for ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. ukraine wants of new publications from russia's proxies. russia back to the separatist step pop, their shelling of ukrainian forces. the key of tales, its troops, not to return fire to avoid giving vladimir putin an excuse to launch an invasion. also coming up scenes of jubilation and molly's capital, a bomb at all. as francis, it'll withdraw its troops after 9 years of fighting against the hardest. and the

winter olympics, draw to a close with the ceremony invasion that set to focus on ordinary people and athletes. ah, welcome by monica jones. good to have you with us ukraine's president val autumn. you're still in ski, is calling for face to face talks with russia vladimir putin to resolve the crisis between their countries. lensky was speaking at the munich security conference here in germany, and he said ukraine will not respond to growing provocations in the eastern part of the country, but will defend itself against russian hostility. here says 2 of its soldiers died in an attack over the weekend. a shelling by russian backed separatists intensifies on the lookout as shelves fall on ukraine's eastern front. government forces say

they have been ordered to show restraint on it was when right now we don't respond to their file because we're all so shooting at us now at the command, post commando, unusable to live. our commanders don't allow us to file and we are following orders even if there is a wish to respond before of deutsche because the enemy is waiting for us to shoot back the mortgage in the pool. but if there is no political agreement, things will get resolved with military power. ukraine's interior minister dennis mon astir ski came under fire while visiting soldiers in the east. he was brought to safety with navy schooling. i'm a civilian, i'm not a soldier. i'm shocked. say more and i know that the civilians who live here in

permanently feel this fear. christina la human, there was a student who do a fear that is up routing lives as the crisis intensifies residents of ukraine, separatist regions, boarded trains, bound for russia. excuse. oh, my husband said, go away, take the kids and go. their physical and psychological health is more important than anything else. on saturday, russian president vladimir putin oversaw military drills with bella ross. the exercises include nuclear capable missiles. nato has joined the u. s. in warning that russia is planning a quote, full fledged attack against ukraine. dw correspondent, funny fashion joins us now from key. a funny, belarus and russia are to continue holding joint military exercises that were supposed to end today. what signal does this end?

there is no direct reaction just yet from russia. what we know is what we know from that are also the state and that you have just made about this basically. yeah, these nuclear date actually, how long this joint minutes you drill is going to continue. what we know that is going to continue beyond today on sunday. and the reason to that the official reason given by roses is the escalation eastern ukraine. but they also say the increasing military activities close to the board, us with better roofs and russia. and as a result, are going to continue with their drills. now, we need to make clear that this entire situation is putting even more pressure on, on ukraine, because at least $30000.00 troops are in the north in bella luce right now. and they could be used to attack ukraine and to actually invade something that russia has always died. that's going to happen. but after all, rush also said they're going to redraw their troops. and everyone who is going to

have quickly definitely see their hopes dashed right now. with this decision that the military drills are going to continue with better routes and russia just to the north of you crime. and of course they have already been consequences. nato is relocating it stuff out of key if germany has joined the list of countries that have told their citizens to leave you. crane. how are people reacting in the ukrainian capital? we see that life seems to be continuing as normal. is that true? actually people are concerned but not really panicking here in keith, at least where i am. but today's a very important day for ukraine also in terms of the so on his story. people are commemorating here the 8th year anniversary of the ukrainian revolution, at least 100 civilians have died in that uprising here 8 years ago at the my don and people really do not want that. there's going to be russia, after all,

writing the end of the story, after all this, people who took to the streets 8 years ago, you and keith were dreaming of a pro european ukraine. and not that what's being influenced by russia. so people are concerned, they are scared, but there is no panic. they are upset. harbor realizing that once again for empowers are likely to take influence over the status quo of the country. more fannie fisher reporting for us from key if there thank you so much. and of course, the ukraine crisis continued to dominate the agenda on the 3rd and final day of the munich security conference. the main themes of today speeches are all familiar nato, a member stant united and the door remains open for a diplomatic solution. but delegates once again stressed that a massive sanctions package is being prepared in the event that russia invades ukraine. the you council says it will also convene

a special summit if an attack is carried out were offered. b, applebaum is a pulitzer prize winning historian and columnist, who has written extensively about central and eastern europe. dw mikaela could not asked her for her assessment of what she'd heard at the munich security conference . so on the threat of war is imminent. it's hanging over europe. what have you learned of the last 2 days? what could happen of the next? so i can't tell you what's in putin's head and nobody can tell you. and that's interesting in itself, because we now have russia where there is no war council, there is no politburo. there is no group of people who are making this decision. the decision is being made by putin, himself, by himself. and therefore, the decision as to whether to go through with plans that we know exist is entirely

up to him. we know that there are plans to invade ukraine full scale invasion, including an invasion of key of and including a change of government, including maybe the deaths of tens of thousands of people. but whether he has pulled the trigger on that decision will know in the next, in the next several days. but because russia has become a, an autocracy of a particularly centralized that are particularly hierarchical kind. there aren't really other people inside russia. we can consult to ask for their opinions and russia wasn't here at the munich security conference. so it was this just the west talking amongst themselves and what has been the effect of this threat. but there were 2 important things happening at the conference. one was the west affirming it's unity, which was nice to see. the vice president made a good speech. the american vice president. several german leaders made good speeches. there was an impressive appearance of the german foreign minister as bare

bach with antony lincoln. the american foreign secretary, and they impressively said the same things, they agreed about the necessity of sanctions. we know that germany is willing to pay an economic price for this and it was a, it was impressive there that you know, they were and there's massive support for that here. now the dissonance, the problem is that the ukrainians who are also here in large numbers feel that's not enough. they, you know, they understand that there could be a full scale invasion. they understand that there will be no western military support for them. and in so in a certain sense, despite this western alliance agreement and so on, there alone. and i was historian and applebaum speaking to d. w. michelle elocution up there have been scenes of jubilation. and molly, after france said it would begin to pull its troops out of the west. african

country. france has helped in the struggle against radical islamic malicious for 9 years until relations with marley's military leaders turn sour paris objects to their alleged hiring of a russian mercenary group to fight the hardest. but for now, there's a sense of relief and by marco that something may thou change in the seemingly intractable battle in the streets of bummer co molly ins waive brooms, and sweep away ash, symbolizing the departure of french troops after nearly a decade. french president emanuel mac groan announced the withdrawal of anti jihadist forces on thursday. after months of escalating tensions with molly's military leaders. but his initial timeline of 4 to 6 months is now under question. molly's army led government has expelled the french ambassador and demanded the immediate departure of both french and european forces on the streets. the mood

among the government, supporters is clear on what we owe. if france wants to leave, it must do so immediately. no question of 4 or 6 months on what we don't need france, france has been with us to long get her out of popular resentment against france has been driven by its failure to stem the tide of g. hottest attacks in molly their withdrawal potentially opens the door for talks between the government and the radical islamist forces. it opposes in beijing after 2 weeks, sir, hundreds of metals and no shortage of controversy. the winter olympics, assigning off with a traditional closing ceremony, he organized, i said they were happy with how the games had been staged them at the pandemic with competitors captain, a straight to bubble. but they didn't mention the doping issue with russian figure

skater, camilla believer or other controversies that have dr. event. and only restarted the w sports, johnson crane, and beijing about the nation who set a new games record for gold medals. that would be no way out with a 16 gold medals to raise your whole in the across country added a gold medal number 16 today. so that is a record no country before has one has so many go mendoza to windsor olympics. now you might say, look, norway, they've got the snow, it's easy for them, right? but, you know, compared to other countries, they do have a smaller population. there are countries like germany, austria, freedom with big populations who don't get to the top of the meadow table. what makes norway stand out where they really focus on grass roots and use participation? getting kids involved in the sport early on. germany finish 2nd place in the middle table like they did impugn chang 4 years ago. now that was thanks largely to the a sliding success and china instead place their most successful winter olympics ever. are they finished with 9 go meadows?

that was almost double that previous best. different, vancouver in 2010, but perhaps more importantly for the chinese government. they finished a hate of the united states and looking at another aspect of the winter olympics in beijing over to flapping catch my fabi and how the china present itself as the house of the games was it with all the effort? well, i think the conclusion is rather mixed. i mean, of course, they want a lot of metals, a record number of gold medals em during the sports events, but they certainly didn't gain anything in terms of soft power. i'm well to be fair . i mean, the major scandal the, the big disaster did not happen. so i think many government officials are just happy that it's finally over. and that also the safety concept, the cobra concept and state and tucked. but yet it was really a, quite a complicated games and it was basically behind close doors, separated from the population. so i would say i'm china presented itself as

a quite isolated nation. yeah, of course that was the pandemic, but also politically diplomatically the games were boycotted by several countries. did anyone in china care about that? what i mean the state me to here barely touched that topic, but i would say yes they did care. i mean the, the slogan of the olympics is together for shad future. but m to be quite frank, i'm the opposite is rather true because the olympics really revealed how much or how deep the gap between the west in china is. and yes, many experts said that china doesn't seem to care much how they're perceived from the outside, but i think rather different, i mean, she's in pink. m told the state media that he wants a china to be presented with a better image to be more lovable, et cetera. but they all fade fail because he created a system in which an aggressive rhetoric is more appreciated than really, yeah. having a conversation and also a reflection about the criticism from outside,

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