ah this is d w. news lines from berlin in russia sees is its 1st major ukrainian city . medicare song confirms that the government building in the port city is in the hands of invading troops despite the last president vladimir lansky urges ukrainians to persevere and says, russia will pay for what he has done. also on the program, more than a 1000000 civilians are not flag ukraine of the new and he's wanting this is just the beginning. will bring of the latest from the border with romania when people are trying to escape the fight. moscow's crackdown independent media continues the

editors of a 30 year old radio stations say they've been closed down because they refused to podcast pro war propaganda. ah, i'm feel, gail. welcome to the program. russia says it has captured its 1st made ukrainian city. its force is now occupied, the administration building casts on despite this you cried says its troops are still in the area and fighting for control of the port city of about 250000 people . the cities of khaki, marty paul, and the capital kiva. also under attack, despite the losses ukrainian president followed him as the landscape used, a televised address to promise that russia would be made to pay, to rebuild the country. ha, go home. these lion residence 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 record of the moment he opened his cousins to see a russian tank in the street. they're turning people to stared, sight, shooting at the pier, hear the sounds they think they should stroke recording before something, shoots room ahead. he crane 2nd largest city car cave is still holding out, but rushes. bombardment has left it streets in ruins and dozens of civilians dead further to the east. the port city of mario paul is surrounded after hours of shelling, cut off water and power. in cave, 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 if they will not have one quiet moment to willie, the occupiers will receive only one thing from ukrainians, resistance stuff vs resistance loves the 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 of fled ukraine in just a week back. and keith, those who 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. well, let's hear from the ukrainian capital alexandra mad, vater ok. the human rights lawyer and joins us from keith. welcome to

d. w. one of the past 24 hours been like for you. like and peterson 7 days the i lost in time completely. war. it's a horror think. but we resist to russian aggression. and i understand you're worried about your father to fuzzy as well, but look a we are no worried to, to, to resist and to be able to push russians away from ukraine. young borders and to we avoid it about how to save ukrainian peaceful cities. where, where it, how to save ukrainians. nice. and on the regard to the broader features. my personal problem is too small. really? is it possible to say what a normal day looks like under these extraordinary circumstances and you still go to

work, for instance, really story or when you should, if you haven't done the stress and work on different direction, we do as a lot of ukrainians do. in this situation, we find what we can be, what, what we can do their best investigation based off of experience, knowledge and, and hope to provide our input to the general struggle. so how are you organizing yourselves? we have no difference between day and night for current moment. speaker only the difference is good. during the night the russians intensify, the shouting or the key if only the last night were more or less cool. but before you in the, even in the shelling near to your station and they broke and hitting hitting line. and so it's, they, they started deliberately targets to be an object in wonder to provoke,

more civilian casualties. sounds horrible. our shops open. are you able to get to get to buy food? frankly speaking, i have no time to go into buy foods and to this is, we isn't done by by other my colleagues. we are constantly work and we try to use any minutes of our life because we don't know how much time we will have. and so what, what sort of work are you doing that? you know, my dinosaurs now work on several directions, detours in the convention war crimes because russia used to crime. so it's knowledge of conduct in war. second, we provide logistical support. there are a lot of people and needs and the right, a lot of initiative school provide the assistance, but we need to match people with this initiatives. and this is also one of our work . also our direction is working with international community. you may be have some

impression that west strongly support ukraine, but there are a lot of has to be done in west, haven't, haven't done it yet. for example, they've got to meet only for sleeps only for 7 russian banks. not for the whole russian banks, not for this beer, bon quiz, him main russian bank in the country. and we, we try to do other things as well. so aside from an end to the shooting, what the people then the most do thing. sorry i don't understand question. i don't want to pay full need their most on a day to day basis. aside from the shooting we need their great if reaction of the rest because human your day on the system is very important. now we have a human, you didn't crisis there as a whole, see, just under russian control where, where the house is, a totally destroyed and as people are without what are we done?

what he t and without electricity and russians are shelling is civilians could try to reach to the teachers and provide assistance. but more or, well, we need to talk this week teams to hear it and we need to stop russia. a human you've been in this distance is not enough. we need to stop this week seems to emerge under. so thank you so much for joining us. we wish you well, alexandra mike, very joke and human rights lawyer. and keith was a growing number of reports that russia is attacking civilian residential areas in ukraine buildings like this apartment building car, if a service several civilians died in this attack. but russia continues to insist that it's only targeting military installations, international criminal court. since it's investigating where the russian forces have committed war crimes, w's investigative unit has also been gathering visual evidence of attacks on

civilian targets. and it pains a green picture. the w investigative reporter lewis sanders is an expert on security, terrorism and war crimes joins us now. welcome to this. so just walk us through some of the material you've collected and what a white might indicate that war crimes have been committed for the past couple of days, we been looking into an attack on a regional administrative building in the heart of hard key to be precise at freedom square, now that attack left 6 people dead and dozens more wounded. now if we look at the c, c t, t l t, v footage, you can see that the if you go and frame by frame, you can see the projectile right before it hits the before impact. and we spoke to military experts with the help of military experts we were able to identify the projectile as a russian need,

caliber cruise missile. now why is that important? well, cruise missiles, generally speaking, have multiple guidance systems as part of the system, which suggests that this could have been a targeted attack. ok, and could this just have been a terrible mistake? it's unlikely we went through and mapped the area around freedom square to see if there were any military installations that could be considered legitimate military targets. and we couldn't find any, the only facilities that we found that were connected to the ukrainian armed forces was a hospital and a university and generally under international law and the rules of engagement. these are considered off limits. and so what is, what is quite interesting is that we spoke to a residence in the area and witnesses who told us that they had heard 2 explosions . that morning, 18 o'clock, and 110 minutes later. now from previous investigations that we've conducted in

syria, we've seen that russian armed forces target when they, when they attack a target twice, there's a lot of work that's been done to show that that shows intent. now, intent is often the hardest thing to prove when going after war crimes, and that'll probably be the largest challenge, especially in this case. but the early indications show that this particular example could be a war crime. right. and we'll crohn's investigators are particularly interested in the weapons use. just talk us through what they can tell us will cluster bombs are a good example? and there are indications that russian forces are using cluster bombs and urban areas. now in this footage, you can see a cluster like explosions happening within a residential building. now we spoke to a military experts to identify what kind of attack was happening here. and they told us that this is most likely a cluster bomb. now the only other weapon it could have been would have shown

larger explosions, closer to the surface of the building. now the problem with cluster bombs is that the indiscriminately harm civilians and enact devastation, especially in urban settings such as this one. and so when, when war crimes investigators, when they start seeing the use of cluster bombs in a conflict, it usually signals a sign that, you know, there's quite possibly war crimes being committed here. and in this case, in ukraine, as there's also been a lot of talk about russia, alleged use of foam or barrick bombs, just explain what vow please. so the past couple of days there's been a lot of videos and images being shared on social media showing the purported use of thermal barrick bombs and launchers being taken by russian armed forces to battlefield across ukraine. now we're still in the process of verifying this content and but early indication show that there could be credence behind the

material. now the problem with thermal beric weapons is that they off, they take place in 2 stages. the 1st stage releases the chemical into the air, while the 2nd one releases an incendiary explosion, which effectively uses oxygen to maximum effect. now, why is this problematic? because these contact under the geneva conventions, these types of bombs are prohibited because they do not. they, they do not discriminate between combatants and civilians. and so what we've been seen across over the past week is that there's a growing, a use of prohibited weapons and the growing targeting of civilian areas. and this is worrying signed now. now if this pattern continues to emerge in the coming days and weeks, this could be the impetus for war crimes. prosecutors to move forward with an indictment of the perpetrators. ok, thank you for that to listener sanders from d w's investigative unit. some more headlines relating to this war,

russian foreign minister. so gay love ross says he's country will push on with its mission to demilitarize you crate and stop it. joining nato, speaking on russian t. v. today he accused western countries of preparing for a war against russia and raising the prospect of nuclear weapons. police in moscow have detained a group of children who were lying flowers at the ukrainian embassy that's according to a social media user. somewhere as young as 7 people were also arrested in saint petersburg, monitoring groups as more than 8000 anti war protesters have been detained over the last week. francis sees the super yacht linked to a russian oligarch. the morning vero is owed by a company with ties to ego section is head of russian oil group rosen, f french customs since the 85 meter long vessel at a shipyard near ma say in accordance with sanctions against vladimir putin in a circle of un refugee agency says the number of people flee. ukraine has now

passed a 1000000 making it the fastest exodus of refugees this century. most are heading towards poland, but neighboring countries like romania, moldova, also taking people in some having to wait longer than others to cross to safety. the w correspondent, i'm a for sure, saw when she visited pub rodney on the romanian border. finally here, thousands are pouring towards the ukrainian border with romania as word spreads of the tale. back of refugees at the polish crossing with harrowing image is still in our 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. what's ahead. we are going to look for work she car because i need to provide for

my children. they and my husband stage to defend his country. you know, men are fighting age between 18 and 60, have to stay there also many non ukrainians who want to leave 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 flat from heavily bon keith, a student from egypt. he says he's growing frustrated about being made to wait in freezing temperatures while ukrainians are let through. the they let us only was of to like, oh, it's hundreds of jones 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 pool and there we are far away from

other countries as the same situations were also in us. i don't think we should be for them to live own, to live. right. his friend also from egypt disagree. this way. i feel the world's as beeble. thee have no home to go. and actually we have only a visitor, we can go now like you see. but they don't have any list. servers, 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. well, the crumbling has long been cracking down on independent media in russia. censoring voice is critical of the government's aims. when the war in ukraine began,

all authorities, band media outlets from using terms like attack, or invasion, or even war to describe what was happening. now, the latest casualty in the information war is independent radio station echo of moscow. it says it's closing down after being taken off the air because of his coverage of the war, crackling and hissing. 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 rush us media watchdog ordered its web site, blocked gallows are wood in the way we covered what the government calls a military special operation has led to this. the government is nervous and irritated. our editorial policies are the same as they were, and the georgian,

chechen or crimean war, she'll kill all of his lunch literally. so my blood sugar was winning him. i'm surprised. i'm still surprised. nobody expected this. we still have a few more independent media, but i'm afraid they won't make it much longer than what 2050 these. it's not just eco muscular that is coming under pressure of its coverage of the war in ukraine. russia's last independent television channel tv, rain has also been blocked due to what the russian government called deliberately, false information that is nibbling a couple of. now there was no previous notification, they just blocked and only then we received the notification. the demands were so unclear, we don't understand what should be deleted. so we have to close the site. this insanity has to stop, read the headline on some regional newspapers until the copies were confiscated. pleasurable schubert, this book, i think it's outrageous. i spoke you. those were the last of the free voices that

have now been stifled. marolla forgot the robledo. they probably say more than as wanted that censorship. zora on tuesday, police and moscow detained 2 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 with i'm whisco. citizens are still finding ways to protest. no war is written on houses. bus stops balconies and elevators, but the words i quickly removed. let's take a closer look at this with a w, so russian a fast on this to konstantin, etc. joins us from taught to in estonia. welcome constantine. so we saw the report that russia closing down independent media voices in the countries voice is including d. w. can russians get ins, uncensored information about this war?

well, they can, as long as the internet is up and social media functions, then basically people can find independents information about this war. but of course, if they want to, in such situations, there is always a significant part of the population which essentially refers to, you know, look to the government, refers to ignore or sometimes wilfully that something is terribly wrong. but apart from moscow and dos, there are schools are the sources, the thing is that most critical and endorse the 2 media organizations that were mentioned in the they were actually very, very popular in major metropolis. and now the, those who live in moscow see fit as brand. other big cities will have to basically go to all the social media to find independent information as well. the all the russian still a lot of them use all the state controlled media which,

which is of course presenting a completely different picture. right. and despite the government's a grip on the media, we do see some people protesting on the crack, down against them. a swift yes it is, and i have to say that russian law that so rather russian laws that govern rallies, probably demonstrations and sole support was basically tied to very, very severely in the last few years. and now you can get them to probably short more for nothing. and the threats that are mentioned in the, in the d that played before threats to parents to remove their children of their custody. that is called the scatter tactic to large extent. but frankly, speaking in such circumstances, any pretext to punish publicly shade those who go and demonstrate on the

streets. and they can pretend, for example, that the families probably are normal family, that they're alcoholic. and the state has to take away the children because they are living in an unsafe environment. them the more the more the government is going to concerned with the citizens reaction. the more such cases will be, the more we'll be hearing about what also hearing reports which are denied by the criminal that russia may impose martial law as early as tomorrow. if true, what would that tell us? well, i doubt that this will happen because there are, there is a procedure for that. of course, if mr. put in aust, his pocket parliament to vote or anything on the list. but the thing is that you have to have certain procedures before that. and unless, let's put it like that there is some sudden unexpected but convenient reason to say that russia is under attack. and then i doubt that it will happen tomorrow. i also,

i'd say that it will work against mr. boots. the government has been saying that it's not war, it special operations. now, if you proclaim a martial law, which last time has in full swing and russia is under attack, ok, i don't exclude this happen for the kremlin to untie its own hands. both in you crying and inside russia, these any the opponents. but from now i'd be cautious about ok. and in terms of the scale of, of vase these demonstrations, this opposition must be presumed that it is actually quite small. because as you say that a harsh penalties for, for even just woken up, done with it with a plaque odd. when one does a fe will grow as this war continues. a look, i don't have a magic mirror to look into the future. however, i think that in general, and that applies not only to russian to old countries,

for attracted was that the local victoria's eventually become a popular. and i think that this war, which a lot of people did not expect, i will basically be seeping into russian households with notices of death, about dead soldiers and with information on social media. unless the government decides to go the chinese way and basically shut down the internet, which will be extremely difficult. i have to say also gonna economic costs that way the russian. so over time, i'd say this war is not going to be victorious unless it's declared victorious and stocks no matter what the cost. but if it continues, if it stretches, and especially if there is a guerrilla warfare and it, it, if it becomes a protracted affair, then i think this discontent will grow and not only among other citizens, but also and in mr. paul, there's bureaucracy which would want to carry responsibility was something they

didn't start. probably a lot of them didn't really know about in advance and something that is actually dangerous to the state and source. do the really and the so thank you for that date of his russian affairs. i am mister constantine, i guess international paralympic committee has reversed its decision to allow russian and better resume athletes to complete the winter paralympics in beijing that now band both countries a day before the games begin. on tuesday, the i p. c said athletes from the 2 countries or could take part, a circle neutrals under the paralympic flag. now the organization has bowed to growing pressure to issue a full band. the 71 member russian contingent is already in beijing. the games begin on friday and set you up to date, a quick recap of the current situation. a 2nd round of talks between representatives and russia and ukraine underway, invalid bruce negotiations are reportedly focusing on establishing humanitarian

corridors. civilians in ukraine's besieged cities and russian troops have taken control of the black sea port of cas home for the 1st major ukrainian stating to change hands in the conflict. for at the top of the have with with

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