subscribe to the w documentary on you to ah this is the w news line from berlin. more sci fi talk says russia, intensifiers, it's war against ukraine. moscow denies targeting civilians, but one city reports more than 2500 death because of russian attacks. also on the program to black sea port of a death of 45 its defenses as volunteers promise of russian troops. fierce resistance german chancellor, olaf shots meets with turkish president. reggie type are due on an anchor as both

sides press for a cease fire. are expected to face the press in this hour i will bring that to you live. ah, i'm fil gale. welcome to the program, russia and ukraine, her paws virtual talks aimed at ending the war in the ukraine until tuesday comes as russian forces step up their attacks against civilians and military targets across the country keeps as it wants to cease fire. and the immediate withdrawal of russian troops, ukrainian, president of latimer zalinski, says ukrainians have no choice but to keep up their resistance. a russian artillery strike on keith, the city limits firefighters. rescue people from the smouldering ruins of a 9 story apartment building hit during an early morning attack. part of renewed

fighting on the outskirts of the capital, which has so far resisted russia's advance president, bloody mere zalinski vowed ultimate victory as he met wounded soldiers recovering in a key military hospital on a visit to boost morale. he handed out metals in recognition of their bravery. the russian forces appear to be widening their attacks across ukraine. zelinski indicated progress could be made as bilateral talks continue. the motion with the she would, she would be representatives of our countries are holding daily talks. my a video conference room, would you agree? mil to mil on our delegation has a clear task to do everything, to arrange the meeting of the president's. should molly, that i the meeting? i'm sure people are waiting for me. yes sir, we'll go there. obviously, this is a difficult story, a hard path, but we need this path with similar to it or cigarette. on sunday,

moscow brought its war nearer to the polish border. an attack on a military training ground near live in western ukraine was the closest strike so far to nato territory. civilians from all over ukraine had been fleeing to live, which felt safe compared to eastern regions under russian assault. like the city of crumb a tortoise, i witness video from a resident there show destruction to her apartment in a 5 story building in the aftermath of an air raid. little hood, while the little rushes defense ministry denies targeting civilians and is holding fast to its description of its war as a special military operation. it says its forces have destroyed nearly $4000.00 objects of ukraine's military infrastructure straight to the ukrainian capital that where we joined the w correspondent, nick connelly. welcome nick. a cave saw shelling overnight, just give us an idea of conditions there. now while i'm on the

northern edge of kia close to where those russian troops are close enough for us, not to worry to strike the 9 story apartment block behind me, you can see some of the destruction and the chaos wrought here are pretty extraordinary scenes. neighbor neighbors here, just kind of looking on in the day, taking pictures kind of not quite able to believe that, you know, a, then that this kind of destruction has now been meet it out on them. and they are part of the world through. so to have the media circus here, everyone trying to make sense of these pictures and send them to viewers around the world. and i lot people just try to salvage what they can. lots of the air staircases are all destroyed. people are witching down suitcases bags from their balconies trying to get out what they can and as a clean out clean up operation happening behind me. pretty exciting, given the fact that we can still hear shelling pretty close by every couple of minutes. so there's no guarantee that that, yeah, this part of k of might not see more destruction like this to night. but people out sweeping the streets, trying to take debris away and prepare for some kind of normal life. right. as

breaking ahead of today's talks, you crated officials said they want to achieve peace a ceasefire. i'm immediate withdrawal of truth and security guarantees that all sounds like a tall order, while missiles are still being lodged quite, i think this is about the optics no side can really afford to be seen to be closed into reject talk. so that's definitely something was the russians seem to be going along with because they realize that this is, you know, playing very bad, these images, playing very badly for rushes emissions nationally. so they're all there. but if you look at what russia still is demanding from the ukrainian side, it's basically change very little since the beginning of this war. russia still demanding that russia give that ukraine rather gives up on its ambition to join nato. not only that, that it basically reduces its and measure capabilities very seemingly to point there would be permanently vulnerable to russian intervention. rush also wants ukraine to recognize rushes control of antics crimea, also those separatist republics in the east. basically, what's ukraine capitulate that is still demand coming out of moscow and so far

doesn't seem like the western sanctions have done enough to make russia really change its mind. on that. meanwhile, cave city officials say they're preparing food supplies for the remaining 2000000 inhabitants in, in case of a siege. and what are you seeing there for now, there's 2 main routes in and out of the city. still open in southwestern south, so the city has not been circled, has not been fully closed off the outside world yet, so there are still supplies coming in. but the definitely is a worry that that's the kind of pictures we seen out of marable city that's been living under siege nowadays. could be repeated here on a much greater scale with men's people still left in care of. so the city government is stop buying food for now. you can still get most supplies and supermarkets, they are open, even. you can order things from online and get them delivered food, food, loss of medicines, and other supplies, my thoughts, the country. but the definitely is worried that this war is now going to be carried out on the streets of a city with millions inhabitants. and this can get a lawyer before it's over. right. and a quick word about sunday's attack,

which saw a russia attack, a military target, which is about 15 kilometers from the polish border as bringing right to nato's doorstep. what, what is the likely nato response? if this act, if that were such a missile to actually land on polish territory wolves, that could be the scenario that all the nato, the ship had been trying so hard to avoid a direct confrontation between nato and western countries. and russia's military, i think, for now there's big hope in brussel. there's not going to get that far, that russia is able to direct these strikes at so precisely as to avoid that can direct confrontation. but this was also a very strong message from russia. this was about warning, the west against applying more weapons to ukraine locked weapons coming in. but ukraine wanting more and more high tech weapons systems, anti aircraft systems, prevent those russian air attacks on ukraine. and we've heard in recent days, management put in pretty stark warnings. they're saying that if the west base,

he gets more involved on ukraine side than he's gonna count those western countries as being participants in this war competence with all the consequences that entail . so basically russia trying to browbeat the western diving down the sport for ukraine and also making these very scary for hundreds, thousands ukraine is trying to escape west who for now for up till yesterday. basically thought that western region was the kind of safe haven where they would be away from the worst fighting in their country. but it seems now there is no way in ukraine that is not vulnerable to those ukraine to those russian attacks in those russian cells. and a quick word about of that, some of those places are in the south that are now under russian control. places like ok, so on and what are you hearing from there? or seems pretty extraordinary images on social media of protest going on in spite of that russian military occupation going on there. people coming out unarmed with flags getting up on tanks, demanding the return of their elected officials. in some places in mili topple, and the russians seemingly have kidnapped the local directly elected mer and put

their person in his place in half. so they seemingly, we're trying to come up with some kind of a repetition of what they did in gwinnett financing 2014, proclaiming people's republics that didn't work out because the local ukraine officials refused to go along with it. and so for now, people seemingly willing to take quite big risk to show their disapproval what's going on. and the russian military authorities now increasingly am having to use violence and more direct intimidation to and those purchase. i thank you for that. next they doubly correspondent nick conway and keith. we'll take a look at some more developments in the conflict. germany's defense ministry has confirmed it's planning to buy u. s. made f 35 fighter jazz as part of a push to modernize its armed forces. following the invasion of ukraine, the new jets will replace germany, sir, aging that tornado fleet. the country is also pledged to increase defense spending to more than 2 percent of g d p surpassing nato requirements. shaft u. s. national security advisor jake sullivan,

has warned china against to helping russia evade the effects of global sanctions. u . s. officials of also reported that moscow has asked beijing for support, including military equipment. though russia and china deny this police across russia have arrested more than 800 people from protesting against this war. the authorities in moscow say they detain 300 for breaching the public order police in saint petersburg of 30 other cities of also made dozens of arrest internet traffic bonuses, say the instagram social media platform has been restricted across russia. state regulators block the site after its own meta said it would allow users in ukraine to call for violence against russian soldiers. moscow had already blocked facebook, which is also owned by matter. ukraine's black sea port of odessa preparing for a russian attack. the cities mass, as russian troops could soon surround the city on 3 sides,

effectively cutting it off from the rest of the country. locals volunteering to defend their hometown and say they are ready to fight. as the w, alexandra fond of reports, we are in the center of odessa and you can see that the port city has been turned into a fortress. checkpoints, and barricades built of sandbags have been erected throughout the city. makoto ruger, polkas, the jin ruth, we are ready. every day we go to sleep, fully dressed, to be ready to seek sheltering anticipation of a missile strike mortal. but it is for cuba, shoveling sand into sand bags on odessa speech to strengthen the cities defenses. volunteers such as alexander an engineer, say they want to make themselves useful, but the we are trying to support each other. we are trying to organize ourself. and oh, so many people here i, i never know before, but now we are work as

a team. and this is the perfect example, and this is what we should do or this is of tremendous strategic importance for the ukrainians, and that makes the city likely russian targets and capturing or death ports. russia would be able to cut off ukraine from the black sea and from all supplies coming in by ship. ah, time and again, air raid sirens, go up and to residents have to seek shelter. it's almost too much to bear. alexandra tells me. her family has lived in odessa for 4 generations, but now alexandra says it's time for her and her daughter to flee. this issue. oh, the moon for her to do more. i've been thinking the long should i leave my home, my family, my husband wash is been my. i love that it's so hard when you take only the necessities and go,

but everything it's necessary when they're when they move. so. but as far as mama go at extra, i wake up and my mom says for we need to take cover. we take the cad, the phone and height, the home. so we sit there until the alarm is over and we seemed on lot of copies of winchester warmer. many people have already left believing that it's just a question of time to for moscow. twice to capture odessa, odysseus ties with russia, stretch back many centuries. the city founded by russian empress, catherine the great is still largely russian speaking. but despite the deep seated connections, the people of odessa are prepared to meet, put in soldiers with fierce resistance. we visited, it's called it's now a volunteer center. one is natalia, it's in charge here. her message to the russian troops is simple. robin, i know them again. we don't want to be liberated. we are living wonderful things.

we don't need to be liberated, they should not make up any myths about that. or believe them and use them as a pretext to violate our peaceful life. natalia says, or death since want to keep their city, and they are ready to fight for it. or german chancellor olaf shall, says meeting with turkish present wretched type. early on in ankara, his 1st official visit baron's chancellor of a 2 men have been planning to discuss bilateral ties for talks have been dominated by the russian invasion of ukraine. and the busy comes last for the week after turkey, host of the foreign ministers of ukraine and russia, and the 1st high level negotiation since the crisis began. we can bring a dw are chief political absent mckayla kirchner, who joins us from the presidential palace and anchor. welcome mikayla, of what position has a turkey taken in this war so far?

well so fi is really airing on the side of caution trying to remain neutral and is something that probably would have been criticized in the past. is that a country like turkey, which is the nato partner at which until recently actually wants to be a lot closer to the european union. wouldn't really join the west in something like the sanctions package that is now on the table and keeps a being put more on the table. well, now at this very critical moment in time, it looks like that off as an opportunity to become, if not to direct mediate at the very least a potential facilitator to find a way out. present add on of talk. he has said that he wants to see a ceasefire. he act simply cannot afford it politically and economically. and this is something where the energy prices are going through this roof here in turkey, but also their concerns about food supplies and not really reaching tarkey enough.

so food prices could go up as well, so he has a very own interest while not having the same or anything nearing the line of all of souls and the european union at this moment in time. so surprisingly, common ground from very different angles. in those, it close to a talks going on here in the presidential palace. okay, so you mentioned some of his political considerations or what about between the between protected us in this a, russia, i'm ukraine. what of interested president her to i'm just trying to balance their well, and they are both partners of talkie in very different ways. and there are dependencies, particularly in relation to russia. and in with ukraine does actually military cooperation on drones, both worked together at the same time talkie, despite being a nato country controversy and is importing weapons from russia. it imported

a defense system and not an american one, but went for the russian version. and that is something that ruffled a lot of pheasant feathers equals love, this unity in nato in the past and, and now it has to also balance the interests at turkey highs in places like libya and syria were by no means is, own russia's side quite the contrary, but it needs a stable negotiating partner and that together with energy dependence on vasa gives it some credibility in the kremlin that it doesn't automatically full on the side of the west in this conflict. and that's why we saw the 1st highest level talks to date between the foreign ministers of ukraine and russia. here with very little results. but the hope is that and that could be more to come. it's, and it's a, it's an interesting, complicated picture, isn't it? because there are in interdependencies are all around on all sides. a relation

between germany and tuck. i have often been fraught all these 2 leaders likely to see either to wyoming on this war not across the boards. and the question is whether seeing i to i means taking the same line and is there more worth in having turkey as a potential neutral partner where negotiations took place? it can take place potentially, or someone who implement sanctions and then no longer has the ear of letting a putin in the kremlin. so that is an open question which surely is being explored behind closed doors. but with turkey having no interest whatsoever to provoke rasa . and also, it seems public opinion, very much said going in the direction of turkey wanting to stay out of this. if you ask people in the streets has been some polling, people are frankly busy getting on with their daily lives. last thing they want is to agitate rasa and to potentially lose millions of russians coming here as

tourists, as well as huge question marks over. that's a turkey does not need, does not want this conflict. and that's where they both really have a common goal. despite that very rocky relationship, we seen picky between germany and turkey in the past. mckayla kirsten and as soon as we hear from a chancellor shall send the president reggie type o 2. i'm from a, at the press conference following those tools will bring that to you live here on dw. meanwhile, we'll take a look at some more developments and the war in ukraine organ 2700000 people have not fled the country according to the u ins. refugee agency, almost 2 thirds of them have crossed into poland. ukraine says that a novel power plant has lost power again after a power line was damaged by russian forces for a 2nd time. the lime had only just been fixed, and pope frances has condemned the killing of civilians in this war. calling the attacks barbarism, he called on russia to end its invasion before ukraine's cities are reduced to

cemeteries. while the government in ukraine says there are some 20000 foreigners signed up to help fight russian troops. that's after president lensky announced the creation of what he called an international legion for volunteers from overseas. some countries have urged their nationals not to join the conflict, threatening them with legal action. the w's begin to show car caught up with some of that would be fighters on their way to the combat zone. this is anatoly from finland. it's not his real name. we meet him at the polish trade station, permission packed with equipment and protective gear, and i told he is waiting to board the train to ukraine to join the fight. for me was right thing to do as a human being by part of the solid earth movement. i strongly feel that i can contribute. by going he was studying art and design when he decided to answer.

ukraine's call for foreign fighters was 5 years experience. as an instructor in the finished defense force, he's eager to share his knowledge with ukrainians. who like combat experience. they do have the manpower, what they need, ah, in my opinion, instructors team leaders to get people through the pipeline, the training pipeline, and especially with the western weapon systems, how to use them effectively. over the past couple of days, we have witnessed a number of foreign fighters sporting trains for ukraine. you crank claims that about 20000 have already joined to fight, but that number is hard to verify. those who want to get into ukraine. q here at passport control. we meet nicholas, the financial consultant from france doesn't want us to show his face. he says he

couldn't stand seeing russia bombing civilians and europe's hesitant response. i saw a charter and dying on tv. and so we are doing nothing. so i have to go, do you have any experience in fighting knowledge but it's we're no, i don't have any combat experience at all. yeah, i have a pilot license that might be helpful over here. so, but if not to do that, we will have 2 weeks of training and then we will fight alongside the ukrainian senior, his neighbor in the queue as dennis from keith. the is in his men is just back from spain way took his 4 children to safety. now he is returning to his home town and is ready to fight. lou, the what should you could look when will her time happy that foreigners are coming to help us fell off love. it puts a smile on our faces. a solution was from and it makes us stronger in our fight against the aggressors sada, subtle, quite together. they are watching recent pictures from keith advancing ration tags being attacked by ukraine in forces. rockets,

shelling destruction nicholas tells us he would be stupid, not to be afraid as his journey to the was own continuous 1st to leave it. and then to the front lines. knowing that he might never come back. let's talk about ukraine's or international legion them with john spencer, who's chair of urban warfare studies with madison policy forum. it joins us from colorado springs in the u. s. so welcome to the w. how common is it for foreign fighters to join a war in another country? i mean, i think we've seen now over the last 1020 years. that's pretty common, whether it was in the middle east, syria are many other places. i think it's normal, but i think this is little different because of ukrainians. what they've shown the world, their ability to fight. i think they're called arms,

is really impacting people around the world. and how does this work in, in practice when you got a lot of volunteers who are businessman or, or, or, or, or financial consultants, turnips i, yes, i want to fight for your course how they organize it by language, by country to better skim a gun and say that way. ah, so each, each situation is different. you can imagine the most ideal situation is you'd partner, you understand that person's experience is self. an in partner them with either a situation which their skills will work or with a military or like in this case their territory defense. somebody with a little more experience and then form small groups. combat isn't about just giving somebody a gun as they go for a combat as a group experience. actually, i'm what happens when they get killed to have this, this, this person who turns up from, from a foreign country, picks up a gun. and, you know, the worst happens there who takes responsibility for that. it doesn't get repatriated

. does he not want? what happens? yeah, that's a, that's a tough question that i actually, that's not my expertise it in. and it's very contextual whether you're, when they are included into a, you know, a fighting force and the, one of the protocols for that. you mean ukraine's got a lot of issues right now, so i don't think they've thought through as in a government, a military ra, volunteer force. what that looks like. it's a great question. and in some you've seen in some places like miracle that don't even have time to bury the dead because that's how bad the fighting is. god is someone who's decided to give it a go to be relied on to fight with the same commitment and awards. people who are defending their homeland that's done that's not made as a good question. i think so. right. so people, viper, a cause and clearly like the, the guess you just had on felt something in himself a fight. now you had to help people like that,

or even people within ukraine know what they're doing right, to fight and not just died. they had to get a little bit of sense of how to stay safe and still fight. but people fight for a cause within themselves. that even the most trained soldiers, my soldiers is you have to help them ensure they had that cause that's what's gonna help when the heat of battle happens. all right, thank you so much for joining us, john spencer, from the madison policy for i q i u. s. journalist has been killed while reporting near keith branch. renault was traveling to film refugees fleeing the town of peyton when his vehicle came under fire. another journalist was wounded in the attack, which you cried and blames on russian forces. this fatigue shows the moment after 2 journalists was shot in he a p one r. dondo was wounded and brought to

a hospital where he recounted what had happened. you were cross when the 1st bridge and we're trying to go into film review. he's leaving and we got into a car. somebody offered to take that from the other bridge and we crossed a checkpoint and they start shooting at us on the still, the driver turned around and they kept shooting 2 of us. my friend is friend renewal. and he's been shot and left behind. i redondo didn't yet know that we're know a 50 year out award winning documentary filmmaker had died at the scene wasn't ukrainian officials blame to russian forces for the shooting. several media crews have come under fire since rushes invasion of ukraine renaud is believed to be the 1st foreign journalists to be killed. e p. a sat overnight 20 kilometers outside. keith has been under heavy bombardment as russian armored vehicles

advanced towards ukraine's capital. thousands of people are fleeing in dangerous conditions. some evacuees have come under fire, but staying is also terrifying. village here it is. will just one of our building was hit with a missile and 2 apartment next house were just smashed. we've got cases of looseness, just horrible, very, very horrible. but we'll just thrash norton stuff the what? the feel walk in of really q is something, went through the air and then when you pull all the windows were broken and the balcony fell down. and the 10th floor above us was just dust. mama, ford, my daughter, came with her mama take your stuff you until this. i didn't want to leave my town. the refugees hope to find relative safety away from their hometown rendered uninhabitable by the fighting. the hundreds of thousands of people across

europe rallied against the war on sunday, a here in the german capital. 60000 attended to please march gathered near the brandenburg gate symbol of a divided germany during the cold war pack streets in berlin. as thousands marched for peace in ukraine, on fines and banners, they demanded solidarity for the ukrainian people to politic further, allan, german politicians should use all the diplomatic options available in mention here . hey, helped the people here and help the people in ukraine of hidden flows. and somehow try to influence putin and put in helen of herman on that a hand. our hands are tied militarily, but what we're doing now at least sends a signal, and i hope many other countries around the world will do the same as with many also

criticized germany for co financing the worn ukraine threats reliance on russian oil and gas. yeah, i think my most of my, i think we have to be ready to freeze a little gas and oil have to be ran down and as a fund and just thought it was a mistake to create so much dependence in the past. it's done with our fiber yourself. i think it's justified to make your own contribution by lowering temperatures and therefore consuming less gas come from a little purchase like this has been held in several cities across germany since the war began 3 weeks ago. for all the winter paralympics of drawn to a close invasion with ukraine winning and bold gold on the final dance competition this by the term o back ho they ended there. most of the country ended its most success.