ah, ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. rochelle widens its aerial attack on ukraine, a and kia braces as troops edge close served, new satellite images appear to show artillery, firing towards residential areas. also on the show, as russian forces get closer to the ukrainian capital, more and more people are fleeing the country. the un says over 2 and a half 1000000 have found refuge abroad since the invasion began. and new leaders

vowed to roll back reliance on russian energy. they also promised more military 18 ukraine bond turned down key of call for fast tracked new membership. ah, a marina evans dean, welcome to the program. russian forces appeared to be regrouping for a possible assault on key of authorities in ukraine. save. rocket attacks have destroyed an air base near the town of a seal. key in the key of region is, 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 my little pole being abducted, which you can see at the top of the screen. while the latest intelligence suggest

that russian troops have advanced to within 30 kilometers of key, if 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.

near then you shall be known. i hope that my relatives see me. this is stella, my sister, my daughter and grand daughter. you my grandchildren and keith in god knows where else you close are far away. come was with new. i don't know where you put a war. has given every one into hiding. i know because the hoodie so those who ventured out of their basements find their homes destroyed still they carry on with, with, with his life this 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. woman yup. was the city of mario pull 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 old mother. you paul remains besieged by the enemy, wadell,

or she is listen types to not lends our aid into the city opened and continue to torture. our people again, our maria pol, residence, 0 try again to send food or water she on medicine in somehow with her years old. ward woman, the gum magdalana hela miss ha, firefighters 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 we'll for more. we can go straight to key of now and speak to w's correspondent mathias willinger. hello t mathias. so we understand that there are air raid sirens again in the morning. tell us what was it like over night in keene of

yeah, last night was like any other night and here 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 nights 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. 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 the, the tracks birds. one 3rd thing that they've observed is that this tank column, that 60 kilometer tank column that was stuck on their way to keep, has been dispersed presumably into the woods. we have also seen some, our 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 strikes. 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 if anything known about his fate 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 are these gases would be very bad for him. we know that these, that, that, that, that, as russian forces in the past, but also at 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, had a very bad history of a torture of disappearing people, mom and dad. 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 ultimately toppa have come out after this disappearance again and half protested the russian occupying forces. i'm so they still are quite a spirit of resistance in these, in these areas. um, 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. there was a delay of correspondent mckee has been in her in care mathias. we appreciate your reporting elsewhere in ukraine. there are concerns that russian forces also have their science on odessa in the southwest. for days, russians have bombarded a town 130 kilometers down the coastline in an attempt to advance on odessa. but ukrainian forces have repelled those attacks. the key port city of the block c has so far been spared fighting officials suggest,

though the situation could change with rushes, military planning to attack by land as well as by c. a distance residents are preparing to defend their city will need always 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, a desa is so tremendous, tremendous strategic importance for the ukrainians and for the russians as well. and that makes the city a likely russian target in capturing or does his 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 are taking over the control of odessa would be a big wind 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 great 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, and 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 traps. place at strategically important places he in odessa and, and many he has 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 alexandra went about just ordinary life activities. are these continuing our, our shops open? are people going to work well, shops are open, schools are closed. 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. the german government says that chance are all of sholtes on his french counterpart president a man on a cron have just held a 3 way call was not a mere putin in which the 2 western leaders press putin to call an immediate cease fire in ukraine. all this is the 2nd 3 way phone conversation between the leaders just in the past few days. it comes after a 2 day summit of new leaders at the palace of versailles near paris. that was aimed at coordinating the blogs response to russia's warn ukraine. they unveiled a plan to reduce the use dependence on russian oil and gas,

and also pledged more military aid for a t if. but the leader 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 you 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 results. 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. songs 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. 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, in addition to the e u membership question for ukraine, the new leaders decided on a big internal policy change didn't correspond. and barbara hazel was at the feminine for sign. and we asked her, what the biggest policy shifts were. this actually is a crampton leap for the european union because they had to acknowledge that all

their political doctrines there are john geez, and their beliefs for the last 10, maybe even 20 years, were simply wrong. they thought that the world was a reliable place was their neighbors, like russia, being closely tied to europe by trade and by financial ties. and this has proven to be horribly untrue, sir. their security is seriously threatened. so they have to sort of re formulate everything energy policy. it means that they will try to get off russian oil and gas. they want to diminish it by 2 3rd till the end of the year, defense. they have a found out and, and sort of really noticed that the, i totally defenseless without american troops that russia could egress a war. it's not a war of aggression against them as well, theoretically. so they will now have

a common defense projects. they know they will have to spend much more money. we're talking about billions for defense of the member states and 4 common projects. so this is just complete change in everything. and it is a hard thing to do. there were bitter and long discussions. well here's a look at some other developments in the conflict german foreign minister on the lena bear box says germany will take in 2500 ukranian refugees who fled to neighboring moldova. she made the announcement on a visit to mal dove and capitol. the small balkan nation has so far given shelter to 100000 people from ukraine. u. s. troops continue to be deployed to europe, adding to thousands, have already been sent to support nato allies following russia's invasion of ukraine. about 130 soldiers left you, a state of georgia pentagon has ordered around 12000 service members from us, bases to europe. the united nation says that more than 2500000

refugees have fled to other countries. since the invasion of ukraine began. majority of those people, 1500000 according to polish border authorities have headed to poland. others have made their way to hungary, slovakia, moldova, and romania. more than 100000 have also entered russia. i'm now joined binding w correspondent, a bit a sugar she's currently in the town of shamiqua in poland, which is close to the ukrainian border. hello to you. forget us. so we understand that you've been speaking to ukrainian refugees. what have they been telling you about their journeys these are horrific stories. we are hearing right now because the people who are arriving, they like a war zone. and that has changed a little bit over the last days because the people who arrived here 1st,

they sort of fled before the frontline could come near. they could pack the suitcases, they could, they had to plan actually where to go. but the people who are arriving now, they had to flee because they were shot at, and some of them were even shot at why they were escaping. so we see a lot of traumatized people here and confused people. so maybe we just listen what they told us. not with all our forces threw themselves against putin one beat. he is a criminal duncan in limbo, she's the problem. his army use tanks to attack my grandmother's house. we prayed to god to grant a safe passage. my child was crying all the time because people were dying. can you do to woods lumnick? would you like to do? you could kindly watch him. we didn't want to go away with the ones we didn't want

to leave our houses. we only went away to save ourselves was good. that was a whole lot. the homestead, gorgeous thoughtfulness. it was very scary when the bombs hit our town directly. we lost light electricity and water. this was the end at 5 in the morning. the bombs were falling down again, right in the center of the city, to put them in your bed, give those warm but, but gum cumulate, they help people. the bombs kill 21. people including 3 children. i have nightmares when i'm thinking about it a deal. yes, i'm very, very harrowing and heartbreaking stories. and this is just obviously just a few people. there's so many more who, who i'm sure i'm experiencing similar, similar, frightening situations now, a bigot, i'm just curious to hear and how the people in poland have been responding

to such large numbers of clearly traumatized refugees arriving constantly very well from what we are seeing here. we just came back from the border crossing where the people are provided with like 1st aid, they're getting food, they're getting present cars, they're getting close. and their house in comparison to the 1st days is much better organized now because the people don't have to spend any longer in the cold. they are like they are asked to, to go on bosses and that they are really hated immediately other cities. but i mean, it's still a huge relieve effort and just to give you an example, the city of territory where we are here right now. and they only have 60000 citizens, but they are welcoming between 30050000 refugees a day. so that needs

a lot of resources, obviously and indeed, i mean, if this stream of refugees continues into poland at this pace, i mean our authorities in poland even in a position to, to cope with this they at least will try. that's what i tell us. but the problem is that the relief still depends a lot on volunteers and on the local communities like family shows, for instance, and the volunteers at some point they have to go back to their life and they have to go back to the work at home and so nobody really knows what, what will happen so, so we, we sense like sort of frustration amongst the volunteers at the local communities because the polish government hasn't provided any

additional help yet. so there is this frustration, but it's really good towards our government rather than refugees. d, w is very good and she'll go reporting from the ukranian polish border. thank you so much. well, since russia launched its invasion, the country has been facing what could be described as a vast cultural boycott. and growing number of institutions are going to great lengths to distance themselves from moscow. in many cases, cutting ties with renowned russian artists. but critics say sanction blanket boycotts could in fact burn the very bridges that culture seeks to build. high profile artists like oper, adieva ann tucker, 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 garry give was fired by the munich philharmonic for refusing to denounce proteins. invasion of ukraine. russia state,

back to 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 bartonville, i'm warned against blanket boycotts in hex. of lucy, shall we cannot allow a witch hunt on russian people and their culture of coma bans and boycotts. for example, of russian music and literature. these awakened the worst associations for me other soon as i said to him. but can film festival has chosen to differentiate and will not ban russian filmmakers,

but they will no longer accept anyone linked to the russian government after ukraine called for a boycott of russian movies, many smaller festivals dropped state back to russian films from the 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. of course, further, if you thousands of russian artists have called for an immediate military withdrawal from ukraine, including popular hip hop artists oxymoron and musical director of the check 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. the premier league has disqualified chelsea owner roman abram avila as a director of the club. the move comes after the british government imposed sanctions on the russian billionaire following the invasion of ukraine. the league said the decision will not affect the football clubs ability to train and play games. brown venture said to have close ties to russian president vladimir putin and has already expressed his intention of selling the club. let's get a quick check of some other stories were falling for you. saudi arabia says it has executed $81.00 men convicted on charges, including terrorism and holding so called deviant beliefs. 7 yemen, knees, and one syrian were among those killed. the men included $37.00 saudi nationals who are found guilty of attempting to assassinate security officers and targeting

police french for right presidential candidate erickson moore has been egged while on the campaign trail. he just arrived in the town of wa sock to meet its mayor. when a man crushed an egg on his head, some more is currently running forth in the presidential race. protesters and police have clashed in the bolivian city of la pass. it began as a demonstration by teachers against working conditions and the lack of spending on education. but things escalated when protesters through fireworks and police who responded with tear gas. the government says it is willing to listen to the teachers demands. you're watching d w news coming to you from berlin. before we go, a quick recap of our main story. 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 silky in the key of region is oil depot was also head to russians. defense ministry says it's army is

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