starts march 30th on d. w with this is the w news life from berlin. russian missiles hit, levine in western ukraine, destroying a military aircraft repair facility there. the cities international airport was bringing the latest from i correspondent on the ground. also on the program, china's president vision ping tells us counterpart joe biden, with conflicts between states are in no one's interests. as the 2 leaders discussed the war by phone, i'm vladimir putin that processed russian troops fighting his war at moscow rally,

attended by tens of thousands. ah i'm from gale. welcome to the program. we start in western ukraine where rushes attacked. an area near lives airport, the strikes of damaged military aircraft maintenance facility rather than the airport itself. and no casualties have been reported. the baby is 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 raises the alarm. the cities man says, an aircraft prepare, plant close to the airport, was hit by russian missiles residency. the war could be coming closer.

new ver finley ski o d o. he fled here because of the attacks. and now they're starting to bump around here. they're on their sirens every morning, but now they've started to strike after the site. they're like go, buick shanina. allah! these were 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 place, or there wasn't time to go down to the bomb shelter, shall. so on the boy, the people on 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 the population. children, women, refugees, nothing is sacred today. this little that is,

has so far been a safe haven and gateway the ukrainians fleeing the war. it has also been a vital hub for food and medical supplies. from here, they are transported to other areas desperate for humanitarian aid. meanwhile, outside of the viv ukrainian soldiers have been training or 3rd party . they want to be prepared for the worst case scenario. straight to live in western ukraine where we joined the doubly correspond matuse of bullying at welcome at s m l 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 anymore. 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 literally destroys infrastructure and the western parts of ukraine. where is no fighting on the ground. right. okay. so no surprise. but

people argue people that did used to feel quite safe in the viva. now we've heard from your report that 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, you'd have, 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 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 hub 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 will 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 matter. yes, this is putting it in the take a brief look at some other developments in this conflict. the runs world food program says ukraine's destroyed infrastructure is causing a food supply chain to collapse and that many grocery stores and warehouse is now empty. also express particular concern about the situation in many of other cities which you and aid conferences. convoys have been unable to reach britain's media. regulators revoke the license of russian television channel r t over its coverage of the war to describe the banners unfair and accused of regulator being told of the british government. european union issued

a similar ban early this month. german chancellor, olaf shoulds says use an hour long a phone call with the russian president to press for a commitment to a cease fire. and an improvement of the humanitarian situation in ukraine kremlin says mister bruton told the german chancellor that you create a stalling peace talks with unrealistic proposals. australia and japan have announced new sanctions against russia as punishment for the invasion target multiple individuals and organizations, including russia, central bank finance, ministry, and to oligarchy. linked to australia, mining industry, and 3 russian cosmonaut so blasted off to the international space station where they'll join a crew that includes us. astronauts, a corporation in space is continuing for now, despite the u. s. at russian relations hitting their lowest point for decades over the chinese state television says president jean pink 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. president biden, this sort of asked the chinese president not to provide russia with military or economic assistance us these vladimir putin gave china advance notice of his plan to invade. during talks in february, chinese and russian leaders pledge what they call limitless friendship between the 2 countries. i would like to get 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. also, 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 war in ukraine. putin internationally 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 in the hopes are here. that she takes a stance that he 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 a 1st of all 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. a threatening to pen to punish china with sanctions. and that would certainly put the economic wealth of china at risk. so

certainly a china does not have any interest in that, but it's walking countries walking on a fine line here. the u. s. hopes, the 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 present biden be able to use to apply this pressure? the white house still has not be very open about those options. we know that national security advisor, jake sullivan, very recently enrolled, 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 us 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 summit in washington. well, president putin has held to rally in moscow to mock 8 years since the annexation of crimea. it praise what he called his country's special operation in ukraine and pushed his narrative that russian troops on a mission to read ukraine. if not, susan, tens of thousands attended the event, though there are some reports of public sector employees with pressured to attend. so many turned up for the event that they couldn't all fit into the stadium organizers bossed in some of the participants, urging them to support the russian army in its military operation. as it's referred to in russia, the term war is not allowed to be used. oh, let's semester bizarre army is liberating the people fighting the nazis and fascists and the band groups. the civilians there are heavy or is it even humanitarian aid and are being rescued as a showed spa soap, new project for good?

i isn't against any craniums. it's against the fascism. they're just like when we fought clashes in europe during the 2nd world war. alyssa washes mom via the inside the stadium patriotic songs and praise of the soviet union. lenny and styling, that's my country. this one goes referring to ruthless former soviet leaders. ah, then president putin takes the stage, referring to what he called a genocide of russians and the don boss and naming crimea as part of russia. the speech ran on all channels and then on all channels simultaneously, the unthinkable occurred. potent was cut off mid speech. instead of putin, the pop singer was shown again. what exactly happened is unclear. the kremlin leader said there was a technical problem. put in speech was later repeated, this time uninterrupted. well,

it's been confirmed that russian football fans will have no tame to cheer for. the men's football woke up in catawba sheer court of arbitration for sport upheld the decision for boom. so whoa, governing body fifo to suspend old russian teams and clubs from competition in response to the invasion of you crime court rejected requests from russia's football association to have it suspension frozen until until its appeal is heard. russia was due to play poland and the world club qualify. next week. this is d, w. news life from berlin. here to the headlines. leaves at mass says, i'm russian missile strike. is it a military aircraft maintenance plant outside the city in the west of the country? is close to the polish border and is taken in more than 200000 people, displaced by the onslaught of next on the

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