to vote for this resolution. so, so clearly the russians knew that this was not going to go well for them. they have, so this is a vote to be under 3 days, i think of discussions. and so what we've been hearing during those days of debate . well, we've heard from the ukranian ambassadors, the united nations, i think that his speech is of the ones that are probably had the greatest impact as you might expect. speaking at the beginning and at the end of this debate that we just heard from him there a clip that where he compares what's been happening to the beginning of the 2nd world war interesting lead the us ambassador to the united nations. it was also one of the last because just in the last hour or so, also may comparisons to the beginning of the 2nd world war. so to really the most drastic comparisons in recent world history that you can possibly make. it was interesting also, of course to watch some of the countries which abstained, you know, so, so 3435 countries i think was the last tally of the number of countries that

abstain the 2 countries. there's been biggest focus on among those china and india, china because it has increasingly strong ties with russia. we just saw vladimir putin in beijing for the winter olympics just a few weeks ago. and china, russia really touching a growing closeness in their relationship with chinese be needed walking an interesting line here, because on the one hand it, it very public supports rushes desire to stop nato expanding, for instance, which is one of the demands that vladimir putin has been making in the backdrop to this invasion and so on that on that side of things. china is very explicitly in favor of, of russia. but at the same time, china has been expressing concern about what's happening and increasingly vocally doing so. and also insist that it sticks by the principle of territory

integrity. this is kind of like sounds a bit like diplomatic speak, but territorial integrity essentially means you can't just cross over the boundary of another country of the border of another country and take bits of willy nilly. the chinese saying that that is an absolute core of their belief in international phase, and that it applies to ukraine as much as anywhere else. so it's, it's quite awkward attempt to straddle the kind of 2 sides of the crisis here. but the chinese still abstaining not supporting russia here, sort of trying to stay to some extent on the fence. and germany is foreign minister bab walker. she's addressed the assembly in the last day or so. yeah, that's right. i mean she, she flew to new york. yes. today to, to deliver the statement on behalf of germany personally. and that's striking for a foreign minister to do that. that shows the attachment, the importance that she's attaching to, to getting that message across. and very, very clear language from babylon. to bear in mind that the government here in

germany, it's only been in office for 3 months or so. all i've sholtes the chancellor and a bad book, the farm industry, kind of diving into the biggest crisis in international affairs in many years. in the 1st months in office. and so a lot of focus on what she said, and just to, to lift a couple of quotes from this. i mean, she didn't hold back at all. she said russia was one of aggression. it is based on lies. quoting her russian counterparts, a level of who had been speaking in the un human rights council, also in recent days, claiming that russia is acting in self defense. saying that this is, this is lies. and quoting mr. lab, or if you can deceive yourself, but you won't deceive us. ok, so just swimming this up. if i read you write, russia loses this vote by a large margin. the un deploring it's, it's actions in your crate. but that doesn't really shift the needle in the

conflict, what it russia is not compelled to do anything on the basis of this. but this is the 1st litmus test of world opinion that we've had on this. and the fact that russia is unable to persuade, more than 4 countries in the world, which essentially to varying degrees are beholden to russia, who have a very strong reasons to be supporting it. that it didn't managed to persuade any other country in the world that it's case has merits. i think that is a very strong signal. now we're in very early days of this war. of course it tomorrow, it will be one week since the war began. we're dealing with an awful lot of moving parts. here we have the conflict situation on the ground in ukraine, which every indication is that is not going particularly well for the russian side . we have the western response in terms of sanctions, which has been more united and stronger than many expected. i think it's clear that

the russians also have been somewhat taken aback by how strong it is we have now this vote showing great isolation. we have countries that may, might, in other times be counted upon to support russia such as china, potentially even india, trying to walk a kind of line of sitting well mixing metaphors here. but sitting on the fence. and all of this i think is cumulative. and what's going to be interesting and perhaps concerning in the days ahead is to look at it effect also on vladimir putin on the thinking of the russian side. how did they decide to deal with this series of setbacks that they've had in recent days, diplomatic setbacks, sanction setbacks and also setbacks, as, as far as we can tell on the battlefield. now, there's a lot of concern. the uprooting may see a way out through escalation that he pushes harder on the battlefield, that it, that he becomes more brutal. we've seen more and more dangerous weapons being used recently, cluster munitions,

large missiles which are targeting civilians. will that ramp up? will he be tempted to try to change the situation through through a desperate measure such as increasing and hyping further these nuclear threats. so the focus now very much on russia. it's kind of rushes move. now we've got the weld opinion gauged here. we've got western opinion united, we've got the situation on the battlefield now. well, the focus is on. what does russia do now? thank you for the research. if international edison, walker well present pros, his strategy and his ultimate objective do remain a mystery. but his invasion of ukraine doesn't appear to be going to plan despite having one of the largest military in the world, a d. w. so we'll include croft has the details. we've been reporting for days. ukrainian forces have been putting up impressive resistance. i'll be at a steep cost. russian advances had been slower than many expected,

including russia's own military planners been taken a bit by surprise. the thing is, given russia superior strength in terms of sheer numbers and the resources they can throw into this fight. even small advances on the russian side can have devastating effects on the course of the war for ukraine. so let's have a look at the front lines as best as we can tell from the latest movements. now military analysts suggest that russian forces are re supplying and reinforcing their troops all around the country from the point that they've invaded from the north, the east and the south for a renewed and harder push into those 3 parts of the country. they've entered now possibly, so the most dramatic movements are in the south where fresh and forces have come up from crimea. that's where vladimir putin annexed illegally in 2014. and their hope here is to create a land bridge along the coast from crimea. tameria pull into that don bus region, and that's the region already controlled by separatists that russia supports. now

russia says they have actually established this land bridge here if that's true, and if they can hold on to that territory. what it would mean for ukraine is not good. it means that you can then connect russian forces in the south and the east trapping ukrainian forces encircling them in that area. which of course, could then put them at risk for being completely destroyed, or even just helpless to help up defend against attacks further west. it's also allowing russian forces to spread out to those a strategic port. cities like maria poll like odessa. those are strategic port cities for ukraine. now resuming on keith wright, the capital russian forces do appear to be moving in and encircling the capital mainly from the north. but even from the north, they're moving in from multiple points. you can see they've crossed the nepa river and they're trying to move around to the east to come back around and circle the city. and with forces coming in from the 2nd largest city car cave,

we've heard so much about. they might be able to come in and swoop in and in circle keys. now that would be spell some very, very difficult days ahead. analysts think that we could see things get more intense over the next 24 to 48 hours as rest russian forces regroup, and move to pieces besieged these cities like keys like other places. if they can't enter them outright, that means heavier bombardments of populated areas for both the air and the ground, putting even more civilians in the crosshairs. a so william glue, croft, we'll take a look at some more headlines from this war. hundreds of civilians are defending europe's largest power, a nuclear power plant from russian troops. video and social media shows civilian build roadblocks around the plant, in the southeast and ukrainian town of, and a hota, russia claims this week to have taken the town. but you cried denies is yes,

president jo, by the says, united states and its allies are united in the face of russian aggression to what you create. in his 1st state of the union address, the president said that ukraine's fight was an inspiration to the world. and that russian president vladimir putin was now more isolated than ever member jailed criminal critic, like st. valley is called on russians to stage day the protests against the nation . the statement on facebook, he urged russians to fight for peace, and to not be afraid of going to jail. as to the valleys, the country's most prominent opposition figure and has millions of russian followers on social media. on alexander shabba served as ukraine's ambassador to austria until a year ago, he joined from care we talked about the situation for civilians in the ukrainian capital. if you'll say right now, and you claim this time also there's going to close on from time to time to time. there are a couple of hours for people rush to the bank,

so i don't run back and forth. i say ok, so this is what i went to to buy food for the 1st time. in 4 days, a lot of people are very polite and small grocery, most of the class and some food still, there are some semblance of normality. military analysts seem to be agree that russia is making slow progress than would be expected. why do you think that is? depends how you define progress. we have this, but the most formidable army in the world will adapt after 7 days claims. then the based on one big city out of 21.

so i would say it's absolute august army, it's cumulation of russian army received. russian soldiers has seen more no sense whatsoever, and why they are losing face to face the only times when they are willing, when they just press the button residential area in the big see to 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 this. 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 are way any kind of

a 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, you see a started this war with certain conditions, a certain mass demand where basically

a season exist. so the current government issued to be replaced with the whatever, with a reserves the right domestication with the russian terms. but it doesn't sound like something on which ukraine would ever be willing to compromise. no justification means death rush to reserve the rights to remove physical if whatever it doesn't like. and you brain are the only thing where i personally see some possibility of compromise. so seems like a reality that he will just, they don't dig his, he'll keep killing ukraine. well, the whole world watches cranes, former ambassadors to austria, alexander shabba,

the united nation says more than 830000 people have fled ukraine since the invasion began with majority crossing into poland. but some ukrainians are travelling in the other direction, but who were out of harm's way or returning to defend their homeland t w's mac, santa reports. shamika the train station is no place to stay. those who can keep on going inland and away from the border. not these men, they are heading in the other direction. oh, i'm not risking anything month. um, would you need to get your mom? how could i live with myself and stay here in a stretch to play? sergei has a wife and 2 daughters and ukraine, leaving his job in poland and returning home to.