fraud, ah ah, ah ah, ah, this is dw news lie from berlin, russia faces down worldwide condemnation as it escalates the crisis, and ukraine. u. s. president joe biden announce is a string of sanctions targeting russian banks in oligarchy. and he warns a russian invasion of ukraine is beginning. meanwhile, vladimir putin says the minced piece process is finished and blames ukraine. the russian leader signals his forces could push further into ukrainian territory. and

the west sets its own punitive measures among the toughest germany holds. be controversial nor stream to gas pipeline project. ah . 2 a michael ok welcome. we begin with the latest on the escalating crisis over ukraine. the u. s. president joe biden has announced what he called the 1st tranche of sanctions against russia for each incursion in eastern ukraine. the american action follows a string of punitive measures set out earlier by european leaders biden says the sanctions will target russian banks in oligarchy and moscow's access to western financial. so today i'm announcing the 1st trance of sanctions to impose costs on russia in response to their actions yesterday. these have been closely coordinated

with our allies and partners, and will continue to escalate sanctions of russia escalates. were implementing full blocking sanctions on 2 large russian financial institutions, v b and our military back recommending comprehensive sanctions on russia's sovereign debt. that means we've cut off russian government from western finances. it can no longer raise money from the west and cannot trade in its new debt on our markets or european markets either starting tomorrow and continued in the days ahead. will also impose sanctions on russia's, leech and their family members. they share in the crop gaze of the criminal policy and to sharon, the pain as well because of russia is actions we work with germany to insure nor stream to will not, as i promise will not move for the w corresponded oliver shallow joins me now from washington oliver, what do we make of the u. s. president's response or

a very strong condemnation, michael, he called vladimir putin's actions, a flagrant violation of international law and referred to his speech that we heard just yesterday saying that biden, that he believes biden, that putin would go much for further, that we might see a major military attack on all of ukraine, and he also questioned the ukrainian right to even exist. so therefore, what present by in the last days and weeks announce that there will be sanctions following, a russian troops crossing into ukraine and, and invading ukraine. now this is what we heard here today, and some of them are blocking to russian financial institutions, cutting off russia from the debt market, so they cannot refinance their sovereign debt. and then also targeting russian leads families. and this is actually the 1st time that present by and spoke about

the oligarchy and their connection to vladimir putin. so, 1st trans of sanctions. but it's also important to point out that there will be more and can be more, should vladimir putin decide to escalate the situation further? would have people saying about how much of an impact these sanctions will really have? yeah, that's really the big question because of course this is not a surprise for vladimir putin. it for russian. they've had a lot of time in thinking about exactly this question. the, it's certainly a 1st step. it's a dramatic one. russia sees now from the perspective of the why tell us that they have to pay a price for their actions. it also leaves the door open for a lot of mir putin because there are more sanctions to come. only if prudent decides that he wants to attack ukraine further that he wants to move his troops beyond the separatist control areas. so there are still, of course, a chance for him to steer back or to decide for a diplomatic path. but of course,

yes, expectation is not as optimistic any more. the problem is, of course, that vladimir put, might have factored all that in already. other how likely is the u. s. government to launch a further measures against russia? i suppose that has a lot to do with what russia does. yeah, there's just right michael, it really depends on what's going to happen next. just to kill, just keep in mind, there will be no military intervention. ukraine is not a nato member, so we're talking about further sanctions. and that really depends on the question. will russia move their troops beyond the separatist control? the areas, will it be a full fledged invasion? will it move beyond the dawn? best will, will russia attack cheve? will they conquer all of ukraine? all those questions are circulating right now. but again, no matter what, what they do there will be no military actions taken. so certainly the measures that the united states and the nato partners have are limited. the concern is then,

then also that bellows might be integrated into the russian federation of them. or even further and stronger implications in the months and perhaps years to follow. soviet union, 2 point oh d, w, corresponding alvis salad in washington, d. c. thank you. earlier vladimir putin raised the stakes, saying he now recognizes the entire territory of to break away regions in eastern ukraine as independent a day. earlier, the russian president recognized the done at skin the hans of people's republics. as independent states. the latest move could, harold, a russian push further into eastern ukraine across the current front line into territory currently held by ukrainian forces. he is what vladimir putin had to say . no missouri, but his nella, we recognized with a don yet enhancing people's republics. don't you see which means we have

recognized of all the founding documents that i need, including the constitution ah romco who daniel green and the constitution defines the borders of the done yes and onscreen in the time when that we part of ukraine. i shoot through him through the pictures honestly, hopefully when i emphasize this, we'll get that all the contentious issues will be resolved in negotiations between the authorities and key of nature and the leaders of these republics. unfortunately, at this stage, we understand that this is not possible because facilities are continuing day and could intensify the bush. there were the mute, d. w has been speaking with people on the streets of keith to get their reactions to this latest rush and move to where really am afraid about our democracy, about our country, about our freedom really whole was at our sugar actually was stopped by to regarding quotation ah,

within that loss of his actions should be done before he oh, completed english, try to to show our own words that we are really good county and we deserve to be free. so we are living in a hard time for ukraine, and a lot of people are experiencing fear every day. like going to bed and wake, you know, we don't know where actually, right, exactly. we're going to be like in danger. like when you will be like real danger for us, i think you grain generally protesting every day just by appreciating our culture and history like everyday is like a fight for us to survive and other day to be like united country risha. lieut. savage is head of the ukraine form at the foreign policy. think tank chatham house in london and joins us now. welcome to d. w. and what was your reaction to russian president putin speech last night in which he questioned ukraine's right to statehood?

well last night's fortunes addressed to russian nation was very much in line with his cross i historical essay. he is issues law sama where he exactly says ukraine is an artificial state that has been created by these pop in the you know, it's a puppet regime. so basically it's in line of denying ukraine estate. it's not a real country, it's quite a humiliating for the 1000 year old history of ukraine. and i think that it was in a way, i was, i declaration of war on the ukrainian states. he's essentially saying that ukraine is not legitimate and yet at the same time he is acknowledging accepting, embracing the existence of these brick away republics. as in fact, independent states. what do you make of the logic there? on the logic is that the of course ukraine exists only as an extension of the

russian civilization. and it can only exist as either in the full coherence with the russian governance, the russian autocratic, liptak chrissy in orthodoxy or otherwise it rebels against these kinds of values. it's a known ukraine that is being manipulated by the united states poll and austro hungarian . you name it so which basically says it's ukrainians who love russia, they are true ukrainians, all are the ukrainians on ukrainians. do you expect russia to stop at sending troops into low hunts and don't yet? honestly, i think russia keeps full deployments around ukraine's border. it has made new crossing into ukrainian territory from the east, of course, on obstructed because the border is being controlled by russia. at that point,

i imagine that the deployment will continue, and we may see that russian troops will move into close proximity to existing line of conflict between right now currently guarded by the proxy groups and ukrainian armed forces. i want to make sure you understand what you're saying. are you saying that regardless of how this unravels over the next coming days or weeks that you see a sort of a permanent deployment of russian troops in ukraine? and while absolutely, they all ready preparing to build military basis. and this is sam signed in this agreement of treaty with these quasi republics that will permit russia to was permanently station its troops. similar to what we see already happening in bella rows. and today i, we, we hear russians are not retreating from bella rose and they continued to threaten the capital of ukraine from the north. a risha,

lieut savage from chatham house in london. really appreciate your time and your perspective. nato has condemned the escalation of the crisis over ukraine in russia's recognition of to break away regions. the alliances secretary general again, stoughton berg has described it as the most dangerous moment in a generation. he said, russia has not stopped planning for a full scale invasion of ukraine and warned, against ongoing provocations in the east of the country. the sultan burg added that nato would continue to provide ukraine with strong political support. this is the crisis created by russia alone. we commend ukraine for its restraint in not responding to russia's repeat, the publications, we stand in solid, either with the ukrainian people on its government. allies are united in their full

support for ukraine's sovereignty on 3rd, eternal integrity within its and nationally recognized borders. russia's actions have brought a flood of condemnation from western leaders. the strongest european retaliation at this stage is germany's decision to halt the key nord stream to gas pipeline. this should bring russian gas for europe, but still needs to go ahead from german regulators. chancellor, olaf shulte says the project is now suspended indefinitely. german chancellor shots on his way to announcing a key foreign policy decision to hold the highly controversial note string to pipeline in response to russia's recognition of 2 separatist regions in ukraine. the largest sort of the situation, today's fundamentally different esser and therefore in view of the latest developments, we have to reassess the situation. also, with regard to north trim tooth by not string to aimed to transport russian gas

directly to germany under the baltic sea. its construction was finished last year and was pending regulatory approval for a long time. both russian and german leaders, including sholtes in the past, had defended the project. but it had plenty of very vocal enemies, ukraine as a start, because it undercuts its own pipelines. but also the u. s. and various e u countries were concerned, it would give russia who much power he has and leave europe vulnerable. those countries welcomed tuesday decision with ukraine's foreign minister according it, morally politically and practically correct. big words of support towards the german chancellor who had previously been criticized for being too vague on the north stream to pipeline. you're watching g w news. here's a reminder of the top story we're following for us. president joe biden says he's

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