ah, ah ah, this is the dog news, life from berlin. russia claims the 1st stage of its war and ukraine is over and has been a success. it says it will now shift its focus to the eastern dumbass region. we look at whether this signals a strategic shift from moscow in the face of stiff, ukrainian resistance. also coming up u. s. president joe biden is in warsaw where he's held his 1st meeting with ukrainian officials since the war began. following those talks he set to deliver a speech urging free world to rally to ukraine's cause

ah, on pablo phone and he us welcome to the program. after a month of fighting that's left thousands dead and sent millions on the run. moscow says it's shifting its focus to ukraine's eastern don bass region. while the kremlin claims its successfully completed the 1st phase of what it calls its military operation. analysts say it could be a sign. russian president vladimir putin is trying to save face after failing to subdue ukraine or capture its capital keith. but as moscow change of focus, the human tragedy of the invasion shows no sign of abating signs of spring greeted keep on saturday. as ukraine shakes off its winter and enters

a new phase of war, but i was oh, there may be a change in strategy after russian defeats oh, but there is little rest bite for those on the front lines of battle. ah, many are visibly exhausted, but steadfast emir determination to stay. we can push through poochie jame. as you can see, he says, i'm our children and grandchildren a dying i forget to look to him. i'm 62. i can't leave this place or one. i'll stay here. if need be, i will die here will do, but i will not give them a crane. who will ukrainian forces have recaptured areas on the outskirts of the capital? keep still lives continue to be destroyed.

you well i think up is hospital in hoc eve the wounded continue to arrive as ukrainian forces come under heavy fire was a low dorm in maria pulsation. the damage inflicted by bush and bombs is clear my new history. unfortunately, nothing remains of maria pole and the bombing it with savage weapons. i this last week there had been explosions like i've never heard before in the room given before they hit residential areas with rock hills. ah hundreds continue to flee. maria po, saying goodbye to the decimated city and to those who must stay behind.

when i spring and dw correspondent, ne conley, whose n ukraine's capital keith hi, nicko to see you. now, despite the fact that russia has said it will focus on the eastern dumbass region, we understand that war is still raging in the south in the cities over matthew, paul and harrison. can you give us more on that? i think there are very few people here in ukraine who would take that announcement at face value. i think this is more about trying to make less demands make a more manageable goal to themselves, the russian public as a success given what is arguably fiasco in the rest, the country and rushes, failure to make significant progress in recent weeks. going into this, you had messages must go about being able to take care of in a matter of days rather than weeks in that obviously hasn't happened. indeed, there is a lot of fighting beyond dumbass, not just round me here and give 25 kilometers down the road and it be in the fighting continues. although it seems like the cranes be able to push back russian

forces quite significantly in someplace in the cave in the south, around mich alive and had a song. some news coming today that even the ukrainians were able to return to had a song which had been the one major ukrainian city under full russian control. so far, so pretty difficult to really judge those cavities, don't many journalists, independence on the ground, but a sense that this is a war that is very much going on and this is by no means been event. nick, you have touched on it there, but those rushes new focus on eastern ukraine. mean that the capital is off the hook. do you think that that russian troops might fall back? what we've seen that ukrainian success east of the river, that supposedly russian troops have been pushed back by quite some way. but on the other hand, just 20 kilometers a direct line for i'm selling now in downtown key if they are still there and we hear the shooting, we hear the artillery is a big bank this morning. quite close thing that was ukrainian t croft systems knocking some projectiles at the sky. and so this is very much

still going on. yes, people are getting used to their kind of new routines. people are coming out in great numbers, but doesn't mean the danger isn't still there. we're having routine reports of residential buildings being her being hit. people being heard, this is still going on and that the shooting in the directory continues. well, another issue is what ukrainian president followed me to lansky makes of rushes phone a shift in focus now. and today he addressed representatives come from countries like tar and saudi arabia the doe have forum at let's have a listen. this is also a question of abandoning the user to russian oil and gas. you are responsible slate and like the state of utah are reliable and the solid exporters of energy resources and they can bag day contribution to the civilization in europe. they can do march to restore justice in the future of iraq arrest one way of your efforts. it depends on which i ask you to increase the output of energy. yes. to

ensure that everyone in russia understands the let know can tree, can use energy as a weapon and blackmail me, blackmail to word. well, it appears like an attempt to buy presents landscape to speed up the west move away from russian gas and oil. nick, is that the case? definitely, and people here will tell you that since the beginning of the war late february, a month ago, europe alone has transferred about 20000000000 euros to russia for coal, oil and gas. the same time ukraine is received just about 4 to 5000000000, so you can see in terms of the order of scale there, russia are getting a lot of money to pay for this military campaign. and also that is a priority here. now in ukraine, they say that the sanctions or russian banks and other russian businesses is all well and good, but it's not enough to force the criminal to really stop this campaign. the only thing that will help now is in ball going to the media and those transfers of huge amounts of character. well, on the other hand,

russia has barely budged on its demands on ukraine, including the key, recognized at the self proclaimed republics in ad dynette scandal. hands. is that a red line? zalinski is willing to cross nick i think for now it's a definite no. he's talked about maybe being open to some kind of deal over nato membership. that's been an aspiration you credit for some years now. that could be up on the table, but excepting the independence of those cell phone books, i think that is a no go ukraine feeling that it is doing well. and that, that success on the battlefield is being recognized by western partners doesn't feel like it needs to make that kind of painful concession right now. and it's pretty hard see why the ukrainian public would agree to that kind of thing would accept that kind of deal after so many deaths and so much suffering across the country. a situation where on like 2014, this country hasn't collapsed militarily and it's still going. in spite of a month, the war, heat of new correspondent economy. thank you and take care what i'm joined now by dr. eyeglass. net cove. she's

a lecture in international politics at university college london school of savannah and east european studies. hi, and welcome to d w. and how do you read russia's military change of focus? the claim that this war was always just about the don boss and not taking and not taking all of ukraine or the capitol. keith, thank you for having me on. i mean, you clearly see a shift of strategies. the 1st time that the russians have admitted that, you know, the 1st phase is over. i think it's important to keep in mind that the number of strategies we've had up till now can almost count to sort of 3 or 4 different strategies. because we've, you know, once the initial invasion didn't happen, every law over the 1st few days, the russians then shifted towards is having sort of 3 pronged approach of east cave and the south that hasn't worked. and in the last 2 weeks, essentially, even the russians have had to admit that they are being pushed back and essentially that the initial strategy has failed. now the strategy we can look at now does seem

to be aiming to sort of connect easton ukraine with crimea. so you said she would have the flying from sort of crimea, to the parisha, to down boss and to russia. so you said she have that flank, that the russians can then re supply sort of overland, and it's much more of a war sort of, attrition from the russian side. right, well how stable is vladimir putin regime in the face of what is seen as a mandatory setback and, and a massive international sanctions. does he still retain the cooperation of important officials and military leaders? so at this stage we haven't seen much of sort of pushback against it. and now we have to keep in mind that we are sort of back into the sort of coming ology. so we have to watch, instead of look i was going on because we don't have much information about what's going on inside the regime in the country. it seems that most russians see the

sanctions and the effects that are happening on the ground. they're blaming not on the west, on the west of wanting to destroy russia, so they're not associating that with pushing fate in ukraine. they're very much association, not with sort of the west hating russia. and now they have been reports of sort of the russian defense minister showing go suffering from sort of heart problems that have been sort of talk about potential sort of pitching regime, going against some of the senior officials. we haven't seen that at this stage. so i think the support is still there, but there is a clear recognition even at the senior level, that the original goals of the peroration just haven't succeeded. what about an opposition movement? is there any sign that there is an open opposition movement that could threaten hooton's grip? i said this stage, no, of course to have been mass demonstration protests. but at the same time,

if we're looking at the opinion polls, although it's hard to gauge the moment to sort of the opinion of the russian public because of the draconian laws that have been put in place. it seems that at this stage, we don't have mass pushback against the war. the russian propaganda is still talking primarily in terms of what's going on in dumbass. they're talking primarily in terms of sort of, russian troops encountering nazis in ukraine. and they're also painting and characterizing, for example, events in mario as ukrainians soldiers in the korean forces to raise in the city to the ground as their retreating. and because the russians are getting such different images about what's going on, you cry, a lot of the blame is sort of being laid at the west. and at the moment, we're not seeing much opposition when it comes to sort of senior ranks, at least not enough to potentially expect for a cou anytime soon. of course,

the situation is changeable and it might change. but that's just my assessment at this point. what western political and military strategy do you think it's been adequate? so, president biden has clearly been very set on creating bread lines and ensuring that there is no active confrontation between nature and russia. and he has been adamant over the last month. this is sort of, these are his red lines. so for example, he has reiterated that if the russians, you sort of nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons, the native get involved. that if the russians in any way have incursions into the neighboring nature countries they to get involved and but he has sort of stuck by now, of course, from the ukrainian side. they have argued that the lack of offensive weapons given

over by the west is inadequate and says ukrainian leadership has been trying to convince nato and president biden, that they have to change their military support. but it seems that at the moment, this is not something that's on the cards. what has been much more effective is the sections that the west has put against russia. and those have been much bigger than we've seen in the past. and i think they will have substantial impact domestically dr. eyeglass. not. com. thank you for joining us on d. w. thank you. well, here's a look at some other developments related to the conflict. french president, a manual michael has proposed an international mission to evacuate people from. are you pull the ukrainian city? devastated by russian attacks across said 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. crowds unfurled a giant ukrainian flag and shouted go home at

a rally in level after russian forces entered the city and seized a hospital in the time. russian forces responded by firing into the air and deploying stung grenades to disperse the crowd. more than 130 refugees from ukraine have arrived in germany from all over. hundreds of thousands of ukrainians have fled to the small former soviet republic. germany plans to airlift to 2 and a half 1000 refugees out of mount over to help deal with the influx will on a 2nd day in poland. u. s. president joe biden is to deliver a speech on the crisis in ukraine. the white house says the president will call on the free world to stand against vladimir putin. president biden is in war, so for it talks with his polish counterpart, andre duda. the 2 are set to discuss the situation ukraine with the west military, humanitarian and economic response to the war on the agenda earlier. biden also met with the ukrainian foreign minister and defense minister in his 1st face to face

talks with top ukrainian officials since the war began. well, for more, let's go to our correspondent sabbath diesel, who's outside the presidential palace in warsaw. hi barbara. good to see you. now, president biden is meeting with the polish president. what can we expect from of course we can expect to that some of the things he talked about too is the ukrainian ministers, particularly the request for more and stronger and further reaching weapons. it will be also on the table here behind me, but which will take a little look around here. we can see that this is quite this visit of so biden he and also is quite the sensation for local people. many of them have come out to sort of watch the president walk in to the presidential palace here. and of course they saw his this whole security machinery and the beast, the famous, the presidential limousine, which is now parked out of you,

of course. and the 2 presidents are inside there, and after that, having us sort of pushed to the side, if you a good of the political and diplomatic rabble that's in the past of those 2 presidents because under duda took his good time after recognizing the election victory of joe biden last time and they will really have to sort of come to the point, what more can the international community do in order to strengthen ukrainian resistance against the invasion of russia? and what more can they do also to sort of keep ukraine as strong and life on the other side of the border, which is not that far from here actually. so that is really the main point and poland is the leader. instead of pushing for stronger sanctions, for more measures against russia, well got actually brings me on to my, to my next question. what exactly are they calling for?

if they want a tougher stance against russia, they for published a 10 point plan, and some parts of it are quite simple. for instance, prevent any russian trade goes through a bellow roof to the european union, which is still taking place and just close those borders. it cut off oil and gas immediately, don't wait for another few months. so till the end of the year. do it right now because it's important to sort of hurt rush economically right now. and it sort of a string of other measures similar to that really sort of on the economic side, of course, of coal for better and more weapons that call for fighter jets of, for ukraine in order to defend themselves against the russians in the air space. and finally, of course, it is the, the ongoing call of poland to send in a humanitarian mission under international and nature protection to evacuate the embattled regions, particularly in the southeast or areas like mario pole where civilians are really

undecided conditions. and poland says, we can't look on, we really have to do something against it now. not in 3 months or in a half year. now joe biden is set to deliver speech as well. barbara, what can we expect to hear from the u. s. president? and this is a nancy b as sort of for vase is speech that will set the ground for a for the further relations, of course, within nato, for unity within the western community. and to he will also call of course, ed it for unity and standing up against what the united states call that battle between a democracies and autocratic forces. and did they see this is sort of a very basic and very prince. as a matter of principle, really, they said we have to send up to this. otherwise we will be weakened. this is

a fight that is fought in ukraine, that it concerns all of us that really delineates the 2 sides here in the world. and it's like a good and evil, a black and white. it seems to be very a very strong in that regard from the little that we heard beforehand as so he is really, he's really wanting to set the ground for the next months and for the, for the future of nato at european union entrance until it lent relations, of course, you know, you correspondent bob, available in warsaw. thank you. let's take a step back and look at the bigger picture with me here in studios detail. the reporter william flew craft. good to see william. now this visit is a delicate balancing act. will say for biden, it's no secret thought relations between the u. s. and poland have been, am not the smoothest to am. so tell us a little bit more. that's right. i mean, it's definitely not a black and white situation because poland is both this golden child right now of

nato, of the west of it's solidarity being so geographically and strategically important to ukraine. and it's the black sheep of the west, because biden himself has pointed out that poland is in some way slipping into authoritarianism with this very conservative government, a government that was more aligned with trumps view of the world. when bio was like the president, it took a while for people like do to to acknowledge that to congratulate biden's when so there might be some bad blood there. and as a number of very real political differences, both as far as the united states, these things and the european union, which poland is a member state of such as, you know, very, very strict restrictions against abortion. very, very difficult for l g b, t q plus community. there's been a, almost elimination of an independent judiciary in poland which is a cornerstone of any democratic, truly democratic country. and that's what you has had so many problems with poland about. so while we're seeing these 2 parallel and contrasting situations where

poland is being held up as so important for nato and western solidarity, but the same time you officials and biden administration officials are cautioning not to forget all these other darker things. all these other, more critical aspects of poland, not let that slip away and hold them to account. right, well, moving on a little bit to this unprecedented show of unity that we've seen among western allies. and that's resulted as well in some pretty big shifts in policy. we don't need to look too far. germany, of course being one of those countries tell us a little bit more about that. yeah, we are definitely in new germany. we've already seen this massive shift on defense spending, which, you know, after decades of germany shying away from hard power for military power will soon have if the buddhist dog approves it will soon have the largest military budget in europe after for so many years dragging its feet military spending getting criticized for not spending enough run out modernizing its force it's, it's about to get a lot of money. the 100000000000 that we've been hearing about, of course, is also the energy issue. the united states has the gas and oil embargo on russia.

it's much easier for the united states to do that. german officials will always tell you, yeah, easy for the us to do that. russia is literally next door to us. it's right here. it is a neighbor, it is not going away good or bad. we have to deal with it in a way that the united states can be more distanced from. and we see that in terms of energy independence with the e. u and germany in particular so much more heavily reliant on russian gas specifically also oil and cold cold was slightly less amount. and we've heard very honest assessments coming from, for example, robert hobbit from the, in the german government saying, we're just not going be able to get off at that quickly. and an embargo is just not a realistic option. right now. d w reporter williams, blue cross thanks for your analysis. meanwhile, more than half a 1000000 people have fled to moldova as neighbor, romania. the country is a member of both the european union and nato, and is the 2nd most frequent destination for ukrainian refugees after poland. many

arrive with harrowing tales of their escape from the war. 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 law, comical alive. the situation is very bad. one got to sir. it is being shell from every direction. almost people who are able to flee are fleeing. it is hard, boy, i want to go home. 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 made with honestly, this is a shock. my. 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 for me . i didn't expect any of this yet. bear with me up when you are, every day there is death. there's destruction to get them. so to be, there is very scary, especially with small children. that's why we left it. when you more we 1st went to odessa. we've 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 here watching d w news. here's a recap of our main story in an apparent strategic shift in the face of steph, ukrainian resistance. moscow says it will now focus on the eastern don bass region of ukraine. russia claims the 1st stage of its war in ukraine is over and that it has been a success. on his 2nd day in poland, u. s. president joe biden has met face to face with ukrainian officials. later he'll deliver a speech on the prices in ukraine. the president will call on the free world to stand against vladimir booth. that's all for me for now. up next is our show, the 707077 percent. asking whether germany can pay for its past atrocities in namibia . and don't forget, you can keep up to date on the website depot. com. or you can also follows on our

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