ah this is the w news life from then? civilians desperate to leave bad and ukraine may have another chance brush and state media reports and you see spy will go into effect in several areas. the key of accuses, rush is forces of attacking the previous escapes. those who fled cities under siege here, the worst brothers who stayed behind the people there. and i have been left for debt. they're hiding in basement. i can't even think about it. hundreds of thousands are heading west to the city of the v and face tough choices about where

to go next. and the united states benz russian oil imports president joe biden says he was subsidized. letting me put this war on ukraine. that europe still depends on moscow's natural gas and oil. ah, i've been for sewland, welcome. for another day, russia says it will hold fire to allow safe passage for civilians from 5 cities. that's according to russia's test use agency, quoting the defense ministry, her air raid sirens bled in keys and reports of explosions and surrounding areas. residents of the suburb of europe in the underbrush attack have been trying to flee on foot. during a ceasefire announced on tuesday, thousands of civilians in the northern city of summa managed to leave by boss.

ukraine's government shared this video among the people about united with foreign nationals. but ukraine claims russian troops shelled the route leading away from the city of money or put ukraine's army says it's still continues to hold key if despite attacks in the area as the russian invasion meets resistance, 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. dr. further west people fleeing the city of air pin close to the capital key of crossing a damaged bridge that russian troops have repeatedly fired on as civilians try 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 will. how to 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. they are quite attending of european is totally damaged. she'll just the civil move, actually silla, meanwhile in the capital president followed the meal zalinski refusing to flee the video message to his people, trying to prepare them for the days to come. viciously with snow is falling. this is spring, coding ok with the war is the same as spring severe, but it will be all right,

so 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 head. but if the experience of the last several days is any guide, anyone who stays behind should be prepared for the worst of. let's go to our correspond mathias putting her in cave. and he is what's the situation this morning in the capitol? it's are as always very calm in the capital of still the fighting is limited to those suburbs that you mentioned. your pin and boucher and the area around that

airport. and also troops are advancing from the east. but j, the city center has so far been spared of heavy fighting and also mostly not at all, not completely, but 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 sooner. what? what about murray or pull in the south? i'd looked 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 maria pole is very, very dia. 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 a supplies are running low. people are trying to survive on what's left there. it's

very, very, very dia mathias. can you give us an idea of where we're at? in this battle, as i mentioned before, ukraine's army says it's managed to slow the advance of russian forces at which a suffering major sent backs. it's depends on what you see as the wall 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 fierce to these. this russian advance, the ukranian army, has been able to destroy a lot of russian military technol technology. and also, many russian soldiers have died or have been captured. so they have the, the russian army has considerable losses. but there is also also 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 that yes, bearing. i appreciate the update. thank you. very much maria eva lives in her keith and works at the european export association, focusing on ukrainian relations with the un nato. firstly, could you tell us about your personal situation, the sporting and how bad the distraction is in how keith? yes, i'm saying in cargo and every day i tried to go out on the street to show the vault . what does happen, and hark you, because i received that russian me debt, try to show

a very different feature. and they tried to hide what this actually happened in this seat and called this russian war here as special military operation. so i go around and take the dose and for us to have this evidence of the crimes committed here in hard year, there are major destructions in the city center because it was heavily bar that the historical some of the historical fields and i completely destroyed as the main administrative fields in which was the symbol and also the residential areas are destroyed. and i can see that the pipelines and the energy is off. so there is no what's out there. and they build them say complete live without the windows small people around. because they apparently have left already because they do not have any place to leave anymore. and it is very strange and verifying to see how you like this because it is

a huge one in the house. me love seat than it's ever. it always was very live live as many people outside. and now you would see on the long lines of people standing in front of the shops where they are trying to get some food. you mentioned the water being cut off. what's the supply situation like? how long it, how, how much longer can you hold out? it depends on the, on the region on the districts in hard gifts. so the distance will have a bar that they are caught of the, the nice is the surprise and the infrastructure. but those where they're going to know bombardments, for example, in my home i still do have ever seen the ability to have electricity and water and heat. and, 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 through in soco hard. give us one more month when

they regroup and get more forces. because for now, it looks like that which plan didn't work 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 in effect in housekeepers and other ukrainian cities, according to ross, can you confirm that? actually i haven't witness. does that myself? i was on the streets yesterday during the day and i continuously showed the showings, the explosion here and there. and i saw that the city of today is room are in critical situation because russian force as a book agent them the, the small sounds outside the heart and do not give any possibility to supply their samson 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 and will be restored with it. so in the way to, to, to up to 8 people to russia and bill or was, and this is nonsense which you will never happen here because it is not possible situation. russians are, he had to kill ukraine, nance, and now they proposed ukraine and people 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 russia. maria of diva for us there from the european expert association which focuses on your credit relations with the you and a thank you for joining us here on the w. thank you. thank you. hundreds of thousands of people escaping the fighting strain to into the west and ukrainian city of live. it's become

a massive bottleneck. the only direction to flee being west dw, corresponded alexander of nomine met 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 that small kids, women with their pads, with hastily pag suitcases and plastic bags. many of them seem to be traumatized. many of them are worried sick about the loved ones that they're left behind. and we start to cover who we are from cock have and this city has gone gordon yet, but 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's now turning over in his grave. you can't look at that's left of the city without cried. i was born there. i grew up there. i spent my whole life there.

really isn't live, no, still using the brochure, but the way you do both the people there now have been left for dead but they're hiding in basement 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 the mother you pool. she can't get hold of her. so just cook or what just like to throw my i haven't heard anything from her since march 2nd, 3rd. mika than yeah, i was just never would have expected something like this to happen, especially from russia and belarus. i have so many relatives in moscow, young must be a more girls think of according to the city i saw it is it is becoming increasingly difficult to provide all the refugees with food and clothes and 1st and foremost where the place to state. 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 don't

know. i never thought i'd have to flee. got it with. i don't know where we will go . whatever gods plan is sure to 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 said, 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, segregate some, was a bunch mucus of thought measured once it did

a review 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? pretty well done. you have liberated us. thank you. have a div it by cba. the united nation says more than 2000000 people now fled the conflict in ukraine into neighboring countries. french fire fighters are among those on the polish ukrainian border, helping the refugees. they say most of the people arriving there are traumatized and exhausted. efforts are underway to set up makes your hospitals in the region to care for the new arrivals. volunteer, michael heck, much has been sitting up those operating tend to the polish border and has witnessed the huge wave of refugees. good to see you, michael. as i mentioned, there are 2000000 ukrainians have fled at least half into poland. have have you ever seen anything like it?

i've never seen anything like this in my entire life. i didn't expect it to be that huge and that big people come to the boston for 20 kilometers because most of them i brought my private and the drivers of the army. so i'm going to bring them to the exact point they go on foot. i haven't seen a 5 kilometer line of people waiting for the past to control ever in my life. the tricky part is that on the inside a night, it's not super cold. and so these people stand for 7 to 10 hours waiting to get to where they will be helped and so they be safe. and what sort of a state are they when they arrive? i know you've been setting up these, these tense to, to help them. what, what sort of a state of a i help setting up medical done in the humanitarian, 8 point a,

and then list the traumatized. how hypothermia is probably for the most of the children and women with it. so, but they don't really know where they are and how long is going to take them to, to cross the border. so we try to inform them as much as possible home and take care of them by distributing food and drinks, which they can see standing outside. and i guess a lot of them don't know where they go and how, how do you decide where to go? well, the 1st thing is that when there wasn't a border, control is very well organized and stuff is provided by the fire fighters, which bring them to the reception. and which is the time trying to get on his way

from the book. and at that point, they are able to get food, they're able to shower, able to take a rest, able to sleep, a welcoming them a, a nice drivers with refugees. so, so that hasn't been a need to set up any refugee camp. and even though the 1000000 people across the board and what about psychological help for these people, what have they been telling you about their journey across your biggest country with a war going on around them? well, i have been scooting a couple of families, have small children from p. s to the border. we also managed to drive a bus through the border full of children through the border and bullying. and that will get that kind of helicopters of

a basically what we're trying to do is we're trying to comfort them. i'm not a trained psychologist, but there are people helping them. and i mentioned on the reception at the reception point with one of the volunteers helping refugees of bribing from you. great, thank you very much for giving us in this insight into the company. thank you. look now at some of the developments in the war, police in the russian city of st. petersburg, detained a group of women protesting against the invasion of ukraine. they were holding up posters, which can get you arrested, pulled about the dates of russian soldiers. most of those pos tough penalties, speaking out against the military, kind of writing agency fits his downgraded russian debt by 6 notches to see saying that a default is imminent. the agency says sanctions and trade restrictions could undermine

russia's willingness to service its dead. the western measures of throwing the country's financial markets into turmoil following its invasion. if you united states is dismissed, an offer by poland to send its fleet of mig 29 by to j. u grain was or intended to give the soviet era aircraft to washington for used by the ukrainian military. the pentagon was concerned to brush it with 3 way deal as a hostile loop. but you with 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. the u. s. a small percentage of its oil from russia, but the bad is expected to push oil prices even higher. is what president biden had to say. today i'm announcing united states is targeting the main order of rush economy. we're banning all imports of russian oil and gas new g. that means russian

oil no longer be accessible us ports, the american people will deal another powerful blow to put more machine. this is a move that has strong bipartisan support. congress and i believe in the country. america is of raleigh support, have relatives for 3 craney 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 entirely by 2030. getting there will be easy with tensions between russia and 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. u. 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 e u already has plans for its energy transition, but the warn ukraine has officials startled forcing them to make the switch far faster than previously thought possible. the refugee exodus is seeing thousands of

ukrainians arrive here in berlin every day. it's called the capital of god and is pushing resources to the limit. berlin says he 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 her gift, 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 is a little jump at the 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. oh, darling, when you pay 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 glory. i am on sunday morning to say the people would be moving in that day just because my colleagues work like crazy inconstant shift just to get everything ready over the song ducks. 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 that 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. we can be angry or 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 in a political 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. what in the, as i said, just oh, it is bessie. i just want to say thank you to germany for helping us in this situation. the 1st of elijah lung. we and i will try to help a country in any way i can tell you what was presumably so it will take time to settle refugees across germany. until then, berlin will have to continue rolling out the help for new arrivals. this is dw news life from berlin and painful and thanks for watching. i leave you with some pictures taken by photographers on the ground and ukraine where the humanitarian crisis is worsening for people across the country. ah, ah ah

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