ah, ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin. fierce combat rages on multiple fronts in ukraine. russian forces are advancing into the perceived city of mar your pole, with reports of fighting in the streets. more than 300000 people from a traps in the city. also coming up jewish children from ukrainian city of odessa find refuge in berlin, where they're celebrating the festival of purip. ah,

amber hello mohammad. walking to the program. russian forces have entered the center of the besieged city of mario upon a key port in the south east has been under attack for several weeks. taking mary jo, pull a scene as a key strategic move for moscow, and would open up a land corridor between russia and crimea. ukrainian troops are now fighting with russian forces over the site of the as love style plant in mario pole. one of the largest steel plants in europe, the cities met, vice mayor says the facility has been destroyed by russian air strikes. a warning, some viewers may find some of the images in this report to study. ukraine's port city of mario paul, lies in ruins. this used to be a shopping center. now it's just a shell,

dead bodies, litter the streets. those still standing left with almost nothing. rushes, assault on the city has not let up. with reports, russian forces have now entered the center against this background, ukraine's president is demanding fresh peace talks was that was the level alone available, always insisted on negotiations for overall. we've always offered dialogues, offered solutions for peace move doors, not just the 23 days of invasion, which will, and i want everyone to hear me now. hufjay, especially moscow. just it's time to meet us after time to talk to us. it's time to restore territorial integrity and justice for ukraine. but it doesn't appear.

russia. leader is listening. on friday, vladimir putin spoke at a mass rally held in moscow to mark the 8th anniversary of russia's annexation of crimea, to adoring fans. he spent on what he says, his invasion of ukraine is all about even the is both to in the suffering and the genocide. that's the main reason, the main motive, and the aim of the military operation that we have started in danbury and ukraine. the numbers to integrate in ukraine's capital cave. these people are now homeless. the latest victims of war talk of peace, seems a long way off. database fanny ashar is in live in the west of ukraine . fanny, the humanitarian situation is desperate in many parts of the country. could you just bring us up to speed on the evacuations?

are people able to leave and unfortunately, it remains desperate for millions and millions. here in ukraine now there was some positive news, however, by the deputy prime minister of ukraine, who said that some of the humanitarian corridors that were set up to date, or some of them actually worked in parts of the ones region. so in don bus region and also as surrounding achieve however, when it comes to mary paul and we have seen that report before, the situation really remains very di are in fact award. the ukrainian or authorities claim is that bosses that are supposed to go into my report and basically help evacuate people who are not let in, allegedly not let in of a russian forces. we cannot independently verify if this is the case. what we do know, however, that hundreds of thousands of people remain trapped in my report. and we know, of course, that the situation there with lack of electricity, lack of food, is really a situation where you really wonder and we have seen some reports yesterday just

for how long people be able to hold out in such a situation. in fact, reports were suggesting yesterday there's some people try to leave by foot on foot trying to escape this harrowing situation. mario paul, and where you are in la viv. they've been taking in refugees from all over ukraine in recent weeks. what the situation when it comes to their people here are very much welcoming they try to provide shelter for those the need for those hundreds of thousands of people who arrive here internally displaced people. that number is, of course, around millions in the entire country. and of course, we know that more than 3000000 people have left your brain, know the may or have of leave. you may clear it can not go on forever as the much, the more international aid international organizations he says need to step up to actually help living financially. and also he says, it cannot continue that are different places, pools or churches, etc,

being used as temporary shelter. he actually criticized international and yields for are underestimating even prior to the full scale invasion on february 24th underestimating this is going to happen. and now not being prepared enough while the un says that yes day agree there have been some challenges here, of course on the ground to be operational. but at the same time, they also see that they've deployed tons of medical aid, for example, to sue me. however, when you ask people who are here on the ground that's really necessary, they will tell you it's not financial aid by and jose, what they want is to have this airspace closed. so there is no shelling and nor an assault basically that continues to hit. so many parts of this country, ukraine's president zalinski has called for peace talks with russia's present vladimir putin. but what do you have on that? we definitely do not have so far any reaction from the kremlin. in fact,

some observer say that a vladimir putin is not going to have any direct talk with president lensky as long as not more. a territory again is made here on the ground. so even though this is something that president zelinski has said over and over again, trying to reach out. and of course, have been various talks various negotiations between ukrainian or russian delegation at least for now. unfortunately, it doesn't look like that there is going to be any short term consequence into himself. a cease fire be just to limit to cease fire even to get back to the 1st garage and actually to get that other queue ation going on. a much larger scale. in fact, for now, according to our numbers in ukraine, only about 190000 people could be evacuated from this are very i heavily. shad sheldon encircled a places and parts of ukraine. so for now there is no reaction to it from the kremlin m. nobody knows, just how much more restriction destruction rather is going to happen and what that

means was civilians, until there is an end to all of this. the stoddard more than 3 weeks ago here in ukraine, d. w, fanny for shar, speaking to us from live if thank you, fanny. well, even as so many ukrainians try to flee the war zone, others are heading there in droves. it appears that thousands of ukrainian nationals living abroad have heated their presidents call to come and defend their homeland. not all have military training. they're now joining the many ordinary ukranian civilians who are taking arms, taking up arms for the 1st time. at the polish border with ukraine, an exodus of people desperate to escape the war. when not everyone here is heading, west horse are below silver is waiting to cross the border to a native ukraine. they who i have 3 years, military experience,

some going to defend ukraine. there's nothing for me in poland. my husband and i will go fight together. legal doesn't get on since the outbreak of war, over 3000000 people are estimated to a flat ukraine. but polish authorities say that over 200000 ukrainians have returned to their home country. many of them to fight rosa is keen to join the territorial defense force, a militia with little military experience and hardware. with those it's you that a little know younger from the well because there are no guns for everyone in the territorial defense with our guys are fighting with the knives. they have someone at home together. we saw an with old rifle from on the do the bullock alicia, like if so ah, in the black sea port of odessa one cooper fall in tears is receiving a few days of training. oh, many are couples like sales manager,

moxy me off to shanghai and his fiance, the 30 to yield is bracing himself for the russian onslaught on his home city. i like her to know how to protect her, my girlfriend, my city. i think i would be, feel myself, much more comfortable and safer with this knowledge is that the volunteers ready themselves, battle graveyards across ukraine, a filling up oh, in the city of near broo moons have come to bery soldiers who have died defending their country 3 weeks of war have taken a toll on ukrainian forces, but with ukrainians, determined to resist the russian invasion. there is no shortage of those willing to make the ultimate sacrifice. oh, or his look at some of the other developments in the ukraine conflict. it rains

president vladimir zalinski has called on the 1st government to freeze the bank account of all russian oligarchs, lance he spoke via live stream to thousands of anti war protestors in the city of burn. it criticized the phys, food multinational nestle, which is still operating in russia. unlike many other companies, poland prime minister has called for a complete blockade on all trade between russia and the you, while touring a polish missile factory, he said russian ships carrying russian goods should be barred from entering european see ports and all trade by land band to a russian orthodox priest has been fined for calling the invasion of dufrane. a war in an article published online for that un burden was find the equivalent of nearly 300 euros for breaking rushes, new law, limiting reporting on the war in ukraine. the russian invasion has devastated families and has been especially hard on children in ukraine,

but for one of the group of children who have fled the city of odessa to berlin. the jewish festival of pure im offered a chance for a little light relief from the horrors of war and concerns about those left behind ah orphans, and students from the ukrainian city for debtor. enjoy the festivities in berlin. they were evacuated by the orthodox jewish shabbat organization. soon after the war broke out, catalan dash from the hebrew university in odessa had just 24 hours to decide whether to flee daughter left her parents behind in her home city of cas on. i couldn't in to run your so i call my parents every day. they're living under occupation. now the care san region is completely occupied. oh, club of august. thank god, it's more or less quiet. but the russian occupiers constantly shoot at residential

buildings. ah, the 2 students are now safe. thanks in part to this man. rabbi you who that tycho from the shabba community helped organize the evacuation. oh, after the 2 years after jews were forced to flee from germany, it's a strong sign that we have a safe harbor here today. thought if i of course we can't do it alone. we need help from society. so like at the peer m celebrations this week, for children dress up in costumes like the german convo festival. a burling hotel is hosting the shabba community and the evacuees title and his shabby community have evacuated people from ukraine 3 times since a start of the war. for many, it's been and nightmarish journey with our spend waiting at the border. i'm the nuts my group and not say we have 2 more buses, one a group of loan mothers and children who have arrived there either because they're

single mothers or because her husbands away fighting by the men or yes, increase in the vacuum. ease a part of the lively jewish community for desa. the port city on the black sea german soldiers tried to exterminate all juice, no desa during this 2nd world war. they failed. for now, ty ty, once the people to forget about the current war, at least you pure him were singing, dancing, and good food. ah, i forgot her dasha, and the other students from odessa daily lives now includes fearful gazing at their smartphones. awaking news from ukraine, more expensive, most of all, we want to go back home. we miss our friends and family. we love ukraine very much . and our home towns. yeah. but no one knows where that putins war will soon be over. the next important jewish holiday is coming up,

a full weeks passed over. the festival celebrates the flight of these re lights from egypt and the liberation from slavery. in watching dw nice live from berlin, you'd find much more news analysis and video on a website, d, w dot com for the latest on ukraine of ease. if a white global ideas is on its way to bring you more conservation. how do we make cities greener? how can we protect habitats? we can make a difference global ideas, environmental series in global $3000.00 on d, w, and online.