as you just said, he is specifically spoke directly to shop owners and saying that they should a close their shops in russia saying that like russian money are everybody who is kind of supporting the russian market has blood on his hands or and yes, he is asking for higher stricter sanctions, we hear that there are debates or whether chinese banks who are doing business with russia should be also sanctions a sanctioned from the s the u. s. this is something the white house obviously is also discussing. so yes, he leaves no doubt and i think this video underlined it that the situation in ukraine is just horrible. and he needs every, every possible help from the whole world, specially from the strong and powerful united states to ended as soon as possible to w's bureau chief in washington. they're reporting for us. thank you very much in

us. pull russia, meanwhile, is escalating its attacks across ukraine. the russian forces are reported to be intensifying, fighting in the suburbs of the capital, and have also stepped up their bombardment of keefe emergency services. say at least 2 people were injured in new strikes on the city. this morning for residence after ukrainian capital, every passing day brings further shelling more homes last and more casualties. is she alive? visibly? yes, she is alive. get her in the car. a city wide curfew was imposed on tuesday and will last until thursday morning. i had of the curfew. people rushed to the stores to stuck up on food and supplies. available. that was the situation in the city is not bad. music with the people are holding up

where supported by the volunteers and the territorial defense you. meanwhile, president followed him here so lensky that he saw hope for compromise and talks between russia and ukraine. even us moscow stepped up its assault yellow. there was little squad, it is important in which it's difficult, but important because any war ends in an agreement you're leaving as continues easy enough as i'm told the positions in the negotiation, sam, more realistic in their kidney. however, this still needs to be more time for decisions to be in ukraine's interests. on tuesday, leaders from 3 you countries visited keith, bringing a message of support. they reiterated their desire to give ukraine away to join the e u. as soon as possible. i hope it should be agreed on the next couple of days or weeks and the candidate status will be given to the

end of this year of the late like the capital bracing for the next round. this medical team has set up a field hospital in a bomb shelter for the worst case scenario of having to treat the wounded here. the people of keith know their ordeal is far from over to well from all, let's bring in our correspondent, alexander finance. she is in la v for eastern you in western ukraine. alexandra, there's been increased. shelly, inner odds are capital key if, what's the situation there? what are you hearing? keith is under a curfew that was announced yesterday word the city mayor urging all residents to seek shelter to take cover because the russian forces are apparently intensifying their attacks on the ukrainian capital. we know that heavy fighting is going on on the outskirts of key, if we know that there were explosions in the city center. there are also reports

about sir russian miss isles, a striking co, an apartment building that is quite close to the center. so this 12 floor apartment building was apparently struck and her 1st responders were trying to get people out of the apartment. some of though of them were on fire this morning. as i said earlier, urine olivia, that's in the west of ukraine was relatively quiet. but our people, they're worried that the violence, the shelling, the bombardments will soon reach that part of the country as well. they are wore it . of course, they are scared. many told me that they think that it's just a question of time before the war will come here as well. we just have to remember that only a few days ago and military training center, just 30 kilometers away from beef was struck by russian missile. so people are

scared and we just have to stress the importance of believe it is only not, not only an important help for 8 deliveries towards the eastern part of the country . but it is also a place where many people, fleet, a flea, to fighting in the eastern part of ukraine, and then they move on to travel on across the border to poland or over european nations. as under we heard in our report that president zalinski is more to mister . he said he believes russia may now be more open to negotiations that their position might, as he put it, be more realistic. now, what are we to make of us? well, he really sounded cautiously optimistic and suggesting that russia has softened its stands, not demanding any more that ukraine surrender a. we also heard from some senior members of the negotiating team. one of them said

that there is room for compromise. however, he also added that there are still big differences, a contradictions between the 2 sides. oh, we know that what is add the table? apparently, both sides are discussing that is a future neutrality of ukraine. and according to past statements, that could be something that the ukraine government could be potentially ready to discuss with the president zalinski saying that ukraine has to accept that it will not become a member of nato despite the open door policy of the alliance. but of course, both sides seem to be still far apart with regard to their positions. d, w one and alexander fund nomine. bear. thank you very much, osama time. now to have a quick look out. some of the other developments in this conflict, british prime minister boris johnson, is holding talks in the united arab emirates and later in saudi arabia to encourage

all producers and gulf states to increase output. he's hoping to reduce the west reliance on russian oil and gas. britain, like much of the west, is facing spiraling and energy prices. to journalists, working for the usa network, fox news have been killed in ukraine. irish camera man pierre's arcos, chesty scene here, the front of this picture, and ukrainian producer, alexandra. cough. she never died when their car came under russian fire outside cave. at least 4 journalists have died covering the conflict so far. credit rating companies say russia maybe on the verge of defaulting on its foreign currency debt is the national sanctions have limited its ability to access foreign exchange reserves. moscow was due to pay more than $117000000.00 in interest on sovereign bonds on wednesday, with more payments looming later in the months. brushes foreign minister,

sergey love. rob has said that he sees, quote, some hope for each in a compromise and negotiations with keys. that's after ukrainian president followed them is lensky also sounded a positive note. on the ongoing talks. in an interview with russia tv channel, our b k lover of said that a neutral status is being seriously discussed in connection with security guarantees. there are concrete formulations that in my view are close to being agreed. as now bring in the michael boss, secure global affairs analyst with the atlantic council. let's start with this, michael, ukraine and russia, and now indicating that there's hope for compromise to end the war. what do you think that would look like? good to be with you? well, if you had asked me the same question a month ago,

i would have said the ukraine in population had 0 appetite for a compromise, especially if it came to putting aside bids to become a member of nato or the, you know, we're looking at a nation that in many parts of ukraine, as your corresponding indicated, has been bombed into submission and the bombing continues in places like. but it has to be said, i cannot overestimate this enough that there's a lot of anger here on the streets in the open elsewhere. there is a lot of arms in the hands of people. people are thinking back to the my don times of 242-013-2014. in saying we did not spill our children's blood for nothing. we did not show up there for nothing. so this could spiral out of control very, very quickly given the current atmosphere. so i think because a lot of the landscape of a very, very top spot, they're just quickly there is of course, an appetite, a very big appetite for the war to stop. but i actually predicted this some time

ago that the landscape may be pressured by western allies to go for that kind of compromise. it's a very dangerous route. indeed. let's go one step further. if there is any kind of compromise negotiated settlement piece, the leaving, who will be guaranteeing that well, that's a good question and you know, as much as the russians may be trying to show their good side diplomatic side, whatever you want to call it, these talks, they're not to be trusted. you weren't, they didn't, they weren't to be trusted. and you know, the guarantee of the safety of people fleeing in those, your monitor and corridors. there is now fears that they're not doing well on the battlefield, so they may actually escalate their use of shelling, escalate, use of banned weapons and possibly even turn to chemical weapons. so whereas very, very dangerous on chartered territory at the moment you current and president

zelinski in a strong enough position domestically to agree to any kind of negotiated settlement . you mentioned that the anger in the country before. yeah. well his popularity ratings are all time high. he has surprised his most fearsome critics in terms of stepping up to the plate and becoming a war president. there is no training, you know, to become a wartime president like he has. he's done extremely well. he's done up to the russian biggest army in the world. but again, because of the very delicate condition that we're facing right now with this anger, with the high high dust, with the degree of destruction. it's very, very difficult to predict whether he'd get enough support from ukraine in to at least temporarily shelve the nato bid. i think maybe that could be kind of compromise if he told his people that this is a temporary thing just for us to regroup. got the russians, i'll stop the bombing and rebuild, but remains to be seen. michael,

prosecute that from the atlantic council thing tank. thank you very much of your 2nd. what cdw says? a recap of the latest developments in the ukraine war grants president brought him as a landscape has repeated calls for a no fly zone and a video address to the u. s. congress. he appealed to us companies to leave russia, which he said were financing the war in his country. invoking the turning point that sold us join the 2nd world war. he told congress. remember, pearl harbor we need you now. meanwhile, russia stepping up its attacks across ukraine, more stripes have hit the residential area in the capital p. if ukraine says russian forces have also attacked. second largest city in president modem, zalinski says peace talks with russia have become more constructive. most also says that

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