a ah ah, this is dw news life from berlin, prussia 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 don bass region. we look at whether this signals a strategic shift from moscow in the face of stiff, ukrainian resistance. also coming up with you as president joe biden is in warsaw where he's held his 1st meeting with ukrainian officials since the war began following talks with his polish capital part on j. duda. he said to deliver

a speech urging the free world to rally to ukraine schools ah, on pablo foliage, 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 criminal claims its successfully completed. the 1st phase of water calls its military operation. analysts say it could be a sign that russian president vladimir putin is trying to save face after failing to subdue ukraine or capture its capital keith. but as moscow changes focus, the human tragedy of the invasion shows no sign of abating signs of spring greeted. keep on saturday as ukraine shakes off, it's winter and enters

a new phase of war, but it, oh, there may be a change in strategy after russian defeats. oh, but there's little rest bite for those on the front lines of battle. ah, many are visibly exhausted, but steadfast, immediate termination to stay looking pretty sure. poosey jame as you can see, he sais on our children and grandchildren a dying or forget roku, hidden, i'm 62. i can't leave this place one. i'll stay here if need be. i will die here will do, but i will not give them la crane. who will ukrainian forces have recaptured areas on the outskirts of the capital? keep still lives continue to be destroyed.

oh, i thought you, well, i think at this hospital in hockey, the wounded continue to arrive as ukrainian forces come under heavy fire was a low dorm of in maria pulls there. some of the damage inflicted by bush and bombs is clear. my do it. so really, unfortunately, nothing remains of maria pole and the bombing it with savage weapons. i this last week there have been explosions like i've never heard before in the room to give a person. they hit residential areas with rockets. oh hundreds continue to flee. maria poll, seen to bite the decimated city and to those who must stay behind.

when i spring indeed, you correspondence. ne conley, who's in ukraine's capital cave. 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 the demands make a more manageable goal to themselves, the russian public as a success given what, what is arguing 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. and 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. nikita in the south around mich alive and had a song, some news coming today that even the ukrainians were able to return to get 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. nicky have touched on it there, but those rushes new focus on eastern ukraine mean that the capital is off to hope you think that that russian troops might fall back what we've seen that you credit 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 starting now and downtown key if they are still there and we hear the shooting, we hear the artillery is a very big bank this morning. quite close thing that was ukrainian tier croft

systems knocking some projectiles at the sky. and so this is very much still going on. yes, people are getting you sit there 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 the, the shooting and the artillery 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 reliable and the solid exporters, old energy resources, and they can bag day contribution to the civilization in europe. they can do march to restore just states in the future of europe, arrest one way of your efforts. it depends on your efforts. i ask you to increase

the output of energy to ensure that everyone in russia understands the no can tree, can't use energy as a weapon and blackmail me, blackmail to word what it appears like an attempt by present to landscape the speed of 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, for 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 are russian banks and other 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 hard currency. well, on the other hand,

russia has barely budged on its demands on ukraine, including the key, recognized at the self proclaimed republics in add to nat 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 for some years now. that could be up on the table. but excepting the independence of those separate public setting, 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 hot, 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 unlike 2014, this country hasn't collapsed military and it's still going in spite of a month, the war. he w correspondent, ne conley. thank you and take care. well,

i'm joined now by rafael last from the european council on foreign relations. i. rafael. good to have you here on d, w at now the russian military is now saying that at phase one of the invasion is quote, mostly complete, and it will now focus it's war on the dumbass in eastern ukraine. do you buy that or has the shift been announced because of the failure to take the ukrainian capital? keith, i think from what we can tell russian non courses are definitely overstretched. their supply lines are buckling and ukrainian pressure, and there's some danger of freshman troops being encircled by cleaning for us. do you agree on pulse? have been able to mount limited counter fences and some areas what i would caution from the statements that we put out of moscow and in the last couple of hours and to assess that anything changes and improvements received. because i think what we see is an operational reorganization to,

to limit exposure of russian office and to reprioritize goals as part of this campaign. but again, if they take the don, but there's nothing that would prevent them from returning to russell, how do you assess the change in strategy against the backdrop of domestic support and russia for the invasion? it's difficult to assess one, we must recognize that the crime and has a tight grip on the russian media ecosystem. it has consolidated to authoritarian rule the past couple of weeks as well as, as the campaign against ukraine has, has commenced. and that is a long standing trend that has, has facilitated over the past 20 years since he's come to power and 2000. and so i found a difficult one. rely on sort of public opinion polls that are coming out of russia there. we need to recognize that often people i exposed to just one side of the story. but we also have to see that, especially a lot of young people who have experience abroad are leaving russia and the russian

economy in the long term is a lot of pressure, particularly you know, emerging technology, you startups at times for, are relocating to outside of russia that's so little bit of a president putin that could this be a potential face saving move fine. i think in the short term it might be, but as i said earlier, i think what be wrong to assess that has moderated to schools because of the ukraine. i think his rhetoric, what ukraine as a nation, as a country of the people, has been fairly consistent over the past couple of years. he's negated. there is such a thing that the creamy and identity separate from a russian identity. and so i think we need to recognize and prepare for a sort of longer term pressure campaign against ukraine and a longer term pressure campaign against the west to supporting ukraine. now, u. s. president joe biden is in poland. is he succeeding and keeping the nato

countries united? i think yes, but that is something that is on the shoulders of the european nato. and i says for a man, canada, to i think what we've seen on the past couple of days in various brussels meetings from the g 7 to the council meeting to the nato council meeting is a very unified west. there are some differences. i think when it comes, for example, to energy sanctions, a germany is very reluctant. there are some other east and allies that united states have been putting some pressure on berlin on this issue. but nonetheless, i think overall the picture that emerge from brussels and that is no bomb, b, reemphasized and polar by vitamin and his approach counterpart and redo dice is one of unity. and that is somewhat unexpected. because if you recall the american presidential actually 2 years ago, then paula was very much hoping for donald trump to return to the white house. and there was some disappointment when, when joe biden criticize, poland been hungry,

and to get a better risk for creeping authoritarianism. and, but i think the current crisis has, has let ready rather flag effect with a natal within the u. s. united west profit loss from the european council on foreign relations. thank you. thank you for letting me. well, we have some breaking news coming in. there are reports of 3 loud explosions in the western ukrainian city of leave. a local city official describe the blasts as powerful and cold on people to remain calm and stay in their homes. will have more in that developing story in our ongoing coverage of the war in ukraine. moving on, let's take a look at some other developments in the war. french president, a manion. my call has proposed an international mission to evacuate people from our to you pulled the ukrainian city devastated by russian attacks. my client 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 joint ukrainian flag and shouted go home at a rally in love, which after russian forces entered the city and seized a hospital in the time, russian forces responded by firing into the air on deploying stung grenades. to disperse the crowd. on the 2nd day in poland, u. s. president joe biden is to deliver a speech on the crisis in ukraine. the white hiv says the president will call on the free world to stand against vladimir putin. president biden is in warsaw. 4 talks with his polish counterpart on j to, to the, to where set to discuss the situation in 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 the top and cranium officials since the war began. well for

more, let's go to our correspondent fab 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 who 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 we do. if we take a little look around here, we can see that this is quite this visit of so by and 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 push to the side, a few of the political and diplomatic rabble that's in the past of those 2

presidents because andrew 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, want to 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 ent 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 bellows to the european union, which is still taking place and just close those borders. it kind of oil and gas immediately, don't wait for another few months until the end of the year. a do it right now because it's important to sort of hurt rush economically right now. and it sort of 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 aerospace and finally of course it is the, the co ongoing call of poland to send in a humanitarian mission unto international and nature protection to evacuate the embattled regions, particularly in the southeast or areas like mario pole where civilians are really under siege 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 it base is speech that will set the ground for, 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 stand 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 at the 2 sides here in the world

. and it's like a good and evil black and white. it seems to be very a very strong in that regard from the a little that we heard beforehand as so he is really, he's really wanting to set the ground up for the next months and for the, for the future of nato at european union entrance until it landed relations of course, the w correspondent, bob hazel 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 and i, this visit is a delicate balancing act. will say for biden, it's no secret that 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 trump's view of the world. when biden was like the president, it took a while for people like do to to acknowledge that to congratulate biden's windsor. there might be some bad blood there. and there's 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 of 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 e 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 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 bonus tag 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 thrown 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 the 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 comic from the, in the german government saying, we're just not going be able to get off at that quickly. emmet embargo is just not a realistic option. right now. d, w reporter william blue cross. thanks for your analysis. well, many of those who flee ukraine austin arrived traumatized in neighboring countries . the war itself, the sudden need to leave everything behind and the journey out as well as the uncertainty of what might come next can be overwhelming. he w's monica shariska, sent us this report from the train station in shami shall on the polish border with ukraine there. she met eva buena. she's

a polish psychotherapist who's worked in germany for decades. just one of several, german and polish mental health professionals offering you arrivals. psychological 1st aid. and as someone trying to here to go, you were pharmacists in, we're not. i've been baby life owner. good pick a 25 year old woman arrived without luggage carrying just her baby. she has 3 children. the youngest is just 10 months old. she couldn't bring anything as she traveled 3 days without sleeping without eating. when she got here, she was so exhausted. she was barely able to sleep at the back when we approached her and asked her where she had come from. whether she knew where to go. all she could say was her house had been hit and her husband was probably dead monday at one's and on in one family homeless you mentioned dea, income democracy. then you got all the people who come here often worry less about themselves and what's going to happen to them than about those who stayed behind

ukraine's lab resume. stephanie can, doesn't art human irish speak? we have certain stabilization techniques, a kind of exercise, actually a game between mother and child, not the mother moves the child a little in principle like a tapping technique. and she gives them verbal suggestions. you are safe, i am here with you. it's over. nothing will happen to you. these techniques, stabilize and calm, the nervous system of the child as an aunt of the mother. when mama does everybody's in, we give them these exercises. so they can stabilize themselves and we argue them to look after them says many are traveling into the unknown. but we say look after yourself, look after your child stabilize yourself. and if you find yourself struggling, find help property. i live near dimension, we dont we have seen many thinks in timos seek gratitute, how fast conduct can be made, how people can help each other, but also

a lot of sadness when they see a child who has been on the road for 3 days or where a little shoe is missing because there is nothing dare i'm a mother myself and it does affect as deeply this situation as sad as it is, has also shown us how much humanity there is in this word. i have to some of the other stories we're following for you vis our a saudi led coalition is launched overnight, airstrikes on the gemini, capital santa and the red sea city of a data killing at least 7 people. the attack came a day after rainy and back to the rebels. staged a daring attack on an oil depot in the saudi city of jetta. ahead of today's former one race in the kingdom. ha, a volcano has opted near a scenic lake in the philippines. authorities raised the alert level in the region and urged residents to evacuate. there have been volcanic earthquakes and concerns the further are options may occur, experts or warning of possible fast moving gas and aid to nami,

in the lake. tater hawkins, the drummer of celebrated rock bombs. 2 fighters has died while on tour with the band in columbia. the 5th year old joined the group formed by ext nirvana, musician dave grow in 1997 in a statement of the band called his death. a tragic and on time, the loss when you're watching the w news. here's a recap of our main stores. in an apparent strategic shift in the face of stacy cranium, resistance. moscow says it will now focus on the eastern dumbass region of your brain. russia claims the 1st stage of its war in ukraine is over, that it's been a success on his 2nd day in poland. u. s. president joe biden as mad face to face with ukrainian officials later he'll deliver a speech on the crisis inc. right? the president will pull on the free world to stand against americans. well, that's all for from the for now of next is the war in ukraine,

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300000000 people are seeking refuge. we asked why? because no one should have to flee. to make up your own mind. d. w. for mines. for american gas to the rescue, the us pledges to boot shipments of natural gas to be european union, but will be enough to break the blocks reliance on russian energy. also coming up, india comes under fire for buying of russian oil spurned by the west. we'll take a look at how economic ties between moscow in delhi or evolving and will tell you the story of 2 farmers forced to leave ukraine due to russia's invasion. now in germany, they're sending donations and aid to those left.