[000:00:00;00] ah ah, this is dw news line for a new front in putin's for russia says it has halted. gas applies to poland, envil, guerria, ukraine, and the new accused moscow of black mailing europe, also coming up explosions, destroy radio towers in a break away region of moldova, backed by russia. fueling fear is that the conflict in ukraine could spill over, but ukraine's defense ministry and things. moscow is unlikely to move into the

region that known how many russians have been killed in the conflict. but families and russia are also breathing as the casualties mound. many though still accept hooton's explanation that he ordered the invasion to defend russia and to ukrainian refugees forced to flee the war, find peace and germany after a football club paved the way. ah, i'm not really welcome to the so russia stave controlled energy company gas from says it is suspending gas deliveries to both poland and bulgaria meter 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, it was

a funder line. tweeted that halting supplies was an attempt at blackmail and said the e you was preparing a coordinated response to the move. and earlier we spoke with young padlock up in warsaw. he's a correspondent for german public broadcaster a r d. and i asked him if poland will be able to cope with the halt of russian gas supplies, or they have for good reasons to say. so the 1st is reserves which are according to official data, around 2 thirds of their capacities. and the 2nd thing is that the heating season is all mazda done, and m, one of the main reason, prime minister just mentioned, poland has invested quite a lot into a terminal, a to import, a liquid natural gas. ellen g, g s at the port in at the baltic sea and they are and the poland is about to start

operating a so called baltic pie, which was already mentioned here. and which could starting from october and bring norwegian guess to poland. so before the new heating season stars, so m l n g and norwegian gas of course, is quite more expensive than siberian gas m. 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 and paul and like in other countries as well, they and most european countries refused to pay in roubles for russian gas. what does this move mean for them? do they have to have to be afraid? now what might come next to my mind, this is exactly the point here. i think putting it tried to give a kind of warning signal to other countries that are left prepared. that is hungry,

that is austria. and 1st of all, it is a germany, they don't have so many alternatives. their reserves are not the whole, like in poland. and poland was about to any way to stop gas cooperation with russia and the contract are about to exceed at the end of the year . so this is a process that has now been passed and ad, but poland was any way ready to go away from russia. so they are hitting a client here that would not pay much money for them for the company. yes. the long term goal is of course, to become more independent of all russian energy supplies in germany. and poland are trying to cooperate more closely aid that has already been pledged to 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 require notary assistance. we have said from the very beginning that for us to be more efficient in fighting this more, we need to heavy artillery. we need tank's empty aircraft systems. we need anti worship may files. we need combat aircraft. now we have begun receiving certain types of these weaponry from our international partners and we are receiving now. have you actually howitzers? yesterday the german administer, the defense made a pledge about providing you with more tax, but this is still insufficient. that was uri. zach an advisor to the ukrainian defense minister speaking to us earlier. western and ukrainian sources 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, as families across russia more and they're dead. the kremlin is telling russians

the war or special operation as they continue to call it is necessary to protect the countries borders were report now from the city once known as stalingrad and now called bogo grat. 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. is when you think the melinda did that about 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 theater. even though still do it. people are dying on both sides. but what can you do? look here had a per man lies. there was only g give. they had

a big me. every day. families grieving in russia usually in place is far from moscow. laquia 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. xo, who would you say it is very painful, but it's necessary. there has to be victims. god is with us. we will triumph reviewed him. big to shuttle faults in the battle of stalingrad in the 2nd world war. he's where russia is again, seen fallen soldiers. but nevertheless, supports president vladimir putin's actions are here and it's very painful that they are dying. but russia has to defend its bald is and keep ukraine out to him.

nato, up his cemetery, friends, and relatives of 26 year old andre, have gathered to say a final farewell. he was also killed fighting in ukraine. as the kremlin continued 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 with 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 moskva flags in the, the ship, which is the fragment 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 journalists 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 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 relatives of soldiers to be kind of silence put pressure on and, and apparently russia is also using mo bile cream atoria and ukraine, including for their own. we heard in the report about 2 fallen soldiers on the russian side. what more do we know about the people fighting boone's war? 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 variety, which is near lake by coll in siberia and also di gast, on, in the caucasus. and many of the people there are from non re shin ethnic groups. that means they look very different from ukrainians. that could be a factor. and some experts actually, ex, estimate that about half of the people who have died are from variety of that region that i mentioned. one of the poorest regions in russia and journalists, there have been saying that people are actively signing up in order to have kind of, of 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 will? it's hard to know. you know, we have these surveys saying that there's widespread support sociologist point out that surveys during wartime are difficult. anyway, i'm very surprised to see in that report the 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 a show of solidarity for russia dot 11 of germany's biggest football clubs hosted ukrainian club enamel keith for a charity match on tuesday event raised 400000 years for humanitarian causes in ukraine. many ukrainians came to see them out. among them 2 siblings who escaped

their war torn home country with the help of another german for bucklin. ah smiles come easy. when one does things they love. for 19 year old victoria in her younger brother terrace. it's no different watching their favorite football club. dynamo key play a dorman is an escape. was bo help. so and for me to think about thompson, our sir to am maybe 2 and do my favorite scene. yes sir, to watch football. play football had always been a family affair. victoria here and a match with her father years ago. but when war broke out with russia invading ukraine, things changed. both their mother and father joined the war effort.

at victoria in tears were forced to leave ukraine. they were prepared to, i knew said sir, if something happens said, i'll take the crescent vehicle. ah, but sir, it was hot. it was, had serv. i cried. her to be honest. her, but i understood, sir, and i can do. and now sir, it's sir on the way to escape is my grandson. escaping wouldn't have been possible without the help of a lower division football club in western germany and exchange program between the