oh this is the w news live from berlin. russia intensifies a tax on ukrainian cities as the war enters. it's 2nd week. russian forces in the port city of carson have taken control of the regional administration building. despite russia's advances, president blossom is a lensky otis ukrainians. to keep up, there is more than a 1000000 people have now fled the war. and the un warns this is just the beginning . we report from ukraine's border with romania and more german arms for

ukraine. berlin approves the delivery of several 1000 anti our craft missiles after reversing its previous policy of banning direct direct weapons exports. ah, i'm glad alphas welcome to the program as the war and ukraine enters, it's 2nd week, ukraine's president vladimir zalinski is urging his fellow ukrainians to keep up their resistance even as russia. russia intensifies its attacks on major cities. russian troops saw in the black sea port of carson, and the regions governor says, russian forces are in control of the administration building, ukraine's 2nd biggest city har. keith remains under attack, and a ukrainian official says the key southern port of mario paul is surrounded by russian troops. meanwhile,

a large russian convoy of tanks and other vehicles appears to be stole the round 30 kilometers outside the capital. keith u. s. at british defense sauces, say, the convoy has made little discernible progress over the past 3 days. ha, ha, go home. these defiant residents of multiple a standing up to russian soldiers. after their city was taken. russian troops have also taken control of the regional government building in the key black sea port of his son. according to the regions governor, one resident recorded the moment. he opened his cousins to see a russian tank in the street. they're turning people to stern said, shooting at the pier, hear the sounds they think i should stroke recording before something shoot through my hand. he craned 2nd largest city cock eve is still holding out,

but rushes. bombardment has left its streets in ruins and dozens of civilians dead further to the east, the port city of morrow paul is surrounded. after hours of shelling, cut off water and power in keith present, zalinski remains defiant. would the will need necessarily should be wherever they go, they will be destroyed for they will not have come here. they will not have food and they will not have one quiet moment to will. the occupiers will receive only one thing from ukrainians, resistance stuff, vs resistance. loves the such resistance that they will forever remember that we don't give up what is ours. but russia's increasing attacks ascending more and more people fleeing for their lives. with the majority arriving here in poland, the un says more than 1000000 refugees have fled ukraine in just a week back. and keith, those remain,

have been taking refuge in the city's metro stations for days. they don't know how long they'll have to spend down here, or what will happen when their food finally runs out on the situation and give, let's bring an survey patch a coffee is a former deputy minister of justice in ukraine and joins us. frontier, thanks for talking to us under these difficult circumstances. so what's the situation here today? how would you describe it? now russians have been pushed back from kia, fall off for couple days, couple of days now, and our, they've been at nonsense from the north. and we know today that a small town of butcher that is right next to keith has been taken back by ukrainian forces and those ukrainian flag flying over it. so for now, it seems that keith is in a relative safety and we only hear sirens now and then, but otherwise the, the city continues its life as, as can ah, in,

in the circumstances of the war. do you feel that the pressure on key of the military pressure on here has kind of subsided? it indeed feels like that one would see what's going on in. hark if and michael were well, the cities and people are pretty much shelled and bombarded on a daily basis with those a stop. it feels like we are in a safe heaven in a way. so i don't know whether it's done intentionally or whether it's or that the russians have not planned anything longer than one or 2 days. but definitely we can see that a cave has an opportunity of, you know, safe, safe nights and, and, and, and some sort of or some, some relaxation moment to taking that into consideration. the mayor of mario, paul said today that russian troops have encircled the town. and are specifically shelling civilian infrastructure there is the russian strategy may be adapting in

a to a different aim. look, they've changed their strategy. they wanted a quick win in a nice little war. this failed completely. so now they are resorting to war crimes, because that is the only way to terrorize the population into subjugation. they have no other ways of, you know, are battling the defense that not only the armed forces of ukraine, but are pretty much every ordinary citizen is given to them. so i think that are the strategies now is still rising, the civilian population, raising the number of casualties on ukrainian side to the level that will be unacceptable to any one. ah, try to send a shock waves around europe and forcing ukraine into signing some sort of truce on russian terms. so what would you describe? how would you describe the or the spirit of the people there in,

in key if we're getting reports or everybody is paramount of caucus, i'm ready to fight. is that true? yeah, yeah. that and yet look, i mean are those oh, who wanted already left the city? i mean, specifically women, elderly people are children. so those who chose to say here are well prepared and anxious to defend our capital. there is no panic. i mean, the, everybody's of, you know, are following the orders thrown our city council, where the night curfew, we are self organized to look after our neighborhoods. as some people joined the territorial defense that are going around the streets and looking after it. what's going on, being able and ready to stop our russian army, if at some point it enters the city and as well, those people who are there seed in as in infiltrate in the, within ukraine because we've seen them sandy,

people in disguise trying to tie it shut off, i don't know either take a city or do some sort of a terrorist attack in the street. so. and nobody is scared here. there's no panic. people are well organized. people are falling, we are following the vans as they are unfolding and ready to defend the capital. now president zalinski has given another speech, urging are his fellow ukrainians to keep up the resistance to keep fighting. and how important is the lensky personally for this defense of ukraine? look, he is a commander in chief of ukrainian army. i'm think i left at this point. there's no, there's no political differences. it is for sure, the whole nation united working together under his command at the same time, i think that the something that russians are mistakenly. again, i think in that if they do something to zalinski, they will, they will, you know,

beat the resistance and ukraine. ukraine is, you know, ukrainians are used to live without the own national states. so we see lots of people. so organizing not waiting for any orders from the government or from day the armed forces defending their villages, their streets, their home town. so while it is important and we all united under the command of the president, i think ukrainians for use to are acting autonomously. and we've seen that, you know, in, in the footage from all the, all the country where people are taking initiative and going against the invaders. so i think that russians are miscalculating because no one will are stop the resistance whether or whether they control the capital. not. thank you very much. sergey patch a cough, a former deputy minister of justice in ukraine. thank you. but

the un, reggie agency says the number of people slain ukraine has now passed the 1000000 mark, making it the fastest exodus of refugees. so far this century, most are headed toward poland, but other neighboring countries like romania i'm also taking in refugees. but sama having to wait longer than others to cross to safety. asked the w correspondent, funny for cha observed at parole near the border. finally, here, thousands are pouring towards the ukrainian border with romania. as word spreads of the tailback of refugees at the polish crossing. with harrowing images still in their minds and few items in their hands. they arrive at the last checkpoint to safety. oksana and her kids needed 4 days to get here from keith. on her mind was ahead. they're going to look for work she car because i need to provide for my

children, and my husband stayed to defend his country. you know, men are fighting age between 18 and 60, have to stay there also many none. ukrainians who want to live students migrant workers. about half a 1000000 according to you and estimates. hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing for their lives, heading west for the border. not all these people from across ukraine are running from the same thing. but are they all getting the same treatment? i've met fled from heavily bon pad, keith, a student from egypt. he says he's growing frustrated about being made to wait in freezing temperatures while ukrainians are led through the they let us only 1st of to like out hundreds of coons, we will was i can say anything or others. what study or humans also like visit us? any bishop care more about us i've met says he has already been to live if, but was not let through at the border with paul. and there we are far away from

other countries as the same situation. swore also on us. i don't think we should they for them to live, own, to live. right. his friend also from egypt disagree in this way. i feel the world's is people. they have no home to go. and actually we have home. we have is, are to, we can go now like you see, but they don't have any bliss to those officials here. do not want to talk on camera about why there are 2 lines, one for foreigners, one for ukrainians. but they tell us, their goal is to maintain con, here. there is concern that the situation might get out of control as more refugees take the alternative route to romania. we are not allowed to firm i've met and his friends crossed the border. but after a few hours, they do just like thousands of others finally to safety it abuse fun. if a child fall that this report and she joins me now funny,

you know the border with romania aren't moldova, or what's the situation like where you are right now? it's incredible. really, the stories that we hear between our life reports, june chan. if sewage is about 50 kilometers from the romania border, we meet people who say they made it, he all the way from keith or they made it here all the way from her give a town. it's really heavily shell even right now, but they say is no way they can move on because their grandmother their grandfather, the relatives are up in the north or elsewhere without heating, without sufficient supplies of medicine. and it just, it breaks their heart actually cross over romania, incredibly heart wrenching stories, while others with the children without their husband. however, because they have to stay man between 18 and 60, have to stay and fight. if that's requested. you have the mothers with all the children trying to make it across the board and you have seen them waiting. they in line in freezing temperature. i mean, you can see me, i'm really dress warm. i have several layers on me, but even me,

after 10 to 20 minutes, i try to look for a place to, to, to be born. so what about those people who really need our us in those awaiting allied strive to cross the border. it's really a difficult situation on many levels, but especially on a very emotional level, because we have to understand the people who arrive here and you may think that they're relieved in one way or the other because they made it so far. but on the other hand that they either have this feeling of guilt of people are left behind. but also this, this feeling of okay, what's next? and which contr i'm headed to and how long am i going to stay there? it's a very difficult situation for so many ukrainians and non ukranian. so try to cross the border here to romania. in your report, we saw that there seems to be a 2 tier system in place. so there, there seems to be, if you will, 1st class refugees that are native ukrainians,

and 2nd class refugees that are students from the middle east of for example, also try to flee that war torn country. what's the explanation of countries like romania, poland to treat them differently from native ukrainians? we only have observe us happening up from here from the ukrainian side. so we do not exactly know what's happening on the other side. also, we are not allowed to firm critical infrastructure that's deemed critical from the ukranian side, meaning we cannot film the border crossing actually, or talk on camera or the border guards. but when the camera was off, they told us the reason for having these 2 lines for ukrainians and none ukrainians is a reason to maintain calm. insecurity. they were telling us that a couple of days ago, a full, a bus full of foreigners, full of indians. they say something we cannot verify, i have to add add, they were trying to across through the board in a very violent manner because they were still nervous. so on the edge getting out

of how to keep. now as i say, i cannot independently verify whether this has been the case, but at least this is the official birding here from the ukrainian side. why they are having a 2 lines in place right now here in a, at the at the romanian border. now when we spoke to foreigners, didn't really different reaction to the situation. so me quite understanding of the fact that ukrainian sort of come 1st because they have no home to go to. after all, they say foreigners have along their home or they came from. but of course, with the, i mean this cold temperatures staying there in the cool did not enough clothes on. and even the ones that you have as warm as it gets after an hour or so, even you really just want to cross that board as it is also growing frustration among those who are we feel treated in a very distress back disrespectful manner and who cited racism as a reason for this july and system of funding. i mentioned earlier the that the uncertainty of these refugees of what's next

a weighs heavily on on them what, what, what are their plans? you've listened to their stories. what, what, what are the immediate plans to have on the stay in romania, our and poland auto. but i want to travel on a further into western europe. i've met so many people who would exceed actually our time to just tell you about all of these stories, but are mainly many ukrainians are trying to get to pool. and because this is where a are significant ukrainian minority lives. so therefore people are trying to connect with their relatives in, in the pool and, and trying to get to pool. and now you wonder, why don't they actually use the polish board and get through to, to get across romania 1st to make it to paul. and the reason for that, here are people on the ground, refugees have realized that it is more difficult as, as it was, after all, during the past days to cross towards a pool. and because there was such an increasing influx of refugees. so now they

are trying alternative routes across romania, hungary, moldova, to get to poland, but some of relatives in germany, of course, and try to make you there. so depending on your family relatives, and will you see a chance to live for the next couple of weeks, at least because it's so many people here would just like to return as soon as possible and, and return to their homes here in ukraine. the ws funny for child reporting from western ukraine. thank you. funny and here are some more headlines related to this war. rushes foreign minister sergey love. rob says his country will push on with its mission to quote, demilitarize ukraine and stop at joining nato. speaking on russia, television on thursday, la broth accused western countries of preparing for a war against russia and raising the prospect of nuclear weapons. but one of them knew liz and moscow have apparently detained a group of children for laying flowers at ukraine embassy. that's according to

a social media user somewhere as young as 7 people also rested in st. petersburg. a monitoring group says more than 8000 anti war protesters. i've now been detained in the past week. in russia, the international paralympic committee has banned russian and bell erosion athletes from competing at the paralympics that reverses a previous decision just the day before the games begin and beijing. on tuesday, the i p. c. had said, athletes from the 2 countries could take part as neutrals, german comic, our folks bargain says it will stop exports to russia and hold producing vehicles that it joins several other car companies now boycotting russia over ukraine. some of the world's biggest technology companies, clothing brands, and industrial giants have now cut all ties with russia. while various shipping companies have stopped deliveries, germany is foreign minister, analynn, or babel cast back calls to investigate potential human rights violations committed

by russia in ukraine. she was speaking via video link to the un human rights council in geneva. i don't really need a commission of inquiry on ukraine to investigate all violations of human rights that have been committed by russia. since it's military aggression. we must stand strong on accountability. me, while germany has announced that it's sending more weapons to ukraine, a government source says berlin has agreed to provide $2700.00 anti aircraft missiles. the weapons or soviet designs straight la missiles from the stalks of the former east german armed forces. germany had already committed to delivering a 1000 anti tank weapons and 500 surface to air missiles. berlin recently reversed a longstanding policy of not exporting weapons to conflict zones. let's get some background on this from our chief political editor lacuna mckayla. these weapons

are set to be of soviet production from the former east german army. that's an irony of history, isn't it? i think we're in the process of actually writing a new chapter in history and these are of it made? yes, they were delivered to the former east germany. these are weapons that were also used in russia conflict with afghanistan back then in the days. so they're very old, but they are functioning hardware and that is scarce currently in the german army. and after initially we heard the defense minister lamp saying, look, we have to look what we even have, what we can give out. well, this now is part of a continuing list because we do expect there to be more that can be given to ukraine, always stressing that there is no direct handover. germany is not delivering these weapons physically. does that make a difference for russia? how is russia view?

this is natal weapons being used against them? i'm sure they're going to have something to say about. well, these are specific, not weapons that i am within nato contingencies. and this actually is a key point. we heard the and deputy foreign minister of russia yesterday stressing that and there's an increasing likelihood of misunderstandings of a direct contact between nato and russia, which fits into a russian narrative of actually nato being an active threat to was russia, which nato denies it's. it's a defense mechanism and clearly or nato countries that are sending weapons are at pains to stress and to ensure that there is no direct contact because that's what everybody wants to avoid. and that there would be a direct confrontation with russia, which could, and you know, i'm surprised, i'm even saying this, but it, that is well worth re scenario if that was to happen. so these are the stakes that are on the table at the moment. turning stakes. the german government recently set

up a special budget of a 100, a 100000000000 euros to ramp up defense to modernize the german army on this. and the assist debate has now flat up and german politics about that. can you bring us up to speed? it's an internal debate. i mean, what we saw happening of the weekend is the chancellor, pretty much acting alone, a turning around german defense and foreign policy of the past decade. and now effectively trembling, the german defense budget overnights, which is quite something i was with him as a travel to israel yesterday that was received positively. israel's now offered a new strategic dialogue so far, only has with britain and the us. and it shows that there is a new understanding of what strategic role germany will have also in the future. and that it has to be able to defend itself. and because it's simply not able to do that. and this also fits in with the signals we're getting from the french

president emanuel my call who's now stressing self sufficiency is something that's needed in the future and an own strategic outlook. these are words we've heard before, but they're now being backed up by money. and it looks like infrastructure and hardware in the very near future as well. well, the money is the important sign. i always shows when people are serious, dw, see political editor, media like huge. now there for us. thank you. the kremlin has long been cracking down on independent media and russia effectively sensory voice is critical of the government when the war and ukraine started. authorities, band media outlets from using terms like attack or invasion to describe what was happening. now, the latest casualty in the information war is independent russian radio station echo of moscow. it says it's shutting down after being taken off there over its coverage of the war, crackling and hitting. that's all that can be heard on the frequency that radio echo must cree used to broadcast on for 30 years. it was the only national radio

station, not under the control of the kremlin echoes board of directors voted to liquidate the station after russia media watchdog ordered its website blocked. when you get in. i'm surprised. i'm still surprised. there's nobody expected this. we still have a few more independent media, but i'm afraid they won't make it much longer than was doing except video. another online channel has also been blocked. a radio station decided to close down because they said they don't want to lie. this insanity has to stop read the headline on some regional newspapers until the copies were confiscated, portable schubert, this book, i think it's outrageous. i spoke you. those were the last of the free voices that have now been stifled. mobile mobile for public window. they probably say more than it's wanted that censorship. zora on tuesday,

police and moscow detained to women and 5 children who wanted to lay flowers at the ukrainian embassy. their posters read no to war. police allegedly threatened to strip the parents of custody. i'm with citizens are still finding ways to protest. no war is written on houses, bus stops balconies and elevators, but the words, i quickly removed you're watching the w news. here's a summary of the current situation and you, russian troops on the black sea podcasts on thought there are conflicting reports about whether they have complete control of the large cities are also on the heavy attack as the war enters. it's 2nd week in france, president is call it on citizens to keep up with that said from me and the news team do head to d, w dot com for more in depth coverage of russia's invasion. all you cry,

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