ah ah ah ah, this is dw news of life from berlin. russia claims the 1st stage of its war in ukraine is over and has been a success. it says it'll now shifted august to the eastern don bass region. we look at whether this signals a strategic shift from moscow in the face of stiff, ukrainian resistance. also coming up, the european union strikes a deal to reduce its dependence on russian gas, but increased imports from the u. s. will not break the use reliance on the russian

supplies. visiting allies, u. s. president biden travels to poland and meet with american nato troops station near the border with ukraine. he's coming off a trip to brussels, where he sealed and energy deal with the youth. and running the race of her life, ukrainian athlete wins the jerusalem marathon after being her water on country. ah, hello, i'm told me all logic well, welcome to the program. after a month of fighting that has left thousands dead and sent millions on the run, the war in ukraine might be entering a new phase care of and its allies believe that while russian president vladimir putin a to overthrow the ukrainian government in

a lightning offensive his actually failed to achieve that goal. the russian army claims it will now focus on gaining control of ukraine's east and don bass region. but president vladimir lensky 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. its military leaders claim the invasion has been a success so far. and its troops will now concentrate on winning full control of the east and don bos region. fillum of them 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. weston and ukrainian

intelligence said the amos 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 a farm 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 dawn 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. let them fulfill during up, there are no roads, hospitals, shops or factories any mold. people have no money for linear. maria poll almost doesn't exist any more than that old that is left of it is a name on the matter. a few houses and our memories. luca,

as russia says it's re 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 peace negotiations more seriously. but with putin's original objective, seemingly thwarted, western leaders also fear he may resort to more extreme measures, including the use of chemical weapons from all that spring. indeed, of the correspondent nick connelly who's in the ukraine in capital, keith, i, nick russia seemingly shifting its focus where seeing it re jigging its goals in this war. how is this russian army statement being received where you are with a lot of skepticism? his to 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 2 days and weeks of this invasion, the rhetoric kind of coming out of mosque was totally different. they were talking about so called di 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 events and not to st on bass, but across the country. and definitely when you look at russian or state media, there was assuming the a huge appetite for ukraine basically under full russian control. so there is 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 the russian government to show its people some kind of success and

say, here is a manageable goal. here is 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 a one phase that's just and add another one and done boss. where does he live face in these phases? that's not quite clear. i think people here in here about half the population is an estimate still to be here said 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 stone the capital m every couple of days. there is news that in 23 days, this is in russian. a attack you expected that hasn't happened. and the russians have come up against a lot stiffer resistance. they're expecting. and in the east of the city, on the other side of the river, out there reports that the russian air force had actually been pushed back by about 20 to 30 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, especially yesterday, we had busy a whole afternoon which is endless air raid 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 miracle 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. and lou has i think that's definitely a red line before 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, a 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 he looked ukrainians and sorry to stick this out. and to really force russia to give these terms that are acceptable to most ukrainians after a month war and lots of did or did of new correspondent nick connelly in queue. many things let's take a look now at some of the developments in the war. french president macro has proposed an international mission to evacuate people from mario paul,

the ukrainian city, devastated by russian attacks across that he was working on a humanitarian operation together with turkey and greece. and he would soon call russian president vladimir putin to work out the details more than a $130.00 refugees from ukraine of arrived in germany, from moldova, hundreds of thousands of ukrainians have fled to the small former soviet republic. germany plans to lift $2500.00 refugees out of mold over to help us deal with the influx of frances has led a ceremony at the vatican to consecrate both russia and ukraine to the immaculate heart of the virgin mary. the prayer ritual is of spiritual importance to many catholics. service was francis's, late test effort for peace in what is called a cool and senseless war. we met with 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, i think, funding business 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 turn 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 us won't be enough to plug the gap. i know, i know that eliminating russian gas will have cost for europe, but it's not only the right thing to do from a moral standpoint is going to 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 already nearly a capacity for importing gas will be expanded. liquified natural gas doesn't just flow through pipelines. like rushing 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 and import terminal, which will take that liquid gas turn it back into. gosh, it gas. and then it goes into the domestic pipeline infrastructure, and it is exactly the same way that the russian would be. but there are all those following the agreement with the u. s. e. u lead is continued the summit and hit a major friction point over whether government should not be allowed to intervene in the market to come energy prices, which is soaring for their citizens. doubly correspondent simon young sent us his assessment of the deal between the e. u and the u. s. well, this is all part of a, a shift away from dependence on russian energy sources. we've seen the german economy minister, robert har back going to the gulf to sign deals with countries there on energy supply. and he's also saying, by the way,

that the reliance on russian 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 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 w political correspondent simon young. now ukraine's neighbors that slovakia has been one of the country's most affected by russia's war. the w christine wander spoke to prime minister at what hagar at the e u summit. he told her that europe should avoid damaging its own economy as it targets russian president vladimir putin with sanctions. we want him to fail and we have to see what makes him to fail. because if we disconnect immediately, this day, we disconnect how much, how long can we survive without guess and or because if we cannot survive,

if the european economy, the society will collapse, then he won. put in with one with when we don't want him to it. so and we see that the storage of our capacity is very little. unfortunately, we weren't prepared for that as well. so we have to, to, we have to use those tools that will harm him because we use a tool that we think will harm him. but actually we'll have as much more we lose and he wins. and we don't want that right. okay, but you are discussing as the block a 5th round of sanctions. what then do you put into those sanctions that that hurts him? will divide, the variety is still there and that was the discussion that that's why our conclusions because as you know, we don't decide on particular sanctions, we decided we must be robust, it must be growing. we escalating the sanctions and then the commission develops exact precise sanctions. we also said we have to be very precise on the

loopholes on really getting and catching the, the property of the oligarchs, because they are the ones who are closest while they were put in that the ones who can influence him. so we, we catch their, their property and we know that this is not the money that they earned legally. i mean, they are occupying their own people. so we must collect this property everywhere way. this it's not as easy, but it's happening and we must be more active on this and or precise. and that's what's happening. and this could increase the pressure. and we are looking for freezing the assets and we've dealing with other ideas that we have on the table and commission will be publishing them as they come on. and it's just so back. he's also an, a to member. we heard from the secretary general of nato, saying that if chemical weapons or nuclear weapons, would it be use that completely changes the game from way use that prime minister. if that would happen, what reaction does need to, how does nato need to respond?

well 1st of all, we have to prevent that. we have to do everything to prevent it and thing. why will we do that? we enforcing the eastern flank with the soldiers with the equipment showing that this is not the right way to do. nobody of us, once the 3rd world war, we are the community of peace. that's what we're saying. and we saying this also to put in stop the aggression. we won't be, we don't thing that killing people. he's writing the 21st century so. so of course, if he will escalate it, which i don't think he will, he's just, he's just playing with the people he wants to. he wants to make of fear of the people, excuse me, now of europe. so and we that's why we have to be sovereign, we have to be bolt and tell him enough is enough and we will crash economically. my final question, no voc, it has now become home to thousands. i imagine of ukrainian mostly women,

children and the elderly. can you just talk to us about that you met us here in effort to have you engaged some of the refugees? absolutely. i mean, i've been going to do border every 3 days because it's important that we provide him a warm welcome and i'm very thankful to also our citizens that they're providing. we're walk and we have a lot of volunteers who came and helping and we hear the stories of the women and children. sometimes they don't even back. sometimes the children don't have even even shoes because they pack so quickly and to try to leave from the war. and they are very thankful they said, why doing it? why is so nice to us? and this is because you own neighbors, your friends, and there's a terrible war. so they appreciate very much we introduced civil programs on providing them work if they wish, providing them kindergarten and school for the kids, providing them housing, of course, also food. so, and it will be developing it so they can temporarily stay as long as they need and they wanting to go back as soon as possible. but now they have to stay in

a safe environment in europe. feminist. really appreciate your time. thank you so much. thank you very much. meanwhile, u. s. president joe biden is in the polish capital. warsaw in a show support for his nato ally. the visit comes after he announced a new energy deal with the aimed at replacing some of the russian gas applied to the block earlier bite and travel to be cranium border where he met polish president on j duda in the southeastern city of asia, where the u. s military is supporting police troops, as part of nato biden is to hold more talks with due to this weekend on the west military humanitarian ad, economic response to russia's war on ukraine. speaking at a briefing with president duda and military officials by almost clear about what he thinks is the way forward a we can do this

keep democracy opposition effort to devastation a. ready legal definition. well, d, w, 's barbara base expel explained what signal biden is hoping to send with his visit . the message is absolutely clear, he has particularly by traveling to the border region with ukraine as sent the message to president putin, and that the nato alliance is ready to defend every foot off their territory. and that was something that the nature leaders reiterated when they mentioned br office on thursday, and that is the main message of president biden. he said around $10000.00 us soldiers are stationed in poland. and this town know that he visited today has

about 2700 of them. and he sat down with them to have a slice of pizza. as american presidents tend to do when they visit their troops. and you said, we are very grateful for your service and it is very important to defend the boarders here and defend the nato alliance and to show moscow that they can't advance any further. so that is the strategic aim really off this visit here. d w, as bob are available in warsaw. refugees from ukraine have been crossing into neighboring countries ever since russia invaded more than half a 1000000 people fled to safety. in romania is the 2nd most frequent destination after poland and many arrive with harrowing tales of their escape from wall. it's just a short ride to safety, but for many here it comes after a long and perilous journey. this family reunited at the

docks. some came by ferry, others over land, leaving behind a home caught in some of the fiercest fighting so far. we could either, lo, comical, alive, the situation is very bad. randasia sir, it is being shelled from every direction. almost people who are able to flee are fleeing. it is hard, boy, i want to go home. or i want to go home very much. ukraine's short border with romania runs along the danube river. fairies land at the town of a sacha with only a few 1000 inhabitants. it is become yet another transit point as refugees flow out of ukraine. many of the new arrivals are fleeing southern ukraine, where the russians have been attacking cities like mc alive, near the black sea coast, and moving towards the major port city of odessa life

and wayne through the us. i could have never believed in such things before. my, this is honestly, this is a shock. my, you know, we could have never believed that the sky would have been so dangerous. you're getting close to that we'd be afraid of airplanes and other things. probably. i didn't expect any of this yet. those with home pampering. you out every day there is death. there's destruction, if you them. so to be there is very scary, especially with small children. that's why we left in brooklyn. you more. we 1st went to odessa and he stayed there for one night. but tara air raid sirens every day, destruction shots fired the whole package with the red cross has set up tents to welcome the ukrainians. but these tents and this town are just another transit point for those arriving. their journey is far from over. climate activists from the fridays,

the future movement of taken to the streets around the world, demanding stronger action against global warming. the conflict in ukraine has given the demonstrations added urgency. ah, the war in ukraine was at the heart of the climate strikes. 10000 people. chic to the streets in berlin to demonstrate for a rapid fossil fuel phase out for climate justice and above all for peace. for that they demanded and input ban on russian oil, gas and coal. michelle. one moment on, i'm ashamed at the moment that we don't touch the hard to end this war by stopping the oil imports and in and in video early from one stop by the korean hang latricia mostly prices are of course connected in many ways of meaning that will cause an enormous damage to the climb into a mem city, so destroyed human life, so destroyed bombs, so dropped that causes considerable damage to the climate. that's what's incredibly important to think about. crisis together,

all these crisis have to be considered and solved together. the protests in berlin was the largest of around $300.00 events in germany. world wide demonstrations took place in more than 1000 places from taiwan to nigeria and australia. the air demonstrate has gathered in front of the prime minister's office to demand better climate protection in the phase of more frequent natural disasters. west main climate disaster off the climate is also with bush fires in floods and not, not just bush 5 mega bush by the mega floods that are just absolutely right. jing our communities. and we know that it's fossil fuels that are exacerbating these floods. and these climate is also the climate activists in both australian berlin. hope that the war in ukraine will end soon. however, they are fight for climate justice will probably continue for a very long time. ukrainian runner who fled her country last month as a one the jerusalem marathon. valentina veronica left ukraine with her 11 year old

daughter while her husband was also a coach. stay behind. she told d w that fans back home had urge her to run for peace. just a few weeks ago, valentine of a 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, you know, from your grand osler's, from a lot of, from a lot of people from, again, law in i was a research these and a very this i stick here about the it wasn't usually 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. what has remained in ukraine after the russian invasion? she bowed to do even better in the race next year. with the digital residence and i'm from me. i was my husband, greg, the 2nd of a. it is a metal that means so much after a terrible mom, her family. she's yet another ukrainian sport start doing incredible things. in the face of adversity. you're watching d. w news, as a recap of our main story,

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