[000:00:00;00] ah ah, this is d w. news coming to live from berlin. russia steps up its attacks on ukraine cities. air strikes, hit the tv tower in kia, knocking out broadcast and killing several people. russian troops and tanks are reported in other key cities, but ukrainian forces continue to mount a defense. we'll hear the latest from our correspondence. also coming up. when dictators do not pay a price for their aggression, they cause more chaos. in his 1st state of the union address you as president joe

biden vows to punish vladimir putin for attacking ukraine and says, western allies are united against russia. plus, he was safe in the you now he's home took going home to fight. we meet to ukrainian, willing to risk everything to defend his country. ah. hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. russian forces are intensifying their attacks on ukraine's main. cities. air strikes have hit buildings, an infrastructure and urban areas in the capital, k a and the 2nd biggest city ha keith, where russian paratroopers have reportedly landed ukrainian president ballade merits zalinski has accused moscow of committing war crimes by hitting residential areas. russia says it's targeting military facilities and has warned residents to

flee as it's threatening new strikes. a russian missile strikes a tv tower in cave. in her cave, a government building goes up in flames. both attacks killed people. russia is ramping up its assault on ukraine. as a 60 kilometer long, russian convoy of armored vehicles closes in on the capital. thousands of ukrainians still desperately trying to flee. though, staying behind a facing the horrors of war. washington, we had a fight at 5 am. is to color the bm well we were retreating and near us a meter away from me it was

a mine blue of my friend's arms and legs. little green and white. i tried to save him. i pulled him away but he didn't make it. yeah. your demo. who knows of what you're warmer, you cranes, president, valona me. zalinski has asked nato to set up a no fly zone and has also applied to join the european union. are fighting bruce's affiliated just for our land. and for our freedom alicia dis, local and might defining that at all. like cities of our country are now a lot more we are facing the problem also to be equal members of europe. e. josh, i believe that good to day me. we spoke with our showing everybody that's exactly what we are used to do,

prove that you are with us. so when do prove it, you will not let us go. it was an impassioned plea for help. as the political discussions continue, the ukrainian fighting spirit remains strong while we have a team of correspondence on the ground in ukraine, one of them is correspond mathias bellinger. he joins us now from western ukraine mathias tell us what has been going on there over night. what the situation with the fighting in ukraine this morning? yeah, there have been continuous attacks again on the key if and harker of the most 2 most important cities of ukraine. and in another news, the russian troops are again inside the town of his song care. so on this one is, is we're a city close to crimea. there were, have been incursions for irv by russian troops from several sides from the east,

from the north, and from the south from crimea. and this city of hassan has been, it has been, they have, have been there before, then they were driven out. and now they are inside there again. and this would be the 1st big city in, in ukraine where they are seemed to have taken control. although fighting is still going on and nothing is decided yet, a massive column of russian troops and weaponry is headed toward key at the capital . is the city capable of repelling an attack by a force like that was so far we have seen that the city has been more capable of repelling attacks than i previously thought, but of course it is a very significant number. we don't know what they are meant to do, are they meant to close the ring around key iv and, and create some kind of a block and, and, and, and cut the key of off the rest of the country. or are they meant to enter the city?

of course it when entering winter for, for an army enters a city. those who defended are in the better position. they know the place they can attack from several places from and they would fight around houses. so that might be something that russia wants to avoid seeing that they are troops are not very well trained. and we have seen these columns standing there for some time. there are also questions about how long they can stand there because all the fuel and the food that they bring with them will be eaten away in the time they are standing there. so lot of questions about this column, but it truly looks impressive and frightening. now there are regular ukrainian troops that are defending the country, of course, but civilians are playing a significant role in this fight as well. tell us what they're doing to defend the country. so 1st of all, civilians have already been caught to

a call to arms or before the war. there have been these volunteer battalions being created and also key of has given out weapons to civilians. but in this case, we also see civilians taking their own initiatives. they do molotov cocktails and throw them on tanks on approaching times. or they just block the tanks peacefully that this has worked in several places that citizens just went out and blocked the way for the tanks and the tanks and didn't know what to do. but here's thank you very much. our correspond mathias burning of their reporting from western ukraine. and we can now talk to sack a petty cough. he is a former deputy minister of justice for european integration for the ukrainian government. he joins me from chia. mr. pathos. gov, thank you. first of all for being with us, you've decided to stay in the ukrainian capital. describe the situation there for us. it's been, it's been again nervous nights,

not much of anything happening in key f. yesterday. there was this big strike of the t tower. we expect more strikes coming today. and later on we're seeing, you know, russians losing the battle on the ground and change in the tactics of attacking the infrastructure within the cities and doing the indiscriminate shelling. so while, while the see if he remains on the phone control of, of the ukrainian administration and, and non forces, we are prepared where we're, we're awaiting pretty much an attack on all the civilians. it's just a matter of time and matter of who gets lucky and who is not so lucky. as you know, a russian military convoy some say it's 60 kilometers long is approaching key of how much does that worry you and your fellow citizens? look,

it says that he couldn't move much for the last 24 hours or even more and the end of this hard to tell what's going on. but the footage that we've seen, and i've seen from, you know, the soldiers that were already taken. it seems that the russian army has not really changed much since ninety's or even earlier. so they were not organized at all they have and you know, they took people by surprise and, and some of them didn't even know that they were they going or what, what, what is their odd, what is their target? so i think that was partly, there is no supply lines ready for this big campaign. and i, we've seen, you know, russian tanks just getting lost in ukraine and, and looking for, you know, going around the country asking for directions and, and trying to get some food, a full in. also, we're seeing a russian soldiers, you know, just leaving their tanks to leave in their, their detachments. some of them are,

you know, or many of them are, you know, 1920 you old boys who were, you know, who just signed a contract and didn't, didn't want of you know, fight with you trained didn't want to be aggressor aggressors. but we're just fooled into that and, and they trying to, you know, you know, get out of this as soon as possible. so i think it's a combination of the low moral these organization, you know, bad planning. and the, and all that together is, is the reason why the column this huge column is moving anywhere. ok. now you were dealing very much with trying to get ukraine in to the european union. that was your official job in the government, among other things. president zalinski is asking that you now to accept you crane as a member state, do you see any prospect for expedited accession for ukraine to the eve? look, i'm still do that just in a different capacity. it's not

a matter of the president or a government. it's the matter of what people do, and i would clearly see people conceding, they fight for the future, for the independence, and for the right of a choice to, to, to choose to become if or european nation. so i'm, i'm doing the same thing just like, you know, 4040000000 of ukrainians are doing every day, both of now before and after that. so it's not a decision that is macon by someone in the government. it's what the people ones am . i think it's there for the people to give the signal from the ear that they are heard. they are the forces they, they are parts of the european family, ukrainian and russian officials have held talks as you know, to and the conflict. so far, there's been a result from those talks what, what needs to happen to stop this war i think its honestly as to uh, to watch and all that. i think its a complete look,

you know, complete a lockdown and st. and stopping of all economic activity, the financial activity in russia who's in doesn't care about the lives of his soldiers. he already know, we already have thousands of dead russian soldiers here. he doesn't really care about them. ah, what he cares is, is about his influence and the only way to stop him is just physically make it impossible for russians to go on. and so i think that's the only thing, not just sanctions, but pretty much close the country. stop the country from functioning. make it, you know, middle ages. ah, middle ages, kingdom where? no, no, no, no, commission, no, there are no communication. no motor technology, no ability to wage war. i think that's the only way. and that would make russian people think about it twice, whether they need a crazily that like that. so he had her cough,

the former deputy minister of justice for european integration for the ukrainian government. thank you very much for taking time to talk with us. thank you. you, as president joe biden has failed to make russian president vladimir putin pay a high price for what he called an unprovoked attack on ukraine. in his 1st state of the union address, biden said western countries were standing united in the face of russian aggression and pledge the u. s. would defend its nato allies, but he again said that us forces would not get involved in the fighting in ukraine, which is not meant nato member state. instead, biden promised more sanctions against russia targeting it's oligarchy. and he closed us aerospace to russian aircraft. it matter. here's part of what biden had to say. put his lead. his attack on ukraine was premeditated and totally unprovoked. he rejected repeated repeated efforts at diplomacy. he thought the

western nato wouldn't respond. he thought i could divide it at home in this chamber in this nation. he thought he could divide us in europe as well, but put in was wrong. we are ready, we are united, and that's what we did. we stayed united. we prepared extensively and carefully. we spent months building coalitions of other free de la nations in europe, and the americans for america to the asian and african continents. to confront potent, like many of you, i spent countless hours unifying your european allies. we shared with the world in advance. what we knew was planning and precisely how we would try to falsify and justify his aggression bring in, tyson barker, here he is with the german council on foreign relations. here in berlin. tyson, president biden devoted the 1st part of his address to russia's invasion of ukraine

. what's your take on the speech? well, i think a, 1st of all, it's quite unique that a president starts with the foreign policy issue in traditionally that comes in the 2nd half of the speech. it tends to be much more domestic. so clearly this is on uh, both of members of congress, their minds, and the american people's minds. what he tried to do was frame a, basically the themes of his presidency within this conflict to say that this is about democracy's versus autocracies. and democracies are superior. and that there is broad bipartisan consensus within the united states to support ukraine. you saw that in the audience with many ukrainian flags, many standing ovations, including for the ambassador who was present. and that, that bipartisan consensus actually extends much more broadly to other themes than, than sometimes the american people realize including things like china infrastructure and the unity agenda, which he wrapped up on helping biden vowed to counter putin's aggression in ukraine

. how is he doing it? well, you know, he started by reminding the american people about what has been done so far and much of it has been quite unique. he talked about, 1st of all, spending countless hours, fortune unity within the alliance, which is true. you know, they have released call logs that show that there have been hundreds of calls at the top levels with european allies to build a transatlantic unity around sanctions around cost around in, within nato. he talked about this new a couple of new features of a u. s. policy. one being of the disclosure. deterrence through disclosure, you know, basically fighting russian disinformation and false like operations by releasing of what would have previously been classified intelligence. and the 2nd that he mentioned was a, you know, a broad array of sanctioned, specifically on russell's central bank, which has, as in his words rendered on this 650000000000 dollar war fund that russia has

built over the past decade worthless. so he talked about a lot of these things that have happened in the past. now, what can't didn't come and of course, those have all been quite remarkable. what didn't come was some major announcement about what comes next. he talked about closing russian aerospace that's already happened in europe. clearly europe has a much more important space for air traffic from russia than, than the united states. he talked about going after oligarchy. again, most of their assets are in europe, and then he did talk about this effort to release a 60000000 barrels barrels of oil, 30000000 barrels of which will come from the united states. but it wasn't a, the kind of speech that you had from all of sholtes over the weekend that represented a c change in us policy. now, many have been comparing the ukraine, russia conflict to the cold war. that this is returning us to the cold war era. is that what you're seeing, tyson? is that how you read it?

or do you see the beginning of a different world order altogether? taking shape? i don't think it's, it's returned the cold war for a couple of reasons. one, russia is not a super power. rushes in extremely diminished power. it doesn't have the kind of ideological throw weight. it doesn't have the economic throw away that the soviet union have and it doesn't have the, the geopolitical reach that the soviet union have had. but i would also dispute that it's a cold war. we're talking about a hot, we're in european territory. so this is a, something that's happening right now. all paradigms don't really fit. as you mentioned, we're looking at a new order within europe. and what we're seeing slowly, and this is, is, is quite sad for the russian people who don't necessarily know or support what is happening, what putin is doing is the extraction of russia from the global economy. and that's going to have massive impacts on the lives that they've become used to specifically

over the past 20 years. tyson, thank you very much, your insights. that was tyson barker with the german council on foreign relations. and you will, the effects of the russian invasion of ukraine are being felt all over the world, including in the united states where many russian americans are watching events and worrying dw, corresponded in his paul has been talking to people in the neighbourhood of new york city. known as little odessa over 3000000 americans identify this russian around 600000 live in new york city, the largest russian population in the us. this is little odessa, named after the ukrainian city home to people from across the former soviet union. officially, it's brighton beach, but you see and hear a lot of russian or the war and ukraine is very present in the hearts and

minds of every one here. yet it's difficult to find russians. we're happy to talk to us but already bertha will refer to you knows letters to nurse and she very simple move to serve meandra cosmo marshall's or not support proposal. believe, arthur, if it's for to birth, many russians worry that speaking on camera might make things difficult for their families back home. people from other exited countries, though are more forthcoming. i can't sleep. i can stand didn't, i can come to work. he know my family, me, my friends, everybody. we love will brain. damn footy. no bye, dear goody. no, just mom. no bye. dear good use it. which in ye it or i think i have russian friends who ah,

no one is defending one rush is doing. i don't see how is possible. um, it's just nobody believes allies in america. we have, we have free media. we know the reality. well, all that put in the saying, as a nonsense, the overwhelming feelings in little odessa, a grief and anger about what is happening. 4500 miles away. russia's invasion of ukraine and western sanctions against bosco are disrupting supply chains, which are yet to recover from the corona virus. pandemic aviation and shipping face major logistical problems. here in germany, carmakers b. m. w and volkswagen have halted production due to problems sourcing key components 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. free 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 and russia and ukraine as well. it is still too early to predict what impact the war will have.

russia and 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. let's have a look at the situation on the ground in ukraine today in the week since the invasion started, the russian military has a tact targets across the country. in the north, a large convoy of russian military vehicles remains outside the capital. kia, heavy fighting is ongoing in ha, keep with russian airborne troops landing in the city. after days of heavy shelling in the south, russian forces claim they have taken control of the city of cason close to odessa and are attempting to encircle the port city of mario pole. russia's military advances have however, been slowed by strong resistance. for some analysis. now

let's bring in former british general sir chris devereaux. thanks for joining us. general. it's de 7 of the invasion. the russians seem to be stepping up their assault. do you think we're about to see a major escalation and fighting? good morning. i think that's possible. i think the most likely scenario is an increase in the bloody fight for full control of the cities. i'm facing that on an assumption that the cranes will continue to fight and i think they're fighting much harder than it's unexpected. a top us of defense, official general says that the, that a large russian military con boy heading towards the capital of kia appears to have stalled. can you offer any explanation for that and why don't the ukrainians attacking it? well, i think you know what, we're all speculate the thing and it won't be till after this is over that we

really understand with confidence why that convoy is as it is. but my, my guess is, i think we underestimate just how much there just to effort is required to move an arm and convoy of that size and a distance. it's 150 miles a kilometer, sorry, from the us border to kiff and, and just moving that distance with a large arm and force is logistic challenging. and a storage the, the russians don't have massive amounts of transport vehicles. they tend to rely on rail, which is not available to them in ukraine yet so. so i think it's, it's still full logistic reasons. it's also still no doubt because there has been ukrainian resistance. why are they attacking it more? i suspect we're not necessarily seeing all the attacks that are getting on, but there also will be

a degree of support to that conway. and i think it will not be easy to cause a massive destruction. several western countries and the e u decided in recent days that they'll be sending military equipment more military equipment to ukraine. can this still make a difference for ukraine? oh, sure. the challenge, of course, is to get that military equipment into the hands of ukraine soldiers, even if you can get it to the border. it's not a simple thing to get it into the into the right place. but, but my assumption is that the cranes are working very hard at that. and for sure, it is evidence that the military supplies that have already been delivered in particular, antea cra, weapons, and anti tank weapons, are damaging the stress and forces. i spoke to a former ukranian government official just a short while ago,

and he suggested that the morale of the russian forces is declining. do you get the feeling that the hearts and minds of russian troops are really in this place against ukraine? a very much doubt they are. my expectation is that a lot of those russian soldiers will be very surprised to find themselves in ukraine. they would have been told that they would go on next size and not that they were going to will. and they will be very surprised to see themselves fighting against their slavic brothers and cousins so, and they're obviously not winning easily either. so the combination of all, i think will make morale in, in the russian forces in ukraine right now. very, less general. let me ask you final question, how do you see this war playing out? well, i think there are a range of scenarios. the most dangerous isn't we're thinking about it's, you know,

that we are effectively in world war 3. we just haven't realized it yet. i don't think that's the most likely scenario. i think that what, what happens is alone fights for control of the cities from the russian forces and, and a gradual wearing down of the, of the russian economy. hopefully to the point at which the prison regime collapses . sir chris debrel, former british general, thank you very much for taking time to talk with us today. thank you. my pleasure. germany's foreign minister alina bell box says rushes attack on ukraine is also an attack on the rules based international order for global security. speaking at an emergency session of the un general assembly in new york, she said russia had been lying about its intentions toward ukraine. and she said that when it comes to war or peace, countries could not simply stand by and remain neutral. russia law is one of

aggression and it's based on life. this war is not only about ukraine, not only about europe, but about all of us. russia, the wall marks the dawn of a new era. it's a want to shit moment. it really requires each and every one of us to take a firm and responsible decision. and to take aside. united nations says more than 660000 people have fled ukraine since the invasion began with the majority crossing over into poland. but some ukrainians are traveling in the other direction, men who were out of harm's way, returning to defend their homeland. as dw max tundra reports shami the train station is no place to stay. those who can keep on going in land and away from the border. not these men, they are heading in the other direction. oh,

i'm not risking anything among them. or do you need all jack their mam? how could i live with myself and stay here in a sketch to play? sergey has a wife and 2 daughters in ukraine, leaving his job in poland and returning home to ukraine to fight was not a hard choice for him. not old will. i was just in shock mow my yard units on which was door more. my family was home, my wife called me when you and i could hear the bombings over the phone says telephone. now your girl. she's got on the ball with patricia. he has a bullet proof vest and 2 helmets organized by his friends. i ask him if he thinks they are going to keep him safe. not doing it though, not with the girl. i am going to put it on and i'm going to shoot russians until i find out a job watching you. tough talk to cope with the situation sir gazed scared,