ah, ah ah ah, this is dw fly from berlin, russian air strikes his 2 children's hospitals in ukraine. authority say several people are dead including at least one child. president zalinski is calling russia attacks on civilians a genocide, western allies warranty assault could turn even more brutal as russian forces try to regain momentum. also coming up, we applied to your poor freedom for democracy, the gospel to declare the war. not only do you gray by behold, well speaking to the w, former ukrainian president,

petro push ankle calls for more western support to defend ukraine. and talks between ukraine in russia make no progress towards ending the war. ukraine's foreign minister vows ukraine will never surrender, as is russian counterparts defend the invasion ah i'm see me. so misconduct. glad you could join us. russian airstrikes have had 2 children's hospitals in ukraine. official say 3 people died including a child when a series of blasts had a maternity hospital in the besieged, city of mighty you bull. russia denies this report as fake news and says ukrainian troops had taken over the building. but western ally say the russian military is using weapons indiscriminately in what ukraine is calling a genocide. we want to warn you, this report contained some disturbing images. these are brand new, so my uncle,

this smoldering ruins. not of a military installation, but a maternity hospital in mary, a poll the direct hit from an apparent russian air strike st. women in labor, fleeing into the called a hundreds i reported injured. mary poll has been the target of sustained bombing and shelling for days. mass graves have been dug for the dead. authorities have told people how to dispose of dead family members, wrapped their bodies, tie the limbs and leave them on the street. ukrainian president vladimir zalinski is calling rushes attacks on civilians, a genocide showing him whimper. when you would think you'd be to day, we must be united in condemning this war crime of russia, which reflects all the evil that the occupiers have brought to our land. we all of

the destroyed cities and everything they have done. no one is thought festival news or will roll over either ball but not an aerial bomb. on the maternity hospital. is the conclusive evidence that what is happening is a genocide of ukrainians. grain oh ins, autumn year, russian bomb this hit 2 more hospitals. ah, one of them, another children's hospital. their city is nearly a 150 kilometer is west of here and has come under increasing fire. just the night before another civilian target was hit. good, let's see this yo yo, this man will need to no fly zone any more,

but we do not believe he won't need any fighter planes any more. what we do, we do say diplomatic negotiations are stepping up. but as russia perseveres with heavy shelling, ukrainian civilians are paying a high price for vladimir putin is war? oh, i'm joy now by peter. what a shinkel he was president of ukraine from 2014 to 2019. and he is joining us from t of mr. push ankle, welcome to the w. we just saw images there from the bombed out maternity clinic and buddy you pull 1st, i want to start with getting your reaction to that attack. this is absolutely clear that this is the demonstration of the genocide of the russian draughts and absolutely madness the crazy man yet. oh jim that he can explain

a lot more than 50 ukraine and children were killed by russian troops online. muddy, open the mail friday hopefully inform about 1300 killed civilians. this is not only in mateo, but when we have our maternity home. all children, hospital bed tech in more than 250 schools. more than $100.00 and plenty to hospitals. more than 2000 severe lim objects and would this situation, this is no explanation. this is absolutely demonstration. the bratia act even not like an aggressive but there's a terroristic steps. and our reaction on these behavioral fortune and ross and wilson rosalyn spate would be exactly like at terroristic steps. and now it is extremely important that the whole world is united or mr. vital,

really quick question. you said our reaction will be exactly like this. these terrorists, that's what do you mean by that? it says that the we should be a shoulder to shoulder in the demonstration there of support of ukraine not only by finance, not only by political means, but also in the defensive capabilities. with that situation, i think it would be difficult to explain why ukraine, who fighting here not only pull your grain on soil, not only put our children all 4 hour ladies. we are fighting here for freedom for democracy because put in, declare the war, not only to ukraine by the whole west, he declared a war against germany against us, against you gave against europe. and we should understand that. and given us the jet fighter, given as their auntie derrick, could me styles law or okay launcher. okay. give him as their i'm jack up. this

is exactly the role we agree, ma'am. he on the ground fighting. can you imagine that from here to the position of that awesome troops is less than 10 kilometers? and the funny i used to prompt, i understood it. let's talk about what you just mentioned, this message to the west. we've seen some reluctance to send fighter jets to aid ukrainian forces. we know, as you know, that the nato has been reluctant, for example, to take up the offer from poland because of fears of escalating the conflict further. we know that russia has threatened a several times now to a deploy nuclear weapons. what do you think about these concerns from ukraine's allies festival? i want that you should have absolutely clear understanding. would you do not stop on ukraine? if ukraine failed, nobody knows where to morrow, it will appear. if bush and now one creed,

their lamps caught her daughter between crimea and occupied dorm boss, white to mortal, he do not want to maker land corridor for all. ah, rasa, do the cleaning grad region. truly to anyway, this is under the and in this is our joint tool. and ukraine simply don't have time to wait until their western politician make a decision to gala said james fight. this is very simple and the, it says press to full. this is the life of ukrainian avenue, single our we lost our civilian, our soldiers, our children, and this, everybody should understand the price for delay, a band of the bad. don't have any doubts that the flight will be here. and for example, we, when be talking about a no fly zone any if you are to lack them, not you, but rest them. condition are reluctant to give it to us because that is the demonstrate them that some nate, a member states would be in the war. you should understand nato. he is already in

the war with russia, and this will was launch and not by them. nature member states bought by bullshit, and if tomorrow, for example, derushia will continue that tech of the chernobyl. a somewhat easier. yeah. nuclear power station, which is 10 times more powerful than g mobile. that is the fact that the, the nuclear contamination don't have any border. okay, that would be the danger for that all a full europe, and that's why we are, are protecting the nuclear power station, protect them, civilian objects, to protect in ukraine. we are protecting germany, please. i as a president, we have very efficient correctly the germany. i'm very much appreciated for the leading the role of the german chancellor. i'm giller american for their blunder stock where we cover bipartisan support. i'm very much appreciate it. the

diplomatic as of right. okay. which ever credential, but please now we definitely need dennison's capable because defense capability, mr. punish ankle. i do want to get your take on diplomatic efforts because we have seen, as you know, this meeting between the ukrainian or russian foreign ministers earlier in the day that didn't seem to make much progress. but there seems to be some sort of door open, perhaps a window for the meeting between vladimir zalinski, the ukrainian president, and perhaps a vladimir putin. at the same time, you're saying vladimir putin is responsible for war crime for genocide. should there be diplomatic talks between the 2 leaders? definitely, yes. was no. any mation in the world who wants to be more than be great? and we sent you all, don't what unit is, and we have some progress because i just want to weeks ago, 2 weeks ago or june is not what is, is refusing to meet zalinski to meet norman before much because he said that he has nothing just to talk about today because of the brain man army,

because of our soldiers because of the unity of your brain and people who can understand that peasy idea bleak. the lips creek is pale with them and today and i love it off, said that movie is ready to kevin. negotiate please get out from your grey man. soil. please get out your troop. please stop killing your gray now. and this is absolutely perm basis for negotiation. okay. i definitely know we can very well and i have 5 years experience in negotiation with him. i don't prosecuting because no one he would know never when he promised me to make us use 5 to release the cost a just to his broke his throat. never. he keeps his word, but please just stronger. we are yet it more attractive. his diplomacy would go as far as we allow them to go. now, because of our unity because of the sanction,

because of that, our cooperation recovery, unique chance to stop boot please. let's not miss these jobs. okay. we'll have to leave it there. pethel. put a shank of the president of ukraine from 2014 to 2019. joining us today from kiev. thank you for sharing your insights with us today. thank you. now to some other headlines and the conflict, washington is warning of a potential chemical of the potential of chemical or biological weapons attack by russia and ukraine. it comes after moscow accused the u. s. of supporting a bio weapons program in ukraine. the biden administration believes the accusation could be an attempt by the kremlin to justify such an attack. the us house of representatives has improved a massive spending bill that includes $13600000000.00 of aid to ukraine and european allies. the funds will cover the costs of sending us troops and weapons to eastern europe, as well as care for refugees. second of the dividing. well,

the foreign ministers of russia, ukraine have held their 1st face to face talk since the kremlin invasion. but the 2 sides failed to make any significant progress. the high level talks were hosted by turkey on the sidelines of a diplomacy forum in antalya. russia's foreign minister survey lebrun said president putin is ready to sit down for a summit with ukraine's zelinski ukrainian foreign minister. dimitra quin labor reiterated, pleased to establish a humanitarian quarter and expressed hopes for further talks with moscow. lac rav defended moscow's invasion of ukraine. here's what he said, good, we're against militarization of ukraine with no don't without and doesn't matter. and we're not happy with americans deploying some weapons that would keeps our target under control. number 2, we are against ukraine. turning into a neo ne says, noticed near san and she's like, living old not says traditions with all those are new and us as to marching all

across ukraine and so forth. great. when those militants are trained in order to commit crimes and fag, so we want ukraine to be a neutral ne san present put in has said many times a lot that was it, insisting on near to not to expand anymore. we do not deprive your crime from safety and security. on the contrary, we are ready to discuss the guarantees of safety to the benefit of a cranes a long ways. the process is rubin nation, so things claudia, of course, considering set is a rush of safety ukraine foreign minister pushed russia for an immediate response to agreeing to the safe passage for ukraine. citizen in the meeting, i made a very simple proposal. i said, we all have our smartphones with us. well,

probably minister elaborate has his last i phone, but that's, that's another story. and i said i can call my officials right away. my president, my prime minister, my commander in chief and i give you 100 percent. they will provide all assurances that humanitarian corridors will work. i'm ready to do it right now, right here in your presence. can you do the same? can you make the call? i'm sure you have all of them in the phone book. he did not respond to this ukraine . a strong ukraine is fighting ukraine, made the russian plan, russian initial plans, fail. we are ready to seek, balanced diplomatic solutions to put an end to this war. but we will not surrender my chief international energy,

richard walker has been following this day of diplomacy for us, richard to very different messages we're hearing from the ukrainian or russian foreign ministers there. yeah, absolutely. i mean, the tile style, the tone couldn't be more different but, but ultimately they're both kind of telling the same story which is that nothing really came out of these talks. there was a lot of anticipation about these talks in the last few days. the fact that the happening at all, or just over 2 weeks into this war being taken by many is an optimistic sign that maybe some kind of progress could be taken. also some signs in the messaging on both sides that they could be some opening up of potential political space where you could potentially find scope for an agreement. but what we've heard today is essentially that no progress is being made even on things where you might imagine that they are obvious things that should be achieved at this point. for instance,

a humanitarian corridor from mario of the city. this being a bombarded most heavily at the moment, mutual labor saying that he really wanted to achieve that and complaining the sag love didn't have the mandate to make a decision like that, as we just heard in the clip that the lever off, according to labor is telling of accounts of this wasn't in a position to call his bosses and agree to something like that. so frustration i think coming from caliber from sergey lever off, he was essentially saying we were talking about all of this mandatory in issues. but the main issue that is on the agenda at the moment was not for discussion here . that is concrete proposals that the russians say that they handed over to the cranium at the last lower level talks, which took place in belarus a few days ago. and that they're waiting for a response to those. so really quite extraordinary lack of progress, i would say given the fact that you had the 2 most senior figures this in this

crisis meeting for very long time. now this was the highest level context, as you said, since the start of the war, just to come back to this point on humanitarian quarter is on reaching some sort of common ground there. why has it been so difficult for both sides to find some sort of agreement on finding safe passage for ukrainians, particularly out of mar, you pull, where we've seen heavy bombing again, yet with it? it's a good question. of course achieving sci fi, even local i c spies in was, is difficult. and even once they're agreed, they can sometimes break down. and it's not always clear where the responsibility lies for that. but of course, in this context, the aggressor is very obviously russia and obviously as the country that is being invaded, ukraine has the greatest interest in providing these humanitarian corridors in providing opportunities to rescue the citizens that they feel responsible for. so i think it is a source of great frustration and it doesn't reflect well on the russians that c 5 have broken down at all so that they evidently were not in

a position to agree on this in this meeting today. given what we saw today, where do you think the next steps lie for further diplomatic talks yet? well, i mean, both sides are saying that they're open to more talks. and also, the russians are saying, and this was one relatively concrete thing that we heard from 2nd level of he said the vladimir putin is ready for a summit with his ukrainian count of a lot of me as a lensky. but that a lot of preparation has to be done. of course, a summit meeting between the 2 leaders would be a really major event. and that would be really where we started to see whether it was possible to find a political agreement around this crisis. but the way there is very onset, it, it's really quite hard to see how they get there from the position they're in at the moment, from the rush telling of things they're waiting for

a response from the ukranian side. and from what we're hearing from ver laudermill zaleski, there was an interesting interview that he gave to american television to sally in the week where he said, for instance, that he was going cool on the idea of george joining nato. right. and that there may be room to negotiate about issues like crimea and the easton breakaway regions of you. right? so some kind of signals coming from the ukrainians, also some signals coming from a dmitri pest golf that, that so vladimir putin spokesman about potential areas. well, centrally beginning to kind of lay out with more clarity what the russian political demands might be for a political sense, a political settlement. so little bits of movement here and there the, the people being clinging on to. but if talks keep going like this is gonna take a very long time to make any progress. your chief international editor richard walker is always thanks so much for announce us. the united nation says around

2200000 people have now fled ukraine. most of them are women and children, often leaving loved ones behind to fight, not knowing whether they'll see each other again. the majority of the refugees are arriving in poland. des alexander phenomena sent us this report from the western border crossing of shinny. one last embrace before they say good bye, vadim has brought his family to the polish border so they can leave the country. he will be heading back to the frontlines. he did to the to do the up. it is because of the kids on me with no one wants to leave their home. it's so hard. you can't explain it easily, will a boy, it's hard to lose. we don't know whether we're going to see each other again either which she moves you. no problem on emily's illinois, it was so good to have them by my side. when you're together with your family, you feel better. now i'll be alone. but i know they'll be safe. one. and it

safety's just a few meters away. we are at the border check point in shaheen. the busiest border crossing between ukraine and poland. those who are now here have been waiting for hours, just like natalia and her twins. they escaped to russian bombardments in harkins, in eastern ukraine. tossed among piteously, live. been through a lot. you're sitting in the hall or in the cellar with your children, while they bombing the city, and you don't know. will a bomb dropped now? and that's it. so joe, what did we do to deserve that? natalia doesn't believe that the war will be over soon. many ukrainians seem to think the same and sold alliance at the border on not getting any shorter people on the move, both inside and outside the country in desperate need of protection and support. as rush of war with ukraine continues an estimated 4000000 people may flee the country according to the united nations, hottie and snacks for free,

distributed by ukrainian and international volunteers along the road to the border . this is where we meet not tele from keith. she's traveling alone with her 3 children. did them to deliver them to the children are suffering the most? because my husband had to staying keith, they cry. my oldest son keeps asking. will we never ever see dad again? and he starts crying again. the one has called it the fastest growing refugee crisis in europe since word or 2. this is what it looks like in real life. west war, raging at home, many ukrainian artists have found shelter abroad. the key of city ballet was touring and france when russia invaded ukraine. its dancers delivered an emotional performance in paris while struggling to keep in touch with family and friends trapped at home. ah, the dancers of the key of city ballet left home thinking they were going on

a european tour. now they have no idea when they'll get back home to ukraine. the ti i told you, shut, lay in paris, as offered them a stage and a temporary residency. please sit unlocked the door had creating is an act of resistance. the i said, it's an act that says to those who want to occupy ukraine to vladimir putin. here we continue to look forward to look far upward to use culture also as a peaceful weapon, but, but that's what we're doing here tonight at the shuttling theater. swab is you at the output, you shuttling are only part of the company was traveling when the war broke out. meaning many of their artists are still stuck in ukraine. the uncertainty of what's to come has left the dancers physically and emotionally exhausted. terrible shock with tried to connect or family all the time during the day during the night . check news. i can't explain what i am filling in

because you in warriors all the time. all 13 days we are praying for our families, food grain. amid the anxiety, the chance to keep dancing in france is a lifeline. being able to focus on work is kind of a bright point in our day. when we get to focus on ballet steps and focus on music and something other than the conflict anyway. the young dancers performed to a full house and too much applause on tuesday night, dancing in safety and friends, but their hearts and minds are with their families. in ukraine. the british government has halted. the sale of premier league clubs shall seek

after it froze the assets of its russian odor, roman abramivitch. he is a close ally of russian president vladimir putin. chelsea will still be allowed to play matches, but the club will not be able to sell new tickets to fan sign players or sell merchandise. and the measures are intended to deprive the oligarch of benefiting from the clubs ownership. ukrainian athletes have made another appeal for she set the beijing paralympics. several members of ukraine's national paralympic committee observed a minute of silence calling for an end to the war. despite grappling with rushes, invasion of their homeland, the ukrainian team has thrived out the paralympics. they have claimed 6 gold medals, putting them 3rd in the table behind china and canada. the teams resilience has been applauded by the president of the international paralympic committee. let's get a reminder of our top headline. ukraine says high level talks with russia,

made no progress towards ending the ukraine's foreign minister to mutual labor. met with russia survey lab, robin turkey lab. rob defended the invasion and said, russia was prepared to discuss security guarantees for ukraine. but could they? by said, russia was seeking us to render that ukraine would not. that's our news update for this hour. thank you for watching. with

who into the conflict. so with sebastian has nato accepted the q grade will fall, or could it still be a moral imperative to intervene directly in combat? my guess this week from washington to come through spell simila, a foreign and security expert at the brookings institution. i'm a freshman from germany, i'm friends with landtech relation. conflict ah, next to d, w. o

. they've had it for decades. the people of iraq country is devastated and there's no end to define. how did it come to this key witnesses reveal? president story. they were pretty good. the u. s. they knew what the consequences these sanctions are and they've light to the world about seeing when it was saying that someone could kill his friends and as a fee, it's always and he was a good he behaved exactly like have darma

and the poisons spread their own ah, less missouri with the great documentary series destruction of a nation this week on d. w. just 2 weeks ago, russia was denying to the world. it had any intention of waging war or launching an invasion. this is what that denial looks like now. mm. as the fighting goes on, there is little sign of progress in peace folks and the growing belief that worse is to come, have nato accepted that ukraine will fall. or could it still see a moral imperative that intervene directly and come back? we cannot answer.