ah ah ah ah, this is dw news alive from berlin, civilian targets under fire and brushes. war on you cried. an apartment block suffers a direct hit strike as russian forces attempt to seize control of a key suburb. this comes, as russia says, it is using cruise missiles against ukraine, also coming up seeking refuge from russia's aggression ukrainians make it to safety in poland, including children, is called as turned back to fight for the country. ah,

and i'm a new campus mckinnon. thanks very much. for joining us, he crenan forces have been fighting back against russian assaults on the outskirts of keith. authorities have urge citizens to help defend the capital guns being handed out to ordinary citizens and people all being urged to make petrol bombs and resist. ukraine's military says it repelled an assault by russian troops on an army base in key if and now we're seeing some of the lace his damage, a missile hit this apartment building. it's located just minutes away from keep secondary international airport. sh. there are no reports of deaths, but he if may of italy, which go says the strike injured $35.00 people including 2 children. now rushes military says it has launched a barrage of cruise missiles against ukraine. president

vladimir zalinski refused an american also to leave keith. and he's taken to social media to deny russian claims that he had fled to the capital. he urged ukrainians to keep fighting. that is, what is it usable? have lately there has been a lot of fake information on lie of the book saying that i have called on the army to lay down arms and to evacuate. listen, i'm here. we will not lay down any women's. we will defend our state because our weapons is our truth. and the truth is that this is our land, all country. our children was. she didn't move since when we will defend all of that. and that's all i wanted to tell you in glory to ukraine. this you would, you on a flight of e correspondent, nick connelly joins us now on the line. he was in teams that he's now moved to another location. nick, tell us how was the night what sits been like where you are and what are you

hearing from a ukraine's capital so i'm, is she called bits or about 200 club south west of cube took about 10 hours to get here yesterday because all those people trying to get out. we've been in the bomb shelter under the building. we're in now twice last night. foreign going up twice. we haven't had any bombings close to where we are, but definitely shootings aren't especially given that there are ukrainian military installations in this region. so this could be a potential target as to keep well extraordinary images on social media of russian units, pretty close to central, keep them even if we were leaving. if we passed an aerodrome that's past the road leading to an area and on the northwestern fringe, the kid where rush and helicopters had tried to bring in commandos and extraordinarily long and protracted fighting going on there. it seems basically to have now that the ukranian forces have regained control of that aerodrome reports

of kind of full swag operations elsewhere russian swimming. a russian soldiers wearing uniforms trying to set up the ground for a kind of more involvement of their forces coming in all across the residential district of kiev. ukrainian authorities saying that those people have been detained in the certainly are image on social media of people detained. and on the ground with that arms and legs tied, people you can say are russian agents trying to undermine that resistance? i think definitely this has to be crated together. and i think people went quite may be expecting that bullet ski will be quite as forthright about this that he would stay in keep spite the threats. i think this is actually done a lot of good for morale, hearing your people in the bumps, healthy, stay on average, worried till obviously and very conscious suburban urban t. but also taking off from the fact that this is taking

a lot longer than seam and the russians expected it would. okay, so let's talk about the fact that the lensky is refusing to leave. he se, russian troops are advancing towards key if fast. he's saying he's staying put. why? what message is he trying to send? this is about the ok, this is about showing that they are not going to run. they're not going to roll over. i think you have to remember ukraine, this a deep trauma of those events, 2014. how easy it was for russia to take crimea to also to stoke those separate as complex nice. that was a time where you can, but he didn't have a functional government off the might revolution. the previous government had gone and the new one hadn't really taken over yet. so i think there's definitely a very strong desire to just not give ground. and i think they also believe that they can win this maybe not in outright well, but in terms of dragging this a long enough mason because high enough to rush. so russia has come some kind of

arrangement for the military. and yes, they saying that at some point russia would have to come to then and talk about ending this. i think we've seen unparalleled diplomatic pressure on russia in the recent hours, even in culture, sports, and sports. that's been counted, the russia, russian teams not being invited to things, even popstars, the cultural figures around the world, expressing their feelings about this outrage. so i think there is definitely a feeling that if you can stay firm can prevent some kind of panic among the population. prevent, i kind of collapse in terms of logistics, then this is actually not going rushes way. i think they believe that now poly risk will be seeing rushes intent to them the same way. they've been saying that since russia and ex crimea, and those conflict and number. alright, he w correspondence. nick connelly, thanks so much for your reporting. induced a safe, a back and t if the government has handed out thousands of guns to ordinary

citizens and is urging them to build petrol bombs. and not everyone is able to fight against the russian invasion. and so the most vulnerable, as has been a terrifying white. oh, the sound of war is heard from central t if through the night it came in waves, as russian forces edge closer to ukraine's capital, seeking shelter in the underground bunker in this church. these families could only hope and pray but for many others, staying put is not an option. holding on to what they treasure the most. it's a painfully slow journey in search of safety. we at least been here for a long time, maybe, or. a maybe 3. 07. 03. but it's crazy. it's crazy. thank you

kind of know how to be my ne deposit. actually. i don't want to leave my them in my name because it was the invaders. i must leave it as fast as one gym door or uncle, but he's not leaving. at sunrise president vladimir zalinski posted a video from outside his office to denounce claim that he had surrendered or fled a deep. i'm here. we will not lay down any weapons. we will defend our state because all weapon is our true fruits, myself, and the truth is that this is our land, our country, our children must. she didn't move said um when we will defend all of that. that includes defending the streets. this armored vehicle was spotted in a residential pot of key of in the southern city of house on ah, it was an explosion at a gas station. just moments before the eye witness

mentioned a plain good will. russia says it's launch missile attacks from both the air and sea. meanwhile, ukrainian forces say they destroyed a russian convoy outside key of it's all part of the accompanying propaganda battle . as this war rages on under a clock off as a reisa journalist and the president of penn and ukraine, that's a non governmental organization that works to protect freedom of speech, an author's rights. and he joins me now from the village and west and ukraine, which is close to the polish order. mister crocker, thanks so much for joining us now. i hear that you left kids yesterday morning. i understand it to you more than 20 hours to reach the viv. tell us about your journey and how things are where you are now. well, i mean me and my wife. we had to drive 22 hours with a one or break. there were lots of jams, traffic jams,

there were lots of accident. some cars were trying to drive on their own way of the western highway, which is called suburban highway. and we passed by approximately 5 or 6 abandoned vehicles. and of course they were also military cars and trucks and vehicles going also the same wrong way direction away from keith. but finally i made it, i mean is it the this morning jim in front of me was like, we're moving one kilometer one hour. i mean, now we are reunited with our children who were on holiday week, so we'll have to decide what to do next. tell us about your take on rushes invasion . did you see this coming with? this is the price. i mean, i could expect it from coaching, but not from russian people. i somehow believed that he will be stopped by his own on to rush. but 1st of all, i mean, the russians will disagree with putting such a blame on the nation actually,

and marking their pay the page of the history play in. and now when i see that there are no big names of writers who voiced against aggression against ukraine, which makes me even even more upset it's, it's unbelievable. what about the international community to you and others in ukraine? think it's doing enough to support your country right now. well, i mean, the europe in community was doing beat american's japanese can it is great britain, lithia, poland, where doing much more. and actually, i think germany was reluctant to give us any help except 5000 helmets. it looks like, actually now 3 nights after the war begin, i mean, europe in community is waking up and on stands like that extra ukraine is fighting back. and if there is no help or not enough help from europe in community, there will be just a cemetery instead of a beautiful country. so, i mean,

it's up to europe to decide what you can do for us. you're a journalist, what you will fear about press freedom and the ability of the media to report on what is actually happening in your country. well, i mean, of course, in the time of war, i'm sure i mean, information is control and we don't have enough information neither from battlefields, nor from ministry of defense, although they are trying to be regular with their griffins. and i was told the next to the old c, and then you can get more information than the on your credit. we always can and we have it, we have freedom of press so so i mean, once a journalist finds information, if it does not damage in the army forces, i mean, it is circulated somewhere. i don't telegram channels or facebook or on twitter, under a coca president of pen for pen in ukraine. thank you so much for speaking to us

and please stay, stay, stay safe. thank you much. a russian president vladimir to sit and has repeated a call to ukrainian soldiers to surrender, making baseless accusations against the ukrainian government. you should have the brochures. once again, i appeal to the service men of the armed forces of ukraine unit system do not allow . now not cease to use your children, your wives and elderly, good as human shields. take power into your own hands. it seems that it will be easier for us to come to an agreement than with his gang of luck at excellent, neo nazis who settled in cliff and took the entire ukrainian people hostage, disagreeing skinner. all right, well let's get the view from russia about i'm joined by a journalist, natalia's smile and say by in moscow. thank you for joining us. that we just heard president personnel speaking directly to the ukranian people. can you tell us

a little more about what he was saying there? and yes, exactly. so this is a address from yesterday and put in was talking not to the lens key, not to the authorities and key, but directly to ukrainian people and the ukrainian soldiers. and these are the people that kremlin the russia, they claim that they are gonna protect you crate. and this is the goal of their operation. let's reparation as a scholar here to protect the people. and it's why he's saying that he's addressing directly to them, because he doesn't see the possibility of addressing the authorities and keep any more this questions, the whole willingness of russia to actually go into the talk that you've been just discussed discussing before. and after this address it's m, it's unclear if they're going to continue with the offer all the talks and meetings or somewhere else. and basically what he was saying is that he was urging the

soldiers to are thrown out. there was in key of their authorities in key and to directly take station in their hands and to talk to their russian federation on their own terms. that's what he was saying. he was using, using the word of nazi regime in the ukraine that he has already used before. he is also using the word drug, any referring to people in power in ukraine and all these very, very heavy, very horrible words that we've been hearing in the russian media portraying ukraine recently. i mean, these are really quite some terms to be using. how are they going over? i mean, these are being well received by the russian people. tons, lightness, well, for the past days, russian public is i can say shocked and very biting on this issue. a lot of people don't really know what to think about this invasion because we have in some

products and some people only.