ah, ah ah, this is dw news alive from berlin, ukrainians trapped in the besieged city of sumi have little time to leave after russia agrees to a cease fire. red cross and bosses take some residence away while the bombardment is put on pause. but the evacuation of other cities fails to materialize as fighting starts up again on the escape routes or so it coming up on the show the united states of bands, russian oil imports. president joe biden says his country won't subsidized russia's war on ukraine, but europe remains dependent on moscow gas plus a standing

ovation for the leader of ukraine as he addresses the british parliament of what amir lensky walks. a fine line between praising the u. k. for its support in the fight against russia and pleading for more direct intervention and priceless cultural heritage under threat ukrainian museums and galleries scramble to protect their collections of the russian attack has already caused irreversible damage. ah hello, i'm clear richardson to our viewers watching on tv us in the united states and to all of you around the world. thank you so much for joining us. we open our coverage with the worsening humanitarian crisis in ukraine. an attempt to evacuate civilians from 5 cities to day seems to have largely fail moscow and re to establish

humanitarian corridors, bought ukraine claims. russian troops resumed shelling on the route, leading away from the city of mario paul and some residents of the northern city. of soon we have reported late, managed to flee. ukraine's government shared this video, which shows red cross buses evacuating people before nightfall. when a cease fire ants assume he has seen heavy civilian casualties. local authorities say an air strike last night killed at least 21 people. and despite the increasing death, told, the ukrainian military says that russia is seeing major setbacks and that its advance has slowed significantly. leaving as fast as they can. people fled the north eastern city of sumi, trying to get out before nightfall when a cease fire ends. the night before airstrikes hit residential buildings and the power plant. local authorities said 21 people were killed.

further west people fleeing the city of ear, peam close to the capital key is crossing a damaged bridge that russian troops have repeatedly fired on as civilians tried to get across. heartbreaking good byes, as many of the men split up from their families to go back and fight others helping those unable to make the journey by themselves. who are you yearly yearly? you know we are fleeing, he well had a she'll. she is barely walking, but we are doing our best. thank you. that is good that we could cross the bridge. bombs are exploding over there. quite attending of european is totally damaged. so just the civil move, actually silla, meanwhile in the capital president followed email, zalinski refusing to flee the video message to his people trying to prepare them

for the days to come. vicious, new snow is falling. this is spring. you a good day with the war is the same as spring severe but it will be all right. allison, on monday we will win any way. military analysts say the russian onslaught will likely get worse. in the coming days. russian forces are increasingly turning to shelling civilian areas and infrastructure while their tanks and troops are bogged down outside key cities. in the port city of odessa, residents are mounting barricades in front of the beloved opera house. so far the city hasn't been hit. but if the experience of the last several days is any guide, any one who stays behind should be prepared for the worst. let's go to the dw

corresponded to ne connelly who is reporting for us from the ukrainian capital, keith and nick the humanitarian situation around. keith is getting worse, how refugees been able to get to the capital so that they can then travel on outside of ukraine. that definitely is happening, even though it is very difficult when we have seen people lose their lives trying to get out of those western suburbs of kids. so slightly countered to, to lead people now trying to get west to you to poland or having to travel east out of those suburbs into key to get on a train because the train connections, the train tracks have been destroyed around it. been going in buses main highway, leading west, but it's been is also pretty dangerous as being elementary activity along that people hearing shot fired traveling. so basically they have to go by kind of side routes back into the capital, then head out south west li direction away from the fighting. we saw pretty extraordinary scenes at the train station yesterday. announcements on the loudspeaker of lost children looking to their parents,

people struggling with their pets. people in wheelchairs trying to get around a station which was over filled with your manager, but also some of the lifts were out of service. so people trying to carry them up, that it is an act to this as, as the nation. so this is the biggest refugee we've been in europe since 2nd world war. so it's pretty difficult to look at and to, to talk to people without feeling just kind of at a loss is what to say. but people are still making their way out and they are still able to get out. now keith has not yet been in circles, and he tell us what life is like for those who have decided to stay in cave. well for now in downtown, keep where i am now. this to let christy, they're still heating, they're still mobile phone networks so that makes life bearable. there are definitely more people here than you would think. you were on the streets pretty empty from journalists and soldiers and the occasional person working at all during pursuit market. we were out in the suburbs today, not far from it being slightly from the south in an area where the local territory

defense forces are preparing for rational where they've blown up bridges, where they have tried to kind of block the roads in a way to prevent tanks moving across that pretty wide that the russians are going to build pontoon bridge to try and overwhelm the attempt to stop this happening. but it's kind of storage to see the kind of range of people now in uniform bearing arms. you had someone who usually takes high school kids on mountain hiking trips. you had people, you had people who work managing supermarkets, all the people in now suddenly in boots in uniforms with the gun on their shoulder at checkpoints, trying to look for rush asleep agents or to stop looting happening. and it's kind of extraordinary seem to people who wouldn't in normal life and never come across each other. now suddenly united by this danger to their homes and your guardian president zalinski is continuing his efforts to shore up support from western countries. how optimistic is he that his demands are be matched,

was certainly the sanctions against russia in the last few weeks have been unprecedented. nothing. they definitely took the rest of the ship by surprise, especially the freezing of those russians central bank assets. so basically that war chest that russia had built up over the previous years, especially for a case like this to basically kind of cushion the effective thanks. and that was basically made useless by those breathing sanctions from weston banks. i think the real crunch now will be, is if weston countries that say they support your friends, moxie, all they really willing to pay an economic price for this. are they willing to pay a lot more for energy by not by russian, oil and gas? are they willing to go there? are they willing to risk for the competition with russia? russia has basically threatened the west with nuclear war in recent days. and we've seen lots of western governments going to brewing back on the promise of support for ukraine is a real worry it and keep whether these western countries actually make good on those promises. and be willing to pay a price to support your date of your correspondent nick conway. thank you so much

for your reporting from keith. let's go now. it to a puzzle. fell going. how are a moscow based a military analyst? thank you so much for joining us. on the show, i want to ask you almost 2 weeks into the war and we are seeing rushes territorial gains, especially in the south and east of the country. and whereas in the north and around keep, the operation seems to not be going at full speed. can you tell us why that is? i load the russian a sensor reached a kind of crescent though it actually stopped all over the place. there's russia still has the emission there. it's trying to push in different directions in the zoom that's trying to close in from the other side to into the lance, go blast. and those are in the south. they're still offensive faction, but they are so. so kind of right now, stop the russian offensive, effectively as ran out of steam and whatever later that risk. well,

that's because russia doesn't have apparently, sufficient preserves, russia threw into battle more and worse wanted, could russia right now has a rather big regular standing army. we didn't have such an army since the crimean war in the mid 19th century. it's an army and go into war without mobilization of reserves. and the official figure, the last official figure and it was appeared in last. august was defense minister survey schrupo percent that we have $168.00 permanent ready battalion technical groups. that's a lot named to deploy against russia for tactical without in groups. one in each baltic state money bowen, so russia has more and over

a $100.00 went into your pray. so right. it's kind of cigarette we still has. i don't know. 406058 left 50 maybe. but in cat sent them all in. you have to keep garrisons in the corey lauins and chicago could many or i, in the in cohen, in grad, of course, against the both expats and against poland. bill arose. so that means russia has ran out of reserves. because officially we have reserves with actually they're not reserves. they're just on paper because these were people who served one year and the armed forces compulsory and were never called up for retraining. you even call them in that would mean they have to train the for, at least at 3 months, maybe more before i can send them into battle. right. and like within the resources that ukraine has started trying to jump in, because also from ukraine side, i'm how long do you think keith can realistically keep up?

it's present stance against us. oh, g is a problem. the same use for the russian problem is that ukraine, baganda mobilization official. it's a full mobilization of the reserve and they have a lot of reservists who served in the 8 years of the conflict in the non bus. the yes, the russians are calling them up there so. so volunteers of the theory tauriel defense the so russian front line positions and russian front line forces are more, was tactic him. they are even getting weaker as the attrition continues. well, ukrainians are getting stronger day by day. reservists are called up with the premium armies topped the rush in the faster they didn't capture that much directory. so ukrainian ukraine controls the territory. they hang there, a lot of their chain of command is in tact,

organized resistance continues amir or denied a mobilization. they didn't bother with all again. her i was, i'm sorry to jump in, but we do have to leave the interview there. i want to thank you again for coming on to the of the news. thanks much for taking the time. you and we have some breaking news coming in. poland has agreed to give its entire fleet of mega 29 fire jets to the united states. and the u. s. is expected to allow ukraine to use the planes to defend itself. it's part of a deal between poland and the us. that would see warsaw receive f. 16 war planes as replacements, for the soviet era jets that ukrainian pilots are trained to fly will, of course, are bringing more on that story as it comes in now. ukrainian, president of a lot of years, a lensky has addressed british members of parliament in the house of commons. in london. the landscape received a standing ovation from him piece as he spoke to them via video linked from keith, where he remains despite increasing russian pressure on the capital. i spoke about

the hardships endured by civilians, but said his people would fight to ensure they do not lose their country. we civil and the korean leader appealed to britain and the west to do more to help his country. police increase the pressure of sanctions against this country and police are recognized misconduct as a terrorist state. and please make sure that our ukraine m skies are safe. we please make sure liliana that when you do what needs to be done and what, what is stipulated by the greatness of your country you bring ended on your correspondent charlotte chelsea pill in london for more a charlotte, what stood out to you about zalinski speech to lawmakers is extremely emotive speech that was given earlier this evening. he really day by day went through what 13 days of war have meant for ukraine. some of the horrors that he

described having been in july saying that this was a war that he did not stop now. he can ted ukraine's fine to purchase price against the nazis in sophomore war. and in doing so, he heard comments made by full rich. when mister winston churchill doing that, said morning, very famous speech that will be known to bush public and many round while he was saying will not give up the flight, whatever the costs in the forest, the field assures, and the streets see also quote, kids that age william shakespeare in the speech too. and he said the question that's based ukraine is to be or not to be in. he said tonight he can say ukraine will be. he also addressed the british prime minister boris johnson directly. he asked for even more sanctions to be employers, and he also asked that the ukrainian spies kept say,

for reference that it is repeated plea for a no flies learn something that the u. k. alongside many others hasn't repeatedly defined 3 clearly knows his audience there on what has that reaction been to his address. there's a standing ovation from parliamentarians both before and after that speech absolutely packed house and just to really stress the significance of this is the 1st time that a foreign leader, albeit virtually has addressed the house of commons in that chain, but like this. so people have been describing it. here is a historic moment. a prime minister boris johnson, immediately afterwards responded. he said, never is the house listened to such an address. he said it's moved the hearts of every one in this house. he rest the you have time to press on to tighten the pressure on russia. thank you very much for that. charlotte chelsea fill our correspondent in london and to the us now where president joe biden has

announced a ban on imports of russian oil into the country. he's that american don't want to subsidize vladimir putin war in ukraine despite rising costs. the gas station today am announcing united states is targeting the main artery of russians. economy. we're banning all imports of russian oil and gas in energy and means russian oil no longer be acceptable us ports in american people will deal another powerful blow to prudent war machine. this is a move that has strong bipartisan support. congress and i believe in the country for more i'm joined by d w. i cannot think journalist shall feed delaney. hi, chelsea, i'm so the u. s. has band imports of russia oil to put pressure on approach. and what are the chances that european countries are going to follow suit? well, i think it's important to keep in mind that the us and europe are really in very different positions here. the u. s. imported about 3, but it's about 3 percent of the u. s. as oil imports last year,

we're from russia and the u. that's 27 percent. so the u is drastically more dependent on russian oil, also wash and gas. so they're obviously much more reluctant to actually get to, to go forward this and, and we saw this from bite and it has now went today. he said that we recognize, but not all of our allies and partners are in a position to join us. so he does sort of know that europe is in different position . i think it does put more pressure on the e u to speed up their acceleration of getting rid of russian oil and gas. but for now, what we've heard from leaders here, you know, in germany and i went back saying today to foreign minister that this would bring transport to a whole. so there's still a lot of reluctance in, in europe to pull that lever. right? so given those quite severe potential consequences, i mean, are there other countries that are in a position to step up and replace the energy needs that russia has been supplying? yeah, that's a huge question. russia, obviously, one of the biggest suppliers of oil and gas in the world. everyone's asking now

who's, who can do that? who can fill that gap? really? there isn't enough oil. there isn't enough gas out there to do that is what analyst are saying. there are other countries that could increase oil production. of course we had the opec plus global oil alliance. they countries like saudi arabia, we're the united arab emirates to do have potential to increase oil production. but i think what we've seen on the market, it shows us that there really isn't enough oil out there. we've seen prices, you know, up to $130.00 a barrel, also in the gas mark. and it's going to be extremely difficult for, for gas suppliers. to increase their production, particularly here and you, we get most of our gas from pipelines. there is the potential to get l n g liquified natural gas from ships. but countries like like guitar and in the us are trying to increase the production. but it's a very slow, slow process, so that's why we're seeing that you really put for these plans to, to reduce their dependency on,

on russian energy. but they're saying it's going to take really until 2030 until they're fully able to get that out of the next. and if you can put this into lay terms, what is a normal person going about their daily life going to experience as a result of this? yeah, it has huge implications. energy prices are not abstract. we fill them all in our daily lives for people who drive cars already. this is having a huge impact here in europe. we've seen gas prices, petrol prices rise above $8.00 in some places in the us. it's about $4.00. these are all new records. we're really an uncharted territory and also you have to remember that we came into this year already seeing inflation at multi decade, hiv. so that's going to add to those problems as while you have electricity prices heating, price is really going to skyrocket for a lot of household. so of course, this is going to have the most vulnerable, the hardest data these chelsea, delaney, thank you so much for joining me in the studio with that updates. let's take a look now at some other developments in

a put in war in ukraine. nato secretary general insulting birth says that there is evidence that ukrainian civilians are deliberately being targeted as they try to flee conflict areas civilians call meeting in lafayette oldenburg, also warned to be conflict could spiral out of control if it spread beyond ukraine borders. mcdonald's says it is temporarily closing all of it's $850.00 restaurants in russia saying it can no longer ignore the quote needless human suffering unfolding in ukraine. the company says it will continue to pay its employees. mcdonalds is the latest of more than $250.00 brands to halt operations in russia. and police in the russian city of st. petersburg have detained a group of women protesting the invasion of ukraine. they were carrying signs, criticising the unnecessary death of russian soldiers. russia has recently passed tough penalties for opposing the military and among the millions of

civilians who have fled ukraine, or of course, many families with children. the situation is even more precarious for kids with no parents to protect them. that includes hundreds of orphans who have travel long distances to seek refuge in safe havens in ukraine's west and in neighboring countries. ah, toddlers and babes in arms. these children are some of the most vulnerable of ukraine's refugees from orphanages in the key region. they're seeking shelter in poland. their 1st stop shame, a show station. it's ukraine's busiest border crossing with its western neighbor. in the village of the same name, a local children's charity is ready to receive the latest arrivals. all 150 in a school sports will show many great volunteers for helping her foot for her. you know, there'll be lots of kids for like very small so we have to change diapers and et cetera, et cetera. happy kids has so far helped evacuate some to 1000 ukrainian orphans.

the charity says it's doing its best not to separate the children once they arrive in poland. just 2 days ago we had a transport of 700 kids. ange, it's not easy to find a place for anybody, but it's even tougher to find a place for 700 kids in the same one place for the south 93. 0 friends are sheltering on the hungarian border for these children. conflict is nothing new. there from ukraine, separatist donnette squeegee and there refuge, a converted form, a boarding school in a village, separated from the rest of ukraine by the carpathian mountains. they'd previously been staying at our tech children's camp near keith. i will likely to enjoy some respite from the conflict when the invasion began in february. this luther go always run after we arrived in arctic,

we heard 2 loud blasts. much in the evening we were told that we were to be evacuated to travel carpathia at 8 am working with the next morning. we left, we were very scared because we were surrounded by russian troops. the w holler, hon throttle thomas shaw marble. the children and their guardians have been warmly welcomed by locals. ching, okay, got lauren, tears from our parish went to the border to the refugees diary. they distributed sandwiches, coffee and tea, and then lots of children began arriving and trans carpathia data got over to the got bought by allah. the more than 2000000 people who have now fled ukraine most have been welcomed into neighboring countries. residents of the former soviet states have much in common. they know how it feels to live in the shadow of russian dominance reminder that civilians always

pay the highest price. and since in the start of russia's invasion, ukraine's museums, galleries and other cultural institutions have also been scrambling to protect their collections. many have shipped pieces abroad, but that is, of course, becoming increasingly difficult. heavy shelling has already caused considerable damage to museum workers are staying behind to save what's left. a nation's heritage packed up in boxes. the andre shipped it's kim national museum, and levine is ukraine's largest art museum. it's doors have been closed since the russian invasion began. the museum already survived world war 2, but whether it will survive this one unscathed, is unclear. it's extensive collections are being packed away into the cellar. nearby and but the worker, he, you know, it's so bitter for my soul. if your book we just spoke with you, sometimes tears are coming for your to reach that. i'm telling the truth is good because a lot of work has been put in here by our staff in boxes and it takes time energy.

and when you do something good, you feel pleasure. liver to you today. you see empty walls, try your choice. this makes you feel better. you the sad shapes. so sad user target boggled or trouble, you know, we didn't believe it till the last minute that this could happen, but it did me sheesh many of the cities sculptures have been carefully cloaked in foam wrap. may be a futile attempt to protect them. but better than doing nothing at all, scholfield the progress, not a linear muscle. we are well aware that we're not able to protect them from direct impact with from any light damage that may occur. look you from shelling me to let your shock waves go to the small fragments or shrapnel with we're just trying everything we can home through wasn't empty walls at the museum in liveth.

as this new chapter of ukraine's history begins, hope clear and grief. our constant companions said, you're watching dw news, let's get a rick half of the top story we're following for you. you as a president, joe biden has announced a ban on imports of russian oil into the country. he said this would come at a cost to american consumers, but that he had bipartisan support for the new measures and clarity and in berlin. stay tuned. i'll be right back after the break to take you through the day . ah, with

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