ah, ah ah, this is d w. news live from durban. russian forces carry out a strikes in western new crank. on the other side of the country, new satellite images show the extent of the damage to matthew polt. he grants president says i'd will arrive there later today. also coming up polish volunteers, step up to help ukranian refugees back or thirties worn, the close to breaking point and high performing

for peace as they city prepares its defenses, musicians in odessa make their voices heard. you cried. ah m. anthony howard broke into the program. russian forces have carried out multiple air strikes on a military training ground near levine in a western new crime expanding moscow's war closer to the border with poland. many craniums have fled to relative safety in levine since the invasion began in the capital give the made, the mayor is telling residents to prepare to fight as rushes, military attacks. civilian targets near by fire crews rushed to the scene. after a mortar struck an apartment building on the outskirts of keith lib,

lib. liberal is not all. the artillery shelling started at around 6 30 in the morning with oh, she's very thick around. there are people living in these apartment buildings, the civilians. lou, this is a suburban area here around the key. what's a good movie with rushes, stepping up it's bombardment of ukrainian cities, including the capitol. it's feared more and more civilians will be caught in the crossfire satellite images show. russian forces just 25 kilometers from central cave president followed. amir zalinski has promised ukrainians will put up us to fight. and what he's calling a war for the countries independence, family name, mine will pro we have no right to let up in the intensity of our defense governance . no matter how difficult it is, we have no right to lead up in the force of our resistance. the enemy is bringing more columns into ukrainian territory. vehicle loaning the besieged port city of mar, you, pull, continues to bear the full brunt of russia's bombardment. the humanitarian

situation is worsening by the hour for hundreds of thousands, trapped without power running water or fresh food. in the nearby southern city melita pool, which has already been taken by russian forces, residents turned out to protest against the alleged kidnapping of their mayor. and to demand his release as fighting rages, people in and around keith will be hoping and praying that last minute diplomacy could still spare them the worst of what has happened to other ukrainian cities. elsewhere in ye crime, there are concerns that russian forces also have their sites on odessa. in the southwest, 4 days russians have bombarded the town 130 kilometers down the coastline in an attempt to advance on odessa. but ukrainian forces have repelled the attacks. the

cape, what city on the black sea has so far been spared fighting official suggests the situation could change with rushes, military planning to attack by land and sea addresses, residents are preparing to defend their hon. well, alexander phenomena out a doubly correspondent in ukraine is in the port of odessa and joins us now. alexander, welcome to you again. i want to begin by asking how was the night where you are for we had to seek shelter at night and actually in the early morning hours and with sirens, going off at least for 3 times. so you can understand that people are tired, they're on their, on dissipating, that russian attack on the port city for this could happen anytime we also spoke with the local defense forces. they told us that they are ready to meet, put in soldiers, who would fear this?

since that said, they are ready to fight to whatever a cost center. what do we seeing across the city that the city has been turned into? a full truck to a barricade, checkpoints, and even tank traps. blocking the approaches to uniquely important places. alexandra, you're right in the middle of this, but how you're witnessing the people around you holding up? well, i mean, everyone is trying to find a way to cope with the situation. we have to have to stress that so many people have already left the city. some of them i spoke with the family yesterday are thinking about leaving the city. they actually wanted to stay, but with the constant a res alarm just to tie it. of course, there are also care that we have to stress that old people here we're are,

we're all important off deployed for that's us to important for the queen. then that's makes the city likely russian targets. in capturing off the porch, the russian forces would be able to cut off ukraine from the black sea and from importance to supplies. coming in by ship. alexander, taking a broader view, were hearing that there was an air strike launching on a military base just outside of the close to the polished border. what more do you know about that? well, we can say is that the russian forces are intensifying their lens and explosions were heard in the city. owns these, however, they may have confirmed that miss files, military infrastructure, an international training and peace keeping center that is about 30

kilometers from lis. and of course you can imagine that people now there must be cared. i just have contact with our colleagues there. and with so many people fleeing to the country to these trying to get across the border to poland. this, this bombardment, spreading killed and taro. and this pot off the country that words parents of attacks until now dw correspondent, alexander from nomine in odessa. and you can thank you so much for joining me now. is mother, you see the jenko with been speaking to her on the double the news over the past week after she had to flee her home. and matthew polt for the relative safety of the west and ukrainian city of levine, where she's working as a volunteer. i'm very welcome back to d w this morning. rockets now hit also near levine. what more can you tell us about

that? high? yeah, we heard the air raid siren sir. in the not in the morning. i think it's nice. it's around 3 30 am and we are used to hear the sirens because they 3 sure them quite regularly. however, for all these days and here we didn't saw her from a tax. so we just had, you know, this rule of 2 walls and we were moving close to the paper part of the house. and i didn't hear any explosions myself because i, li, near the center of the city. however, we were a bit. right. and because again, the sirens didn't stop for quite a long time. maria is played, not a you, paul, to the relative safety of levine in the safe, a part of the country. now you're on the fire there. how does this make you feel?

while honestly, i slap to tonight, so i think am i after the cyber stopped and when they will cop, i read all this news about the attack your beef and maybe this is the 1st day after i escaped to you that i had some really, you know, a high level of stress, of course i don't have any plans to go right now out of leave, but since the dissertation here is to get in and be more, let's say stressful. we will observe how people are here because we have a lot of my colleagues, my friends here. no, i really have no plan. what will be further? your grandmother is still in new paul. have you been able to contact her and have you heard anything about the situation that well, unfortunately, i still haven't heard anything from her or i think it's 12 days already. however,

we managed to contact some of the neighbors yesterday who escaped mary, you call a few days ago and they sell some signs of life in the house of. 1 where my grandma lease, so it gives us some hope that she's still there. she's alive. and today we will continue finding any, you know, may not communication or, or some neighbors who can contact your again. and the dissertation variable is, so teri fine and i know that area where my grandma is already under russians on the enemy. so what comes next to maria? how seriously are you planning considering to leave the country? i don't consider this as an option as for now again, because i'm quite used to the danger because when i wasn't,

if it was even you know more on that here. however, i know that this is all the plan to increase. you know the stress for everyone here in the beef, but i'm sure that we will stand and we will try to keep calm and keep faith that we we will win this war. maria will leave it there. thanks for joining us and giving us a glimpse of what's going on around you. please take it. thank you. since the war began, it has been an outpouring of aid for you crime, particularly from other european countries, but that i still has to make its way to those who native people in ukraine has been sitting up distribution centers to make sure it does helping hands along the supply chain from poland to the front line in ukraine. this aide organization has set up

a logistic center in a school on the outskirts of levine. the next step is taking stock of supplies they need the thought of good. and after that, the william are they girl live, which you, for example, our fold youth or other people leave and of the week and back around the fund to them. cities, emergency shelters, and hospitals from all over ukraine can place their orders online. but volunteers here can only deliver what people at the other end have already donated. and that isn't always what's needed most in the combat zone. camouflage netting is in short supply. so volunteers make it themselves. from here, the 8 will be taken to the frontline town of sumi in eastern ukraine.

the united nation says over 2500000 people have now fled ukraine. more than half of them have crossed into neighboring poland. authorities in several cities say they are running out of space at the border shelters have sprung up to accommodate people arriving exhausted. after days on the road, they mostly staffed by volunteers, offering what comfort they can ah, even in von children, find moments of joy in a playful fight with polish while i'm too often getting a lollipop. oh, really. but for their mothers and every one else, it is of reality. far too difficult to ignore bro susan's army use thanks to attack my grandmother's house. we prayed to god to grant us the safe passage was long shed. dorchence thought it was very scary when the bombs had

our towns directly. we lost delight electricity and water visible and at 5 in the morning, the bombs were falling again, right in the center of the city. they killed people. the bumps killed $21.00 people including 3 children. what's that you? i have nightmares when i think about it. are you blood? what's the dune? jewelry it isn't you throw a deal in the small bottle village of medico, polish, moreland. tales are doing what they can to support displaced families. they provide shelter, blankets, warm food, water. oh, and often just human comfort. ah, ukraine has tanked poland for it's help. you have those may have boggled bob gently, a really very, very grateful to the polish people. for such strong support of ukraine,

you thought it's also very important to the people who stayed behind in ukraine, who are continuing to fight and will fight until victory. and also for those who come to poland, watching a need health and human warm vio, county. that was a watchable. yoga family promote the just good, but the wall entails and just polish people up ordering in from different parts of the world. to lend a hand, we're operating 247 that we don't stop the people the refugees are coming from 50 yards away, mostly women and children, old women and a very sad state. the un estimates that more than 215000000 ukrainians have fled and rushed to get the neighboring countries. poland is bearing the brunt of it, leaving it close to being overwhelmed. meanwhile, the refugees do what they can to keep their children.