ah, ah, this is d w. news life from berlin for the 1st time since it invaded ukraine. russia has seized a major city. mayor of hassan confirms that the black sea port is in the hands of inviting troops. president vladimir lensky says russia will pay for what it has done. also on the program, ukraine and russia hold a 2nd round of talks and agree on humanitarian corridors for civilians caught up in the fight. ah,

i'm anthony. how'd walk into the program as the war in ukraine enters its 2nd week, president vladimir lensky has urged his people to keep up their resistance. that's as russia intensifies it's attacks on major cities. the mirror of the black sea port of her song confirmed that russian troops took over the city. it's the 1st major urban centered to fall since russian fought as forces began their invasion. a few crank and russian troops continued to attack the outskirts of the ukrainian capital devastation on the outskirts of keith. as the invasion of ukraine drags into its 2nd week, russia has intensified its attacks on major cities across the country. with russian forces advancing in the east and south president vladimir putin claimed that the so called special military operation is going to plan. as he gets i'll will be a russian soldiers and offices are acting bravely,

like true heroes. our troops fight with persistence and full understanding that that cause is right spool and when you minute proactively with you. in the south, russian troops have taken control of the key black sea port of her son. according to the regions governor, one resident recorded the moment, he opened his curtains to see a russian tank in the street. they're turning people to stared, sight shooting. you hear the sounds i think i should stroke recording before some troops room ahead. while in the east ukraine, 2nd largest city khaki is still standing despite russian advances. but heavy bombardment has let buildings and ruins and dozens of civilians dead. with no relief from the fighting on the outskirts of keith, president zalinski urged western nations to impose a no fly zone over ukraine. he warned that europe is in danger if the country falls,

it shall last. last and if we full go to forbid hollywood, next will be luck via home in lithuania, estonia, georgia, moldova, poland, value, and then they will go to the berlin wall. portia, if that would, would, we'll need the do berlin's place tinney. but a 2nd round of talks between russian and ukrainian negotiators has met with some progress as the 2 sides agreed to establish humanitarian corridors in some areas. for those residents who have not or cannot escape any such corridors, could provide some desperately needed respite of more on this. let's bring in liam collins. he's a retired us special forces colonel. it was also a defense adviser to ukraine. welcome to russian forces. have seized a king ukrainian port in the south. how important is this area around the black se,

strategically speaking? i don't think it's a strategic for ukraine, as people might think. i mean, is a lot of other ways to bring in supplies into ukraine in and keep in mind you're facing overwhelming, you know, rushing force into ukraine defense everywhere. the defending nowhere. so they're selecting where they want. then we talked 2 days ago about this column to the north of keep moscow's advance on the crank capital from the north. has it stalled or is that massive column of equipment just waiting? it's somewhat stalled. then keep in mind, this isn't like 8 audubon like a giant stout or something. it's different battalion it tactical group spread out along this. not just one long line of of vehicles um but ukrainians have taken down some of the bridges to narrow roads to move in is going to be slow and what the ukrainians are doing is attacking the front of the convoys was or is on the front

stopped then no one else is going to move to really that's what it is. the ukrainians are attacking the the point he entered at convoy. how important these keys in this conflict, liam, it's him, it's important because it is the capital at the same time, the simply surrounding it or occupying it does not achieve military or strategic victory, right? it's, it's the zalinski and the read in the ukrainians. and the regime and as long as they don't aren't gonna capitulate, the war is not over regardless of how many cities that russia can. i would even say, oh, just be there because we get harassed the whole time. they're in there and attacked by volunteers outside of the volunteers, ukrainian presidents, zalinski has now asked the wistful, more military i'd specifically plains a support if russia remains in total control of the skies of you crime is this a matter of when they take full control or rather, if it's going to be hard to get planes in there that so those are expensive

platforms and the russians do have a fairly significant air in your craft capability. so it seems unlikely that they're going to get aircraft like that even even arm drones are going to be hard to bring in there in ocoee pioneer feel that the russians are going to make that a key target. so i think it's, it's going to be tougher the ukrainians to get those kind of assets. but as much as the russians on the air, the ukrainians also control what their anti aircraft in their stinger missiles and other other weapons been fairly effective against russia. taking down over 60 planes and helicopters in total to date, according to their reporting. so without that support, if this remains civilians augmenting the ukrainian army, can i hold out? can i continue this? hold on. yeah, i mean i think what you're going to see is an extended, you know, it could be a seizure, some have a advance on the city, but much more cities. if you look historically it takes, you know, several months oftentimes to ccs sees the city, right?

unless you got something went to run into baghdad where it was just kind of a thunder run in the regime capitulated. but here they're not doing that right. they're fighting, and so it's going to be an extended fight and in, as you saw in the south, right. even if they take the city and you're no longer fighting michelle for his, i think you're going to start to see, you know, the insurgency brewing there. and you know, and they'll continue to attack the russian forces that are in the city. oh, was great to get you thoughts form of the fence of varsity ukraine, liam collins, thanks so much. thank you. we korean and russia have reportedly made progress on establishing humanitarian corridors. for civilians caught in the fighting an advisor to ukrainian president zalinski tweeted that 2nd round of face to face talks in believers were over. he said quote, ukraine does not have the results it needs yet. there were decisions only on the organization of humanitarian corridors. he added that the 2 sides also agreed to keep talking. the deputies chief international it is

a rich walker is with me in the studio, which is how much of a breakthrough are these humanitarian corridors that we're hearing about? well, i think we should hesitate to use the word like breakthrough for this. of course, we'll have to see whether this really does get implemented on the grounds of steve . we're in the midst of a war situation, but it will be welcome to any kind of progress was made. and of course, setting up these corridors will hopefully give opportunities to civilians to get to safety. they will involve having local, i see along the part of these corridors. but let me say lensky spokesperson was clear that this isn't what they were looking for in these tools. they have very clear demands. they want an immediate cease fire that they want the russian troops out of ukraine. there's actually no sign at the moment that the russians minded to follow those demands the tool. richard and the russian president, while speaking against by what did you make of letting me put in speech?

yeah, well, he was speaking with his security council. of course, we've all seen images of him speaking with this, this kind of closest core of revise is recently in these foss chain by in the, in the kremlin, but at great distance from each other. well, this time, they weren't even in the same space. vladimir putin with films holding these talks by video conference with his team across the internet. and in that it was quite interesting to, to kind of follow the things that he was saying. because on the one hand he claimed that the mission was making progress. that it was all going according to plan, but on the other hand, there were suggestions in what he said that he, that he could have could see that the russians of a suffering setbacks talking for instance, about the fact that they have suffered a significant number of casualties, the russians are admitting just under 500 of their soldiers being killed. other estimates put that number much higher saying that he was going to provide

compensation to the families of these people of the soldiers who have been killed. so an indication that the vladimir putin is having to deal with the fact that this operation, this war seems not to be going as well as he'd hoped to put my address. but he was also in conversation this time with the french president and mammal, a call to we know if anything kind of. yeah, well, we've had the french side of what happened in this cool. this is the 2nd time this week that these 2 men are spoken on the phone. on monday they spoke for 90 minutes . now on thursday, again speaking for 90 minutes. at the front side saying the vladimir putin requested this cool. and then the version of the call that we're getting from paris is a pretty bleak telling of vladimir putin is kind of state of mind and his objectives that he's adamant that he wants to push forward with this. he's that he is adamant

that he wants to achieve his goals, which he describes as, as, as the demilitarization, the di, notification of ukraine, which to western it sounds like regime change. he wants to topple the government and install. a government that he sees is friendly to him, so according to the lease a palace, emanuel my call after this call felt that the west was yet to come to the police chief international editor richard walker. many thanks. the european union has agreed to give emergency temporary protection to refugees plain the war cry. it means that more than a 1000000 people who have flayed can now apply for temporary protective status and residency permits throughout the millions more are expected to follow. the measure is meant to ease pressure on member states that border crime and he's the french interior minister. it does so that is you because he been eligible persons

will thus be able to benefit from a protective status similar to that of a refugee europe in any country of the european union for a renewable period of one year. is this unanimous decision reflects the full commitment of the european union to the solidarity that we owe to the ukrainian people in the face of this unjustifiable war. the kremlin 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. 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 radio station echo of moscow. it says it's shutting down after being taken off the year over its coverage of the wool crackly and hissing. that's all that can be heard on the frequency that radio eco mask the 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 all over 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 in the georgian, chechen or crimea war. both she'll kill out of his lunch for literally sullenly, but each cook was getting him. 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 what 2050 the. it's not just eco must cree that is coming under pressure of its coverage of the war in ukraine. russia last independent television channel t v rein has also been blocked due to what the russian government called deliberately, false information. this is nearly a couple of years 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, portable schubert, this book, i think it's outrageous. as bob kia, those were the last of the free voices that have now been stifled. melville february widow, they'd probably say more than as 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. with i'm with citizens are still finding ways to protest. no war is written on houses, bus stops balconies and elevators,

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