a blue ah ah, this is dw news lying from berlin, a new front end hooton's war. russia says it has halted, gas applies to poland and bulgaria, ukraine, and the you accused moscow of black mailing. you're also coming up explosions, destroy radio towers in a break away region of moldova, backed by russia. fueling fears that the conflict and ukraine could spill over. but you brings defense ministry, things moscow is unlikely to move into the reach. it will only speed up, the dispute will be closed at the moment. you know,

russia wanted to concrete for any 3 days. and one week it never happened to have to retreat from steve to have to retrieve structure need of course that out. focusing on the east of your grant and the south. well, they have not had any considerable minutes. again, without knowing how many russians have been killed in the conflict, but families in russia are also grieving as the casualties mount. many though still accept hooton's explanation that he ordered the invasion to defend his country. ah, i'm nichol fairly, it's good to have you with us. russia state controlled energy company gas from says that it is suspended and gas deliveries to both poland and bulgaria. neither of the 2 nations have complied with a demand from the kremlin to start paying for deliveries and roubles. most nations,

including germany, have said they will not pay in the russian currency even though several are heavily reliant on russian gas. european commission president la funder line tweeted that halting supplies was an attempt at blackmail. numerous ease states have accused russia of using energy supplies as a political weapon against them for years. up to avoid this, poland and the baltic states have been trying to achieve independence from russian gas supplies at the core of this bush as the jamar pipeline. the path of the mo pipeline is clearly visible in poland forests. the mall is just one of 4 natural gas pipelines deal to transport russian gas to western europe. but for months now, the 5400 kilometer long pipeline has been largely empty. russian state own gas problem has been keeping a heavy hand on its gas taps. it's part of gas problems do strategic poker game to promote its influence in the energy world against the backdrop of russia's invasion

of ukraine, or to manage for duck. here we have received threats from the russian federation and from gas problem just from all the related with the method of payment for russian gas or something for not you. poland will stick to the arrangement, sal, and perhaps russia will try to punish poland. florida, novella staples, as i've emphasized many times, i talked a whole and had previously prepared to diversify. gas applies and to obtain gas from different suppliers. door diversity got c o, garzo, poland, and the 3 bolter countries were already looking for ways to become independent of russia's gas supply. before hostilities broke out lithuanian, poland had built her own liquefied natural gas ports and now purchase ellen g from guitar, norway, and the u. s. north of postman in western poland, the amal pipeline meets the new baltic pipe from the west. the baltic pipe has been built with the help of denmark and the european union. it's expected to deliver

natural gas from norway to poland very soon and going to operation as early as the 2nd half of this year. that will make poland independent of russian gas. and it could also transport supplies from the west to ukraine. earlier i spoke to young fellow cut, he's a correspondent in warsaw for a german public, broad case caster, a r d, and i asked him if poland will be able to cope with a hot of russian gas applies. well, they have for good reasons to say, so the 1st is reserves which are according to official data at around 2 thirds of their capacities. and the 2nd thing is that the heating season is almost done. and one of the main reason, prime minister just mentioned poland has invested quite a lot into a terminal, a to import liquid natural gas. ellen g g s port in the baltic sea

and they are and the poland is about to start operating the so called baltic pipe, which was already mentioned here and which could starting from october and bring norwegian gas to poland. so before the new eating season stars, so m l n g and norwegian gas, of course, is quite more expensive than siberian gas. and this maybe could be the challenge more than the question of delivery here. and the question of maybe even higher inflation numbers. and we have already, problems was that he unfolded like in other countries as well. toes young fellow, cut reporting from warsaw. let's take a look now and some other stories making headlines around the world to day. according myanmar has convicted the country's former leader, our son suit, she of corruption and sentence her to 5 years in prison. soon she is already serving a 6 year jail term and faces 10 more corruption charges,

all of which she denies. she was ousted by the military last year. singapore has executed a man on drugs charges despite international please to spare him on the grounds. he was intellectually disabled. the 34 year old malaysian national had been on death row for over a decade for trafficking 43 grams of heroine into the country. singapore has some of the world's toughest narcotics laws. and chinese authorities have expanded mass testing and beijing t. 11 of the cities, 16 districts, some areas have been put under lockdown after another $22.00 cases were detected in the last 24 hours. china's largest city shanghai has been under a city wide lockdown for 4 weeks. when called all of gluten, russia says it has made significant territorial gains in the east and the south of ukraine, claiming it has captured the entire her san region. meanwhile,

in the capital key authorities dismantled a soviet era monument. once a symbol of friendship, between russia and ukraine, this monument is no merely a reminder of the betrayal. kias has decided to demolish the statue. 2 months of to russia invaded ukraine. freeform of the exam will resume this monument used to symbolized the friendship between ukraine and russia on but now we see what this friendship is. the destruction of ukrainian cities ruining the lives of ukrainians, killing tens of thousands of peaceful people, recept, give pieces, whatever mercy. i am convinced, a monument like this has an entirely different meaning. now, ours whistle and me a few kilometers away. president zalinski visited children at a hospital. they had been evacuated from the devastated southern port city of mary paul hankey. there were many lost their parents in the fighting. we opened it as

the lensky has mourned. thus, attacks from the south will intensify with short today, russian troops kept launching missiles, strikes on our land, particularly in the odessa region, and they kept up their attacks in our troops near harkey. eve in don bass, fight shoots. and what does this give russia? only new losses. russia's defense ministry says they have now taken control of the entire southern region of carson. but earlier ukraine's military said, russia was not able to break through its defense line. meanwhile, fighting in the east and on bass region is ongoing. ukrainian forces say that russia has continued to show villages, like here in alexandria, co. the army was able to evacuate many civilians from the area while it stays behind to fight. there are reports about attacks in her son,

but in the capital q 2 people are still on high alert with air raid sirens, sending residents to shelters a few hours ago. our reporter rebecca readers is in keith for us and earlier i asked her what the situation was. well, well i, you know, i mean here in keys the city is on high. 2 alerts there, warnings of renewed attacks on the capital as russia has even said that they're willing to take out targets here in the capital again. the battle for don bass is, as it's being called, the sort of renewed 2nd phase of this war is rumbling on. you said there yourself that there was conflicting reports about her song as true that the russians have taken most of that region, including the capital city of that region. hassan itself, but it hasn't taken the entire region. the front line is moving very slowly. we are seeing a sort of in the russians try and circle ukrainian troops are coming from the north

east region and from the east and also the south. but they are moving, advancing very, very slowly. the kinds able to kind of keep that frontline in position and definitely hoping that the munitions that they're now receiving from their allies will be able to help them actually push back russia to the east and south. but we are seeing to renewed attempts to hit odessa, that port city and attempt to link up the entire southern and eastern region. nicole, a lot of focus, of course, on another port city. the city of mario paula has been besieged for weeks. now russia claims and it has stopped fighting there to enable evacuation corridors. have you been able to corroborate that? that is right. vladimir putin says, fighting is no longer on going in. marry you, paul, but we haven't been able to corroborate that. the last report that we were getting there is still fighting ongoing, as we know that city has been besieged almost since the beginning of this war,

and it's created a terrible humanitarian catastrophe. down there, we know that there are some couple of 1000 soldiers. we believe still trapped in that as of steel plant. the last remaining defense of the ukrainian side by the mere potent announced that they had taken mary paul. but there is no conjecture there. but for all intents and purposes, the rushes have taken that city. and now the focus is on those humanitarian corals which are incredibly hard and often fail the de leon corresponding her back, her readers reporting from keith there. thank you so much. well fears are growing that the conflict could spill over into neighboring countries, such as moldova, the un has called for con, there after a series of explosions, targeted radio masks used to broadcast russian programs and the breakaway territory of trans de nestor. the area is backed by russia and has been under the control of separate his authorities since a war with moldova, some 30 years ago. around 1500 russian troops are based in the region. and let's

take a closer look now at the incidence that have been raising tensions there. and the recent days to radio towers used to broadcast russian news now scrap metal, the blast site, and moldova is just 5 kilometers from the ukranian border. so far, no one has claimed responsibility on the knees. illinois de la, just the our analysis shows their attentions between various forces who are interested and destabilizing this region. this, that means i doubt sequencing yoshi black in complex. so this is a complex and tens situation. but we will arrange vigilant aside, and we'll take all necessary measures to prevent escalation, to strengthen our security and to protect our citizens. seni larose. there was we must remain calm that he would stay informed using verified sources and avoid distributing false information with you know about the explosion of the radio

towers was the 2nd unclaimed attack this week in the moldova separatist region of trends. mr. the 1st was on the state security ministry in to ross bull. tensions in the region have been high since russia invaded ukraine. moscow has suggested it wants to create a land corridor, a long southern ukraine between trans nustar and the russian controlled territories and eastern ukraine. it's believed russia keeps around $1500.00 troops and trans. mr. and analysts say the area could be used to launch an attack on ukraine. the region remained pro russian after the collapse of the soviet union, but the international community considers it part of moldova ukrainian. president volunteers, lensky said he believed the recent attacks were orchestrated by moscow and that his country is prepared for any offensive from that direction. just a solution to change a class for the russian troops that have been constantly stationed in the

temporarily occupied territories of moldova in particular and trans neater we know that they are in constant combat readiness, waiting for an order. his name must surely faustine hopefulness. g chicka told changed on that we know their power and will you what ukrainian armed forces are prepared for them and are not afraid of them? nimbly, moldova authorities have raised the country's terror alert to its highest level. there worried the war in ukraine could spill across the border into trans niece to her and then to the rest of the country. rushing back separatists in trance ne stir now also claimed that shots have been fired into its territory from ukraine. earlier i spoke to yuri, soc, he's an advisor to the green defense minister and i asked him what he knows about the recent incident in moldova. now our authorities and military command are in charge of services. i've already made an official statement saying that these are provocations. and of course,

this has nothing to do with ukrainian armed forces. this is not part of ukraine's interest ukraine fighting a war for his own land, for his space, for the peace in europe and the future of freedom in europe. so we are not surprised that the russians have done these publications. of course, it has to be started and verified, but at the moment what we can confirmed with certainty that, of course ukraine has nothing to do with these incidents in the next year. all right, so you were saying that these are false flag attacks. how concerned are you about a new frontline emerging there though? well, look, we have seen the statements by the russian qualities and officials that drunk nice area is part of the military objectives. and of course they have used trans new syria in the past with have you to, you know, just fix the support for their own forces. and you know,

we wouldn't be surprised if they wanted to move in and do it there. but our military experts have said many times that for us to open yet another front would on the mean the. it will only speed up the dispute. because at the moment no rush wanted to conquer ukrainian 3 days and one week and never happened. there had to retreat from key. they had to retreat from need, of course, that focusing on the east of the grant and the south. but they have not had any considerable military success or gain. so from this perspective, if which is possible, of course they may consider opening another front line in moldova. but this would make any sense and i would repeat, it will only speed up that defeat. looking at the south, the russian army claims that has made significant territorial gains in the last couple of days, including the entire her son region. can you confirm that?

well, in a song what we have to understand is that, of course, russia is trying to set up a fake referendum and to announce the establishment of the so called probably some people's republic, which is the tactics. and they've used in 2014, in the east of ukraine, right. but at the same time, even today we've seen that ukrainian population of song, they went out to a peaceful demonstration. they are not supportive of any of these initiatives. they are requiring and requesting and demanding the ration aggressions to leave their hometown. and these are the sort of feelings that the majority, the vast majority of ukraine population in the south of ukraine have. so we are confident that it's only a matter of time to liberate those cds, and those regions. and of course, financial need more have new weaponry from our international partners. what can you tell us about the situation in mario, especially that of the,

the fighters and the civilians, reportedly still holding out in the steel plan there? well the situation in muddy ball, which is a city that used to be 500000 people city before the war. now there's over 100000 still left there under occupation and continues bombs and may files and artillery shelling. and of course, there are over 1000 civilians still trapped in as op still as all star fuel works. and there are also about more than $500.00. when did you cranium warriors, and there are also those warriors who continue to defend as a style unreasonable. and of course, the situation is very, extremely difficult. but at the same time, we are seeing no willingness on the part of russia to at least establish recreation corridor. they ignore the police of the when they ignored every offer made by the ukrainian side. they continued to throw everything they have on muddy little and on

has all star. despite the, despite the words of the president of russia, that the offensive of us all star will discontinue this never happened that stopped for an hour. shelling continued me for all strikes, continue, artillery continues. infantry continues to attack, so it's, it's, the situation is pretty much the same as it was for the last, you know, for the last 3 months now. all right, there was a meeting of defense officials in germany yesterday trying to coordinate efforts to support you. where does the international military and financial aid that has already been pledged to you leave you in terms of defense capabilities? well, during the last 2 weeks, we have seen an important shift in the approach of our international partners to the question of providing ukraine with the required military assistance. we have said from the very beginning that for us to be more efficient in fighting this more,

we need abby activity. we need thanks. we need to and see aircraft and defense systems we need and to worship missiles, we need about aircraft. now we have begun receiving certain types of these weaponry from our international partners, and we are receiving now. have you tillery how it was yesterday, the german minister defense, i made a pledge about providing you credit with tax, but this is still insufficient. i was your 2nd advisor to the ukrainian defense minister, western and ukrainian sources. the estimate that well over 10000 russian soldiers have been killed fighting in ukraine. but moscow has admitted to the deaths of only around $1500.00 troops, families across russia, burry, they're dead. the kremlin is telling russians the war or special operation as they call it, is necessary to protect the countries borders. the report now from the city once

known as stalingrad, now called vulgar rad dimitry, was just 19 years old. ivan 21. every week, more remote grades have been dug in miss cemetery in fall garad mostly for young soldiers who died in the president's so called special military operation. when you think you molested, if at the best of these young people should be able to enjoy their lives, they still had their whole lives ahead of them where no one needs or especially not ordinary people who do not hate the ukrainians. a tall you live, to crane from one us theatre. even though still though he put her dying on both sides. but what can you do? look here had a poor man lies there. what don't lead ye get there to beg me. every day families grieving in russia usually in place as far from moscow

like here, invited kept house in the foothills of the caucus mountains in the city of vulgar out, along with the cries of grief. justification for the wall can also be heard. so good. usually it is very painful, but it's necessary. the has to be victims. god is with us. we will triumph with him . victor shuttle faults in the battle of stalingrad in the 2nd world wal mart. he's where russia is, again, seen fallen soldiers, but nevertheless supports president vladimir putin's actions are sure, and it's very painful that they are dying. but russia has to defend its boulders and keep ukraine out to him. nato, up his cemetery, friends and relatives of 26 year old andre. i've gathered to say a final farewell. he was also killed fighting in ukraine. as the kremlin continues

to champion fallen soldiers, as a price worth paying for putin's wall. and he w. russia corresponded emily, sherwin is here in the studio with me. emily huge discrepancies, and the numbers of the fallen on the russian side, depending on who you ask. right? how is russia handling the, the numbers coming out of this conflict? will the kremlin is tightly controlling these numbers. we've only had ministry of defense in russia, publish numbers of fallen soldiers on the russian side, twice the last time at the end of march. when they said just over 1300 soldiers were killed and an example for that tight control is you might remember it, the sinking of the musk law flagler in the the ship, which is the flag when of the of the russian fleet, in the black sea. there was a lot of mystery around that. so initially russia said that the crew was fully evacuated. there was though a wreath at the ceremony for the ship, which said to the crew and the ship, which journalists noted,

an investigative journalist also did a lot of digging. they found posts from parents who were talking about their children being missing. and they put the number of dead or dried around 37 or 40 people. and only last week there was an official statement saying that one a crew member died and that 27 are missing. so it's unclear. even just on that example, whether that's the full picture, and it's also common for mothers or a relatives of soldiers to be kind of silence, put pressure on and, and apparently rushes also using mo bile cream atoria and ukraine, including for their own. we heard in the report about to fallen soldiers on the russian side. what more do we know about the people fighting boons? we're. we know that there are some reports of conscripts being involved, even though the russian side is denied that many are on contracts and military experts have been saying that actually many of the people who have been dying are from regions far away from moscow. so poor regions including brianna here, which is near lake by cow in siberia and also da gast on in the caucasus. and many

of the people there are from non rush, an ethnic groups. so that means they look very different from ukrainians. that could be a factor, and some experts i, she asked estimate that about half of the people who have died are from brianna here. that region that i mentioned, one of the poorest regions in russia. and i'm journalists, there have been saying that people are actively signing up in order to have kind of a purpose for their lives in some ways. but also, you know, for economic reasons, reasons as well. and the kremlin, of course, tries to crush any thyme of death, and especially when it comes to this war. do you expect criticism to grow as more russians die in the war? well, it's hard to know. you know, we have these surveys saying that there's widespread support, sociologists point out that surveys during wartime are difficult. anyway, i'm very surprised to see in that report that people were so openly critical because you know, even before the war, people were very afraid to talk about their criticism of the kremlin, or of putin, especially when it comes to speaking to western journalists. and there's been this

crackdown on civil society, which is of course, going to make it difficult for any kind of movement to consolidate. for example, there's a committee of soldiers, mothers, that works in russia. and they've had trouble working, including because of a new law where you're not allowed to spread so called fakes about the war. and of course that means that even calling the war a war is a fake. italy is emily? sure. when thank you so much for those insights and he has a quick reminder of the top stories we're following for you today. ukraine on the, you have accused russia, black mailing europe over energy after moscow halted gas applies to poland and bulgaria. russia has threatened to hold deliveries to european countries unless they start paying for gas in roubles, following sanctions against russian banks. brushing back separatists have reported shooting near in arms depot and moldova as break away region of trans meester from across the border in ukraine. the un has called for com, in the region, following a series of incidents this week are watching the w news line from berlin state.

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