[000:00:00;00] ah, ah ah, the dw news, the wible from berlin, russia and ukraine, and their 1st talk since war broke out with no breakthrough, folks were high, but expectations, low. ukrainian delegate described the negotiations as difficult. also coming up on the show. heavy fighting continues around ukraine's the 2nd biggest city of dozens are killed by russian rocket strikes and a minute silence at the united nations to remember victims of the conflict so far.

you, when she warns humanity is facing a moment of truth. ah, hello m player richardson, thanks so much for joining us. in crane and russia have ended their 1st talk since war broke out 5 days ago without any breakthrough. and ukrainian delegate said than a good andrew and ukrainian delegate said the negotiations were quote, difficult, and the meeting was held in bella. ruth's close to the ukrainian border. the talks began later than planned and lasted 6 hours. but despite ukraine's hopes for a cease fire and a russian withdrawal, there was no agreement. and major cities, including the capital key of are still holding out. but there is no let up in the fighting or next report takes you to ukraine. but a warning that he does contain disturbing images with the paternity of this

conflict in plain. lemme medic say the people here were injured as russian troops shelves, the port city of murray, awful. one of them, a 6 year old girl doesn't make it yet another pointless loss of life crush essays. it's not targeting civilians. but pictures such as these are which ukraine says is the residential building in flames. in the northern town of china have seemed to disprove that claim as to these satellite images showing craters caused by russian artillery fire near residential areas in the city of khaki in the east ukrainian say they will do all it takes to defend their country. a civilians learn how to become soldiers. ukraine's foreign minister makes clear the extent of his resolve that they will never give up. he also had this

appeal to people in russia who will resume american fo, would like to address the citizens of the russian federation. look what vladimir putin turned your country. you'll be country into here, declared an invasive war against ukraine. she sent here your son's husbands to kill ukrainians. capture our lands, destroy our cities. ukrainians did not want this war, but they will fight for the land and their homes. small groups and you're good. thank you, mary. awful. residents, i sheltering from the fighting in an underground jim. many have been here for 5 days. despite what is happening outside to some a trying to be optimistic minute, let's hope for peace negotiations because everyone wants peace and some kind of result so that civilians are being killed with a majority here when you're below. for now though,

there is no peace. this is the new reality for the millions of ukrainians who just last week will leading normal lives. and some of the heaviest fighting has been in ukraine, 2nd largest city, or cave. ukrainian authorities say dozens of people were killed and hundreds injured when russian forces fired on residential areas. emergencies, ministry released this footage, showing flames and thick plumes of smoke rising from apartment blocks. with 40 say the casualties could be higher because the damage from the shelling of residential areas is still being assessed. let's bring in maria of day of our a resident of her cave. maria, thanks so much for joining us under these difficult circumstances. how are things looking in harkey right now? i had the chance today to go to the place where yesterday the grand now military

destroyed rush, our military vehicles that try to enter the center of the city. so we were there with a report steam when the actual is a michelle and began and it was a really close to where we have been. and we also have seen that the in the morning, one of the me files, one of the rockets go into the building of the, of the factory richer before that the was make. and the children's clothes are still going to be at the place. it was all in the flame and the completely destroyed. and so we were also talking towards the rhetorical defense units that are yesterday, protected, and fight, and piously was russian troops. and they said that they do not know why, you know, we just found these young boys here because they cannot fight. they are not ready

for this war. they surrender or leave their weapons. we coast a band zones and tried to run. and also what was right can today is that the me file right on the residential area in the car q. so it looks like a couple, 345 process of apartment books like for the style apartment blog. so the houses that were here by russian grad miss, i'll see them, and they're got a lot of losses amount to be lamps. and you're saying that you've seen these apartment blocks that have been hit by russian missiles as well as a factory making children's clothes a russian ambassador to the, to the un said that it forces are not firing on civilian targets. but that doesn't seem to track with what you have seen today. they deliberately did that on purpose,

and that was deliberate strike on the residential area. and what, what especially important they did it when the talks going on in bella was between russia and ukraine. and what is more, you harkey as a big street and the now with russia and shell in with one and shell. and because i now hear the shell and goes on and people cannot go outside and we are running for food supplies and the musical supplies. so actual is a big street. it is on the verge of humanitarian. but that's what russia bring here because now anything. so any transportation and the supply of food is impossible. i have seen here today the long line of people who wanted just to buy a loaf of bread because it's a shortage of it right now. so maria, from your point of view, then if you can't access food, but you're also saying transportation is down,

you're stuck inside. what are your plans in the coming days? are you going to buckle down and stay in? hark, if well as personally for me, i will for sure, because i feel very angry about the russian troops come in to ukraine. i want to defend my whole and want to fight with all those ukraine nouns who are now in the territorial defense, you know, and in the military and everyone on. now i can give all interior out medical aid. and if in that i'm capable of, and i know a lot of people who do that as well, because we are here on our land, whenever threats and russia with and it's been released in peace. and the, you know, q is the russian speaking seat and who to now talks about, you know, dinner for cation or, you know, rescue and russian. because we do not want to be rescued. we want russian troops to go back to russia. that's what we want. ok, maria, up with a strong call for russian troops to go back to russia. thank you so much for

joining us on d. w. nation, please stay safe. thank you. we're going to turn now to our correspondent marty as a bullying guy who's reporting for us from western ukraine and he has what's the situation there at today on day 5 of putin's war against ukraine? well here in this city, there is a frequent bomb care age alarms. i've just been out of the shelter again. we are in and out of the shelters. however, nothing has come down here yet on this city there have been a few rockets intercepted on their way here are in the outskirts of the city, but this is so far not near the fighting zones, no tanks approaching and it's much better than in other parts. of ukraine. we see of course a lot of worries here. we see also a lot of solidarity and action by the citizens. they don't need food for refugees.

clothes for refugees. they also donate for the army. and many people here go and a list for the army or long queues in front of the of the bureaus. and i want to ask you about the ukranian capital and new satellite images show a russian military convoy outside kids. it is nearly 5 kilometers. one is here prepared to defend itself from a major assault that could follow. well, keith has been defending itself for quite some time now. and i think many people are very motivated to defend key if, whether it's militarily ready for this assault. whether this is what this assault is like, i mean we've seen long queues, long, long columns of tanks for days and for weeks now, whether they are well prepared, whether keith is well prepared, military, that's something that will only be be seen in the battle. what we've also seen is

that we just reported on that and, and, and talk to people in hark, if the russian military seems to be attacking civilian goals more frequently. that of course, a big worry for kids as well that they might show for people in the city, the civilians in the city. but yeah, readiness is motivation to defend the country. probably ukrainians have much more motivation to win this war. then russians who are russian soldiers were sent them by the will of one person. and people here have been preparing for this. whether they have prepared well enough, whether they are equipped well enough, is the question that the next few days or weeks will show. what about these talks between ukraine and russia, as they were meeting in bella bruce, and how was that being received in ukraine? it's been, people haven't paid a lot of attention to that. this is a very, it's a very strange move to attack

a country and then schedule talks 5 days later, people, if anything, is, are seeing this as a sign that russia might have miscalculated, that russia did not get the easy victory. that it seems to have bet on that nobody here said, ever thought would happen. people here knew very well that people would meet russian and russian encouraging with fierce resistance. but that's now at least that's what people understand here that the kremlin did not expect this. and that's why they might have gone to offer these talks about also what we hear from the talks. russia is making the same demand that they had made before the war. of course, these nobody's going to meet these demands. now, after all these people have been killed, i think these are these piece talks. you are mostly seen as a bluff by russia, ukraine. the ukranian government has gone, nevertheless, in probably just not to give russia any, any pretext,

or any or to counter russia. also in a p r wise, but nobody here thinks that talks of what can resolve this product conflict at this stage or part on my test. but i are in western ukraine. thank you so much for that update. and united nations has opened an emergency session of its general assembly when a minute's silence for those killed during rush as invasion of ukraine. un secretary general antonio tash warned russia that the fighting must stop. and he had strong words for its president vladimir putin actually put his nuclear forces on high alert. we are facing a tragedy for ukraine, but also a major regional prizes. it potentially disastrous implications. what are all

yesterday, russian nuclear forces were put on high alert. this is a chilling developments. the mere idea of a nuclear conflict is simply inconceivable. nothing can justify the use of nuclear weapons and it are more about this emergency session of the when general assembly i can i welcome richard walker. he's our chief international editor, richard. this session is still ongoing. what do we know has been happening so far? yeah, well we'll powerful words there from antonio. good terrorist, opening this very unusual meeting. they've only been 10 sessions of the un general assembly of this kind of ever. we heard that warning from, from him on vladimir putin stretch around the nuclear weapons and carry saying at this point, enough is enough. there's been so much violence. already. civilians are suffering. that is really time for this to finish. already. we also heard from the ukrainian ambassador, maybe we can talk about that in

a moment. the russian ambassador went through many of the talking points that we've heard from vladimir putin about how this is all the fault of the current ukrainians and pointing the finger also at the west. and it was also interesting to see the chinese ambassador, who gave a very short and low key intervention. the chinese position has been really interesting to watch because they're trying to sort of straggle, almost 2 rather conflicting positions. on the one hand, they're trying to support the line of russia, which is become increasingly friendly with china in recent years. and particularly, even in recent weeks, those 2 countries seem very much i to i that they want to push back against united states. but on the other hand, china having to admit that it sticks to its principles, that the territorial integrity of sovereign states, which ukraine is, cannot be damaged, cannot be infringed upon. so the chinese ambassador trying to walk the line between those positions, but also saying that they were really welcome to these talks,

at least a happening between the ukrainian koreans and the russians. richard, you mentioned that the ukrainian ambassador also gave a powerful statement. i just want to see if we can pull up a clip of what he had to say. he few grain does not survive invention, he survive. international peace will not survive. if ukraine does not survive, the united nations will not survive. have no illusions if ukraine does not have i, we cannot be surprised if democracy fails next. now we can save ukraine, save the united nations, save democracy, and defend the values we believe in richard, that's really a heartfelt play from the ukranian ambassador. i mean, do you expect we will see the international community stand by ukraine and against

russia? invasion and aggression? well, i mean, we've already seen one vote taking place in the u. n. system of the un security council couple of days ago that has 15 members. the vote went 11 votes, criticizing russia, one vote in russia size, russia's own, and 3 extensions. so that was already assigned. russia is looking isolated. of course, this now opens up in this session of the general assembly 2 or 193 states. so it's going to be very interesting to see the degree of isolation that russia experience is there, particularly as it opens up beyond the sort of power centers of the security council to, to the entire world. so i think the supporters of this resolution criticizing rush will certainly want to have more than a 100 votes,

criticizing russia position, but it will have to see it will. it could be tomorrow that the vote actually takes place. it could even be in when, as far through the week is wednesday, and if they do get that broad support that they want in that they expect, what will the actual implications be for russia? what is the difference between a vote in the un general assembly and a vote in the un security council? if a resolution had gone through in the security council that would have had legal implications for the russians? the general assembly has no such implications, but it would be the, the isolation, if it does come to that, would certainly have moral effects on the russians. i, chief international editor, richard walker, thanks as always for joining me in the studio with that update. and meanwhile, poland is preparing for tens of thousands more migrants to cross the border from ukraine. after fleeing the conflict there, the polish border guard says nearly 327000 people have crossed into poland already

at 73000 people on monday alone. and the situation in some places has turned into a humanitarian crisis with limited access to food, sanitation, and fuel. and he does, his correspondent max xander is in poland at the border with ukraine, mac. hi. what is the situation for you training refugees who've been arriving there? so far, ukrainian refugees who made it across the border here to poland. one thing has become apparent over the last couple of days is that they are not on their own. no matter how hard the situation here is. the polish government has preparing for this for days and for weeks and has put a system in place to help these people here. and let's have a look around where we are here right now. we're in church, they the board of town. a lot of the help that comes here has been done. this can carry out by volunteers on who handles donations. as you can see here, people here in poland,

but also people from abroad have come here to with donations with food, with diapers, with blankets. the one close to bracer the cold weather and as you rightfully, or rightly pointed out to him more than 300000 people are in poland now on of a few more many more are expected. so all help is needed at the moment. absolutely . it looks like a freezing night air and a max, you touched on the fact that some procedures have been put in place to make crossing the border a bit easier for people coming from ukraine. i understand the government is also talking about simplifying those further. he tell us a bit more about what that looks like. red cross the border are still very, very difficult. so hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing from violence in ukraine at the moment. so there are still long lines of cars at the borders that are moving very slowly where people spend hours, even days in cars trying to, to,

to reach the border. the train station on the other side and live. the platforms are full of people. people are really having a hard time getting onto those trains to become very competitive. now, one thing with the trainings are doing on the other side to speed up the processes . we've been hearing that there is stopping there. they are no longer checking the documentations of women and children, and that is hopefully going to speed up the process. i'm here on the polish side is already the case at any body coming from ukraine. can come without having to extra to go through any registration or any administrative process. and what have you been hearing from the people you've spoken to who have jest, cross at border from ukraine into poland. well, the situations are very different naturally, but we've been hearing from people we've talked to here. they're all very relieved to finally have made it. some people are popular exhausted,

people are tired and i just relieved that they made it here. now the 1st people who came over the last couple of days, mainly with people who had some sort of connections here in poland amongst the ukraine community here. now we're seeing more and more people who are just fleeing and to have no real sense of orientation. so that's one thing that they have to do, like reassess their situation here and see how the continue and what can we expect in the coming days as more and more people undoubtedly across into poland. it really depends and nobody really can answer that question for those probably. i mean the situation is, is evolving very, very quickly. um, on sunday alone we had a 100000 people reaching poland. and the government's preparing for for many more. the polish prime minister said that he was actually moved by, by the, our point of help law by the polish people here. and that poland is a, is doing everything to help the refugees, which is

a pretty much harder needs to return from what we've seen in the past. how poland was dealing with, with people fleeing a cleaning for more. but in this case, the country is determined to take everybody in as many people as they can be this 1000000 or perhaps many more important point there are correspondent maxes and are . thank you so much fear of fighting and i just heard their most of the ukrainians clean the fighting in their homeland had so far had it west inter neighboring poland around 2000 have also arrived here in germany and many more are expected. the train is from warsaw, but some of its passengers have escaped, held the 1st refugees. and what is the largest war in europe this century among them, vito, who until just days ago, enjoyed a peaceful life and should homier northwest ukraine. thus low of fear. in frances,

it was february 24 hours. that's what it was. very sudden. so on sex. oh, my mother called me at 6 a. m and told me we're at war meta. the greek by owns shun. thus we're zax. we're ever one started panicking. lloyd to o'clock in the morning, were still sleeping and laughing. a welcome committee has set up here at beryl in central station to help you arrivals find their way. organizers use the messaging out telegram to coordinate offers of shelter, clothes, food, and language skills. there's like large telegram group where we can just shoot a message and ask if there's some kind of accommodation for 2 or 3 people and then somebody would say, yeah, here i can pick somebody up. it's all private right now. i have a lot of fruits of mostly bars, goodson,

just simple things that i could pass as people move to the next location. and the daughter of a somali and refugee was summoned to help by family history. an issue that's pretty close to my heart, my dad and his family arrived in the u. s. s. refugees from somalia and i'm half german. and so i really felt as there was a crisis and people were coming, but i was going to show up because someone did it for my own family. rita is now trying to re unite with her son and western germany. but the trauma days is impossible to forget. we haven't been often emma in. we'd been sleeping in the basement in ghana. we have an emma. we were constantly urge him. a boom. been there while we're on the donkey tanks drive down the street. i'll just transfer it was frightening. now,

yet i'm terrible. people were panicking. it was really all. well, let's surprise then, that european government are expecting many more desperate people to follow in his footsteps in search of peace and light of the war sport is moving to isolate russia, football's world and european governing bodies before. and you will have suspended russian teams from all competitions. the move effectively bands, russia from the 2022 world cup. if i had already said russia would have to play its matches on neutral ground without the spectators of poland. sweet in the czech republic and england, ben said they would not play russia. you're watching the w news. here's a quick recap of the latest developments in putting war on ukraine. ukraine and russia have ended their 1st talk since war broke out 5 days ago without a breakthrough. rocket strikes have killed and dozens in ukraine, 2nd to biggest city hockey's. and the government says,

if major population centers are still holding out, united nations meanwhile, has held a minute silence to remember victims of the conflict. un secretary general, antonio guitar has warning. humanity is facing a moment of truth. and the verbal has plunged to a record low as western financial sanctions hit russia's economy as your needs update at this hour and claire richardson in berlin for me and the entire team working behind the scenes. thanks much for joining us. don't forget to check on our website, d, w dot com ah,

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a fee and so easily was a really he behaved exactly like said garcia and the poisons spread from their homes. ah, lush, my 0 misery in the great documentary series destruction of a nation starts march 4th on d, w. the crisis surrounding rushes, invasion of ukraine, suddenly seems even more frightening them before. and people have begun to think the unthinkable. this is russian president vladimir putin threatened to the world at large, suggesting perhaps that he could be ready to use nuclear weapons. it's

a move that is triggered. widespread fee is unparalleled since the cold war. so the