ah ah ah, this is d w. news live from berlin. russian troops advanced slowly toward major ukrainian cities. heavy fighting is reported and keeps eastern suburbs. russian forces are also pushing their siege of maddie loophole in the southeast after a deadly stride on a children's hospital. also coming up after days of heavy shelling and broken cease fires, some residents of opin northwest of cuba able to flee, and that the russians escaping their land for refuge in finland,

crippling sanctions, or forcing russians the fleet were in helsinki or a trained line as one of the last open roots to the youth out in the rush. ah, i'm anthony. how'd walkin the program? russian troops are advancing towards major ukrainian cities amid strong resistance . they're pushing to encircle, keep with heavy fighting, taking place. just east of the capitol. russian forces are also continuing their siege of the south eastern city of matthew pole after a deadly strike on the children's hospital. high level talks on thursday failed to bring a cease fire, as ukrainian civilians continued to suffer ambushed on the road to keep after 2 weeks of fighting ukrainian forces,

baffling to stop their capital from being surrounded after russian tanks reached its eastern outskirts on wednesday. ukrainian soldiers said they fought 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 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 not in a position at this point to establish a ceasefire. they seek a surrender from ukraine. this is not what they're going to get. ukraine is strong, ukraine is fighting. we are ready to seek balanced diplomatic solutions to put an end to this war. but we will not surrender russian foreign minister sir,

gala rather quickly demonstrated just how far part the sides remain. even on the basic facts, we look railing in the public. we didn't attack ukrainian. however, we just explain to ukraine repeatedly that a situation posed direct security threats to the russian federation of i. c studios or lever. i've also said that maternity hospital in that a you pull 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 its indiscriminate, bombardments. ukrainian authorities say that 40000 people have now been evacuated from 5 different ukrainian cities that cease fires to allow more. residents to flee continued to be broken by russian troops in opin,

northwest of keep. people have been fling amid heavy bombardment as russian forces advance on the capital. now a brief pause in shilling has allowed more residents to escape. a correspondent mathias billing reports finally boarding a bus to safety. these refugees have just come out of the fighting zone north west of kia. daria has been on the road for hours. we have left everything there and just fled. i don't know whether we will ever be able to come back your pin a suburb north west of kia has been one of the worst hit places in this war. sees fires have been agreed and broken time. and again, just a few days ago, a family of 4 was killed near this bridge. they were shelled on their way out of

the small town. to day it is come so far. the opportunity for many too finally lea this is one of the places that had been fought about for days. people have been sitting there trapped waiting for an opportunity to get out, leaving behind what they could not carry with them. people have been fleeing in a hurry. shelling can start again at any moment. some have been walking for many kilometers before being able to cross over the bridge to reach one of the buses. just a lot of that or if it's difficult and terrifying, the roads are destroyed as destroyed military equipment everywhere. dead bodies lie around this. we saw this while walking just it's difficult for everybody, including old women. it's very frightening. many he have no idea where to go. next. this kindergarten was closed after the war began. it's

now hosting people who have fled to fighting they do not have some arrive without even wearing slippers. some come without a coat. there are some grandmas went out to fetch water and were you vacuum aged on the water because their life came on, the whole retirement homes have been evacuated. the refugees can rest here for a few days. see where you national could come with everybody from one neighborhood left, a plane flew over us, then it suddenly turned dropped a bomb and everything was on fire. volunteers quickly evacuated through insurance, apparently as evacuation of peeing and other suburbs goes on. the kindergarten braces for more people to arrive in the coming days over more. let's talk to our correspondent in kidney connelly. nick,

we just saw some of what the residents are going through on the outskirts of the capitol. what's the lightest well, in those kind of place like it appeared, yes, people are getting out. we were there yesterday seeing people getting across that destroyed bridge. and it's been that i'm sure lots seen images for people being carried in wheel chairs on stretchers, families with their pets, but very little in the way of possessions, just taking what they could grab in a hurry. but or even though they were leaving and they were trying to take advantage of that situation, they were still artillery, shooting going on pretty close by. there were plumes of smoke in the sky. you could hear it from different directions. so this is by no means a full temporary cease fire that would allow people to leave in peace without any risk of harm to themselves. we've seen civilians written days losing their lives. trying to get out here where i am in downtown key about 25 clumps away from it, a pin. and some of the worst that fighting things are kind of easily quiet. we

haven't had that many air raid sirens in the last few days. there hadn't been direct air strikes. that's partly due to the fact that there is better air defense here for the center for the government quarter, for the definitely isn't expectation of worth things to come. people very wary of strangers. wary of all these reports, we'd hearing of attempts to kill ukraine's democratically elected president lensky . so people keeping a very low profit profile and streets pretty empty, except for soldiers. jealous. make reports of a night of a russian military convoy to the north. having been dispersed is that what you're hearing it's obviously pretty difficult to verify any of these claims because there are very few journalists directly on the front lines and those who the ukrainian military is concerned about the the keeping information back in terms of where its defenses are so there's and military sense ship on the russian and the ukraine side right now. but it does seem like the ukrainians are being pretty successful at potentially letting the russians advance their doing so. similarly,

without the required back up in their lots images on social media of russian tanks, russian almond vehicles being destroyed in what looks to be the suburbs of key of m . o, experts from abroad, slightly aghast, that the russians would send those kind of units forward towards kia without much more in the way of back up. and in lots of reasons, ukraine right now, it seems like the ukraine's allowing the russians to advance faster than maybe the russians would have expect themselves. and then staying behind to then fight back out the russians from behind, from that, from a, from the sides as co ambush style can guerrilla war that is seeming the tactic tactics the ukrainians, given their lesser resources and less amount power. now choosing to try and push back the special events it given that situation and now some people have been able to leave of those who are left to keep residents think that they can hold out against the invention. eventual rush in advance. i think

no one can give a really kind of straight, fully kind of convincing answer to that. but i think people certainly hope so. and we've certainly heard from ukraine's politicians from present to lensky from a key of mer, former boxing world champion cliffs cove with other kids go that they are going to stay here till the last. they're not going anywhere. they're not going to evacuate to save their lives. so there's definitely a sense that people here, at least the political leadership, has its back to the war and is not going anywhere. and it's not going to go anywhere to that would crit panic among ordinary rush, ukrainian soldiers and ukraine civilians. i think lots people here are just still in shock. they're in a situation now that they're gonna see potentially a full scale war of the current. we haven't seen since world war 2 on the streets of a european capital with millions of people still here. yes. some, an estimate to 1000000 have left the vessel millions of people living in the city, and then are preparing for the opposite worse for street fighting for guerrilla warfare, and for a very, very bloody and distressing few days to come near connelly and keith,

many thanks. okay, his look now at some of the other developments in the conflict and demonstrate it took to the streets of many top all in the ukraine to protest the russian invasion . and the presence of russian forces in their town. united nations has warned. id is desperately needed in places like many topple and appeal to moscow to allow for safe passage. monitoring corridors have come under attack during previous agreed upon $65120.00 president, viola d. miss zalinski has denied moscow's allegation that keith is preparing a chemical or biological weapons attack. un security council is meeting today to discuss the accusation upon russia's request. the u. s. is wanting that moscow is making the allegation as a prepares to use such weapons in ukraine itself. european union ladies are set to meet in versailles, france for a 2nd day talks on the war in ukraine. leaders are deliberating on the blocks

dependence on russian natural gas and oil, as well as the defense capability. former german chancellor gerhard schroeder, is in moscow to meet with me for the is known to be close friend of the russian president and is a member of the supervisory board for the state and energy giant. german government says the trip was planned without consulting firmly. was not just ukraine, people where people are fleeing, they're leaving russia to some say they're leaving due to new western sanctions, but others worry about their country track down on free speech and growing isolation with many flights out of the country. no longer taking off. many russians are heading to finland by other mates, another train bringing people to safety. but the passengers and bold, this one, a russian rather than ukrainian, with no flights to western europe,

trains on this route from st. petersburg to the finished capital, helsinki had been booked out for days. those leaving want to watch developments in their home country from the safety of abroad. and other things grow worse, i will make the decision to find the transfer where i can stay for more time. this is one of the few remaining routes from russia to the you, for many their last chance to escape the impact of western sanctions and the growing repression. thousands have already arrived. the finish re weighs have therefore decided to extend the time table between st. petersburg and has the key only those with a valid e visa are allowed to travel. people like this young woman who left the finland the

day after the russian invasion of ukraine began. she does not want to be recognized and says she is devastated by events in ukraine. i'm crying and not sleeping. seen it chance it's all started. that's how i feel it. i'm pretty sure that i'm then going back. i'm not sure if i will be able to leave them, but they sphere. ah, this fear of landing in prison for one's opinion, is leading more and more russians to flee their country on the train to helsinki. watching the w news. he is a recap of the and story from the crisis to south. us and forces are pushing close to d cranes. major cities amid fierce resistance. heavy fighting has been reported in

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