starts march 4th on d, w. ah, ah, this is d w. news coming to you live from berlin, fleeing the front blind residence abandoned their homes in ukraine's east. shelling continues near separatists regions our correspondent visits of village coming under attack. also since the beginning of a russian invasion of ukraine us present, joe biden announces the 1st wave of sanctions against russia. more countries join in condemning moscow's recognition of separatists ukraine regions.

ah. hello em, terry martin. good to have you with us. fighting between ukraine government forces and separatists has intensified in the countries east following russia's recognition a break away regions as independent states. ukrainian military says shelling attacks by russian back fighters have picked up, knocking out power supply in lou hunts are correspond mathias pulling a filed this report from a village close to the line between ukrainian and separatist held territory. it is quiet at the moment a good time to leave for days. now the people in the village of rubica have been under fire. the villages in ukrainian government controlled territory and is being shared by separatists from the other side. you know,

still additional deliberately and then um the whole night is that some people are still in the cellar too scared to come out. did the kids spent the whole day yesterday downstairs, but at night we went upstairs is pregnant because it was just too cold. downstairs a seller is a seller, but louis bottle half of the village has already left the others are terrified. shells of come down, right in the center of the village. one shall hit the school yard world. children were in clos, others have damaged people's homes. luckily, no one has been hurt so far, but the constant stress has taken its toll. electricity and gas have been cut off. now gas workers have come to patch up some of the damage or they went. we fix the pipe twice already. we came last week yesterday and today we're here again. we'll be coast quite far away from the artillery positions of the other side. there are

15 kilometers between here and the front line, which is just the range of this artillery that they are using. people who have not experienced this kind of fighting, even during the worst times a few years ago, lena mac, her ankle, and her neighbors have tried to make the most out of the cold and dumped cellar. but the effect of the electric heater is limited. he is in and out of the basement constantly those days. but i need to go up now to take some stuff to my daughters place. she is finally leaving with her kids at least to a place nearby. she would like her to move further away until it becomes clear with the latest news from moscow and cleave me. no,

i don't know what to think now. yes, i do not yet understand heaping spokane. i don't even know what to do next. it takes just a few minutes and the shirley begins again. crossover now to our correspond it funny poetry in kia. funny. tell us more about what's happening along that line of contact and east in ukraine where government forces and separate his forces are clashing. and that line terry's full 100 kilometers long, and it's really difficult to actually get just the full picture, what's happening. but as my colleague mike is bullying a just pointed out in his report,

it's actually civilian so already bearing the bron to all of the on the ukranian side, this one village. that experience is shelling and people's uncertainty and the feeling of what to do next. what, how should they prepare if, if the situation is likely to worse and now the ukrainian, a military sad giving some numbers there that according to the information they have been 90. 6 incidence of shalley inks that lead to one soldier being killed and several being injured that are from 84 incidents of shelling just a day before. unfortunately, we do not expect the situation to be in any way a decreasing intention, but rather increasing, especially as we hear from russia that this is, this is, this seems to be just the beginning. even though they have declared the independence of landscape and don't yet, there's more to call them that it's such as going to be stay staying with that one 3rd of east and ukraine, but this very much interested in the rest of the don bus region as well. the

ukranian president says he's not mobilizing the countries entire military at this point, but he is calling us reservists for the armed forces. how are people they're reacting to that in a way they say it's just about time that actually ukraine is trying to face the facts and may be inevitable that they have to face another war here. while others are again hoping that because there's no general mobilization yet, there still may be out the door open to sun diplomacy to sun negotiation to find a piece for a resolution, a peaceful solution to all of this peeping key fob into who had been talking to just last week could not even imagine that there may be an assault on their capital a few days later with party exchanging with that decision making from russia about the recognition of those to you as separate is regents as independent states.

people are starting to change their mind a dig and they are growing concerned over the day. they are really are hoping there is a peaceful way out of this. but actually preparing for the worse and not just the adults, but the also preparing the children for that, telling them where to go. in case there is an assault here. i'm telling them to you are right on a piece of paper, the blot side, the address in case when is shelling starts, even he and keith that the children know where to go and go to ask how funny you say that kia has not given up hope port diplomacy, i know that k of is not cut off diplomatic relations with moscow. for example. what options does the government there see for resolving this diplomatically given moscow's latest moods? given that the sanctions have been announced and even imposed already by the west of the japan was truly australia wants to impose a sanctions in russia. he kind of gives this feeling of perspective for ukraine,

that the sanctions may actually bring about some change and stop russia from further a going into into ukraine. nobody knows, actually, rather that's the case because rush already signal that as they find a sanction such as black mailing and the west is going to keep sanctioning russia until they're exhausted with it. but ukraine wants to maintain, at least for the small men still, that there is a peaceful way out of all of this, even though really nobody knows what the next alice, i going to bring here for ukraine and the ukrainians. funny, thank you very much. our correspondent bonnie parcher in key of russia appears to be continuing its military build up along ukraine's borders. u. s. satellite images claim to show an enlarge face in southern bell, rues just a few 100 kilometers from the ukraine capital. kia president joe biden says, russia's invasion of ukraine has already begun. russian troops are on the move.

the heading towards ukraine's eastern border as fighting intensifies between ukrainian and separatist forces. far away from the frontline, the upper house of the russian parliament voted to authorize the use of force outside russia's borders. they also approved vladimir putin's recognition of the don units and lou, hence people's republics as independent states. but the russian president didn't stop there. he later announced the borders of the 2 republics, include the ukrainian held territories, not just the rebel held areas, nor was it but his knell. we recognize that genius and hans people's republics, which means we have recognized all the founding documents, including the constitution. and the constitution defines the buddhist off the don yeske and lou hans regions at the time when they were part of ukraine. nobody mc

again, you will have to still ukraine. in response, u. s. president joe biden accused the russian leda of setting up a russian now to take mo territory by force. this is the beginning of a russian invasion of ukraine as he indicated and asked permission to be able to do from his duma. so let began to so i'm going to began to impose sanctions in response. far beyond the steps we and our allies and partners implemented in 2014 the u. s. satellite company has released new images that claim to show military vehicles messing in southern belarus. even as western nations coordinate a unified response, many fear a full scale attack on ukraine is still part of russia's plans. our russian affairs analysts constantino exit is following events from the lithuanian capital vilnius and joined us now from their constantine. a 2 thirds of

the territory claimed by the separatists is still held by ukrainian government forces with vladimir putin says that territory doesn't belong to ukraine. any more is russia going to help the separatists take that territory by force? my suspicion that 1st will probably issue another ultimate them to walk into the presence of the brian demanding that he settled the pending issues with the gun and score the world of the republics. i think that he hinted that yesterday, and he said, well ukraine has an option of settling this with the, with the authorities of the community recognize entities. maybe he'll do that. and if he refuses, which is a 100 percent certain that he will then i think and military operation to help the new government regain control of that territory will begin. and that will be

probably the fast case since 2014 on a really massive i to i station between the cranium or the russian forces. because the green forces to control, as you rightly said, terry, the majority of the territory, which is claimed by the separate office, and then you have to that was russia and all this. konstantin aga, speaking to us from vilios a short while ago. well, here's a look at the sanctions that have been announced by the international community since russia's president putin recognized the 2 break away republics in eastern ukraine. as independent, germany has suspended the heat nord stream to gas pipeline project built to bring russian gas to europe. chance olaf shoulds says to you, proven process has been suspended indefinitely. the 27 european union member states have unanimously agreed on an initial set of sanctions targeting russia. the use foreign affairs cheap, yusef oil said the measure measures will affect members of parliament and other

individuals involved in deploying troops. and the u. s. will impose a 1st round of sanctions on russia, the target to financial institutions, moscow's access to western financing, and russian elite, as he called them, the u. k. canada, australia and japan of also announced measures while as western governments impose sanctions against russia, european footballs governing body wafer is facing criticism for keeping the champions league final in st. petersburg. vladimir putin welcome to waive a boss alexander scheffer in to st. petersburg, after it was chosen as host 3 years ago. way for says it is monitoring the ukraine situation, but has no plans to change the venue. reacting to the decision, british prime minister, boris johnson said it is inconceivable that a major european football tournament like this could still take place in russia, in russia. now let's catch up on

a few other stories making headlines around the world. more than 60 people are dead after an explosion at a market in the west african nation of burkina faso. the blast was so powerful that brought down near by homes. investigators suspected happened at a store selling explosives and chemicals for minors, and have detained the owner. the lawyer for the uganda, an author a cause. when sir a roop kit rabbit, she says the writer has arrived in germany. carissa budget says he was tortured while in custody, and he was charged with insulting. you got his president and the president's son, the case has raised international concern. hong kong authorities have announced compulsory covered 19 testing for all the territory. some point $4000000.00 inhabitants next month. chief executive carry lamb also extended strict social distancing measures. she said help from mainland china was required to tackle a record serge, incredible iris,

cases driven by the army kron variant and venezuela. the authorities say to military personnel had been killed in a helicopter crash. another 2 people were seriously injured after the helicopter came down in laura state in northern venezuela to watching dw news from berlin, you'll find much more on our website. i'm terry martin. thanks for watching. sun are driven by merciless greed, others fighting the destruction land grabbers are exploiting. the amazon ring a people's for now briefly opposing them to report from the heart of brazil stuart's march 9th on d. w. ah.