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the ukrainians. remember their fallen loved ones and an emotional president landscape pledges victory as the war in that country enters a 2nd year. g 7 nations marianna, last 3 of the war by announcing a new round of sanctions against russia and its allies. ah, hello i marianna my v in london. you're watching al jazeera also coming up on the program. bomb shelters and psychological support. our schools and ukraine helping children deal with the trauma of war. ukrainians a continue to escape to poland, which has taken in around one and a half 1000000 people, while russia suffers a brain drain as young professional slee, conscription and sanctions. the

year ago when russia invaded ukraine, it was expected to be over. in a matter of days, but 365 days later, ukrainians still vowing to fight on while morning loved ones lost in the war. with precise number of people killed so far isn't clear. united nation says at least 8000 civilians have died in the past year, but some counts have the figure as high as 30000. the ukrainian government has more than 13000 debates forces have died. russia rarely announces casualties. in september it acknowledged 6000 people that died in november. the u. s. general set that could be around 200000 military deaths, about 100001 each side, around $13000000.00 ukrainians. that's more than

a quarter of the population and now displaced at least $8000000.00 have left the country. another 5000000 are internally displaced, its thought between 400700000 people of left russia as well. many of the, many of them tried to escape conscription drinks and again bring there's more now from cave heads bowed side by side, but alone with the thoughts soldiers of the ceremony. and keith marked a moment of silence for the fallen. such has been the toll of ukraine's here of war that each one of these troops will know the personal meaning of that ukraine's president certainly does. through 12 months of sacrifice and loss, he spent many families like these mothers without sons, wives without husbands. children without fathers to them and those still fighting followed him as zalinski had a message. yup

a shy salomon made she i am proud of you cause we all will each and every one a proud of you i am we shall i am grateful to every one who endured that february this year and who gives ukraine? invincibility realty, may this be proudly proclaimed everywhere. ukraine is alive, alive, but now intimately acquainted with grief. many ukrainians have been to more funerals in the past year than they'd care to count that ukraine is still standing is of course, because of the resilience of its people. but it's also down to support from international allies who given backing to ukraine's military and economy in keith to mark the anniversary of russia's invasion, was the prime minister of poland. he craned staunchest allies and he came with leaves. the shape or sky copay spoke to a copier ship to day. the coalition that poland started to build for leopard tanks with much success now consists of several countries. i want to hand you flooded me

as the 1st european country to do. so. the 1st for leopard tanks, the mo bile alma ukraine, has been requesting for months is starting to arrive, but it once more to push russian forces back across ukraine's internationally recognized 1991 borders. and zalinski is asking for western warplanes. next. a video is shown as are vickie, are believe that g to our and all holy sh brothers persistence little or allies will be able to overcome another defensive taboo. the taboo of an aviation coalition shall dog. after failing to conquer ukraine, in its initial blitzkrieg, russia hope sick and exhausted through a long war. but ukraine says it's spring counter offensive is coming at it wants it to be decisive. adrian finnegan, al jazeera keith. let's go live now to cave. charles stratford has been there and following developments. tell us about how people have been mocking the anniversary

there will certainly and keep the atmosphere as being one of if you like. somber reflection and tainted one can only really say with a degree of trepidation in terms of the nobody really knows how this is going to go. and what is next. i mean, there's always talk about a spring offensive by russian force. he's certainly in the capital, it's been no air raid sirens her today. we know that there have been air raid sirens used across the country in towns like in cities like zap parisha and denise pro ginny pro pet troughs. but the situation here is being calm and somber as you heard in agents report the prison lensky marking the de. ready with respect to families who lost loved ones in the last 12 months. and he also gave a lengthy press conference to the international media,

talking about how it was in his words inevitable that ukraine would win this war in the next year. but only if his western partners stuck to their commitments in supplying these weapons, we heard, as again adrian mentioned in the report, these tanks, the 1st 4 leper tanks being brought over by the polls. interestingly, zalinski also in this press conference said that they were in his were 3 other european countries. in addition to the u. k. that he said we're contemplating training ukrainians on how to fight flight flight to jets. we know that there is a lot of pressure being put on your westernized by ukraine to get these jet fighters through that they say is so important for dealing with any potential kind . spring offensive that so many people are talking about, as i say by and large,

the feeling in the city has been one of the quiet, contemplation. they have been no big ceremonies to mark the one year since the invasion. but families coming together at church services, for example, praying for their family members still fighting on the front lines and praying oversee for those that the loved ones that they have lost as well. but by and large it has been quiet. it has been calm. here was a say, a gradual feeling of trepidation because basically nobody really knows what vladimir putin is planning next. all right, thank you very much. charles stratford bring us a sense of mood in the atmosphere there and ukrainian capital as we reach the one year anniversary of this war. and other developments russia, wagner, group of mercenary, says it's taken full control of a village on the outskirts of battle. most, the east and quite a village of his life just outside the front line city,

which has seen intense fighting in a social media posts on friday, the group's leader set the small village is fully under the control of the private military company. ukraine says its armed forces for back against attacks near the village. will children have been attending school in ukraine and really struggling with the challenges that come with learning while on the threats of rush and air attack. some schools have been fitted with make shift bomb shelters, from pin them. bas robbie shows is the reality of being a student in wartime ukraine. far from the fighting children in ukraine are still connected to it by family members on the front line. and the more immediate threat of bombs from the sky. you say that unless you're drinking kid, when there is an ear, right siren, they know what to do. they hide. but the 1st time my son was crying, he told me he was theories of the people that everyone would die. and his mom was not by our children do not deserve that. they should not be asking if rockets were

launched or not. the parents we met said schools central to their community and to stability and their children's lives were not spared in rushes, bombardments, we unicef estimates. half of all schools across ukraine are too damaged to reopen. and 2 thirds of its children are unable to access any kind of education. there were some of the schools in areas that were held by the russians are so heavily damaged from showing that it will take millions of dollars and years before they're ready to open for students again. direction i was the one school principal said in the aftermath of russia's occupation of his home town. reopening classrooms meant making sure parents felt safe enough to send their children back with the help of international donors. this school in your opinion, converted a storage space into an air raid shelter. the plan is to build spaces like this in

as many schools as possible. so i may be short enough full of our commercial, my, my m, what you say, the biggest concern for us is the children. there are children and we are responsible for them. that's why, at the beginning of the school year organized per se, classes and psychological training to cope with fear. when we have sirens with all the children automatically come to the shelter, they know how to respond and what to do. but it is not ideal. the student body at the school numbered in the thousands before the war. now, only $200.00 children attend at a time and only for a few hours a day. because that is the maximum number of children that will fit in the shelter . school schedules made to accommodate the threat of russian attack. it is purpose built to be child friendly, but not fortified or deep enough to withstand a direct hit. every time an air raid alarm stops and the all clear

sound, the hope is there will never have to use it again. was in basra, the al jazeera or pin it. katrina sure works for barry geena. this is mario poll women's association that's actually based in poland. they work in partnership with women for women international and human doc foundation. she joins us live from warsaw. of course, poland is the destination for many ukrainians who had to flee the warm, particularly in the early days using images of families who separated men who were staying behind and ukraine while women and children having to fleet. can you tell us about the families, the people that you have worked with, you've come into contact with during the course of your work? hello. nice to meet, you know, thank you. find even station. i'm a holler just and that, that a piece. and i have been work and the people who suffer from war with families was

suffering from war more than 7 years since 2014. and they do it now. and i see the tendency to now that of course, we are, you know, tired and exhausted and lost their especially because like it was in my mind in 2014. and now the same refugees from ukraine, from the hot point, whole of the home. they come to worst, so when i, i'm now and they expect that you know what to model and they will back to their live today at home. but already we have actually 99 years the war and we have one year already the conversion and shoot them a just in our country. and it's interesting that you make you make that this,

the point that you're trying to make is that the war didn't just start here. a guy that lee has been, or in the country for a number of years since 2014. and so you already working with many women as a result of that violence and fighting. so tell me how how it's changed. tell me about the mental health crisis. now. the eve you've seen in the past year. yeah, actually, you know, i have like this, you know, because when they was in murray and they started to work with their families from don't cree jim hole over, make sure that your time and they expected that water will and they will come and you know, everything was the same, i mean, and now people who come here know actually 11 thing change because i'm a refugee so i, well i know you can i call, you know, if you,

when did you leave variable? i don't even maria paul when you when when did you leave? when did i leave? when in crean in, in or just after 3 or 4 days of her innovation? yes, we start. that was my and i must explain that trim from the 1st day like 21st our goodness ation my new position. but again, it was for human dog foundation i asked because mental health condition you must be working. people have got mental health conditions, things like depression and anxiety, and that's going to vary, isn't it from moderate to severe. but the effect on children must be particularly acute course, of course, because they may have their homes, you know, their rooms. they are brand called the because the parents really exhaust and of

every day stress parents must to every day seeing how to find job, to remind me what to will be with them of the husbands or relative to are now feeling in venture a sort of consensus in ukraine, so be every day and stress. and the children are, you know, like a little bit alarm. sometimes because children full, for example, study in ukraine and there was some line. but here they are a little bit late to of the society. and they don't have, for example, opportune, just to go through, you know, to some hold the or somewhere they don't, they don't the language in the country. so they are still the latest and exhaust into and just, unfortunately now, after one year of this week, innovation it inside of the, the, you know,

relations in families can fortunately, yes, we would try to, to, to deal with this. yes, it does. it puts a lot of strain on the family. thank you very much. katrina show for the organization that you know, which is a mary, a poll women's association. thank you. joining us. thank you. susan. well, in terms of political developments, china is released its own 12 point proposal to end the conflicts, but the west is responded with skepticism european union foreign policy chief, joseph burrell, described it as interesting, but also fully fledged plan for peace in the proposal. beijing calls for an end to western sanctions on russia and urges moscow and keith to hold peace talks and proposes the establishment of humanitarian corridors who civilians, insteps and show grain can be safely exported from ukraine. also warns against the use of nuclear weapons as well as attacks on nuclear power plants. this is what people in moscow's been saying as the war now. and his 2nd year danielle, margaret,

slipped my expectations. i will miss to be over soon as possible. of course, we're waiting for rush to win in the special military operation. the whole world's against us, nato countries are fighting us through ukraine, supplying them with equipment. and then there were the nazis were looking for to winning this year and hopefully the sooner the better for this to end right now. but then yes, not walker law is of course bad. but this year has shown that no other decision could have been taken. and that we are defending our independence is freedom, a chance for the future, the future of our children. therefore, we want victory. abortion courts, the mirror which i really want piece. i really wanted all to end as soon as possible, too many victims marley speaking and materially, we pensioners feel at all or human rights groups as russian police have to tank dozens of people for commemorating the 1st anniversary of the war and ukraine. in moscow, at least 3 people were held by police officers for lang flowers on

a monument to an ukrainian poet in saint petersburg, 15 people were detained. also for laying flowers brushes, introduced tough new laws against those who discredit the army, or criticize what they call a special military operation in ukraine. united states and its allies in the g 7 of march anniversary. the invasion with new sanctions targeting russia is, comes 4 days off to you as president joe biden visited. keith latest restrictions target more than a 100 entities within russia and worldwide including banks and defense contract, as which the u. s. says helping moscow get hold of sanctioned material at present biden is also announced $2000000000.00 in military aid. let's get moved. my white house correspondent, kimberly how kit and so there have been questions about the weather. sanction so far had any effect. what difference does this new raft of measures make?

well, you are right there, haven't questions about whether or not the past sanctions have had an effect. and the truth is, in some cases they haven't because russia has been able to find new parcher partnerships in order to continue to finance it's war machine if you will. and so on. that is why they're passed. sanctions haven't worked the way the west had hoped . and so the u. s. president joe biden, along with other members of the g 7 nations, held a meeting earlier to discuss all of that. the meeting lasted about 90 minutes. and that's what this latest round of sanctions is all about, to really try and isolate russia from the global financial system, such as the previous sanctions were all about. but this time, the goal is to try and eliminate those partnerships that russia has created. not just with iran, but also with north korea in order to try and really decapitate if you will. the ability to continue to raise funds to keep this effort going in terms of the

invasion of ukraine. now, of course, marking that one year anniversary. so in terms of these latest sanctions, as you mentioned, to 200 individuals and entities, both russians as well as those that support russians across europe, the middle east asia. we also know that there doesn't have financial institutions inside russia. and we also know in terms of particular sectors, is the defense industry as well as the tact in industry. and i was, you further go down, that's the metals as well as the mining sector. and just to point out as well, in terms of support when it comes to defense support, you mentioned that to 1000000000 in defense support. that's in addition to the 30000000000 that has previously been pledged by the united states. all right, thank you very much. my house, kimberly elk it the united nations security counts has been meeting to night. the

anniversary is awhile, marcia's un ambassador interrupted a minute silence, called for by the craning foreign minister saying i should be honoring all victims, not just ukrainians. i kindly ask every one to observe a minute of silence in memory of the victims of the aggression. i think mister president with loving garago, the representative of the russian federation has asked for the floor to make a statement. was put into the general sales to watch today. why made mister president, we are getting on our feet to honor the memory of all victims of what has happened in ukraine starting in 2014. all of those who perished, all lives are priceless. and that is why we are rising to honor the memory of them all.

oh, we're speaking about the ukrainians who have been displaced. poland has taken the most ukrainians around one and a half 1000000 people settling their joan ha reports now from the city of punish where he caught up with some of the refugees who hope to return one day to their home. in a polish auditorium, ukrainian refugees watch a film comparing the world war to destruction of warsaw with last year's russian bombardment of maria pole. warsaw was rebuilt and rose shiny, a new from the ashes. so to the thinking goes, will ukraine's devastated cities like maria poke on a guided tour of war. so later were traces of the war still remain some feel only a faint hope. mario, pollution benny jim, the maria pool we had will never be the same. it'll be different. we cannot know how, but the life we had, they will never return. that life was stolen from us from us. hope is

a common ingredient to the lives of ukrainian refugees scattered the world over a large proportion, benefiting from the generosity of neighboring poland. but the warmth and safety of sponsored accommodation is no barrier to paint what's at the one martha was bla, bull in. mean, you see, march 20th was more in a quiet day, so we left the basement and i remember it was my daughter's birthday, nor to the realization that what began as a temporary relocation could last much longer. and while there are those returning to say for parts of ukraine, especially as when to lift many, continue to flee. the fighting in the south and east train loads of newcomers arrive on poland, east border almost every day. everything just a minute to come across. you sold all your belongings,

given books. it was too hard and cured. since the war began, more than 8000000 people have the same voc trains like this one from ukraine. many of them going on to settling countries all over the world while totaled alone has taken in around one and a half 1000000 in this country's generosity. now, being fully tested, as the war goes on. in recent years, poland has become infamous for its unwelcoming attitude to migrants from africa in the middle east, trying to cross the border from bella. ruth, not so those from ukraine. but while the country spends billions of dollars supporting them and as the cost of living saws, the hope that they'll $1.00 day be able to leave poland is not felt by the ukrainians alone. jona whole al jazeera premise, poland or russians have left their country as well. and in large number since the

war began, tens of thousands of young professionals have left to escape construct conscription or sanctions, or because they simply don't support the wall. alhashan reports on this. now from moscow, the warden ukraine has changed a lot here for dmitri, who asked us to protect his identity. the greatest fear is being called off to serve in the army. he left russia for kazakhstan, but didn't stay long. earlier bo, when you're a huge, did him. i was gone for 4 months. it was my longest time away from home. being in a foreign country is hard, especially when you have no support in the cost of housing and food increased a lot and it became very expensive to live for. so i decided to come back home, richie demetri, still planning to leave, but he's not sure when or where he'll go near flexible. our, it's still on my mind. it's hard when he don't know what's coming to morrow. some of my friends have already left here, some are planning to go. so in fact,

there will be very little to keep me here. thousands of young russians have similar stories, either or the national team and by chance or russia because, i mean, you know, there's no payment back system over asher. so this would be from the ministry of digital development boots, the number of people who have left at 100000. what says 80 percent of them are working remotely for russian companies. for some people less, some people came back and it's real. take her actually a lot of time to understand how many people actually left, maybe people who have left to the nozzle. juno specialist that middle senior specialists and we will take years upon years of experience for the newcomers on the market. so fuel the gap, the government is considering various proposals, incentives are on the table as are threats to confiscate the property of those who

have left. the brain very isn't new in russia, but the war has shaved the plans of many young professionals. that is a feeling of unease and they see us prospects out of so uncertain here. they'll follow the path to other countries or yeah, sure. okay, 0 moscow. ah, we are following all the stories and the death tell from the earthquakes that devastated parts of takia and syria is now past 50000. rescue. as in northern syria is still searching the rubble of buildings destroy. 2 weeks ago. 8 has been slow to reach the region complicated by the civil war. in opposition held aries, many people as still looking for the bodies of missing loved ones by hand. a powerful winter storm sweeping across a western united states with high wind,

severe cold and snow temperatures in california, and more than 10 degrees below the seasonal average spring, snow, and ice to a state that's usually 9 foot sun. sand and surf will rentals is that he reports from los angeles. mm. don't even think about it. drivers were worn to stay off a major highway near portland, oregon, following a multi car pile up in heavy snow, an 18 wheel truck, jackknife in wyoming, where a state trooper barely escaped. being hit by another out of control truck. schools were closed in wisconsin, minnesota and south dakota where up to 40 centimeters of snow were forecasts could be pretty rough as we get towards the end of the week. here, some 2000 flights were canceled on thursday, and more than 13000 delayed. as the storm swept from coast to coast,

our slot was originally supposed to leave at around 7 o'clock and we got a text message. after arriving here early, that our plot was going to be delayed. hardly any place was spared nature's fury. high winds whipped through los vegas, toppling power lines and causing blackouts. while we were working and i was ringing, and all of us and the light just went. while northern states are used to wild winter's unusual, freezing weather patterns dipped all the way down to normally sunny southern california. with snow falling on elevations as low as 600 meters above sea level and hail lashing los angeles county beach community. up to 4 and a half meters of snow are predicted in the mountain areas across the state. california water authorities hope the heavy snow pack will replenish reservoirs, giving farmers and residents a rec.