destruction of a nation this week on d w. ah, this is dw news lie from but then civilians desperate to leave bad ukraine may have another chance. brush and state media reports that you cease fire will go into effect in several areas. give accuses rushes, forces of attacking previous escape routes. those who fled cities under siege fear, the worst for others who stayed behind people there and i have been left for debt, but they're hiding in basement with them. i can't even think about it. hundreds of

thousands heading west to the city of the vehicle and faced tough choices about way to go next. poland office to put its fighter jets at the disposal of the united states, which could make them available to the ukrainian military. but the pentagon says the plan is not attainable. one ah and benefits will unwelcome 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 news agency. quoting the defense ministry, food air, raid sirens bled in keys. there were reports of explosions and surrounding areas. residents of the suburbs of european under attack by russia 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 my boss. ukraine's government shared this video among the people evacuated with foreign nationals. but ukraine claims russian troops showed the route leading away from the city of barrie. awful. ukraine's army says it's still continues to hold, give, despite attacks in the area as the russian invasion meets resistance, the refuse they could step up their attacks on civilian areas. it's the 1st successful humanitarian corridor, allowing desperate civilians to flee during a pause in the fighting. these convoys carried people from the north eastern city of summa, which is experienced heavy shelling in recent days. president vladimir lensky said it was just the start. for the 2, hundreds of people are saved, humanitarian aid has been delivered. but this is just

a small percentage of what we have to do, and what is expected of us. we already, humanitarian aid is ready and are transport already well there. further west, people fleeing the key f suburb of our pin, crossing a damaged bridge that russian troops have repeatedly fired on as civilians tried to get across. heartbreaking goodbyes. as many of the men left their families to go back and fight. others helping those unable to make the journey by them shout yearly yearly, you know we are leaving her. so she is barely walking, but we are doing our best. thank you. it is good that we can cross the bridge bombs exploding over there quite it can be and it's totally damaged just to see if i move, actually, if you are military analysts say the onslaught will likely get worse

. in the coming days, russian forces are increasingly turning to showing civilian areas and infrastructure. these air raid sirens in kiev warning people to stay indoors as the invasion entered its 14th day. but as the dawn broke, the national anthem echoed through the streets. a message of solidarity. ah, the show of resistance continues in carrollton. the 1st major city to fall under russian control in the port city of odessa, residents are erecting barricades in front of their beloved opera house. so far the city hasn't been hit, but after seeing the scenes of distraction from other parts of the country,

people here are preparing for the west. us let's go to our correspond mathias putting it in, keith and his what's the situation this morning in the capitol? it's her 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 sooner. what about marie or pole in the south?

i'd 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 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 her supplies are running low. people are trying to survive on what's left there . it's very, very, very dire. but is, 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 depends on what you see as the war, 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 the russian military technol technology. and also a 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, very, i appreciate the update. thank you. very much as we heard there from that he has

berringer central key, have still largely spared from heavy fighting that he's also gone to the outskirts of the city and met people there preparing to repel the rush in advance. setting up road blocks on the outskirts of keith. we are south west of the city in what is usually a quiet, suburban area. this is one of the roads that lead directly into the territories that the russian army is already occupying. and the people here are preparing for an attack from that side. the russian troops are less than 10 kilometers away. e or not. his real name is a volunteer for the territorial defense forces. the citizen battalion that supports the army on the ground. their job is to prepare the area to make a russian advance as difficult as possible. what it was, the spoke with her with a sheet. a tank can easily push away these concrete blocks, you see. but these iron hedgehogs, as we call them,

cannot be pushed away with ya. see, mother will have to get out of their tank to clear the road. this will allow us to gain some time wide bulk of that's what these things do. so we're saying showing going to view the volunteers serve close to their ho, hoping to provide the armed forces with knowledge of the area dwarfed in terms of technology. ukraine relies on his home field advantage, lay warm, or hot away to avoid worth of it. we are ready to fight sola, we are ready to take back our villages and cities will not let the enemy in our own home. so solution and we are doing better every day or we're the only country that is challenging. one of the biggest army others on was her army. since the beginning of the war, the number of volunteers as searched, the territorial defense forces are officially part of the armed forces. but their members often have no military training. they're not supposed to fight on the front, but after the start of the war, they took up some military and policing tasks. checkpoints, all over the country,

are operated by these groups just at the into, throughout the deal. our job is to filter out hostile agents. there are many people fleeing from over there as their houses are sheldon and we will not let spies passes. refugees are there to get with them. and so how young covers them remains the secret closer to the contact line. he hor inspect another barricade, yell widows. yes. yes, the road ye yeah. which of you get to the animal? i grew up here. i should take the kids out here for outdoor trainings. i'm a trainer for outdoor sports. what 4 used to kayak on these waters by that radio orientation, training or whatever. i could never imagine seeing combat. here we go for the ones for those. okay. beautiful. able to receive a interview. this is where his territory ends. now, a bridge that leads over to the other side has already been blown up. hundreds of

thousands of people escaping a fighting of streams into the western ukrainian city of live is become a massive bottleneck. the only direction to flee being west dw corresponded alexander phenomena made up with some of the refugees. 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 seemed 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 all swimming, come with them. 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. with you said lip, nobody even the british lot. but do you both people there now have been left for dead up at their hiding in basement with them? i can't even think about it when i sit down miss. 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 call it just like to throw my i haven't heard anything from her since march 2nd. mika and 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 stay. 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 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 said, and some of them have a clear message to vladimir putin. 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 where 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 but you cautious of what thought mustard wants to do to weave year when we live in the 21st century. we don't live in the 20th century anymore during the 2nd world war. where's 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 deed by cba, the united nation says bolden, 2000000 people of now fled the conflict and ukraine into neighboring countries. france fight, fight is the wrong. 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 make shift hospitals in the region to care for the new right. volunteer michael heck, much has been sitting up those operating tensile 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 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 when 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 of a light, it's not super cold. and so these people stand for 7 to 10 hours waiting to get to where they'll be helped or they'd 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, in i help setting up medical dance in the humanitarian,

8 point a and then a is probably for the most a children are tires with it. so, but above all, they don't really know where they are and how long it's 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 commercial, was very well organized and stuff is provided by the firefighters,

which bring them to the reception, which is a time trying to get away from the book. and at that point, they are able to get food, they're able to shower, able to take the rest, able to sleep, a, a nice drivers and times with refugees. so, so far that hasn't been the 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 that journey across your biggest country with a war going on around them? well, i have been to school to look families have small children from p. s through the border. we also managed to drive a bus through the border full of children through the book and volunteers. and

there was 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. i mentioned on the reception at the reception point like one of the volunteers helping refugees of bribing from you. great, thank you very much for giving us in this, in the, into the company. thank you. he's a look at some other developments in the conflict police in the russian city of st . petersburg to take a group of women protesting against the invasion. if you can, holding a post is which get you arrested, pulled about the death of russian soldiers. most goes past tough penalties. 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 it stuff will continue to get paid. 250 companies and

operations in the pentagon has rejected an offer from the polish government to transfer a fighter jets to the united states for using ukraine. pentagon press secretary, john kirby says the plan's not tenable. poland wanted to transfer it. so be the era make $29.00. so the u. s. for delivery to the ukranian air force, the polish off, it was in response to ukraine's appeal for fighter planes. at its pilots trained to fly, but the u. s. fear the deal could be viewed by russia as a hostile move over to our brussels correspond bent. we get. so bounce the off has been rejected. but is that it is that off the table the biggest native member of the united states has rejected this surprise offer. and so i would say that in the water, no other, the nato, a,

such as an organization does not get involved into this war. that was set over and over again, and the americans are afraid that that what exactly happened when plains from ramstein, nato abbeys and germany would fly into ukrainian space. so this is out of the question and the surprises also that poland actually went public with this offer so far it seems to be a case of messy communication about the po, to say we just wanted to react to answer to a very urgent demand from ukraine. and what about the delivery of these plans? is that what's making this a complicated the other problem is you can apply them directly from nato or german as space into ukrainian as space that would be considered as a kind of involvement in the war. so the planes would have to be transported on land with trucks from poland to ukraine. they'd the planes would have to be re

painted. they cannot show polish flags on nato signs. and also the technique, the technical stuff inside the plains has to be ripped out because this is now the nato stuff actually, according to native standards, either not the soviet era models anymore. so a lot of practical questions and this would take a long time. it would not help ukraine in this in this situation. it also bulgaria in slovakia. other countries, other nato members. i'd have these plans said it's not feasible. it's not tenable, not to be facetious. but if the polls do or were to pull this off, it sounds like they're in for a good deal. go there was talk about that the poets a demand or expect the, the united states than to replace these make was used. american fighter jets that should come to poland. the polish always wanted new and other american fido,

just say a building up a fleet of f. 16 f, 35 in poland. but this is also, i mean these are only rumors in the united states also says that will not happen. so this is also not a deal that will be done and we get 1st in process. thank you very much. russia says it's preparing a swift and broad response to western sanctions. that warning comes after you as president biden announced the ban on russian oil imports. us importantly, a small percentage of its oil from russia, but ben is expected to push oil prices even higher, as, as americans are already feeling the bite of rising fuel prices and inflation. is president by today, am announcing united states is targeting the main artery of russia economy. we're banning all in ports of russian. oil and gas is new, g. m is russian oil no longer be accessible. us ports of the american people will

deal another powerful blow to prudence warmish. this is a move that has strong bipartisan support for congress. and i believe in the country. markers of rallied support have rallied to support their ukrainian people and made it clear we will not be part of subsidizing foods war. the european union is more reluctant to cut itself off from russian energy. brussels has laid out a plan to drastically produce imports by the end of the year and cut them entirely by 2030. getting there won't be easy. with tensions between ross for the u. escalating though 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 imports 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 hot, bloody hot, 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 warren ukraine has officials startled forcing them to make the switch far faster than previously thought possible. and british tennis star anti barry says he'll donate the prize money. he wins this year to help children affected by the

boring ukraine. murray is an ambassador for unicef, the united nations children's agency. he said on social media that he's working with the organization to provide medical supplies and development kits for children . the former? well, number one is taking part in the tournament at indian wells this month, often referred to as the sports 5th grand slam. let's hope he wins and winter more money for those kids in you is, is dw muz life from berlin. i been fizzle. and thanks for watching, i'll leave you with some pictures taken by photographers on the ground in ukraine where the humanitarian crisis is only worsening for people across the country. ah, oh,

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