ah ah ah, this is news live from berlin, ukraine's president says russia plans to storm key of in the coming hours as troops close in on the capital. president zalinski defies the threat and stays in the city . thousands of civilians are forced to take shelter as explosions continue. also on the show, you probably have to go many away from the war and saving my life and my children's lives with the russian invasion since. tens of thousands of families fleeing from neighboring countries with some men forced to turn back and support the war effort

. ah, i'm ami a niece if welcome, ukrainian president follow de mer zalinski expects russia to start a major assault on key f overnight. troops have been closing in on the capital after russia launched an aerial attack early on friday, with schools and apartment buildings destroyed and the offensive fighting is also raging and other parts of the country. though u. s. defense officials believe russia has encountered more resistance than expected. here, zalinski miles gazette. i've said, i have to say absolutely openly. tonight will be more difficult in the day. many of our state cities are under attack. i had the means nothing to rel. now yeah, avenue to night the enemy will use all its forces to break out offences in a vile, tough, and humane way to night. they will attempt to storm us. explosions were heard throughout

the day across the ukrainian capital. many residents have taken shelter for the night. government says it's handed out thousands of guns to ordinary citizens. and as urging them to build petrol bombs to resist the northern outskirts of give the front lines in the russian assault on ukraine's capital. volunteers have taken up arms to defend the city, but without heavy defensive weapons. there's only so much they can do. if not enough in all the fool fool helicopter is not enough. and not a fool thought, ben. i need fancy the thought. outnumbered and outgunned, but refusing to quit ukraine's cabinet, sent a message of encouragement on social media. well of all was but as dent good, the president is here. we're all here who school are military or wide citizens of

society are here? we don't, we're all here defending our independence, our country. and it will remain so slow, much glory to our men and women defenders glory to ukraine. flow green are off. many of those who aren't picking up arms or taking refuge in the cities metro. oh is them way? it's safer under ground from a show i even woke up today with the news that there was shelling in the central area. i'm a show they can even target our house, but i don't so it's safer, underground garage. but more about the also the shelter in our building is not as deep underground as the metro station. but hello donna, for the little national good info. those who want to get out of the city, find roads choked with vehicles, some out of gas or abandoned by those who continued on foot.

the situation at key of central train station doesn't look much better. oh til again with them since we've been trying all day since this morning. as you can see here, it's unrealistic. there's lots of as a dog we can't fit. we're going back to see bianca with him. he has to push straight, but how he supposed to do that with a child. the dog is scared, is dangerous. we won't go. and honestly, i don't have the energy to wait to the next one. i just don't. but even getting out of give is no guarantee of safety. many men of fighting age who make it to the border, are being turned back by the ukrainian military and told to report to the front lines. dw correspondent nick connelly joins us on the line. he wasn't key of but was forced to flee. nick, you've spent all day on the road. where are you now and what did you see along the way? there so i'm in, it's a prevent provincial capital about 200 close to southwest of kids. took about 10

hours to make that to come to journey. as we had to report crazy, crazy traffic on all the roads leading west and south west people trying to get either closer to the you opponent, to potentially leaving the country. or just get away from the russian troops that are heading toward key from the north, from beller as gross from the northeast, from russia, with ukraine. i'd say though, it was extraordinary for all the number people out that people weren't really panicking. yes, they were under pressure to get out. yes, they were trying to get as far away as possible from these russian troops. but you didn't see people pushing ahead and you didn't see people getting into conflict of who was going to get actual 1st use saw it kind of sense floats. people that even though they've been trying to commit themselves, all these headlines about russian troops on their borders would just blow off just part of the kind of diplomatic game they had at some level,

prepared themselves with maturity and kind of were dealing with it. despite all the pressure on them, we definitely heard russian ation and it's going to us just allows here. and so we had to go down to an average filter. off the sirens went off. thankfully there was nothing we could tell, no bombing or rocket attack, but we spent about an hour in the ordinary residential district. bomb shelter, talking to people there. an interesting kind of cross section of science from indian students studying it said to young families with small kids trying to distract the young kids from the scariness of being in this kind of environment underground with kind of strange lighting sitting on breeze books. and then you had an end of the family who had actually left the 1st conflict that you had with the restaurant. you can go back in 2014 had moved west to get away from that conflict with how can i ask themselves if history was gonna repeat itself? so this is now a normal experience when we're ukrainians,

having to wait for our time to dash recover. but for the most part, people are keeping calm and dealing with this is best again. well, those are ordinary citizens. what about the ukranian president? he's refused to leave the country despite being target number one and he put it, what's his reasoning? well, it is all about the optics, and this is about saying that they are not running scared. that even though they were taken back, surprised by this attack, that basically happened in the night at the same time as the russian number to the un was talking about diplomacy that they are on the ground. they're not going to run away and that they going to sit this out and about showing systems that they should keep calm if they need to ship is willing to put itself in danger. and coupon correspondent nick connelly. thank you. next semester towed a un, russia has vetoed a un security council resolution condemning its invasion of ukraine. china, india,

and united arab emirates abstained from the vote. the remaining 11 council members back the u. s. drafted text and criticized russia for blocking in the field vote came as the white house warned that there was a real possibility kia could fall to rushing forth propaganda and miss, i'm joined now by d. w. corresponded oliver salad, washington all over the us, proposed this resolution knowing full well that russia was going to veto it. so why did they go through with it? and let's talk about the un for a moment. i mean, because the 2 main bodies here, the security council and the general assembly, i think it's important to differentiate only the 1st of one of the 2 can come to a legally binding resolution. the security council and russia has veto powers there . as you just explained also. so it's of course, a nonstarter a to go in there and ask russia to vote for resolution basically condemning its own actions there. but what you could see there is how isolated russia really is. and

you mentioned v 11 of 15, a member countries voting in favor of a condemnation. so you see a large part really says that this is wrong. what russia is doing. they are china abstained, very important because the 2 countries rush and china have closed their ranks in recent months, united emeralds in india. so the next step here is going to move this forward to the general assembly where there are 193 member states. there's no veto, but then also of course, no legally binding resolution to sort of a roll call there. the u. s. is set to impose more sanctions on russia. do we have any details on that yet? at after, there's been a lot of criticism over the sanctions, not only by the u. s, but of course, by the western partners and allies as well that there are weak that there are ineffective. a russia has a mass, huge financially reserves, a leading up to this invasion here. we know that swift, of course is not included. we've been talking about that for hours now,

and thanks to germany in part. so the u. s. today joined the european union and sanctioning president vladimir putin himself as well as foreign minister oliver and members of the russian national security council, who might have fed enough time of course, as well to secure their foreign assets. so the calls for sanctions of the swift financial system are getting louder here in the united states. and we're talking about the u. s. here, which over the past few years has been incredibly divided on so many issues, especially as it comes to foreign policy. so are the democrats or republicans somewhat unified in the response to the russian invasion now? yeah, interestingly, when it comes to condemning russia and, and the invasion of ukraine, both parties really do speak with one voice. and as you know, that's very rare a currently the c pack is under way, that's a conservative convention. and the air of course, are all the most most prominent figures of the republican party speaking there. of course, you hear criticism, you, you hear that biden is too weak,

that he eventually enabled russia to invade ukraine. but of course, they're also campaigning. we should forget that it's the year of the mid terms. so essentially they're saying the sanctions are to week. and then there's one former us president who also offered his opinion and he said that it wouldn't have happened under his presidency. and he also called vladimir putin a genius. donald trump assume we're talking about their oliver salad in washington dc. thank you for that analysis. the russian invasion has prompted many ukrainians to flee the country. the u. n says that more than 50000 have left already heading for neighboring countries, neighboring countries that is like poland, moldova, and hungry. but there has been heartbreak at the border for many of them was men of military age separated from their families in order to stay in ukraine. all they have with them is what they can carry. people streaming out of ukraine into

neighboring countries like poland. this woman and her 3 children watch the last 15 kilometers younger. you probably have to go even more money away from the war and saving my life and my children's lives with her husband drove the family as close to the border as possible, but he's not allowed to cross men of fighting age can't leave ukraine. many families are being separated at the border. new doors of mozilla, my husband has to join the army. he has no choice. it's the same situation at the savannah and border. some people have friends and family waiting to pick them up. this ukrainian woman sister is supposed to arrive any moment. we're scared, but we tried to give call, want to make some think her our us, our family and at the hungarian border, more people escaping ukraine. the fighting hasn't reached their region,

but they are afraid. let me go to a legacy. we had to leave everything behind our whole lives and it's awful god, you bet you what they say with a little back at the polish border, people wait at the nearby train station. one woman has come all the way from keith, where russian troops are closing in. took my thumb a gold. somebody doesn't matter, but not in your brain because the dentist now though, the cues at the ukraine, conan border, stretched kilometer on friday evening. all the people here just want to get at and get to safety. and the world of sports is also reacting to russia's invasion of ukraine. this year's champions league file on may 28th will take place in paris instead of the russian city of saint petersburg. european for balls governing body wafer named the stud the false as the new location for the final. moving the game from st. petersburg gas prom arena away to paris in

a separate moved german football club. shaka announced that it will remove the gas from logo, from its players, shirts. the russian energy giant, also sponsors you ava and tennis player andre rube left has joined a number of russian public figures. speaking out against vladimir putin's attack on ukraine, after a match in dubai, on friday, rou, glove were wrote, the words, no war please. on a broadcasters camera. as you can see here, since thursday, a number of prominent television personalities, musicians and athletes within russia have also issued public statements on social media condemning the invasion of ukraine. you're watching the w news live from berlin. our business bulletin is up next, with a look at the economic fall out of the russian attack on ukraine. you can always find the latest on our website, that's d, w dot com. you can also follow us on instagram and twitter our handles. there are

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