RT News - February 23 2022 (12:00 MSK)

Tensions mount in Donbass with a massive explosion going off near a TV station in Donetsk and the newly-recognized Republic accusing Ukraine, of ratcheting-up its shelling attacks. A fresh wave of sanctions targeting Moscow are triggered by the West, but Russia warns it's the global energy market on which the most pain will be inflicted. That as it defends it's decision to protect the Russian-speaking population of Donbass. More than 90,000 have fled the violence there in recent days by crossing the border into neighboring Russia. RT speaks to some of the refugees.