ah, ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, ukraine's president coles again for face to face talks with his russian counterpart . lensky says, of meeting with vladimir putin is the only way to understand the conditions he wants to end the war in ukraine. he says, any agreement with russia must be put to the ukrainian people in a referendum, 1st tens of thousands li, the russian bombardment of ukraine, 2nd biggest city khaki. if we hear from some of those who decided to stay and break,

the shelley and finland border with russia is 1300 kilometers long. the invasion of ukraine has been wondering what other lies moscow is willing to cross president vladimir putin unprovoked attack on his sovereign neighbor. has forced them to reassess how far do the kremlin territorial ambitions go? where do they stop? ah, i've been fizzle and welcome. the ukrainian army says it's repelled 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, as prevented russia from surrounding the capital from the north west. ukrainian, president bloated mister lensky, says he's willing to discuss a commitment from ukraine not to seek ne, her membership in exchange for

a cease fire withdrawal of russian troops and ukrainian security guarantees. but he says it's essential to discuss terms one on one with russian president vladimir putin and the ukrainian people will have to agree the terms in a referendum. in the meantime, rush as war of aggression against ukraine continues ah, 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. seriously, yet the slaves sent by russia have never seen so many free people in the squares and streets. they have never seen thousands of people who are not afraid of them. are slaves with weapons in their hands? are slaves to see freedom?

a savagery has danger yet they are scared. number's fat. well, no. but a lack rushes military is not only attacking civilians in areas that occupies. it's also attacking civilian targets in areas. it's not mondays bombing over a shopping mall in keith and the relentless bombardment of the besieged city of mario paul, of course, outreach in ukraine in abroad. but it is not we can ukraine resolve the president, close his speech with an appeal la jolla, dongle nozzle to save our people, fight wouldn't fight and held him in dover might drive these slaves out. the harbor drive the occupiers out. okay, so that ukraine lives. so that all of us live with it is free and peaceful. made villa, you will, if you 3, he's me. and speaking later to the press to lensky,

said that any peace deal with russia had to be sanctioned by the people here. 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 whole the referendum when you called 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 sheathed a correspond if i, if a child 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 presidential lensky. yesterday bought 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, if, if a 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 protein is going to say, yes, i'm going to meet president zalinski also because observers 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 observers, to be taken to be to, to take place. if more territory gains are made by russia, here in ukraine, dw correspond funny 5 china in live in western ukraine. of the bombardment of ha, heath in the east continues. the city is just 50 kilometers from the russian border in the east. but relentless attacks have seen a large number of the cities, one and a half 1000000 residents flee. those who stayed 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 it, new casualties. and it's forced. those who have remained in ukraine 2nd largest city to retreat underground. what's it 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, food in hockey is running out. people queue for hours to get age. some of those choosing 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 joining the territorial defense force. i don't have any military experience,

but i can help the city with my labor. why not? you know, i'm not planning to leave. it will stay here till the end of the city. i keith has managed this long to defy the russian forces attempting to crush it. it's hoping a can hold out long enough to survive this war is a look at some other developments. u. s. president joe biden is urging american companies to protect themselves against potential cyber attacks from russia. he also repeated us warnings and moscow is planning to use chemical weapons against ukraine. biden has cold president vladimir putin, a war criminal chart, 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. now. the governments come under criticism for it's slow response to those fleeing the war. a russian court has

found opposition figure alexey no valley guilty on charges of large scale fraud. he could face 13 more years in prison on top of the 2 and a half year sentence. he is already serving russian prosecutors and now seeking to lose no valley to a maximum security penal colony. he was arrested last year after surviving a poisoned attack, which he blames on the kremlin valley is a vocal critic of russia's president is denied the charges against him and says the case is politically motivated. but of course, what 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 people think again. the w corresponded. terri 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 that 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 a sovereign neighbor has forced them to reassess how far do the crumbling territorial ambitions go? where do they stop finland's delicate geostrategic 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 chi gonan. be able, have thought that we would leave in a pierce time in 20 twenties. but now we have practically 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 fins 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 last 2 weeks. 250 new member, as we haven't seen,

anything like that before. people want to survive. and now it's time to time to learn things a movie 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 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 a parliamentary advisor, 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? are, are close international defense, cobra should be enough, will be, you'll 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. the international chess federation has been russian grant masters. so gay kaya chin from competition for half a year for supporting the invasion of ukraine. senior challenging mac nos, carson for the world title in 2016 carrier chin recently defended roches actions on social media. he was born in crimea and represented ukraine until he switched his allegiance to russia in 2009 last week. the chess federation stripped moscow of theseus chester olympiad over the war in watching dw news here, the headlights blue president flooded me. lensky is pulling full face to face talks with roches vladimir putin to end the invasion of ukraine. so that he says, any peace times will have to be put to the ukrainian people in a referendum to buy from bo,

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