berlin, welcome back. now russia is ramping up its invasion of ukraine. now in a 2nd day, ukraine says its forces are battling russian troops on the edge of the capital cave . and there have been reports of gunfire near the government district. ah, air raid sirens have been sounding in queue of and in other cities, prompting people to take shelter in metro stations. an apartment building was partially destroyed over night, and ukraine said it shot down to russian missiles and a fighter jet over the capitol. ukrainian government says at least 137 people have died since the invasion began, and hundreds more have been injured. we want to take you now to live with pictures of the situation in the ukrainian capital key. if you're looking at an almost deserted might and square it might look like com there. at this landmark, in the heart of the city, bought the people that you don't see are seeking cover in shelters and underground in train stations. and there are reports of russian soldiers in the city itself.

we're going to be bringing you more news as we get it. i'll be with you for the next couple of hours with team coverage. crossing to our correspondence around the works. earlier today i spoke with journalist, andrea yes, go in care of. and i asked her how to describe how people are coping there as well as in eastern ukraine where she had just been before traveling to the capital. and there are people at the train station, hundreds and hundreds of people which kind of get out because there are no trains anymore. we saw long, long q some of the out on the highways for people who keep trying to get out. i would say it's very different because the n p s. people want to get them done, but you still have a lot of people who was coming that the russians were coming. and then on the other hand side was much more dangerous because the shelling was much close. that as far as i can see it now, we don't know what to expect this afternoon. no words from tonight. so i think both

areas, i'm not very safe. any more. d, w correspondents. much volunteer joins me on the line from kim mathias. what is the situation like there? now i understand that you yourself are on your way out of ukraine. well, i'm on my way out of key if not out of ukraine, but we had decided to leave the city because the situation was getting more dangerous there for the last 2 days, we've been for the last 2 days have been shut up on things and strikes and people have been hiding in the basement or in the metro station because we also have been we also spent last night, mostly in the, in the shelter when, when we got out,

we needed to go back in, in the morning. we just were out out and in and out of the shelter and we have news that tons are advancing on. you don't really know how hot the responses are, how well the ukrainian army is doing it, fighting back. but the daisies, of course, that this city will be blocks completely soon, and that's why we are heading out there. lots of people are now trying to lead the city long, long traffic jams on the ways on the road going west and south. and we are, we have just we just out of the city now and on the outskirts this is it's, it's, it's, it's very grim now. and then key. if the city is a fuse almost empty, you don't see anybody on the street. so just a few people trying to maybe get some cash somewhere or shops or close to

buying anything. and if you cause also on the road side in the city it's, it's any, it's really empty. it's almost a goes misty as you're talking about tanks rolling in the threat of key of being blocked off entirely. i mean, this is a grim situation as you've described and we've heard many people are trying to leave here such as yourself or ukraine entirely. but how are many others the majority of the population of key of how are they planning for this invasion? what do they have in the day? the hedge i am sure you can plan for that because nobody knows what, how, how it's going to happen. if treat, i think in the streets breaks out and people will be fighting or on the houses on the streets. then of course the situation would be very dangerous. if somehow the

ukrainian defense collapses before and the russian tanks were just all in, it would be very different. different people have stopped up on the food. people have refueled that cause that they have any, although probably many people with cars left the city just as the people have been hiding in the, in the metro stations. key of has this very, very deep, underground system, underground train system where, which is quite safe. in any case, some people have spent days there. but how can you prepare for something? you don't know at all what is going to happen, but how it's going to, how can you be in the city that's going to be over on may be by an army, could also be that the ukrainian or russian troops back. but of course, the, they did the russian troops out number the ukrainian one. so there is

a high probability of being of either over on all, completely blocked. we don't know what will happen to the electricity to the mobile networks. all these things are very hard to, to foresee. so i think nobody really has an idea how to prepare except getting as much cash on cash machines having cash, stockpiling home water, drinking water as the things you can do. the rest of that, i think w as much as a ball, and i thank you so much for your important recording. we really appreciate it. i want to turn it back now it to ukraine and d. marshall chang. go, isn't it me? it's d and the west of the country and he's a consultant for the dw academy, which promotes media freedom around the globe. and he has moved his family out from kev. thank you so much for joining us during this difficult time. first of all,

i want to hear about your personal story. how difficult was it to leave key of for you and your family? hi, thanks me. i mean, it was very difficult and it was mostly unexpected. well, because it was just a regular evening and we went to bed and suddenly at 5 pm, you just hear the explosions, which you can differentiate from all other types of explosions. and we understand that the war starts. and so the 1st decision of me and why my wife was to pack and to try to leave keith, which we did, we just took our kids with, took our clothes, the sinks and personnel, the lawn in sands hid their old and in the west. like we will not to loan them on that and the will quite a lot of people and it was a very long and stressful 10 hour journey to go to the western city malesky where we are out with huge of traffic jams and a lot of tanks approaching us ukrainian tanks,

which will go into keel. and then usa, we will in the phones reading the news. and during this time, martial law was implemented. russia across the borders of ukraine and invaded from several territories. and we were just like in it and it was bruin and everson was happening so fast. and then suddenly you had been here this smell of the powder in the air because a lot of places were hit by missiles and they will burn in. and of course, it was very stressful, especially for the kids who always us, you've had to grab your things up and leave with it whole drain in toe, no less. how on earth you explain something like this to your kids? it is, it was a very difficult decision and really it's really like stop the car and discuss it with my wife because the one hand you don't want to live with. on the other hand,

you don't want your kids to go through that. but then we decided to tell the truth and we said that we are leaving because i give them this morning turned out to be a dangerous place. and we want them to be safe. and we think that the war will start. and it was a very, very hard conversation with the kids. and we received, of course, a lot of questions. main of them, which was like will, did he go to war? and the answer was, i don't know, and it was still don't know what will happen in the next 24 hours. and i think that's harder. sparks. and we have heard in this show that on ukrainian television, i mean citizens are being given directions on how to make molotov cocktails with the idea of defending himself against a russian invasion. have you been considering taking up arms yourselves or do you

know people who have a so basically this morning, a draft then general ross was announced in time. going to be drafted sooner or later, which means i have to go and defend my country. and so now i'm just thinking of how to make sure how to protect 1st, how to protect my family and make sure that they in a safe place no matter what happens. and to then of course i like, i will do it and i will have to do it. i've never shopped a gun in my life before. i never hold the gun in my and, but i things if you want our kids still live at bright future in ukraine as a country, we need to learn it and we need to do it and all my friends and all my main say things the same that was it, d t o b use d mach jenko. he works as a consultant for dw, and was joining us from ukraine. now if you're just joining us,

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w. y a d w news live a from a berlin russian forces attack here on the 2nd day of lot of your proteins war against ukraine. people take shelter in metro stations as air raid sirens, sound and residents clean up apartments. struck by shelley, ukraine says it is battling russian forces near the capital. more than 130 people have been reported killed in the invasion. meanwhile, tens of thousands of civilians, fleet major cities, many heading to neighboring poland, president a lot of years the lens.