for its march 30th on dw, with ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. russia widens its aerial attacks on ukraine. i and kias, braces as troops, edge, closer, new satellite images appear to show artillery, find it firing towards the residential areas. also coming up, the united nations is calling the fastest growing refugee crisis since world war 2 . we report from the polish ukrainian border where thousands of refugees are

crossing into poland every day. and you leaders vow to roll back reliance on russian energy. they also promised more military aid to ukraine bank. they turned down key. it's called for fast track you membership. ah, i'm marrying evans dean. welcome to the program. russian forces appear to be regrouping for a possible assault on key of authorities in ukraine. say rocket attacks, have destroyed an air base near the town of a seal key in the key of region. it's oil depot was also hit. russia's defense ministry says its army is continuing its attacks on a broad front. earlier ukraine and officials released cctv footage of what they say

is the mayor of the city of multiple being abducted, which you can see at the top of the screen here. while the latest intelligence suggests that russian troops have advanced to within 30 kilometers of q, ah, sunrise in the capitol has become synonymous with the sound of gunfire. and air raid sirens. these satellite images appear to show russian forces regrouping for a possible assault on keith. the company that took them said they also show artillery, firing towards residential areas, as well as burning homes and other buildings. russia is expanding its military campaign across other parts of ukraine. intensifying attacks on cities under siege and hitting new civilian targets with bombs and missiles strikes residents of

this eastern time and have been forced under ground yet an unusual munoz. i hope that my relatives see me, the sister, my sister, my daughter, and grand daughter. you, my grandchildren and keith in god knows where else you close are far away. come was new. i don't know where you put a war. how do you know every one into hiding? i know the hoodie so those who ventured out of their basements find their homes destroyed still they carry on with whoever's life. let's hope as may say that he has russian forces move further west. hundreds of thousands of ukrainians flee their homeland but not every one is able to with one woman. yup. was the city of mario pool is now completely surrounded by russian soldiers. and every one in sight is trapped. the

moves in the horrid that say, i say this will pain my elbow. mother, you, paul, remains besieged by the enemy oral. or is this good russian troops did not let our aid in the city opened and continue to torture. our people who did our mowing pole residence, loved her. i will try again to send food or water she on medicine in somehow with her years old war duma, the gum lamp dablin natural, amused, ah, fire fighters continue to try and save people from the rubble. ukrainian officials say more than 1500 people have been killed. there is little chance that the ukrainians inside mario pull will see peace return to what's left of their homes anytime soon. well for more we can go straight to key of now and speak to the devil is correspondent mathias willinger. hello

t mathias. so we understand that there were air raid sirens again in the morning. tell us what was it like over night in keene? give yeah. last night was like any other night and kia, there were several times that the air raid sirens went off. i think it was 4 times last night. however, people have gotten used to that already. some people spend the night the whole night because of the curfew. in metro stations, others just stay in their apartments. um, so far the city center hasn't really been hit badly. um are they have been a few bombs coming down on the city in the beginning. but most of the fighting remains in the outskirts of the city. so people have gotten used to some kind of a more relaxed vitalistic attitude towards the air raid sirens and

are just waiting them out. no, it is. are there some indications that russia has somehow reassessed that strategy in the last 48 hours? i believe they are all we are hearing this from the track spurts. one 3rd thing that they've observed is that this tank column, the 60 kilometer tank column that was stuck on their way to keith has been dispersed, presumably into the woods. we have also seen some mark troops being withdrawn, probably also to regroup. and we have seen this intensified shelling off or bombing of other cities um and, and more air strike. so it's, it would be, it would not be a surprise that if they regroup, because their strategy so far has not lead them anywhere near their goals. um, but of course we are now observing and trying to find out what would be next for the people here in key if and in other cities of ukraine was also like to ask you

about the mayor of the city of my little paul yvon federals. we mentioned he was abducted is anything known about his faith or how he's doing well, this is what you call a force before and force disappearance and that's exactly why nothing is known about his fate. he has just disappeared. we can only guess what's happening to him . these gases would be very bad for him. we know that these, that, that, that, that, as russian forces in the past, but also are these self proclaimed republics that are supported by russia and, and on which some of the actions might that are happening now in these occupied charities are modeled, had a very bad history of a torture of disappearing people and this is most likely what we

must fear for now that he is being detained somewhere and tortured. but we do not have any information on where and what exactly what exactly is happening. the people of manitoba half come out after this disappearance again and are protested the russian occupying forces. so there is still a quite a spirit of resistance in these, in these areas. but it seems as if russia was going now, it was moving on now to applying some kind of repressive strategy to keep these voices down. there was equally as correspondent, mathias brinninger in care mathias. we appreciate your reporting well elsewhere in ukraine, there are concerns that russian forces also have their sites on the city of odessa in the south west. sh. the key port city on the black sea has so far been spared. fighting officials suggest though the situation could change with russia military

planning to attack by land and sea and death is residents are preparing for the worst with people signing up to defend their city. wendy deleon correspondent, alexander phenomena is in odessa and she joined us now for the latest from there. so, alexandra, a, we understand that odessa has been targeted by the russian military for more than 2 weeks. can you explain to us the strategic importance of the city? well, odessa is so tremendous, tremendous strategic importance for the ukrainians and for the russians as well. and that makes the city a likely russian targets in capturing or just as poor to russia would be able to cut off for ukraine from the black sea, from important trade routes. and we also should not to forget that we're taking

over the control of odessa would be a big win form for the russian propaganda. because of this, a city has a ties with russia going back for centuries. it was founded by a russian empress. catherine, the grades and many people here still speak russian, so we can imagine that a russian forces or the russian government would be trying to present it as a win for their propaganda. however, we also have to say that people that i've been speaking with told me that despite those deep seated connections, they ready to welcome the russian troops with fierce resistance. right, so as we've said, many people do fear that the worst is yet to come in odessa. how specifically our residents preparing for the possible russian onslaught? well, residents that i spoke with that told me, they are ready for whatever may come. and when you look around,

we are now in the historic center of odessa, you see that the city has been turned into a fortress. there are a lot of checkpoints, there are barricades build up a build of sand bags, but also muscle and, and to we also know that there are tank trips a place at strategically important places. he, in odessa and, and many, he is still hope that you know, that it's not gonna happen, but of course, all of them are prepared for a potential russian is sold. and now i'm sandra one about just ordinary life activities. are these continuing our, our shops open? are people going to work well, shops are open, schools are close. we learned that if you, for example, go shopping, that's not the case that they would tell you you are not allowed to buy special

goods. however, at the same time, we also have to mention that literally almost half of the city has already left our desa fleeing to other parties to other parts of the country. so the moot is quite tense. but as i said, people here told me that they are ready for whatever may come next. he'd have a correspondent, alexandra phenomena in odessa for us. alexandra, thank you so much. well, in the 16 days since the war began, the united nation says more than 2500000 people have fled ukraine, nearly half of them to poland. d, w is brigitte, a sugar traveled to the city of shami shall near the border with ukraine, and she filed this report ah, after escaping the war zone, their trained finally arrived in poland. hundreds of women and children is

a back to safety. at platform number 5 in samuel 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 just seen us, not bombay, kept bombing. i say it didn't stop mother. 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 knew where you call a little while ago at the oh jack, it was horrific. the children didn't stop crying like we tried to comfort them, had tried to stay calm, but inside we were also shaken with ours. they show as blurry photos of hockey, their city in ruins. 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,

lee village go far gone. in the entrance hall, 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 sized to 10 frames from ukraine arrived 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 trim, michelle, which itself has only $60000.00 citizens. the cities may are watching by coolness, coordinating the humanitarian relief effort since the worn 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 long time or for,

for every rogers, which i talk with some organization to her boss for long grown fuel turn. key 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 leaves, she addresses all nature states mcwilliam with without 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 it. okay. but that was the summer's thrashing on the river. once in was oh, there plans to call her husband and her parents. she doesn't have the strength yet . because she's afraid they might not answer for more or we can speak to chris meltzer. he's a spokesman for the un refugee agency, the you and hcr. chris, thanks for joining us out. we understand that you've been on the polish ukrainian

border for the last 2 weeks. and we know that.