ah, ah ah, this is the w news. live cumberland, russian troops advanced story toward major ukrainian cities. heavy fighting is reported in keys, eastern suburbs. the russian forces are also pushing their siege of mario pole in the south east day after a deadly strike on a children's hospital. also coming up as the war in you've ukraine, wages on you, leaders hold prices talk today. 2 of the summers is focusing on the block economy.

ah, i'm really mohammed welcome to the program. russian troops are advancing toward major ukranian cities and mid strong resistance. the pushing to encircle, keep with heavy fighting, taking place, just east of the capitol. russian troops are also continuing their siege on the south eastern city of mario pole, a day after a deadly strike on a children's hospital. high level talks on thursday failed to bring a cease fire as ukrainian civilians continue to suffer ambushed on the road to keep after 2 weeks of fighting ukrainian forces are 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 for 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 ha, 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 a 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. galen rose quickly demonstrated just how far part the sides remain, even on the basic facts we will going on in the fog. we didn't attack ukrainian, however, we just explained to ukraine repeatedly that

a situation posed direct security threats to the russian federation of us used to figure us leverage. also said maternity hospital mother, you poll 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 to 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 its indiscriminate, bombardments, or he has a look at some of the other developments in the conflict. satellite images show a large russian military convoy massed outside of give and that has now dispersed as this it will kilometer column of vehicles and artillery has moved into surrounding forests and villages. food and fuel shortages apparently hampered to the convoys advance entered the city. former german chancellor gerhard schroeder

is reported to be in moscow for talked with vladimir putin on ukraine as, according to the website, political shorter is known to be a close friend of the russian president. and as a member of the supervisory board for the state owned energy giant ross left the right. and saint says it has no intention of offering russia anything new or specific regarding sanctions in talked to reach a nuclear deal with iran. a state department spokesman said an accord with iran depends on a number of outstanding issues and as old parties to resolve them to reach a deal test. the proposition as to whether we can at the head of the international atomic energy agency, has met with representatives from russia and ukraine, of arising concerns for the safety of ukraine's nuclear sites. rafael grossi spoke a week after russian forces shells europe's largest nuclear plant in ukraine. they

also took control of the chernobyl nuclear plant, ukraine, and the russian federation. want to work with us with us. they agreed to work with us, and they are prepared to work with us. perhaps the gravity of my don't has to do with the revenue of the situation or pierce. it's a very dire situation and we need to move fast. and ear leaders are meeting in verse. i, france for a 2nd day of talks on the war in ukraine, fully dissolved, attacking the use dependence on russian natural gas and oil, as well as defense capabilities. during the 1st day of the summit, they ruled out fast tracking, ukraine's integration with the flock. but they felt strong support for the country . well, let's get the latest from versailles and speak to marina strauss has been following all the latest developments. marina, not all of the leaders have been on board with fast tracking ukraine to become an e. remember where to things stand on that when elitists

arrived here on thursday at this, a beautiful castle of for size had to do that so that you can see just are behind me. it very clear, very fast that they are not all agree on their ukraine becoming a member of the european union. anytime soon we had the luck, the prime minister saying we should send a strong signal that you should have sent a strong signal to ukraine in this very difficult situation for ukraine. but we also had many, actually the leader saying, well, it's a difficult situation because you remember it's a very, very long process. and that's what they didn't say. but that's woods expert says that ukraine is not ready for becoming a new member. you have to fulfill a long list of criteria. and for example, corrupt structures in the country are a hurdle for your crimes to become a member. and it is not very likely that ukraine a will even become

a candidate to join the european union anytime soon. so what kind of support is the you going to give ukraine at this moment in time? the years already giving or has been granting a lot of support to ukraine for example, humanitarian aid also many of course then military training will let them to you itself. but the member states, and in the last couple of weeks, we've also seen military devices that have been granted to ukraine. but one thing that you ukrainian president village, mr. lansky always asked that you to, to do and to help ukraine is, sir, is it is the military, it supports troops on the ground. and that's not going to happen because ukraine is not a, an eto member, as many you member states are. and so in this case, nato,

the defense alliance will not interfere there. and in terms of phasing out the dependency on russian oil and natural gas, how do they intend to do this? was a bit similar to the membership issue. also, your leaders have a very different oh, your state, have very different opinion opinions on this issue because your states are very and some are very dependent in russian gas. some are not a, for example, the baltic states ladelly throwing estonia. they want it, you to ban russian energy coming, russia and she coming from russia. and so to get her blood in with hootie in the russian president on the negotiation table at least that what they think will lead to there. but then we also have germany, for example, a country you know, that which is very dependent on russia, gas, and oil and, or we had the german chancellor will actually to day here talking to the press. and

he was very reluctant saying, we already have so many sanctions in place and they're working well and we don't need further sanctions on gas and oil. well, other leaders would certainly disagree with that. arenas found speaking to us from their site. now the united nations has been calling for better protection of ukraine's cultural sites. as russia continues its assault on the country at a museum in the besieged city of car keys, work as a trying to save one of ukraine's most valuable off collections. harkey, ukraine's 2nd biggest city, a center of industry and culture in places now hardly recognizable. amid the destruction, the hearts 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. who are, as he is, was russia, is

a very civilized country. you know right now it's cultured hilary high culture yoke of them. and when we see this engine, we understand how high that culture is. good to go 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. if they are only had 3 blue poles, just an irony of hate that we should be saving russian artists, 2nd little paintings by russian artists from their own nation older. it's just barbaric barbara william 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 more, 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 maureen, which i don't want to start swearing in front of a camera. as russian troops slow we move in on the city of harkey of the museum. like the cities people is bracing for what's yet to come. authorities in berlin say they're struggling to cope with a large number of ukrainian refugees arriving in the german capital. city officials want the federal government to help relocate thousands of mostly women and children to other parts of the country. thousands arrive every day. traumatized exhausted. glad to be safe. what's hidden because no law and people tried to help us and that i had all hell. what can he door? and as the, as a avid yvonne help and the every month i told katie about us,

so it's ok among the good samaritans, this police officer who bid farewell to a family of 4 whom she opened her home to leave. i'm really going to guess that the family was supposed to go to mac the berg last night, where they had been assigned to her. and after they had to long days hanging around, i couldn't see them going to mac to berg again in the evening. so the slate with me for a night and now they're continuing on it, but i don't like them as well as the refugees offers of help keep coming to forfeit operations in the run up. we already gave money in donation giles and yes, now we have consulted again and we said that because we have an upper floor with a guest room and a private bathroom. we were happy to make this available. still the need is so great and seeing this people, it's heart rending. had some real late i'm. he doesn't,

maybe we'll be there one day and we'll need a hand and someone will, how pause. you have to stick together. one was also some hired for germany. berlin has been at the face of this. exit is no official say they're running out of space . the mayor says, no one can know how many will come if austin and as we knew on the 1st day when the attacks began, that we would have a very large movement of refugees as feel that many people would also arrive here in berlin. we handle yet as a for sure how many the will be high does not need to have that 5 extra accommodation centers will be set up in the capital. but officials are calling on the federal government to help transfer refugees to other parts of the country. the u. k. government has stopped the sale of premier lee club. chelsea offered froze the assets of its russian own at roman above which the oligarch isn't an eye of russian president vladimir putin. chelsea will still be allowed to play matches at

the club wont be able to sell tickets for games, bio cell players or sell merchandise, the measures and to deprive abramivitch of benefiting from the clubs ownership. ukraine athletes have made another appeal for peace at the beijing paralympics, members of ukraine's national paralympic committee observed a minute of silence calling for an end to the war. despite roches invasion of their homeland, the ukrainian team thrived at the games, claiming 6 gold medals. putting them 3rd in the table behind china and canada. you're watching dw news. he is a recap of the main story. russian forces are pushing closer to ukraine's major cities amid fierce resistance. heavy fighting has been reported in the suburbs of the east of here, and russian troops often turning to shell, the south eastern city of mario pulled high level talks on thursday, failed to yield a sci fi. this is d,

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