[000:00:00;00] ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin to night, the deadly difference between the words and actions of the russian military in ukraine. russian forces continued public areas near keith and charity. he, despite vowing to reduce attacks. also coming up an ultimatum from vladimir putin to ukrainian forces in the besieged port city of maria pope. if you want the shelley to stop lay down your weapons. for that, a 150000 civilians remain trapped in that city with no power or running water.

thousands have doth ah i bring gov. it's good to have you with us on this wednesday, and we start with dashed hopes of what could have been a 1st step towards a semblance of peace in ukraine. there was no lead up in attacks today on the capital keep. and the northern city of churney that despite righteous pledge on tuesday to drastically reduce military activity in both places. further south russian forces are also intensifying attacks in the besieged port city of mario pole. to day russian, president putin told ukrainian forces there, the shelling will stop when she lay down your weapons. we have this report. a month of russian bombardment has reduced much of mary uphold to ruins. while moscow has suffered setbacks elsewhere in ukraine. its efforts to take the key port have been devastating,

an unrelenting a comparison of satellite imagery from before the invasion to images from this week revealed the almost no building has been left on damaged, ukrainian official sable than 90 percent of the city has been destroyed. many who managed to escape the destruction and up here some 200 kilometers, the northwestern separation. traumatized by what they've left behind. but don't they chain shelters 3 times in maria pull. it's insane what they were doing. said, dropping bombs. it was frightening. there is no merrier. pull any more land. they bumped it completely muddy will will ever feel. lemme was bully. others like a 3 year old boy. wow. wasn't able to get out unscathed. wow. hey, dina is crying out for his father, but he can't come to deem his bedside. he was also injured and his receiving treatment elsewhere in the hospital. they're far from the only ones this 11 year

old girl was also wounded. as a family escaped from ru, paul will not stop. on the 16th of march, we succeeded in leaving mario poll. we were hitch hiking while we were getting right here and there a foot and one of the villages we passed through a rush and chat point i double. they led us through after checking us out. but then we were met with gunfire. mercury of who did they to him or her steeple? i remember fighting in a loud noise in my ears and there, but then i will call it, and my mother put me on to ground loose and started to scream for help. sure. soldiers ran up to me and tried to stop the bleeding. get with me, you're not asking for molina was fortunate to make it to the hospital. many others have been less soak. ukrainian official say around 5000 people, including over 200 children have died. mary paul, since rushes, assault began for the estimated

a 160000 residence to remain in the ruins. there's little hope of reprieve. putin has made it clear that the shelling will only end when ukrainians defending against their invasion surrender. and for the latest on the ground in ukraine, i'm joined now by our correspondent mathias bellinger. he is in the capitol. keith medea's. let me ask you. the governor of the nest says that the latest attempt to evacuate civilians from the city of mario pole is likely failed in that convoys of civilians are not being allowed through. what more do we know about this? yeah, that's what we've heard today that they were not allowed to leave. we've had that before these convoys, they are tried pressure. they're set up pretty regularly to bring out people of them. are you out of them or you pull or to bring in humanitarian goods and sometimes they make it through, but often they fail either because they cannot leave or what is even worse. they

shelled on their way. they have also been people dying on the way out of them. are you, paul? so it's always a little bit of a yeah. of uncertainty and we hear that 75000 people have been evacuated from the city so far. but it said that 160 thousands to remain in the city. so there's the situation there remains critical. my tears, erosion forces bombarded the outskirts of kiva up again on wednesday to day, just a day after moscow promised to scale down operations there. so what's going on tonight? so from what we are hearing is that these like from what we can hear here, the shelling has even intensified. we've had a lot of shelling during the daytime, almost uninterrupted. interestingly, now it is calm, it stopped for an hour or so ago,

but it was much more intense than before. and last night there were also several rockets shot down over here. so it's definitely we definitely do not see any signs of fighting, being reduced in any way and considering all that we're hearing and what you're telling is it has the mood changed in ukraine since yesterday? i mean, there was this cautious hope yesterday that that steps were being taken in the direction of a possible ceasefire. maybe even piece this hope was so cautious that the most mood has not changed. everybody. i talked to said, well, it's good news, but i don't believe it's that may mainly what people have said here. i've talked to several, it's just that at trust in russia as words is very low in ukraine. and that we have also seen several times in the run up to this war. and then during this war,

that all these announcements, especially announcements about withdrawal or sci fi, is, are often the, the prelude to something worse. if you remember when this war started, or just before 24th of february, russia said they would withdraw their troops from the border. and we saw some movement. people, observers were saying, well, this is not really withdraw, but we're seeing some movement. and then the attack happened. so there was never much hope that this would last correspond martinez burger with the latest from the ground in keith to night. but he has thank you or more on russia's military campaign in ukraine. i spoke with frank lead, which a former u. k. military intelligence officer. you know, many have said that vladimir putin is aiming to divide ukraine, like the korean peninsula is divided today you are, you wrote that ukraine is turning into pollutants bleeding. all, sir,

why do you say that the reference to play house actually comes from couple 100 years ago when the pony was trying to fight the spanish portuguese. and he put 600000 people into area about 80000 came out with his bleeding. also, what many of us think is going to happen, what i think may well happen over the next. over the next phase, it is put to move into a wall that he not only cannot win, but he can't really extract himself from. and it will be a 2nd to which he'll pull money and material for, for as long as the ukrainians fight. and that's going to be a long time. do you think that vladimir putin knows exactly what is going on on the ground in ukraine, in terms of the performance of his military? it's very difficult to say that it's has a closed information system and even in the west and when we saw this, for example,

in afghanistan with western generals not receiving very good information and certainly not passing it up. there are other cases, of course you don't want to hear bad news and put in maybe one of those. what we can be sure though is that the reports he's get or that the system is generated will be fairly accurate from the f s b across to the military intelligence. whether it's percolating up with those you just into that very different question. and i want to know, i wondering frame how good is our intelligence? but you consider the rapid collapse of the afghan army after the u. s. withdraw last year. the inability of russia to quickly take key. i mean, we're in week 5 now of this invasion on both of these accounts. western intelligence got it wrong, western intelligence i would assess, actually it's been very, very good by and large with respect to you cry. and it's one element of the world. not surprisingly,

particularly western contribution to it's really not being talked about as we speak . there are western intelligence gathering aircraft in the, at the west and north of ukraine. sucking up all the signals, intelligence they can paring into the, into the, into the fog of war. that not only that, of course, but we've got other kinds of assets and we have an ally rather yes and online, the excellent, you kind of military intelligence service. so overall strategic assessments, i think have been quite good. it's very difficult as you've had to, to get some ground truth, particularly because the, because both sides of pumping out information that might sometimes be categorized both sides as propaganda. yeah, that's a very good point to make. and that leads me then to the situation we're in tonight . you know, 24 hours ago there was talk, the deputy russian defense minister saying that there was going to be a dramatic reduction in military activity around the, the capital key. and last night there were air raid sirens across the city. there have been more tags today,

be the words and the deeds. when it comes to the russian military, they just don't match. well, that certainly appears to be the case. what may be happening is that there's what's called a fighting withdrawal going on with drawing income, but it's a very difficult military activity to carry out. i suspect that the artillery barrage is that material was referring to earlier and that we've heard about before, maybe covering something of a re deployment driven by military realities. and certainly at least one battalion group which is about a 1000 people happen re deployed out of the country. as far as we know, not likely to continue as the russians go on to the defensive in the north. which as i said before, that's a military reality that's essentially been force off that frank led with the university of portsmouth, frank, we appreciate your time and your valuable analysis tonight. thank you. my pleasure . here are some of the other stories we're following for you. this our jordan's

king of do of the 2nd is condemned the recent spate of violent attacks in israel. he's hosting these really president for talks aimed at reducing tensions ahead of major jewish christian and muslim holidays. next month. tenicia parliament has voted to repeal several older chronic decrees issued by the country's president, which have given him near total power president sayed, that suspended parliament last year and has dismissed this vote calling it illegal . bruce willis is retiring after from acting after being diagnosed with a medical conditioning affecting his cognitive abilities. the actress family announced the decision on social media saying that willis is suffering from a far as your facia. the condition affects a person's ability to communicate and understand others. the u. s. astronaut mark fender hi has now landed safely in the record books after spending

more time in space than any other american. after nearly a year on the international space station he hitched a ride in a russian spacecraft for his return trip to earth. despite tensions between the us and russia over ukraine vanda high and his russian colleagues are sending a message of unity touchdown confirmed at 628 a. m. central time. i returned to earth am after a recalled break and trip pm for mark van to hi. he had been on the i assess the 355 days on mark of an american recall to spacecraft after his stay was extended last year module that he travelled back to earth with to russian colleagues lee from in a russian made for his capsule puter duper off will be make the hopping doubts regarding the return of the american home after rushes invasion of ukraine,

wigan from arrow and that come in. but the outgoing wishing commander was clear, it is, and 60, the conflict stays on earth. 67 at the time of on docking the bill. opprobrium on earth on the orbit. oh yeah. like, ah, yeah. not like the a one crew. and i think i says is like symbol of the friendship. i unco variations and ah oh and like cbl a future. oh, it's but exploration of space. miss 19. after traveling a 150000000 miles an orbiting the planet almost 6000 times via these, the that final moment seen space before a returned to the realities of planet earth, tonge, capital rav for the so use commander here as you watch the w news,

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