a ah, this is dw news life from berlin, suffering and survival in mario full reports of people. rescued alive after theaters devastated by russian air struck hundreds of civilians, including children, were sheltering in the basement. at the time of the strike, we'll hear from a teenage resident whose endured life in the besieged ukrainian court. also coming up with war, raging in ukraine, nato conducts its largest arctic military drill in decades. will look at the

purpose of the maneuvers. ah, a michael ok welcome. we start with the growing desperation in besieged mario pole in southern ukraine. the besieged port city has seen some of russia's fiercest, bombardments since the invasion began. local official say about 80 percent of the cities dwellings have been destroyed. and over 350000, people are still trapped without heat and other basic necessities. on wednesday, russian forces bomb to theatre sheltering hundreds of civilians. a 130 people have been rescued. according to mario post mare, the full extent of casualties is unclear. d w's. nick connelly, who is in ukraine managed to get through to 19 year old yury mom in mary opal who

sent us these voice messages. and on our end, ah right now i hear plains rid of it. i hear shooting every 5 or 10 minutes with the sound of fighting. never goes away. so. mm hm. so can we just wanted need that was that it's been days since intense shelling started here where i am now. please have you seen it is for clue, us ukrainian and russian forces are fighting and i haven't been able to leave my house a week in all its this is the 5th day. i've been stuck inside the machine. you nicholas sweeney was. i'm a dish, navy, you potato. i've seen people dead on the streets with my own eyes turned on me. some are you near my house? there's a shop. i was near by when it was hit by a shell. i went to see what happened and saw 4 bodies. they were probably hit by

shrapnel gear. their bodies were only picked up 2 days later. a couple of them obviously, should his teachers did either 3 or 4 days after the war began. people started running out of food near both in the even the shops were shot and people started rating shops that had been damaged by shelling in search of food on put in another 3 or 4 days later. people were so hungry that they started breaking into shops that had stayed on damaged. that's because they needed to eat like magazine is allows you to switch it to the you. do he just post on this new to hold. the sure city is gone. food doesn't exist anymore, or it's been destroyed with the shops have been smashed up by hungry people. he could do it, and our buildings have been pulverized, says daniel bruce, this to my friends, went round the city and saw 5 story buildings where only the seller was left and was dan you. i thought that the couple block sodium,

usually root cause it over time get used to all the explosions. but you're not really scared anymore perfectly. when something hits nearby, i've stopped running into the cellar, then it just becomes normal. with the bluish closure, i get stressed when there's no internet down and i can't reach my relatives or my girlfriend clinical to already managed to get to germany. news news because of the roaches interviewing. all i think about mine is one. i'll be able to get out of here and see her parking in the near the bus if it is from the small, but it's the explosions and the shooting that was that aren't as scary anymore as losing touch with the people. you love about weiss who says submitted an immunity since we spoke to him, uri has managed to escape murray opal. many others have been less fortunate with attempts to organize reliable evacuation corridors failing as ukraine accuses russia of ignoring it. cease fire commitments. we can now speak,

the dw corresponded mathias bell and joe, who is in levine in western ukraine. but he has a several blasts have been heard and live eve. do you know more? yeah, it seems that the bless have come from the side of the international airport and that would not be a surprise because apples have been a target all over the country even in those areas where no fighting has occurred so far. like in leaf um the city has been targeted before not the city this day. the area has been targeted before another airport nearby and also training center for the military forces. so this is a mostly what, what is happening here in western ukraine, airstrikes, usually by messiahs on infrastructure and military targets. you know, as you surely know, ukraine's or president vladimir zalinski has assured people trapped in cities like murray, awful and hockey. they will not be let down,

but what can the government actually do to help them? and maria po very little, except if they were able to fight through a corridor for them to escape or to bring in goods, which doesn't look likely at the moment. um the ceasefire agreements of course, are part of this are these efforts to, to, to bring relief to them. but we have seen that they have not been working very reliably at points of people have been able to escape the city. but very few of those traps have made it so find others have reported that they have left under shelling and under danger for life. so this is very difficult. hock is a bit different in it because her gift is not completely shut off, but it is, is heavily shelled by the russian army and are, is also vastly destroyed and, and, and many people have already left the city. of course, it's very difficult for the ukrainian army to assist them because either they have

no access or they have little possibility to do anything against the shelling, even if they try to destroy some of the russian artillery forces. it looks like that there are so many near the city of hark. if that it's very difficult. the west is ramped up. it's a for it's support for ukraine in the past few days. as for you can tell, is that making any difference what it is not making any difference yet because it's just announcement so far we are talking about the most recent announcements, for example, the u. s. of $800000000.00 of military 8. however, the military aid that the west has provided so far has made a huge difference in this war. it is one of the reasons that direction losses are so high and that russians invasion that was, as we hear it from intelligence services that was planned to last for 2 weeks, has stalled so far in russia has not. while it has made territorial gains,

has not been able to capture some of the major cities, only one major city so far captured by russia, and that there is little movement at the front line. and this is partly due to the anti tank weapons and the anti aircraft weapons that ukraine has obtained. so i am pretty sure that your trends welcoming this, these new packages of aid. they are crucial, of course, for the country's defense against the russian invasion. mathias, you're down on the ground there. how confident are ukraine's that this war can end any time soon? nobody expects this war to end any time soon. i think most people who talk about a, a compromise negotiate, i mean, the negotiations are happening and it's important that they are happening. but those people who talk about possible outcomes of these, you know, these negotiations are people sitting in the west and are uncomfortable with having to change their way of life. we have a much more talk about

a peaceful solution called peaceful solution to this war from belinda and from key if however, of course, negotiations are ongoing. but people here are you are expecting this to last much longer. that son mathias berlin guy in the v many thanks. mathias the world health organization says indiscriminate attacks are cross ukraine, have damage hospitals, and crippled health care services. w h o director general tedra. gabriel was warned, the war could have a devastating impact on ukraine, citizens and health care system. for decades. the disruption to services and supplies in ukraine is posing an extreme risk to people with cardiovascular business concert. dab it is h i v and t v which are among the leading cause of mortality in ukraine. here's

a look at some other developments in the conflict. u. s. secretary of state antony blinkin, says russia is making no meaningful diplomatic effort to end the war in ukraine. he also said he agrees with president biden, that russia has committed war crimes bite and added that he believes russia's putin is a murderous dictator. waging a moral war, you're the mayor of ukrainian city of mel topple, has published a video message following his release from russian detention. yvonne federal off praise the people of a city for their fearlessness in protesting against russian troops occupying the area. ukraine accused russia of kidnapping the mer 6 days ago with nato secretary general. yeah, installed in burg, says the alliance must prevent any escalation of the war beyond ukraine's border. he was speaking in berlin, after meeting german foreign minister, and

a lena bear behind the foreign minister said more german troops would be sent to nato's eastern border. meanwhile, nato has been conducting a massive military drill in norway. the alliance says the maneuvers are designed to test troops readiness for combat in cold situations. some 30000 soldiers from 27 countries are involved. the w's jack parish reports from camp raina in norway, fire and maneuver. $2500.00 french polish, spanish and portuguese soldiers. taking part in this nato exercise cold, brilliant jump. the soldiers told us, the invasion of ukraine has posted their determination to defend their country. this exercise we are we actually, i can see that we are a solid group. i it's,

we are what we are working are like are one organization. and if we are together, we will, i find a way these drills have been in planning for 2 years. they're using the cold conditions in norway to train artillery, infantry and specialists. you can deal with chemical and biological attacks, checking into operability between countries. these are the signs and the sites of war, but this isn't war. this is training drills. practice right now. the nato military alliance has no plans to send troops like these into the very real theatre of war in ukraine. these troops are on a 5 day notice to deploy, but currently only within nato's borders. attending the drills, general vollmer once the 2nd highest officer in the german army, and now a top nato commander told dw news exclusively his greatly in favor of the recently

moved by the german government to increase annual military spending to 2 percent of g. d. p. with an additional one off injection of a $100000000000.00 euros. our neighboring countries are counting on germany and with this announcement and with the will now to, to rebuild forces re enforce them again, that is a strong statement and of course, from a military perspective. and as a nato commander, i'm counting on germany, that they both rebuild capabilities they gave away many years ago. the exercises here at camp runa are also aimed at reassuring people living in norway, in the nearby town of hummer. people told us they're fully aware of the drills and norway has border. we do with russia and we never know what can happen. so i think it's also a lot of fear in norway. what can happen? we don't know. nato will protect us. and i think ukraine

would definitely be so if they were in natal, no, i'm afraid of that. and because i think we have to work and people to people in peace process and not the military, many of the soldiers present here will now participate in a 355 increase, strong drill, cold response conducted by norway's own armed forces with nato involvement. the commanders say these exercises aren't designed as warnings for russia, only to prepare defensively. you're watching d. w. news here is another look at the later story. we're following for you. several blast have been heard from the area around the airport in the western ukrainian city of the b leaves mer, says the airport itself has not been hid. levine has taken in hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing rushes onslaught in other parts of ukraine.

shade too. now for all the latest business had lines on michael oak who in berlin really appreciate your watch. ruth ah ah.