for february 25th on d, w. ah, [000:00:00;00] ah, this is date ebony news live from berlin, ukraine's president makes a last ditch appeal for pace. laudermill zalinski says moscow has given the orders to attack you cried. but in a video, he asks russians to stand after their leader before it's too late. lansky speech comes off to the self proclaimed separatists in easton, ukraine asked for russian military support,

the latest potential pretext for moscow to launch an invasion. recent days have already seen a dramatic increase in separate a shilling and east, a new crime. sending residents fleeing day w, visits, a village caught in the crossfire. ah, i am rebecca riches. welcome to the program. ukrainian president, vul autumn is a lens key, has made an emotional play to russians, not to support quote, a major war in europe, speaking in russian to lansky said that the russian people are being lied to the late night. the late night video appeal came shortly after self proclaimed, separate as late as an ace and ukraine asked russian president vladimir putin for military support over his crises. congressmen, look, i'm addressing you, the russian people as a ukrainian citizen. bullied,

we are separated by border stretching more than 2000 kilometers when they had right now. there are 200000 of your soldiers there. washer oak of what's your leadership? his authorized him to move in to the territory of another country. he, at the shock of this could mark the start of a major war on the european continents. now, europe is come, continued. the devil is charles mc. cedrin joins me in the studio for more on this . charles, you've been following this, are you boy, you've been reporting on ukraine for years, but following this crisis in particular, really closely, we've saved throughout this whole build up that a lot of his alliance. he has been calling for com. he's been remaining calm, trying to keep him. this is a huge divergence from that. rebecca, he's been the console and chief, the ukranian people for months. this is a 360 degree or a 190 degree. turn around this message and i think it really go around the world. absolutely. i will. will spark perhaps. we'll mark the start of

a new phase. now zalinski in recent months is often say more concerned about the economic impact of this crisis. now we're seeing him addressed the potential of a military conflict and data major war part of his stance. until now it's been prompted, i think by add the desire not to provoke russia and not to seem like he's doing anything aggressive. so now at the last moment he's taken an entirely new tack, and i think this will certainly change mood in, in the crimean population as well. yeah, i was going to ask you what the impact of this statement would be on ukrainians and what, how are they reacting so far in? i'm hearing that people are not going to sleep tonight. you've got her. remember, i was there for the last time in december, and there were room is, are of put potential pretexts that russia may or may not use to attack you crying.

but most people kept living their lives. a conflict in don bass is a small part of the country. a few people moved to court from crimea, which was annexed in 2014 to the mainland. so most ukrainians were relatively disconnected from this is conflict. and they did follow the lead of the government until now that means that preparations for a conflict amongst civilians site in other parts of the country are not really that well advanced bomb sellers haven't really been prepared. ah, and so now i think at the very last moment, people are going to wake up to this. and it'll be interesting to see how the population reacts in the hours to come. we will this message connect with russian to it was in russian. it was, it was a to appeal, you know, personally, tell the russian people, will it even reach them? do you think it will connect? i mean, i think it will circulate widely on on telegram and the telegram news channels. he

made it, i've reads official channel, which few russians would follow, but it will certainly circulate within the opposition media. what are the chances of affecting russians? i'm not sure. in 2014, the annexation of crimea was very, very popular amongst the russian public. have a clear idea of primary somewhere where they perhaps went on holidays to now are the john basses is not the sort of region that russians really pay attention to. it's a rust belt industrial region. so there isn't the support and that wouldn't be the support from major conflict of the car we saw, you know, or similar moves such as the annexation of crimea. but you've got to also keep in mind, rebecca, that the rational position led by lexi nevada has been successfully subdued in the, in the government crackdown. so i think for, we're not going to say protesting responses h. i, it'll be interesting to see if russia does indeed goes ahead with this war in the hours or days to come. and it is not particularly successful if i set backs,

if the russian population will stay quiet and stay behind on this conflict and the russian engagement, or potential russian engagement in ukraine. some very cancer hours and days to come . indeed, charles mc veteran, thank you very much. for breaking down press the situation is developing very fast . now, i've just been saying the u. s. says it believes russia will invade ukraine before the night is out. he went, security council is convening for another emergency meeting in new york, but is unlikely to bring much apart from calmed and condemnation from moscow's actions. ukraine has called up reservists and declared a state of emergency as it braces for a worst case scenario. a wreath for the armed forces on defender of the fatherland day. in putin's version of history laid out in a speech this week. that fatherland includes ukraine. while the russian leader wade his next move,

russian military vehicles were on the move near the border with rebel held on yeske . but the leader of the breakaway region insists no troops have crossed over from russia. kia, meanwhile, was preparing for the worst. a state of emergency was declared reservists put on notice, and ukrainians, and russia urged to leave. then there was the news of western sanctions against russian interests, but ukraine's precedent followed me of the landscape indicated they didn't go far enough. but she put them on the board that she gets already pacing further steps to strengthen the pressure of sanction. it's important that germany has decided to interrupt certification of north stream to the 2nd would be a reversible network to stop this project from being used as a weapon. yes, germany has so far halted the approval process for the controversy of gas pipeline that would bring russian gas to europe. but on wednesday berlin said germany could

do without russian gas if necessary. new european union sanctions have also come into force targeting hundreds of russian lawmakers, freezing their e u asset, and banning them from travelling to the blossom. the city i'm grateful for you in new york, the un general assembly heard dire warnings about the international consequences of a war. ukraine is foreign minister, cold bloody me. putin's actions a threat to the world order, and urge the international community to take action to deter russia has not planned . you and the secretary general antonio. good terrorist described the situation as an extraordinary crisis. we meet in the face of the most serious global peace and security crisis in recent years. and certainly in my time a secretary general overall is facing a moment of burial. i truly hope it will not come. only one man knows whether that moment will come with

a 150000 troops ready to make him move at any time. the world is now on tenterhooks . and joining us is european security analysts, leanna fix from washington dc liana, welcome to d. w. thanks very much for your time. things seem to be moving quite quickly at the moment. give us your assessment. given the recent developments, how likely is a full scale russian invasion of ukraine? well, every news coming out of moscow and from the separatist republics, it seems that that a blog of plan is put into place. and we little aspect of that now the demand of the separate republics to washer, to support the military lead, which gives russia another legal please take to intervene with just very important in the washing context of the washing leadership to have these people we take. so with every news, with every piece of information coming out, we, the, the likelihood for washing military offensive towards the queen is increasing. and

this is now we the timeframe probably of days, not of weeks or months. i was going to ask you about a timeframe, but what, what targets are most likely, do you think, could we say an attempt to take the capital case? well, this is what you as intelligence sources has we have want against. and i'm from a political perspective from both perspective of what would make sense to the rational leadership if they want to go in to ukraine. it would be certainly to install a government in ukraine that would be a poor washing government. so just keeping it to this have dictated republics, does not seem to fit the aim to. we gain political control over ukraine as it has been laid out by the washing president in his speech so that it could certainly be a scenario which has to be considered seriously. and talk us through what, what it would look like. i mean, we don't want to speculate, but should russia invade ukraine?

full ground evasion. what, what does that look like? where what we have to expect, certainly an air campaign from the wash and side um and as i said, the wash in military is in such a military dominance. that ukrainian defense forces will quickly be up. number would quickly be outnumbered in a conventional scenario. what the, the, the, how exactly it will look like depends on the strategic aim of the campaign. if it is t f, or if it or of a potential campaign, if it is kia or if it is the cities in the east half p, especially now. it was mentioned by the ukrainian government as a city and a particular danger of suffering. and the russian attack or i, li, i, thanks. thank you very much for your assessment european security analyst.

on let's take a closer look now at the fighting in east and ukraine, which has intensified over recent days. terribly correspond, i'm, it is billing a file. 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 control territory and is being shared by separatists from the other side. not severely disorderly, put and we have been up 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 but not because it was just too cold. downstairs a seller is a seller, but lowest bottle half of the village has already left. the others are terrified shows of come down, right in the center of the village. one shall at 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, when we fix the pipe twice already we came last week yesterday and today we're here again. well, because 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 mccord encore and her neighbors have tried to make the most out of the cold

and damp cellar. but the effect of the electric heater is limited. she 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 evening. i don't even know what to do next. it takes just

a few minutes and this shelly begins again. ah ah, that report from dw mathias billing in easton. you crank that cindy's bulletin. this hour will bring you more on this tense and developing story throughout the night. there's also more news and analysis on the crisis on our website, www dot com. i'm rebecca griffin, in berlin. thanks very much for watching thing . song or driven by merciless greed, others fighting the destruction land grabbers or exploiting beat an amazon ring forming jim's people's par. note briefly opposing them to