starts march 30th on dw with d. w. news live from berlin. russia claims the 1st stage of its war in ukraine is over and has been a success. it says it will now shift its focus to the east and don bass region. we look at whether this signals a strategic shift for moscow in the base of stiff ukrainian resistance. also coming up the european union strike a deal to reduce its dependence on russian gas. but increased imports from the u. s

. will not break the reliance on the russian supplies and running the race of life. you crean athlete wins the jerusalem marathon after fleeing. hold on country ah hello, i'm told me all lot. well, welcome to the program. after a month of fighting the has left thousands, dad and sent millions on the run, the war in ukraine might be entering a new phase give and its allies believed that while russian president vladimir putin aimed to overthrow the ukrainian government in enlightening offensive, he's actually failed to achieve that goal, the russian army claims it'll now focus on gaining control of ukraine's east and don bass region. but president vladimir zalinski says he will not give up ukrainian

territory for the sake of peace. russia says the 1st phase of its war in ukraine is over. it's military leaders claimed the invasion has been a success so far. and its troops will now concentrate on winning full control of the east and dunbar region. fillum, on the whole, the main objectives of the 1st stage of the operation have generally been accomplished. the combat potential of the armed forces of ukraine has been considerably reduced, which makes it possible to focus on the main efforts to achieve the main goal of liberation of don bus. at the beginning of russia's invasion, president vladimir putin kept his initial objectives. vague. western and ukrainian intelligence said the a most to topple ukraine's elected government and install a puppet regime in cave. but moscow has faced stiffer resistance than anticipated.

so russia has relied on artillery and airstrikes bombarding cities and urban areas from afar in the north, east ukraine, 2nd largest city. ha, keith still stands, but a month of constant shelling has left many buildings destroyed. and in don bus, the besieged port of mario pole has endured the worst of rushes bombardment. those that have managed to escape tell of a city in ruins. nathan crawford touring up. there are no roads, hospitals, shops or factories anymore. people have no money for lynette. maria pole almost doesn't exist any more than that. all that is left of it is a name on the malice, a few houses, yes or with and our memories department. as far as russia says, it's really focusing on don bus. it is uncertain what this new phase of the conflict will look like. president zalinski asserted that heavy russian losses have forced the kremlin to reassess its goals and take press negotiations more seriously

. got with putin's original objective, seemingly thwarted, western leaders also fear he may resort to more extreme measures, including the use of chemical weapons or more. let's bring indeed abi correspondent nick connelly who's in the ukranian capital. keith, i make russia seemingly shifting its focus where thing at rejecting its goals in this war. how is this russian army statement being received where you are with a lot of skepticism? it's a short answer, and i think there is a considerable doubt as to whether russia really did yes, have a kind of fixed goal, whether this was more does not units stick attack on ukraine and attempt to see how ukraine would stand up to a concerted pressure but definitely in the 1st few days and weeks of this invasion, the rhetoric kind of coming out of mosque was totally different. they were talking about circle d knots,

vacation of ukraine in its democratically elected government. they were talking about full demilitarization, which sounded like they wanted to basically keep ukraine without know me forever. and definitely the rhetoric is being doll down, but there's definitely the sense here in ukraine that this is tactical. this is about winning time rush, having significant problems with its logistics and supplying its troops here to maybe to win time to be able to then actually continue that offensive. not just and don't boss but across the country. and definitely when you look at russian state media, there was assuming the a huge appetite for ukraine basically under full russian control. so there's still no real sense here that this is over, that russia is only gonna focus in east. but this is just also for russian domestic consumption for russian government to sher, it's people, some kind of success and say, here is a manageable goal here. something we can achieve in the short to medium term, rather than this being the fiasco that lots of western experts, schooling, rushes sort of putting this in phase is talking about one phase. that's just and there's another one in don bass where does he live face in these phases?

that's not quite clear. i think people here in about half the population is an estimate still to be here. so 2000000 people, if you believe the statistics and they've been living now for the last few weeks with the constant threat of a russian attack on the capital itself or an attempt to storm the capital. and every couple of days there is news that in 23 days, this is in russian. a attack you expected that hasn't happened or the russians have come up against a lot stiffer resistance. they are expecting. and in the east of the city, on the other side of the river, out their reports of the russian forcibly actually been pushed back by that 2030 kilometers in the west. about 20 comes is behind me. they are basically stuck. and now if you believe the ukrainian military sources into an under threat of being surrounded. so there's definitely no sense that they are making progress on the ground, but they are definitely shelling more. they're using more rockets. and so she, yesterday, we had basically a whole afternoon, which is endless air rate warnings and lots of pretty big bangs seemingly quite

close the center. so sense that while they're getting stuck on the ground, they're now using the same kind of increasing, using kind of tactics. they've used, in fact, give a marable of using more artillery, more in the way of missiles to reach areas. they're not getting to on the ground and looking at president zalinski of ukraine. would there be any change in the way he views the independence or the the of the sort self proclaimed a republics of the net scanner. lou haskell. i think that's definitely a red line. we've heard that from him. the same goes for recognizing russian control of an ex crimea. there had been some news yesterday from turkey, where prison, edwin, or least, sources close to him had claimed that there was some growing closeness and willingness to make compromises there between ukraine and russia. that was then ruled out and been pretty clear terms by ukraine's foreign minister. i think the only place where there is some potential for a concessions for a getting closer is on nato. they have been signals from the ukraine government.

they might be willing to give up on that aspiration to join nato at the e. u. membership is still very much on the cards. but for now, it doesn't seem like either side really is willing to give up and to sign up to pay for compromises. ukraine definitely doing better than any one had expected, at least, or even maybe some b ukrainians and a desire to stick this out and to really are forced russia to give peace terms that are acceptable to most ukrainians after a month to warn lots of dead. i did of new correspondent nick connelly in care of many things. let's take a look now at some other developments in the war. french president, my norma crohn, has proposed an international mission to evacuate. people from mayor poll the ukrainian city, devastated by russian attacks across it. he was working on a humanitarian operation together with turkey and greece, and he would soon call russian, president putin, to work out the details. more than

a 130 refugees from the ukraine of arrived in germany from all dover. hundreds of thousands of ukrainians have fled to the small former soviet republic. germany plans to air left, 2500 refugees out of mold over to help it deal with the influx. joe biden has visited us troops in poland and thanked them for their service. there now some 100000 us soldiers stationed in europe after recent later reinforcements. biden held the alliances deployments as part of a struggle for democracy against autocracy. the you has signed a deal with the us to help secure more natural gas and when itself off russian imports. it's one of many steps now being taken in the you to cut economic ties with moscow. but experts believe it will take years to build an energy infrastructure that does not rely on russian energy supplies. pipelines. still

bringing rushing gas into the e. u. around 40 percent of europe's gas consumption comes from russia, which is why e. u. leaders haven't been able to agree a ban on imports as a way of trying to force moscow to end the war in ukraine. but what they did do the summit in brussels, attended by president biden, is a great deal to buy more gas from the u. s. was via and i think for vending machines we need to work toward developing infrastructure, which will allow us a greater capacity to move gas where we needed to see them both of often. that means we have taken a conscious decision to better connect national networks, exidine, some lender get on done under the plan is to increase imports from america by an additional 15000000000 cubic meters this year with a name to increasing that to $50000000000.00 per year in the coming years currently, e u imports from america stand at 22000000000 cubic meters annually. the use annual

dependence on russia is a 150000000000 cubic meters, though. so the increases from the u. s. won't be enough to plug the gap. i know, i know that lemay russian gas will have cost for europe, but it's not only the right thing to do from a moral standpoint. is kind of put us on a much stronger strategic footing. what isn't clear from the statement is how much more expensive the gas coming from the u. s. will be for europe, or how shipping ports, which are already nearly at capacity for importing gulf, will be expanded. liquefied natural gas doesn't just flow through pipelines like russian gas does. there's the well in america, you take a bucket of a gas out, liquify, it put it on a ship, send it across the atlantic. it goes into an import terminal, which will take that liquid gas turn it back into gaseous gas. and then it goes

into the domestic pipeline infrastructure and is used exactly the same way that the rushing would be. but there are all those steps. following the agreement with the u . s. u lead is continued the summit and hit a major friction point over where the government should not be allowed to intervene in the market to cap energy prices, which is soaring for their citizens. he w correspondence, simon young sent us his assessment of the deal between the u. s. and the you, well, this is all part of a, a shift away from dependence on russian energy sources. we've seen the german economy minister of at har back going to the gulf to sign deals with countries there on energy supply. and he's also saying by the way, that reliance on rushing coal will come down by half in the next few weeks and he expects a reliance on russian energy of russian. the oil, excuse me,

from. busy germany at to be virtually ended by the middle of 2024, as he seeing all these kind of positive signals. people say we can do without rushing russian oil and gas when we need to dw political correspondence. simon young, ukrainian runner who fled a country last month has won the jerusalem marathon. valentina veronica left ukraine with her 11 year old dog daughter while her husband was also her coach. stay behind. she told the w that fans back home had urge her to run a piece. just a few weeks ago, valentine of the red skirt was fleeing for her life. now the ukrainian marathon runner is trying to promote peace around the world, starting with the jerusalem marathon. before the race, she told d w about the support she still has back home. and i got a lot of message from my grand kids here now from ukraine. the osler's

from a lot of, from a lot of people from, again, for you know, these are these and a very nice i stick here about it was unusually wet and cold for the start of the jerusalem race. but after the journey she has been on, she just felt relieved to be running again. the race was a mixed event. so she cleverly used male runners as pacesetters in a bid to be the 1st woman to cross the line. she achieved her goal and celebrated with the rainy and ukrainian flags. she hopes to soon be reunited with her husband, who is also her coach, but has remained in ukraine after the russian invasion. she vowed to do even better in the race next year. with the digital, the weather today, the router by the name of fredric and i am running next year with is my husband

here, craig record of using a robert. it is a medal that means so much after a terrible mom for her family. she's yet another ukrainian sport start doing incredible things in the face of adversity. well, that's all for me, but now there's more on our website, d, w dot com. i'm told me olibo. thanks for watching the green. and then do you feel worried about the planet? we to i'm neil, host of the on the grievance on coast and to me it's clear we need to change the solutions or out there. join me for a deep dive into the green transformation for me to do for.