ah, ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, the ukrainian capital keys. now under $35.00, our curfew. new russians strikes on residential areas of the city of cause. death and destruction. keepers may vitale clips co calling the al with to nice leading into to morrow, difficult and dangerous. also coming not the visit from allies ukrainian president, florida means the lensky host, the prime ministers of 3 eastern you. you states. it's the 1st visit by foreign leaders to keep since russia invited ukraine, and the

e u employees as fresh sanctions on flat me. putin's inner circle and hikes, tariffs on russian import. ah, i'm jarrett drake. thank you very much for your company. a 35, our curfew declared by the mayor of ukraine's capital key. it has taken effect. it comes off to russia, intensified its bombardment of this city. it has struck several residential areas with deadly results. it's the middle of the night and keep those who are awake. see the flash 1st. then comes the blast. lou. sh one target. an apartment block authority say several people died in

a series of air strikes on residential high rises west of the city center in the early hours of tuesday. many of the rescue workers to thank for being alive yet we gathered our belongings and felt the smoke coming. we tried to take the stairs to get out. it was their case was already filled with smoke. so we made a decision to remain in the apartment. yeah, hoodie oh, kitchen was burning but thank god the rescuers found us and they were able to bring us down, get him the live rushes assault and the capitol appears to be inching closer to the heart of the city a weapons factory and central keith was also hit, but here as elsewhere, civilians bore the brunt of the damage. has the shelling intensified? yahoo keeps mer vitale. kitch goes an answer. 35 our curfew extending through

thursday morning. and he warned the capital stood before a difficult and dangerous moments, which with uh, the you a bit of a she won't be there the with the battle for keith edging ever closer, kitch go appeal to all mail residents to fight bothersome. oak. many women and children have left to get to safe places louisville. he bought the george, if his understandable forward moves, and many men who took families there are back in the city. but your shamella, i appeal to those who have not yet done so. men guides combat cried this as the russian advance nears ukrainian soldiers take time to bury the fallen. here they are laying to rest. a comrade who was killed resisting the russians. and boris bu, outside keith as ukrainians watched the ceremony, they know that there will be many more funerals before the guns fall silent. oh,

meanwhile there's been some good news from the besieged, ukrainian city of mario, paul. some 20000 people escaped the city through humanitarian car doors. on tuesday . it's the 2nd day that people have been able to leave the port city in ukraine's east and find relative safety. volunteers have been distributing aid to them, but thousands of others remain trapped in mario poll with food, water and other essentials are quickly running out the prime ministers of poland, slovenia, and the czech republic travelled to cave by train on choose day in a show of solidarity from ukraine's e. u allies. the 3 lead is met with members of the ukrainian government, including president, florida, mi zalinski, e u officials, voice concern over the trip security risk, and said the politicians were acting without any formal mandates. present. lensky has signaled that he is ready to accept that his country will not

join nato ukraine ruling out of future membership of the west military alliance was one of vladimir putin's key demands in the run up to the invasion. 0 so galena, the ukraine is not a member of nato. me. we understand that we're decent people and we've heard for years that the doors were open. but we also heard that we could not join over to that's the truth and it must be recognized for not only i'm glad that our people are beginning to understand this and rely on themselves and our partners who are helping us yet. you know the palmer, let's go to washington d. c. now and speak to christine both xena. she is a senior fellow and head of the geo politics team of the german marshall fun. welcome today. welcome to d w. it's great to have you read us. um, we just heard president zalinski sang today that ukraine must admit it. why join night? it is, of course has been one of russia's key demands. is this going to have any impact on the war?

and these talks between cave in moscow. it's an important step for president lansky to say politically that explicitly that he understands that this is not what i ukraine will have and what it wants to have right now, president to lunch. he has been saying similar things in the last last week or so. and various interviews, but it requires a policy change in ukraine and in order to, to set just to set aside the potential for nato membership. what the equally important though is a, whether this is something that president putin still finds to be the most important detail and to be what europe is going to offer, rather than nato membership to write security guarantees. and to provide a sense of belonging to ukraine after this horrible struggle and brutal war against russia on the side. the question is, does couldn't really want to focus on nato and you create not being and they don't,

or has he now suffering these losses? this is very difficult fight. high casualty rate, does you want to take all of ukraine? not just when the nato question gets, it really depends what kind of appetite flat me person has right now. let's talk a bit more broadly about nicer. the head of nature. it's been hinting that the alliance will have to radically change its security stance in europe in various summit. so happening shortly. what changes do you expect on the way it's really important for nato to look at itself in the context of the ukraine, where the war is war in ukraine, a nato has put plans in place reinforcements for the eastern flank of the alliance . the baltic states, poland. romania are right on the remaining of colon right on the front lines of ukraine in the baltic states, way between the sea and bella, ruth colon,

and grad russia. these are much more bold territories, especially since president putin said that he would like to push nato's military president back to where it wasn't and 90. which means for all of these countries which is joined nato. nato should look at these countries and say, what do we need to position? they are to our plans from post 2014 and good. looking at the kind of war effort that russia is putting forth and ukraine in 2020 to what they have given ukraine before this invasion. so that this invasion happen, that for thinking about kind of increase in the port is what should be on the table . part of your expertise also focuses on energy. so i want to get your take on countries like germany trying to work out how to reduce the dependence on russian energy. but people within the government, like the economy minister, whole, but how big he opposes the wider you embargo on russian energy supply. so where

does germany stand here and what's your take? germany's in a funny position, germany has made very important decisions to not move forward nor stream to as with the rest of europe, to phase out russian energy. but right now, as germany buys more, russian gas molecules are fills of gas tanks with russian oil. the question is, where does that money go and that goes back to russia, and what is that money going to be used for in russia? well, for this war effort, along with other things to prop up the regime, to support the security services to feel the propaganda engines and to buy bullets and bonds to keep sending to ukraine germans. when you look at polling, understand that perhaps oil and gas from russia aren't the best idea right now. and are fairly willing to say no, the government you left so. so i think this is a question of how much is the population willing to tolerate in terms of price,

in order not to be as morally culpable in the war effort and in propping up prisons regime in russia. right now, that's christine bed. so, you know, with the german marshal fund in washington dc, it's great to have your insights. many thanks. thank you. with the european union has imposed a new round of sanctions against russia and it's stifling financing of its invasion of ukraine. the measures also hit the inner circle of president vladimir putin. d w, as christine manuel has more from brussels. as russia continues to bear arms, ukraine with bomb, the european union has delivered its latest blow to the kremlin with a fresh round of sanctions. they are designed to punish moscow for the death and devastation it has brought on its neva. the measures will be felt in russia by both

the ordinary and the elite. they include banning the export of luxury goods to russia, stopping, steal product imports from russia, freezing the assets of the billionaire oligarchy, rowman abroad, rich and others close to vladimir putin and denying russia special trading access into the e u market. the ear says this new round of sanctions will put more economic pressure on the kremlin further crippling its ability to finance the invasion in the ukraine. but the block is still sending hundreds of millions of euro's into rushes covers every single day. that money is payment for the oil and gas. europe buys from russia to keep the heating and lights on banding rushes. energy would deal a heavy blow to with economy, but it would also hurt ordinary europeans who are already seeing the cost of their living. so we have to find a solution how we as so soon as we can face out of this fuss

a few delivers. but for the moment it is still extremely difficult. but this would make, of course, a huge impact. right now, every day, we transfer 7 to 800000000 euros on the state budget or to the state budget of russia. since the end of february, the west has imposed thousands of sanctions on russia for its aggression towards ukraine. in just weeks, russia has overtaken iran to become the most sanctioned country in the world. it's not clear if this pressure will be enough to force russia to stop. well, new york metropolitan opera has held a concert in supportive ukraine. more than 3 and a half 1000 people filled the grand auditorium in the lincoln center is a week after performances by russian soprano ana nitro metric. because excuse me, were cancelled over her refusal to condemn the war or proceeds from the sold out

concert, which was broadcast internationally including to ukraine will go to relief works ah trade ukraine from the heart of new york. the piece was composed by ukrainian valentine sylvester of in 2014 the year of another crisis for the met general manager peta gale. the concert was the only fitting response to the current conflict. tonight, we were all soldiers of music wielding the power of art into french, in defense of a free and democratic ukraine. gales message was shared by guest of honor ukraine's ambassador to the un. the metropolitan opera that has a global spending reputation is surround cassandra, very powerful messing around with only rides, morally right position. but the world is hard to music,

shooting ah, the music and the gesture behind it were also appreciated by fellow ukrainian or lam. mcginnis. iowa could even drive, of course, i feel like in this moment, all of us become electric fields like iran, pamela, one free family. ah, the evenings highlight was undoubtedly a stirring rendition of ukraine's national anthem led by ukrainian baritone milady sla to ya, sky. he said he had asked his mother back how not to stream his performance in order to save desperately needed electricity. ah and you are up to date business news is up next monday,

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