ah ah ah this is the w news live from berlin. russian forces close in on kiev on the 2nd day of let me put this war against you. pray. last i heard in the capital and apartment building is hit by shelling fragments. ukraine says it is battling russian forces ounce ikea. 130 people that being reported killed in the invasion. tens of thousands of civilians fleet, major cities, many heading to neighboring poland. president loaded here. so then he says he's staying put in despite calling himself brushes number one target. and do you

leaders of re on you sanctions against russia, but they hold back on cutting russia from global bank transactions. ukraine says the measures don't go far enough. ah. i've been visible and welcome you, crane's capital. kiev is under attack. as russia pushes forward, in the 2nd day of its invasion, residence of kiev heard air raid sirens this morning and explosions were heard in the hours before dawn. and apartment building was partially destroyed by a parent shell fragments. the ukrainian army says it is now finding russian forces outside the capital. a waiting for confirmation of that sirens and explosions have also been heard in other cities across you cry. this is the situation right now in the ukranian capital. kiev is alive pictures. as you can see,

it seems fairly calm at my don square. one of them may landmarks in the heart of the city. but we have noted in our rolling coverage that many people have been hiding and shelters and underground stations after a 2nd night of explosions and the early hours of the morning in the capital as well . our correspondence we were speaking to earlier, mathias bowling, also having to evacuate his position. having said that, shelling had begun in the capitol. the crimean government says at least 137 people have been killed and hundreds wounded across the country. since russia's invasion began early on thursday, russia is continuing its assy and land assault taking territory, including the former a noble nuclear power plant, ukrainian president, florida 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 ukraine capital, keep people headed for the underground fearful russia could launch airstrikes. so, so 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 arns and 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 roadblocks throughout the cities government quarter. late on thursday night

ukrainian president loaded me as zalinski said he was aware of the danger, but that he was remaining in the capital than the other lessons learned, much of will, according to our information, the enemy has listed me as target number one and my family dinner 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 de la 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 funny for chant, joins me on the line from outside kiev. funny,

what is the situation now in the capital? i believe you've moved yourself out and just tell us what you've been through overnight since we last spoke. well, to say that the situation is 10th, will be quite another statement actually at this point, but it is a terrifying given what we actually went through last night. we had to each other ourselves, tibbetts as divers, going off. in fact, just like yesterday, shortly after the 1st explosion, the source exposes. can you hear me? yes, i can, i can, i can hear you loud and clear. hello, funny, i can hear you fine. if, if, if you keep talking, tell us out tonight and what you when we're going to thank you so much for there isn't a christy problem here. so it was a quite terrifying situation. tonight, as you have shells, if speak shells ourselves, we could only keep up with the reporting from inside would occur if you would

please, which is in place. of course, from $10.00 to 7 am. i me just had to go just like everyone else. i just didn't get that report. people aware of why to speak for shouts at the subway. the maps with patience and track as well. the moment you're trying to reach is a chance for yourself just in front of me. traffic is building up not just who is trying to be, but tens of thousands of people with us already up here. and there are $100.00 that you have to try to exit the rows that are still open to what's the western part of ukraine. but let me tell you, there are so many rumor said the boy, that people really want the is it the right to be or is it better? i'm not most what, what i can tell you for sure that given the acceleration of the call goes to the shelling that he's experienced early this morning. he's an indication that actually

a big class greedy attorney situation is going to play out cranium and russia for the best. so he's going to be playing out she at the capital city of ukraine, already the up seeing that was back and forth to so we're going to control the cars ministry a point about it could be just outside of the currency, according to ukraine, information, if you claim it still hold the position, reach scott is a successful ukraine, a because after all your course, you know, that was quite the pure in terms of military personnel, military. so to them, actually it is what i should say is being expressed as a very successful change, but you creating a government of course, very important to motivate people who wants you sunday country not to give up a job and she to a russian food. what about the ukranian president,

he is said to still be in the country. how dangerous is the situation for him right now? ukrainian president to start saying he's going to say, you know, that he's the number one enemy for russia. right now, the number to enemy is his family, but you size, he's going to stay and everything. what we know about was his actions, policies in the next i was going to be to be, can read on a bit. you thought to try the again, did you say that he wants to actually hold on to all, to help with more military defensive assistance, but also in fact, you called on his cultural party and mr. duda to some help and mediate here that there is a sort negotiation possible. let me put in the basically brings back to you today she ation table. this is what you actually just and now why to go, which clearly tells you that you still some whole trying to trouble the really

present going to food escalate into a pool as we have already seen already, scores of people injured and killed in this, you will level of escalation, which at this point is a plus out who scale invasion by russia and russia. and that is, is that all equal to even though russia never did the play to minutes reparation. what is happening is really in beijing full size from the, from the know, rather from the northern part, playing from the cell from the on, on all ranges. yeah. we are, it is, it is a really terrible situation, right? no, for the people in ukraine who turned out to start so though, is it safe for them to leave,

but also for their practical reasons because they do not have just building do not have to logistics to the funding. what are the main ways out right now? the way, what are the main ways that everyone is thinking right now? still the route towards the big, which is the left seat of the the biggest down to the rest and part of your plane or on the west of ukraine, neighboring neighboring pool. and that is that everyone is speaking at this point. but of course, the also change by the, by the given that the russian forces are trying to limit people from, from the thing. but they are the want to keep as a result for to be very difficult to make a decision which direction to take a chance for us reporting. stay safe. she was in key of yesterday, but as you heard, there has been shelling and they've now moved that position further to the west of

the country. we'll be in touch later in the day. thank you very much. funny. thank you. will dina coaching call is in man, it's key in the west of the country. he works for the d. w academy which promotes media freedom and he moved his family out from kiev just yesterday. tell us about your day and what you've been experiencing high. well, it was quite a complicated yesterday. we woke up at 5 30 am because we heard the explosives and it's very hard to confuse this sounds with something else and we understood straight the way that the work started. so we are like without any hesitation, were to come with kids. and i have to and we got into the car and started to get out of here because been, and this is, would be the main goal of russian aggression. and it took us about 10

hours to take the kids to my home town, which is in the west and ukraine. well, usually it's about 3 hours. it was a mess of traffic jams and you could see a building on the horizons. burning and smoke was going out for them. it was pretty scary. and then hour by hour, then you started to come out that the russians are invading ukraine through several worse. it was very scary thing. theme of what was going for your head when you made that 10 hour journey with 2 kids in the car. i. first of all, you don't believe that it's happening. you can't really and even when you see tanks, ukrainian times go in like on the other side of the road because i was going to the west and there were these to just can't believe that it's true. it looks like you're in a some kind of film. but then when you see the news and you hear the radio,

you start to believe in the and like, it's like all you, all you have all you haven't had this basically here. and then you just don't do this. how do you see the situation progressing? i mean for you you're, you're basically, it sounds like you're on the run for what are you going to do with your family and what are your expectations? well yeah, it just some extent we on the run because, but the 1st goal was to get out of the danger zone and which we did yesterday. of course no one slept yesterday and i have my friends come and also i left it later. it took them both 12 to 15 hours because of the traffic. and for the main task of the yesterday was to make sure that we're safe and our friends are safe. and today i think it's the weight and they will understand what will happen next to my

understanding key will be the main goal and we already hear the news and my friends who state say that you can hear the shootings of all men. and there are fights in key of right now, so we will understand the status by the end of the day, and then we'll decide, i think that probably we need to secure my family, my kids either somewhere here in ukraine, or make sure that they're safe abroad i am not allowed to go abroad because mobilization was announced this night, and every man 18 to 60 can get drafted and he cannot be allowed to leave ukraine. so and then we'll probably wait for the development situations and if we have to fight, then we will fight. how prepared would you say you are to fight the country? i'm absolutely not. i mean, i to frank speaking, i'm never had

a gun in my hand in my life. i never showed a firearm. so i am not prepared at all. and your family what. what does it think about what you're going to do yesterday night, my daughter who is 6 year old, she asked me if i'm going to war. and i said if i have to, i will, and of course she asked me not to do that. but so you see like when you call these invaders who, it's not us the cable have to leave with their dw employee demarco jenko in western ukraine. thank you very much for talking to us and recapping the latest developments on russia's war on ukraine. ukraine's capital key has come under renewed attack as russia ramps up its invasion now in its 2nd

day. air raid sirens have sounded in cave and other cities this morning, and bloss word in the hours before dawn. an apartment building was partially destroyed. ukrainian army says it is now fighting russian forces outside the capital. clashes have been reported in the cities north. the ukraine government says dozens have died since the invasion began, and hundreds more have been injured. ukrainian president wrote me as the lensky addressed his nation this morning. he told ukrainians that they were also targets of rushes. attacks drawn up much w. it's the 2nd morning of a full scale war. at 4 am, the russian forces continued making rocket strikes on the ukrainian territories. they say civilian objects are not the target. it's a lie. the reality is they make no discrimination wherever they act. just like yesterday, both military and civilians under russian attack. the purpose of this attack is to

pressure us to put pressure on you citizens of ukraine on our whole society. and we can now go to our russian affairs analyst constantine exit on the line from building is lithuania, constantine, could you 1st of all just comment on what we were hearing from one of our colleagues there in the west of the country about his prospects. he's being cold up to fight his family is looking for safety and is on the move through the western part of the country. what's going to happen with all of these refugees? it is very important question because there may be potentially millions of these people trying to escape war by of the board of the european union holding them slovakia and actually hungry to so i think that there's going to be

a big exodus of people from the crime and the european union should be prepared for that. as for our colleague, who may be dropped and never expected to be dropped, of course. well, as far as i understand, such people are given basic minutes restraining. and of course it is a very high risk thing to send and prepare people to the front. but it seems that this is what is happening and will be happening with the you with ukrainian men who are being pulled out. and this is a logical, tragic, but logical consideration of what actually happens and such that i mean having a gun shop in your hands for the 1st time. where does that put ukrainians army when it comes to fighting off the rogers? well 1st of all, as part of it and there was

a cor professional in ukraine and quite a lot of volunteers who fought in the east all these 8. yes. so there are much more many people who can fight as far as i understand also. and this seems to me quite logical. lots of people were prepared in a paramilitary way and there will be people who know hold to handle guns. i don't know hunters, for example, people that exercise in rifle clubs who will be prepared to fight the thing. that's, this is actually russia, the biggest challenge as you can occupy ikea, i think that we see it's possible, but what they're going to do you can't essentially run their 44000000 country with the huge, biggest territory in europe with an occupation for so even actually i think you 15200000. that's impossible. and it's a very diverse country. it's

a country that's the best resist. i think about this is a very, very hard military and devil was even and frankly speaking, that this day that just bought the day of war, war is already a p r. disaster. we don't see, you know, joyous crowds, flags, bread and souls surrender columns of surrender, ukrainian soldiers. this is what he expected. i mean, i'm forgetting it sounding cynical. that is what is expected from such kind of lightning war with a big propaganda twist. we see nothing. konstantin, there's been much talk of the ukrainian army being vastly inferior to russia's, but we are getting reports of some small victories if you will, by the ukrainian army, including missiles striking a military field. and most of in southern russia, how significant is that? it is raising, i think, to me, i mean,

my army experience is limited to 3 years as an office and the national have soccer university. but my understanding that this is pop up and very, very significant strategy of taking the fight to the russian. of course the army is much smaller and of course it's much more limited, but it is a signal to the criminal. we can make things very unpleasant for you. for example, you heard reports about the possibility of the russian spit, special forces saboteurs being already. yeah. well, it's a 2000 kilometers porous border between the 2 countries. you can infiltrate ukrainian, some doesn't into russian cd to strike that as a russian military sites. i mean, i wouldn't be surprised if this happens. this is something that's not only the problem, but i think also, and that's really more important. the russian population does not expect. so in a sense, it is a very serious box. all this hit, maybe not very significant,

militarily the heat on the russian air base is a very potent psychological, a strike in a, in a cycle cycle war that's being waged. now by the 2 side consulting i get, thank you very much for your analysis. will european union leaders have agreed to impose new sanctions on russia over its war on ukraine, but they held back from cutting russia from the global swift payment system after resistance from some countries, including germany. european commission, president or telephone line 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 leaders approved to night 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 from funded life. let's go over it out to our brussels corresponding, christina. mm hm. we're christine another round of sanctions. but are they good enough? bend the european council president, char michelle said that these sanctions would be massive and that they would be painful. and by all indications, they will be because let's consider the effects and the impact the visa a sanctions will have on the ground. it is likely to be felt by ordinary russians, ordinary russians just trying to get by. and they will see prices of goods around them going up. but it is expected that inflation will rise in the country. businesses bend small businesses in russia might be impacted as the economy is expected to go into recession. because of this, there would be the collapse of some industry or, or,

or the frustration of certain industries. especially because of the ab banning of the exports of semiconductors in the modern world, been semiconductors, essentially, fuel our lifestyle, our industry. and without that, it is really difficult to see how the russian economy can develop and continued to grow into a more modern economy. so beyond the sort of immediate or rather medium term impact that the sanctions will have, it's also going to have very devastating impact or effects are for, for the future of, of russia's economy. been christian. why not had putin with everything that they've got on the sanctions front? why hold back? i mean, the harsh a sanction would have been cutting roster off from me into banking system are called swift. sure. it's going to hurt a lot of other economies around the world as well. but um, the main target there would be russia and we've heard germany in italy are holding off on that. and yet germany and italy, a rich countries,

and some of the biggest economies here in europe. why are they complaining? so, here's the thinking around that there's 2 sides to this, right? so the 1st one, ben is, do you perhaps save the best for last, right? do you save your, your biggest gun ah, for, for lost, and that's essentially what the says, like the swift payment. if you cut russia off of that, you're effectively are making it impossible to send money in and out of russia. and, and countries like, like germany and italy have argued beyond their self interest, which i'll discuss in a 2nd that we need to keep some leverage. and it's is so that we are able to still talk to moscow because right now we're looking at what we're calling a full scale invasion. but is there going to be some kind of a protracted war you need to be able to, to go to moscow with some kind of leverage. and then there is also of course, the self interest here been we've got to be honest about the fact that as much as the sanctions are designed to impact and target the russian economy. some european economies will also at be hit by those. in fact,

the european council is making provisions are for those that are, will you asked affected in the case of berlin and rome at germany is a massive importer of russian gas. italy is doing more and more business with russia over the years. and so it would really have a serious impacts if they're suddenly not able to make payments to moscow because of the sanction. so self interest also playing a hand, but also the thinking that from a more strategic perspective, you probably do want to use that as a last resort, as we've heard from paris as well. they are dealing with a man who are used to sanctions. oh, 1st of all, let me just play you something the ukranian president said, listen, give us missouri. you're in all the many conversations i've heard with other leaders to day. i've heard several things. the 1st one is that we're supported and ungrateful to every nation that helps ukraine and concrete ways over year. but there is a 2nd thing. we are alone in defending our nation, the sonata door bully,

who is ready to fight with them. i don't see anybody jasmine nibble sticky. who is ready to give you crane a guarantee of joining nato. every one is afraid. chisel. she will yet, christine is ukraine alone in this fight against russia. while for the ukrainian soldiers fighting on the ground, they certainly are. there are no western troops around them and beside them, fighting alongside them. that was confirmed yesterday by the nato secretary general, that there are no later combat troops in ukraine, and that there were no plans to send any nato for its part is making massive contingency plans. it has bullshit and barrel plains are in, in the hundreds on stand by on high alert. it's taken at the decision to give special powers to its top command. and he can effectively deploy the rapid force without having to go through the standard procedure of consulting all of the allies

. and they are bolstering existing units, are particularly in the baltic states. and, but all of this is a, for the event that nato member comes and attack and was ukraine not being an, a 2 member. these provisions do not apply to ukraine. what nato says, it will do is it will continue to support ukraine with military aid that it will send at funding and donations, which are also be coordinated at e u level. but no boots on the ground. no western troops on the ground to fight alongside the ukrainians. native member leaders will be holding an emergency meeting today will, can we expect from that? well, that's an interesting one and been because it's also been called as a number of baltic states will the baltic states, if i can put it there will lithuania is stony lead, fear they have communicated their increasing and ease and they feel vulnerable. now that this invasion has happened and they fear for their territorial integrity for one, there is also the concern that they will be increasing in cyber attack. so on these

countries, more sort of a propaganda and dis, information campaigns targeted at ethnic russian communities in these countries. so these are countries of, for example, the lithuanians have long been calling for additional support at the lithuanian. foreign minister just this week was calling for an additional battalion to be deployed. i in sir, in c, his country. so you do get the sense that there is a fear. now that this is not just ukraine, that this could spread beyond ukraine, and certainly that is the fear of fad. some of these nato member states, in addition to the nato meeting, european foreign ministers are also going to be meeting at this afternoon here in brussels. they're coming for an in person meeting. the nato summit is going to be fertile before the foreign ministers. you can imagine that they will be discussing you are talking about the, the looming refugee crisis. and they will probably also now be discussing how to distribute a refugees coming in from ukraine. i into the rest of the unit. we know that some

countries of already indicated a willingness to take on a fair share. a perhaps there will be more concrete plans that they'll be discussing in that meeting. been christine, but thank you very much for your reporting from brussels. the u. s. is bored. russia not to expand its military operations by attacking nature, members is secretary of state entity blinking on and b. c. news. when it comes to threatening nato countries, we have something very powerful called article 5. an attack on one is an attack on all. russia knows that, and that's exactly why. among other things, one of our responses have been to shore up nato's defenses to, to put more forces to put more equipment on its eastern flight. the countries closest to russia, to deter any aggression that russia might be contemplating against nato countries. it's turned out to washington, d. c correspondent, chef on the one step and what do you make advances.