his subscriber for morning is like a this is dw news lie from berlin. the united states is sending weapons worth $800000000.00 to ukraine. washington hopes the additional assistance will helping ukrainian army repel a rush and offensive in the east. the latest equipment includes heavy artillery and helicopters. ah,

i'm pablo foley. yes, welcome to the program. u. s. president joe biden has approved $800000000.00 and additional military assistance to ukraine. the package includes heavy artillery, antelli, copters of the country prepared to defend itself from a renewed russian assault that's expected to target. the east of the country. satellite images have shown large convoys of russian military vehicles converging on the don boss. region, mar, you, poll, is in ruins. after weeks of russian bombardment, the u. s. says it is once again sending arms to ukraine to stop russia's destruction of the country. for today, the president announced and author us another presidential drawdown of security assistance, valued at up to an additional $800000000.00 tailored to meet urgent ukrainian needs

for today's fight. as russian forces shift the focus of their ruthless aggression now to eastern ukraine, ukraine's president expressed his gratitude. we've agreed on $800000000.00 in military aid for weapons ammunition, artillery helicopters and more than i am sincerely thankful for the support that you get that all the need for more arms is urgent. as russian convoys converge on eastern ukraine. analysts say the weapons in the american package, such as long range howitzers are especially suited to ukraine's defense of the eastern don bass region. so you one system like that, i can fire you at 3040 kilometers away from where you are trying to break up the military long before he gets close to you and that's what ukrainians need at this moment. they need to destroy the rushing convoys before they even get to the cities or near to locations. they want to take. the pentagon said it was rushing to send

the equipment, but did not provide a time table for the people in the eastern ukrainian city of seattle, rodonna ask something as simple as walking to get groceries is a calculated risk that could end in tragedy. war has brought life to a standstill though it's a disaster. got every 10 or 15 minutes in bam. bam barker, will i live on the 7th floor of a 9 floor building? it just imagine boom from one side band from the other. and then you think the roof will cave in and kill you. what, let's say put asleep for some, the fighting is too much to bear. a bus takes them away from the bombs. but others are staying behind, hoping to survive the russian advance. if weapons from the us don't stop at 1st dw correspondent alexander phenomena following developments from cave. and we asked

her whether ukraine was saying anything more about reports of marine surrendering to russia. they say they cannot confirm this information. instead, they are saying that some of the marines and trip there encircled by the russian forces, were able to link up with other ukrainian forces. still, they are fighting in the city of new pal. however, they have acknowledged that to russia is controlling some areas in the south eastern part of my you will. and the situation there in general is really dire with then of tens of thousands of civilians still trip. according to the mayor, more than $20000.00 civilians were killed there. so the situation is real, really dire, and the russian army is apparently intensifying their assault on the city. dw correspondent, alexander from nomine reporting from keith. while the warship mosque of,

of the flagship of the russian black sea fleet has been badly damaged after an explosion, the russian defense ministry said a fire caused ammunition to detonate. it didn't say what caused the blaze, but did say the entire crew of 500 sailors had been evacuated. however, it ukrainian officials claim 2 of their missiles hit the ship. earlier we spoke with doctor eye glass net come from london. she is a lecturer in international politics at university college london school of sla vondik and east european studies. she explained the potential importance of what happened to the warship. i think it's significant that the russians have admitted that there is a fi on board. and they've had to evacuate, i think that significant whether or not it was hit by the ukrainian missiles, most likely it was. but at this stage we cannot independently verified. i think symbolically. it is huge and my scott is a major worship and it was,

it was most notably involved in the sort of snake island incident, the stamps of which have actually only come out this week in ukrainian ukraine. symbol is massive. it will also be important strategically, militarily, because the russians are no longer able to move their large warships into the area because the straits have been shut down. and also because it shows that the russians are suff, ongoing, suffering heavy losses, which i think before the campaign dumbasses renewed, i think it's, it's symbolically important. the russians are suffering such heavy losses even before the campaign in dumbasses sort of, you know, it is stepped up again. and i think there's also a question of how long can the russians continue to suffer such sort of heavy losses because such warships are sort of very expensive, very difficult to produce. there's not many of them around that was dr. eyeglass

not called a lecture in international politics, a university college london school of savannah and east european studies. well, i'm joined now from the ukrainian capital keith by vladimir college, go a member of ukraine's territorial defense forces and brother of keys, mayor of italy, which go out of mere thanks for making the time for us here on d. w. and i want to start by asking you about the situation in key where you are on the surrounding areas following the russian withdrawal. in the past days, you could tell that see these getting back to life so to speak. you see more people on the streets as well as more cars on the roads. so there is the traffic in a certain way. and even though the cd is getting back to life, but we need to be really cautiously, how many people are coming back to the city to the capital. because we do believe

that russians will not, will not, i'm going anywhere but still aiming at the capital. so in the next coming days, obviously we'll live major major battles in the east in the south of the country. and we, we really look, look to defense and defense, south east of the country as well as preparing for possible coming back and naming the capital. and so even though the life is that we need to be really cautiously with every step and how many people are coming back to the city. and the mayor of the city advise, advise people that leave in the capital for not for waiting, waiting for coming back just or getting the process really slow. vladimir,

what can you tell us about the situation and matter? you pol russia is reporting a mass surrender of ukrainian forces. so has the city surrendered or is it still being defended? the city, the matter of fact, the cities still defended them. defenders of the city are stealing money. well, the situation is very critical, very critical for the past 2 weeks, the city has been endlessly bombarded and the russian troops were trying to capture the city completely. they didn't have success. and the said the situation is very critical on every aspect. i don't know how many thousands of civilians been killed and how many are still in the city. it's very difficult to get exact numbers to the situation, understandably, but the city is still fighting back. i'm proud of our country women and men

for standing together against this says this war and russian aggression, especially in cedar maribelle, vladimir, russia, appears to be massing its forces for a major offensive in the south and southeast. you mentioned that a little earlier. are your defense force is prepared for that? we are prepared for a new think as we war for the past. today is the day 50 of the war that russia has started. we are prepared for anything for work, worst cases for chemical weapons that for we prepared for everything. well, at least mentally, obviously we need to have supplies and support from the free world in our allies and partners on humanitarian side, military equipment. and obviously we cannot forget about containing

isolation, economical isolation of russia, because the money that they're getting in their budget's, they're going to buy, continue buying weapons. and these are soldiers to q ass ukrainians for you just mentioned that there that ukraine needs weapons, including heavy weapons that the u. s. and e u. k. are beginning to deliver, but germany, it's still very hesitant now. you've met german government representatives on a recent trip to berlin. what did you say to them and how did they respond? obviously, yeah, germany is moving and we've seen that very slow in the identification of this aggression. but i want to confirm after my today's work trip and meeting in germany and meeting all the key politicians in the german government. i can

confirm that germans as a full and german government are united, which is pretty sell, laurie united in one front, it gives the russian aggression. we are getting incredible support from germans on humanitarian side. there are a lot of refugees. they've been taking in germany. you creating a refrigerator you, jeez, as well as with sanctions. i mean, the process is slow and it's never enough, but they're moving toward on the vacation of our, our mutual enemy. and that in this case is russian figuration. and this war that russia has has started. so even the process is slow, but we are moving together again. this aggression in germany is not an exception. and step with the credit together. but i'm here, love relations are, are, are,

are your sang are going between germany and ukraine and your president followed the media to lansky and the german government. there's been a little bit of tension. am over at this parents know about the german president, frank about stein my what's your perspective on that? president stan meyer made huge mistakes in helping russia with what russia became today. he acknowledged he's mistakes. he confirmed it and made his open statements against aggression of russia war with russia and president put in particular i'm not going to criticize during this war and the president on the right hand side for his decision . and as well now seems the mistakes were confirmed by prisoners time are driven business by meyer and i believe,

and i hope that this meeting with the president, by mar, driven president and chris prisons. lensky are going to take place in next coming days or weeks here in q. okay, we will leave it there. vladimir kitch, go in, keith, thank you. thank you very much, and please keep supporting us. thank you. you're watching d w. news. here's a reminder of our main stories. u. s. president joe biden has approved $800000000.00 an additional military assistance to ukraine. the package includes heavy artillery as the country prepares to defend against a massive russian assault expected in eastern ukraine. ukraine says, ukraine said, well that's it. from the services of technical issues here. ukraine says it's

missiles have not the flagship of russia's black sea fleet. out of commission. russia has only acknowledged that fire on board seriously damaged the missile. fraser. well that's it from me for this hour of next. he told you business with stephen beardsley and remember you can get older latest news on our website, dw. gov, talk. com. i'll be back at the top of the next hour. take care. ah ah, what does war do to people are hatred and violets inherited from generation to generation and award winning documentary searches for

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