for starts march 30th on d, w ah ah, this is d w. news life from berlin. russia escalates its attacks in western new crime authorities in the viv say 35 people are dead after an air strike at a military facility close to new kinds border with poland and babies born in bomb shelters. we take a look at the toll of war on expectant mothers and then an anti war protests on taking place all over the world. how correspondent is at the demo in berlin, where

a 100000 people are expected. ah, i'm rebecca writ as welcome to the program. russian forces have carried out multiple air strikes on a military training ground near living in western ukraine, killing at least 35 people and injuring many more. their salt brings the war closer to the border with poland and threatens the relative safety of levine, where many ukrainians have fled since the invasion began. in cave, the mer is telling residents to prepare to fight as rushes, military attacks civilian targets. nearby fire crews rushed to the scene after a mortar struck an apartment building on the outskirts of keys. luther, but it was the or the artillery showing started at around 6 30 in the morning. oh,

she's pretty sick around. there are people living in these apartment buildings, the civilians. lou, this is a suburban area here with the, with russia stepping up its 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 volota mirror zalinski has promised ukrainians will put up a stiff fight in what he's calling a war for the countries independence. and we may, mine will pro we have no right to lead 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 only the besieged port, city of mar, you pull, continues to bear the full brunt of rushes 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 of 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 plating 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 and a amazement, his billing is standing by for us in cave mathias face, i think on the outskirts of the city. now, how is the situation there today? it's the same as yesterday the day before yesterday and all the other days before, almost since the beginning of the war there's fighting and on the outskirts her cease fires and fighting fires and his liver were fighting as his fires. um and

just the russian troops are regrouping, but they're not yet advancing on the city. most people have left the city and her are waiting or have fled the city and are waiting outside those who are left or trying to stay at home as much as possible. there are, are there old blocks, et cetera, et cetera. it's a pretty much her like it has been for at least a week or i will take a look out over night or rush escalated attacks in the west of the country, firing several missiles and a military base near levine on what can you tell us about that attack no, there is, there are some important military infrastructure and leave and um, the house be have been bombs falling in that area before hitting that area before. but um, it has stayed relatively calm after the 1st days of the war there. and now in a new round of attacks on strategic goals,

russia has shelled this military. abbeys are similar. things have happened to other cities that have been relatively her peaceful in the past few days, or from time to time or the russians target. one of these military airports or bases yesterday, it was an airport and an oil earth stock like oil stocks near key if that had been set onto fire. so russia is continuing our to a, to target the in hinterland. the inland are with missiles and bombs. ukraine says that there are humanitarian corridors planned for civilians to be able to flee on sunday to day. and there is a renewed attempt to reach the besieged port of marian pole. how has there been any progress on either of those? thanks. while these corridors, these seem to work from time to time on a smaller scale,

but some of the worst hits it is asthma, you have not yet been able to establish these corridors. the people there have been cut off from our supplies and medical supplies. food also, infrastructure destroyed. so there's a shortage of water. electricity is down for more than 10 days now and her, i don't know whether this is going to happen to day is failed every day they try every day the, the russians promised to open a corridor. and then for some reason it collapses. there's shelling the, the, the buses with medical goods that try to get into the city are, are sheltered or, or this, or, or, or they can't even leave. so am i try to be optimistic, but i, it's so hard to believe that today it will work president zalinski in his latest address to the nation, accused russia and creating what he calls pseudo republics in ukraine. what does he

mean by that? whoa, there have been used that russia is planning to do a referendum on a republic in his own. this is the only major city that is controlled by the russians, and these republics would be modeled on the 2 republics. and annette scandal. hans, that russians have established in 2014, that means there would declare their autonomy or are they independence? and they would establish a rule, most likely, a military rule or, or some court kind of dictatorship like the have in don't listen. a russia would most probably recognize them and they would split off the territory because the russian narrative is that ukraine is not united. and that the, that the look people in the local, in the russian speaking regions are, i'm happy with being part of ukraine and see are seeking autonomy. this is not the case. we have seen demonstrations against russian occupy as in harrison despite the

risk. and despite people having been arrested on these demonstrations and as i'm hearing now, we also seeing, again, demonstrations that got against these plans for a referendum. so a significant part of the population is completely against these russian occupies but for the russian justification of the war. this narrative is of course crucial, and they're going to push it through it looks like or i'm tears. thank you for that update. d. w. correspond mathias bellinger in keith lastly, can in k, the line more than 80 babies were born in bomb shelters. the war is literally forcing expectant mothers and any bones on the ground and into improvised maternity units mathias, hey, we just spoke to. they visited one such unit in the training capitol. it's the 1st time that maxime is seeing daylight. the boy was born a day earlier in the basement of keeps maternity hospital number 5,

his mother natalia, made sure to arrive at the hospital early though elijah loss is horrible. she when the war began, the ambulance is stopped running, staying at home was frightening. we don't own a car and there are no ambulances, you don't know where to flee, and what to do. here i am. find the nurses and doctors are next to me and can hurt me. she also said, oh, since the beginning of the war, the nurses and doctors have tried to make the clinic safe for war time, patients spent entire nights in the basements. many children have been born in these improvised shelters. you must see my author. this is our emergency room is the re estimation bed for newborn babies and after operations and difficult birth,

they remain here and observation by doctor we can deliver babies into operations here and keep patients who need intensive care. not right now, it is calm and many patients have been moved upstairs, but often it's easier for them to remain downstairs just last night. there were 4 air raid alarms where people had to go down to the basement and come up after. and some of them had just an hour's break in between news of babies own and basement has touched many, he and ukraine says the clinics director, record the dumb when she gets to get people come and bring bread and sweets, they don't even save widths from. they just come and leave it that the security post for our employees, the doctors, and those who take care of the young mothers. i think people who behave like this cannot be subdued. are you thinking level nickel?

some patients have gone through quite an ordeal. alina fled from one of keep them battle of suburbs just before her daughter was born. so, i feel fine now, when i hear planes flying, i get nervous. we have always seen the images of the bon maternity hospital and mary you, paul, after seeing those images, i have been nervously listening to where the air raid sirens are going off or not. there's nothing i can do about it. given the circumstances of her birth, eileen, i expect said daughter to be a tough girl. we had to look at some other developments in the conflict. france says, russian president vladimir putin is not willing to end the war in ukraine. french president, emanuel mac hall and german chancellor, all of sholtes held joint telephone talks with him on saturday. the 2 western leaders urged potent to agree to an immediate si, fi in ukraine, and find

a diplomatic solution. he was president joe biden has authorized a further 200000000 in new weapons to ukraine in addition to the 350000000 and has already authorized for military equipment. it's the largest such package in us history. the move follows a raft of sanctions from washington, including a ban on russian vodka. all of you, italian police have seized a yacht worth 530000000 euros, and by russian oligarch, andre helena jenko, melner jenko, excuse me. in the port of triest, the billionaire was sanctioned in response to the russian invasion of ukraine. last week. italian police say several villas and yachts from 5 russians on the sanctions list. the un says more than 2 and a half 1000000 people have now fled ukraine. more than half of them have crossed into neighboring poland. now authorities in several cities, they're saying they're running out of space. at the border shelters have sprung up

to accommodate people arriving exhausted after days on the road. they're mostly staffed by volunteers offering what little comfort they can even and boy children find moments of joy in a playful fight with polish walden to aren't getting a lollipop. oh, but for their mothers and everyone else, it is of reality far too difficult to ignore. blue susan's army use thanks to attack my grandmother's house. thank god. to grant us a safe passage was the home shed. the witches thought it was very scary. even the bombs had our towns directly. really we lost light electricity, and water is 100. 5 in the morning, the bombs were falling again. right in the center of the city. the killed people, the bumps killed 21. people including 3 children,

was that if you i have nightmares when i think about it, where you blood didn't show area is new through a deal though. in the small bought a village of medical polish molecules are doing what they can to support displaced families. they provide shelter, blankets, warm food, water. exactly. well and often just human comfort. ah, ukraine has tanked poland for its help. the others may have bugged or bothered gently are really very, very grateful to the polish people for such strong support of ukraine door. 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, watches, and need health and human warmth. we're headed up with what you were younger from

the for more the chapparal together. but the volunteers aren't just polish. people are falling in from different parts of the world to lend a hand. so 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 distracted. and joining me now from sham michelle on the polish ukrainian border is database. biggest ashika bring it to an unprecedented movement of people. more than one and a half 1000000 refugees of crossing to poland, a. lauren,

how is the country managing.