destruction of a w ah ah, this is dw news, lying from berlin. russian troops advanced slowly toward major ukrainian city to be fighting as reported in keys, the eastern suburbs. russian forces are also pressing on with its sage of mario pole in the southeast. a day after a deadly strike on a children's hospital also coming up as the war in ukraine reaches on e. u. leaders, food crisis talks, french president emanuel, my co host,

a summit. and we're sorry to help coordinate or respond to russia's invasion and mission to moscow. politico rewards, former german chancellor gach gorda is in the russian capital to try and mediate an end to the war in ukraine. florida has faced fierce criticism for his close ties with friends. ah, i'm nichol foolish to our ears. joining us on p b. s. in the united states and everyone watching around the world. welcome, we start to night with the situation on the ground in ukraine were russian troops are advancing toward major cities amid fierce ukrainian resistance. russian forces are pushing to encircle, keep with heavy finding, taking place, just east of the capitol. russian troops are also continuing their siege of the southeastern city of murray. you pull a day after a deadly strike on

a children's hospital. high level talks on thursday, fail to yield a ceasefire as ukrainian civilians continue to suffer ambushed on the road to keep after 2 weeks of fighting ukrainian forces a battling to stop their capital. from being surrounded off to russian tanks reached its eastern outskirts on wednesday. ukrainian soldiers said they forced back the convoy with the russians, leaving behind an armored personnel carrier as well as 2 tanks, one of which they were able to repair and take to themselves. but while keith continues to put up fierce resistance on the ground, there was little progress on the diplomatic front of the russian and ukrainian foreign ministers met in turkey. russia is sir. ah, not in a position at this point. to establish a ceasefire. they seek, ah, a surrender from ukraine. this is not what they're going to get. ukraine is strong,

ukraine is fighting. we're ready to seek, balanced diplomatic solutions to put on and to this war, but we will not surrender russian foreign minister, sir. gale of rav quickly demonstrated just how far part the sides remain. even on the basic facts, we local union, the father, we didn't attack ukrainian. however, we just explained to ukraine repeatedly that a situation posed direct the security threat to the russian federation of i see, scuse, girls, or never of also said maternity hospital in that a you pulled that was bombed on wednesday, was empty of patients and occupied by far right militia members, just hours later, however rushes ministry defense denied the attack that happened at all claiming it was staged. but with russian efforts to press on, keep continuing to run into heavy resistance. many fear that moscow will increase

it, indiscriminate bombardment and the w corresponding economy joined us. now from cave, nick, we've seen the pictures of finding in case suburbs. what is the latest your hearing when we were out in those weapon, suburbs of pain, where there's been fighting in recent days, we also heard from colleagues violence who live in the eastern suburbs that you mentioned in the report that property on the left side of the river and there is basically a full scale war in a major european capitalist. you have millions of people, you have tanks and what a, when we were seeing people trying to get away from it being cross that bridge, that lots people will have seen images of. they were plumes of smoke on the scar. you could hear the artillery in the distance and it wasn't that far away. sometimes it was getting a lot closer. you could sometimes hear gunfire. it was very, very scary and yet civilians, i don't see made the decision that this was still the best shot they were going to

get to leave that it was worth exposing their children, the families, the risk of home. and we've seen civilian di trying to get out in recent days because they are expecting was to come in the next few days. what can you tell us about the situation in the rest of the country? very mixed pictures are in the far east. ukrainian metro pulled up the city that saw that awful attack on the maternity hospital that the situation is desperate. the, the city under siege is surrounded on 3 sides, and the seal notified is also controlled by russia. so it's basically totally surrounded food supplies, running low, they haven't had global extra t internet connections or eating for days now. and all the attempts to organize some kind of humanitarian corridor to give people a safe charles to get out to organize some kind of temporary spot during which civilians would be able to leave the area. those who failed in other parts of the country, they have succeeded and they have been trained west out of places like su me in the

north of ukraine, close to the russian border. and across the country, there is intense fighting between ukrainian forces and the russians. the russians, jimmy not doing very well, very behind on the logistics having to abandon tank. they just don't have the fuel at the grain doing quite well and using the weapons they've been given by western countries, entered tank weapons and across the missiles. obviously the russians have more manpower, they have more resources, but it seems like the crating to now are using what they have pretty cleverly. they have the advantage of being on their home turf and mostly lots of a different kind of motivation. when you hear the testimony of russian, people use lots of them, say they don't really know why they're here. they thought they were on exercise and they didn't even know that they were going to be in ukraine. and suddenly we just ordered to cross the border, where people here serving and ukrainian uniforms obviously are fighting for their homes for their villages. we've met lots people who are in charge of the force defense forces in the people who often have no connections community previously who are working i t or teachers, whatever. and so you see

a totally different kind of spectrum society now in uniform, in their home towns, trying to prevent disruption invasion from going further. the foreign ministers of ukraine and russia met in turkey today, and there seems to have been talk about a potential meeting between let me put an envelope to marry the landscape. how do people feel about this? lensky has been demanding a meeting with bruton, essentially for months at the most of that time the russians dismissed it. and basically said ukraine was a western satellite of battle state. there's basically no point in the russians wasting their time to, to great because the big decisions would be taken in washington anyway. that was like, i mean, the government. now those kind of rebuttal seemingly getting a little more, quite a bit more new. so maybe there's something on the called a different well, there was a great presentation saying that to, to this chicken that you just doesn't have the courage to sit in the table with the leader of country that you the tracking. but i think what the main take away from

that meeting today is that both sides are still sticking to their guns. the russians to me, in spite of all the sanctions, in spite of the pretty mixed performance of their military hearing, ukraine are not backing down. they're still demanding, basically gives up. it's all me that ukraine allows russia to influence events in this country. so it's kind of difficult to see where concessions, where some kind of middle ground can be reached both sides to the guns. now, economy and keep many thanks. all 27 of the leaders are meeting in versailles, france for a crisis summit on the conflict in ukraine. the war raging on the eastern borders will dominate the discussion. leaders are expected to tackle winning the you off russian gas and oil, and bolstering the regions defense capabilities. the summit had been organized longer for russia, invaded ukraine with digitalization, the economy, and the pandemic on the agenda. all issues now eclipsed by russia hostilities on

the neighboring country. a short while ago european commission president was enough on the line sent out the agenda for the summit. at the summit, we will rethink european defense with strong capabilities. we will rethink energy. we have to get rid of the dependency of russian fossil fuels. and for that we need massive, massive investment in renewables. and we will also certainly discuss ukraine as part of as our of our european family. we want a free and democratic ukraine with whom we share a common destiny as crossover to versailles now, where our corresponded marina strauss is standing by for us. marina, a common destiny between the you and ukraine, but non all leaders there and france seemed to be on board with making ukraine

a member at least not just yet. right. when your leaders arrived here today at this beautiful castle in verse, i near frances, copied to paris. you can see it behind me and the castle of her sigh. it became very clear, very quickly that yearly, just a split on this issue. for example, lack been prime minister said we have to send a strong signal to day to words ukraine that we want them in the you one day, but he was joined by other baltic states. but on the other hand, we had a load of leaders saying, well, let's wait and see, this is not at the table at the moment because they're still war. and this is our main problem and becoming a member of the european union is a very long and very complicated process. and it will take years, may be decades for ukraine's to become a member. and it does not seem likely that they will even become a candidate a today already time soon. but member state the are promising further support for

a ukraine. what could that entail? there's already humanitarian support. so that was given to your crane and there will be more of that. also a money and also weapons, a military equipment, military training and by some member states by many you member states. and that will certainly continue, but will what will not. but what will not happen are is, so are a boots on the ground that said what the president, ukrainian president village immerse, polanski would like that you are the nato to do the defense alliance. but nato always says, no. ukraine is not part of our lines. and that's why we won't sent a military on the ground. another topic on the agenda, of course, is an increase of the independence of on russian oil and gas. how likely are we to see a consensus here? you think there was another topic that splits it. you leaders

and that could, that was clear also when, when they arrived today. the both countries, for example, say we have to cut off russian gas russian oil. of course, they share a border with russia. so they have a different sort of thread than countries in the south or in the middle of europe. but then we had a german chancellor olive choice arriving here in versailles. and you know, germany is very, very dependent on russian gas on other russian energy. and he was very reluctant saying, i, well, we have sanctions in place, and this is the most important thing for now. the, the, we have responded marina strauss reporting from her thigh. former german chancellor gach luda is reported to be in moscow for a talks with the russian president on ending the conflict in ukraine. according to the news website, political saluda has been criticized in recent weeks for his close ties with a kremlin. he's known to be a personal friend of the russian president and

a member of the supervisory board of the state own energy giant raw, snuffed german chancellor. it will show us has called on the former leader to step down from the controversial position. and we can now speak to political journalist matthew con, itching, who wrote the article that states should i, is in moscow for talks with putin. matthew, thank you so much for speaking to us. you're reporting ex, transferring florida is meeting with putin. have you been able to corroborate that story or is that based on, on your source is solely well, we have corroborated and we would have reported it. otherwise, it is based on her sources, but the meeting is happening. sure. it is in moscow right now. and you know, is there at the behest of the ukrainians, actually, who approached him a week ago now last friday, and then met with him in istanbul on monday and asked him if he would be willing to

mediate as a personal favor to president zalinski who sent emissaries to meet with schroeder in istanbul, and sure to then approached his contacts in moscow to see if putin would be willing to speak to him. and they said yes and, and sent a plane in fact, to pick him up. and his wife is stumble. ready and flew him there last night and he's there today to, to meet with, with putin. and we contacted the chancellor e and they told us they're not aware of any visit by massage florida to moscow. chancellor sholtes didn't want to comment on the visit on whose behalf it's down there in what capacity is he conducting these types of well, as i said, he was specifically asked by an emissary of presidents of lensky to go. it is interesting that he didn't inform the german government and that the german

government says that they were unaware of this, given that shrewder is protected by a security detail which consist of members of the german federal police. so he was accompanied by them to moscow which raises the question, if the general government really didn't know or doesn't know that he was there, that he is there, then why don't she has come under a lot of fire recently for failing to distance himself from fulton do you think this can be him trying to save face on the international stage? absolutely, i think that this is the reason why he agreed to do it. it wasn't his idea. he was approached. i can see why given all of the criticism that he's taken over the past few weeks, why he would agree to do it to sort of cast himself as a peacemaker. here is one of the last people who has a direct line into putin. putin respects and take,

seriously. putin obviously has been speaking to president of france over the past weeks, but he doesn't have the same sort of personal relationship with him that he does to shoot us. so i think that everyone has sort of his own agenda for pursuing this course. do you think that personal relationship that he has with put you can get a chance in negotiating a ceasefire, making significant advances towards the fire seems to me a cease fire would be the best that they could out for and maybe put in is ready to take that step given to how badly the war is going for them so far. but i don't think that we can hope for much more than that a ceasefire at this stage through sure shooters efforts just given the how determined futon seems to be to push forward with this war. i'll let it go,

journalist matthew carnage, and thank you so much. thank you. and here's a quick look at some other developments in the conflict. he was vice president. pamela harris says that washington is prepared to defend every inch of nato territory. she made the remarks in warsaw during talked with polish leaders, including prime minister mateo's muranski. earlier the united states rejected a proposal from poland to transfer fighter jets to a u. s. air base and then deliver them to ukraine. washington is warning of a potential chemical or biological weapons attack by russia and ukraine. that 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. many western military analysts have expressed surprise at the apparent struggle

russian forces are having at pressing their invasion of view crate. their progress on the ground has remained largely unchanged for days, and they still do not control the skies. despite an enormous advantage in true numbers, ground force, artillery, and air power. russian military planners may have underestimated ukraine's determination to resist. russian troops have also been slowed by reports of shortages of fuel and other supplies. russia has one of the world's largest standing armies, but many of its conventional forces still use decades old equipment and appear to suffer from for maintenance. given the harder than expected flight. it's possible that russia has not committed enough resources to the invasion of ukraine, and to help us better understand russia's military situation. i'm joined now by an arnold from the royal united services institute, a leading defense and security thing tank in the u. k. mr. arnold. thank you so

much for joining d, w. tonight. the russian forces invading ukraine seem to be having a harder time than predicted 2 weeks into this war. what's your assessment? yes, it's very clear that sir. the russians underestimates is just the scale of the operation and also the ukranian resistance and already stems down to their, their preparation. i mean, it's obvious that either the intelligence was bound to or which was ignored and the plan that was then based on that intelligence was based around trying to get to key f armed force regime change within, around 3 days. and the, any high intensity fighting b for boy. now that obviously has not occurred. the russians probably moved to a more complex plan than they needed going from the north, north, east, east down the south on it. as you highlighted,

logistics is cause real issues which as slowing the rates are advanced down for the oceans or rushes at hack thing to re growing more and more indiscriminate with ever less regard for the security of civilians. why do you think that is? is that part of a strategy, or is that the russian forces being backed into a corner? how do you explain them? but i think phase one of the operations from the invasion into a run last monday evening. the questions actually didn't use a lot of their firepower, probably because they wanted to limit seduction civilian casualties and also limit their destruction of critical national infrastructure. because the plan all along was to force jean james and then govern the country. it's very difficult to govern the country if you little the cities were cuz they were very frustrated and that wasn't working. we actually saw a change in tactics to what we would actually usually expect and more wish

indoctrination which is the very heavy use of forces heavy use of fire power a. we started to see that around the key population centers, right. she bushera, now fighting as we largely expected them to prior to the invasion and western nations. worry that russia might be planning a foss, black operation to justify the use of non conventional weapons. what's your take on? yes, i think is the concern ready stems from experience in syria where wild wishes did to use chemical weapons. they had certainly facilitated there and also there was elements or false like operations there. so i think the, the u. s. are trying to really get ahead of the story and it's also worth noting that russian state has used chemical weapons. and you said 2075 within the u. k. with the attempted assassination of the script house in solsbury. i'd also received from a u. s. position at the moment,

something that they have tried throughout this conflict tries to the invasion and diplomatic building, which is actually releasing intelligence and trying to put the out there in the public domain and have to transparency around. it's fine that had this looked wishing activity. i think it's also important to note the use of chemical weapons and syria presence a bomb read the time declared direct line and that was not enforced. and president biden was his vice president at the time. so i think what will be critical now to the us in terms of the response decision is actually working out what that might mean if we do see the use of chemical weapons in ukraine. the use of chemical and biological weapons is of course, banned under international humanitarian law. if you could, maybe some up briefly why russia would resort to using them in ukraine. well, it's a potential point of escalation as to if they wanted it to go that way. i'd also it

costs a lot more pressure on the west in some ways. politically, like i said, in terms of defining those red lines, i think that a bible piece and will probably be quite surprised that the level of unity in the west. i think one of the assumptions that you made in terms of the invasion this, it will be over relatively quickly in europeans, especially would sausage, denounce it for they wouldn't do much about is actually because their struggles say, march receive divorces, unity from the europeans on this potentially might be a way of splitting them again, like they're able to do a usage, syria. i mean, you know, supposing the u. s, which will to leave the u. s. backing down at arnold from the royal united services institute. thank you so much for that analysis. the british government has halted the sale of premier league club chelsea after and froze the assets of its russian owner roman abramoff is. the oligarchy is an ally of russian president vladimir

putin. chelsea will still be allowed to play matches, but the club won't be able to sell any more tickets for games, buy or sell players or sell merchandise. the measures are intended to deprive abramoff which of benefiting from the clubs ownership. ukrainian athletes have made another appeal for peace. at 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 at the paralympics. if claimed 6 gold medals, putting them 3rd in the table behind china and canada on friday, ukraine will have more metal chances. the teams resilience has been applauded by the president of the international paralympic committee. in the united nations has been calling for better protection of ukraine's cultural sights. as russia

continues its assault on the country at a museum and the besieged city of harkey, workers are racing against time to save one of ukraine's most valuable art connections. harkey, ukraine's 2nd biggest city i centre of industry and culture, and places now hardly recognizable. amid the destruction, the harkey of art museums still standing. it's windows and doors were shattered. when russian forces bombed and near by target. the museums director found her office in ruins, florida, he is, was measures a very civilized country. you know, right now it's culture, do re high culture yoke of them. and when we see this is we understand how high that culture is. the goal now is to get as much of the collection as possible into storage and many of the artworks they want to save from the russians are

in fact russian. oh, if they are doing an think blue pull, it's just an irony of hate that we should be saving russian artists acting, that'll paintings by russian artists from their own nation all day. it's just barbaric barbara, william, i'm like this work by russian master alia rape in one of 25000 artworks in the museums collection. with no windows intact, it's impossible to control the temperature or the humidity. they say they'll only be able to assess any damage to the works when the war is over a month on the ample thing. if i knew mom, i just don't understand what kind of a person one must be to kill people like by me, destroy architectural landmarks. are art masterpieces. i have no words. it's laurie english. i don't want to start swearing in front of a camera. as russian troops slowly move in on the city of harkey of the museum, like the cities people as bracing for what's yet to come here watching

w news. and here's a recap of the latest developments and the crisis russian forces are pushing closer to ukraine's major cities and that fierce resistance to be fighting has been reported. and the suburbs, east of keys and russian troops are continuing to shell. the southeastern city of mario fall high level talks on thursday, failed to yield a ceasefire. watching dana winters from berlin. optical really stay with us now. i'll be back after a short break to take you through the day with ah, with

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we take time to understand this is the day in depth look at current news, events analyzed by experts and critical thinkers. not just another news show. this is the weekdays on d, w o day after russia bombs, the maternity hospital in mario poll. fears grow of an even more brutal turn and prudence war in ukraine, while hundreds are dead and millions on the run. a negotiated solution remains out of reach. the 1st high level talks between foreign ministers conclude with no significant result. ukraine bows not to surrender to the aggressor and russia point the finger at cave for a war the kremlin launched.