ah, ah ah, business day that will you news, lying from berlin, russia widens it's aerial attacks on ukraine. the city of me pro and central ukraine is bombed for the 1st time in this war. troops are also edging closer to the capital t. well, hundreds of thousands remain trapped in the port city of mario poll. i'm a heavy bombardment. also coming up a declaration of independence. you leaders bound to roll back reliance on russian energy. after crisis talks on the war in ukraine, they, i, a 5 year plan to face out russian fossil fuel imports. the block also promises more

military, a to key and fresh sanctions on moscow. and with russia facing growing isolation, we'll look at why many in the country are leaving their homeland for finland. ah, i'm nichol further, shaw, come to the show. russia is expanding its military campaign in ukraine, hitting new targets with bombs and missiles, strikes and intensifying attacks on cities. already under siege. civilians are bearing a growing share of the suffering. the un says over $560.00 civilians have been killed but worn that the fall toll was likely far higher. over 2 and a half 1000000 people have fled the country, the city of any pro in easton,

ukraine. and you, france, in russia's war, emergency services said at least 3 missiles hit civilian targets here, including the shoe factory for ukraine. and other sign the russia is deliberately targeting civilians. much more. we see more destruction of civilian infrastructure, murder of ukrainians by a terrorist state. the russian federation, there's always another person who for the russia also launched attacks on looks. can yvonne oh frank ifs 2 cities in western ukraine far from the main battle zones? the kremlin unilaterally announced humanitarian corridors in places, including mario paul harkins, shanna vive and sumi, the 1st residence of sumi, who managed to flee by one of the corridors, arrived in the western city of eve, or a chevy. joanna done liberally gilson. my lord, i've seen plain sleigh over us and by mar street several times. it was horrible. i

took the kids and hid it. no, only thought and seen that by he blessed him. yeah. i said i, they bombed our streets. our buildings are homes. one of the bombs kill 22 people, 3 of them children. the whole family died outside the capital, give ukrainian forces continue to battle russian troops. ukraine says military victories here have stalled. the russian offensive on the city. president vladimir lensky sounded a defiant tone. then was lewis because it's impossible to say how many days we still have to free ukrainian land lewis. but we can say we will do it because we want it. we have already reached a strategic turning point for this. we are moving towards our goal, not towards our victory, but a more in central give air raid sirens rang out again. russian forces within striking distance. the battle for key if will be decisive in the

outcome of this worn. let's bring in our corresponding mathias, bowling a. he is in key. if martinez, we just heard the ukrainian president talk about a strategic turning point in the war. are you seeing any signs of that in and around keith? well, it's hard to say, i mean, russia as far as western intelligence estimates had counted on gaining control of here within a few days and then of the whole country within 2 weeks, these 2 weeks are over and the russian advance is mostly dark, but they are still advancing, although at a very slow pace, the ukrainian military, i think there's no doubt about that has, has been impressive in holding back and fighting back russian advances. but of course they're far from driving them out of the country. and the turning point that

he's talking about might really be that ukraine has been able to hold it, has they have been also some retreats by russian forces. but overall, we seeing are the 2 sides being engaged in battles throughout the whole line lines where russia has invaded. and i don't think many experts share the view that this, that there is some kind of a turning point. things are rather look like they are going, they're heading down for a very protective, protracted battle and protracted. will russia promised to open humanitarian corridors across ukraine on friday. hasn't promised been kept as promised to open human italian corridors not only on friday, but also on thursday. on wednesday and many other times,

there have been some civilians escaping. i was yesterday at one of these so called humanitarian corridors, where people were able to escape one suburb of a key. if there was another one. the next town where there was another corridor supposed to open at this other town, the buses could not leave, but people could leave via bridge and the place where i was. so there are some possibilities to escape. but overall and there was also even a shelling. heard when, when we were there, so we according to, would basically mean sees higher and then during the sci fi civilians would be able to leave some places. events have been able to lead, but in the worst it places like geneva or like, are you, paul, that has been cut off from the rest of the world, from the rest of ukraine, a by russian forces besieged since for more than a week. now nothing has changed, nobody has been able to leave the city. the conditions are still dire and is

fighting going on around the city. this the city is being shelled by the russian forces that have laid siege. so the overall answer is why there are some, some sparks of hope and some people have been able to escape some of the places overall. this promise has not been capt. mateus berringer and kia many thanks for your update. in the 16 days since the war started, the un says more than 2500000 people have fled ukraine, nearly half of them to pull it. t w is big. it us, she'll get traveled to the city of sham mitchell, near the border with ukraine. and fall, this report ah, after escaping the war zone, their trying finally arrived in poland. hundreds of women and children is about to safety. at platform number 5, employee michelle station. either and her 2 children have been travelling for 3

days and freezing nights. they exhausted but relief to be getting help. the house in hockey was destroyed in a rush and eric saw same non osbourne. they kept bombing, i saw. yeah, it didn't stop martha. we had to take shelter in the bunker and we were trapped there for days of events when we decided to fly or the marina will you call is that all over at the job, it was horrific. the children didn't stop crying. we tried to comfort them and tried to stay calm, but inside we were also shaken up. i was what they show us blurry photos of hockey . their city in ruins here to work. their husbands are still there because they are not allowed to leave the country. 4 year old vanya doesn't understand why i call the gate. i miss my daddy. we went on the train and we were going and going and going, lee village go far. in the entrance hall, hundreds of one,

it is provide. the new arrivals was food, water, clothes, free, sim cards and advice. like olga many don't know where to go from here. know what to do next. every day, 5 to 10 trains from ukraine arrive here to station and the number continues to grow . to help all the arriving refugees has become a major challenge for the small city of tramecia, which itself has only $60000.00 citizens. the cities may are watching by coon, is coordinating the humanitarian relief effort since the warn ukraine began. he says he hasn't had more than 4 hours sleep a day. he's proud that his city as managed to provide help, but his wife. he does know how long they can keep it up. we are, we are the city whole not, you know, humanity, organization. so we will be not to do this for a, for a long time, or for forever. you know, just we tried talk with some organization to help us for

a long period of time. he, he tells us, is to quickly relocate the refugees to other cities. all guy has finally decided to continue her journey to war. so before a train lease, she addresses all nay to states. mcwilliam was without the trip. now i want to tell them to impose in no fly zone, because our families are still there with my parents, my brother, who is our husband or something. i want my family to survive. i want the bombing to stop and he took it with them with the summer thrush on the ribbon. once in was oh, that plans to call her husband and her parents. she doesn't have the strength yet because she's afraid they might not answer. and we can now speak jolina asked or cause she is deputy director of the ukrainian red cross, and she joins us from benita in central ukraine. welcome, alina, the last time we spoke to you here on d. w, you were in a suburb of keith, but i understand you had to flee. can you tell us what happened? what do you mean?

yes, that's true. i was in my house, got close to 100 villages. it's not far from here for around 30 kilometers from there. well, the place the location was a scary one because every day we saw me styles flying over us to the military airport. not far from us, but at one lake, there was one moment when the new style hit the residential area and destroyed completely 5 houses. and it's exactly like a couple of kilometers from us. so we decided that we are the next. that was very stressful. i'm pregnant, 8 months there are risks of delivering a baby to 2 months in advance because of the constant stress. that is why we fled the next morning. so now i'm in central ukraine, although we have here air raid sirens, but no major, no bombing at the moment. things good. do you have any news on how evacuation efforts are going?

we just heard from our correspondent that the so call humanitarian corridors are really holding. well, yes sir, although i'm sitting in it, but i'm working 24 hours a day from here, coordinating with the rest of their growth in volunteers. and we had problems with the green of so called monitoring corridors a last week this week. but in a couple, in a couple of these days, these days, 3 days since 3 days ago, they call it or seem to be working. although i cannot say that they are efficient way, 100 percent, for instance, with job this is not far from being there. there have been several attempts of organizing recorded your from the 3rd attempt. they worked for together with a mental institution. we as

a red cross of ukraine, managed to create people from the from butcher and from other cities neighboring cities these days. when speaking about other teachers of ukraine, the green corridors, they're also partially functioning. and for instance, there is an agreement that today will be a green quoted order from you. this is hard to reach and the door opened and then it closed immediately because the shooting continued on with money. well, this is a disaster, or we have haven't been able to organize the court or from the 4th attempt. and we know that even the route was prepared. it was the mind of the military equipment was removed from the people started moving on this route. and then shooting began at the civilians. so the corridor had to close. so if you're not able to reach the civilians that are trapped in mario full. yes, we can not reach them. although we have

a small success in the past 2 days to get to with our colleagues, we evacuated for 350000 people already. so that's a small victory with money. what we cannot reach into the city. i was alena still close deputy director of the ukrainian red cross. thank you so much for your time and stay safe thinking. meanwhile, e leaders seem to be drawing lessons of their own from this complicated situation. they are in since the russian invasion of ukraine. they say they're working on a plan to phase out in ports of russian fossil fuels. speaking after a 2 day summit in versailles e u commission chief, it was a funder line, said a 2027 deadline to end imports of russian oil gas and coal french president monro. my call also outlined an aide package of half a 1000000000 euros for keith, including more military assistance. but leaders stopped short of bass tracking

e u membership for ukraine. some from the line rate are rated that russia's invasion of ukraine threatens the energy security of all of europe. this crisis has indeed made us face up to our responsibilities in the face of a new reality. first, our duty to continue ensuring reliable, secure, and affordable supply of energy to european consumers. in the mid term, this means getting rid of our dependency on russian gas by diversification of supply by massively investing and renewables. and for more on that, i'm joined now by the w corresponding barbara vessel inverse thigh, where this informal use summit came to an end today. barbara strategic autonomy, energy security is the e u, admitting there were 2 naive and making themselves so dependent on russia. yes,

they are admitting it in a manner like wrong. the french president who had during he came to office 5 years ago been already talking about in more autonomy in europe. more independence to sort of be more self reliant. he had this, i told you so moment he could hardly hardly keep himself form from reiterating that . so yes, he was proven right in many other countries, in particular, germany where proven to be very naive, the, to trusting in their relations was russia. and to trusting that good economic relations would relate into a close political and reliable political relationship. so all of this has been thrown down the drain. now all this is gone and they have to completely reoriented their industrial policy, the energy policy, and their do political stand because they have recognized that everything they've done. and the few years in that regard was just not right. and this is what they're

doing. now they're trying to become more self reliant. of course, they have to have a new energy policy. the whole green revolution will have to be sort of really speeded up, but, and that's the big button. this nicole. all of this is not helping ukraine in the short run. this is about the you showing up its own future. but this is not what really the ukranian government and the ukrainian people are expecting from europe. at this time. ukraine wanted to see a fast tracking of its application to become an e u member. at the end of this summer, was there any movement on that? there was no real movement. there was a diplomatic formula that they would be on the track to accession later and be in principle. welcome in the european family. there was a fierce battle about this man could,

can hardly imagine it during all of last night between european leaders, eastern european heads of state and government pushing for a more it better gesture and more direct gesture. better answer for, for ukraine said membership bid entered the western ones am particularly from the northern some of the northern european countries saying, no, we can't really do this said this has never been fast tracked before. there are rules they and so on and so forth. so they didn't give in, and in the end they won. and so what the key of his left was at the moment is a relatively hollow diplomatic wording. and you leaders are facing increasing pressure at home to ramp up assistance to ukraine. briefly, if you can, what more are they willing to do for ukraine? there's plenty of assistance. they're going to give more money. a 500000000 more will are proposed to be given full military aid. there is, of course,

all the humanitarian aid they can manage to get into this country. it's logistically, very difficult. they have opened their doors, refugees and they said were willing to take in everybody. but the one thing they're not doing. and this is the main point really is they had not ready to for a boycott of russian oil and gas. and this is what really would put it put in a war machine. because this is he, it is fed by what europe is paying every day up to 1000000000 euros for their imports from russian energy. so this is the last thing and they're not yet they're, they're not willing to do it at this point in time. maybe later, but not no, typically a corresponding buffer available. thank you so much. faced with western sanctions, a crackdown on free speech and increasing isolation. a growing number of russians are now leaving their country, but with many flights of broad no longer taking off. some are having to leave by

other means, 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 have been booked out for days. those leaving want to watch developments in their home country from the safety of abroad. and the 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 roots from russia to the you, for many their last chance to escape the impact of west on 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 hesitating 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 since it's all started. that's how i feel. i'm pretty sure that i'm then going back. i'm not sure if i will be able to leave them. but this fear, 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.

let's turn out to dw corresponding terry shells. she's in brussels, terry, these russians fleeing safe inland as a safe haven, a place, a freedom and peace. but fins themselves are increasingly worried that the security may be threatened by their next door neighbor, aren't they? that's true it. and i have to say it takes a lot to spook finns, you know, they live with this border. that's 1340 kilometers, are more than 830 miles. and they've even fought off the soviet union and maintained their independence in world war 2. so it really takes a lot to rattle them. but now vladimir putin has done it. and one of the ways that we see this is in the way that bins view potential nato membership. they've always been against it preferring to be non aligned and saying, you know, we've got these partnerships with sweden. we've got partnerships with the united states. and this is enough for us, but to now after the invasion of ukraine, you saw pulls go from the high twenty's to 53 percent virtually overnight,

that is unseen. it has never ever seen a jump like that. so you can tell that the, the erratic behavior of lateral putin whom the fins think they know pretty well with this long border. this has really scared them what would change for finland, especially in the relationship with russia, if they were to seek a nato membership. now, what would change for finland is that would, it would have the article 5 guarantee of nato. that means that if finland were attacked, all the other nato members would come to defend it. but vladimir putin has threatened finland and sweden, both with what he said would be serious military consequences if they dared to join the alliance. we should point out that just because the polling of the public is up doesn't mean the government is in favor of it, or that this would happen any time soon. it just shows that the erratic behavior, that the fact that moscow would would invade a country unprovoked has made them think again about it. val mirrors the landscape,

the ukrainian president is demanding more robust assistance from nato. is there any indication member states are willing to broaden their response? many of the things that ukraine has asked for are certainly non starters at nieto. the no fly zone of course is, is what you would really like and that's not being considered. they also will not put troops on the ground in ukraine, but nato defense ministers are meeting next week here in brussels. and they will talk about what support might be possible to give to ukraine. but i have to say that their priority will be continuing to shore up their own eastern flank against possible moves by moscow. so there is really isn't much coming for ukraine from nato, but individual allies do continue to provide support. you've seen a lot of that from the united states, from poland, from the you can, canada, and that will continue. but we're not likely to see big moves from nato itself. dw, corresponded in nato expert terry schultz from brussels. thanks so much. and let's

now take a look at some other developments in the world today. saudi blogger, right, but dolly has been released from prison after 10 years. that's according to his wife. the activist was detained back in 2012 for advocating for an end to the influence of religion on public life in saudi arabia. he was given a 10 year jail sentence on the charge of insulting islam. chili's new president has been sworn into office at a ceremony in the port city of but, but i. e. so the left wing, former student leader gabrielle burridge, is the youngest president in the history of chiller. he promised to oversee a political and economic renewal of the nation, which has seen massive protests over economic inequality in recent years. and germany's health minister calona about has warned that the pandemic is far from over with daily cases of cobit 19 once again spiking the country has seen an

increase in daily cases for the past 10 days. recording 250000 cases over the past 24 hours alone. fuselage. you're watching d. w. news here is a quick look back at the main story from the crisis we're following for you today. the central ukrainian city of ne pro becomes a target of russian air assaults for the 1st time. emergency services say an apartment block and kindergarten were hit. fresh and troops are also edging closer to the capital peeve. hundreds of 1000 remain draft in the port city of mario poll . i'm a heavy bombardment for watching the de leon news from berlin, coming up next was made in germany with a look at the fall out of the war in ukraine. i'll be back with more news at the top of the hour. stay with us. you can always find much more analysis on the war and all the other top stories today on our website. d, w dot com. make sure to also follow up on twitter. you find us at dw news on the

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