o d w ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, peace talks over the ukraine conflict, even as war rages on, cube and moscow agree to meet and negotiate as they battle for control of ukraine's biggest cities. we'll get the latest in just a moment. also coming up the you expand its response to the war, funding weapons for ukraine, closing it is based to russia and banning some pro criminal and media. ah,

i'm jarrett re, to thank you very much for your company. there are reports that piece talks between ukraine and russia due to start on monday morning. it's understood that the 2 sides have been arriving at a location somewhere on ukraine's border with bella. ruth, ukraine's prison flood amid zalinski has said though, he doesn't hold out much hope of a breakthrough on the ground. russian forces are trying to push deeper into ukraine and there's been noise late up in the fighting. the mayor of kid earlier said that the capitol was surrounded by band retracted his statement later on. battles are still going on around other cities. weapons of war at a children's playground in khaki, as all these images uploaded to social media, purportedly show russian soldiers, healthy person filming, since they are shooting at houses to nothing but they run into fierce resistance.

a trail of russian reconnaissance vehicles is left smouldering as ukrainian soldiers drive the russian army back out of ukraine. second largest city, the regional governor says khaki is back under ukrainian control the capital key if is also putting up a fight. while explosion after explosion goes off near the heart of the city. a war just outside the window. many fleet to subway stations when they hear air raid sirens, it was my family. i moved to our relatives place chris. they are closer to the metro station. and there is a better opportunity to run down the metro station itself is heavy bomb been take place in the east apartment buildings in ruins, a gas pipeline, and an oil depot in flames. in an effort to stop the destruction,

ukraine's president agrees to peace talks. the land is still green. scott, the ukrainian and russian delegations was, will meet without any preconditions jordan is, frankly speaking, i do not really believe in the outcome of the meeting, yet those of you to visit betsy's official. meanwhile, new satellite images show a convoy of hundreds of russian military vehicles approaching the capital, a sign that the fighting there may become even more intense lets speak now to dmitri out petrovich in washington dc. he's a leading cybersecurity expert, who in 2016 revealed russian intelligence agencies, hacking of the us democratic national committee, the russian born us citizen. welcome to d w. it's great to have you with us in a tweet that you posted back in mid december, you accurately predicted that russia would invade ukraine quote,

some time this winter, in which way did you join the dots that so many other people didn't? well, i just looked at the fact that the russians were advertising really for many years, their concerns about ukraine joining nato. their concerns about nato infrastructure being placed into a crane and the fact that they had built this largest invasion for the europe is seen. and i'm an almost 55 years, was a clear indication to me that they were going to use that and was going to be very, very difficult for present, couldn't to back down without losing face. now the war has started as being fierce resistance, as we just heard, peace talks are scheduled, but vladimir putin has raised the prospect of nuclear escalation. what are your views on where this is all headed? well, you know, the one thing i've been really surprised by how incompetent lee, the russians have that wage this invasion. it's almost textbook example of what not

to do and they seem to have been convinced that the ukrainians were not going to put up any resistance that they could literally with relatively few units. just walk into key if and take it. of course that did not happen, the cranes put up a pretty fierce fight in all the areas that they've encountered, particularly in the north and in cave itself. and what you're now seeing is the russians shift their tactics at this point. they have really not engaged most of their forces that they've assembled, particularly in a north. there's only been may be 4 or 5 battalion tactical groups that have moved into ukraine from the noise. and they've encountered fierce resistance. of course. now you are seeing these huge call on the 1000 plus vehicles that you would expect to see an invasion force that would try to surround kia and then invade the city. we've also not seen much tactical bomber aviation been use. not a whole lot of artillery, not virtually no electronic warfare be used even though the russians have all those units on the board of ukraine. so i think that they're now going to shift tactics

and realized that the quick victory of ukrainians, just caving and surrendering is not going to work in that they're going to need to really fight this war. and unfortunately, a lot of civilians i think are going to die in this upcoming conflict. i just want to pick on something you just said, and you said that there hasn't been a lot of electronic warfare being used. is that going to change, given that we've seen global powers flap, all these sanctions on to russia, we'll put in, you present, you would presume fusion would want to react to this. and cyber warfare might be something obvious leave. yeah, i'm very concerned about potential for escalation beyond ukraine. the fact that matter is that europe has surprised latimer prudent. he thought that germany would not be strong on sanctions given the dependency on on gas. and chancellor shoals has been extremely strong and very, very good. i'm confronted the russians on this, i think that was unexpected in moscow. and now they will retaliate, i think,

in cyberspace and with other economic measures, including potentially with controls and exports of critical materials potentially even on energy. i'd like to get your opinion on what's come out of europe these last few days. i'm going to quote, international relations and was samuel romani on twitter. he posted vladimir putin has killed swedish neutrality and german pacifism in a single weekend. what's your take on that? actually grid been astonishing to see europe, so united, so strong in some ways even further ahead than the u. s. s. on implementing sanctions driving towards the swift ban of russian banks. even switzerland has come out the neutral switzerland and, and said that what the russians are doing are, isn't acceptable. so really, the whole world is united to confront russia, weiss away some diplomatically, economically, i think the russian economy is in, for a rude awakening in the coming days. their stock market will probably crash dramatically

once it actually reopens. and they're going to be completely isolated, which in a way makes things even worse for the ukrainians, because that will mean that bladder. my food will really have nothing to lose and will have to finish this. the prosecution of this campaign, which will be very, very tragic for the planning people that's cybersecurity expert to dmitri outage. thank you very much for your time. thank you. one of the keys to ukraine's ongoing resistance to the ration on flor, it has been the civilian popular population support for its army with their lives turned upside down by the invasion. ordinary ukrainians have found a common purpose in joining their country's war. if it dw mathias sperling, a got to experience that sense of math mobilization in the city of vanessa south west of keith they bring everything they can spare clothes, food money, as refugees,

move west and soldiers east towards the front. here in vineyards, century ukraine, people are organizing aid both on natalia who doesn't want to give her last name. leave the youth center in peacetime, she's used to organizing outings in summer cams. now at war, she's busy directing volunteers and sorting donations. when you call in the last year, i never imagined i'd be doing any of this. i'm learning all the time. we are improving our work every minute we are getting there before the should. the minutes and center ukraine has so far been spared heavy fighting, although airy alarms are frequent but like

everywhere in the country, people here have been under a shock since russia attacked. now everyone was to contribute. a wave of solidarity is running through society. natalia is out and about her on the clock. the nightly curfew is the only time she's not on site anamosa to get them don't mom. i can't just sit home doing nothing and just waiting. i'm also definitely not leaving. this is our home that we love, and we're not going anywhere shine it's not only about donating goods many also contribute that time making camouflage. and that's for the army. green and brown clothes are separated from the donations and cut into pieces. the rest is a lot of handiwork. the ukranian army has been at war for 8 years, still lacking many basic items, including protective equipment and many here have somebody at the front, a husband,

brother, sister, or in natalia's case a 19 year old son. as it is, okay. yeah. awesome. and we are in touch. i can talk to him once a day. it's those few minutes that i'm waiting for the day that you guys being active is also a way for many here to deal with their worries. well, the international community is also rising, its voice over the ukraine conflict. the un security council has called for a rear emergency meeting of its 193 men. but general assembly on monday, 11 of the councils 15 members voted to back the resolution with russia voting no when china, india and the united arab emirates abstaining. because the vote was procedural, russia could not use its veto, the us and its allies at the u. n. say russia is isolated because of its invasion

of ukraine for the you is to finance the purchase and delivery of weapons and equipment to ukraine for the very 1st time. commission president ursula on the line says the block is also closing it is based to russian aircraft and will ban some state on media. she announced new sanctions targeting the regime of bella, russian leader, alexander lucas shanker, for supporting rushes. invasion on the lion says the latest action is the significant development. and she explained why as the war in ukraine rages on and ukrainian bravely for their country. european union steps up once more its support for ukraine and the sanctions against the aggression aggressor that is put in russia. for the 1st time ever, the european union will finance the purchase and delivery of weapons and other equipment to a country that is under attack. this is a watershed moment. for more,

let's bring in a d w corresponding band, lee good in brussels band, high or the e. u is sending weapons to ukraine. could you explain why this decision is so historic? both the boost of falling and the u. s. shifting into war gear now is the 1st time that you're actually buying weapons and ammunition for a 3rd country, which is not member of the you, they are will, they will spend 450000000 euros in a 1st torch. there are 6000000000 in this budget, it's called the piece budget actually. and it was meant for peacekeeping forces in africa elsewhere and now they will use the money to buy arms. so this is really a turnaround in history because the european union always had, we are peace project and now it's in involved into well, some want in the war. a big turnaround, as you say back to you is also imposing fresh sanctions. how much bye to day have

they aim, especially at the financial sector of russia, the u targets the russian national bank and its assets and currency reserves. the u once more, less to freeze all business of this bank and also some other banks which are connected via swift to the international community. and now of hindered from doing business. and this shall lead to the, in the ability of vladimir putin, the russian president, to finance his voice or the economy in russia is supposed to suffer a lot. and it's not quite clear which impact this will have on the economy in europe. and the was also closing the ass space for all russian flights, and also kicking out some media outlets and the icing on the cake as been you can say that is that the russian oligarchs can not fly their private jets anymore from

moscow to nice to enter their luxurious yachts and they get in brussels. thank you . bent up next on dw, special coverage of chancellor laughed seltz's historic speech to parliament on sunday staging for that i'm gary drinking with some are driven by merciless greed. others are fighting the destruction of the invaders. came to presently shortly done the natives that today the government is trying to destroy the indigenous people with the largest camp berks. i land grabbers are exploiting the amazon rain forest. indigenous peoples are now briefly opposing them because it's not only the earth's brains models that are dying

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