ah ah ah, this is dw news life from berlin, russia escalade, its vaughn, boardman of keys. he crying says the russians are using long range missiles to target residential areas from positions outside the capitol. russian forces are also stepping up their assaults on other ukrainian towns and cities, and a new light night video address. the ukranian president said negotiations with russia was starting to sound more realistic, but the more time is needed with. and the 8 you imposes

a new round of sanctions on russia, targeting vladimir putin in a circle and other sectors. plaza from new york, a concert for you, crime? oh, the metropolitan opera house, a fundraiser for relief efforts. organize is called the music, a weapon against oppression. ah, i'm rebecca writ his welcome to the program. russia has stepped up its bombardments of ukraine's capital cave. a number of strikes have hit a residential neighborhood. it's unclear if there were any casualties. local authorities say at least 5 people were killed yesterday. a 35 hour curfew is now in place. russia has also launched new assaults on the port city of matter. you paul,

the united nations says 3000000 people have now fled ukraine. in a show of solidarity 3, eastern european laid as visited cave on tuesday in keys as the russian advance nears ukrainian soldiers have taken time to bury the fallen. here they are laying to rest. a comrade who is killed resisting the russians and bought a spill outside keith as ukrainians watched the ceremony, they know that there will be many more funerals before the guns fall silent. oh, my little sign of a peaceful solution is in sight. president zalinski said he saw a camera of hope for compromise in talks with russia, even as moscow stepped up its bombardment of the capitol pillars. lil squad, it is important and it's difficult, but important because any war ends in an agreement meeting is, continues easy enough. as i'm told the positions in the negotiation. sam, more realistic in no kidney. however,

they still needs to be more time for decisions to be in ukraine's interests. i meanwhile, hailing glory to ukraine, the polish chickens, lavine and prime ministers became the 1st foreign leaders to visit, keep since russia's invasion. all 3 are former communist territories, which are now members of the un nato. they reiterated their desire to give ukraine away to join the e u as soon as possible. oh, i hope it will be agree to the next couple of they so weeks and the candidate status will be given to the end of this year. delay like the 3 week old conflict is cranked of cold war level. tensions between moscow in the west and driven more than 3000000 ukrainians fleeing across the border to seek refuge. zalinski also addressed to key concern used by vladimir putin to justify the invasion of russia's ex soviet neighbor. by saying ukraine should accept that it would not become a member of the nato defense alliance. this is mila sabrina. ukraine is not

a member of nato with citizen. we understand that we've heard for years that the doors were open to me, but we also heard that we could not join us. it's a truth and it must be recognized to grab the derivative as no of this movement. elsewhere in the west to lensky said he would address the u. s. congress. leisure and wednesday, and joe biden will visit europe next week to shore of nasal unity as war rages on its eastern flank. more of them all at van d. w. correspond alexander phenomena in la vega. alexandra, there has been increased shelling in and around care of what's happening in the capital was he just said to increased shelling and error strikes were reported from the ukraine and capitol from the cities center. and that is why it's mayor announced yesterday that they would be impair curfew, impose for 35 hours. and 2, we have to assume that the russian forces is truly,

are trying to tightened their grip on the city and taking this into account. it's really remarkable that the 3 european prime minister as representing 3 european nations members of the european union antenatal decided to visit the ukrainian capital, a highly symbolic gesture. yes, indeed. your in levine in the west of country air, the ukraine, our people, they're worried that the violence, the shelling the bombardments that we're seeing elsewhere will soon reach that part of the country. of course, many of them are because we just saw a few days ago that to russia can target any targets across or ukraine a few days ago, the russian of forces hitter, a military infrastructure not far from beef and only about 15 to 20 kilometers from the polish border, and more than 50 actual 57 people were killed. there are so, as you can imagine,

people are scared. he had this night. we again had sir to air raid alarms and people know that anything can happen any time. and that is why so many of them want to leave the country. as we heard in our reports, president zalinski said he believes russia may now be more open to negotiations that their position might, as he put it, be more realistic now. is that overly hopeful? do you think well, we actually don't know what he was referring to. we know that there are, there has been progress made in those talks between the ukrainian and russian delegations. and there were some optimistic, her own science in the last days. as for example, that people are trapped in my jo, pull some of them, at least we're able to escape to it,

to be evacuated. zelinski himself was and was also talking about or, or what is, let's put it this way. what's on the agenda on the table is a potential neutrality offer you create into lensky. we just saw it in the report. i was talking about sir natal. and to the fact that he realized that nato, talking about open doors for ukraine, is not sir. meaning that ukraine can become a member of the alliance. alexander, those alarming figures we're hearing yesterday, 3000000 people now officially have left the country one child every 2nd becoming a refugee. tell us how difficult or is it so possible for people to move through the country? how. how does it, how dangerous is it for people to be making their way towards those western areas and, and out of the country? well, when you look at the eastern part of the country,

it's very dangerous to escape there because you never know whether there are any russian troops nearby that could be shelling on the streets. there are reports about russian forces targeting civilian cars. so we are in the last 2 days a troubled across ukraine from odessa to leave and it is possible to travel. you can even take a train, but you never know whether you are going to arrive safely. and of course, with you still, then if you want to leave the country needs to cross the border on i think it would correspond alexander phenomena. thank you very much for the update to journalists working for the u. s. network fox news have been killed in ukraine. irish cameraman, pierre, zachary shasky st. here at the front of this photo and ukrainian producer alexandra

cook. she nova died when their vehicle though the vehicle they were traveling and came under fire outside cave. fox news said another reporter has been hospitalized . at least 4 journalists have died covering the conflict since it began about 3 weeks ago. near opinion has imposed a new round of sanctions against russia aimed at stifling fine financing of its invasion of ukraine. the measure measures also hit the inner circle of president vladimir putin dw. christine manuel has more from brussels as russia continues to bear arms, ukraine with bombs, 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 abramoff ich, 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 c, ukraine. but the block is still sending hundreds of millions of euro's into rushes . coffees 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 sir soon as we can face out of this are fossil fuel delivers, but for a moment it's still extremely difficult, but this would make, of course,

a huge impact for us. 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 now to some other stories making news around the world. credit writing companies have suggested that russia may be on the verge of defaulting on its foreign currency debt. that after international sanctions limited, its ability to access foreign exchange reserves. moscow is due to pay over $170000000.00 in interest on sovereign bonds on wednesday, with more payments looming. later in the month. u. s. president joe biden signed

a budget bill into law on tuesday. it includes $13600000000.00 in additional military and humanitarian aid to ukraine. the white house confirmed that biden will travel to brussels next week to attend an extraordinary nato summit. to discuss the crisis, the council of europe has voted to expel russia as a member of the pan european body has the mission to uphold human rights and the rule of law. the vote came hours after russia said it was pulling out when new york's metropolitan opera has held a concert in support of ukraine. more than 3 and a half 1000 people filled the grand auditorium in the lincoln lincoln center. this is a week after performance as by russian soprano, anna natural co work, hansel over her refusal to condemn the war all proceeds from the sold out concert, which was broadcast internationally including to your crime for go towards relief works. oh,

pretty new crane. from the heart of new york, the piece was composed by ukrainian valentine sylvester of in 2014 the year of another crisis. for the mets general manager, peter 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. gal message was shared by guest of honor ukraine's ambassador to the un, the metropolitan opera. there's a global spending reputation. you said on cassandra very well paul, messing around with me, only rides me really right position. been the world or to music she'd be ah, the music and the gesture behind it were also appreciated by fellow ukrainian or le

mcginnis. over iowa could even gravel their course. i feel like her in this moment, all of us become elected. it feels like you run pamela. one, please. pam. ah, the evenings highlight was undoubtedly a stirring rendition of ukraine's national anthem led by you radian baritone. ladies just do ya ski. he said he had asked his mother back home, not to scream his performance in order to save desperately needed electricity. ah, you're watching daily news. his a recap of the latest developments in the ukraine war. the ukrainian capital key hasn't had a 35 hour curfew off to russian strikes,

killed at least another 4 people in bombardments on tuesday. that's a some 20000 civilians managed to escape the besieged eastern city of matthew polt, 3 humanitarian cards, but i had supplies were prevented from reaching the city attorneys update this. i will have more news for you at the top of the next hour. my business is up after a short break with more on the economic impact of the more you crank. ah ah, what people have to say matters to us. ah, that's why we listen to their stories. reporter every weekend on d w. ah

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