direction starts march, 4th on d, w. ah, ah, this is d, w y for russia, steps up a tax on ukrainian cities, buildings replacing the car if after the new bombardment, russia claims control the port city of cason, ukraine says fighting. there is continuing, dozens of residents have died in recent attacks. also on the program, he was safe in the you know, he's going home to fight, meeting ukrainian, wanting to risk everything to defend his country.

ah, i'm fil gail. welcome to the program. russian forces are intensifying their attacks on ukraine's main cities. as president putin's war entered its 7th day, russian forces claimed to have taken control of the port city of cas, a non ukraine's in ukraine south close to crimea. ukrainian official disputed the claim saying, fighting for the city is continuing further to the east. the port city of mario, all these under heavy attack ukraine, 2nd city khaki is today being shelled again and keeps mer vitale. clinico was warned that russia is gathering troops closer and closer to the capitol. ukraine says dozens of civilians have been killed by russian asked rags over recent days. ah, numb from shock. this woman sits just 2 meters away from

a dead body. one of a number killed in rushes, sustained attacks on hockey, ukraine, 2nd largest city, north vehicles receive, we've been shelved by russians. we are all scad. why us? why us regular people? russia has continued to bomb both residential areas and administrative buildings in the city. a local hospital has also been damaged wrongly bloomberg brewer. we had injured people in the hospital. the basement served as a bomb shelter. people were hiding here from the shelling of the so called peacemakers . let's put it like that. ah, emergency services in the city of their high tamya spent the early hours of

wednesday morning trying to control raging fires. local authorities say a russian air strike hit the city, which is west of the capital cave. in care of itself, people are desperately trying to leave. they continue to flock to the central station as they try to escape the capital on tuesday evening and miss, i'll hit the city's t, v tower killing at least 5 people. the tower is close to bobby in ya, a memorial site to one of the biggest single massacres of jews during the holocaust . oh, this is a country under attack with no one really sure when or how it blend can join date of the correspondence. mathias bully her

who's in the viv in western ukraine. welcome. it is. what is the latest on this a russian a convoy that is said to be advancing on keith. i haven't seen any recent news. this comma has been standing there for some time. it's very long, it's 60 kilometers a lot of a lot of armor and a lot of weapons and a lot of cars are soldiers. um we are not really sure what it is meant to do whether it is going to encircle the city or put the city under siege or whether they are planning to enter. it has been moving very slowly in the past few days though they are also vehicles that carry food and, and her and fuel. of course sir, that's what you would expect for such a column. but the longer it sits there, the more fuel and food there will be using before they move on to key of. so this,

this is quite an, a situation that many try to understand at the moment, right. and we'll talk about these per piece talks that have been started in just a moment here 1st. so we'll hear from you crane's a foreign minister, dimitra, a cool labor boom, one at a see young boons, diesel sized rushes, demands remain the same as putin announced in his address before the war started, where he basically declared the warmer felicia non non renewal 0. now we are ready for talks for diplomacy, but we are not ready to accept any russian ultimatums at all. when new talk will take place is unknown at the moment, lose in the liberal order, as in the long. all right, so that, that doesn't sound particularly a promising mathias, and everyone is going to look at this as well. there, there are bombs falling from the sky. russian tanks are approaching ukraine's at

capital. and that ask themselves, well, what can talking achieve with all this girl? well, the thing is that what he has just said is that there's no there no new talk scheduled yet. it's unclear when there will be taking place. both sides have said that they are ready for talks. of course, the, the side that would say we are not ready for talks would take the blame for talks, not happening on themselves, but the positions are very far from each other. russia is basically demanding the same things that it has demanded before the incursion. and our ukraine has been fighting back. the incursion equates quite well, and they're not in the position to give into these demands, which would basically mean that ukraine would lose its military. and it's it, the only thing that protects it now. so there is, it's a no brainer to you to agree to these for ukraine. and russia also is not ready to

her to, to give up and, and, and move out of the country or, or i don't see where there could be a compromise, but talks cannot our cause useful if they can resolve some issues like humans, terry and corridors. um, some a armistice is or, or, or some, some, some, some, some, some, some, some smaller goals can, of course, be achieved to make to, to, to ease the worst things of this war. but we're not talking about peace talks here . we're talking about talks between 2 sides, we're at war. ok, thank you for that matter said putting an end of if will hear now from alexander shabba, who served as ukraine's ambassador to austria until a month ago. he joins us up from the ukrainian capital. a welcome to d, w. m. first of all let's, let's start with your own personal situation. what,

what's going on there a day to day in the capital, and do you feel safe? nobody's feel safe right now and you claim this time. and so this time to close from time to time to time, there are every couple of hours people rush to the bunch are done, running back and forth. i stay home. so this is what i went out to buy for the 1st time in 4 days, 3 grocery groceries around my house. why has opened up people over the legs in the small grocery, not the big glass and some food still there. okay, so some semblance of normality, military analyst seem to be agree that russia is making slow of progress than would be expected. why do you think that is at the bank?

how we define law progress. we have the most formidable army in the world. who at that, after 7 days claims, then the occupational one big city out of $21.00. so i would say it's absolute. so this army simulation of russian army, we see russian soldiers has seen more no sense whatsoever. and why think they're moving face to face fight the only times when they are willing, when they just press the button residential area in the big see, this is barbaric, this is cowardly. but this is what they do with a level. this is what they mean. it's not the 1st time that they're doing that. you believe russian soldiers that demoralized?

absolutely this war has no one for us. if this war has no pushing pulling for him, because he won't win here, these people on our way any kind of government should install any government that would be it would be worth less. absolutely. we just a week ago we were divided into russian a nationalist international. now we're spending as wow, now the most of people who are seen most russian or no, whoa whoa. so this is all about the ukranian people, whatever their language old old standing together. and yet we have the ukranian president, i'm saying, well, i'm ready to talk, we have both sides ready to talk. although no one seems to know when these talks will actually happen. what is there to compromise on, on each side?

well, a started this war with certain conditions in certain demands. the demands were basically a exist. so the current government to be replaced was the, was whoever a restaurant reserves the right domestication with russian terms. but it doesn't sound like something on which ukraine would ever be willing to compromise. no, the vacation means that russia reserves the right to remove physically whatever it doesn't like in your brain, or the only thing where i personally see some possibility of compromise. so seems like

a reality that he will just, they don't think he's, he'll keep killing ukraine. well, the whole world and is that how you think this will end this conflict? i think lou in the, i'm just for the question is at what price? because because as i said, we are our lamp and see no point in fighting rush. i'm see no point in getting killed a right now every 2nd home as a go. so even if god forbid, in most, for some testing scenario, they would say for a moment, well, people will start shooting in their backs, right? will they already fearful they will be more fearful? after that, it's not going to happen. your brain is not going to give up all international

sanctions, which appears to be by saying that economic sanctions and the e u has even broken as, as several of its own rules and funded to go to ukraine. have you been pleased by the international reaction to this, or is that more that you won't i have been police. i think it's the, 1st of all, it's a matter of decency what the world with happens to a free democratic nation just for being a free and democratic. it's a modicum of decency to impose as far as possible. but what i really overwhelmed with is how many people take those trees speak out in support of the brain today? i saw a president speaking together

addressing ukraine and showing support. i haven't seen anything by john leadership yet, so that seem to be the absolute disgraceful letter from the mayor was not brought to the pharmacy in russia who basically says, well, we are, we are disagreeing on certain things. we are sad, but we can operate together, right. it was a 1st of all or germany or so germany. thank you so much for joining us. your training different matter. alexander shepard. thank you. we'll take a look at civil headlines. so from this war in ukraine staffing in the united states where president biden says his country and its allies are united in the face of russia's aggression to what you crate. in the 1st state of the union address to law makers, he said the ukrainians fight was an inspiration to the world that russian president

vladimir putin was now more isolated than ever. following public criticism, the u. k says it has now relax to immigration rules for ukrainians, fleeing rushes invasion. at least 100000 people with close family ties will not be allowed to enter the country and have the right to stay for 12 months, but will still have to pass strict security checks. the united nation says more than 830000 people had fled ukraine since the invasion began with a majority crossing into poland. but some ukrainians are travelling in the other direction. men who were out of harms wire, returning to defend their homeland. t w's mac sander report. shamika 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. all it is, oh, i'm not risking anything

a month on road. you need all jack your mom. how could i live with myself and stay here in a sketch to play? sir gay 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 all will, i was just in shock. mow my yard do not know which us door more. my family was home, my wife called me when you and i could hear the bombings over the phone for stella . for 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. let you know though no thicker, i am going to put it on and i'm going to shoot russians until i find out my job watching tough talk to cope with the situation. sir gays scared, he tells us who would be on the platform. the train to warsaw is expected. any

minutes? here we meet katerina. she just arrived from ukraine in my city. i have mother and grandmother and they're, they're probably coming to hear my father trained to defend us. well, listen, proud of him and of course and worries like most ukrainian men, her father had to stay and fight. the 21 year old is moved by the volunteers returning to ukraine to join her father's wrecks. i admire their etiquette and courage because said they're going from other countries to our country to defend it and that's admirable. their time has come together with his comrades. sergei makes his way to the bus. he doesn't know if he will ever come back. but for now, there's only one thing on his mind defending the homeland from the russian invasion . well, i did w correspondent,

a max xander file that report and he joins us not from mash. i michel a close to the polish ukrainian border. welcome max. at what else? have you seen that at the border? right, so here on the ground to show you some train station which is the main entry point for anybody. lee, from ukraine to poland right now by train or coming from the border town of live on the inside of the situation is still quite busy here. and continuously quite busy a week, almost a week after the beginning of the invasion. let's see if we can give you a little look around here to set the scene a bit. this place is busy. as i was saying, a lot of people come through here. i'll probably tens of thousands by now, but they are being received. they are volunteers here on site, handing out food, helping with the coordination of transport. there are a lot of volunteers here,

like such as this man with this sign. you can see usually are volunteers who come in on their free time to help people and to help them gets to another place and pull it away from, from, from the border town. there are many organizations here on site. well, there we saw boy scouts hanging out pizza, and some organizations even donating sim cards, for example, which is important because a lot of people come here with not really a place, not really a plan for their next steps. so convocation is really important for them. um, with that being said, this is also a place where some people get stranded because they have no idea what to do next. especially those who do not have any connections here in poland. we don't have any family or friends. so this place may be as good as any other for them. right. napoleon has previously been reluctant to taking refugees. affleck boys in syria and afghanistan for instance. so what's brought about there's a parent shift in policy and mindset.

that's a very difficult question to answer on. i think this is the question i would have to ask the polish government. um, with that being said, the polish prime minister with his mom, i guess he made an appearance today with the calipers and sha michelle. not far from here at the america border crossing and here took the opportunity to address the polish people and said, quote, i thank you for opening your hearts and doors and that is actually the case you. as i said already, a lot of polish people have tried to pitch in and have offered transportation, had offered donations about donating calls and even taken in people here. right. um, but the situation in the past was very different. poland and hungary as another country in the you are always very reluctant to take in people who are fleeing for more. this is a very different situation right now, but, but he was one of us. he said that would help point post government would now help

anybody flee from ukraine without regard of their background. all right, thank you for that mack state of the correspondent max and that near the polish ukrainian border when russia invaded ukraine, experts, why did that cyber attacks would create habit, but that hasn't happened yet. ukraine's defense council says the number of cyber attacks has gone up significantly with hackers targeting critical infrastructure and the energy grid, but it's less than was expected. internet giants like microsoft is also helped to repel attackers. meanwhile, hackers around the world including be anonymous, collective of declared cyber war against russia and the taking, taking aim at the russian government network. a spring and d. w. 's, chief technology correspondent, janusz delco. welcome a yano. so how much of an impact have cyber operations? a hot on this at war in ukraine. well, they have had an impact,

but that impact has been much smaller than what many experts predicted. we have seen a number of coordinated attacks against ukrainian government websites, for example. and they have succeeded in sewing chaos to a certain degree. but when this war started about a week ago, many cyber experts warned that we would see major hacking attacks against critical infrastructure against the power grid. or that russia could disrupt internet access in ukraine, shut off all of ukraine off the internet. and you know, at least during the early days of this war, we have not seen that happening. but to be completely clear. that's the situation as off this hour. and it could change any minute. and what do you think that is or what, why haven't there been any major large scale cyber operations? it's a good question and the honest answer is, we don't know, but you know, there are some possible explanations. it could be that you know,

that there were attacks that birth warranted by ukrainian authorities or by private companies which are sold play a really important role in this and that we simply don't know about them. i mean, cyber operations are fault in the shadows. that's part of the nature and when it comes to shutting down the internet and your crane, i mean, the reality is that it's really not that easy to do that you would need actual physical access to certain infrastructure like intended exchange points. and we don't know if russia at this point has this kind of access, but at the end of the day, it's all speculation. meanwhile, hackers around the world have express solidarity with ukraine. so how is that playing out? it's true and actually the ukranian government itself has also called on people with cyber skills to launch cyber attacks and certain targets in russia. and we have seen a number of attacks against websites of the russian government over the last couple of days, for example. now, how much you know, could this help ukraine?

these kind of cyber operations will not decide this war, but they do keep cyber experts in russia busy fighting back. and there's also a certain psychological dimension, if you will. i mean, it's well known that russia has invested heavily in its cyber capacities over the last 1015 years as it was modernizing its military. and to see this kind of solidarity expressed by a cybersecurity experts by hackers around the world. also sends out a message to the people in ukraine who are in this field that well that they're not alone in this. thank you so much for that data of this chief technology correspondent, john ocean, delica or german chancellor ala shoulds has been holding talks in israel is his 1st visit to the country since taking office. the trip, of course, has been overshadowed by the yet conflict in ukraine, speaking alongside the prime minister natalie bennett. mister schultz said germany

and israel would attempt to bring russia and ukraine together for talks aimed at ending the will. israel has been supporting ukrainian jews while also trying to maintain positive relations with criminal. so he, some of what the chancellor shows has been say, let me call on everybody once again to stop fighting immediately, attacks against civil infrastructure and the civilian population needs to be start was did. and obviously it is important to give diplomacy a great opportunity. i again am very grateful that both of us are going to do what we can and what is possible to make sure that talks between ukraine and russia will soon be long continues. of course, rasa was at the top of the agenda during a visit. all i saw it's absolutely wanted to make, despite the crisis he renewed that germany, any german government would stand at israel side,

would guarantee it. security and security of jewish life. naphtali bennett's the is ready, prime minister, is still family sitting on the fence. when it comes to taking sides, particularly to criticizing rasa, he simply won't do that at this very point in time between germany and israel, there seems to be a new age of strategic thinking, with both leaders announcing a strategic dialogue in the future that appears clearly connected to germany's turnaround on foreign and security policy. seeing a 100000000000 euro extra investment in terminus armed forces. it abused that chief political correspondent, cheap little editor, the can cooper. this is the dublin years live from berlin. a quick recap of what's going on in ukraine at the moment. russian forces are continuing their attacks on the countries main cities, regional government building, and crockett was ablaze. fallen days of air strikes. russia claims it to take

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