ah, ah ah, this is w news live from berlin targeting civilians in the ukrainian capital bratia, charles of shopping center in key lightening the structure and killing several people in the southeastern city of merab hold refuses to surrender. despite relentless bombardment. also coming up a new common defense policy for the european union leader, se if marks of turning point for the you and a survivor of multiple not the concentration camps is killed by russian bonds in

ukraine. 96 year old or as roman jenko died when his apartment building was destroyed by russian missiles. city of hark! ah, i am abby co boss and welcome to the program. ukrainian president vladimir zalinski says his country will never bow to ultimatums from russia and ukrainian cities. he says, we'll never surrender earlier. the besieged port city of merrier. all defied a russian deadline to lay down its weapons and the capital key russian plains targeted and destroyed a shopping mall in a residential neighborhood, killing a beast. 8 people once a lively shopping center in the capital cave. now little more than a pile of rubble science light as managed to save at least one person from the

wreckage. after russian bombardment level, the building rushes defense ministry has denied targeting civilian infrastructure. it claims that the mold was storing ammunition for the ukrainian military. the cities met has announced a curfew from monday evening until wednesday warning that russian attacks are continuing these right now as sir let in schools. ah, why if you loot kindergartens, destroy civilian bill, this is war against civilian is a war against your brain. it doesn't happen as a choice. we have to fly and we have to we, the humanitarian situation is worsening across the country as the russian advance, stoles, in many areas, russian forces are increasingly turning their focus on civilian targets. something that the kremlin continues to deny. i occupied city of

her son, c. c, t. v footage captured russian forces using stun grenades and gunfire to disperse protesters. authorities in odessa also reported russian strikes on suburban houses. the 1st such attack in the strategic port city. but it is the besieged south eastern city of mario pole that has borne the brunt of russia's bombardment. russian strikes have hit theaters, schools and hospitals across the city, prompting accusations of genocide from ukrainian authorities. on monday, ukraine rejected an ultimatum for the city to surrender to russian forces. ukrainian, president volota may zalinski, denounced the ultimatum, saying that the government and the people stand united was over by everyone can see that it's the people themselves who are defending the country. this is the most important treasure that we have in our defense uses car than we are. that's why i

said, we will come see to an ultimatum. only when we no longer exist, you'll get cool enough nibbled conditions. and maria, pull a worsening by the day with rushes ultimatum ignored. the city's remaining residence can do little but take shelter and hope that a ceasefire will come soon. our next gas is alexandra madrid. shack from keith. she's the human rights lawyer and the head of non profit organization, the center for civil liberties. thank you for taking the time to speak with d w. news. i want to start by saying we're hearing from you as and you can officials that the russian invasion is not going as planned. it's not going according to planet stalling. are you concerned that the kremlin will ramp up attacks on soft targets like schools and residential areas targeting civilians? what is the credit for all ready started to do in a 3rd with the 1st day of the work? because from the 1st day of the work, we the combined to deliberate

a challenge to be just like residential building schools course for those kindergarten churches. so it's only continuum. now the international criminal court has already said that it's going to launch investigation into possible war crimes in ukraine. can you talk to us about some of the grey this russian attacks that could fall under this category? the international criminal court will have plenty of work here because cerebral car, it's moment to look to make it. as i told deliberate sheldon on the checks and see them for the relation effects to community and $40.00 forcibly and transfer me to transfer over the nation from occupied to rush and iteration using in. discriminated weapons like on unguided formal classroom union and deliberate. that extra medical person, though, which is prohibited by international assuming that in a little political prosecution in a few by $3030.00 like beaten,

threatening in people, organize peaceful assemblies and also perfidy as a special crime. employed in the international community in all stories, news by russian president donkey has said that those complicit in war crimes will be brought to justice. as you know, this can be a long process, a painful process for families, victims. what are you looking at in the weeks in years to come when it comes to this or international justice, always delaying time. and that's why we, for once i try to collect as much advance as possible. and because when we will do our best to, to bring the perpetrators to justice or will still execute her. so this crimes and which and, and he's surround in horgan, nice describes but for another site we also thinking how to stop this more crime to meet code, to make that prevent prevention, offer appearing,

or when you victims. can you talk to us about the evidence when you say you are gathering them as much as possible, but it's becoming increasingly difficult to document any such war crimes. there could be crucial to any investigation because of the ongoing fighting and the increased shelling. what are the biggest challenges to documenting right now? we list the word or when you should, if you haven't already done the 1st and the top several 100 so full in tears. and for us, it's a problem that it's so like ordinary people and majority of them have no legal background or appropriate through expert stars. that's why we can focus only on such evidence, which is over there for people who go through various info, informational training like re gathered to witness a testimony of weakness and weak teams or a deliberate if they have to civil or you can when you stadium 40 for example, we not focused on sexual violence because our will, will,

in tears are not prepared to speak with the b team. so sexual violence. what would you like to see my side with child when it comes to western allies of ukraine, nato, the european union? what more do you want to see them do with regards to human rights abuses that you're seeing right now in your country? we need several things. we need to position, and we need to union to, or what i mean for active position. i mean that we need to do our best western democracy in order to show which is the high price on this patient and to possibilities the brushing economic to feed this. and when we go into detail. so we will see that not all russian bands are banned from russia is not in the least on that. there is no bible for oil and gas and some countries to continue trade with russia. and when we speak about unity,

it's also very important because when, when you start to this war, you thought that west will never have one common physicians or how to react to russian aggression. and i really cool with that. he will be mistaken if our to the 30 and then we can cooperate together like crush and bill us. there is no if use for western democracies not to find you need to human rights. lauren, keep our xandra martin. chuck, thank you very much for your time. thank you you foreign and defense ministers have marked a turning point in the use history. according to its foreign affairs, chief joseph bar, out speaking after talks with the ministers of the 27 member states, browl said they had reached an agreement on security and defense. that was an important step for the e. u. as a security provider. he said the so called strategic compass was not

a knee jerk reaction to russia's war on ukraine, but it was a very timely formation together. correspond christine, when, why joins now from brussels. christine, the e says it's ready to impose further sanctions on russia. but is the block ready at all to target russia's energy sector? abby, there is a lot of resistance to that are chief among those opposed to targeting rushes. energy sector would be germany, which is really among those countries that is the most dependent on rushes energy by energy. i'm talking about a mix of coal oil as well as gas. it had been put on the table to have a conversation about at least targeting the oil sector, which would be much easier than gas for obvious reasons. the trouble there is moscow at some point did threaten that if there were some kind of embargo on oil imports that it could potentially retaliate by turning off the gas tabs. and in a time where energy prices are particularly high, here in europe, the fear is that

a cut in supply from russian gas would really have a devastating impact, not just on, on the livelihoods of europeans, it would affect the average household, but also there could potentially be economic consequences to that. so certainly there was some pushing from the lithuanian for mr. for example. who ahead of that meeting this morning did come on record again to say that the energy section should absolutely be on the table. but there is a lot of resistance right now, especially among member states who rely so heavily on russian energy, particularly the gas is the i do want to ask you about this comment from the foreign policy. she brought joseph brown saying that there's a turning point here when it comes to european defense doctors about that. that's right. they've adopted the strategic compass. this is something that the european union has been working on now for the last 2 years in affected as europe saying, we need to be more autonomy when it comes to defense capability right now. the $27.00 member states collectively contribute or allocates about as much as at china

in terms of defense spending 4 times as much as russia does, but because it is not coordinated. there are lots of gaps in the system. you also have a lot of duplication. the idea here is that they're going to coordinate when it comes to defense capability, so that when a crisis like what we're seeing happening now, ukraine happens if a member state comes under attack. for example, europe does not solely have to rely on nato that europe can, in itself mobilize on its own. and so you're going to be seeing more conversations along those lines. practically, we'll start seeing european armies working together in maneuvering and in doing drills, this is something that doesn't happen any time they collaborate on that front. it happens under the nato framework. so it's certainly a turning point here, as the europeans start to realize what, but maybe isn't quite a new reality, but really just facing them now. add that a common defense perhaps is more practical and needed, given at what's going on. not very far away from where we sitting here in brussels,

dw correspondent christine on. why thank you, christine ukrainian man who survive multiple nazi concentration camps has been killed by russian shelling in harker. 96 year old boris roman jenko lived through nazi imprisonment and force labor and several concentration camps, including book involved after world war 2. you return home to hearken, where he became a prominent peace activist and campaigner, he was killed. one is apartment walk with hit by a russian show on friday. d, w. new spoke to the director of the book involved foundation here in germany, dr. yann's christian wagner, who knew dr. mr. boy roman shanker. rather i was really shocked. but when i go frequently came to the bloomberg memorial to join our ceremonies or the anniversary of the duration of the count. for example,

he frequently spoke during these events. he had become a threat to us in the memorial. and we remember him as very. ready engaged in struggling against fascism for the memory of the camps and for peace and actually lost his life. much owes them from that and $45.00 was to build the word of peace and freedom and written with a lot of holocaust survivors. but also with political survivors. from the not the patient counts and all the saliva as i spoke with our shop really shot for the whole life. they had been fighting for peace and for memory. and now we have the new war in the middle of europe and christian wagner, director of the bowen vault foundation. speaking to d w. earlier, you're watching

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