ah, ah, ah ah, this is d, w. news live from berlin. russia escalates it's a tax in west and ukraine authorities in levant say $35.00 people are now dead after an air strike at a military facility close to ukraine's border with poland. and babies born in bomb shelters, we take a look at the toll of war on expectant mothers and their new borns plus anti war protests are taking place all over the world. our correspondent is at the demo in berlin, where organizers are expecting a 100000 people to take palm. ah,

i am rebecca ritter's welcome to the program. russia has carried out multiple airstrikes on a military training ground near la viv, in western ukraine, killing at least 35 people and injuring dozens more. the assault brings the war closer to the polish border and threatened the relative safety of la viv, where many ukrainians have fled to from other parts of the country in the capital keep the mare is telling residents to prepare to fight as rush or attack civilian targets nearby, ah, in the face of a ground invasion, he placed the national anthem as a reminder to its people of what they're fighting for. what you rises,

zalinski is senior advisers for twitter, video of themselves strolling through the streets of the capital as to the right, remarking that it's a shame to see the city so empty, but that they did find coffee, keep come and carry on. we should work. that's the message that's a lensky is sending to his people. we just social mumble. the pl 3 room. got rooted the where the we still need to hold on him up. we still have to fight burrell every day. and every night we must look for ways to cause maximum damage to the enemy. little mugs, the monitors called the goose without tactics and self confidence we will regain was. i was for a demo both for you. it's a powerful message of defiance. even as russian forces appeared to be spreading their attacks out across the country, they carried out multiple airstrikes on a military training ground near levine in western ukraine. expanding moscow's war closer to the border with poland. authorities are now more desperate than ever for

ne, till to impose a no fly zone. is why we keep asking nato to close the sky because to fight with an enemy who does not even enter ukraine, but instead launches a cruise missile. it is necessary to have a serious defense system over room civilians from all over ukraine had fled to leave in relative safety. but many are now heading further west as frequent air raid sirens warn of potential bomb threats. oklahoma, so for thousands have ended up here in the city of shan of it, see close to the romanian border. many are injured and exhausted and fearful for their safety but they don't want to leave their country call. you can go vis. olivia won't leave in oil and he won't be fit the piece. you don't want to walk channel it's. he is one of the few

cities that remains unscathed, from error rates, but as rush as war expands across ukraine, it may not be a refuge for much longer. and it's bringing aaliyah shandra. she is the editor in chief of europe, maiden press, the ukranian news website. and as an activist, she took part in the 2013 may done protests. she joins us from of if only a thanks so much for your time today. you yourself fled to your home and keep with your children at the beginning of the war. but like some of the people we heard for from in that report decided to stay in ukraine. you're innovative. why did you make that decision? i really want to be with my people in the strang time because i want to help as much as i can from inside the country and where i can talk to people where i could feel the situation to work and coordinate more processes or it can be more useful

and i am not alone because there are very, very many thousands of people returning from a broadens your brain in order to fight in order to during the volunteer movement. because you credit united republic, the russian aggress incredibly brave decision. what's the situation in levine where you are now? how worried a people off of the nearby air strike fall. as you can see, i am standing in front of the local university. people are just strolling around adjoining both sunday. i'm sure not many are worried about the strike, but at the same time it was an air strike with missiles launched above the black sea. so m a russian aeroplanes probably do not dare to fly so far, western to the country because they know that they would be shot down. unfortunately, the strike to take a lot of lives of military personnel on the yavari, on the ground training grounds. and you know, what i worried about is what when the west will wake up and understand that this is a, we're not only about ukraine,

but about the whole western system of values. but nato is next. on this training ground, nato soldiers trained ukrainian service when we don't know of any of them were present during the strike. but it's a parent. the putin is not going to stop at ukraine and it's better for everybody to stop in here now. and it was the self defense the means of defense to defend ourselves and closed the sky above ukraine. aaliyah and cave. your home town seems more and more under threat every day. how worried are you that the city will fall? all yesterday, president salons can his appeal to the nation. he saw that if you're going to take care of it will be enough to city, we will all, we will all die defending it because it's not going to be an easy capture there. i mean, they're been surrounding the capital for so many, for more than 2 weeks. the plan was for to take here in 2 days, enemy and the soldiers, they took parade uniforms in order to ban k. that's not happening. so we can see

that their plans are being disruptive and you know, even if he does fall, the whole of ukraine will stand up and still resist. it will not be the end. and that resistance is quite incredible away saying, are you surprised and encouraged by the resistance that ukrainians have shown for you know, the sort of invasion, many western experts they burritos alive this linda thought they thought that we would just give up the we would surrender, but we knew inside the country that we would fight because we're a nation that values are in the sanity. plants versus an appendage. insane empire. we want to live our own life based on democratic values. and it was, you join this is wilson. oh, we wish you all the best ali. thank you very much for joining us today. alejandro editor in chief at euro maiden press.

well last week and in case ally more than 80 babies were born in bomb shelters. the war is literally forcing expectant mothers, and then you bones on the ground and into improvised maternity units. they w correspond that he is building a visit at one such a unit in the ukrainian capital. 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 ella is horrible, she said, 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 you do here, i am. find the nurses and doctors are next to me and can help me. oh, oh,

since the beginning of the war, the nurses and doctors have tried to make the clinic safe for war time, patients spend entire nights in the basements. many children have been born in these improvised shelters. plenty much enough. also. this is only emergency room is the re animation 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, how 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 clinic director, record the dumb when she gets so people come and bring bread and sweets they don't even say with strong 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 solved. you. are you looking for the 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 for this, i feel fine. now, when i hear planes flying, i get nervous. we have all seen the images of the bon maternity hospital and murray you pull. 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 given the circumstances of her birth, alina expects her daughter to be a tough girl. he has a look at some other developments in the conflict. pope frances has called for an end to what he referred to as the massacre and the unacceptable armed attack in ukraine. speaking after his weekly anglin prayers, he said there could be no strategic reason for the barbarity of killing children, innocence, and unarmed civilians. and he called for the establishment of safe and effective humanitarian car doors. france is russian president vladimir putin is not willing to end the war in ukraine. french president emanuel, my call and german chancellor. ola sholtes held joint telephone talks with potent on saturday. the 2 western leaders urged potent to agree to an immediate cease fire in ukraine and find a diplomatic solution for you as president joe biden has authorized a further $200000000.00 in new weapons to ukraine. in addition to the 350000000

that has already authorized the largest such package in us history, the move follows a raft of sanctions from washington, including a ban on russian baka job bush. all the un says more than 2 and a half 1000000 people have now fled ukraine, and more than half of them have crossed into neighboring poland. now authorities in several cities dare 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 are mostly staffed by volunteers, offering what little comfort they can ah, even involve children, find moments of joy in a playful fight with polish while until out in getting a lollipop. oh, but for their mothers and every one else, it is a 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 the people that 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 book 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, 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 warming. could you give me a call you the boys? hey, what's up? we'll go from they promote the job. well, that's good. but the wall entails just polish people up ordering 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 beget ashika. bring it to an unprecedented movement of people. more than one and a half 1000000 refugees. i'm crossing to poland a line. how is the country managing judging from what we have experiencing over the past days, i would say pretty well. and i mean in the 1st day it was a little bit chaotic for obvious reasons. bad the last day, the help has been much better organized. people arriving here at the station.