ah, ah this is the w news line from by laying russia missiles, hitler, even western ukraine, destroying a military aircraft repair facility. the other cities international airport, bringing the latest from our correspondents on the ground, also on the program. ukrainians in besieged cities are forced to raid shops for scarce food supplies, as experts warm that supply chains are collapsing or hear from the head of the world food program. in germany, china's president, jean ping tells his u. s counterpart, joe biden,

that conflicts between states are in no one's interests. the 2 leaders discuss the war by phone and answering ukraine's call for foreign fighters will hear from one of the reported 1000 germans voluntarily risking their lives to serve alongside the ukrainian army. ah, i'm fil gail. welcome to the program. we start in western ukraine where russia has attacked an area near the verbs airport. the strikes of damaged military aircraft maintenance facility rather than the airport itself and no casualties have been reported. the baby's less than a 100 kilometers east of the polish border and has been spared. major attacks until now. around 200000 people have fled there from other more dangerous parts of the country. oh,

the v raises the alarm. the cities may, it says, an aircraft repair plant close to the airport was hit by russian missiles residence fear, the war could be coming closer. new girls ultimately ski o d o he fled here because of the attacks. and now they're starting the bumper round here around their sirens every morning. but now they've started to strike after the so they like to show you shanina allah, these are the strongest explosions i've heard since the beginning of the war was shot. and that didn't really know what to do. first i went out into the corridor because it's supposed to be the safe hot laser and there wasn't time to go down to the bomb, showed her child was on the boy, the people in the live go about their days as much as they can. but the atmosphere has started to shift. you don't want the enemies strike against live if

it's further proved that they are not fighting ukrainian troops. they're fighting to population. children, women, refugees, nothing is sacred today. this is just a little that it has so far been a safe haven and gateway, the ukrainians, clean the wall. it has also been a vital hub for food and medical supplies. from here, they are transported to other areas desperate for humanitarian aid that meanwhile, outside of live, ukrainian soldiers have been training place. they want to be prepared for the worst case scenario. straight to live in western ukraine then where we joined the dublin correspond a matuse of bullying at welcome a chest and then that starts with the target of this attack. tell us more about

this maintenance facility. yeah, it was a maintenance facility close to the airport where aircraft could be repaired, the facility, that's what the authorities have said was already off work. they didn't, they didn't to work there any more. so that's why the casualties remain relatively low as somebody was injured. but no major casualties, nobody died. and it was, of course, expected that they would hit there at some point. they have had airports and other infrastructure around the country for, for, for several weeks, and other airports in western ukraine in cities that have also so far been sped of attacks on these cities on the civilian population. have seen similar things. so i've just been downtown and talk to some people and they were saying, yeah, there's no surprise in that this sir has been expected. it's the 1st time that it hits that close to this city. but other other targets in the area, including

a military training facility that's also not so far from here. i have been here before. so this is part of what, what russia does is it destroys infrastructure in the western parts of ukraine. where is no fighting on the ground. right. okay. so no surprise. but people argue people that did use to feel quite safe in the viva. now we've heard from your report that's changing. and are you seeing that i. e, as i, i, the people i spoke to have said that they did not are not surprised. and they did not. um see it in this as a changing as changing the situation on the ground. but of course, everybody takes this in a different way, and of course people who were closer there who were some of whom we're of just heard in the report. um they have said, yeah. and then they, it's kind of it, if you, i can say that for my own experience, even if you know that this couldn't,

can happen. it's different if you hear it and you and, and you see it than if you just know it, that's for sure. but um and, and everybody here knew, of course, before that the city has never been out of limits out of reach. but still it continues functioning as a major help for refugees. and it's still a place where people find refuge. and i've also spoken to people who have said, yeah, they're here now they want to return to the places they have come from that are under much more threat under much more damage, but they do not want to leave the country. so it's a very mixed feeling on the ground, but i wouldn't say that this has shifted so dramatically. right. and how is the city coping with us? the sudden arrival of hundreds of thousands of people are remarkably well. one must say the city is very organized and even at the arrival when you are at the, at the, at the station where the trains arrived there, people,

av, immediately, there are fallen tears or show them directions. there are buses to poland and 2 other places. there are tense by the red cross. there are people who distribute them in to make shift shelters, or jims, or wherever they can stay for the night. and the city is, is quite crowded. actually, it's much more crowded than in peacetime because of all these people who are here, either temporarily or fled here, but overall it's functioning. thank you for that material. it's pulling in the v. well rushes defense minister says it's forces are tightening the noose around the besieged porter. mario paul, early the military said it was fighting in the city center though that information hasn't been independently verified. mario paul has suffered some of the wars or fears system, bombardments and local officials as much as 80 percent of homes have been destroyed

. and that more than 350000 people are trapped about heat running water or other basics. hundreds of believe to be stuck beneath the rubble of a theatre that was sheltering civilians when it was hit by a russian air strike. more than a 130 people have been rescued from them, but the number of casualties still hasn't been established. the w corresponding nick connelly made contact with 19 year old ury in mary a paul who sent us these voice messages and, and 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 a modern need better that it's been days since intense shelling started here where i am now please. he's here for cool. last ukrainian and russian forces are fighting and i haven't been able to leave my house

. we can all it. this is the 5th day. i've been stuck inside the machine, you could same. he goes on the dish, navy potatoes, i've seen people dead on the streets with my own eyes found on miss marine near my house. there is a shop i was near by when it was hit by a shell. i went to see what happened and saw for bodies. if they were probably hit by shrapnel on their bodies were only picked up 2 days later. a couple of them obviously, should his teachers either 3 or 4 days after the war began, people started running out of food and he had a bodily even shops were shot and people started rating shops that had been damaged by shelling in search of food on getting 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 marine is eliza distorted, or you do i, she just crossed unless you devoted the sure city is gone. food doesn't exist anymore, or it's been destroyed. of the shops had been smashed up by hungry people. he could go to it and our buildings have been pulverized, says daniel bruce, this to my friends, went round the city and saw 5 story buildings were only the seller was left and was dan you. i thought that the couple block sodium yos are p remco, civil use it over time, get used to all the explosions and said, well, you're not really scared any more perfectly when something hits nearby. i've stopped running into the cellar them yet, it just becomes normal. but i'm still new credit. the bluish closure, i get stressed when there's no internet down and i can't reach my relatives or my girlfriend equal to already managed to get to germany, to use neos google to roaches interviewing. all i think about mine is one. i'll be able to get out of here and see her cooking in the near the parents if it is for

this for hulu, but it's the explosions and the shooting just aren't as scary anymore as losing touch with the people. you love. about weiss who says, submitted an immunity we understand that you are a, has not managed to get out of money while the situation that there is particularly bad, other besieged cities are also seeing major food shortages. residents of mac alive have rated shops for essentially, as russian forces try to surround the city. many grocery stores and warehouses and now empty and the world food program is wanting. but food and water supply chains are collapsing because of a lack of security. and the lack of drivers you an aid convoys have been unable to reach besieged cities. martin frick can tell us more. he's director of the world of food programs at global office in berlin. welcome to d. w. how bad are things in cities like mary, a poll?

real good with trying to get access to bring food in just last contribution and that need is a humanitarian combo. and when we hear about humanitarian corridors being established, what has been your experience of those? well, we have yet to see the delivering to cities. we're not entirely in circles. we have no food stocks, all those green people for 30 days, but we're still waiting and pressing for marian cars. got to marry all marino where it's impossible to get right. do you believe face of food shortages are a, b, r, just what happens in war?

or are they being deliberately provoked being used as a weapon? this is very difficult to say, but of course it stays now that the money having corridors have been promised and they are still waiting for the also see shock waves. so we prices and food prices as a consequence of the green war. they the fact that ukraine is a major wage exporter is quite interesting, isn't it? because as you say that if they can't export this, this major commodity, then this war is likely to have consequences for food security outside the country . absolutely. while we speak 20 percent reduction of ukraine, we grain more than 40 percent of the mice and the global market price for me is going through. we have 66 percent higher

prices a year ago. and 33 percent, we only added since the great war stop. so this is directly affecting some of the poorest countries in the world is pushing families in these countries to us quality. and thank you so much for joining us and outlining that so clearly martin frick from the world food program. we'll take a look at some more developments. and this was australia and japan of announced new sanctions against russia as punishment for the invasion. they target multiple individuals and organizations, including russia, central bank finance, ministry, and to oligarchs linked to australia, mining industry. german chancellor, all i've shown says houston, our long phone call with the russian president to press for a commitment to a cease fire and an improvement of the humanitarian situation. the criminal says

mister bruton told the german chances that ukraine is stored in peace talks with unrealistic proposals. a chinese state television says president gene pain has told us president joe biden, that conflict is in no one's interest. the comments are said to have been made during a call to discuss the situation in ukraine as the bible sort of asked the chinese president not to provide russia with military or economic assistance. u. s. police vladimir bruce. it gave china advance notice of his plans to invade. during talks in february, a chinese and russian leaders pledge what they called limitless friendship between the 2 countries. would like to think scare more on this call from d. w. corresponding of a solid in washington. welcome oliver. i was president biden hoping to get out of this call. or phil, china is an important partner for russia and prudent and she, the chinese, and the russian president have

a close relationship now. at china has been silent largely on the worn ukraine put in, international is isolated. and so the assumption is that, that he is the only leader in that she that he might listen to. so russia needs china economically. of course, he has been a prudent, has been asking for chinese support or the last weeks of the hopes are here. that she takes her stands that the condemns that war. that he exerts pressure on vladimir putin, including not providing that military support or helping russia to evade those sanctions as us. it intelligence has been suggesting over the last weeks now, president bible has threatened to costs if china assists russia in this war. one of those costs likely to be of 1st of all of economically, china has benefited a lot of trade with western economies that has lifted millions of chinese people out of poverty. and so the u. s. is threatening to panic to punish china with

sanctions. and that would certainly put the economic wealth of china at risk. so certainly china does not have any interest in that, but it's walking countries walking on a fine line here. the u. s. hopes that china understands that there is nothing to win in that war. and in that conflict, but there's a lot to lose. right now the very many of the old trump era sanctions against china are still in place. so what else would president biden be able to use to apply this pressure? the white house phil has not be very open about those options. we know that national security advisor, jake sullivan, very recently and role met his chinese counterpart and quote unquote event was very direct about consequences for chinese meddling in the war in ukraine. so the u. s. issued some warnings, they are potentially the u. s. could target chinese semiconductor companies that

are using u. s. software equipment. and there are certainly a lot of other vital areas that would hurt the chinese economy. we're but they're both very intertwined and interconnected. thank you for that. all of a solid in washington. meanwhile, vladimir putin has held a rally in moscow to mock 8 years since the annexation of crimea. tens of thousands of people gathered at b loose nikki stadium waiting russian flags. as the president played praised what he called these countries, special operation in ukraine before was, will costumes are displayed the yet letter zed, a pro russia symbol for the war a. here's a clip of mr. polluted speech. you would, you put yours in the best proof is how our boys are fighting at the special military operation. would you to way and they parents shoulder to shoulder they help them support each other by doing the rubric is needed to city. they cover each

other from bullets on the battlefield with her own bodies. but as if it was her own brother, viola makalya. napoleon, well, we haven't seen such unity for a long time. when, as devin hon, give off d w. russia, corresponded and sherwood welcome emily. so let's start with this event, what, what was going on. so this was in there and an event is me how in celebration of the anniversary of the annexation of crimea, which of course, in russia is referred to as the return home of the crimean peninsula. and that's an important day for putin, because that annexation back in 2014 of the crimean peninsula, from ukraine, was actually extremely popular in russia. and it led to a huge spike in putin's own rating. so in the past, we've also seen other events and celebrations, and also a presidential election held on the 18th of march. and this is also important for put in because it's one of the 1st times that we've seen vladimir putin eden, you know, within a crowd of people essentially in public, in

a very long time. he's been isolating up from co, that he's been very careful with any one who has, who goes to see him having to quarantine for 14 days. and today he talked a lot about the unity of the people and also the unity of russians with ukrainians . even quoted the bible to say there is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends referring to ukrainians. the whole idea is that ukrainians and russians are kind of these brother nations. and there's an idea in russia that actually rushes is liberating and defending ukraine from a neo nazis. um you know, even though of course we're seeing fierce resistance from, from the ukrainian army in fact. and who was that will did, was it, did people volunteer to go over? they volunteered, well, we, we don't know in the past with these kind of patriotic events. there have always been reports of people kind of being bused in and forced to go and,

and in this case as well, there have already been some media reports are that state employees like doctors and teachers were told that they should probably attend or students who are leading the stadium saying that they'd actually been put on a bus and brought there this week. there's also been a patriotic campaign where, you know, small school children were posing in the z formation, which of course is the letter that has been painted on many russian tanks during the ukrainian invasion in this kind of patriotic online campaign as well. it seems really important to put in right now to show that he has the people support and the people's backing. and at the end of his speech, the russian state to be suddenly cut away from him, mid a sentence and showed the pottery, alter the songs. what scully, wilma, that was very strange and i'm sure that someone will be getting in trouble for that . he was cut off and apparently it state tv immediately then showed the full

version afterwards. and the kremlin spokesperson has already said that actually this was a technical ad. their error to do with one of the servers of we don't know, of course there have been discussions of that on line. i'm sure there will be a lot of conspiracy theories and one political observer that i saw posted a sarcastic comment saying that the military operation isn't going smoothly and they can't even organize a concert. well it's so you were saying, this is 1st, our present futon has been seen in a crowd. is, is a sort of a counterattack to the, to prison. zalinski is a constant international appearances. i think it's an attempt, you know, we've seen zalinski a kind of posing for selfies with, with soldiers going to visit a sick soldiers at hospital and so on. talking to his, to the mayor's of, of cities, you know, in a 1st and personal phone call being very kind of close to the people in a way. and, and i guess this is an attempt on vladimir putin part to do the same. but of course, he was very far away from the actual crowds, and he looked a little thin wooden as well. i would say, a d, w a russia correspondent,

emily shirley. thank has been confirmed that sir. russian football fans will have no team to a chair. the man's football world cup and guitar. this year, quote of arbitration for sport upheld the decision of world governing body fever to suspend all russian teams and clubs from competitions and response to the ukraine invasion court rejected a request from rushes for both. so susan, to have it suspension frozen, until its appeal is heard. russia had been due to play poland in a world cup qualifier next week. and present, zalinski has been calling for military support, not only from foreign governments, but also foreign fighters. soon after the war broke out, he formed an international legion for volunteers, willing to help the ukrainian army fight russian forces. is government says around 22000 met her, signed up, an estimated 1000 of them from germany. it's 3. i am at a bus station in berlin,

34 year old pascal font with the german armed forces in afghanistan. now he's going to ukraine as a volunteer fighter. he said farewell to his 3 daughters. the shoots is soon off of and out in a way i'm protecting my children. even if i'm over there, i'd say if i wait until it comes here, then it might be too late income. but if i go over there now, if i could try to end it beforehand from o dot info on the phone with dawson, and he's heading to a war zone, it's not clear how many germans are fighting alongside the ukrainian army. it's estimated to be about $1000.00. the german interior minister is not stopping people joined the war unless they're known to be extremists. dinning the o 6, those who have an extremist ideology want to train and the use of weapons. for instance, we do try to stop them from leaving germany through legal proceedings. ukrainian president, viola,

dimmer zalinski has called on people from all over the world to come and fight for ukraine. ukraine has even put out recruitment than yahoo seems where the battle against russia is the battle for your future. they say, for in the legion of tutorial, defense, green is waiting for you actually. but experts warn that foreign volunteers could worse and the conflict hearing lots of volunteers from the outside in some ways, plays into hooton's hands because he's trying to portray this war, not as russia conquer ukraine, but as russia defending itself from the west and russia has shown that it makes no exception for foreign fighters. earlier this month, an air strike hit a military base near the polish border where foreign fighters had also spent time training. at least 35 people were reportedly killed in the air strike on the barracks where their foreign fighters were among them is unclear. this volunteer fighter from germany says he was inside the barracks during the attack. his voice

this although i miss i like that striking 50 to 100 meters away from you or maybe 200 and you've managed to run away. that's something that's hard to forget. well, obviously with no, he complains that his ukrainian superiors did not warn him and his comrades of the air strike other soldiers were able to flee to the bunker. the no hello, polite my lease, still ready to risk my life. right? europe's freedom. but i'm not ready to foolishly sacrifice my life and just say, okay, then just kill me off off the dog. okay. that uncomfortable the former german soldier has now left ukraine. he says the decision was consensual, but other germans still want to fight and are now heading for the war zone. washington dublin years life from the top story of the waves. a mass has a brush and that missile strike, i say, to a military, aircraft maintenance plant outside the city and west of the country. the name is close to the polish border. i'm is taken in more than 200000 people,

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