[000:00:00;00] ah, this is dw news lived from berlin, rockets rain down on people in ca, keith, ukraine, sick in city is bombarded as russia adopted siege tactics. authority say dozens of residents have been killed and hundreds injured. plus a naval league, welcome people in eastern poland organized to help clean ukrainians and give them a ride, a hot meal, and

a place to stay. ah, i'm john driebe. thank you very much for your company. russian forces near ukraine's 2nd biggest city khaki. if have been bombarding residential areas, video is from residents short rocket barges, landing on apartment blocks and authorities say at least 9 people have been killed . now ukrainian troops managed to repel an attack on khaki by russian ground forces over the weekend. bought these latest rocket attacks, showing the city remains under constant, thresh, ah, in an slot in her chief, a city with 1500000 residents. ukraine says russia targeted residential buildings with volleys of rocket people in a maternity ward forced to flee to

a bomb shelter. a very ukraine's president has condemned the bombardment calling for it to be brought before an international tribunal. or is he to day? russian forces brutally attacked her. keep using rockets and clearly a war crime, peaceful, city, peaceful residential areas, no military facilities, dozens of eye, witness records prove this was not a mistake, but the deliberate destruction of people, the russians knew where they were shooting. will this delay. moscow denies the accusations ever more civilians are joining the fight to push back russian troops from her keith. we are much as it may have 6 children at home and away for i'm from kirk eve. the day before yesterday i decided to take up arms and protect my city. and yes and i knew when i made my decision, of course my wife and my 10 year old son cried my eyes thought they tried to stop me from joining the fighters vehicle. but finally, they understood that it's our land that we have to defend. we can't back down on as

well. you, you thought ukraine is also inviting foreigners to fight for the country as it braces for a new phase in the war. jonathan cats is a senior fellow with the american global policy think tank. the german marshal fan . he joins me from washington, dc. welcome to d. w sir. i'd like to get your thoughts on where things stand. now, because most observers thought russia would quickly overrun ukraine, but that hasn't happened. what's your sense of the situation? yeah, i mean, we're really in a period of continuous escalation. and despite the desires to see russia, deescalate move its troops out, even the conversations that happened today between ukrainians and russians. i think there isn't at least in washington, many who feel like this is, is going to end anytime soon. in fact,

only an escalation of when you see the types of weapons being used indiscriminately in ukraine by the russian army and military. you have to be concerned about how this is going to play out with over $500000.00 plus refugees right now. you know, hundreds of thousands more displaced internally, more people being killed on a daily basis. and mr. put, not willing to back down distance headed for a collision course with the united states and nato as we see this, this really this disaster unfold. now you're saying more escalation casualties, refugees, i just want to read you something that cybersecurity expert, dmitri purvis, told me, yesterday he said russia didn't expect such resistance from ukraine. and he said that the invasion russia's invasions strategy so far is quite a textbook example of what not to do. what's your view on moscow strategy?

ukrainians have been valiant and, and in there you know, the, the international community in particular partners of ukraine or raleigh to support them. and certainly they have inflicted a great deal of damage and pushback they're fighting for their country and, and that support for them as needed. but when you look at what russia is doing get now militarily, because they're such a large, military sophisticated military, they can keep this up for as long as they want, despite the casualties. and what you're not seeing in russia is any news reporting about what's happening to their own troops. and so, mister putin is not only tried to control americans externally, but doing it internally, which then give them a free hand to continue this war against ukraine. and so even if you look at their military strategy and you say it's not working, one has to be concerned that mr. newton and his designs. and i think many people

believe that the only design for him is to take over ukraine is going to use every arsenal in every piece of weaponry to take back ukraine. that's the strategy. and so i'm more worried about the death and destruction in this process. and an unwillingness for mr. brewton to take an offer, whether he's winning or losing. let's talk a little bit more about letting me preach, and because the un nato have come together over the past couple of days. germany, in particular, in quite unprecedented unpredicted ways to impose severe sanctions on russia. do you think this kind of resoluteness has caught fusion by surprise? absolutely. and you can see it right now in the russian economy with the ruble tanking. i think that, you know, he was forewarned by president biden, that there be severe economic consequences. i think what mr. newton didn't, didn't really think would come to fruition is the unity of the trans atlantic

community. you've seen a wholesale change in german policy, in terms of arming ukraine. you've seen the e u step up, really, to become the superpower that it, that it has wanted to, to be in terms of security. and so right now you have tremendous will and effort of the trans atlantic community. and i think mr. newton really thought that he could break break that unity, that's not the case. but the next couple of days will really be critical. because as you can see, as, as the humanitarian situation changes on the ground, as the fighting becomes more dangerous, more difficult, more destructive, there will have to be a choice at some point for nato and europe. together in the united states, you're thinking about how they're going to stop further bloodshed. jonathan cuts with the german marshal fun, really appreciate your insights. they thank you. let's take a look now at some of the other headlines related to the war in ukraine. the

international criminal court in the hague will launch an investigation on the situation in ukraine following rushes invasion. the chief prosecutor said there was a reasonable basis to believe that both alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity have been committed. russia does not recognize the court's authority, so the turkish president red chip tie burger one says he'll restrict to russian war ships from key waterways to the black sea. and 1936 treaty gives turkey the right to stop military vessels from passing through the data nails and boss for a straight. during war time, several russian ships have recently passed through the straight into the black sea which also borders ukraine. western sanctions triggered by the invasion of ukraine have sent the rubel plummeting the currency fill 30 percent in value after moves to cut off rushes, access to foreign exchange rations,

then scrambled to withdraw money from cash machines. russia central bank double did key interest rate to prop up the currency. the united states is expelling 12 russian un diplomats accusing them of being spies, rushes un ambassador vasily napoleon sierra told a session of the security council about the mood. he called it a hostile step, but refused to specify whether he was among those told to lately. and the un general assembly has opened an emergency session with a minute silence for those killed in the fighting. un secretary general antonia good terrors spoke of a moment of truth for humanity and he said, core values including dignity, equality and justice, were under threat. a minute of silence to mourn those killed and rushes days long ground and air attack on ukraine. then

nation after nation took to the podium condemning president vladimir putin's war one and his decision spot to put russia's nuclear forces on high alert excellence. we are facing a treasure before you could aid, but also alaysyah regional cries is potentially disastrous implications. what us old yesterday, russian nuclear forces would boots on high alert. these is a chilling developments. the mere idea of a nuclear conflict. he simply inconceivable. a war the scale seemed inconceivable. just days before the invasion, ukraine's envoy to the un spoke passionately about civilian suffering in his country, and warned that global peace is at stake. if ukraine does not survive invention, if you survive, international peace will not survive. if ukraine does not. 7 survive,

the united nations will not survive. have no illusions. russia's envoy accused the media creating fake news about what putin called a special military operation and blamed ukraine for causing the war by mistreating russians quarters and break away regions than that. of the horrible gross. this definitely persuaded us that we could no longer ignore the suffering to people in don boss. the leaders of breakaway regents turned to us for military support. monday's emergency session of the un general assembly lays the groundwork for our resolution members will vote on later in the week. in part, it demands russia immediately stops its attack and withdraws all troops from ukraine. the un high commissioner for refugees says more than 500000 ukrainians, have flayed the country since the fighting began. and the agencies planning for up to 4000000 in the coming weeks. most ukrainians,

fleeing the fighting have so far hated west into neighboring poland and around 2000 of arrived here in germany. ah, the train is from warsaw, but some of its passengers have escaped hell. 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 in shitoria northwest ukraine. thus for a fear in frances, it was february 24 hours. thus, while it was very sudden saw on sex la, my mother called me at 6 a. m and told me were at war vida. the greek by owns shot thus swung zack's were every one started panicking and aloida o 6 o'clock in the morning or you were still sleeping. while dillard did not guess laughing, a welcome committee has set up here at berlin central station to help the new

arrivals find their way. organizers use the messaging up telegram to coordinate offers of shelter, clothes, food, and language skills. there's like large telegram groups where we can just shoot a message and ask if there's like an accommodation for 2 or 3 people and then somebody would say, yeah, here i can pick somebody up. it's all private right now. have a lot of friends. i have mostly bars robertson and nuts, just simple things that i could pass as people move to their next location. am on 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 us as refugees from somalia. i am 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 reunite with her son and western germany. but the trauma we shouldn't days is impossible to forget. we are have an urban actin emma in we'd been sleeping in the basin in ghana. oh, there have been emma. we were constantly alert emma bomba. there will always you've only zonker tangs driving down the street. i'll just rasa. it was frightening and terrible, and people were panicking. it was really our fiber let to surprise then that european governments are expecting many more desperate people to follow in vito's footsteps in search of peace. and sport is also moving to isolate russia for old world and european governing bodies. 5th annual, i have suspended russian teams from old competitions. now this move effectively bands,

rosser from the 2022 world cup faith. i had already said russia would have to play its mattress on neutral ground without spectators, but poland sweet in the czech republic and england then said that they would not play russia and you're up to date here on d. w. this more at the top of the hour and complete coverage of the work ukraine on our website. you don't, we don't comp, i'm directory. thank you for watching. have a great day. ah. she's up to date. don't miss our highlights. the d w program on line d, w dot com highlights some are driven by merciless greed. others are fighting the destruction. forget to live in readers came to prison. they shut down the native to be the government is trying to restore the indigenous people with