hey, oh, this is dw news live from berlin. ukraine slams a russian proposal for humanitarian corridors and accuses a kremlin of murdering civilians during previous agreements. ukraine says 8 people were killed as they tried to escape the town of if you leave a capital, including a family. according to president woocommerce lensky, he battles to punish those who commit atrocities saying ukraine will fight it. as russia continues bombing ukrainian cities, kiev asked the un top court to order

a hole to the invasion, but russia doesn't turn up to be here. ah, i'm see me, so must gander. glad you could join us. ukraine has rejected a russian proposal for humanitarian corridors. ukraine, deputy prime minister said it was not an acceptable option because the planned roots out of several ukrainian cities only led to russia or sal i belarus. kiev also accuses the kremlin of continuing to shell civilians during previously greed cease fires to help people escape overnight. russian forces stepped off their bombardment of several cities across the country, according to ukrainian officials. there were reports of heavy shelling and hot heat in the east nikolai, up in the south, and she hadn't even the north as well as in the outskirts of t f. the cranium president, laudermill zalinski says his country will not forgive russia for the suffering. the

war is causing. here is a part of his latest address. me never, we will not forgive the shooting of unarmed people the day be destruction of our infrastructure. nothing in 1st. we won't forgive hundreds and hundreds of victims, thousands and thousands of sufferings yet and god won't forgive because he's not to day he bore not to morrow me. she'll never miss after me. call it in that address. zalinski also spoke of a family killed by russian shelling they were trying to escape the town of european near kiev. authority say at least 8 civilians were killed as they tried to flee. and we want to warn you that this report contained some distressing images. oh, this video captures the moment a more to blast, hits the town of a pin people and making a desperate dash to safety. taking only what they can carry. residents climb

over a bombed out bridge, praying they make it out before the shelling returns. not everyone does it's risky to leave, but perhaps riskier to stay. the city's infrastructure has been decimated by days of fighting, leaving residents without hate electricity and water supplies, a running thin station in full and there is no food. no what to do with the physical if lose any supply. ah no read no milk, no eggs, no nothing. and to all vio, tremors, threes, close to stumble, ukrainian or authorities say the russian army has stepped off its shelling of residential areas. russian forces blew up the railway station here. so now ambulances and vans are being used to evacuate people to me by key pro guilford. with that, with the russian assault, getting closer to cave,

it may not be long before they have to flee once again. western ukraine has remained relatively safe so far with the heaviest fighting, concentrated in other parts of the country. but ukraine's defense forces are preparing for a possible russian attack. locals are worried about what might happen if the war reaches their doorstep. d. w is alexander phenomena reports ah, a chick point on the outskirts of loose skin, north western ukraine, sasha barbados, one of the local fighters who have joined ukraine's defense forces. he tells me that moral among the troops remains high. despite the dire situation in the country, little speed remembered about the moment it is calm here or suleima. we are preparing the defense of looks and the region with everything we have horrible were employed at the same time, were helping those who volunteer to join the army on deploy to the front in the east and to defend our ukraine. you call that a bullion national,

where you live still seems to go on here in western ukraine despite the heavy fighting that it's taking place in other parts of the country. and yet, residents tell us, they want to be ready for whatever might come next. at the beginning of its invasion, russia targeted an url field not far from the city. the military airport in loads with one of the 1st facilities hit by russian messiah in ukraine. since dan, it's been relatively quiet here in the region, but people are scared that it's just a matter of time before the war comes here. oh, they seek comfort through prayers in the local church. the sermon that day urges the church goers to forgive those who have done them wrong. oh, this is a truly christian message. father roman tells me,

but one that it's so hard to follow right now. you will. i wish i had never seen that day was that she had died before interest. it's really hard to keep living. outside the church, valentina receives a blessing for a safe journey. she's not in good halls and wants to leave for neighbouring poland . dish solutions is so hard to leave. of course yes, heartily. my children are my grandchildren. here you can dish. she goes with a heavy heart. what seems to be hopeful? ukraine will prevail. she says, let's get an update on the situation on the ground. now we have our correspondent, nick conley in the ukranian capital key. as nick, it's good to see you. i want to start with the some of these reports that we're seeing that the evacuation roots out of ukrainian cities are leading into russia and bellows. that hasn't been confirmed yet,

but what would that mean will receive that would be a kind of a for now, seemingly unlikely scenario. this is something that is on paper. obviously, russia wanted to show that it is not trying to cause damage to ukraine. civilian population, we've hurdle that rhetoric from the criminal, talking about ukraine's brother nation. even though russia obviously willing to use considerable force, not just guess ukraine army, but against ukrainian civilians in recent days. i think it's very unlikely this is going to get off the ground. we've seen a lot less ambitious plans for humanitarian corridors, out of marable, in the far east of the country, which is now surrounded on 3 sides with the c on the other. and 2 attempts to organize a temporary cease fire to let civilians have failed. ukrainian side has accused the russians or breaking that si, fi of breaking their commitments. and i think it's just very difficult to see right now at a time where hundreds of soldiers on both sides are dying every day. it's very difficult, see how they can even get to the table and come some kind of agreement without

outside and me mediation outside. i like the red cross, bring them together because it just isn't the trust between the both sides right now. that can you tell us how things have been there in the capital, kia karen, give it's kind of erie and nervy. i think so far kia hasn't seen the kind of air strikes that we've seen in other big cities, especially hot given the east, where you've had significant bombing of buildings, government buildings, but also for private civilian accommodation of residential districts. for now, it's more the fear of russian sleeper agents. there is the expectation that there'll be more attempts on principles him isn't his life more attempt by russia to get rid of that democratically elected ukrainian leadership and install their own puppets leadership as it were here. and give them kind of fear of strangers of agents still here. we've heard from intelligence ukrainian tells us they think there are still lots of cells of these sleeper agents on the ground who were on the ground for this war. started heavily armed and ready to damage, so there's a kind of emptiness and a fear here and expectation of worse things to come. nick,

what about the situation facing civilians? we know several major cities are under siege. we heard a civilian say, in an early report, there is no bread, there is no supply on the ground there. so what is the situation of facing them? where depends where you are. hearing key of their stella routes open from the south . south west. the food is coming in, you can't get everything, but you can get the basics and the people, most people have supplies and they still for now haven't had to come start using them. they can still go out and buy stuff. but in place like hard give it's, it's much, much worse where we have seen significant damage to residential districts or so gas pipelines, people left about heating. it's still pretty cold here. and i think most crucially of people's morale, it's about local food networks. in the mirabelle and forest people have now spend a few days without mobile phone connection, reliable arrival connections. and that really takes people's chance to kind of find out what's going around around in the country is a wider kind of situation, stops them from contacting their families and their friends. so i think that really

is the most difficult thing, i think, as long as people have that connection to outside world and get some kind of sense of the potential to get out or support from the government. we've seen some towns retaken by ukraine's government. today. i think they can for now sit this out, but i think cut off cut off many communication that is going to be the real test of people's morale and their ability to kind of sit this out, nick handling reporting for us there. thank you for that update from cci. let's get around up to some other headlines now. japan has called russia's attack on ukraine's largest nuclear facility and unforgivable outrageous act. russian soldiers took those apple ratio facility on friday after shelling it and have reportedly turned off its internet and telephone lines. the un nuclear watchdog has also voiced its concern. reliable communications are critical to nuclear plants, safety and several nations are calling on interpol to suspend russia from the organization immediately. that's according to the british home secretary,

the country site, the threat to public safety from russia's invasion of ukraine. the law enforcement body is a network of a 194 countries. ukraine is taking russia to court over the war. it accuses moscow of attacking on false pretenses by alleging genocide into eastern regions of ukraine. russia has not sent a delegation to the to day hearing at the international court of justice. give once the un body to order an end to the invasion rulings issued by the court are binding, but there are no means to actually enforce its decisions. a provisional result is expected within days and our correspondent baba vessel is following the story for us from brussels. hi barbara. can you tell us more about the opening statement that ukraine has now delivered? in this case? yeah, we just heard the leading lawyer for the ukranian side give this statement and he said, russia lay down your arms. why do we not settle our differences like,

civilized nations do in front of this court? however, as you said, the russian side didn't appear, but this was his appeal and he said, we stringently deny the allegation of genocide. we have nothing to do is that nothing like that happened in the eastern part of the country in the area of the nets. do show us you approve, and at the same time then of course he also said that it is the other side round russia is committing genocide or is getting ready to do so by indiscriminately shelling a civilian areas in housing and, and civilian infrastructure. and so this is the basis of this case, and it was outlined by the ukrainian side. and of course, now a lot of legal arguments are continuing, but it's at the heart of this, russia accuses ukraine. ukraine says, no, we absolutely do nothing like this, but you,

you are the real aggressor here and you are on the way to commit genocide on is ukrainian people. russia is denying all of those allegations. we should say, what evidence is ukraine presenting in this case? evidence for that their allegations are not that hard to find these days. i mean there is an endless footage of journalists and us footage of civilians. footage of course also by the ukrainian military and government officials that show that a lot of civilian areas and housing blocks said schools and kindergartens and everything . hospitals even have already been shelved by russian troops. and so that is sort of for giving their argument weight, and they are appealing to the court for a quick decision, because what they want is, a measure is so immediate measure that the court orders russia to stop. no, russian will not listen. but this is

a legal struggle that we are witnessing here. barbara, very quick. last question. why is ukraine taking this legal path? very simple to deal and demise putin and his doings and his government and also to give weight to the sanctions that are, have already been put up against russia and give way to further sanctions. sort of the give them legal weight and give them legitimacy. that is really what this is about, end in the future, even maybe to get damages from russia. because what we're seeing there is the destruction of a country and to rebuild it is going to cost huge amounts of money or ukraine, taking russia to court over the war. our correspondent popular vessel there in brussels are following the latest on that story for us. thank you very much, barbara. coming up next on w after a short break. can europe live without russian gas, rob watts, will have a look at that story coming up on dw business, and make sure to follow all the latest on the war by following us on twitter or

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