jobs in russia promptly quit them shrewd. i didn't calling only for russia to stop the war. he blamed both sides for mistakes made isn't quite all men, and he don't need the money. his just, i don't know how to describe it and it's shameful. for our party, then this recruit us own team resigned in protest. having failed to persuade him to cut ties with pershing know some of the cold right in his own party and the opposition have had enough. we should start kicking him out if he doesn't move in the next week because i don't see how we can sanction those companies. and we have a chance that working actually for them get through it as a total embarrassment for my country, for germany. apart from him having being the german chancellor before everybody who, who still supports this regime, this dictatorship, this warlord called ruddy, me put in, has to face consequences. whatever shoot, now decide. it's this relationship more than anything that will define his legacy.

germany is president frank. vita stein maya is currently visiting lithuania. the baltic state that shares a border with both russia and bill arose. sty, my will be visiting nato troops, including a german bundeswehr. contingent is raina, has called for nato to station more troops and weapons in the baltics stand. my has spoken out against russia's invasion of ukraine urging president vladimir putin to have the courage to end that war. and i'm no joint bar. political correspondent nina has a, she's in rook, lower nato's enhanced forces are stationed early that president on my i was at the military base in rook law. what are the, i have to say? well 1st of all,

i think you have to stress that really unusual feeling of this trip of a german president. now you have to understand that a german president normally has a largely ceremonial role. so this is an ad hoc trip by the german president who normally doesn't interfere in day to day politics. but frank, by the stein maya decided to come. he had to live in hans forward, present battle group. tis thank the soldiers. that's what he said. and to also all that he's, he's throwing all his weight behind germany's efforts to make it clear to germany's nato allies that germany stands firm. and that it's being earnest about his commitment to help protect the nato his eastern flank. so front fighter stein may, i did want to send a signal of solidarity to soldiers here. that's why he came lithuania, feels threatened by russia's aggressive actions in the neighboring country ukraine . what did he have to say about this?

there was a brief press conference between frank, i'd osteen my endless when he was president here, who also is having talks with hartford touched on my at right now and of i'm fight osteen my and him stress the fact that it is a, an extremely dangerous situation. right now and that the use and therefore also nato's most eastern countries are facing a war on their doorstep again after a couple of years in peace and this iteration cannot be underestimated. pine fight are stone. my i said now the lithuanian president, thank germany for also delivering weapons. germany did come a bit late, but at least it is strengthening the nato and battle group here as well as sending more soldiers at germany is leading this battle group here in lithuania and the president said that he was extremely thankful for germany to do that. fine fight stein maya also spoke of that intensely dangerous situation where it looks as

though vladimir putin is not ready to negotiate. that is, is not looking as though any form of dialogue of keeping doors opened. vladimir putin is really working on that. we have to prepare for a situation that ready me put in my to use and the heavier weapons in the future. now this is also something that the soldiers here on the ground are stressing that they say that the situation is getting tensor by the day are political corresponds to nina. how's that reported from lithuania. thank you. and let's have a quick summary of the current situation in ukraine. russia says it has captured it's 1st major city in ukraine. it's forces are now occupying the administration building in carson. but it's unclear if the port city is fully under russian control. ukraine says it's troops are still defending it. ukraine's 2nd biggest city hockey remains on the attack, and the 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 stalled around 30 kilometers outside the us and british defense sources say the convoy has made a little discernible progress over the past 3 days. that obviously connelly joins me now from love if in the west of ukraine. nick, what can you tell us about the situation this morning? well, it seems like that russian check on care is stuck. that huge column of hardware we saw estimated by some to be 6 close to long has not moved. some of that is down to the climate. the weather seems like a lot for vehicles are actually stuck in the mud right now. and also the ukraine, you know, me putting out quite a bit of resistance using those weapons, especially, and check missiles that they've been supplied by the west in recent months for effectively big, big losses among the russian army in terms of personnel and also hardware. so

a situation that isn't ending any time soon, and the ukrainians seem unique in, for the long rather than putting appears to have changed the strategy to an all out assault on ukrainian cities. civilian death toll is rising, we're seeing reports of cluster bombs. what can you tell us that definitely seems to be the case and that down to, as i just mentioned, the feelings of that kind of tank and making the mechanized kind of me that was hoping me to take care of at least in the space a few days so you now to use rushes advantage in the air and the skies with bombing raids and with missiles, things that you can call it counter is easily and that is having a very dark impact on civilians who caught up in all this. and the russians seeming not making much benefits to reduce the risk to them. we seeing damage to the infrastructure, to power supplies,

teaching supplies. and you can imagine it's still pretty chilly here. what that could be like for cities of over a 1000000 people, if they end up being transmitted 4 weeks time without power and without food. and there are conflicting reports about who is in control of class on how difficult is it to get reliable information for you. it is a real issue for all joe, it's working here. there are many if any journalist lines, so you're basically dependent on by the local sending social media videos, or what the military tells you from the russian side of this operation of the russians are not letting any international journalists into their side of the front line. and see in more time there isn't ship. so it's very difficult to actually do the psalms in terms of losses and soldiers live in terms of the hardware. but we definitely are seeing now the mobile phone networks are up and we're still in touch with people in place like marable in place, like just on. so she would still have the chance to talk their teams. but also the

press can give us some kind of idea of what's going on in terms of that. so you just mentioned, yes, there does seem to be russian hardware in the central town. but we have seen that before. that's that you can, you know, i mean, has allowed russian forces in only to ambush them later. so it's not necessary clear that the ukrainians are out just because the russians are inside. that's still earlier, we saw a defiant message from the presidency. lensky saying the occupies will receive only one thing from ukrainians. that is resistance. fierce resistance. are you seeing the same kind of resolve from your crying ukrainians to fight back or people starting to give up hope i, i think actually the liberalism that sky has caught me pretty well that this was the way the russia is fighting. it has basically united large parts and you couldn't start that weren't united before. and even the russian orthodox church,

it's local branch calling on you claims to fight for ukraine, cooling by the refuge. now saying this is a decrease in russia is committing against your grand, that something that would be unthinkable just a month ago that you have those kind of bishops thing, that kind of thing towards russia, the home of that russian orthodox church, even media that were previously pretty pro, russian and petitions are all shifting their positions very rapidly. so the aggression with which the criminal laid out the demand, basically calling on ukraine, capitulate and to make it self hon to whatever russia what's in the future. that really has shocked lots people here and worked against them in terms of bringing ukrainians together, who are now joining up in sue's numbers to sign up for the me to donate money to donate blood. so for now, there doesn't really seem to be a sense how the gruesome this is getting, but the ukrainians are going to be willing to draw back and to basically give into these demand for now. now we've been hearing reports of low morale inside the russian ranks. from equipment breaking down to russian soldiers,

many of them actually teenagers, thought they were just on the military exercise. is that true? what are you hearing? was the i know the front lines and it's very difficult to get there. but the stuff you see on social media, somebody don't see being used by the ukrainian side as propaganda, or as kind of a piano. but as far as you can tell, if you look at the things that don't look to be taken in the journals have checked to make sure the story that we haven't social media that you know, the, the russian business we see are actually people, you know, they all of us and soldiers and they have a back story that makes sense. it does seem that a lot of them weren't given any compelling reason why russia needs to invade ukraine. right now the talk of email, it's fine ukraine, whatever that means or you know, the threat to make sure that's not something that has been effectively communicated to these teenage recruits. and then yes, logistics, where there are lots of videos of russian tanks running out of fuel in the middle nowhere. so this is increasing difficult and this is becoming increasing problem

for planning to, to back home. as the rest of the site. you see these losses and asks why they're dropping w correspondence next, commonly they're in love if a for us. thank you, nick. now let's bring all these to these vector for arms control at the institute for peace research and security policy at the university of humbug. now the mayor of merrier poll says russian troops have encircled the town on specifically shelling civilian infrastructure. is this a strategy? do you think to sort of targeting civilian infrastructure? i think it is part of a deliberate strategy and i would call it the chechen, or perhaps syrian strategy basically means you hit the civilian interest structures as hard as possible in over at some point to overwhelm the other party. and just to basically make them bagging to stop. so what is your view on how the ukrainian army

then is holding up? i think the ukranian army is really showing that it is giving the russians a very hard time. they are putting up a fight that i think no one in the russian army had really expected. one has to say that so far, particularly the russian advance from the mall was not successful. i'm pretty sure that deleting military there has been filed already by the russians. at the same time, the russians are moving into ukraine from the south. and this is going to be a problem for refrain. and on the end, we will see how that plays out in the next couple of days. but let's face it. russia has more advanced, the bigger, the more modern i'll move, and the ukrainians have. could it be that the, the russians for the russ russian strategy, the south of the country like crimea, is more important than, than the west and the north. that's just speculation at the moment. i mean,

let's face it, what are we seeing here? we're seeing a full fledged assault on the entire ukraine. so i think this is not just about crimea. mean it would be a hope to think that russians just want to take a crimea and, and walk the southern part of your training, but then stuff. but i think they're really up to invading the entire country and then occupy it for years to come. so many of you koreans, partners in the west, including a germany ascending a weapons to ukraine. all these weapons arriving and are they actually making a difference? they are arriving. we heard that there for the batch of german anti tank missiles as well as a sing on miss lyles has already lived in ukraine. so that is if we know a little bit about how german view europe chrissy works and how slow it usually is, that's lava and the spanish in fact, do they really make a difference on the ground?

perhaps not immediately, but in the long term. i mean, it's important that particularly now that the russian seem to have established our dominance over ukraine, that at least in the lower layer of where soldiers can carry those weapons on their shoulders. it's important to have something to fight back against the russian. you mentioned acid theory already, that the cranium, government has urged the west went forth and no fly zone over ukraine. would that be a good idea from nato? would it be fully drawn into that conflict? look, i can understand that from a moral point of view that the ukrainians are asking for, for the west to enforce the no fly zone. but we have to think through what would that actually, it would mean that nature would have to go in, probably not just with airplanes, but also the ground forces. it also would mean that nature would have to take out harrison fan stations that would be based on russian territory. that would mean we

would have a full fledged nature, russian conventional war. now please don't tell me that that would not still over into a nuclear go that could devastate the entire globe. so i'm sorry to say it. i understand morally, but it's really a terrible idea. ok, you mentioned the nuclear fact that we heard the russian foreign minister of a playing down the threat of a nuclear escalation. he called it quote, west and his theory idea, see the danger of his war escalating into something even bigger in general? i think this is all part of the russian playbook. i mean, bob ross, i'm sorry to say he was for a long time, a respected diplomat icon taken serious anymore that we have seen clear of rush and signaling from the rushing side, letting the uprooting threatening consequences of his tori dimensions should. the west intervene. dan braising, the alert levels of russia strategic nuclear forces, though the latter i would say was.