ah, ah ah ah, this is dw news line from berlin, rochelle widens is ariel attacks on ukraine. the city of ne pro, in central ukraine is bombed for the 1st time in this war. troops are also edging closer to the capitol, keith, while hundreds of thousands remain trapped in the port city of mario pole amid heavy bombardment. also coming up a declaration of independence, you leaders vow to roll back reliance on russian energy. after crisis talks on the

war. today i a 5 year plan to phase out russian fossil fuel import. the blog also promises more military a to keep and 1st sanction on moscow. ah, i'm nicole foolish. welcome to the show. we start with russia expanding its military campaign and 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 warned that the full told was likely far higher. over 2 and a half 1000000 people have already fled the country. the city of guinea 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. another 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 that russia also launched attacks on looks going, 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 pl, harkey of shen of eve and sumi, the 1st residence of sumi who managed to flee by one of the corridors, arrived in the western city of levine, or chevy. joanna done liberally gilson. my lord, i've seen planes fly over us and bomb our street several times. it was horrible. i took the kids and hid no, only thought and seen that by he blessed him. yeah. i did,

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. them was lewis because i think it's impossible to say how many days we still have to free ukrainian land leo. but we can say we will do it because we want it. we have already reached a strategic turning point visit. we are moving towards our goal, not towards our victory, but 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 earlier, i spoke too much,

has been in cave and asked him if russia had kept his promise to open humanitarian corridors on friday. or shars promised to open you monetary, in the 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 ki, 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 by a 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 ceasefire, civilians would be able to leave someplace as 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 kept in a 16 day since the war started. un says more than 2500000 people have fled ukraine, nearly half of them to poland. italy is big it a shoak. i travel to the city of fish, mitchell, near the border with ukraine and found this report. after escaping the war zone, they trained finally arrived in poland. hundreds of women and children to set back

to safety. at platform number 5 in samuel station. either enter to it has 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 tossing us northbound, they kept bombing, i say, it didn't stop martha. we had to take shelter in the bunker and we were trapped there for days of em. all. that's when we decided to flee were the more you know, will you call a little while ago at the job? it was horrific. the children didn't stop crying. we tried to comfort them, had tried to stay calm, but inside we were also shaken with alice. 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 geek. i miss my daddy. we went on the train and we were going and going

and going play village go far gone. in the entrance hall, a hundreds of wanted to 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 arrived here at the station and the number continues to grow. to help all the arriving refugees has become a major challenge for the small city or for michelle, which itself has only $60000.00 citizen. the cities may i watch it 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 worried he does know how long they can keep it up. we are, we are the city whole lot, you know, humanity organization. so we will be not to do this for a, for

a long time. or for forever, you know, just which i talk with someone transition to her boss for a long serious turn key he tells us is to quickly relocate the refugees to other cities. all guy is finally decided to continue her journey to war. so before i train lease, she addresses all nature states. mcwilliam was, goes out the ship. 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 hospital there. i want my family to survive. i want the bombing to stop and he took it with them to some instruction on every once in was oh, are there plans to call her husband and her parents? she doesn't have the strength yet, because she's afraid they might not answer. you leaders have concluded a 2 day summit and verse i aimed at coordinating the blocks response to rushes aggression the unveiled to plan to reduce the eas dependents on russian oil and gas

and planted more military aid to ukraine. but leaders stopped short of offering ukraine a fast pass into the you the talks in verse i went on late into the night. the big question was how the e u should respond to ukraine's request for a fast track, accession process. the leaders know the pressure is high, but so is the danger of making a promise that no one wants to honor later. the result of those talks a statement the next morning, confirming ukraine as part of the european family, something that can be interpreted in many ways. i'm happy with the result. i think it's a green light for ukraine and, and certainly we have to give you great hope. but this sir, are very dark times. sounds on the we all agree on ukraine's path to europe, but an urgent process for a country maya in war without regard for the usual criteria. the answer is no. i pulse in the e you leaving the door to membership open at least. but ukraine will have to follow the same lengthy procedure as other candidate nations. the

e u leaders also agreed on immediate support for ukraine with more financial aid to buy weapons. they made the proposal over to double our contribution with 500000000 more on mandatory warfare countries. geographically close to russia, had called for a complete and immediate stop to the import of russian oil and gas. but they didn't get their way with germany saying it just wasn't doable. but what we will do is move away from that fuel dependence as quickly as possible. the leaders inverse i chose 2027 as the target for achieving that goal. and for more a lot, i'm joined now by the delay of corresponding barbara vessel in versailles where this informal in you summit came to an end to day barbara strategic autonomy. energy security is the e, you admitting they were too naive and making themselves so dependent on russia. yes, they are admitting it and emanuel mac wrong. the french president who had, during,

he came to office 5 years ago or been already talking about it more autonomy in europe, more independence to sort of be more self reliant. he had this, i told you so moment he could carpet, hardly a keep himself form for i'm 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 growth 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've quite have to completely reoriented their industrial policy, the energy policy and their jew 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 e. u shoring 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. it 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, well, come in the european family, and 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 on. so for ukraine said, membership bid entered the western ones in particularly from the northern some of the northern european countries saying, no, we can't really do this, has never been fostering 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 is 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 going to give more money. if 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. 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 are not ready to go for a boycott of russian oil and gas. and this is what really would put it put into a war machine. because this is fed by what europe is paying every day up to 1000000000 euros for the 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. take away a corresponding buffer available. thank you so much. let's now take a look at some other stories we're following for you today. last minute demands by the kremlin are threatening to derail the iran nuclear talks. the e u announced that negotiations would be put on pause even though a new deal is close to being finalized and saudi blogger rave. but dolly has been released from prison after 10 years. that is, 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. that's it for me say june for the latest business headlights. thanks for your company with .