned them that the strait of kutch was closed that they couldn't they had to follow notification something that the ukrainians had done many times before with civilian vessels with military vessels ukrainians apparently said that they weren't going to cross the strait of kutch that they were merely navigating through russian territory. they proceeded and then they said that they were going to cross and they didn't need any sort of documents as the ukrainian president said all communication from the russian patrol boats they've been ordered to stop to halt and they refused to