ah ah ah, this is dw news lie from berlin, russia widens is ariel attacks on ukraine, a and the capital key of braces as troops edge, closer use. satellite images appear to show artillery, firing towards residential areas. also coming up as russian forces get closer to the cranium capital more and more people are fleeing the country. the united nation says over 2 and a half 1000000 have found refuge abroad since the invasion. andy,

you, leader is about to roll back reliance on russian energy. they also promised more military a to ukraine bonds. they turned down here to call for fast tracked into membership . ah, a mariner evans dean, thanks for joining us. russian forces appear to be regrouping for a possible sold on key of authorities in ukraine. say, rocket attacks, have destroyed an air base near the town of a silky in the key of region. it's oil depot was also hit. russia's defense ministry says its army is continuing its attacks on 8 broad front earlier ukrainian officials release cctv footage of what they say is the mayor of the city of manito pull being abducted,

which you can see at the top of the screen. while the latest intelligence suggests that russian troops have advanced to within 30 kilometers of ki, if, ah, 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 tired 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 with new. i don't know where you put a war. has even 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 web his life less 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 me up was the city of mario pool is now completely surrounded by russian soldiers. and every one inside is trapped the most in the horrid that said, i say this will pain my all,

but mario paul remains besieged by the enemy. war or is, is good russian troops did not let our aid into the city opened and continue to torture. our people again, our maria pol residence, loved her. i will try again to send food or water she on medicine in somehow with her years old. ward woman the gum magdalana hela muse. fire fighter is 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 merrier pull 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 willingham. hello t mathias, so we understand that there were air raid sirens again in the morning. tell us what

was that 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 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. now 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 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 a key of 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 our 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 care of 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 faith or he's doing well, this is what you call a foursome before and forced 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, as russian forces in the past, but also the, 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 of manitoba have come out after this disappearance again and have protested the russian occupying forces. so they still are 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 a delay of correspondent mathias denninger in care mathias. we appreciate your reporting or elsewhere in ukraine. there are concerns that russian forces also have their sites on the city of death. hm. in the south west for days, russians have bombarded a town 130 kilometers down the coastline in an attempt to advance on odessa. but ukrainian forces have so far repellent the attacks. the key port city in the black

sea has so far been spared fighting though official suggest the situation could change with rushes, military planning to attack by land, as well as by sea. dest, as residents are preparing to defend their city. on the w 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 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 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 residence 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 and 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 to 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, 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 or 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'd have a correspondent, alexandra phenomena in odessa forest. alexandra, thank you so much. the german government says transfer all of schoultz and his french counterpart president manuel crohn held a 3 way call with vladimir putin, in which the 2 western leaders, pres putin, to call an immediate cease fire in ukraine. this is these 2nd 3 way phone conversation between the leaders at just in the past few days. it comes after a 2 day e u summit at the palace of her sign near paris, aimed at coordinating the blanks response to russia's warren ukraine. they unveiled

a plan to reduce the ease dependents on russian oil and gas and pledged more military aid for t of but leaders stop short of offering ukraine a fast pass into the you. the talks inverse 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 grain hope, but this is a very dark times. so 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 boss 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 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. well, along with the e membership question for ukraine, the leaders decided on a big internal policy change earlier with voting the w corresponding barbara result who attended the summit in for sime and we asked her what the biggest shifts were

this actually is a quantum leap for the european union because they had to acknowledge that all their political doctrines, their ideologies and their beliefs throughout 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. so till the end of the year defense, they have a found out and, and sort of really noticed that the actually defenseless, without american troops that russia could aggress 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 4 minister alena barebones says, germany will take in 2500 ukrainian refugees who fled to neighboring moldova. she made the announcement on a visit to the mall driven capital. a small nation has so far given shelter to 100000 people from ukraine. u. s. troops continued to be deployed to europe, adding to thousands have already been sent to support nato allies following russia's invasion of ukraine. around 130 soldiers left you a state of georgia. the pentagon has ordered about 12000 service members from us

bases to europe. the international atomic energy agency says power has been partially restored to the term noble nuclear power station, the site of the 9000, and which was seized by russian forces earlier in the war. the power supply is critical to keep reactor rods called the un says that more than 2500000 refugees have fled to other countries. since the invasion of ukraine began . the majority of those people, 1500000 according to polish border authorities, have headed to poland. others have made their way to hungary, it's milwaukee, and will do over and romania more than $100000.00 have also entered russia. i'm now joined binding w. correspond aren't big into shaka. she's currently in the town of shami sheila, 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 lead 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 front line could come near. they could pack their suitcases, they, they could have, they had a 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 couldn't get it usable through all our forces threw themselves against one beat. he is a criminal duncan in limbo,

the 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 wood used to do. you can kindly watch and 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. they put them in your boat, get load warm, but but gum q only. they help people. the bombs killed $21.00 people including 3 children. i have nightmares when i'm thinking about it. a deal.

yes and very, very harrowing and heartbreaking stories. and this is just, he, obviously just a few people. there's so many more who, who are 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 where we will from what we are seeing here. and 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 they're all 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 then they are really paid immediately other cities. but i mean it's still a huge relief there for a dad just to give you an example. the city of chicago 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 chevy chairs, 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 hard towards our government rather than we're a p d. w is bigger to shall go reporting from the ukranian polish border. thank you so much. mo, since russia launched its invasion, the country has been facing what could be described as a vast cultural boycott. a 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 such blanket boycotts

could burn the very bridges that culture seeks to build. oh, high profile artist 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 backed bolshoi ballet had its entire summer season in london cancelled. but some say the boycott have gone too far. a course on the great russian novelist, fyodor dostoevsky was canceled 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. and hex young of lucy shall we cannot allow

a witch hunt on russian people and their culture with former bands and boycotts. for example, of russian music and literature music. these awakened the worst associations for me . as i said, the cannes 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 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 so that 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 check philharmonic semi on bush cough, no easy feat when simply speaking out against poor teams 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 abramoff edge as a director of the club. the move comes after the british government imposed sanctions on the russian billionaire following the invasion of ukraine. league said the decision will not affect the football clubs, ability to train and play games. wrong venture said to have close ties to russian president vladimir putin and has already expressed his intention of selling the club. now i'd like to take

a quick look at some of the other stories we're following. saudi arabia says it is executed $81.00 men convicted on charges, including terrorism, and holdings, so called deviant beliefs. 7 yemenis and one syrian were among those killed and also included $37.00 saudi nationals who are found guilty of attempting to assassinate security officers and targeting police. protesters and police have clashed and the believe in city of 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 ad police, who then responded with tear gas. the government says it is willing to listen to the teachers demands you're watching dw news, here's a quick recap of our main story. russian forces appear to be regrouping for a possible assault on kid authorities and ukraine. save rocket attacks have

destroyed an air base near the town of us still okay. in the key of regions. it's oil depot was also hit brush. as defense, ministry says it's army is continuing its attacks on a broad front here up to date on dw news. i'm hearing a evan stain from me and the entire team. thanks for watching. with ah, with

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