ah ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin, russian forces closing on key on the 2nd day of vladimir putin's war against you cry blast i heard in the capital. an apartment building is here to help. the ukraine says it down to a russian frontage. it fighting takes place on multiple fronts with more than $130.00 civilians report the killed tens of thousands of civilians. fleet major cities, while those who seek will remain seek shelter. president, a lot of these landscaping says he's starting to put, staying put bothering here,

despite calling himself roches number one target. and he, you leaders agree on you sanctions against russia, but they hold back on cutting russia from global bank transactions. ukraine says the majors don't go far enough. ah, i've been fizzle and welcome you crane's capital. kiev has come under renewed attack as russia ram south its invasion now in its 2nd day. ah, air raid sirens have sounded in camp this morning and blasts were heard in the hours before dawn. an apartment building was partially destroyed on the ukrainian forces, said they down a russian fight, a jet over the capitol. sirens of also being heard in the city of the viv in western ukraine. the ukrainian government says at least 137 people have been

killed and hundreds wounded across the country. russia is continuing its air sea and land assault, which it launched in the early hours of thursday morning. ukrainian president blood in his lensky says the fate of europe is being decided in his country. ukrainian soldiers on the outskirts of the eastern city of khaki inspecting just some of the carnage from day one of russia's invasion of ukraine. then after dusk, the destruction continued with civilians took refuge in subway station is looking for whatever safety they could find. also in the crime capitol keep people headed for the underground fearful russia could launch airstrikes. most of you got some higher because i think it's

one of the only places right now where you can hide and hear all the other places are terrifying. parson at a strategic air base just 20 kilometers away from the capitol, reports of russian forces and control i. however, ukraine says that prevented a complete takeover of the facility. ukrainian troops have set up road blocks throughout the cities. government quarter. late on thursday night ukrainian president vladimir zalinski said he was aware of the danger, but that he was remaining in the capital than the lesson plan of michael according to our information the enemy has listed me as target number one and my family as target number 2 on the other one, the which they want to destroy the country politically terminating the head of state nation. a level delta satellite images also showed the destruction. russia is

writing down on ukraine here, the damage to airfields and the east of the country. and russia is proving it's no hardly interested in military facilities. ukrainian officials confirmed that loss control of the d commission should noble nuclear power plant. the scene of the world's worst nuclear disaster is now in russian hands. dw corresponded mathias boating and joins me from keith. at his city residence have been spending the night in air right shelters. there are reports of explosions in the capital. what is the situation there right now? yeah, people are coming slowly out of these shelters now, but as you can see there few people on the streets, many people have left the capital. we've seen these pictures of for long columns of, of cars leaving the city. um there, there was intense a bomb being last night. american intelligence says that russia fired $160.00

rockets on ukraine and part of them on the capital. there was also a defense or destroying some of them. we are not sure. not right now. what exactly happened, but there were, there were clashes in the air when air defense hit something and the debris fell down and hit one residential building or people had been evacuated from there, but the building was burning and we don't really know about casualties yet. um, so the whole night there were there were, there were attacks on the capital and today there is the expectation that russia will try to move with tanks on to the capital again. can you give me an idea of the mood among ukrainians or the family members? i've spoken to. a staying at many have been fleeing, and others want to fight. what

it's tara. people are afraid of what's going to happen next. and they're trying to do their best to, to protect themselves if they don't enlist in the forces. we've also seen a pictures of people queuing up in front of the recruitment bureaus of the territorial defense forces. that's the volunteer of battalions that are supposed to act behind the lines in support of the, the army, and we know that they have been mobilized. also there are numerous reports that suggest russia could enter the capital even in the coming hours. they've already taken control, as we mentioned, the should noble area around under 50 kilometers the north. will they be met with resistance? the ukrainian x, the government expects them to come from 2 sides, north western north,

east ham and has announced fierce resistance what we've seen. so far is that the ukranian army has been countering this attack quite forcefully, or they are much, ah, the russian army is, of course in terms of technology numbers and everything much superior to the ukrainian, but the motivation to defend the country is there. and we've seen these battles are on the airfield that we are mentioned before, where russia was able to almost take control of it. and then it has been, it seems to have been our, according to our information that we have now have been completely driven out again . so there is, of course, a desire to, to defend the country. and these are weapons that ukraine has received the javelins and the stingers. of course they would be put to use. but he has one about

the situation in the east, which has been so key to the fighting over the past 8 years. describe what you saw on, on your journey after returning from the east to the capitol. more we left pretty early in the we left the east pretty early so we didn't witness any of the fighting there. there were a bomb, but yesterday morning there were a rocket artillery attacks, but we didn't see them. what we know now is that fighting has intensified along the line of contact with the self proclaimed republics. and also the city of harker, of the, which is not part of the don boss, that part of the east that people, that ukraine has be and, and the separatists backed by russia have been fighting about for years. but one another region closer to russia. this has been also been under attack, so attacks on ukraine are happening from all sides and from this house as well. so

we have reports of a heavy fighting everywhere, but he has been in here. thank you very much and stay safe. we can go now to our russian affairs analyst konstantin exits. he's on the line from bilious. the world is looking on in this belief at these events in ukraine. what's your assessment of russia standing in the world considering what's going on? look, what's a good morning been and i hope you're relevant to the great and safe. i think that in fact, these pictures that we've seen in the last 24 hours our, our a p r. disaster. i don't think that even during the us off or anything like that. the major video really be 1000000 in the course of major european something for me to mission largest lunch duty and can be wholly

a situated year. so i suppose also there is very lear well, p r as well that makes sense and that is, that wasn't taken in one blow. we don't see, you know, flowers and flags that basically seems like the ground and expected to see the resistance as much of notice in the previous report from, from this is of course, very unequal competition between the ukrainian or russian army balls or the other. him defend, there's always have an advantage, and motivation of cause is quite high among the forces. i cannot even imagine what happened isn't when the russian forces enter major gradient cities. we've seen what happened in the,

in the injection and growth me in the north caucuses in russia, 900 ninety's. we've seen that let a let boil down and syria for about a year against an air force on small. i wonder what will happen to keep again, i think it is already a disaster for moscow and if they do manage to enter kiev, how quickly could the government therefore well, it seems that the fall of the government is not on the car because i do think that in such circumstances that cannot penetrate the thinking of the government. but i would be quite surprised if they didn't make any kind of arrangements for the government to continue to operate from other parts of the brain from the western france. and actually, what i think is a possibility that the russians could strike at west new whites unimaginable. now it's also because it is, it voted major poland and also because there's a fierce and

a most getting there. but i suppose that that's the green gum and thought about it . i do not think that taking in stuff the range will call it will mean the collapse of the i do think that there was a provision made for that and everything was seen in the world show that the directions of the state still there will, apart from invading, i mean, the russians would need to occupy some of the country for some time to keep any sort of puppet government in place. if that's what the intention is. i mean, we saw that with in a coverage of course, he was driven out by the ukraine. well, look up. i think my military service is limited to 3 years and i may have done it the comprehensive industry expert. but frankly speaking,

i think that occupation force for a country of such size and such population needs to be really huge. rush nami, i think, standing russell is about 1000000 people. probably will need most of it to take over a crime and maintain a permanent occupation. what put in a said he doesn't intend to occupy for him, but then what's the point? i suppose that keeping the pocket government well, you can keep it in probably in one place. you can probably control. but it will be very difficult to imagine how this government will, will project its authority across the country where i'm certain there's going to be a guerrilla war. so i think it's nearly emission, impossible that said our russians viewing this invasion? well, i think that's what i've seen last night and all through the last day i was

surprised may. so this going to be much fewer in russia against the war. what i've seen actually, my native city moscow is quite impressive. okay. it's a 100 country, 140000000 people. so i mean, it's not from the structure that huge size, but one has to understand people, fear people are prophetic in russia. so those who went to the street are very, very brave people. and i think the kind of figure is about 1600 threats. but what's looking into the future? what i can see, these will cannot be popular. and each day that it continues will sap supports for this adventure, whether it will eventually turn into some kind of a leap of pulling out between themselves or mass demonstration. i don't know, but it will probably take time, but i'm sure it's not. it's not popular. and as we heard from konstantin,

there have been protests, both in russia and ukraine. constantine, erica, thank you very much for coming on the show. thank you. or your opinion leaders have agreed to impose new sanctions on russia over it's war and ukraine. but they held back from cutting russia from the global swift payment system. after resistance from some countries, european commission president was a funder lines, says the agreed measures would have a major impact on russia's economy. we will hold the kremlin accountable the package of massive and targeted sanctions. european lead is approved tonight, clearly demonstrates that it will have maximum impact on the russian economy and the political elite. and it is built off 5 pillars the 1st that the financial sector. second, the energy sector, the 3rd is the transport sector forth our export controls and the ban of export financing. and finally, visa policy, christine boy, is.