a ah ah, this is the deputy news line from by lane russians. president says he will push on with his war in ukraine, letting me put in addresses moscow's annual victory day parade, blaming western countries for provoking his invasion and praising russian forces for their efforts. despite their lack of recent progress, also on the program, southern ukrainian city of mich alive is blocking brushes west for the advance and bearing the scots. regional government tells d w how people are resisting despite the destruct.

ah, i'm sure gail, welcome to the program. russian president vladimir putin has price his armed forces for fighting his war in ukraine and promised to push on with the invasion speech was delivered in moscow. russia's annual victory day parade, celebrating its 1945 defeat of nazi germany. thousands of troops and military vehicles. friday through red square, and president putin used to speech to repeat his claim that western countries and provoked his attack on you crate. he went on to claim falsely. the countries were plotting to invade russia. ukraine planned to obtain a nuclear weapon, and that is so called special operation had been launched. only after exhausting every other peaceful avenue. we have always try to find compromise solutions.

and you know, we like to use it enough have everyone's interest in mind. but this was all in vain, and it shows that other countries have completely different plans. this is what we're seeing today. or they have 1st tried. you said you to attack our historical usually territories like the crimea. however, they have threatened to you, sir, nuclear war, and the waste has so supported these military actions carried out in our neighborhood. and that is why it was a threat. we couldn't accept or not. it was a threat directly at our border. everything showed on a dad we're dealing with but their offices, we are dealing with the non nazis and we had to do something about it. let's pick this highly anticipated speech with the w report. aren't tilton, who so what's the corresponding to out about most of your welcome aaron. this means

to go as far as many expected buddy you mr. put in also didn't sound like a man looking for an exit strategy or you're definitely right. i think a lot of western governments, especially their intelligence services, expected that would declare some type of mass mobilization mass drops. conscription and maybe than that we could see an official to collect declaration of war against ukraine. he stopped short of that because right now from the rush perspective, this is an award, this is a military, a special military operation. now instead, what we saw was a man who, i do think to a certain extent on the back foot. he basically was swearing his people to get in the line and basically saying, look, this is going to be a long conflict. there isn't going to be an easy short answer to this. i mean, i think the russian people really did kind of expected a quick victory over ukrainian forces and their military has not been able to deliver, not that far. so it seems like we saw a vladimir who isn't ready to back down. but at the same time, he's not going to go for that full push for a total war. instead, he's looking at

a much longer conflict like a go months in the years moving into the future. and he's listening to him in that painting. russia as a victim, knowing what we know, but also knowing that the russian people are only getting one side of the story. yeah. well, that's something you really have to remember when you're looking at a lot of political framing that's coming out of russia. they're speaking very much to a home audience. of course, there are some dog whistles and little hints to the international community. but this was a speech designed entirely for domestic consumption. now, victory day is very important in the mind of the russian people. it represents, you know, the victory over nazi germany, which was a real existential threat for the soviet union and the russian people's back during the world war 2. now he was invoking that image constantly during this speech, basically saying that this is another, it's essential threats just like that. i mean, he didn't really mention ukraine by name. very often. however, he said that they were fighting nazis are fighting extreme. it's very much an

attempt to portray russia as the victim here as a country defending itself against western and ukrainian aggression. no, of course people watch g w news and read international media will be released and that doesn't jail with the facts on the ground. but the russian media landscape is very different. it's controlled by the kremlin. there isn't really a free opposition media. there aren't those spaces for a lot of democratic opposition. and just free discourse when it comes to the conflict in ukraine. so he's very much plain to a captive audience, literally when it comes to this rhetoric. and like i said, his focus now is getting the russian people ready for a long dragged out conflicts similar to what the soviet union got involved with an n a stand in the eighty's. ok, thank you for that until to thank you. so take a look at this with military analyst a frank lead, where joe, he's a former british military officer on the senior electra in law and strategy of the university, of course with welcome to the w. i'm any surprises for you in today's speech. what

was surprising is, what was not that in this somewhat confused and defensive speech, where we hot, but not only by the way to the 2nd world war to only have campaigns as well. we heard talking of super off from the 18th century anyway. yeah. so what was it that was, that was no mobilizations are already said that you've already said there is no annexation . there's no war now, which many people are expecting to also quite surprising. i suppose you could say how wrong some western intelligence was a new credit intelligence or white for mobilization is going to take place. we got no maximums. so, so it was surprising not so much, but what was surprising was it done to pay to be any objective at all? it doesn't appear to be outside don bus, which got regularly mentioned were chance of course, has already been said, a business going on as it has done the last 2 and

a half months. a long time. you're talking about the emphasis on don bass and this is a change because originally this was supposed to be a lightning strike at at q. and then plan b was the sort of surrounding go for other big cities. now his focus is on bus. yeah, even rhetorically the original, the original object is with the not to the cation but decapitation the government, i suppose, destroying the ukrainian, destroying the army. or for the purpose, i suppose security does not. we, we've minimize that. we can't come back down to down, but it's not even around our kids, which in which that's clearly losing. so with, we've brought the war back in a sense to why it was on february, the 24th, a fight for don bus, not southern russia. so the ukraine got mentioned as our historic lands. i got one mentioned don, bus 5, ukraine didn't mention it all by the way. and this concentration on don bass. what

do you think of the practical reasons behind this? it's the one operational theater where russia has a reasonable chance of some kind of local success. now they are achieving some slow successes down there. there's no doubt in that, but progress is very slow and one many on the security, me expect that progress to start slowing down and stopping in the next few weeks as the campaign culminates, in other words, as they run out of steam. so it's the one. it's the one area where they can achieve something. thank you for that military intelligence and mr. frank leverage. thank you. philip turner, to events on the ground in ukraine. and the city of mich alive is on the front lines of the war in southern ukraine has been hit by russian attacks time and time again since march on this blocking and advanced by moscow's forces towards a desert, a correspondent mathias bullying is embedded with the ukranian army on the front

line near mc, alive, and spoke to residents who have lived through the onslaught. suburb dreams shattered lives destroyed by 8 russian bombs. the southern ukrainian city of mich alive has been plagued by bombing and shelling since the beginning of the war. alexander was sitting in his garden in early march, when 2 planes flew overhead dropping bombs, linear bill, the bill there were explosions. there was white smoke everywhere. both it took off the roof and the fence or bull was over there. but 2 people died for the quill. it was a clear day for bill. they were flying low. i knew they must have seen that there are no soldiers here. can you go with me? just a civilians with the

fighting continues in the region during our visit. it was here in mac alive that the russian advice was stopped. now the city is blocking a russian advance towards odessa. but the price is destruction. in late march the governor's resident's became at target. this building was hit by a russian caliber messiah. the obvious target being the governor who has been one of the most important public figures during this war. the rover on. good morning, we're from ukraine. soon last night they bombed and be bombed and bombed. we are from ukraine, the opening line of vitaly. kim's daily video has become famous, being at the front line, his videos are watched all over the country. the governor is a close ally to president zalinski, and i have no chance for now to, ah, to get through our defense. so i don't think they had no forces to get through our

defense for now, for the, for, for, for a couple days at less. for now, pressure on the city has eased priorities to restore water supplies for 3 weeks. now the tops in the city have run dry wood williams. as we are fighting and overcoming all difficulties. we always hope for the best. i think hope for the future and optimism are probably characteristic. traits of the ukrainian people come with nothing can break us. you thought when you did normally just in life within the next week, the city administration has promised tap water will be running again. it is pulling a file at re force and joins us now from cave. welcome mathias, and was there a sense that russian of offensives have been gathering pace to coincide with today's victory day celebrations?

her shelling has intensified. odessa has been hit again today. now that's 3 days in a row that rockers were fired on that city, or lake or the surrounding areas. um, there has also been intensive fighting in don bass in the frontline. this is where most of the action most of the fighting is happening right now. the russians have been advancing a little bit. the ukraine's have been advancing in another point over the last few days have been intense, but it was not the barrage that people have expected or some people have her have predicted that we have seen so far. okay, and the fight for the east, a course that rages on. what's the latest there? bare russians have made an incremental gains in some places ah, at, but the ukrainians have been able to drive the russians back. in other places, the city of harker is now more or less slid. the russian forces have been driven

away from the city of harkins significantly. that's significant because of the ukrainians have take many of the positions from where the city was shell during the past few weeks. and, and that caused this destruction in the city that the russian troops had never entered a batch on the other hand or the ukraine had to retreat from some of the smaller towns in dawn bass and fighting is intense. there they also counter offensives. that is the hope that the rush of the ukrainian troops are the friendships are trying to cut supply lines by moving in from the hark. if area to was east cutting off some of the russian troops for the south of this. but these positions, but nothing has been decided there yet, it's still a very intense battle. this is aware, a lot of the things of that will happen next weeks will be decided. and a brief word about the, the capital cave authorities have been wanting residents to, to brace for more air strikes. so what's happening there at the moment?

it's a beautiful day and it's quiet so far and the day has not ended yet. we don't know what's going to happen in the next few days, but so far these are these predictions have not materialized. okay, thank you for that. and it of the correspondent mathias, bring it in, keith set you up to date more world news at the top of the hour or around the clock. of course on d. w dot com or on the d. w app. chris koba has your business update in just a moment where the latest on the potential impact of hong kong new leda. i'm good with

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