for the ku klux klan starts may 11th on d, w. ah ah . is it dw news live from berlin? da, you announce his plans to ban oil imports from russia. comment, commission president as of on the line wants to faith out russian oil by the end of the year. about critics say that's just not fast enough. also coming up, fresh russia as strikes on live comp power in parts of the west in ukrainian city, and ukrainian fighters defending the besieged steel plant in mary you, paul, se,

russian forces have renewed their assault cost with the world focused on ukraine. the un chief makes a high profile visit to a conflict ravaged part of nigeria and had a good terrorist travels or no state where islamic extremists have been terrorizing the population for years. ah, i'm rebecca rich has welcome to the program. the european commission president, us on the line has called on the a you to ban oil imports from russia fonda line address the european parliament in strasburg. she outlined a 6 package of sanctions against moscow over its war on ukraine and called for a phased embargo on russian oil imports. by the end of the year. he is walt, the a you commission president had to say to day we are addressing our dependency on russian oil. and let's be clear,

it will not be easy because some member states are strongly dependent on rational oil. but we simply have to do it. so today we will propose to ban all russian oil from europe. this will be this will be a complete import ban on all russian oil seaborne and pipeline crude and refined. we will make sure that we phase out russian oil in an orderly fashion. so in a way that allows us and our partners to secure alternative supply routes and at the same time, be very careful that we minimize the impact on the global market. and this is why we will phase out russian supply of crude oil within 6 months. and we find products by the end of the year, they don't really correspond. marina strauss is in at strasburg,

at the meeting of the european parliament. i asked her how efficient this long phase out will be? yeah, the commission president owes the laugh on the line saget, i will repeat it because it's important shit that your plans to you or that you commission proposes to face out accrued all within 6 month and are refined old by the end of the year. so it's a long traditional period. so some time for a member states to prepare and am would be hearing from the commission from you. officials is that to your country as will be given even more time or namely hungary in slovakia, maybe even a year or longer to face out a russian oil because otherwise they would probably not agree to this deal because they're heavily route reliant on russian oil. so it's as efficient a we, we don't know, and they're different, very different opinions on this matter. of course, the commission says clearly, yes, we don't, or they don't know how russia, how vladimir putin a will. it reacts because he's sickly and predictable. that's what you kamisha says,

what, what we're hearing from emmy piece. what many of them said this morning is that there's a fear that with, because of the ban of russia fresh in oil in europe, prices could rise in europe and also all over the world. and that could mean that russia could sell it's oil to other bidders to other countries, for a very high price, and still a, make a lot of revenues. but that's one of the reasons why that you is not faith set for is not like ending a russian oil immediately. but that's the reason that it was roughened elaine give, gave for this long transitional period. a founder line also propose some other sanctions. can you tell us more about those? yes, there are namely 4 or 5 other points that she mentioned this morning. and one of the most important points is a points, is that the largest russian bank, the spare bank, will be de swift. as so taken off of this or international, a financial transaction,

a tool also to other russian banks will be targeted then are also important. as the commission proposes to target's military officials that were involved in the atrocities in boucher and in maria pool, then the you have commission wants to ban 3 more russian media that and they blame them for a spreading fake news and misinformation. we haven't got the names yet, but are still waiting for it. and then they will also targets consultants are russian, that european consultants of hell, a vice russian companies, or amerinet as briefly this is only a proposal. when will all this be decided? it's the council said that you members states that will now have to decide and with the last sanction packages that always to 48 hours a few days. so it's likely that it will be the same amount of time. again, the deputies marina's found speaking to me a little earlier on out to the fighting on the ground in ukraine. russian air

strikes have hit, levine, cutting power and water supply to parts of the western ukrainian city. close to the polish border. russian forces also struck train stations in the center and west of the country. according to a railway official plumes of spoke, smoke could be seen rising above iv the cities mer said, the strike hit 2 powers sub stations of eve has been spared the worst of the fighting so far with only a handful of strikes, hitting civilian and military infrastructure hey, while russian forces continued to bombard areas in easton ukraine. the regional governor of don yet sc says russian attacks killed at least 21 people there on tuesday. russian forces also launched a renewed assault on the as of steel works in mary, u po. some residents were evacuated during a brief ceasefire, but many more are still trapped there. safe at last, after weeks under constant attack,

these people have escaped the as of south steel plant, ukraine's last stronghold in the besieged city of mar, you pole. many arriving t is recounting stories of horror. really what you made because you can't imagine how scary it is when you sit in the shelter in a wet and damp a basement which is bouncing, shaking. when we were able to go outside. i saw the sun for the 2nd time in 2 months, but while dozens have made it to safety, thousands, remain in danger or fight even watch with the thought of you at the moment while we are here, as a style is being stormed, mario poll is still under siege and people could not leave today when you were you . but you know, there are tens of thousands of such people who were tens of thousands of women and the elderly remaining mario pole. they booking whole vehicle. russian shelling

continued through the day in mar, you poll. soon after the evacuation was completed. those who remain are in despair . in spanish massages. you wake up in the morning and you cry, you cry in the evening. i don't know where to go at own yet not to stop this. i am not alone. imagine everything is destroyed. everything is broken. where should the people go? now? relatives of the soldiers who still fighting in the as of style plant had rallies in keep on tuesday demanding bay b evacuated to the soldiers are part of the controversial far right as of regiment, while ukrainian authorities promised to continue the operation, they say international intervention will be crucial with the w correspond emanuel shes is in levine and she gave us more on that air strike there. exactly.

you are very care. there was a targeted or as tried to hear on the eve and elsewhere in western ukraine. there was a press conference this morning after reviews or mayor and not the head of the military force which confirmed that 2 or mid sized were coming. a cruise miss eyes are coming from the caspian sea air hit levine here and a re weigh infrastructure and also damaged or the chain or supply nearby. these re weigh infrastructure including humanitarian supplies, coming from ukraine's western our lives. there were a power shortage is a huge movie. last night. they are being restored this morning. they're still $600.00 houses, resolved electricity. there's water. and there was briefly a water outages as well, but the city was prepared for such attacks and they had rendered day our power and

water supply system systems autonomous which de mayo said, for example, or save the city or for cities hospital, for example, for being gravely or hit by such strikes. interestingly, there was also a strike in 2nd party or dancing the corporation maintains the 1st attack of the kind. it hits a communist infrastructure in altogether in western and central ukraine. a last 906 re weigh stations which have been impacted. so we see that the russian forces are targeted, that kind of infrastructure. now, how about the situation in the rest of the country? where is the fighting most intense right now? well, it's most intense sir, are from the beginning of the conflict in the eastern part of their country with british intelligence, a warning dart, se there's the a number of russian battalions which have regrouped in the north eastern part or

near the city of crime. charles could out, you might remember this city where missile had the heated train station killing 59 as civilians, and they are also regrouping near a cemetery. don't ex, so we are expecting a more earth tracks. more artillery fights in that region was oh, so last night the other star is still plans are continuous, continuously being shared. and russia saying it has began storming within a year plan, which is the last bastion of ukrainian or resistance in the city of mar, you pull the w the manual shares. well earlier i spoke to frank lead, which is a senior lecturer in strategy. and lor, at the university of portsmouth and a former british military intelligence officer, i asked him how targeting western parts of ukraine fed into the russian strategy right now. but it's a fairly typical approach of an air campaign. traditionally, if you're, if you are not concerned about the civilian a war crimes aspect,

to try to attack the morale and will, to fight of a population. you do that by denying them electricity, transport, water, and so forth. that seems to be what the russians are doing. middletown this however slightly confused as to why they're using no precision weapons on black kind of assault rather than the more likely effective attacks on the lines of communication through which of course no. so now pouring weapons ammunition and other supplies to the ukrainians, we ask you question is it's of a part of russian operation approach. you attack a civilian population, stop trying to establish control and try and load emerald will to fight. right, but the main fighting and troop movements are in easton and southern parts of the country as we know how much success are they having there? very interesting, rebecca. the answer is towards, towards the don boss. the last couple of days have shown very, very few attacks. in fact,

very almost no ground attacks. what we've had instead is a preparation of the ground by artillery. and that seems to be quite considerable. you creating authorities are also reporting, moving in of considerable russian forces such as that, that remain into that area. so it seems as slightly changed their approach. last week they were feeding forces in piece meal this week that massing for an attack, which i think will take place towards the end of the week, prepared for by artillery. we'll see what happens. they have made some grades done and done by us area, but not as much, i think because they wanted. interestingly, on sunday, a considerable number of senior officers were killed and injured by your training strike. and the russian chief of general staff was involved in that tackle, though i think escaped maury or equally interesting the ukrainians are making considerable progress in the north east. they've taken a lot of ground off the russians east of khaki. if that doesn't have a direct impact on the campaign done in, don't bust the russians. are we looking at it with with concerns?

why do you think there's that change change of strategy there? do you think that's an indication that the for the strategy wasn't working all yes, it seems to that would make sense. it's also probably not coincidental, that garage mom was there over the weekend. so the senior officers, of course, do visit the front occasionally, or just to give out metals and so forth. i would suspect in this case, it wasn't to give out metals. it was to give out a reprimands and reorganize the operation. sort of kick it into shape that starts of course, speculation, but certainly we've seen a slight change in approach with the massing of forces now, which is called what they should have done militarily about 3 weeks ago and waited . they didn't do that. interesting. we're also saying a neighboring bell, or a sudden large drill that started to test the armies combat readiness. what is your rate into those drills? lucretia could be well advised to keep his army on his own territory since it is rather more to fear from his own population. i think them who's in house one with,

without having to. and this is fairly recent reports and without having too much access to analysis, i was suspect, this is a, this is a diversion. the a very poor idea for the rather even more ramshackle forces a better us to try to take on any ukranian units. i suspect this is saber rattling and diversion activity may may have something to do with the 9 may, which most analysts are now looking at as an inflection point. we can't tell what the planning very poor idea for them to get involved militarily. they're not capable of a former british military intelligence officer. frank led, which thinking to me a little earlier as german chancellor left shoulder comes under fire for declining to visit you. crane a political rival has taken the chance to outdo the german lead up opposition later . fried wristbands made the journey to the ukrainian capital in a high profile visit just 10 days before regional elections. 3 to commit hopes to be germany's next chance.