development so the last couple of days with not yet. coldwell was had a research and analytics of the ukrainian institute as an expert on the foreign policy and joins us from ukraine's western city of the a welcome to d w. let's start with those reports of this russian convoy bearing down on the ukrainian capital. how concerned are you by those reports? oh, well, as you and well, expert already knows the capital. if you train key is one of the key goals of russian federation. this works. so since the 1st day of the invasion, we see these convoys coming and coming with tillery with multiple rocket launchers, with everything that you can imagine from both from the north, from bell and russia. so we are as concerned as we have been before,

and we know that he is one of the primary targets of this world. this was why, of the reasons why we actually evacuated from key as i normally leave. and where we advocated to leave a place to wait. okay, now you has promised 500000000 euros worth of arms and aid. how much difference is that likely to make every help make a huge difference? big military health beat, human parents, health bid, political health. every help comes in such a let's say, an even battle, but the battle will before anyway. so we are very grateful for any help that has been provided and we will be even more eternally grateful for any help that will be provided in the days to follow. have you been at all disappointed by the help that

you have received for so far? have you expected more or perhaps of the assistance that ukraine has received has exceeded your expectations? well, if to talk about disappointment, probably in the politics of central european countries in that month and year that preceded the actual invasions in the 1st 8, let's say years of conflict is russia would have been a little bit disappointing, but of their level of unity that and the level of support that we see now, i think you can push for more. so i think the best and countries have shown that themselves from the best side, right. we've heard the president zelinski appealing for ukraine to be admitted to you immediately. is that something that you would support and, and how would that help and your crimes fight against russia? actually if you are familiar with president wooten foreign policy goals

of this is pretty much about for ukraine, not joining an investor in lawrence and remaining and neutral country as it is now, which is of course, contrary to the current polish policy goals of ukraine. and since 2019, the age european and your atlantic integration, namely entering the un and nato, is actually constitutional, foreign policy goals of ukraine and is considered such as the only way for for, for the future of the country. so if the european union shows ads that we are not alone, they accept us as a fellow country. this is a huge moral in this fight. thank you so much for it. just have some symbolic gesture that we just begin some preparation for this. of course, there would be

a huge on long early to had, but if we do not give up to russian blackmail and if we stand one by one, this would be also a very good morale for this fight under. so thank you so much for joining us. a call from the ukrainian institute or german chancellor all i've showed has been meeting with luxemburg prime minister here in berlin. and the war and you cried was very much on his mind. together with my colleague, i would like to call on the russian president and to see all come back immediately to withdraw all troops from ukraine and will to enter into a dialogue blood shed must stop. vladimir putin is committing crimes on ukraine. the doubly political correspondent, nina hossa, is at the german chancellor here in berlin. and i asked her about those strong

words from the chancellor who only days ago was being accused of being invisible in this crisis. this is a remarkable and unprecedented a dizzying turn around. m for the german government in it stands towards russia just a few days ago. a statement like that would have been inconceivable. germany was criticized for a very long time to stay silent on the topic. and they refused to deliver weapons. they stayed out of all the potential sanctions measures when tensions were already rising. and now since russia's invasion, the german government really has done it has performed a $180.00 degree turn on its policy mo, all up towards the gym. chancellor calls this putin's war, he says the bloodshed must stop and he says there can be no to booze any more. this must be sanctioned. this must be punished. now of course, they say something or where germany was late and many people still criticized that

. but this is also not a, just a ukraine crisis, is the message here from the german government. this is potentially about defending something much bigger about european values. they don't have political correspondence. nina has a nasty beardsley is her with the latest business news relating to this war. the u. k and south korea have both tightened sanctions against russia. london saying it will freeze all russian bank assets located in the country. and joining e u and us sanctions against lending giant spare bank. south korea announced monday it would sanction 7 russian banks including spare bog. it encouraged public and private lenders to spend their trading of russian state bonds on monday. so announce export restrictions on items that could include computer equipment and semiconductors. meanwhile, the sanctions and their threat continued to take a toll on the economy. and the sanctions against russia escalating at an almost dizzying pace in recent days. moving from measures targeting individuals and banks

to the swift financial messaging system. and then russia, central bank reserves, the goal targeting russia through its economy, and listen to what french finance minister bruno lamar said tuesday. we do some food if you guess. yes, the sanctions are effectively give you the economic and financial sanctions, or even frighteningly affective lady. and i do not want there to be any ambiguity on european determination on the subject. was an evil, we're going to wage a total economic and financial war on russia total. and i was, she, lemaire would later apologize for using the word war. he said the sanctioning nations were not in a conflict against the russian people. and yet the consequences of those sanctions are, of course, poised to hit normal russians hard. the rubel remaining at record lows on tuesday, rushes prime minister saying the country would limit foreign companies from withdrawing their investments. a move that if pursued would be a can to expropriation of those companies. a financial ratings company moody says

it's reviewing 16 russian banks for possible downgrades. mastercard, meanwhile, says it stopped. many of its payment transactions in russia to comply with sanctions or oil prices surged back above $100.00 a barrel. their fears of supply disruptions as key crude producer. russia continued its invasion of ukraine. the 8 percent rise st equity markets lower and prompted and prompted rattled investors to seek safety in u. s. government bonds. investors are now looking to see if an opec plus meeting on wednesday will help ease the jangled nerves. it's good against court in new york. he earns a 7 year high for oil. are we looking at the long term return of $100.00 a barrel? at the moment, 2 bits are that soil might be even moving higher from ear on. but steven, those are really extreme. a moves that we're seeing at some point a w t i. so the

oil a being traded here in new york as up by more than 11 percent. and who would have guessed about 2 years ago when briefly a, we actually saw a negative oil price. i can remember very well an expert saying we will never ever see a oil a trading above a $100.00 ever again. so obviously are, all those experts can be quite wrong. i peak oil, i think they called it the as to what extent can the u. s and its allies steer the price of oil without the help of opec plus well, obviously it's quite difficult at this point and we shouldn't forget to prices were already pretty elevated even before the war in the ukraine started to. we had this imbalance between supply and demand, so demand coming back much quicker than people had expected. so now we have those issues on their supply side. so just here on tuesday, we heard that the international energy agency is actually opening up some of the

strategic reserves. but obviously that is not doing the trick. so it seems to be quite limited to what the us government and its allies can do at this point. what about us oil companies? is there any relief that they can provide by starting up drilling in the western regions of the us? well, actually i've seen stories that some of the freaking companies, for example, texas are holding back some production. so to wait until the prices are rising even further, but talking about fricking. i mean that's where a lot of the oil is coming from here in the united states, especially from the permian basin in texas and in new mexico. and the tricky thing was fracking, it's your concept switch, so it's rick, them on and off. so it's probably going to take some time before the us the company . so the big oil majors can really start pumping in enormous additional amount

of oil. so it's probably going to take some time or a quarter in new york falling as high oil prices. thank you. let's go now to some of the other global business stories making headlines. home rental company air b and b says it will offer free temporary housing for up to 100000 refugees fleeing ukraine. c o'brian, shasky sent letters to leaders of poland, romania, germany, and hungry. offering help to how's the refugees? at least 300000 ukrainian refugees of entered the use and the russian invasion dana shipping giant mask says it will stop taking new non essential orders to and from russia, due to those sanctions imposed of the invasion. the suspension will cover all russian ports. it says there will be exceptions for food medical and humanitarian supplies. toyota halted all domestic car production for a day in japan at the cost of around $13000.00 cars after supplier was hit by suspected cyber attack. the attack comes just after japan,

joint western allies and sanctioning russia was not clear. the attack was the late, it rushes invasion and the west sanctions against moscow are disrupting supply chains, which are yet to recover from the corona virus. pandemic aviation and shipping face major logistical problems as do exports from ukraine. the closure of russian aerospace because of the invasion is set to cause massive restrictions on international air, cargo and traffic. cargo flights and passenger aircraft to asia have to take a different route. lufthansa, cargo says that flights from central europe to japan, korea and china may take up to several hours longer and could carry up to 20 percent less freight. this will make flights and freight more expensive. shipping is also feeling the consequences of the war and the sanctions against russia. the world's largest shipping container company, maersk, suspended all container deliveries to and from russia. freight traffic with russia

is at a standstill. factories in europe biggest economy, germany are worried about bottlenecks. especially when it comes to raw materials and intermediate products and also possible price increases. german carmakers have around 50 suppliers and manufacturing sites in russia and ukraine as well. it is still too early to predict what impact the war will have russia. ukraine are among the largest exporters of wheat accounting for about one 3rd of global exports. but these exports are now at risk. and this is hitting poor countries in africa and latin american particular. as the regions are dependent upon cheap imports of wheat. this was company running the controversial nord stream $1.00 and $2.00 pipelines has fired its employees and stopped operations at its german unit for the residents of the

northeastern germantown of leudemann, where nord stream has its landfall facilities is a grim but inevitable development in the crisis. no day is like any other here in lieu mean. what the mer long feared would happen, has now become a reality. germany as put the certification process of the completed north stream to gas pipeline on hold on road to his office. ox or folk drives past the pipeline . so close to going online, but now it's future is unclear. this has put an offer in the, on the one hand, we are concerned about this escalation in ukraine and all. but on the other hand, the fruits of years of work are now in question when it comes to north stream to guy, yada lang. all right, it subsides in, augustine was the not seen slighted lift. the north stream wanted to landfall facilities are in lieu mean. the 1st pipeline has brought one and a half to 2000000 euros of tax revenue annually entered the resorts coffers the past 11 years. but now pro russian sentiment in lou bean is crumbling. the thing it

was on that we believe that any forms of violence that violates international or state law or human rights is never acceptable. diplomatic solutions must always be sought. and i strongly believe in that that if not before guns thought 1200 kilometers of natural gas pipeline through the baltic sea. and here a real dimension for such a small place be almost good for we were all really looking forward to it. such a shame. let's hope that reason will prevail and an agreement can still be reached . if one's alternate, we shouldn't lose control. we can produce or develop our own things. because no middle school has to be a means of exerting pressure. but we've been misled. we have to pay the price. how much extra do we have to pay now? your homes and how expensive is natural gas and how much, what we have to pay for all this. tell you i've got a list of times the unpaid mirror is a lawyer by.