[000:00:00;00] news this is the w news life from the civilians desperate to leave bad ukraine may have another chance russian state media reports and you see spy. it will go into effect in several areas. give accuses rushes, forces attacking previous escape routes. the united states bands, russian oil imports, president joe biden says he won't subsidized. goodness war on you. great. europe

still depends on moscow's natural gas and oil and berlin rolls out the welcome mat for you. cranium refugees with thousands arriving every day. authorities appeal to the rest of the country to pitch in and help ah, i bent whistle and welcome for another day, russia says it will hold its fire to allow safe passage for civilians from 5 cities that's according to russia's test used agency. quoting the defense ministry, air raid sirens bled in cave, amid reports of explosions in surrounding error. residents of the it's underwritten attack have been trying to flee by a foot during a ceasefire announced on tuesday, thousands of civilians in the northern city of summa managed to leap by bus

ukraine's government shed. this video among the people evacuated were many foreign nationals, but ukraine claims the russian troops shelled the route leading away from the city of mario ukraine's army claims russian forces suffering major setbacks in their offensive. as the invasion is pushed further behind schedule, there are fears they could step up their attacks on civilian areas leaving as fast as they can. people fled the northeastern city of sumi, trying to get out before nightfall when a cease fire ends. the night before airstrikes hit residential buildings and a power plant. local authorities said 21. people were killed. further west people fleeing the city of european close to the capital key is crossing a damaged bridge that russian troops have repeatedly fired on as civilians tried to

get across heartbreaking goodbyes. 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 dba hennessy. 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. she'll just the civil move, actually, sera. 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. visual, see which snow is falling? this is spring. you're good enough. okay. with the war is the same as spring severe,

but it will be all right, allison, on one, we will win anyway. 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, or mounting barricades in front of the beloved opera house. so far the city hasn't been head. but if the experience of the last several days is any guide, anyone who stays behind should be prepared for the worst. let's go to our correspond mathias putting her in cave and his what's the situation this morning in the capitol. it's a as always very calm in the capital of still the fighting is limited to those

suburbs that you mentioned. european and boucher and the area around that airport. and also troops are advancing from the east. but just the city center has so far been spared of heavy fighting and also mostly not at all. not completely, but are mostly of heavy bomb. being the city is still open. it's possible to leave the city and to get into the city and supplies are still getting into the city. so life is tense here, but still possible. many civilians have been rescued from the besieged city of sula . what about murray or pull in the south? mad looks a lot worse than so much. zoom is already quite bad and many people have died there as well, trying to escape the city. but a multiple is very, very dire. it's completely surrounded. it's been completely surrounded for more than a week now. and electricity has been cut, water supplies have been cut. we've seen pictures of children dying of dehydration

and her supplies are running low. people are trying to survive on what's left there . it's very, very, very dia mathias. what about supplies getting through to where you are? water, food heating, what's the situation like for you? yeah, here and key of as i said, the roads a, some of the roads are still open and supplies can get into the city. the city's infrastructure, water, or heating, is, is, is de larry, it's a cold day to day, but heating, fortunately, is still on and other infrastructure, even public transport is still running. even the streets are still getting clean. so, except for the people who have left the city and burned and who are those who are staying or trying to stayed home as much as they can. so the city is eerily empty, but it is still functioning. but is, can you give us an idea of where we're at in this battle, as i mentioned before, at ukraine's army says it's managed to slow the advance of russian forces and which are suffering,

major st backs. it depends on what you see as the or how you measure it. the idea of the russian army seems to have been to take care of quickly and then i have the government surrender and take control of the country that has clearly not worked. resistance has been fears to this, this russian advance, the ukranian army has been able to destroy a lot of russian military technol technology. and also her many russian soldiers have died or have been captured. so they have the, the russian army has considerable losses. but there is oscar also, it's also very clear that the russian army is outnumbering the ukrainians. they have more supplies that they can bring in. so this is now a battle of 2 armies wearing each other out. this is what it is about and or whether the ukraine can continue to resist. the russian army will, of course,

depend on its supplies on the morale, which is still very high and russia is advancing but very slowly at yes bearing. i appreciate the update. thank you. very much maria diva lives in hockey fan, works at the european export association, focusing on ukrainian relations with nato. firstly, could you tell us about your personal situation this morning and how bad the destruction is in how to keep? yes, i'm staying in harkey, and every day i tried to go out on the streets to show the world what is happening in hard q because we see that russian media tries to a so very different feature. and they tried to hide what this actually happened in this seat and called the rational board here, special military operation. so i go around and take the dose on for just to have

this evidence of the war crimes committed here and hard. there are major destruction in the city center because it was have a live bar that the historical, some of the historical building are completely destroyed as the main administrative building, which was the symbol park. and also the residential areas are destroyed. and i can see that the 5 lines and the energy is off, so there is no what's on there. and then they build them a complete live without the windows know people around because they apparently have left already be they do not have any place to leave anymore. and it is very strange and refined to see how you like this because it is a huge one and the house than it's ever, it always was very reliable. it was many people outside. and now you would see on the long lines of people standing in front of the shop where they are trying to get

some food. you mentioned the water being cut off there. what's the supply situation like? how long, how, how much longer can you hold out? it depends on, on the, on the region on the district in hard gifts. so they just have a bar that they are cut of the, the, in each is the supplies and the infrastructure. but those where they're going to know bombardments. for example, in my home, i still do have ever send the ability to have electricity and water and houston. but of course, we understand that at some point, russia will continue trying to destroy the critical infrastructure for the seated because they will probably ride in soco har. give us one more month when they regroup and get more forces because for now, it looks like that, which is what i'm didn't walk out. and now that taken some time to get more resource,

because so your brain is fighting very effectively on the grounds at the moment. what about these humanitarian cargoes? that is said to be an effect in housekeepers and other ukrainian cities, according to russia. can you confirm that actually i haven't witness, does that myself? i was on the street yesterday during the day and i continuously showed the shell and the explosion here and there. and i saw that the city of today is room are in critical situation because rush and force as a blockade and them the, the small sounds outside the park and do not give any possibility to supply their sampson and to get people out of here. so i really doubt that there is any kind of such corridor and this, we have seen this map of russia, russian m o, d u sturbridge, solving the way to, to do up to 8 people to russia and bill or was,

and this is nonsense which will never happen here because it is not possible situation. russians are. he had to kill ukraine, nance, and now they propose ukraine and pupils to flee to russia. and they all not here are very well aware of the soviet style, texting when they had taken the lodge. people a lot of numbers of people from ukraine and saw them to say, be area with some of the places from the rational maria of diva for us there from the european expert association, which focuses on ukrainian relations with the you and natalie. thank you for joining us here on the w. thank you. thank you. we'll hundreds of thousands of people escaping the fighting have streamed into the western ukrainian city of the div. it's become a massive bottleneck, the only direction to flee being west. the w correspondent, alexander over nom and made up with some of them. we are here at the railway station in the leaf,

and you can see how busy it is here with long lines of people trying to get on a train to the polish border. mothers with a small kids, women with their pads, with hastily packed suitcases and plastic bags. many of them seem to be traumatized . many of them are worried sick about the loved ones that they are left behind. when we start to cover, we're from cock have and the city has gone water than yet. but for also mina come with and i just have one question. what was it all for? who benefits from destroying such a beautiful city? we once had a wonderful mayor, he is now turning over in his grave. you can't look at that's left of the city without crying. i was born there. i grew up there, i spent my whole life there really isn't lip nobody, even the british lot, when you would do you prosper. people there now have been left for dead,

but they're hiding in basements with them. i can't even think about it. when i sit down bas yeah, they're sitting there without any electricity, water or heating my mother's hiding in a cellar. her mother is in love, you pool. she can't get hold of her. so just call it just like to throw my i haven't heard anything from her since march 2nd. oh, god learn. yeah, i was just never would have expected something like this to happen, especially from russia and bella rose. i have so many relatives in moscow. you must be a more girls think of according to the city authorities, it is becoming increasingly difficult to provide all the refugees with food and clothes. and 1st and foremost were the place to state. and that is why many people here are desperate to get out, even though they don't know whether they will be able to come back. use my, i don't know. i never thought i'd have to flee, forgot it's with i don't know where we will go. whatever gods plan is that you

certainly to poland. normally we are not leaving forever. will be back for sure. many of the people we met are originally from the russian speaking part of the country. they told us they would never expect russia to attack ukraine. they are angry and sad, and some of them have a clear message to vladimir putin. yeah, i don't understand why you are against our membership in the you and are now literally pushing us towards europe. thank you very much, but please it cannot come at the cost of our lives and those of russians only in the peaceful way antiquated. she, she knew honestly, i think put a nose. he is sick and will die soon. and he wants to take as many people with them as possible salary, dis, sub boys of batch mucus of thought court mustard. once it did, we're, when we live in the 21st century, we don't live in the 20th century anymore during the 2nd world war, where, civilized people. but how civilized is it for the whole of ukraine to leave ukraine really well done. you have liberated us. thank you. have

a deed by cba. i knew you were with by i just don't get it. we're not one people, not anymore of that. when you look at us ukrainians and the rush, and you can see we're not the same resume, it rises, we're rosalyn, it is a look at some other developments in the war. police in the russian city of st. petersburg detained a group of women protesting against the invasion. they were holding up posters, which can get you arrested, uphold about the deaths of russian soldiers. moscow. his past tough penalties was speaking out against the military. mcdonalds is temporarily closing. it's $850.00 restaurants across russia. the chain says it can no longer ignore the human suffering unfolding in ukraine. staff will continue to get paid of a $250.00 companies of suspended operations in russia. the pentagon has rejected an offer from the polish government to transfer a fighter jets to the united states for use in ukraine and a gun press. secretary don't,

kirby says the plan's not cannibal. poland wanted to transfer it. so be they remain 29th to the u. s for delivery to the ukranian air force. the polish off it was in response to ukraine's appeal for fighter planes that its pilots, the trained to fly. but the u. s. fear the deal could be viewed by russia as a hostile move. us president joe biden has announced a ban on russian oil imports in response to the invasion. it comes as the united states struggles with rising fuel prices and inflation using both of the small percentage of its oil from russia. but the bad is expected to push oil prices even higher, is president by today i'm announcing united states is targeting the main order of rush economy. we're branding all imports of russian oil and gas new g. that means russian oil no longer be acceptable. u. s. ports the american people will deal another powerful blow to put more machines. this is

a move that has strong bipartisan support. congress and i believe in the country. america is a rally. support have relatives for 3 creamy people and made it clear. we will not be part of subsidizing food for the european union is more reluctant to cut itself off from russian energy. brussels has laid out a plan to drastically reduce imports by the end of the year and cut them off entirely by 2030. getting there would be easy with tensions between russia in the u escalating over the ukraine invasion. it may have to come much sooner. russia is now openly threatening to cut off gas supplies to europe completely. this would lead to enormous bottlenecks for the entire e. you gas is primarily used to heat homes in ovens in production processes in power plants to produce electricity. a sudden supply stop would push up energy

prices dramatically. prices for oil and gas have already risen steeply. consumers are feeling the pressure at the petro pumps and on their gas bills. before the russian attack, a megawatt hour of gas cost, $69.00 euro's already more expensive than consumers were used to. since then, in just 2 weeks, the price of the e ex energy exchange has rocked to a record high of 335 euros, and the outlook is uncertain. no one knows whether russia will make good on its threat and turn off the tap completely. the e u now wants to completely become independent of russia. re power e u is the name of its new strategy at its core, diversifying energy suppliers, and drawing more from renewable sources like solar and bio gas. renewables give us the freedom to choose an energy source that is clean, cheap, reliable,

and ours. and instead of continuing to fund fossil fuel impulse and fund russian oligarchs, renewables create new jobs here in your the u wants to replace 2 thirds of russian gas imports by the end of the year and ambitious target. this will end our over dependency and give us much needed room to maneuver 2 thirds by the end of this year. it's hard, bloody heart. but it's possible if we're willing to go further and faster than we've done before. the you already has plans for its energy transition, but the war and ukraine has officials startled, forcing them to make the switch far faster than previously thought possible. let's get more of this from robots from dw business, rob. we heard it's going to be difficult, but just how difficult or how possible is this? yes, i don't recommend that it would be bloody hard. you heard him say that there's been

a dawning reality in the that really is over reliant on russian oil and gas. we actually heard that from all of sholtes earlier this week, and we heard it from mark router of the netherlands as well. he said that it was a debate, was a sad fact that fee was getting far too much of its energy from russia. this is the you coming up with a plan to end that ideally by 2013, by the end of this year, cutting 2 thirds of its import saw russian gas. how's it going to do it? well, a lot of it in both accelerating things that it was planning to do is the de carbonized ation of the european union. so increasing renewables as we heard here, but also getting europeans to use less energy as well. they want to europeans to turn down the thermostat by one degree. if they can just say that they're using less gas so that your needs less gas in your post. it wants to have it gas stores much more full when the cold months come around. so it can be held to ransom when it needs to secure extra supplies. it wants them 90 percent full of environment at

the moment. they're about 30 percent full. and this is all just one big plan to eventually not be relying so heavily on russian gas and to be getting it from somewhere else. what about the oil and gas from somewhere else? what other countries could help out in the situation where the key to this going to be liquefied natural gas l n g? it's also an, a big supplier that already to europe is the u. s. a. it's been ramping up at supplies. if there's been more and more tank is crossing the atlanta last year, a hit record level asked a quarter of us exports about energy and now coming to europe, that's only going to increase cost are, is another country that's likely to be able to provide more l n g to europe. in fact, the cars are in the top in talks with the, the americans on exactly this. how that can they provide more to the europeans. we've also been looking to africa as well in europe, algeria is a big provider of allergy to europe. as it is, but there are also other countries, nigeria, egypt, angola, who could all step up. and then there's the existing purchases of liquefied natural

gas countries like south korea, japan, china, and india, all of whom are already buying an awful lot of good tarry l. n. g, who might have some left over in the european commission is already trying to persuade them to handle some of that laughter rollin g to europe. what about the u . s. has been on the board of russian fossil fuel. is that significant? well, joe biden caught it, striking it the main artery of the russian economy, which it is, but it's not significant. it would be if your parents are doing it in the u. s. gets 8 percent there are thereabouts of it's petroleum products from russia. so, you know, it can make up for that, the u. s. is one of the world's biggest or producers in its own right. so it needs to be importing that, but it's a big deal for the americans because already that's in very, very high prices of petro pumps, americans, you know, every day of feeling the impact of the existing problems. and that is something that is only going to get worse,

but j barnes describe that is one of the costs of defending democracy. well, but all of this comes at a time that europe was trying to shift to renewables anyway. so i guess there are a lot of people people applauding these moves. yeah, absolutely. i mean, it is that there are plenty of countries that want this to end. a lot me, as a landscape has been very clear that he wants or rush, or european countries as well as the united states. you're welcome to making this move to move away from russian products. and we're also seeing all in gas companies realizing that they can't keep bias from the russians. so yeah, as being welcomed, rewards, steel, the business. thank you very much for the refugee exit is, is seeing thousands of ukrainians arrived here in berlin every day. it's called the capital of god and is pushing resources to the limit. berlin says it can't cope alone and has appealed for help from other parts of the country. safe. at last, far from the war,

the ukrainian refugees at this shelter arrived in berlin. a few days ago, traumatized and exhausted. very few were willing to talk to us. one woman from the besieged city of car give told us she finally managed to get some sleep after arriving here. she can't hold back her tears. what it looks like. he quoted my sister still there his own little job with that that she lives in an apartment block on the 8th floor that you had. she told me she'll never leave. she'd rather die their bombs and missiles raining down on the city. well, the only thing about 140 people have found temporary shelter here. they're being cared for in part by an en geo that operates shelters like these. it's manager tells us time is of the essence in this crisis. and having to under enough, i got a call at 3 am on sunday morning to say the people would be moving in that day. my colleagues worked like crazy in constant shift us to get everything ready offered

us on docs. 2 buses arrived carrying refugees in the course of the day, and we thought that was it, but by evening another passport out to our door with no advanced notice to you. after arriving at berlin central train station people are taken to their accommodation. more than 10000 refugees from ukraine are arriving every day. the city has sounded the alarm saying it can't cope. germany's interior minister has promised to help beacon via ang, we are evaluating how to provide refugees from the war zones with a place to stay in germany. naturally, they can't all stay in berlin. the city can't cope on its own. melina line, an applicant stem. the government is working on a plan to coordinate the distribution of refugees, but all of germany states have pledged to take people in e as a chair to which is bessie by. i just want to say thank you to germany for helping us in this situation. the 1st of all my going on, and i will try to help

a country in any way i can't was presumably so it will take time to settle refugees across germany until then berlin will have to continue rolling out the help from you arrive elves. you're watching d. w. use his a recap of the main story from the board ukraine. russia says it will hold its fights without a passage for civilians from 5 ukrainian cities. he if remains skeptical about the announcement i've been, his will,

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