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for said President Vladimir Putin at a meeting on ship building Putin cited year on-year statistics and according to those the Navy has was provided with 24 new ships and boats in 2022 33 in 2023 and 40 are planned to be handed over in 2024 this to drastically improve its combat potential and strengthen its position in the ocean Russia has kept up the pressure on the front line Putin’s troops launched around 100 deadly Glide bombs and dozens of drones across the border with Ukraine in the past 24 hours Russia has sharpened its knives after the Ukrainian attack on Crimea which Vladimir Putin which the Vladimir Putin LED country said was conducted using us made missiles and Russia has blamed us for the Crimea attack meanwhile the US and Russian defense Chiefs spoke on the telephone us defense secretary Lloyd Austin initiated the call with Russia’s defense minister Andre belov it was the first such call since March last year during the call belov is said to have warned Austin of the dangers of the continued us arms supplies to Ukraine Russian troops destroyed three us made High Mar multiple launch rocket systems being used by Ukraine in the past 24 hours as well while a Russian satellite has broken up into more more than 100 pieces of deis in orbit forcing astronauts on the International Space Station to take shelter the US space command in a statement said that there were no immediate details on what caused the breakup now the resar P1 Russian Earth observation satellite which was decommissioned in 2022 uh with the Fate with a fateful incident uh NASA’s Space Station officer in a statement said that the event occurred in an Orit near the space station promoting us astronauts on board to take shelter in their spacecraft for roughly an hour the US space command which has its own Global Network of space tracking Radars said the satellite immediately created over 100 pieces of trackable debris now Russia sparked International Fury in 2021 when it struck one of its defunct satellites in orbit with a groundbased anti-satellite missile creating thousands of pieces of debris to test a weapon system system ahead of its 2022 invasion of Ukraine the prospect of satellite collisions and the Space Warfare have added urgency to call from space Advocates and lawyers to have countries establish an international mechanism of managing Space Traffic which does not currently exist despite all the inroads that Russian troops are reported to be making in the Ukrainian defense its Army seems to be suffering massive Soldier fatalities on the battlefield the New York Times is reporting that may was particularly deadly for the Russian army in Ukraine it says that according to us British and other Western intelligence agencies more than a thousand of Russian soldiers were injured or killed each day the report adds that despite its losses Russia is recruiting 25,000 to 30,000 new soldiers a month us officials say that this has allowed the Russian army to keep sending waves after wave of troops to Ukrainian defens is hoping to overwhelm them and break through the trench lines the article notes that this approach has proved effective at times bringing the Russian army victories in many places like bakut eastern Ukraine but Ukrainian and Western officials say that the tactics have been less successful this spring as Russia tried to take land near the city of harke American officials say that Russia achieved a critical objective of President Vladimir Putin’s and that’s creating a buffer zone along the border to make it more difficult for the ukrainians to strike into the country but the drive did not threaten Kar and was ultimately stopped by Ukrainian defenses the article also notes that while Russian casualties have spiked at other times especially during the assault on adiva and bakut but the assaults on those cities were spread out over several months the push in May both outside of kke and along the Eastern Front involv more intense periods of Russian wave attacks British Military Intelligence analysts said that Russia’s casualties in May which they put at an average of 1,200 a day were the highest since the War Began Russian soldiers have said on telegram the social media platform that their units are suffering High casualties and some say that their ranks are being cut down by drones machine gun fire and artillery barges the New York Times says that Russia’s use of infantry and wave attacks reflects one of his advantages in the war its population is much larger than Ukraine given its bigger pool of potential recruits but the casualties have forced Russia to ship new recruits to Ukraine relatively quickly meaning the soldiers sent to the front lines are poorly trained [Applause] Russia has yet again raised dangers of further escalation of the situation in Ukraine due to continued supply of Us weapons to ke Russian defense minister Andre bosov spoke to his American counter Lloyd Austin over the pH on Tuesday the latest interaction comes on the back of the Kremlin warn in the United States of consequences after the Ukrainian strike on Crimea using a US made atams missiles this video of the missile strike in C sto that killed four people has raised a storm with President Putin himself warning that NATO would pay the US blames Russia for the fighting reiterating that Crimea unilaterally annexed by Moscow in 2014 remains a part of Ukraine then on Tuesday there were media reports of a Russian plane Downing a US drone over the Black Sea both countries have denied the encounter it again goes back to Western weapon shipments to Ukraine that have become an increasingly sore point or sour point for Moscow Russian President Vladimir Putin has questioned in May why Moscow could not do the same for foes of the West like North Korea on a visit to pongyang only this month Putin had said he does not rule out sending weapons there the two countries have even signed a mutual defense PCT Putin also warned South Korea not to arm Ukraine Russian shelling killed four people and injured three others including an 8-year-old child in East Ukraine in town of on uh Friday New York and the nearby Frontline town of tesque have since mid June suffered intense Russian bombardment and artillery fire as the Kremlin seeks to advance in the Eastern donk region a Russian shell in New York destroyed the entrance of a five-story building killing four civilians a 39-year-old woman and her 8-year-old daughter were injured in Ukraine’s Northeastern KV region where Moscow launched a major ground assault in May Russian shelling in the morning killed a woman in a border Village the interior Ministry has said this shelling also injured two people including a 70-year-old woman in the southern Kon region meanwhile Russia’s Army said it seized a small village in Ukraine’s Eastern dones region the defense Ministry said its troops had liberated the settlement of Ros doll uh Ros doka around 20 kilm North of bako that Moscow captured last year Ukrainian troops have lost ground to Russia this year as they face ammunition shortages and exhaustion more than two years into the war monthly civilian casualties have also shown no signs of subsiding reaching an 11mon high of at least 174 verified Debs in May as per the United Nations Ukraine’s president has said that he was drawing up a comprehensive plan meanwhile for how KF believes the war with Russia should end there are no public talks ongoing between Ukraine and Russia zinski said it is very important to show a plan to end the war that will be supported by the majority of the world this is the Diplomat IC route we are working on that’s what he said at the press conference in KF alongside the Slovenian president as Russia and Ukraine continue to trade both threats and attacks the US is in the picture yet again over its supply of weapons to keev after Moscow blamed Washington for Ukraine’s recent attack on Crimea and vowed Revenge the defense Chiefs of the two Nations engaged in a rare conversation the two sides gave widely Divergent accounts of the phone call between us defense secretary Lloyd Austin and Russia’s defense minister Andre belov the Pentagon says Austin initiated the conversation and that he believes that keeping lines of communication open is important Russia’s defense Ministry however says that bosov has warned Austin of the dangers of continued arm Supply to Ukraine and this is not the first warning of its kind the Kremlin warned the US of consequences after Ukraine struck Crimea Copo during the weekend using a US made atams missile these threats ccle back to Western weapon shipments to Ukraine that have become an increasingly sour point for Moscow but as bov engaged in talks the previous postolder Former Defense Minister SAR Shu was issued a warrant of arrest by the IC and Shu was not alone Russia’s most senior military officer General Valerie gasimov was also hit with an arrest warrant of the strikes against civilian targets the has said that it considers the Warren to be absur adding that Russia does not recognize the Court’s Jurisdiction but even as the international criminal court delivered a stinging condemnation of Russia’s Invasion Russia launched 42 Glide bombs on the northeastern har region over 2 24hour period and this according to local authorities on the other hand multiple air t by Ukraine were reported on the southern Russian region of belgorod the governor said an elderly woman was killed four people were injured and scores of buildings were damaged Russia’s defense Ministry said its air defense systems destroyed 29 Ukraine launched drones over the region meanwhile Russia and Ukraine each handed bed 90 prisoners of War on Tuesday with the Arab or the United Arab Emirates overseeing The Exchange as an intermediary Russia said prisoners brought home had faced mortal danger in captivity this is the latest of several periodic swamps in the 28th Monon old conflict let’s now talk more about this retired colel rich outen is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and the Jamestown Foundation he is now joining us from gazan to Kel Rich good to see you and thank you very much for joining us at this hour what what do you think will be Ukraine’s or kev’s response to the two defense Ministers of America and Russia holding a conversation and saying that uh they’ll keep their line of communication open well uh it’s good to be with you Eric I I think ke’s in an interesting situation here because it has conditional support from the United States rather than unconditional support so it’s fighting a war a defensive War against the aggressor Russia uh with one eye behind uh its front always thinking how much will the US allow us to do and being put in the position of having to press the United States for more authorities now the systems that we’ve given uh including the now the f-16s that are coming online aam’s missiles as you mentioned before uh artillery systems that can shoot further and see further uh have been kept under a certain leash the United States has tried to play a control game in terms of escalation to try to not attack on the Russian territory even though the Russians are of course attacking throughout the depth of Ukrainian territory in order to limit how how this goes so the the concept here is uh horizontal escalation rather than vertical escalation the United States wants to keep it from going too high in terms of the types of weapons and maybe becoming a direct us Russia conflict and instead letting at the margins this becomes certain types of systems allowed to attack s in Crimea or in belgrad as you mentioned so there is some horizontal escalation being played for Ukraine I think they just have to keep pushing the envelope they they have to keep convincing Washington that look if you really don’t want us to lose this war don’t have one of our our hands tied behinds our back we need to be able to hit the aggressor as deep in his country as he is hitting Us in ours Conor Rich despite Russia saying that uh now that we’re talking we cannot forget what happened in C sto in Crimea where the atams missiles were used by Ukrainian forces to hit civilians and 150 civilians were injured in that attack uh four people were killed in that attack Russia says that Washington will face consequences what do you think these consequences are well I think Russia’s implying by this that they will uh try to have systems put close to either the United States uh or to uh allies of the United States that can put into Peril uh civilian targets as well to as as if there is a parallel there of course the difference being that the United States has not launched an offensive war against a major sovereign country like Ukraine which is what Russia has done so the uh implication from Russia that we will put you in the same sort of peril that that you’re putting us in ignores the moral dimension of the fact that they are aggressor that put aside though we’ve seen this before during the Cold War Russia put missiles in Cuba uh to try to threaten the United States at the same time that we the United States had missiles in Turkey where I happen to be at the moment that were in a position to to uh conduct attacks against the Soviet Union in that case neither side escalated into a direct Soviet versus American uh escalation after johnf Kennedy took certain strong deterrent steps then both sides stepped back from that so I think Russia’s to do probably trying to do the inverse of that they are probably trying to get the United States to back down from allowing Ukraine a greater leash in the use of its defensive weapons by implying the ability to threaten either the US Homeland or us allies the difference here of course is that Russia I don’t think really has the ability to do that and and neither in their strategic Arsenal nor in their uh set of allies along our borders and frankly I don’t think they want to go into that escalation game with us if they got a president willing to play escal right other than the current soft Administration they might find themselves uh incurring significantly higher costs very quickly con rich as we end this conversation uh what do you think will be the impact of uh this threats by Russia that if you continue to the West that is that if you continue to supply Ukraine with your weapons we will Revenge we will come for you well unfortunately I think it’ll Happ some effect uh the Biden Administration has shown a willingness to do what we call self-d deterrence by consistently thinking well if we make the Russians mad or if we escalate to a point that the Russians find unacceptable we can’t incur those costs of course that’s not how escalation Works escalation works when or deterrence Works in in escalation when you convince the other side that they don’t know the cost they’ll incur and when you imply what we certainly don’t want to incur costs up to this level which is what the Biden Administration has again and again communicated to Russia then Russia knows exactly how far it can go introducing to Russia the idea that they don’t know how much pain we can inflict on them and that we’re willing to go higher is the way to stop their acts of aggression and they’re escalating aggression unfortunately against this current uh counterpart that they have in the Biden Administration I think that they’re uh talking about escalation in this way probably will get the Biden Administration to put further restrictions on what Ukraine does all right we’ll have to leave it there I’ve been talking to Koo richen senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and the Jamestown Foundation Cano rich as always thank you thank you Hamas wants Russia to stand as a garant for any future ceasefire agreements with Israel it believes the US an ally of Israel is not working to reach a Seas fire deal until the war in Gaza is finished Israel has issued a warning to Hamas to accept the United Nations backed deal or face consequences meeting Russia’s Deputy foreign minister in Moscow head of aasa’s foreign relations pledged to secure the release of remaining Russian hostages from Gaza he said the reason for calling on Russia to act as a guarant for future agreements is because it has a more balanced perspective on the war compared to the US Hamas leaders in Doha have reportedly told Palestinian Representatives that they believe the Biden Administration will only increas pressure on Israel for a deal when it departs from Rafa and completes its mission in Gaza meanwhile concluding his visit to Washington Israel’s defense minister yav Gallant has threatened Hamas that it will bear the consequences if it does not accept United Nations uled proposal for hostage and true steal galland clarified that Israel’s conflict is not with the citizens of Gaza or Lebanon but specifically with Hamas Hezbollah and the Iranian regime stand firmly behind the president’s deal which Israel has accepted and now Hamas must accept or bear the consequences but let it be known that our war is not with the people of Gaza our war is not with the people of Lebanon our war is against Hamas against hisbah and and their beers the Iranian regime in a major setback for Hamas an Israeli aircraft eliminated wisam Abu asak a Hamas weapons Smuggler in southern Gaza wisam Abu asak was known for directing smuggling operations bringing in weapons into Gaza through the Rafa Crossing and other underground tunnels meanwhile the IDF says its soldiers along with the Shin Bet and the security guard arrested 31 wanted persons throughout Judea and Samaria in the West Bank many of those arrested were associated with Hamas coming down heavily on Netanyahu and pledging his support to Lebanon Turkish president reib T Edan said that the Israeli Prime Minister planned to spread the Gaza War to the region warning that it would lead to a catastrophe I’m saying this clearly netanyahu’s plan to spread the war to the region with the consent of the West will lead to a catastrophe the Islamic world and brotherly countries in the Middle East need to react to this bloody Plan before the West as the war in West Asia spills over Iran has expressed its reservations over Iraqi militias planning to support Hezbollah in the event of a full-scale war according to sources Iran wanted to supply hezb with arms and redeploy Iraqi militias in Syria without attracting Israeli air strikes however they are yet to go ahead with the plan as Russia and Ukraine continue to trade both threats and attacks the United States is in the picture yet yet again over its supply of weapons to keev after Moscow blamed Washington for Ukraine’s recent attack on Crimea and vowed Revenge the defense Chiefs of the two Nations engaged in a rare conversation the two sides gave widely Divergent accounts of the phone call between us defense secretary lloy Austin and Russia’s defense minister Andre bov the Pentagon says Austin initiated the conversation and that he believes that keeping lines of communication open is important Russia’s defense Ministry however say is that bosov has warned Austin of the dangers of continued arm Supply to Ukraine and this is not the first warning of its kind the Kremlin warned the US of consequences after Ukraine struck crimea’s C sto during the weekend using a us- made atoms missile these threats sule back to Western weapon shipments to Ukraine that have become an increasingly sour point for Moscow but as bov engaged in talks the previous post holder Former Defense Minister Sarge shoigu was issued a warrant of arrest by the IC and shyu was not alone Russia’s most senior military officer General Valerie gasimov was also hit with an arrest warrant over strikes against civilian targets the Kremlin has said that it considers the warrant to be absurd adding that Russia does not recognize the Court’s Jurisdiction but even as the international criminal court delivered a stinging condemnation of Russia’s Invasion Russia launched 42 Glide bombs on the northeastern har region over a 24-hour period And this is according to local authorities on the other end multiple air attacks by Ukraine were reported on the southern Russian region of belgorod the governor said an elderly woman was killed four people were injured and scores of buildings were damaged Russia’s defense Ministry says its air defense systems destroyed 29 Ukraine launched drones over the region meanwhile Russia and Ukraine each handed back 90 prisoners of War on Tuesday with the United Arab Emirates overseeing The Exchange as an intermediary Masia said prisoners brought home had faced mortal danger in captivity this is the latest of several periodic swaps in the 28th Monon old conflict and for more on this we earlier spoke to retired colel Rich outen who was a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and the Jamestown foundation and this is what he had to say [Music] well I think Russia’s implying by this that they will uh try to have systems put close to either the United States or to uh allies of the United States that can put into Peril uh civilian targets as well to as as if there is a parallel there of course the difference being that the United States has not launched an offensive war against a major sovereign country like Ukraine which is what Russia has done so the uh implication from Russia that we will put you in the same sort of peril that that you’re putting us in ignores the moral dimension of the fact that they are aggressor that put aide though we’ve seen this before during the Cold War Russia put missiles in Cuba uh to try to threaten the United States at the same time that we the United States had missiles in Turkey where I happen to be at the moment that were in a position to to uh conduct attacks against the Soviet Union in that case neither side escalated into a direct Soviet versus American uh escalation after John F Kennedy took certain strong deterrent steps then both sides stepped back from that so I think Russia’s probably probably trying to do the inverse of that they are probably trying to get the United States to back down from allowing Ukraine a greater leash in the use of its defensive weapons by implying the ability to threaten either the US Homeland or us allies the difference here of course is that Russia I don’t think really has the ability to do that and and neither in their strategic Arsenal nor in their uh set of allies along our borders and frankly I don’t think they want to go into that escalation game with us if they got a president willing to play escalation right other than the current soft Administration they might find themselves uh incurring significantly higher costs and our top focus on weon at this hour Russia’s Navy is to receive more than 40 ships and boats in 2024 said President Vladimir Putin at her meeting on ship building Putin cited year on-year statistics and according to those the Navy has was provided with 24 new ships and boats in 2022 33 in 2023 and 40 are planned to be handed over in 2024 this to drastically improve its combat potential and strengthen its position in the ocean Russia has kept up the pressure on the front line Putin’s troops launched around 100 deadly Glide bombs and dozens of drones across the border with Ukraine in the past 24 hours Russia has sharpened its knives after the Ukrainian attack on Crimea which Vladimir Putin which the Vladimir Putin LED country said was conducted using us-made missiles and Russia has blamed us for the Crimea attack meanwhile the US and Russian defense Chiefs spoke on the telephone us defense secretary Lloyd Austin initiated the call with Russia’s defense minister Andre belov it was the first such call since March last year during the call belovs is said to have warned Austin of the dangers of the continu us arms supplies to Ukraine Russian troops destroyed three us made High Mar multiple launch rocket systems being used by Ukraine in the past 24 hours as well while a Russian satellite has broken up into more than 100 pieces of debris in orbit forcing astronauts on the International Space Station to take shelter the US space command in a statement said that there were no IM immediate details on what caused the breakup now the resar P1 Russian Earth observation satellite which was decommissioned in 2022 uh with the Fate with a fateful incident uh NASA’s Space Station officer in a statement said that the event occurred in an orbit near the space station promoting us astronauts on board to take shelter in their spacecraft for roughly an hour the US space command which has its own Global Network of space tracking Radars said the satellite immediately created over 100 pieces of trackable deis now Russia sparked International Fury in 2021 when it struck one of its defunct satellites in orbit with a groundbased anti-satellite missile creating thousands of pieces of debris to test a weapon system ahead of its 2022 invasion of Ukraine the prospect of satellite collisions and the Space Warfare have added urgency to calls from space Advocates and lawy to have countries establish an international mechanism of managing Space Traffic which does not currently exist despite all the inroads that Russian troops are reported to be making in the Ukrainian defense its Army seems to be suffering massive Soldier fatalities on the battlefield the New York Times is reporting that may was particularly deadly for the Russian army in Ukraine it says that according to us British and other Western intelligence agencies more than a thousand of Russian soldiers were injured or killed each day the report adds that despite its losses Russia is recruiting 25,000 to 30,000 new soldiers a month us officials say that this has allowed the Russian army to keep sending waves after wave of troops to Ukrainian defenses hoping to overwhelm them and break through the trench lines the article notes that this approach has proved effective at times bringing the Russian army victory in many places like bakut eastern Ukraine but Ukrainian and Western officials say that the tactics have been less successful this spring as Russia tried to take land near the city of harke American officials say that Russia achieved a critical objective of President Vladimir Putin’s and that’s creating a buffer zone along the border to make it more difficult for the ukrainians to strike into the country but the drive did not threaten Kar and was ultimately stopped by Ukrainian defenses the AR also notes that while Russian casualties have spiked at other times especially during the assault on adiva and bakut but the assaults on those cities were spread out over several months the push in May both outside of kke and along the Eastern Front involv more intense periods of Russian wave attacks British Military Intelligence analysts said that Russia’s casualties in May which they put at an average of 1,200 a day were the highest since the War Began Russian soldiers have said on telegram the social media platform that their units are suffering High casualties and some say that their ranks are being cut down by drones machine gun fire and artillery barges New York Times says that Russia’s use of infantry and wave attacks reflects one of his advantages in the war its population is much larger than Ukraine given its bigger pool of potential recruits but the casualties have forced Russia to ship new recruits to Ukraine relatively quickly meaning the soldiers sent to the front lines are poorly trained Russia has yet again raised dangers of further escalation of the situation in Ukraine due to continued supply of Us weapons to K Russian defense minister Andre bosov spoke to his American counter Lloyd Austin over the fall on Tuesday the latest interaction comes on the back of the Kremlin warning the United States of consequences after the Ukrainian strike on Crimea using a us- made atakan missiles this video of the missile strike in Copo that killed four people has raised a storm with President Putin himself warning that NATO would pay the US blames Russia for the fighting reiterating that Crimea unilaterally annexed by Moscow in 2014 remains a part of Ukraine then on Tuesday there were media reports of a Russian plane Downing a US drone over the Black Sea both countries have been the encounter it again goes back to Western weapon shipments to Ukraine that have become an increasingly sore point or sour point for Moscow Russian President Vladimir Putin has questioned in May why Moscow could not do the same for foes of the West like North Korea on a visit to pongyang early this month Putin had said he does not rule out sending weapons there the two countries have even signed a mutual defense parked Putin also warned South Korea not to arm Ukraine Russian shelling killed four people and injured three others including an 8-year-old child in East Ukrainian town of uh on uh Friday New York and the nearby Frontline town of tesque have since mid June suffered intense Russian bombardment and artillery fire as the Kremlin seeks to advance in the Eastern donk region a Russian shell in New York destroyed the entrance of a five-story building killing four civilians a 39-year-old woman and her 8-year-old daughter were injured in Ukraine’s Northeastern KV region where Moscow launched a major ground assault in May Russian shelling in the morning uh killed a woman in a border Village the interior Ministry has said this shelling also injured two people including a 70-year-old woman in the southern Kon region meanwhile Russia’s Army said it seized a small village in Ukraine’s Eastern Dones region the defense Ministry said its troops had liberated the settlement of Ros do Ros doka around 20 kilm North of Bako that Moscow captured last year Ukrainian troops have lost ground to Russia this year as they face ammunition shortages and exhaustion more than two years into the war monthly civilian casualties have also shown no signs of subsiding reaching an 11mon high of at least 174 verified deaths in May as per the United Nations Ukraine’s president has said that he was drawing up a comprehensive plan meanwhile for how KF believes the war with Russia should end there are no public talks ongoing between Ukraine and Russia zinsky said it is very important to show a plan to end the war that will be supported by the majority of the world this is the Diplomatic route we are working on that’s what he said at a press conference in KF alongside the Slovenian president as Russia and Ukraine continue to trade both threats and attacks the US is in the picture yet again of its supply of weapons to keev after Moscow blamed Washington for Ukraine’s recent attack on Crimea and vowed Revenge the defense Chiefs of the two Nations engaged in a rare conversation the two sides gave widely Divergent accounts of the phone call between us defense secretary Lloyd Austin and Russia’s defense minister Andre bov the Pentagon says Austin initiated the conversation and that he believes that keeping lines of communication open is important Russia’s defense Ministry however says that bosov has warned Austin of the dangers of continued arm Supply to Ukraine and this is not the first warning of its kind the Kremlin warned the US of consequences after Ukraine struck cria Copo during the weekend using a us- made atam missile these threats s back to Western weapon shipments to Ukraine that have become an increasingly sour point for Moscow but as bov engaged in talks the previous postolder Former Defense Minister SAR Shu was issued a warrant of arrest at the IC and Shu was not alone Russia’s most senior military officer General Valerie gasimov was also hit with an arrest warrant of the strikes against civilian targets the has said that it considers the to be absur adding that Russia does not recognize the Court’s Jurisdiction but even as the international criminal court delivered a stinging condemnation of Russia’s Invasion Russia launched 42 Glide bombs on the northeastern har region over a 24-hour period and this according to local authorities on the other hand multiple air attacks by Ukraine were reported on the southern Russian region of belgorod the governor said an elderly woman was killed four people were injured and scores of buildings were damaged Russia’s defense Ministry said its air defense systems destroyed 29 Ukraine launched drones over the region meanwhile Russia and Ukraine each bed 90 prisoners of War on Tuesday with the Arab or the United Arab Emirates overseeing The Exchange as an intermediary Russia said prisoners brought home had faced mortal danger in captivity this is the latest of several periodic swamps in the 28th month old conflict let’s now talk more about this retired colel rich outzen is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and the jamest toown foundation he is now joining us from gaziantep tur carel Rich good to see you and thank you very much for joining us at this hour what do you think will be Ukraine’s or kev’s response to the two defense Ministers of America and r Russia holding a conversation and saying that uh they’ll keep their line of communication open well uh it’s good to be with you Eric I I think uh ke’s in an interesting situation here because it has conditional support from the United States rather than an unconditional support so it’s fighting a war a defensive war against the aggressor Russia uh with one eye behind uh its front always thinking how much will the US allow us to do and being put in the position of having to press the United States for more authorities now the systems that we’ve given uh including the now the f-16s that are coming online aam’s missiles as you mentioned before uh artillery systems that can shoot further and see further uh have been kept under a certain leash the United States has tried to play a control game in terms of escalation to try to not attack on the Russian territory even though the Russians are of course attacking throughout the depth of Ukrainian territory in order to limit how how this goes so the the concept here is uh horizontal escalation rather than vertical escalation the United States wants to keep it from going too high in terms of the types of weapons and maybe becoming a direct us Russia conflict and instead letting at the margins this becomes certain types of systems allowed to attack say in Crimea or in Bel garad as you mentioned so there is some horizontal escalation being played for Ukraine I think they just have to keep pushing the envelope they they have to keep convincing in Washington that look if you really don’t want us to lose this war don’t have one of our our hands tied behinds our back we need to be able to hit the aggressor as deep in his country as he is hitting Us in ours Cano Rich despite Russia saying that uh now that we’re talking we cannot forget what happened in Copo in Crimea where the arams missiles were used by Ukrainian forces to hit civilians and 150 civilians were in inured in that attack uh four people were killed in that attack Russia says that Washington will face consequences what do you think these consequences are well I think Russia’s implying by this that they will uh try to have systems put close to either the United States uh or to uh allies of the United States that can put into Peril uh civilian targets as well as as if there is a parallel there of course the difference being that the United States has not launched an offensive war against a major sovereign country like Ukraine which is what Russia has done so the uh implication from Russia that we will put you in the same sort of peril that that you’re putting us in ignores the moral dimension of the fact that they are aggressor that put aide though we’ve seen this before during the Cold War Russia put missiles in Cuba uh to try to threaten the United States at the same time that we the United States had missiles in Turkey where I happen to be at the moment that were in a position to to conduct attacks against the Soviet Union in that case neither side escalated into a direct Soviet versus American uh escalation after John F Kennedy took certain strong deterrent steps then both sides stepped back from that so I think Russia’s probably probably trying to do the inverse of that they are probably trying to get the United States to back down from allowing Ukraine a greater leash in the use of its defensive weapons by implying the ability to threaten either the US Homeland or us allies the difference here of course is that Russia I don’t think really has the ability to do that and and neither in their strategic Arsenal nor in their uh set of allies along our borders and frankly I don’t think they want to go into that escalation game with us if they got a president willing to play escalation right other than the current soft Administration they might find themselves uh incurring significantly higher costs very quickly Cano rich as we end this conversation uh what do you think will be the impact of these threats by Russia that if you continue to the West that is that if you continue to supply Ukraine with your weapons we will Revenge we will count for you well unfortunately I think it’ll have some effect uh the Biden Administration has shown a a willingness to do what we call self-d deterrence by consistently thinking well if we make the Russians mad or if we escalate to a point that the Russians find unacceptable we can’t incur those costs of course that’s not how escalation Works escalation works when or deterrence Works in in escalation when you convince the other side that they don’t know the cost they’ll incur and when you imply we certainly don’t want to incur costs up to this level which is what the Biden Administration has again and again communicated to Russia then Russia knows exactly how far it can go introducing to Russia the idea that they don’t know how much pain we can inflict on them and that we’re willing to go higher is the way to stop their acts of aggression and their escalating aggression unfortunately against this current uh counterpart that they have in the Biden Administration I think that they’re uh talking about escalation in this way probably will get the Biden Administration to put further restrictions on what Ukraine does all right we’ll have to leave it there I’ve been talking to Koo Rich outen senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and the Jamestown Foundation Cano rich as always thank you thank you Hamas wants Russia to stand as a guarant for any future ceasefire agreements with Israel it believes the US an ally of Israel is not working to reach a ceasefire deal until the war in Gaza is finished Israel has issued a warning to Hamas to accept the United Nations backed deal or face consequences meeting Russia’s Deputy foreign minister in Moscow head of amas foreign relations pledged to secured the release of remaining Russian hostages from Gaza he say the reason for calling on Russia to act as a guarant for future agreements is because it has a more balanced perspective on the war compared to the US Hamas leaders in Doha have reportedly told Palestinian Representatives that they believe the Biden Administration will only increase pressure on Israel for a deal when it departs from Rafa and complet its mission in Gaza meanwhile concluding his visit to Washington Israel’s defense minister yav galand has threatened Hamas that it will bear the consequences if it does not accept United Nations endorsed proposal for hostage and truth deal galland clarified that Israel’s conflict is not with the citizens of Gaza or Lebanon but specifically with Hamas has baa and the Iranian regime stand firmly behind the president’s deal which Israel has accepted and now Hamas must accept or bear the consequences but let it be known that our war is not with the people of Gaza our war is not with the people of Lebanon our war is against Hamas against hisbah and their beers the Iranian regime in a major setback for Hamas an Israeli aircraft eliminated wisam Abu asak a Hamas weapon weapons Smuggler in southern Gaza wisam Abu ashak was known for directing smuggling operations bringing in weapons into Gaza through the Rafa Crossing and other underground tunnels meanwhile the IDF says its soldiers along with the shinb and the security guard arrested 31 wanted persons throughout Judea and Samaria in the West Bank many of those arrested were associated with Hamas coming down heavily on Netanyahu and pledging his support to Lebanon Turkish president reib T Edan said that the Israeli Prime Minister planed to spread the Gaza War to the region warning that it would lead to a catastrophe I’m saying this clearly nyah’s plan to spread the war to the region with the consent of the West will lead to a catastrophe the Islamic world and brotherly countries in the Middle East need to react to this bloody Plan before the West as the war in West Asia spills over Iran has expressed its reservations over Iraqi mil IAS planning to support Hezbollah in the event of a fullscale war according to sources Iran wanted to supply Hezbollah with arms and redeploy Iraqi militias in Syria without attracting Israeli air strikes however they are yet to go ahead with a plan as Russia and Ukraine continue to trade both threats and attacks the United States is in the picture yet again of its supply of weapons to keev after Moscow blamed Washington for Ukraine’s recent attack on Crimea and vowed Revenge the defense Chiefs of the two Nations engaged in a rare convers ation the two sides gave widely Divergent accounts of the phone call between us defense secretary Lloyd Austin and Russia’s defense minister Andre bosov the Pentagon says Austin initiated the conversation and that he believes that keeping lines of communication open is important Russia’s defense Ministry however says that bosov has warned Austin of the dangers of continued arm Supply to Ukraine and this is not the first warning of its kind the Kremlin warned the US of consequent after Ukraine struck crimea’s C sto during the weekend using a us- made atams missile these threats Circle back to Western weapon shipments to Ukraine that have become an increasingly sour point for Moscow but as Bell of engaged in talks the previous post holder Former Defense Minister Sarge shigu was issued a warrant of arrest by the ICC and shig was not alone Russia’s most senior military officer General Valerie gasimov was also hit with an arrest warrant over strikes against civilian targets the Kremlin has said that it considers the warrant to be absur adding that Russia does not recognize the Court’s Jurisdiction but even as the international criminal court delivered a stinging condemnation of Russia’s Invasion Russia launched 42 Glide bombs on the northeastern har region over a 24-hour period And this is according to local authorities on the other end multiple air attacks by Ukraine were report reported on the southern Russian region of belgorod the governor said an elderly woman was killed four people were injured and scores of buildings were damaged Russia’s defense Ministry says its air defense systems destroyed 29 Ukraine launched drones over the region meanwhile Russia and Ukraine each handed backed 90 prisoners of War on Tuesday with the United Arab Emirates overseeing The Exchange as an intermediary Russia said prisoners brought home had faced mortal danger in captivity this is the latest of several periodic swaps in the 28th month old conflict and for more on this we earlier spoke to retired colel Rich outen who was a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and the Jamestown foundation and this is what he had to [Music] say well I think Russia’s implying by this that they will uh try to have systems put close to either the United States uh or to uh allies of the United States that can put into Peril uh civilian targets as well as as if there is a parallel there of course the difference being that the United States has not launched an offensive war against a major sovereign country like Ukraine which is what Russia has done so the uh implication from Russia that we will put you in the same sort of peril that that you’re putting us in ignores the moral dimension of the fact that they are aggressor that put aside though we’ve seen this before during the Cold War Russia put missiles in Cuba uh to try to threaten the United States at the same time that we the United States had missiles in Turkey where I happen to be at the moment that we in a position to to uh conduct attacks against the Soviet Union in that case neither side escalated into a direct Soviet versus American uh escalation after John F Kennedy took certain strong deterrent steps then both sides stepped back from that so I think Russia’s probably probably trying to do the inverse of that they are probably trying to get the United states to back down from allowing Ukraine a greater leash in the use of its defensive weapons by implying the ability to threaten either the US Homeland or us allies the difference here of course is that Russia I don’t think really has the ability to do that and and neither in their strategic Arsenal nor in their uh set of allies along our borders and frankly I don’t think they want to go into that escalation game with us if they got a president willing to play escalation right other than the current soft Administration they might find themselves uh incurring significantly higher costs and our top focus on weon at this hour Russia’s Navy is to receive more than 40 ships and boats in 2024 said President Vladimir Putin at a meeting on ship building Putin cited a year on-year statistics and according to those the Navy has was provided with 24 new ships and boats in 2022 33 in 2023 and 40 are planned to be handed over in 2024 this to drastically improve its combat potential and strengthen its position in the ocean Russia has kept up the pressure on the front line Putin’s troops launched around 100 deadly Glide bombs and dozens of drones across the border with Ukraine in the past 24 hours Russia has sharpened its knives after the Ukrainian attack on Crimea which Vladimir Putin which the Vladimir Putin lad country said was conducted using us made missiles and Russia has blamed us for the Crimea attack meanwhile the US and Russian defense Chiefs spoke on the telephone us defense secretary Lloyd Austin initiated the call with Russia’s defense minister Andre belov it was the first such call since March last year during the call belov is said to have warned Austin of the dangers of the continued us arms supplies to Ukraine Russian troops destroyed three us made High Mar multiple launch rocket systems being used by Ukraine in the past 24 hours as well while a Russian satellite has broken up into more than 100 pieces of debris in orbit forcing astronauts on the International Space Station to take shelter the US space command in a statement said that there were no immediate details on what caused the breakup now the resar P1 Russian Earth observation satellite which was decommissioned in 22 uh with the Fate with a fateful incident uh NASA’s Space Station officer in a statement said that the event occurred in an orbit near the space station promoting us astronauts on board to take shelter in their spacecraft for roughly an hour the US space command which has its own Global Network of space tracking Radars said the satellite immediately created over 100 pieces of trackable Dey now Russia spark International f in 2021 when it struck one of its defunct satellites in orbit with a groundbased anti-satellite missile creating thousands of pieces of debris to test a weapon system ahead of its 2022 invasion of Ukraine the prospect of satellite collisions and the Space Warfare have added urgency to calls from space Advocates and lawyers to have countries establish an international mechanism of managing Space Traffic which does not currently exist despite all the inroads that Russian troops are reported to be making in the Ukrainian defense its Army seems to be suffering massive Soldier fatalities on the battlefield the New York Times is reporting that may was particularly deadly for the Russian army in Ukraine it says that according to us British and other Western intelligence agencies more than a thousand of Russian soldiers were injured or killed each day the report adds that despite its losses Russia is recruiting 25,000 to 30,000 new soldiers a month us officials say that this has allowed the Russian army to keep sending waves after wave of troops to Ukrainian defenses hoping to overwhelm them and break through the trench lines the article notes that this approach has proved effective at times bringing the Russian army victories in many places like bakut eastern Ukraine but Ukrainian and Western officials say that the tactics have been less successful this spring as R tried to take land near the city of harke American officials say that Russia achieved a critical objective of President Vladimir Putin and that’s creating a buffer zone along the border to make it more difficult for the ukrainians to strike into the country but the drive did not threaten kke and was ultimately stopped by Ukrainian defenses the article also notes that while Russian casualties have spiked at other times especially during the assault on adiva and bakut but the assaults on those cities were spread out over several months the push in May both outside of harke and along the Eastern Front involved more intense periods of Russian wave attacks British Military Intelligence analysts said that Russia’s casualties in May which they put at an average of 1,200 a day were the highest since the War Began Russian soldiers have said on telegram the social media platform that their units are suffering High casualties and some say that their ranks are being cut down by drones machine gun fire and artillery barges New York Times says that Russia’s use of infantry and wave attacks reflects one of his advantages in the war its population is much larger than Ukraine given its bigger pool of potential recruits but the casualties have forced Russia to ship new recruits to Ukraine relatively quickly meaning the soldiers sent to the front lines are poorly trained [Music] [Applause] Russia has yet again raised dangers of further escalation of the situation in Ukraine due to continued supply of Us weapons to keev Russian defense minister Andre bosov spoke to his American counterpart Lloyd Austin over the phone on Tuesday the latest interaction comes on the back of the Kremlin warnning the United States of consequences after the Ukrainian strike on Crimea using a us- made atacam missiles this video of the missile strike in C too that killed four people has raised a storm with president Putin himself warning that NATO would pay the US blames Russia for the fighting reiterating that Crimea unilaterally annexed by Moscow in 2014 remains a part of Ukraine then on Tuesday there were media reports of a Russian plane Downing a US drone over the Black Sea both countries have denied the encounter it again goes back to Western weapon shipments to Ukraine that have become an increasingly sore point or sour point for Moscow Russian President Vladimir Putin has questioned in May why Moscow could not do the same for foes of the West like North Korea on a visit to pongyang ear this month Putin had said he does not rule out sending weapons there the two countries have even signed a mutual defense PCT Putin also warned South Korea not to arm Ukraine Russian shelling killed four people and injured three others including an 8-year-old child in East Ukrainian town of uh on uh Friday New York and the nearby Frontline town of tesque have since mid June suffered intense Russian bombardment and artillery fire as the Kremlin seek to advance in the Eastern donk region a Russian shell in New York destroyed the entrance of a five-story building killing four civilians a 39-year-old woman and her 8-year-old daughter were injured in Ukraine’s Northeastern KV region where Moscow launched a major ground assault in May Russian shelling in the morning killed a woman in a border Village the interior Ministry has said this shelling also injured two people including a 70-year-old woman in the southern Kon region meanwhile Russia’s Army said it seized a small village in Ukraine’s Eastern dones region the defense Ministry said its troops had liberated the settlement of Ros do Ros doka around 20 km north of Bako that Moscow captured last year Ukrainian troops have lost ground to Russia this year as they face ammunition shortages and exhaustion more than two years into the war monthly civilian casualties have also shown no signs of subsiding reaching an 11mon high of at least 174 verified deaths in May as per the United Nations Ukraine’s president has said that he was drawing up a comprehensive plan meanwhile for how KF believes the war with Russia should end there are no public talks on between Ukraine and Russia zinsky said it is very important to show a plan to end the war that will be supported by the majority of the world this is the Diplomatic route we are working on that’s what he said at the press conference in KF alongside the Slovenian president as Russia and Ukraine continue to trade both threats and attacks the US is in the picture yet again of its supply of weapons to keev after Moscow blamed Washington for Ukraine ‘s recent attack on Crimea and vowed Revenge the defense Chiefs of the two Nations engaged in a rare conversation the two sides gave widely Divergent accounts of the phone call between us defense secretary Lloyd Austin and Russia’s defense minister Andre Bol the Pentagon says Austin initiated the conversation and that he believes that keeping lines of communication open is important Russia’s defense Ministry however says that bosov has warned Austin of the dangers of continued arm Supply to Ukraine and this is not the first warning of its kind the Kremlin warned the US of consequences after Ukraine struck cha cesto during the weekend using a us-made atams missile these threats ccle back to Western weapon shipments to Ukraine that have become an increasingly sour point for Moscow but as bov engaged in talks the previous po holder Former Defense Minister Sarge Shu was issued a warrant of arrest by the IC and shoigu was not alone Russia’s most senior military officer General Valerie gasimov was also hit with an arrest warrant of the strikes against civilian targets has said that it considers the Warren to be absurd adding that Russia does not recognize the Court’s Jurisdiction but even as the international criminal court delivered a stinging condemnation of Russia’s invasion Russia launched 42 Glide bombs on the northeastern har region over a 24-hour period and this according to local authorities on the other hand multiple air attacks by Ukraine were reported on the southern Russian region of belgorod the governor said an elderly woman was killed four people were injured and scores of buildings were damaged Russia’s defense Ministry said its air defense systems destroyed 29 Ukraine launched drones over the region meanwhile Russia and Ukraine each handed backed 90 prisoners of War on Tuesday with the Arab or the United Arab Emirates overseeing The Exchange as an intermediary Russia said prisoners brought home had faced mortal danger in captivity this is the latest of several periodic swamps in the 28th month old conflict let’s now talk more about this retired colel rich outen is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and the jamest toown foundation he is now joining us from gazan toia carel Rich good to see you and thank you very much for joining us at this hour what do you think will be Ukraine’s or kev’s response to the two defense Ministers of America and Russia holding a conversation and saying that uh they’ll keep their line of communication open well uh it’s good to be with you Eric I think ke’s in an interesting situation here because it has conditional support from the United States rather than unconditional support so it’s fighting a war a defensive war against the aggressor Russia uh with one eye behind uh its front always thinking how much will the US allow us to do and being put in the position of having to press the United States for more authorities now the systems that we’ve given uh including the now the f-16s that are coming online aam’s missiles as you mentioned before uh artillery systems that can shoot further and see further uh have been kept under a certain leash the United States has tried to play a control game in terms of escalation to try to not attack on the Russian territory even though the Russians are of course attacking throughout the depth of Ukrainian territory in order to limit how how this goes so the the concept here is uh horizontal escalation rather than vertical escalation the United States wants to keep it from going too high in terms of the type of weapons and maybe becoming a direct us Russia conflict and instead letting at the margins this becomes certain types of systems allowed to attack say in Crimea or in belgrad as you mentioned so there is some horizontal escalation being played for Ukraine I think they just have to keep pushing the envelope they they have to keep convincing Washington that look if you really don’t want us to lose this war don’t have one of our our hands tied behinds our back we need to be able to hit the aggressor as deep in his country as he is hitting Us in ours Cano Rich despite Russia saying that uh now that we’re talking we cannot forget what happened in Copo in Crimea where the atams missiles were used by Ukrainian forces to hit civilians and 150 civilians were injured in that attack uh four people were killed in that attack Russia says that Washington will face consequences what do you think these consequences are well I think Russia’s implying by this that they will uh try to have systems put close to either the United States uh or to uh allies of the United States that can put into Peril uh civilian targets as well to as as if there is a parallel there of course the difference being that the United States has not launched an offensive war against a major sovereign country like Ukraine which is what Russia has done so the uh implication from Russia that we will put you in the same sort of peril that that you’re putting us in ignores the moral dimension of the fact that they are aggressor that put aide though we’ve seen this before during the Cold War Russia put missiles in Cuba uh to try to threaten the United States at the same time that we the United States had missiles in Turkey where I happen to be at the moment that were in a position to to uh conduct attacks against the Soviet Union in that case neither side escalated into a direct Soviet versus American uh escalation after John F Kennedy took certain strong deterrent steps then both sides stepped back from that so I think Russia’s probably probably trying to do the inverse of that they are probably trying to get the United States to back down from allowing Ukraine a greater leash in the use of its defensive weapons by implying the ability to threaten either the US Homeland or us allies the difference here of course is that Russia I don’t think really has the ability to do that and and neither in their strategic Arsenal nor in their uh set of allies along our borders and frankly I don’t think they want to go into that escalation game with us if they got a president willing to play escalation right other than the current soft Administration they might find themselves uh incurring significantly higher costs very quickly carel rich as we end this conversation uh what do you think will be the impact of this threats by Russia that if you continue to the West that is that if you continue to supply Ukraine with your weapons we will Revenge we will come for you well unfortunately I think it’ll have some effect uh the Biden Administration has shown a willingness to do what we call self-d deterrence by consistently thinking well if we make the Russians mad or if we escalate to a point that the Russians find unacceptable we can’t incur those costs of course that’s not how escalation Works escalation works when or deterrence Works in in escalation when you convince the other side that they don’t know the cost they’ll incur and when you imply we certainly don’t want to incur costs up to this level which is what the Biden Administration has again and again communicated to Russia then Russia knows exactly how far it can go introducing to Russia the idea that they don’t know how much pain we can inflict on them and that we’re willing to go higher is the way to stop their acts of aggression and their escalating aggression unfortunately against this current uh counterpart that they have in the Biden Administration I think that they’re uh talking about escalation in this way probably will get the Biden Administration to put further restrictions on what Ukraine does all right we’ll have to leave it there I’ve been talking to Koo richen senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and the Jamestown Foundation Cano rich as always thank you thank you Hamas wants Russia to stand as a guarant for any future ceasefire agreements with Israel it believes the US an ally of Israel is not working to reach a seafire deal until the war in Gaza is finished Israel has issued a warning to Hamas to accept the United Nations backed deal or face consequences meeting Russia’s Deputy foreign minister in Moscow head of amasis foreign relations pledged to secure the release of remaining Russian hostages from Gaza he say the reason for calling on Russia to act as a guarant for future agreements is because it has a more more balanced perspective on the war compared to the US Hamas leaders in Doha have reportedly told Palestinian Representatives that they believe the Biden Administration will only increase pressure on Israel for a deal when it departs from Rafa and completes its mission in Gaza meanwhile concluding his visit to Washington Israel’s defense minister yav galland has threatened Hamas that it will bear the consequences if it does not accept United Nations endorsed proposal for hostage and true steal galland clarified that Israel’s conflict is not with the citizens of Gaza or Lebanon but specifically with Hamas Hezbollah and the Iranian regime stand firmly behind the president’s deal which Israel has accepted and now Hamas must accept or bear the consequences but let it be known that our war is not with the people of Gaza our war is not with the people of Lebanon our war is against Hamas against hisbah and their beers the Iranian regime in Amia set bank for Hamas an Israeli aircraft eliminated wisam Abu ashak a Hamas weapons Smuggler in southern Gaza wisam Abu asak was known for directing smuggling operations bringing in weapons into Gaza through the Rafa Crossing and other Underground tunnels meanwhile the IDF says its soldiers along with the shinb and the security guard arrested 31 wanted persons through out Judea and Samaria in the West Bank many of those arrested were associated with Hamas coming down heavily on Netanyahu and pledging his support to Lebanon Turkish president reib T Edan said that the Israeli Prime Minister planned to spread the Gaza War to the region warning that it would lead to a catastrophe saying this clearly netanyahu’s plan to spread the war to the region with the consent of the West will lead to a catastrophe the Islamic world and brotherly countries in the Middle East need to react to this bloody Plan before the West as the war in West Asia spills over Iran has expressed its reservations over Iraqi militias planning to support Hezbollah in a event of a fullscale war according to sources Iran wanted to supply Hezbollah with arms and redeploy Iraqi militias in Syria without attracting Israeli air strikes however they are yet to go ahead with a plan as Russia and Ukraine continue to trade both threat and attacks the United States is in the picture yet again of its supply of weapons to keev after Moscow blamed Washington for Ukraine’s recent attack on Crimea and vowed Revenge the defense Chiefs of the two Nations engaged in a rare conversation the two sides gave widely Divergent accounts of the phone call between us defense secretary Lloyd Austin and Russia’s defense minister Andre B Lov the Pentagon says Austin initiated the conversation and that he believes that keeping lines of communication open is important Russia’s defense Ministry however says that bosov has warned Austin of the dangers of continued arm Supply to Ukraine and this is not the first warning of its kind the Kremlin warned the US of consequences after Ukraine struck crimea’s C too during the weekend using a us-made atams missile these threats Sako backed to Western weapon shipment to Ukraine that have become an increasingly sour point for Moscow but as belov engaged in talks the previous post holder Former Defense Minister Sarge shoigu was issued a warrant of arrest by the IC and shigu was not alone Russia’s most senior military officer General Valerie gasimov was also hit with an arrest warrant over strikes against civilian targets the Kremlin has said that it considers the warrant to be absur adding that Russia does not recognize the Court’s Jurisdiction but even as the international criminal court delivered a stinging condemnation of Russia’s Invasion Russia launched 42 Glide bombs on the northeastern har region over a 24-hour period And this is according to local authorities on the other end multiple air attacks by Ukraine were reported on the southern Russian region of belgorod the governor said an elderly woman was killed four people were injured and scores of buildings were damaged Russia’s defense Ministry says its air defense systems destroyed 29 Ukraine launched drones over the region meanwhile Russia and Ukraine each handed back 90 prisoners of War on Tuesday with the United Arab Emirates overseeing The Exchange as an intermediary Ria said prisoners brought home had faced mortal danger and captivity this is the latest of several periodic swaps in the 28th month old conflict and for more on this we earlier spoke to retired colel rich then was a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and the Jamestown foundation and this is what he had to [Music] say well I think Russia’s implying by this that they will uh try to have systems put close to either the United States uh or to uh allies of the United States that can put into Peril uh civilian targets as well as as if there is a parallel there of course the difference being that the unit States has not launched an offensive war against a major sovereign country like Ukraine which is what Russia has done so the uh implication from Russia that we will put you in the same sort of peril that that you’re putting us in ignores the moral dimension of the fact that they are aggressor that put aide though we’ve seen this before during the Cold War Russia put missiles in Cuba uh to try to threaten the United States at the same time that we the United States had missiles in Turkey where I happen to be at the moment that were in a position to to conduct attacks against the Soviet Union in that case neither side escalated into a direct Soviet versus American uh escalation after John F Kennedy took certain strong deterrent steps then both sides stepped back from that so I think Russia’s proba probably trying to do the inverse of that they are probably trying to get the United States to back down from allowing Ukraine a greater leash in the use of its defensive weapons by implying the ability to threaten either the US Homeland or us allies the difference here of course is that Russia I don’t think really has the ability to do that and and neither in their strategic Arsenal nor in their set of allies along our borders and frankly I don’t think they want to go into that escalation game with us if they got a president willing to play escalation right other than the current soft Administration they might find themselves uh incurring significantly higher costs and our top focus on weon at this hour Russia’s Navy is to receive more than 40 ships and boats in 20 24 said President Vladimir Putin at a meeting on ship building Putin cited year on-year statistics and according to those the Navy has was provided with 24 new ships and boats in 2022 33 in 2023 and 40 are planned to be handed over in 2024 this to drastically improve its combat potential and strengthen its position in the ocean Russia has kept up the pressure on the front line Putin’s troops launched around 100 deadly Glide bombs and dozens of drones across the border with Ukraine in the past 24 hours Russia has sharpened its knives after the Ukrainian attack on Crimea which Vladimir Putin which the Vladimir Putin LED country said was conducted using us made missiles and Russia has blamed us for the Crimea attack meanwhile the US and Russian defense Chiefs spoke on the telephone us defense secretary Lloyd Austin initiated the call with Russia’s defense minister Andre belov it was the first such call since March last year during the call belov is said to have won Austin of the dangers of the continued us arms supplies to Ukraine Russian troops destroyed three us made High Mar multiple launch rocket systems being used by Ukraine in the past 24 hours as well while a Russian satellite has broken up into more than 100 pieces of debris in orbit forcing astronauts on the International Space Station to take shelter the US space command in a statement said that there were no immediate details on what caused the breakup now the resar P1 Russian Earth observation satellite which was decommissioned in 2022 uh with the Fate with a fateful incident uh NASA’s Space Station officer in a statement said that the event occurred in in an orbit near the space station promoting us astronauts on board to take shelter in their spacecraft for roughly an hour the US space command which has its own Global Network of space tracking Radars said the satellite immediately created over 100 pieces of trackable deis now Russia sparked International Fury in 2021 when it struck one of its defunct satellites in orbit with a groundbased anti-satellite missile creating thousands of pieces of debris to test weapon system ahead of its 2022 invasion of Ukraine the prospect of satellite collisions and the Space Warfare have added urgency to calls from space Advocates and lawyers to have countries establish an international mechanism of managing Space Traffic which does not currently exist despite all the inroads that Russian troops are reported to be making in the Ukrainian defense its Army seems to be suffering massive Soldier fatalities on the Battlefield the New York Times is reporting that may was particularly deadly for the Russian army in Ukraine it says that according to us British and other Western intelligence agencies more than a thousand of Russian soldiers were injured or killed each day the report adds that despite its losses Russia is recruiting 25,000 to 30,000 new soldiers a month us officials say that this has allowed the Russian army to keep sending waves after wave of troops to Ukrainian defenses hoping to overwhelm them and break through the trench lines the article notes that this approach has proved effective at times bringing the Russian army victories in many places like bakut eastern Ukraine but Ukrainian and Western officials say that the tactics have been less successful this spring as Russia tried to take land near the city of harke American officials say that Russia achieved a critical objective of President Vladimir Putin’s and that’s creating a buffer zone along the border to make it more difficult for the ukrainians to strike into the country but the drive did not threaten karev and was ultimately stopped by Ukrainian defenses the article also notes that while Russian casualties have spiked at other times especially during the assault on adiva and bakut but the assaults on those cities were spread out over several months the push in May both outside of harke and along the Eastern Front involved more intense periods of Russian wave attacks British Military Intelligence analysts said that Russia’s casualties in May which they put at an average of 1,200 a day were the highest since the War Began Russian soldiers have said on telegram the social media platform that their units are suffering High casualties and some say that their ranks are being cut down by drones machine gun fire and artillery barges the New York Times says that Russia’s use of infantry and wave attacks reflects one of his advantages in the war it’s popular population is much larger than Ukraine given its bigger pool of potential recruits but the casualties have forced Russia to ship new recruits to Ukraine relatively quickly meaning the soldiers sent to the front lines are poorly trained Russia has yet again raised dangers of further escalation of the situation in Ukraine due to continued supply of Us weapons to keev Russian defense minister Andre bosov spoke to his American counter Lloyd Austin over the phone on Tuesday the latest interaction comes on the back of the Kremlin War in the United States of consequences after the Ukrainian strike on Crimea using a US made atams missiles this video of the missil strike Ino that killed four people has raised a storm with President Putin himself warning that NATO would pay the US blames Russia for the fighting reiterating that Crimea unilaterally annexed by Moscow in 2014 remains a part of Ukraine then on Tuesday there were media reports of a Russian plane Downing a US drone over the Black Sea both countries have denied the encounter it again goes back to Western weapon shipments to Ukraine that have become an increasingly sore point or sour point for Moscow Russian President Vladimir Putin has questioned in May why Moscow could not do the same for fors of the West like North Korea on a visit to pongyang early this month Putin had said he does not rule out sending weapons there the two countries have even signed a mutual defense PCT Putin also warned South Korea not to arm Ukraine Russian shelling killed four people and injured three others including an 8-year-old child in East Ukrainian town of uh on uh Friday New York and the nearby Frontline town of res have since mid June suffered intense Russian bombardment and artillery fire as the Kremlin seek to advance in the Eastern dones region a Russian shell in New York destroyed the entrance of a five-story building killing four civilians a 39-year-old woman and her 8-year-old daughter were injured in Ukraine’s Northeastern karv region where Moscow launched a major ground assault in May Russian shelling in the morning killed a woman in a border Village the interior Ministry has said this she shelling also injured two people including a 70-year-old woman in the southern Kon region meanwhile Russia’s Army said it seized a small village in Ukraine’s Eastern dones region the defense Ministry said its troops had liberated the settlement of Ros do Ros doka around 20 kilm North of bako that Moscow captured last year Ukrainian troops have lost ground to Russia this year as they face ammunition shortages and exhaustion more than two years into the war monthly civilian casualties have also shown no signs of subsiding reaching an 11mon high of at least 174 verified deaths in May as per the United Nations Ukraine’s president has said that he was drawing up a comprehensive plan meanwhile for how KF believes the war with Russia should end there are no public talks ongoing between Ukraine and Russia zinsky said it is very important to show a plan to end the war that will be supported by the majority of the world this is the diplomatic route we are working on that’s what he said at the press conference in KF alongside the Slovenian president as Russia and Ukraine continue to trade both threats and attacks the US is in the picture yet again over its supply of weapons to keev after Moscow blamed Washington for Ukraine’s recent attack on Crimea and vowed Revenge the defense Chiefs of the two Nations engaged in a rare conversation the two sides gave widely Divergent accounts of the phone call between us defense secretary Lloyd Austin and Russia’s defense minister Andre bov the Pentagon says Austin initiated the conversation and that he believes that keeping lines of communication open is important Russia’s defense Ministry however says that bosov has warned Austin of the dangers of continued arm Supply to Ukraine and this is not the first warning of its kind the Kremlin warned the US of consequences after Ukraine struck cria cesto during the weekend using a US made atam missile these threats CLE back to Western weapon shipments to Ukraine that have become an increasingly sour point for Moscow but as bov engaged in talks the previous postolder Former Defense Minister SAR Shu was issued a warrant of arrest at the IC and Shu was not alone Russia’s most military officer General Valerie gasimov was also hit with an arrest warrant of the strikes against civilian Target the has said that it considers the Warren to be absur adding that Russia does not recognize the Court’s Jurisdiction but even as the international criminal court delivered a stinging condemnation of Russia’s Invasion Russia launched 42 Glide bombs on the northeastern har region over a 24-hour period and this according to local authorities on the other hand multiple air tanks by Ukraine were reported on the southern Russian region of belgorod the governor said an elderly woman was killed four people were injured and scores of buildings were damaged Russia’s defense Ministry said its air defense systems destroyed 29 Ukraine launched drones over the region meanwhile Russia and Ukraine each handed backed 90 prisoners of War on Tuesday with the Arab or the United Arab Emirates overseeing The Exchange as an intermediary Russia said prisoners brought home had faced mortal danger in captivity this is the latest of several periodic swamps in the 28th month old conflict let’s now talk more about this retired colel rich outzen is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and the Jamestown Foundation he is now joining us from gaziantep tur carel Rich good to see you and thank you very much for joining us at this hour what do you think will be Ukraine’s or kev’s response to the two defense Ministers of America and Russia holding a conversation and saying that uh they’ll keep their line of communication open well uh it’s good to be with you Eric I I think ke’s in an interesting situation here because it has conditional support from the United States rather than unconditional support so it’s fighting a war a def offensive war against the aggressor Russia uh with one eye behind uh its front always thinking how much will the US allow us to do and being put in the position of having to press the United States for more authorities now the systems that we’ve given uh including the now the f-16s that are coming online atacam missiles as you mentioned before uh artillery systems that can shoot further and see further uh have been kept under a certain leash the United States has tried to play a control game in terms of escalation to try to not attack on the Russian territory even though the Russians are of course attacking throughout the depth of Ukrainian territory in order to limit how how this goes so the the concept here is uh horizontal escalation rather than vertical escalation the United States wants to keep it from going too high in terms of the types of weapons and maybe becoming a direct us Russia conflict and instead letting at the margins this becomes certain types of systems allowed to attacks say in Crimea or in belgrad as you mentioned so there is some horizontal escalation being played for Ukraine I think they just have to keep pushing the envelope they they have to keep convincing Washington that look if you really don’t want us to lose this war don’t have one of our our hands tie behinds our back we need to be able to hit the aggressor as deep in his country as he is hitting Us in ours Conor Rich despite Russia saying that uh now that we are talking we cannot forget what happened in Copo in Crimea where the aracan missiles were used by Ukrainian forces to hit civilians and 150 civilians were injured in that attack uh four people were killed in that attack Russia says that Washington will face consequences what do you think these consequences are well I think Russia’s implying by this that they will uh try to have systems put close to either the United States or to uh allies of the United States that can put into Peril uh civilian targets as well to as as if there is a parallel there of course the difference being that the United States has not launched an offensive war against a major sovereign country like Ukraine which is what Russia has done so the uh implication from Russia that we will put you in the same sort of peril that that you’re putting us in ignores the moral dimension of the fact that they are aggressor that put aside though we’ve seen this before during the Cold War Russia put missiles in Cuba uh to try to threaten the United States at the same time that we the United States had missiles in Turkey where I happen to be at the moment that were in a position to to uh conduct attacks against the Soviet Union in that case neither side escalated into a direct Soviet versus American uh escalation after John F Kennedy took certain strong deterrent steps then both sides stepped back from that so I think Russia’s probably probably trying to do the inverse of that they are probably trying to get the United States to back down from allowing Ukraine a greater leash in the use of its defensive weapons by implying the ability to threaten either the US Homeland or us allies the difference here of course is that Russia I don’t think really has the ability to do that and and neither in their strategic Arsenal nor in their uh set of allies along our borders and frankly I don’t think they want to go into that escalation game with us if they got a president willing to play escalation right other than the current soft Administration they might find themselves uh incurring significantly higher costs very quickly Cano rich as we end this conversation uh what do you think will be the impact of uh this threats by Russia that if you continue to the West that is that if you continue to supply Ukraine with your weapons we will Revenge we will come for you well unfortunately think it’ll have some effect uh the Biden Administration has shown a willingness to do what we call self-d deterrence by consistantly thinking well if we make the Russians mad or if we escalate to a point that the Russians find unacceptable we can’t incur those costs of course that’s not how escalation Works escalation works when or deterrence Works in in escalation when you convince the other side that they don’t know the cost they’ll incur and when you imply what we certainly don’t want to incur costs up to this level which is what the Biden Administration has again and again communicated to Russia then Russia knows exactly how far it can go introducing to Russia the idea that they don’t know how much pain we can inflict on them and that we’re willing to go higher is the way to stop their acts of aggression and they’re escalating aggression unfortunately against this current uh counterpart that they have in the Biden Administration I think that they’re uh talking about escalation in this way probably will get the Biden Administration to put further rest restrictions on what Ukraine does all right we’ll have to leave it there I’ve been talking to Koo richen senior fellow at the Atlantic counil and the Jamestown Foundation Cano rich as always thank you thank you Hamas wants Russia to stand as a gantar for any future ceasefire agreements with Israel it believes the US an ally of Israel is not working to reach a seafire deal until the war in Gaza is finished Israel has issued a warning to Hamas to accept the United Nations backed deal or face consequences meeting Russia’s Deputy foreign minister in Moscow head of amasis foreign relations pledged to secure the release of remaining Russian hostages from Gaza he say the reason for calling on Russia to act as a guarant for future agreements is because it has a more balanced perspective on the war compared to the US amas leaders in Doha have reportedly told Palestinian Representatives that they believe the Biden Administration will increase pressure on Israel for a deal when it departs from Rafa and completes its mission in Gaza meanwhile concluding his visit to Washington Israel’s defense minister yav Gallant has threatened Hamas that it will bear the consequences if it does not accept United Nations endorsed proposal for hostage and trueu steal galland clarified that Israel’s conflict is not with the citizens of Gaza or Lebanon but specifically with Hamas Hezbollah and the Iranian regime stand firmly behind the president’s deal which Israel has accepted and now Hamas must accept or bear the consequences but let it be known that our war is not with the people of Gaza our war is not with the people of Lebanon our war is against Hamas against hisbah and their beers the Iranian regime in a major setback for Hamas an Israeli aircraft eliminated wisam Abu asak a Hamas weapons Smuggler in southern Gaza wisam Abu asak was known for directing smuggling operations bringing in weapons into Gaza through the Rafa Crossing and other underground tunnels meanwhile the IDF says its soldiers along with the Shin Bet and the security guard arrested 31 wanted persons throughout Judea and Samaria in the West Bank many of those arrested were associated with Hamas coming down heavily on Netanyahu and pledging his support to Lebanon takish president reip T Edan said that the Israeli Prime Minister planned to spread the Gaza War to the region warning that it would lead to a catastrophe I’m saying this clearly nyah’s plan to spread the war to the region with the consent of the West will lead to a catastrophe the Islamic world and brotherly countries in the Middle East need to react to this bloody Plan before the West as the war in West Asia spills over Iran has expressed its reservations over Iraqi militias planning to support Hezbollah in the event of a fullscale war according to sources Iran wanted to supply Hezbollah with arms and redeploy Iraqi militias in Syria without attracting Israeli air strikes however they are yet to go ahead with the plan as Russia and Ukraine continue to trade both threats and attacks the United States is in the picture yet again of its supply of weapons to keev after Moscow blamed Washington for Ukraine’s recent attack on Crimea and vowed Revenge the defense Chiefs or the two Nations engaged in a rare conversation the two sides gave widely Divergent accounts of the phone call between us defense secretary Lloyd Austin and Russia’s defense minister Andre bosov the Pentagon says Austin initiated the conversation and that he believes that keeping lines of communication open is important Russia’s defense Ministry however says that bosov has warned Austin of the dangers of continued arm Supply to Ukraine and this is not the first warning of its kind the cremelin warned the US of consequences after Ukraine struck crimea’s C sto during the weekend using a us- made aram’s missile these threats ccle back to Western weapon shipments to Ukraine that have become an increasingly sour point for Moscow but as belov engaged in talks the previous postolder for defense minister Sarge shyu was issued a warrant of arrest by the IC and shyu was not alone Russia’s most senior military officer General Valerie gasimov was also hit with an arrest warrant over strikes against civilian targets the Kremlin has said that it considers the warrant to be absur adding that Russia does not recognize the Court’s Jurisdiction but even as the international criminal court delivered a stinging condemnation of Russia’s Invasion Russia launched 42 GL bombs on the northeastern har region over a 24-hour period And this is according to local authorities on the other end multiple air attacks by Ukraine were reported on the southern Russian region of belgorod the governor said an elderly woman was killed four people were injured and scores of buildings were damaged Russia’s defense Ministry says its air defense systems destroyed 29 Ukraine launched drones over the region meanwhile Russia and Ukraine each handed back 90 pron prisoners of War on Tuesday with the United Arab Emirates overseeing The Exchange as an intermediary Masia said prisoners brought home had faced mortal danger in captivity this is the latest of several periodic swaps in the 28th Monon old conflict and for more on this we earlier spoke to retired colel Rich outen who’s a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and the Jamestown foundation and this is what he had to say [Music] well I think Russia’s implying by this that they will uh try to have systems put close to either the United States uh or to uh allies of the United States that can put into Peril uh civilian targets as well as as if there is a parallel there of course the difference being that the United States has not launched an offensive war against a major sovereign country like Ukraine which is what Russia has done so the uh implication from Russia that we will put in the same sort of peril that that you’re putting us in ignores the moral dimension of the fact that they are aggressor that put aide though we’ve seen this before during the Cold War Russia put missiles in Cuba uh to try to threaten the United States at the same time that we the United States had missiles in Turkey where I happen to be at the moment that were in a position to to uh conduct attacks against the Soviet Union in that case neither side escalated into a direct Soviet versus American uh escalation after John F Kennedy took certain strong deterrent steps then both sides stepped back from that so I think Russia’s probably probably trying to do the inverse of that they are probably trying to get the United States to back down from allowing Ukraine a greater leash in the use of its defensive weapons by implying the ability to threaten either the US Homeland or us allies the difference here of course is that Russia I don’t think really has the ability to do that and and neither in their strategic Arsenal nor in their uh set of allies along our orders and frankly I don’t think they want to go into that escalation game with us if they got a president willing to play escalation right other than the current soft Administration they might find themselves uh incurring significantly higher costs and our top focus on beond at this hour Russia’s Navy is to receive more than 40 ships and boots in 2024 said President Vladimir Putin at a meeting on ship building Putin cited year on-year statistics and according to those the Navy has was provided with 24 new ships and boats in 2022 33 in 2023 and 40 are planned to be handed over in 2024 this to drastically improve its combat potential and strengthen its position in the ocean Russia has kept up the pressure on the front line Putin’s troops launched around 100 deadly Glide bombs and dozens of drones across the border with Ukraine in the past 24 hours Russia has sharpened its knives after the Ukrainian attack on Crimea which Vladimir Putin which the Vladimir Putin LED country said was conducted using us made missiles and Russia has blamed us for the Crimea attack meanwhile the US and Russian defense Chiefs spoke on the telephone us defense secretary Lloyd Austin initiated the call with Russia’s defense minister Andre belov it was the first such call since March last year during the call belov is said to have warned Austin of the dangers of the continued us arms supplies to Ukraine Russian troops destroyed three us made himar multiple launch rocket systems being used by Ukraine in the past 24 hours as well while a Russian satellite has broken up into more than 100 pieces of debris in orbit forcing astronauts on the International Space Station to take shelter the US space command in a statement said that there were no immediate details on what caused the breakup now the resar P1 Russian Earth observation satellite which was decommissioned in 2022 uh with the Fate with a fateful incident uh NASA’s Space Station officer in a statement said that the event occurred in an orbit near the space station promoting us astronauts on board to take shelter in their spacecraft for roughly an hour the US space command which has its own Global Network of space tracking Radars said the satellite immediately created over 100 pieces of trackable Dey now Russia sparked International Fury in 2021 when it struck one of its defunct satellites in orbit with a groundbased anti- satellite missile creating thousands of pieces of debris to test a weapon system ahead of its 2022 invasion of Ukraine the prospect of satellite collisions and the Space Warfare have added urgency to calls from space advocates and lawyers to have countries establish an international mechanism of managing Space Traffic which does not currently exist despite all the inroads that Russian troops are reported to be making in the Ukrainian defense its Army seems to be suffering massive Soldier fatalities on the battlefield the New York Times is reporting that may was particularly deadly for the Russian army in Ukraine it says that according to us British and other Western intelligence agencies more than a thousand of Russian soldiers were injured or killed each day the report adds that despite its losses Russia is recruiting 25,000 to 30,000 new soldiers a month us officials say that this has allowed the Russian army to keep sending waves after wave of troops to Ukrainian defenses hoping to overwhelm them and break through the trench lines the article notes that this approach has proved effective at times bringing the Russian army victory victories in many places like bakut eastern Ukraine but Ukrainian and Western officials say that the tactics have been less successful this spring as Russia tried to take land near the city of harke American officials say that Russia achieved a critical objective of President Vladimir Putin’s and that’s creating a buffer zone along the border to make it more difficult for the ukrainians to strike into the country but the drive did not threaten Kar and was ultimately stopped by Ukrainian defenses the article also notes that while Russian casualties have spiked at other times especially during the assault on adiva and bakut but the assaults on those cities were spread out over several months the push in May both outside of K and along the Eastern Front involved more intense periods of Russian wave attacks British Military Intelligence analysts said that Russia’s casualties in May which they put at an average of 1,200 a day were the highest since the War Began Russian soldiers have said on telegram the social media platform that their units are suffering High casualties and some say that their ranks are being cut down by drones machine gun fire and artillery barges the New York Times says that Russia’s use of infantry and wave attacks reflects one of his advantages in the war its population is much larger than Ukraine given its bigger pool of potential recruits but the casualties have forced Russia to ship new recruits to Ukraine relatively quickly meaning the soldiers sent to the front lines are poorly trained Russia has yet again raised dangers of further escalation of the situation in Ukraine due to continued supply of Us weapons to ke Russian defense minister Andre bosov spoke to his American counter Lloyd Austin over the phone on Tuesday the latest interaction comes on the back of the Kremlin War in the United States of consequences after the Ukrainian strike on Crimea using a us- made atams missiles this video of the missile strike in copol that killed four people has raised a storm with President Putin himself warning that NATO would pay the US blames Russia for the fighting reiterating that Crimea unilaterally annexed by Moscow in 2014 remains a part of Ukraine then on Tuesday there were media reports of a Russian plane Downing a US drone over the Black Sea both countries have have denied the encounter it again goes back to Western weapon shipments to Ukraine that have become an increasingly sore point or sour point for Moscow Russian President Vladimir Putin has questioned in May why Moscow could not do the same for foes of the West like North Korea on a visit to pongyang only this month Putin had said he does not rule out sending weapons there the two countries have even signed a Mutual defense PCT Putin also warned South Korea not to arm Ukraine Russian shelling killed four people and injured three others including an 8-year-old child in East Ukrainian town of on uh Friday New York and the nearby Frontline town of tesque have since mid June suffered intense Russian bombardment and artillery fire as the Kremlin seeks to advance in the Eastern dones region a Russian shell in New York destroyed the entrance of a five-story building killing four civilians a 39-year-old woman and her 8-year-old daughter were injured in Ukraine’s Northeastern KV region where Moscow launched a major ground assault in May Russian shelling in the morning killed a woman in a border Village the interior Ministry has said this shelling also injured two people including a 70-year-old woman in the southern Kon region meanwhile Russia’s Army said it seized a small village in Ukraine’s Eastern dones region the defense Ministry said its troops had liberated the settlement of Ros do Ros doka around 20 kilm North of Bako that Moscow captured last year Ukrainian troops have lost ground to Russia this year as they face ammunition shortages and exhaustion more than two years into the war monthly civilian casualties have also shown no signs of subsiding reaching an 11mon high of at least 174 verified deaths in May as per the United Nations Ukraine’s president has said that he was drawing up a comprehensive plan meanwhile for how Kev believes the war with Russia should end there are no public talks ongoing between Ukraine and Russia zinski said it is very important to show a plan to end the war that will be supported by the majority of the world this is the Diplomatic route we are working on that’s what he said at the press conference in KF alongside the Slovenian president as Russia and Ukraine continue to trade both threats and attacks the US is in the picture yet again of its supply of weapons to ke after Moscow blamed Washington for Ukraine’s recent attack on Crimea and vowed Revenge the defense Chiefs of the two Nations engaged in a rare conversation the two sides gave widely Divergent accounts of the phone call between us defense secretary Lloyd Austin and Russia’s defense minister Andre belov the Pentagon says Austin initiated the conversation and that he believes that keeping lines of communication open is important Russia’s defense Ministry however says that bov has warned Austin of the dangers of continued arm Supply to Ukraine and this is not the first warning of its kind the Kremlin warned the US of consequences after Ukraine struck cria Copo during the weekend using a us-made atam missile these threats SLE back to Western weapon shipments to Ukraine that have become an increas inly sour point for Moscow but as bov engaged in talks the previous postolder Former Defense Minister Sarge Shu was issued a warrant of arrest by the ICC and Shu was not alone Russia’s most senior military officer General Valerie gasimov was also hit with an arrest warrant over strikes against civilian targets has said that it consider as the Warren to be absur adding that Russia does not recognize the Court’s Jurisdiction but even as the international criminal court delivered a stinging condemnation of Russia’s Invasion Russia launched 42 Glide bombs on the northeastern har region over a 24-hour period and this according to local authorities on the other hand multiple air attacks by Ukraine were reported on the southern Russian region of belar the governor said an elderly woman was killed four people were injured and scores of buildings were damaged Ed Russia’s defense Ministry said its air defense systems destroyed 29 Ukraine launched drones over the region meanwhile Russia and Ukraine each handed bed 90 prisoners of War on Tuesday with the Arab or the United Arab Emirates overseen The Exchange as an intermediary Russia said prisoners brought home had faced mortal danger in captivity this is the latest of several periodic swamps in the 28th month old conflict let’s now talk more about this retired colel rich outen is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and the Jamestown Foundation he is now joining us from gaziantep tur carel Rich good to see you and thank you very much for joining us at this hour what do you think will be Ukraine’s or kev’s response to the two defense Ministers of America and Russia holding a conversation and saying that uh they’ll keep their line of communication open well uh it’s good to be with you Eric I I think ke’s in an interesting situation here because it has conditional support from the United States rather than an unconditional support so it’s fighting a war a defensive war against the aggressor Russia uh with one eye behind uh its front always thinking how much will the US allow us to do and being put in the position of having to press the United States for more authorities now the systems that we’ve given uh including that now the f-16s that are coming online aam’s missiles as you mentioned before uh artillery systems that can shoot further and see further uh have been kept under a certain leash the United States has tried to play a control game in terms of escalation to try to not attack on the Russian territory even though the Russians are of course attacking throughout the depth of Ukrainian territory in order to limit how how this goes so the the concept here is uh horizontal escalation rather than vertical escalation the United States wants to keep it from going too high in terms of the types of weapons and maybe becoming a direct us Russia conflict and instead letting at the margins this becomes certain types of systems allowed to attack say in Crimea or in Bel garad as you mentioned so there is some horizontal escalation being played for Ukraine I think they just have to keep pushing the envelope they they have to keep convincing Washington that look if you really don’t want us to lose this war don’t have one of our our hands tied behinds our back we need to be able to hit the aggressor as deep in his country as he is hitting Us in ours Cano Rich despite Russia saying that uh now that we’re talking we cannot forget what happened in Copo in Crimea where the arams missiles were used by Ukrainian forces to hit civilians and 150 civilians were injured in that attack uh four people were killed in that attack Russia says that Washington will face consequences what do you think these consequences are well I think Russia’s implying by this that they will uh try to have systems put close to either the United States uh or to uh allies of the United States that can put into Peril uh civilian targets as as well as as if there is a parallel there of course the difference being that the United States has not launched an offensive war against the a major sovereign country like Ukraine which is what Russia has done so the uh implication from Russia that we will put you in the same sort of peril that that you’re putting us in ignores the moral dimension of the fact that they are aggressor that put aide though we’ve seen this before during the Cold War Russia put missiles in Cuba uh to try to threaten the United States at the same time that we the United States had missiles in Turkey where I happen to be at the moment that were in a position to to uh conduct attacks against the Soviet Union and that case neither side escalated into a direct Soviet versus American uh escalation after John F Kennedy took certain strong deterrent steps then both sides stepped back from that so I think Russia’s probably probably trying to do the inverse of that they are probably trying to get the United States to back down from allowing Ukraine a greater leash in the use of its defensive weapons by implying the ability to threaten either the US Homeland or us allies the difference here of course is that Russia I don’t think really has the ability to do that and and neither in their strategic Arsenal nor in their uh set of allies along our borders and frankly I don’t think they want to go into that escalation game with us if they got a president willing to play escalation right other than the current soft Administration they might find themselves uh incurring significantly higher costs very quickly conel rich as we end this conversation uh what do you think will be the impact of uh this threats by Russia that if you continue to the West that is that if you continue to supply Ukraine with your weapons we will Revenge we will come for you well unfortunately I think it’ll have some effect uh the Biden Administration has shown a willingness to do what we call self-d deterrence by consistently thinking well if we make the Russians mad or if we escalate to a point that the Russians find unacceptable we can’t incur those costs of course that’s not how escalation Works escalation works when or deterrence Works in in escalation when you convince the other side that they don’t know the cost they’ll incur and when you imply we certainly don’t want to incur costs up to this level which is what the Biden Administration has again and again communicated to Russia then Russia knows exactly how far it can go introducing to Russia the idea that they don’t know how much pain we can inflict on them and that we’re willing to go higher is the way to stop their acts of aggression and their escalating aggression unfortunately against this current uh counterpart that they have in the Biden Administration I think that they’re uh talking about escalation in this way probably will get the Biden Administration to put further restrictions on what Ukraine does all right we’ll have to leave it there I’ve been talking to Caro richen senior fellow and the Atlantic Council and the Jamestown Foundation canor rich as always thank you thank you Hamas wants Russia to stand as a guarant for any future ceasefire agreements with Israel it believes the US an ally of Israel is not working to reach a ceasefire deal until the war in Gaza is finished Israel has issued a warning to Hamas to accept the United Nations backed deal or face consequences meeting Russia’s Deputy foreign minister in Moscow head of amasis foreign relations pledged to secure the release of remaining Russian hostages from Gaza he say the reason for calling on Russia to act as a guaran for future agreements is because it has a more balanced perspective on the war compared to the US Hamas leaders in Doha have reportedly told Palestinian Representatives that they believe the Biden Administration will only increase pressure on Israel for a deal when it departs from Rafa and completes its mission in Gaza meanwhile concluding his visit to Washington Israel’s defense minister y of galland has threatened Hamas that it will bear the consequences if it does not accept United Nations endorsed proposal for hostage and true steal galland clarified that Israel’s conflict is not with the citizens of Gaza or Lebanon but specifically with Hamas Hezbollah and the Iranian regime stand firmly behind the president’s deal which Israel has accepted and now Hamas must accept or bear the consequences but let it be known that our war is not with the people of Gaza our war is not with the people of Lebanon our war is against Hamas against hisbah and their beers the Iranian regime in a major setback for Hamas an Israeli aircraft eliminated wisam Abu ashak Mass weapons Smuggler in southern Gaza wisam Abu asak was known for directing smuggling operations bringing in weapons into Gaza through the Rafa Crossing and other underground tunnels meanwhile the IDF says its soldiers along with the shinb and the security guard arrested 31 wanted persons throughout Judea and Samaria in the West Bank many of those arrested were associated with Hamas coming down heavily on Netanyahu and pledging his support to Lebanon Turkish president reib T Edan said that the Israeli Prime Minister planned to spread the Gaza War to the region warning that it would lead to a catastrophe I’m saying this clearly nany’s plan to spread the war to the region with the consent of the West will lead to a catastrophe the Islamic world and brotherly countries in the Middle East need to react to this bloody Plan before the West as the war in West Asia spills over Iran has expressed its reservations over Iraqi militias planning to support Hezbollah in a event of a fullscale war according to sources Iran wanted to supply Hezbollah with arms and redeploy Iraqi militias in Syria without attracting Israeli air strikes however they are yet to go ahead with a plan as Russia and Ukraine continue to trade both threats and attacks the United States is in the picture yet again of its supply of weapons to keev after Moscow blamed Washington for Ukraine’s recent attack on Crimea and vowed Revenge the defense Chiefs of the two Nations engaged in a rare conversation the two sides gave widely Divergent accounts of the phone call between us defense secretary Lloyd Austin and Russia’s defense minister Andre bosov the Pentagon says Austin initiated the conversation and that he believes that keeping lines of communication open is important Russia’s defense Ministry however says that bosov has warned Austin of the dangers of continued arm Supply to Ukraine and this is not the first warning of its kind the Kremlin warned the US of consequences after Ukraine struck crimea’s C too during the weekend using a US made atams missile these threats Circle back to Western weapon shipments to Ukraine that have become an increasingly sour point for Moscow but as belov engaged in talks the previous post holder Former Defense Minister Sarge shyu was issued a warrant of arrest by the IC and shig was not alone Russia’s most senior military officer General Valerie G sov was also hit with an arrest warrant over strikes against civilian targets the Kremlin has said that it considers the warrant to be absurd adding that Russia does not recognize the Court’s Jurisdiction but even as the international criminal court delivered a stinging condemnation of Russia’s Invasion Russia launched 42 Glide bombs on the northeastern har region over a 24-hour period And this is according to local authorities on the other end multiple air attacks by Ukraine were reported on the southern Russian region of belgorod the governor said an elderly woman was killed four people were injured and scores of buildings were damaged Russia’s defense Ministry says its air defense systems destroyed 29 Ukraine launched drones over the region meanwhile Russia and Ukraine each handed backed 90 prisoners of War on Tuesday with the United Arab Emirates overseeing The Exchange as an intermediary Russia said prisoners brought home had faced mortal danger and captivity this is the latest of several periodic swaps in the 28th month old conflict and for more on this we earlier spoke to retired colel Rich outen who was a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and the Jamestown foundation and this is what he had to [Music] say well I think Russia’s implying by this that they will uh try to have systems put close to either the United States uh or to uh allies of the United States that can put into Peril uh civilian targets as well as as if there is a parallel there of course the difference being that the United States has not launched an offensive war against a major sovereign country like Ukraine which is what Russia has done so the uh implication from Russia that we will put you in the same sort of peril that that you’re putting us in ignores the moral dimension of the fact that they are aggressor that put aide though we’ve seen this before during the Cold War Russia put missiles in Cuba uh to try to threaten the United States at the same time that we the United States had missiles in Turkey where I happen to be at the moment that were in a position to to uh conduct attacks against the Soviet Union in that case neither side escalated into a direct Soviet versus American uh escalation after John F Kennedy took certain strong deterrent steps then both sides stepped back from that so I think Russia’s probably probably trying to do the inverse of that they are probably trying to get the United States to back down from allowing Ukraine a greater leash in the use of its defensive weapons by implying the ability to threaten either the US Homeland or us allies the difference here of course is that Russia I don’t think really has the ability to do that and and neither in their strategic Arsenal nor in their uh set of allies along our borders and frankly I don’t think they want to go into that escalation game with us if they got a president willing to play escalation right other than the current soft Administration they might find them elves uh incurring significantly higher costs and our top focus on weon at this hour Russia’s Navy is to receive more than 40 ships and boats in 2024 said President Vladimir Putin at a meeting on ship building Putin cited a year on year statistics and according to those the Navy has was provided with 24 new ships and boats in 2022 33 in 2023 and 40 are planned to be handed over in 2024 this to drastically improve its combat potential and strengthen its position in the ocean Russia has kept up the pressure on the front line Putin’s troops launched around 100 deadly Glide bombs and dozens of drones across the border with Ukraine in the past 24 hours Russia has sharpened its knives after the Ukrainian attack on Crimea which Vladimir Putin which the Vladimir Putin LED country said was conducted using us made missiles and Russia has blamed us for the Crimea attack meanwhile the US and Russian defense Chiefs spoke on the telephone us defense secretary Lloyd Austin initiated the call with Russia’s defense minister Andre belov it was the first such call since March last year during the call belov is said to have warned Austin of the dangers of the continued us arms supplies to Ukraine
Russian shelling killed four people and injured three others including an eight-year-old child, in the east Ukrainian town of New York on Friday. Watch in for more details!
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