in between, join me as i take on the life dismantled misconceptions and the meet, the contradictions are mark lamond hill and it's hardly get up front on al jazeera with another day and nights of intense shelling in ukraine's. maria paul, the mass says 12 days of russian bombardment killed 1500 people. ah, well i'm darn jordan. you watching out 0 coverage of the war in ukraine. people scrambling to escape the capital as russian units found out, preparing for feared all out assault. brushes, military describes a catastrophic situation in some cities. the says it's ukrainian fighters,

not to blame us. colds grow louder around the world. peace france says russia's president showing no winning with france as russian president vladimir putin, as shown. he's not ready to make peace some a day that air raid sirens were heard in cities across ukraine. russian forces are funding out around keith and have moved to within 25 kilometers of the capitol center. things are getting drastically worse in the besieged and bombarded port city of mario pole where civilians have been fighting over what little supplies i left mc alive in the south. west is also under heavy bombardment russian troops. they're expected to move west towards odessa, another port city. if it's taken, it will cut ukraine off from its coast. but we have correspondence right across the ukraine will begin with natasha butler, whose m looks in the north west. aah! sunrise in keys. once again,

the sound of done far in the distance as russian forces come, ever closer to your cranes capital southwest. the city plumes of smoke rise above an oil depot in vessel keith, ukrainian forces said the phi began after a russian air strike. some western intelligence officials say moscow's invasion is slower than expected. but the pace of russia's true movement means little to people in places like the southern city of villa nova. ha, we're not a dilemma. look, we were sitting in basements, and they were walking around everywhere, shooting. we couldn't leave the basement for over a day. then i walked up to a soldier and i said, boys, my mom is bedridden up there. she's a grandma and i can't go up there. the guys want to help me bring her down into the basement. but when we went up there, she had already died. it was already too late in hockey's emergency workers search for survivors in what's left of an apartment block beast and city has been shelled for days by russian forces, as has chosen

a heave in the north of ukraine. reminders the pastor everywhere in the city. but the present is relentlessly bleak, or a pro daughter. none of the enemy is continuing air and rocket shelling of the city of churney eve. the peaceful population is dying and there are many injured. the enemy is heading civilian infrastructure. western ukraine has been spared the worst of the conflict for now, but things could be changing. in litski, a russian missile attack destroyed an air field on the city's outskirts for soldiers were killed in the attack on the air field. the funeral of to them just taken place in this church in the center of the city. the lair of lusk says the people here they won't be intimidated by russian forces. people us to little scared her. but we're hello to look back in our city. we don't see

her little lead in our city would on sierra fiduciary in our city and we are still ah, we are still believe that ukraine or william lavano litski is a 110 kilometers from the border with rushes allied. belarus, some ukrainian official say better russian troops could join the war of the site. that's unlikely than we are. don't go yoga is they want to come here, let them come, but who will destroy them and send them back in body bags were yelled when was her daughter. i hope the lewis will reconsider their position. there's enough. war is a massacre. a shelter in the city is now home for via ch, his love in his family. he says they fled more than a week of unbearable russian shelling his children cried every day. litski is close to belarus, but it's also not far from the polish border. beatrice love says they could go to germany, but for now he just feels lost. when it, when he was a brother,

they took everything from me. i had a comfortable house, the kids all had their own room on us. now. where will i go? hello someone and for what? i'll have to start from scratch when her on that 20 anymore. and 41 if we did ye. the people who caught up in this war there are painful decisions. often there are no choices. parents across ukraine are struggling, trapped in a terrible situation. they didn't create, holding their children's futures in their hands. natasha butler al jazeera litski, northwest ukraine. out to zeros that fasten as asked ukraine's president about the mental strain he's under. after more than 2 weeks of war, a lot of years lensky took questions from journalists in a secure, compelling key. my name is step foster from al jazeera english bombing, children's hospitals, maternity wards, residential areas. they seem to be part of the strategy to force you to surrender.

this is clearly not working, but it must have an enormous impact on you mentally shuttle switch day regarding the children and the beautiful mothers and what happened to them. how can any normal person react to this? well, it's simply inactive terrorism, another one. unfortunately, this is like a tragic tv series about acts of terrorism. when this is happened elsewhere in europe, like when there's been an attack on a metro station, everyone was shocked to day rule apparently used to it not. i don't want to be used to it already heavily guarded. the president has just left this room. but this kind of appearance of a very important not only for the ukrainian army, for the civil defense, but also for a lot of civilians who are staying behind here. in kia and in the rest of the country to fight this war. the buses are bringing more people into key from other parts of the country affected by the fighting. they're hoping to get on to trains and get to safety in the west. but at the same time, russian forces on moving into positions around the capital, m and con,

report a desperate scramble to get on a train out of keith. but most of these people aren't residents of the capitol. they've come from places like a been and butcher on the outskirts of people, places that have seen the worst of the war so far in this region. they sit in shocked silence. women like svetlana, still trying to understand what they've seen of detail in that numbers. our home was destroyed, an explosion blew up the windows doors and everything. all the people who lived in the building round to the basement. we moved to another part of the city to find a friend's house, but the bombardments continued even there. the russian tanks kept firing at our houses, and this is what a flame andres, a volunteer coordinator at the central station. his job is to make sure those fleeing from outside to keep can get help. most he says show visible signs of

psychological trauma or a priori now is a hot lion is air being is a vulture, is of or 0 is sir gastorm and this line, okay. and are actually there really shocked by all these things happening are they didn't expect the russian army to his civilians, to hid their civilian houses. and they never believed it. but they really honor of fire. undoubted sags is destroyed. good houses, many people's cue. the cities already 50 percent evacuated, most of those people actually left in the early days of the war. the priority now is to get people from other front lines like moocher, like a pain in to keith and then into this station and get them out in anyways, keep central station has become evacuation, centralization, tis of relief and sadness as the train leaves the station. besides what few

belongings they can carry, they also carry the horrors of what they witnessed, unsure. also, when they might see their home again, whether that home will still be stanley. m wrong con. our dessert. keep central station rosters, military says the situation in some ukrainian cities is catastrophic. but during its latest briefing, it said ukrainian fighters on their allies are to blame. when you've done this, you do it so no green you. the humanitarian situation in ukraine unfortunately continues to rapidly rawson, and in some cities has reached catastrophic proportions. armed ukrainian forces mines in the residential areas near destroying bridges and infrastructure as little as a result of those criminal actions against their own people. this is the action of the ukrainian authorities. i did. those people are forced to survive without eating food, water, or medication tomorrow. good. well the city of mary, apple has been cut off from the rest of the world for 12 days. no one is allowed in, nor out as fighting rages on. the harding reports. dozens of buses

stand ready to enter. mary poll, filled with food and water. they're trying to reach one of the areas hardest hit by rush and showing their only protection signs on the windows people and ukrainian they try to go in, but are turned around the most in the order that i have to say, this is paying more than mary up remains blocked by the enemy of the size of the russian troops did not let out into the city and continued to torture. our people are merry, up a residence to morrow. we'll try again. once again, send food, water and medicine for our city. for nearly 2 weeks, no one has been able to leave the city and no aid has entered the road. we will truck underground and 2 children died

nor was able to save them. these people here are desperate for help. there are thousands and thousands of families trapped in the city who are running out of water. and then at that point what you do even our team, the international, pretty red cross team that is in mario poll. they've effectively run out of water and they're telling us, okay, now we go to a stream and collect water, we boil it, we drink it. well, how do tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people do that? especially if you're elderly. these satellite pictures, show industrial and residential buildings, flattened fires, still burning, ukraine's foreign minister dmitri aqua says russia wants to capture the city at any cost. mario poa is crucially important for our son, because he sees control over the city. they will establish their rec, land quarter to,

to crimea from russian. they will also cut us off from axis to hours of sea. this is why we still fiercely and heroically defended. and this is why russia so ruthlessly trying to destroy the city and capture it at any cost. ukraine says it will not surrender or retreat and attempts to reach people trapped in the city will continue. yuck e in this dollar. so laquatta is miss. we will try to morrow again to evacuate people from mario polls. we will again do it tomorrow in front of the whole world in front of the politicians and leaders in front of the entire planet earth. but for now, these buses remain full of aid, but empty of people who want to leave leo harding al jazeera. meanwhile, the kremlin has appointed an acting mer in the ukrainian city of melissa pope. that

soft security video released by ukraine purported to show russian soldiers abducting the elected mayor, even federal ukraine says soldiers, but a bag over his head and let him away, rushes near point. he says, she's ready to solve the war. deluca. most of this is the most important task for us is to establish a new way of doing things. so we can start a new life. i asked the people of my little not to react to the few people in the city who create provocations. we've been elected to serve the people and we have created a committee to do that. would give us more sense. come here now, does era including will bring you more details about a phone call between france, germany and russia, which left little room for optimism and ukrainians. arriving in mexico being allowed into the u. s. why that's raising questions about unequal treatment more or less? ah,

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. ah, welcome back. a took him out of the top stories here. this russian forces are continuing, they're pushed to and circle the ukrainian capital key. intelligence reports a rush, us military has edge to it within 25 kilometers of a city center. the kremlin has appointed an acting man, the ukrainian city of municipal soft security video released by ukraine, the port to show russian soldiers abducting, be elected mer, even federal and russia continues to show the port city of mario hold. the mass has 1500 people have been killed in 12 days, but elsewhere in the south ukrainian forces are battling russian troops on several

fronts. russia is already in control of the city of kershawn and wants to take nikolai, they stepping stone full force is pushing towards odessa. on the black sea coast, from mc alive is al jazeera, as emma luffy, the some of the noise on the had the shell limit being local residents of mickey live had a very tough not due to the massive explosions and missiles zooming across. almost all of the city's neighborhoods. we're at one of the eastern suburbs of mc alive, a totally residential area, with no military prisons. it was hit by a number of missiles during the night. this is a bus stop and an adjacent coffee shop which was totally destroyed. the cars parked here also damaged residence. he had told us about the horror they lived through throughout the night. they feared to leave their homes or even to stay in as the entire area was targeted. other missiles, he'd a supermarket, a few blocks away, another in a schoolyard, a 3rd on top of one of the residential buildings. before we arrived,

the civil defense managed to successfully dismantle the missile. heavy gunfire raged at the outskirts of the city. from here, the fighting fronts are about 10 kilometers away, with the military air bases, and 20 kilometers where the civil aviation airport is located for the cities man said that the russian army has changed the tactics. intensifying the shilling of residential areas. we added that the cities hospital and often age were also targeted last night and we tried to approach those buildings, but could not. the mayor explained that the russian troops began to infiltrate and hide and villages, residential areas and behind facilities such as the power plant. so that they cannot be easily targeted by the ukranian army. he says ukrainian force suspended the russians off and will continue to do, sir, to prevent them from entering the city. but us announced that will rush another $200000000.00 worth of weaponry to ukraine. it bills on the significant shipments it sent and the run up to the war. and on thursday,

the u. s. congress approved an additional $13600000000.00 in emergency aid for ukraine. alan fish and washington dc explains what weapons ukrainians are after. yes, president joe biden is at camp david this we can, but we are told he is keeping across all developments in ukraine and he approved the release of these weapons. now the ukrainians have been asking for javelin anti tank and stinger anti aircraft missiles. we expect them to be in this batch that is released along with a significant amount of small arms at these will come from existing u. s. military stock, which means that they don't have to wait for the manufacturer to deliver them and then be moved on to ukraine. this, these can go almost immediately. and this is the 3rd time in 3 months that the u. s . military has done that part of $1200000000.00 and military aid that the u. s. has provided since january 2021. that's important, of course, because that's when joe biden became president, no secretary of state antony blinking, has praised the ukranian,

seeing that they are showing great skill, iron will and profound courage. and we know that congress is very much in support of what is happening in a town in a city and a country that can be so often divided on party lines. there was bipartisan support just a few days ago when congress approved $13600000000.00 in aid to ukraine. but this $200000000.00. the next step for you as support of ukraine. in the face of this russian onslaught, russia says military convoys taking lethal, laid into ukraine a fair targets the declaration threatens ro, poland into the conflict. since it's a major entry point for weapons. same as robbie has monet from easton, poland rolling hills near beer cha village. high to secret. an american army base. less than 40 kilometers from the ukraine border.

the 82nd airborne, famous for its role in the liberation of europe in world war 2. here now to answer, if war comes knocking on poland store. so we were just at the, our move airfield here in the forests near shamella sort of tucked away behind all the trees was a heavy us military presence there. we asked to see if we could speak to anybody. we were given the contact information for their public affairs officers. we spoke to them and they said that currently that site is under a media blackout. and no one's really even supposed to know that it's there yet. farms and tourist towns unaccustomed to the sites and sounds of heightened state security measures. c hundreds of extra officers, more than twice the normal number have been stationed at polish border towns since the russian invasion of neighboring ukraine responding to the refugee crisis,

but also to respond to what the intelligence community describes as russian subversion and hybrid warfare. oh, we see in some kind of information campaign to destabilize our society to saw a chaos in the po, so, and threads in or even panic in poland and a monk polish society, bought their 2nd group of threats are more seriously seen that the do steering up to of war against ukraine can also lead rascals aggress source 2 attempts. and for example, they organized some kind of diverse sounds at back in poland to fall, strikes of soccer operations against balance, and in some kind of sub latasha sub latasha operation refill lead from western countries. transits through poland, ukraine's main ally in europe. intelligence officials say could also become

russia's next target in the amount to people's members protect. i'm not worried. we have great services which are protecting us. i feel safe. com words from a civilian leader in military uniform. a clear sense of the current operating environment in the city. poland is no stranger to russian aggression, and is doing more than most to support ukraine. talk of permanent bases to protect nato's eastern flank and remain a thorn in russia side. is something warsaw would likely welcome cover to keep helping a neighbor with whom its fate is intertwined. zane basra, avi olga 0 shamella, eastern poland. italians have been on the streets of florence on saturday coating for an end to the wool. thousands gathered holding banners, calling to peace. the cranes president vladimir lensky, addressed them via video link, saying the war isn't just against ukraine. but the values of old europeans will

that rally and another in germany, reports of an anti war initiative across the continent called cities with ukraine. at least a 1000 anti war protest. as gathered in munich, they charge for tougher sanctions against moscow. and getting a total ban on russian oil and gas. while in new york, hundreds converged in time square. some demonstrators held signs, the 14 keys goals for no fly zone over the besieged country. new york is home to the united states largest ukranian community. despite the cause of peace and heavy diplomatic pressure from says the russian president, i show no willingness to end the conflict. that with the assessment of president emmanuel macro, after he and the german chancellor left shows spoke to vladimir putin for more than an hour. letting baba has more the french president and the german chancellor, talking directly on the phone with president putin for the 2nd time in recent days . they did so on thursday, asking him or demanding an immediate cease,

why they did so again on saturday, saying that that has to come before any structured negotiations on ending the war in ukraine. and according to the french presidential office, president putin showed no willingness to any hostilities to end fighting at all. it was a very down beats assessment from paris. they've said that they raise the calls on president putin, to end the siege of maria pole, and also something that president landscape ukraine had asked them to do before the direct phone call to ask for russia for president putin to obtain the release of the mare of multiple who was allegedly been kidnapped in recent days in ukraine. so really no, no break through their ukrainians are fleeing as far away as central america. these

are some of the 1st to arrive in guatemala government says being admitted on humanitarian grounds. the sick didn't suspect him who with the little petals i don't know what awaits us in the future. but i hope the will in soon it's difficult to express the pain in my heart for my father and mother who are in the ukraine. what they can't leave because they are 40 kilometers from russia. every day they see weapons and lots of russian soldiers crowded on a small number. ukrainians are being allowed into the united states, raising complaints from advocates about the plight of refugees from elsewhere. rob reynolds report, why a ukrainian woman with 3 children fleeing the war and her homeland was denied entry to the us twice when she asked for asylum at the tiquana border crossing with mexico. i don't have any other place to go. sophia, who did not give her last name, travelled 1st to romania,

then to mexico seeking to enter the u. s. the exxon me i have that family and friends in usa and they're ready to support me. and actually they asked me to leave ukraine in this situation. since 2020 the u. s. has barred almost all asylum seekers. using a regulation men to prevent infectious diseases from spreading across the border. now, with many coven error restrictions eased or eliminated the rule known as title 42 is still being used to bar thousands of people from mexico, central america, africa, haiti, and elsewhere. many of those migrants are fleeing war and political upheaval. but on her 3rd try sophia, and her children with help from a lawyer were allowed to enter the u. s. some immigration attorney said there is a double standard favoring ukrainians. we are absolutely seeing a differentiation between howard treating ukrainian asylum seekers than we are

other asylum seekers, whether they be from south america, cameroon, haiti, or afghanistan, the ukrainians are being able to jump to the front of the line. and the only difference is that they are white and all of these other asylum seekers are not white. we're gonna welcome recreate the refugees. rope and arms have some track they come over here. the biden administration quickly granted temporary residency to tens of thousands of ukrainians who are already in the us. we will be providing temporary protected status, t p. s to those ukranian nationals who are present in the united states as of march . first of this year that policy also favors ukrainians over citizens of other nations who have been asking for temporary protected status. the afghans have been begging for this since august 2021. last month,

427 ukrainians, entered the u. s. as refugees, more than triple the number from january, there will be more families from ukraine seeking refuge in the us. as russia's invasion, grinds on, and raising more troubling questions about fairness, rob reynolds al jazeera los angeles. let's get some of these now. as many as 12 missiles have been fired towards the u. s. consulate in the northern iraqi city of and a bill. there are different versions of damage. u. s. officials said there was no impact to the consulate which is currently unoccupied. but on iraq official said several rockets, the u. s. vicinity. the pentagon says the missiles a fight over the border from iran. satellite broadcast channel coast on 20 full is located near the u. s. consulate. it went on f for from the studio shortly after the attack showing shut the glass on daybreak was on the studio floor. liquor in the u. s. the trial has started for 4 men charged with conspiring to kidnap the

governor of michigan because of her corona virus. laws if convicted, that could be jailed for life. lawyers for the men say the alleged plot was never serious. prosecute to say they planned to break into governor gretchen, witness vacation home, take her away at gunpoint enforcer to face 8 treason trial. ah, just a quick check on the headlines here on al jazeera, russian forces are continuing that, pushed to encircle the ukrainian capital peeve intelligence report, se rushes military as edge to within 25 kilometers of the city center. and a large scale attack could happen soon. rosters military says the situation in some ukrainian cities is catastrophic. but during its latest briefing it said ukrainian fighters and the allies are to blame when you've done was you.