ah, ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. russia widens, is ariel a tax on ukraine, a and the capital kia braces as troops edge closer you satellite images appear to show artillery, find it firing towards residential areas. also on the show, the un is calling in the fastest growing refugee crisis since world war 2. we

report from the polish ukrainian border where thousands of refugees are crossing it into poland every day. and the leader is about to roll back reliance on russian energy. they also promised that more military aid to ukraine bond turned down key is called for fast track you membership ah a married evanston, thanks for joining us. russian forces appear to be regrouping for a possible assault on key of authorities in ukraine. fav rocket attacks have destroyed an air base near the town of a few key in the key of regions. oil depot was also had brushes. defense ministry says its army is continuing its attacks on a broad front earlier ukrainian officials release c c t v footage. or what they say is the mayor of the city of my little being abducted,

which you can see at the top of the screen. or the latest intelligence suggest that russian troops have advanced to within 30 kilometers of q. sunrise in the capital 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 tire and have been forced underground. nonuse for me, no. my relatives see me, the sister, my sister, my daughter and granddaughter, my grandchildren and keep in god knows where else your clothes are far away. come was new. i don't know where you put a war, everyone into hiding. because those who ventured out of their basement find their homes destroyed still they carry on with web his life. let's hope as they say, that he has russian forces move further west. hundreds of thousands of ukrainians flee their homeland but not every one is able to me up was the city of mario pool is now completely surrounded by russian soldiers. and every one in sight is trapped the most in the horrid that said,

i say this will pain my doable mother. your paul remains besieged by the enemy. war or is his good russian troops did not lead our aid and of a city opened and continued to torture. our people who gain our maria pol residence loved her. i will try again to send food or water. she and medicine in somehow with her years will ward woman the gum, ma'am, to blend natural, amuse, 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 paul will see peace return to what's left of their homes any time 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 keep 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 . so far, the city center hasn't really been hit badly. um, are there 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 mathias,

are there some indications that russia has somehow reassessed that strategy in the last 48 hours? and i believe there are, we are hearing this from military experts. one 3rd thing that they've observed is that this tank column, the 60 kilometer tank column that was stuck on their way to cave 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, offer, or bombing of other cities um and, and more air strike. so it would be, it would not be a surprise that if they regroup, because their strategy so far has not led 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. i also like to ask you

about the mayor of the city of little paul, yvonne federal. we mentioned he was abducted is anything known about his faith or 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 occupy charities are modeled how to 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 have come out after this disappearance again and are protested the russian occupying forces so. so there is still a quite a spirit of resistance in these, in these areas. but it seems as if russia was going now and was moving on now to applying some kind of repressive strategy to keep these voices down. that was the w correspondent, mathias brinninger in care of mathias. we appreciate your reporting. well elsewhere in ukraine, there are concerns the russian forces also have their science on the city of death found in the southwest thinking port city on the black sea has so far been spare fighting, but officials, they just the situation could change with rushes, military planning to attack by land and sea. and as residents are preparing for the

worst with people signing up to defend their city. legalese, correspondent, alexander phenomena is in odessa and she joins us now for the latest from there. so, alexandra, 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 desa would be a big wooden 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 de 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 winner 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 or so metal 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 that the mood is quite tense. but as i said, people here told me that they are ready for whatever may come next. he w correspondent, alexandra phenomena in odessa forest. alexandra, thank you so much. in the 16 days since the wars began, the united nation says more than 2500000 people have fled ukraine, nearly half of them to poland. t w's there get a short cut traveled to the city. if shakima near the border with ukraine and she filed this report, ah, after escaping the war zone, they're trying finally arrives in poland. hundreds of women and children is a back to safety. at platform number 5, him 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 russian error. it just seemed has not been they kept bombing. i say it didn't stop martha. we had to take shelter in the bunker and we were treated there for days of events when we decided to flee more than one were, you will, you call a little while ago at the room, jack, 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 up ours. 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.

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 of trim, michelle, which itself has only $60000.00 citizen. the cities may are watching by coon, is coordinating the humanitarian relief effort since the warren 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 work. 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 which i talk with someone transition to her boss for

a long period of time. he, he tells us, is to quickly relocate the refugees to other cities. olga has finally decided to continue her journey to war. so before a train leaves, she addresses all nay, to states, mccord you must without the shipment. i want to tell them to impose in no fly zone because our families are still there with my parents. my brother, who does 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, got plans to call her husband and her parents. she doesn't have the strength yet because she's afraid they might not answer. we're now joined by islam all dean. he is the founder of the angio team, humanity, and he is currently helping in evacuating ukrainian women and children from that south ukrainian city of nikolai of to mal dover, which is of course, ukraine's neighbor to the southwest. so salam are welcome to our program

a thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us. it looks like you are in a boss. i know you've been on the road. can you tell us? so where are you at the moment? so we, we drove from the hood towards hold of him border and now we are some kind of in the middle of the room on the wait suitable door. and as you see where the woman, the children in the bus can you describe for us and just how difficult it is right now to organize and safe evacuation of roots, what is involved? what do you have to do? so you have to get bus drivers who wants to drive oh, wants to take the risk. ah. then you need to organize this with the people at the local people there so they can bring them over the bridge. and then we back reading

them into the buses and the record driving the problem here is when we arrived in nikolai, there was bonding st because you're bumping still. and people are afraid, you know, people are. busy are traumatized their children or women, you're in the bus, it's only women and children. and the, the hardest with them is to say good bye to their fathers, to the brothers to their husbands. leave them and go like more like most of them have been crying in the, in the bus because of. busy like the leaving their loved ones behind and they don't have, they don't know where to go on with the future is are you actually able to evacuate? anyone who wants to leave the city? are there more people who want to leave and cannot? and how do you decide who you put into each bus than does depart? so there's thousands of people want to leave yesterday. when we came. we were inside in the city. we took all the people we could with buses and we drove 2 hours

after they start bumping. the people was in the bus, they start getting videos that they started bombing there in new life. then today when we arrived there was a huge line of cars driving towards the border like kilometers, 3040 kilometers, a line of cars and the we tried to organize everything which has come with the buses. we get the children were quick, fast in and go because you could, you bumping like half kilometer away from us, you can just hear the now we understand that your organization has been working with refugees, also, and other crises. how does the situation in ukraine right now compared to other refugee crisis that you've seen? like you said, it's a humanitarian crisis, as you see, but here is a little different. we, it's, it's,

it's people like on the run. but you see shops open. you see texas driving people walking and then you see people running. so it's like to find the most like were enough gems. there were recreating women and children from their there, there was just to run it towards the water go out here. it seems like it's different, some people want to stay. some people want to go like some women don't want to leave their husbands. so they just say, you know what, we stay with what happens happens. so it's, it's, it's really difficult situation. we are in because we actually try to tell them get on the bus now. and then in the last 2nd to say no, i'm staying with my husband and i don't want to leave. so it's, it's really emotional year for the situation is, is really bad, really, really bad. so i'm on dean, founder of the angio team. humanity, thank you so much for speaking with us and also for the incredible work that you're doing. do stay safe and well here is

a look at some other developments in the conflict german, 4 minister angelina bare bulk says germany will take in 2500 ukrainian refugees who have fled to neighboring moldova. she made the announcement on a visit to the mold, moldova capital kimmy found the small balkan nation has so far, given shelter to 100000 people from ukraine, by the international atomic energy agency says power has been partially restored to chernobyl nuclear power station. the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster, ukrainian technician say they are repairing the plant, which was seized by russian forces early in the war. the power supply is critical to keep reactor rods. cood. u. s. troops continued to be deployed to europe, adding to thousands have already been sent to support nato allies following brushes, invasion of ukraine. about $130.00 soldiers left the us state of georgia. the

pentagon has ordered about 12000 service members from us faces to europe. o e u leaders have concluded a 2 day summit in the palace of her sign near paris, aimed at coordinating the blocks response to russians, warned ukraine they unveiled a plan to reduce the use dependence on russian oil and gas and pledged more military aid for t of both leaders stopped short of offering ukraine a fast pass into the you. the talks in versailles 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 their results. i think it's a green light for ukraine and,

and certainly we have to give you great hope at this sir. they're 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 bought 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. he made the proposal over to double our contribution was 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 in versailles chose 2027 as the target for achieving that goal. well,

since russia launched its invasion, the countries and facing what could be described as a vast contra boy can't. and her i, number of institutions are going to great lengths to distance themselves or moscow . in many cases, cutting ties with renowned russian artists. but critics say such blank and boy cards could burn the very bridges that conquer seeks to build. o hi profile artist like opera diva, and an attacker. one of russians biggest international stars, were the 1st to come under fire for having close ties with flooding. they're putting on the kremlin conductor valerie gag give was fired by the munich philharmonic for refusing to denounce putins invasion of ukraine. russia state backed bolshoi ballet had its entire summer season in london cancelled. but some say the boycotts have gone too far. a course on the great russian novelist, fyodor dostoevsky was cancelled by an italian university. even though he's been

dead since 1881. the enemy is putting not pushkin said dennis, you che german president of the writers association pen at a solidarity concert for ukraine. conductor daniel barton boy warned against blanket boycott in hex. the young of lucy should. we cannot allow a witch hunt on russian people and their culture of coma bands and boycotts, for example, of russian music and literature. these awakened the worst associations for me. other asses her too. but can film festival has chosen to differentiate and will not ban russian filmmakers, but they will no longer accept any one linked to the russian government. after ukraine called for a boycott of russian movies, many smaller festivals dropped state backed russian films from their programs. which means the crime comedy. no looking back,

will not be shown at the glasgow film festival, even though it's director kitley. sokolov has family ties to ukraine and has taken a strong stance against the war. we want to use culture as a bridge for exchange. but the question is, with whom am i working there? and can the russian state use it? one should always check this, and if you have the feeling something will be misused and it's better not to touch it. awkward further, you feel? thousands of russian artists have called for an immediate military withdrawal from ukraine, including popular hip hop artists oxymoron and musical director of the cheque philharmonic, semi on bischoff no easy feat when simply speaking out against pu, tim's regime can have serious consequences. art might indeed be the only way to make sure all voices are heard. let's get a check now. some of the other stories were following for you. saudi blog arrived

bardari has been released from prison after his 10 year sentence. and now phases of tenure, travel than the act of as was detained in 2012 for campaigning to end the influence of religion on public life in saudi arabia. he was jailed on charges of insulting islam. ringback french far i presidential candidate, erickson moore, has been eggs while on the campaign trail. it just arrived in the town of mos sock to meet its mayor. when a man crushed an egg on his head. the more is currently running forth in the presidential race. protesters and police have clashed in the bolivian city la pas. it began as a demonstration by teachers against working conditions and the lack of spending on education, things escalated when protesters through fireworks that police within responded with tear gas. the government says it is willing to listen to the teachers and demands here up to date. now on dw news on the back with more headlines for you at

the top of the hour, we leave you now with some of the latest images from the ground in ukraine as the conflict goes into its 17th day. thanks for watching. 2 ah ah ah ah, with

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