ah ah ah, this is d, w. news live from bourbon. russian forces extend the aerial assault as explosions are reported in more ukrainian cities. troops are also edging closer to the capital, keep with intense fighting in the eastern suburbs while the port city of matthew paul remains under siege. amid heavy bombardment. also coming up after days of heavy shelling and broken cease fires, some residents of your pin northwest of kiva, finally able to please the w correspondent that he is pulling up. we'll bring us

that story. and germany's former chancellor on a surprised trip to moscow yard. schroeder is in the russian capital to talk with his old friend vladimir putin. german government says it has no knowledge of the trip. ah, i'm anthony howard walked into the program. russian forces are extending their ear strikes on ukrainian cities, emergency services say a kindergarten and apartment building were hit in the 1st aerial bombardment of the ne pool in st. forgive correct. meanwhile, russian troops are pushing to encircle, keep with heavy fighting, taking place, just east of the capitol. they also continuing their siege of the south eastern city of mattie upa. high level talks on thursday, failed to bring a ceasefire. as he crane and civilians continued to suffer ambushed on the

road to keys 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 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 sir. ah, not in a position at this point to establish as his fire. 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 an end 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 look railing in the fog, 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 us used to, to get us leverage. also said 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 had now been

evacuated from 5 different ukrainian cities. but face wise to allow more residents to flee continued to be broken by russian troops. in f pin northwest of keith, people have been fling amid heavy bombardment as russian forces advance on the capital. now a brief pause in shelling has allowed more residence to escape, a correspondent that he is billing her. is there finally voting a bus to safety? these refugees have just come out of the fighting zone. northwest of keel dowdy 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 to pina. saba north, west of kias has been one of the worsted places in this war. these fires have been agreed and broke in 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 to 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 was just the law office of that or if it's difficult and terrifying, the roads are destroyed, they're destroyed military equipment everywhere. dead bodies lie around this. we saw this while walking. it's difficult for everybody including old women. it's very

frightening. many, i have no idea where to go next. this kindergarten was closed after the war began. it's now hosting people who fled the 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 and the whole retirement homes have been evacuated, the refugees can rest here for a few days. see when you call the national could catch the we 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 europe. as evacuation of peen 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 european yes people are getting out. we were there yesterday seeing people getting across that destroyed bridge. and it's been that i'm sure you've seen images for people being carried in wheelchairs on stretchers or families with their pets. but very little 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 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 clubs away from it,

a pin. and some of the worst that fighting things are kind of eerily 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 prov, 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 jonas 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 this 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 of images on social media of russian tanks, russian almond vehicles being destroyed in what looks to be the suburbs of care of m. o, experts from abroad. slightly aghast, that the russians would send those kind of units forward towards give, without much more in the way of back up. and in lots of reasons, the ukraine right now, it seems like the cranes 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 her, from the sides as, as can ambush style can guerilla war that is seeming the tactic tactics the ukrainians, given their lesser resources and less amount of power. now choosing to try and push back the source of the votes it given that situation. and now some people have been able to lead of those who are left to keep residents think that they can hold out

against the invention. eventual brush 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 politicians from present to lensky from a key of mer, former boxing world champion cliff cove without concur 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 all just still in shock. they are 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, but this'll millions of people living in the city. and then our preparing for the absolute worst for street fighting for guerrilla warfare, and for a very,

very bloody and distressing few days to come. nic connelly and keith, many thanks is a look at some of the other developments in the conflict. now, demonstrators took to the streets of mili topple and you tried to protest the russian invasion. and the presence of russian forces in the town. united nations has warned, aid is desperately needed in places like many topple and appealed to moscow to allow safe passage. humanitarian corridors have come under attack during previous agreed upon cease fires, rattle ukrainian president vladimir zalinski has denied moscow's allegation. the key is preparing a chemical or biological weapons attack un security council meeting today to discuss the accusation upon russia's request. the u. s. is born in moscow as making the allegation, as it prepares to use such weapons in ukraine. european union leaders are set to meet in versailles, france for

a 2nd. i have talked on the war in ukraine laser deliberating on the blocks dependence on russian natural gas and oil, as well as defense capability. lynn, russia, there are some signs that opposition to the invasion of ukraine is beginning to form with almost every russian media outlet under state control, eddie war voices a struggling to be heard. and the put regime has a history of suppressing descent by any and all means. alexander live in co, former russian spy and putin critic was poisoned on the streets of london in 2006 with the radioactive substance. polonium, british legal investigation found russia responsible for the killing. if an anchors widow. marina has been a leading critic of putin and the russian state, echoing her late husband's call, that they can silence one person, but not the whole world. she's now calling for a stop to rushes war against you crying on

joy now from london by marvin. i live in co thank you very much for making the time i wonder sanctions that were introduced in the u. k. after your husband's poisoning and another attack with a chemical weapon in solsbury with the sanctions effective then, and are these new u. k. and you sanctions on russian oligarchs, effective. now we can see that it was not a success, a fall, not after 2006 when my husband, alexander lithonian goes poison. not after 2018 because what we are watching now in the life is killing people destroying sieges. it's absolutely devastating. and i just need to all the can't wait because watching the video game in the same position, we allow this monster. i can call him in a different way. just just do it all in sanctions. what happened now of course is

much stronger, but it should happen before not now. now we need to do more, more to stop this war. brushing opposition leader alexa in the valley is in prison, but still communicating from me so to his followers, to think opposition, remain strong, involved in your view, and could it potentially overthrow put opposition? it's very important, but they need to talk to all people on the russian people inside to russia, outside of russia, and supporting by or international community. good. stop it. because people been brainwashed for last 20 years and even talk to russian people in russia. now somebody still believe it's not the war, it's just military exercise. and now when to see how many people died already and how many is going to die, we just need to make all possible to stop it. and again,

not only belong to a position to all people in russia, an outside profession, when they 1st so many hurdles. what can ordinary russians still do to show their descent in the most effective way? you think what might change a real life not in russia? stop walking, go outside on the seat to present the all against this war. because what which is doing and we need to, pruitt, he's not only destroying ukraine. he's not only destroying west. he just ruined his own country. in 2 weeks, all russian economy completely collapsed. people now started to remember what it happened many years ago when this was soviet union, when it was not enough foot in now it need to be sure more and more people need to go outside of the street. stop support this regime. asking mothers who sent

their children for this war, not allowed to do this because you will lose yourself. you will not even be able to give them a service funeral service. because if people died in ukraine and russia denied to take these bodies back to the country. marina dis, information has been a weapon that russia has shown it can use. is it a destructive weapon? and what is the best defense against it? it's difficult to say because the mist they're still getting on collapsed, how many services used to work before and so yet union been canceled not rash and there is a, b, b, c. it's a lot of service in germany. stop being in russian language to russia because everybody decide it's finished. it's finished of cold war. but it was a huge mistakes because people who been behind overseas war now, bill just waiting for the city ranch and it was compensation lenses,

all proper information left. russia. it was all taking by force by this information, by brainwashing, you know, for all this 20 years or fe, channels controlling by state or independent jones, just closing and closing and causing. and this is now effect. we have these huge population completely brainwashed. and of course, we have to do something and to think truth is the most important from london, marina, if an income thanks so much for time. thank you. a former german chancellor. gerhard schroeder is in moscow to meet with vladimir putin. florida is known to be a close friend of the russian president and is on the board for the state and energy. john throws nick a few days ago, chancellor oliver shots had urged slurred to step away from his post at russian

energy companies. the german government says it was not consulted about your district and had no knowledge. he was going to moscow on join now by the debased chief political correspondent, melinda crime, melinda this trip by the ex chancellor. gerhard schroeder came as a bit of a surprise. what do we know about sure to strip to moscow and just how it came about? indeed, it's quite unprecedented. what we know is mostly unconfirmed. politico 1st broke the story yesterday, reporting that ukraine had reached out to ask the former chancellor to help mediate . and what's important to know is what you mentioned that in fact, gary hutch florida has strong ties to russia and vladimir putin and serves in those supervisory positions with major russian energy giants. so the ukranian ambassador here in germany had suggested that schroeder might be able to play a mediation role last week,

but he's now saying that he didn't initiate this current. this visit at any rate shorter seems to have traveled to istanbul at the beginning of this week. to meet there with the ukranian politician who is a member of the country's delegation for the peace talks that were held in turkey. and at then the former chancellor reached out to moscow and flew on there with his wife. and we do have one piece of evidence for that part of the story. a photo posted yesterday on instagram bi schroeder's wife. so you should or kim showing herself with the kremlin in the background and prayer in loading con, that she added to that photo. and media reporting that the chancellor held a talks yesterday with the russian president. what that, what the results were and whether there will be more is unclear at this time. i can only imagine this discomfort involved, but what is the german government saying publicly about this? well, as you mentioned,

they said they were not informed in advance. they did not agree to the meeting any way, nor did they play any role, all of which is quite extraordinary. nonetheless, some s p d members, including the head of the social democratic party, which is the party of chancellor. all actually have said that they think any initiative is welcome at this point if it could help to achieve a humanitarian see fire chancellor show speaking on the sidelines that you summit in their side said that he absolutely did not want to comment. he has been trying to create some distance to the former chancellor, but officials like austria's chancellor karl nay, hama said that they also agree any attempt is welcome. that's why briefly, melinda, how likely is that the true to can achieve anything? well, you know, given how little the piece talks in bella rose and the high level meeting yesterday in turkey has achieved, it seems hard to imagine

a different outcome here. perhaps the most relevant question is what this could achieve. forget how to go to himself. he has been under harsh attack for those very lucrative connections to russian energy giants that we mentioned, and undoubtedly this outreach is intended to help redeem him. and in fact, politicos executive editor spoke to d w yesterday and said, quote, i think this is very much that he's there on his own behalf, the deputy chief political correspondent, melinda crime. thanks so much. well meanwhile, the city government of berlin says it is struggling to cope with the large number of ukrainian refugees arriving in the german capital. 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. but said and there was no law and people tried to help us and that

i had all hell. what can he door and us as a avid yvonne help and the every month i told gary 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 some years ago to guess that the family was supposed to go to mac the berg last night, where they had been assigned to her. and after that had too long days hanging around. i couldn't see them going to mac to book again in the evening. no. 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 love that. and we said that because we have an upper floor with a guest room in a private bathroom. we were happy to make this available still in the nita so grade

and seeing this people its heart rending, had some real blake and he doesn't. he may be, will be there one day and we'll need a hand and someone will. how pause. you have to stick together on, i'm with autism, 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 wilson. 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 high 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 united nations has been calling for better protection of the grants. cultural sights as russia continues its assault on

the country at a museum in the besieged city of ha, heath workers are trying to save one of the of you grants, most valuable art collections. harkey, ukraine's 2nd biggest city i center of industry and culture in places now hardly recognizable amid the destruction, the harkey of art museum, still standing. it's windows and doors were shattered. when russian forces bombed a nearby target, the museums director found her office in ruins. who are a, he is, was russia a very civilized country? you know, right now it's the culture do re high culture. you look at them when we see this engine, we understand how high that culture is. typically, 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. if they

are only an thing will produce just an irony of hate that we should be saving russian artists in little paintings by russian artists from their own nation older . it's just barbaric barbara. woman like this work by russian master eelie, a rape in one of 25000 artworks in the museum's 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 the last month i need the appeal. thank you. bye. i just don't understand what kind of a person one must be to kill people like finally destroy architectural landmarks. art masterpieces, i have no words yet. florian, 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.

ukrainian athletes have made another appeal for peace. at the bay, jean paralympics several members of ukraine's national paralympic committee, observed a minutes of silence for the end to the war spike grappling with rushes, invasion of their homeland. the ukrainian team has thrived at the paralympics. they've claimed 6 gold medals, putting them 3rd in the middle table behind china and canada. today ukraine will have more middle chances the teams. resilience has been applauded by the president of the international paralympic committee. in watching d. w news. his a recap of the main stories from the crisis. russian forces pushing close to t friends of major cities amid fierce resistance. heavy fighting has been reported in the suburbs, east of kings. russian troops are continuing to shobel se in city of money. i level talks on thursday failed to yield a c spot from a german chancellor. gerhard schroeder is in moscow to meet with vladimir potent

sure. it has been a close friend of the russian president for years and is on the board of russian energy. john closed, the german government says it had no knowledge of sure it is true. watching daily news from then i'll be back with more news at the top of the stay with with

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