ah, ah ah, this is dw news life from berlin, ukraine's president calls again for face to face talks with his russian counterpart . brought him is the last, he says, a meeting with vladimir putin is the only way to understand his conditions when the warranty says, any agreement with russia must be put to the ukrainian people in the form of a referendum. tens of thousands have played the russian bombardment of ukraine, 2nd big city. if you hear from some of those who decided to stay and brave the shelling vigilance border with roster is 1300 kilometers long. the invasion of

ukraine has been wandering. what other lines moscow is willing to cross president vladimir prudence? unprovoked attack on a sovereign neighbor has forced them to reassess? how far do the kremlin territorial ambitions go? where do they stop? ah, i've been fas all and welcome. the ukrainian army says it's rebel. russian forces from a strategically important suburb of the capital give the defense ministry says the outcome of the battle in the suburb of mockery, if has prevented bratia from surrounding the capital from the northwest. ukrainian president blood, mister lansky says he's willing to discuss a commitment from ukraine not to seek ne, who membership in exchange for a cease fire withdrawal of russian troops and ukrainian security guarantees. but he says it's a and chill to discuss terms one on one with russian president vladimir putin and

the ukrainian people will have to agree the terms in over f referendum. in the meantime, russia's war of aggression against ukraine continues in the occupied ukrainian city of cason, residents gather defiance of the russian invaders. the response stung grenades and gunfire, causing the crowd to scatter. ukraine's president vladimir zalinski condemned the incident in his speech to the nation. sierra bly, yankee, these slaves sent by russia have never seen so many free people in the squares and streets. you can, they have never seen thousands of people who are not afraid of them. are slaves with weapons in the hands. rumba slaves, pussy freedom of savagery. as danger, yet they are scared numbers back when they are. but

a lack rushes military is not only attacking civilians in areas and occupies. it's also talking civilian targets in areas. it's not mondays coming of a shopping mall in keith and the relentless bombardment of the besieged city of maria, pull of course outreach in ukraine in the broad. but it is not we can ukrainian resolve the president close his speech with an appeal leopard abnormal natalie to save our people, fight wouldn't fight and held him in double might drive the slaves out. the harbor drive the occupy as out. okay, so that ukraine lives so that all of us live with it is free and peaceful. made villa human to leave his knee. and speaking later to the press, zalinski said that any peace deal with russia had to be sanctioned by the people he booked genesis, which i have not met with the russian negotiators,

but explained to our negotiators that the talks that when one is talking about changes and these changes are of historic importance even there is no other way around it. we will have to hold a referendum, you could in the den, which will bring them under a friend having suffered through war ukrainians are to have a say on the piece that follows. when and if it can be achieved a correspond if i, if a child is in the viv in the west of the country, president soleski said he's willing to give up nato aspirations in return for peace . could that spark progress towards some sort of deal and that's the big multi $1000000.00 question to say so because they've been negotiations ongoing, actually starting on february 28 to $4.00 days after the civil started after began . there were several negotiations about just how to, if not stop the war, but at least slow it down. that did not happen. now over the last week, actually, both russian ukraine signaled that least it seems that there is some sort of

progress to agree on a formula to say so about a possible neutrality of ukraine. but you can hear in my wording also that someone eventualities enough unfortunately. so far, nothing came out of it so now presented present lensky repeating the very same to say, all right, you're ready to discuss that neutrality by saying they're not going to join the nato if and obviously, that comes with the condition off that russia needs to also guarantee the security of ukraine, by redrawing from this country, which clearly is not something that we see is in the playbook of russia right now. so yeah, this announcement was made again our by president lensky yesterday, brought to the outcome of it as a completely unclear because for now at least we did not have any direct direct reaction just yet from russia. and what about direct talks? what's the likelihood of these 2 leaders that countries entrenched in war meeting,

face to face? russia made clear over and over again because that the man also was made or that request was awesome. it was made by president lensky, that there must be a really, a direct meeting now with russia's president put in whether this is a video call or any form of meeting. but a 2 man me to talk. now russia made clear that they can only imagine that face to face store to come into place if there is some sort of a deal agreed on during the negotiations that usually take place amongst these are delegations from russia and ukraine, which i spearheaded by the presidential advisors of both countries. so the devil relays the detail here and it's, it's really like a catch $22.00 because russia says ok, there will be a face to face meeting. but only if eva deal is agreed on that. then again, it can be put forward on that table between poochie and, and zalinski. so at this point is really unclear and as i say, there was no reaction just yet, but it's not expected that that's,

that stance of russia is going to change all of a sudden. and a putin is going to say, yes, i'm going to meet president zalinski also because observe a say if he did that at this point into the war, that would almost look like a concession from the russian side. so this is more likely, according to observe, as to be taken to be to, to take place. if more territory gains are made by russia here in ukraine. what about russia's tactics in this war? you've told us time and again about the psychological aspect of this invasion. and every day we hear about civilian buildings coming under attack. exactly 4 weeks into this for a lot of operations that russia cause a military operation of this full scale invasion have sold actually they couldn't really capture any major city during the 4 weeks. but of course, unfortunately i was certain towels like, muddy ball are reduced to rubble. and also yesterday, just yesterday, a shopping center or rather sunday evening was destroyed and keep on the

residential neighborhoods. also in many parts of ukraine, including keith including have so and including other parts, which clearly tells you maybe that the entire strategy to take over ukraine is stalling because it didn't happen overnight. what lot of people expected from russia, because they were having so many troops across every ipod to the north, to the cells and the eastern region of ukraine. but it does mean unfortunately that this was not going to become more brutal. in fact, the ukrainian military mclee also yesterday that it citizens here neat to raise for a more intense shelling of the neighborhood. so clearly this is not something that you would want to hear hoping that is going to be any way out of this war. at least a stop to it. so people can be evacuated from especially intensely, heavily shall parts of ukraine like mario paul carter. thank you very much for the analysis and stay say how heath is also under bombardment?

it's just 50 kilometers from the russian border in the east. the relentless attacks have seen a large number of the cities, one and a half 1000000 residents fleet. those who say behind face a daily struggle for survival above ground. ha, keith is a ghost town. weeks of relentless shelling by russia has laid waste to residential areas, hospitals and schools, daily bombing spring with that new casualties. and it's forced, those who have remained in ukraine 2nd largest city to retreat under grounds blood search. do we have been here since the 24th of february near our house? the school was on fire tanks were on fire. that's why we decided not to go back there. it is cold. here the children are getting sick. they get i infections. they suffer from the cold. they cough as you can hear, because food in ha, keith is running out. people queue for hours to get aid. some of those chosen to

remain are channeling their efforts into clearing debris and securing what's left of their city. oh, honestly speaking i don't see much sense in leaving the city and joining the territorial defense force. i don't have any military experience here, but i can help the city with my labor. why not? you know, i'm not planning to leave. we'll stay here till the end of june. but with her, keith has managed this long to defy the russian forces attempting to crush it. it's hoping it can hold out long enough to survive. this war is a look at some other developments in the war. u. s. president biden is urging american companies to protect themselves against potential cyber attacks from russia. he also repeated us warnings that moscow was planning to use chemical weapons against ukraine, mostly vitamins called president vladimir putin. a war,

criminal predominantly ukrainian school in chicago has welcomed 8 you students who fled the war. teachers organized the vigil to remember those who died and in the hope for an end to the invasion. this school says it's preparing to welcome another 50 ukrainian refugees. dozens of ukrainian orphans on their way to the u. k. a stuck in poland because of missing paperwork. british authorities say they're working to accept the children who've been waiting to travel for 2 weeks. the government has come under criticism for its slow or lack of response to refugees. finger ball. the united nation says $10000000.00 people have fled their homes in ukraine since russia's invasion began, almost a month ago. the majority are internally displaced of a 3000000. i fled the country and what's become the biggest refugee crisis in modern european history. getting out while see still can ukrainians have been jam

packing train stations in the western city of levine, close to the polish border. and they're the lucky ones, not stuck in besieged cities further. refugees have headed to every country that borders ukraine. some have gone to beller us and russia, but the vast majority have headed south and west moldova, romania, hungary, slovakia, and above all to poland, which has taken in about 2000000 people so far. but while people continue to arrive in poland earlier arrivals are trying to get all their lives. some our students now attending polish high school in phones after finishing catering your school. but this is so stressful to leave your country in this moment. but people in mold of one of the poorest

countries in europe have welcomed hundreds of thousands of ukrainians. why many people in tears when they get a hot meal locking out things, i'm so overwhelmed by our care series, feel useful and happy at the same time that was sent to me on the back. if indeed, many countries like hungary that have resisted or refused to take in refugees from syria, africa, and afghan stan are opening their borders for ukrainians. the u. k is another country that's been stridently, anti immigration in recent years. the government had been heavily criticized for its handling of ukraine's refugee crisis has only opening its doors to a fraction of applicants. but now britain is allowing private families and charities to host ukrainian nationals think like myself, i was brought up that way that helping people is,

is one of those duties. you have as a member of society as a human being. and you know, principles on principles until you stand by them. how long that spirit of welcome will last will likely depend on how long the conflict lasts and how high the numbers rise. but for now, ukraine's plight has opened borders and homes in europe and beyond. well, let's bring in our guy in brussels. jeff perry, how united are you countries about welcoming ukraine? well, at the moment, there's obviously just been this huge influx of people. we know that at least 2000000 people have gone in to poland. there is an attempt to try and coordinate some of the movements and the sort of relocation so that those countries, poland and hungary, specifically, but also mold of a who's taken a number of people. and, and most of it is really europe's poorest country that the european union is trying

to support the efforts there. it's important to say, i mean it's, it's a huge numbers. we understand somewhere in the region of $3500000.00 people may have entered the european union by this point in under a month since the invasion started to take place. and the european union, you remember back in 2015 when there was the refugee crisis, them mainly of people coming from syria within absolute crisis mode. actually that year there was only about $1300000.00 people entering the european union. so i think what we've seen is that countries, especially in eastern europe, are much more willing to accept people fleeing more in ukraine than they are part of people from other religious backgrounds in the middle, middle east, et cetera. but there is some unity. the question is that what happens? because warsaw, the polish capital we know is about 17 percent larger in population than it was just a few weeks ago. and while the initial needs of the refugees is safety and shelter, food and water, eventually european countries know that they're going to need to create structures

for the refugees. and we actually saw yesterday, the european deb foreign ministers agree, an additional 500000000 euros, taking the toe to up to, to just over a 1000000000 euros to try and coordinate this for a little bit more. so jack, some lessons learned, but how much of a failure was yesterday's meeting the ministers, they couldn't even agree on energy sanctions against russia? yeah, it really didn't look good. so that was talk before that, that perhaps there were gonna be some sanctions on russian oil that it was seen quite clearly that specifically the germans, the hungarians very solidly came out and said that they would not be accepting any, any sanctions to be put on the russian gas sector we understood that bo gary, which is almost entirely reliant on russia gas was going to ask for an odd time if that were the case. and so what we saw instead is that really there was no suggestion that this 5th round of sanctions that they were talking about is going

to be starting to be put in place by the end of this week when there are these big summit. so i think, you know, they tried to paint it that they've put a lot of sanctions on already. but there is clearly now some real divisions about sanctioning the energy sector in the european union. and really briefly, this isn't going to say well with the u. s. president who's on his way for those summit in brussels. it's not so jo biden's coming the president for a nato meeting on thursday and will attend the european council meeting of all the european leaders on thursday and friday as well. and they have a lot to talk about because the u. s. has been pretty, pretty firm on their sanctions. but bearing in mind for the europeans, when they sanction russia, it has a much harsher effect on themselves as well. jack park in brussels, thank you. a ukrainian man who survived the holocaust has been killed by russian shelling in her heath that he 6 year old boris

roman jenko, lived through nancy imprisonment and forced labor in several concentration camps, including book invite after the 2nd world war, he returned home to heave where he became a prominent peace activist and campaign. he was killed when his apartment block was hit by a russian shell. on friday. we spoke to the director of germany's vod foundation and fox no who personally knew bars from an shanker. i was really shocked. but when i go frequently came to the bloomberg memorial to join our ceremonies or the anniversary of the of the can. 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 module. owes them from 945 was to build the word of peace and freedom and written with a lot of holocaust survivors. but also with political survivors. something i think counts and all these saliva as i spoke with our shop, really short for the whole life. they had been fighting for peace and for memory. and now we have a new war in the middle of europe. speculation continues to grow. the bella roost will commit troops to russia's war against ukraine. the country has already allowed bhaskar to use it as a military base and placed its weapons there. the fellow russian leader, alexander lucas jenko, had said the country would not get involved in any military action. he may though have no choice. the 2 leaders demonstrating how close they have become.

russia is vladimir putin usually keeps his guests at more than arm's length cooper . but not this one. bella bruce is alexander lucas. jenko has become essential to his military operation. even before he invaded ukraine, at the beginning of february, the 2 countries held joint military exercises. the drills were a show of strength and more proof to the outside world that bela roost had become a russian satellite. off to russia, invaded ukraine. bella ruth, even changed its constitution to reverse it. no nuclear status. ah, that means all russian weapons, including nuclear,

are allowed on bellow, rosie and soil. because cushing co has so far, refused to commit his forces. we will to aid putin's war result with miss deborah, are not going to get involved in the operation that russia is conducting in ukraine got through last year. but i would, most importantly, i'm telling you as a military serviceman, there is no need for it. when you're prejudiced, oh, that surprised many but that doesn't appear to be the appetite for russia's war, even among former soldiers, who left bela bruce and now fighting with ukrainian forces at only $45000.00 active members, the beller will see an army is tiny compared to rushes it appears though that moscow needs reinforcements after losing an estimated $6000.00 troops. since it's

invasion of ukraine, russia is already using ballard. bruce is a military base for its war to have access to its army as well. could help moscow in its campaign against the ukrainian capital cave and the city of live eve was go . belarus may be resisting such a move, but if perchance decides he needs even more from his neighbor lucas shanker will find it hard to say no more. the war in ukraine has increased concerns in finland about the future of their security, the country as a 1300 kilometer border with russia. and while relations with moscow have been amicable in recent decades, the invasion of a sovereign nation is making many think again correspond terry sholtes is in finland and sent us this report. the kremlin has crossed many lines in past weeks. fins are increasingly concerned about this one, there,

1300 kilometer border with russia at the volley. my checkpoint. vigilance is the norm. the captain, you see beckle us as a part from a small number of people seeking refuge in finland. there's been no other impact from the war yet. of course, we are prepared and we are preparing also for many kind of situation. shins have always lived with some degree of uncertainty sharing this long border with russia. but president vladimir putin's unprovoked attack on his sovereign neighbor has forced them to reassess how far do the kremlin territorial ambitions go? where do they stop finland's delicate geo strategic balance? a civil relationship with moscow plus a well equipped, highly trained military has been shaken suddenly and for the 1st time, a majority of fins believe they need nato. the turn about is a reaction to russia's aggression, says, defense minister, auntie guy, couldn't be able, have thought that we would leave in

a peacetime into into twenties. but now we have directed i wore in the middle of europe. mitchell far from finland. russia's assault has re ignited painful memories of the soviet invasion of finland in world war 2, just like its attack on ukraine. back then, moscow said it was responding to provocation. finns maintained their independence at huge cost. fighting alone, the experience led the country to become self reliant for its national security. with each adult trained to play a specific role in any emergency from natural disasters to weather events to war. themes are not as scared as such, but they are aware, reservist training and public self defense courses have seen a huge jumping enrollment 1st 2 weeks. 250 new member has we haven't seen anything like that before. people want to survive, and now it's time to time to learn. things are moving fast. next month,

the finish government will update its national security assessment and is widely expected to take a stance on nato membership. the kremlin has warned helsinki that joining the alliance would bring serious consequences. hybrid threat expert, hannah smith says there are already signs of russian attempts to stir up conflict with. we have seen, for example, that there is now both in sweden and finland. a twitter from my embassy has come to ask any russian citizens to report to the embassies any wrong doing against them. given this environment, henry run on in parliamentary adviser says nieto is a necessity. if we don't join in, we have to find the reasoning. why sort of what is the backbone for our security in the future as well? our, our close international defense cobra should be enough, would be enough. we don't know, but knowing their own history and seeing ukraine's bleak future. most fins are now no longer willing to risk their own. outside nato. is

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