more life starts may 28th on d, w. ah, this is dw news lie from berlin, ukraine's military make progress as rush us operations stalls. keith says troops defending the key city of car keith have advanced as far as the russian border, but also preparing for new attacks in the don bath region. also coming up risking his life to rescue civilians. we meet her former club owner from the besieged city of maria pope was trying to bring as many people to safety as he kept. and

moscow warns of far reaching consequences after finland and sweden take 1st steps to join nato. ah, i'm gather as well come to the program. ukraine says it is a bracing for a new offensive from russian forces in the eastern region. often bass, president vladimir zalinski said moscow could not admit that its military operation was quote, at a dead end. key of says its troops have successfully pushed the russians back from the eastern city of clark if and have advanced as far as the russian border area for civilian still left and clark. if conditions are dire, but the thousands of people still sheltering in harkey is metro system. the war is

far from over. of to weeks of shelling that's left much of the city in ruins. some scared to leave the safety of the underground hawk basheba. now south were very afraid to go home, but there's so many explosions, so many bombs were very afraid by it's a lot of pressure. my others say that the worst seems to be behind them longer. surely we were finishing at the beginning, it was extremely hard. we were more because there were a lot of people here and a lot of destruction. we all felt defeated in what were you with now? we haven't heard bombs for last 3 to 4 days when the children his we were frog that's likely to be down to the ukrainian counter offensive that seen soldiers retake nearby villages like this one. north of hark eve

with ukraine, claiming on sundays that some of its troops had even reached the border with russia and set up a new board post keith's gains in the region come as it had started putting western supplied heavy weapons into action. ukraine's army says this is one of several recently arrived us houses. it's already using on the front line in the east with russia still trying to advance in the don bath there certain to see even more action in the days to come. and we can go straight to our correspondence, mathias burling who's are standing by in queue for as much as the ukrainian military says. russian units have suffered significant losses as they try to advance through the loo, hans, and don't ask regions. what more can you tell us? yeah, as we have seen, they have been pushed pretty far back in the hock of region,

almost back to russian territory. i'm so things look pretty good there for the ukranian army in the don bus region. that's the 2 the 2 districts you have just mentioned to hans can't donate the fighting is to fierce the situation is very tense. am the ukrainians have said that they have inflicted or quite a big damage on the russians. again, because of poor tactics by the other side that exposed many of their soldiers, the ukrainians claim, that they have killed 400 soldiers in one attack alone. but there is considerable pressure from the russian side on the ukrainian positions as well. the russians have made a few strategic gains. they're not big and territory these gains, but they put them in a position now to attack saver at annette. that's the administrative capital of the ukranian territories are ukrainian control territory of the lou hands original. we're probably going to see a very tough battle for this city in the next few days at the military situation.

but for weeks, thousands of civilians were stuck in the port city of mario pool on the constant bombardment without enough food or water. what's the situation like now? so most of the city is now under russian control. that means also that these areas are not contest. it is not, no fighting in these areas, but are, but are they under russian control? the most of the biggest fighting spot, the, the biggest a hotspot is still the steel plan. the other steel plant, where a few 100 ukrainian fighters, ukrainian soldiers are still, they are still defending this position. we are. i've seen pictures of what could possibly be phosphor bombs, that means a fire bombs that have been dropped on this on this steel plant and we've year about many wounded soldiers in there. so this is the most the biggest hotspot, however, for the areas where the civilians live. um,

we still hear that many people are trying to leave the city since the beginning people have been trying to escape the city, although it has never been safe to get out from there. and i have met a man who has brought hundreds out of the city. yup. and most lie understood that the city is under siege. i understood that nobody is driving there. now. i'm with my employees were there, and i just promised them i would come the other, my friends and i were willing money to buy this bus. i am on their own. i hope all will be fine and that will get there. you will stop my, me a book and then when i drove past the last ukrainian checkpoint in nora, however, i encountered the war. the mines, the burned on tanks or the horrors a, b, b. yes. to bible's here and to hear none the less fear was still there,

but i drove yeah, yeah. i don't believe. well. i had a business in murray or paul, it was a club. most of the space was in the basement. it had concrete ceilings, so we transformed it into a bombshell to who there was a grill. so we could cook food and water. we would joke that this is a 5 star bomb shelter. that's really all we did come under fire at everything that came at us. missed was something hit here and here and here is just the run down here with a car drove by that moment in that car,

grandma died. there's no rush to see the children makes me cry. they are so scared, screaming, i hope god will save them. it's horrific. just horrific. we try our best with it. so it's all the memories coming back. oh dear. as it was, what was the 1st opportunity we left? we took children, pregnant women and mothers with children. the look of my passengers are hello wave into the camera. oh, it is that there was terrifying when we came across mines and tanks. there were lots of mannequins, i mean, the dead people with we told them they were mannequins, but in fact there were bodies, right, right. o. as in us another bus as joined us,

we are becoming more and more durable global a deal. oh, not on my 1st trip. i was the only one for that. and on my 3rd trip, i would already be standing in the queue at the check points for 40 minutes. there were so many people who wanted to help and get people out here. all day lose volunteers had road thousands out of the city in their own cause. and many did not return that of somebody to mine got a some came into crossfire while driving at night. these are regular ukrainians. regular people are very impressive. a reporter mathias you but me, carlow, he is not the only one. right. you have made a met or heard about others as well as far as we know, he was the 1st one to drive there when the fighting was severe. but as he drove many have joined him, we don't know how many people have been driving in and out of the city. also,

whenever a convoy was coming in and, and bringing people out, or whenever, even he alone was driving and many people would join him in many people from the city would join him in their cars and he just returned from another trip. and he said there were a few dozen cars who just drove behind him because they saw him driving out so they thought they would risk it. our correspondence mathias billing of their reporting from here. thank you. mathias finland and sweden have made clear their intentions to join the nato alliance and a historic step away from the trolley t for the 2 countries. both nations want to bolster their security following russia invasion of ukraine, redrawing the security map of europe. turkey as expressed concerns over them joining saying they must 1st provide security guarantees. russian has called the move a mistake and said it would be forced to restore military balance, including by deploying nuclear weapons. now or let's go straight to brussels futon

correspondent christine mooney. while they're christine, what happens if an actual member vito's, finland and sweden's membership bid, like turkey, maybe well guarded effectively means that a country can't join the alliance because to join the alliance or, or 30 member states have to give approval. that is unanimous approval. so it is a spanner in the work said that turkey has thrown into the mix here, but it hasn't really taken away from the momentum or listening to the secretary general speaking to the they said he doesn't berlin. yesterday he was confident that they would find some common ground and consensus and get around this hurdle. but if it took it hasn't come to the table. that just means that that membership, accession for finland and probably be eventually sweden doesn't come through. now if and live in sweden, do officially apply to join nato. that's what it looks like. do they get any

security assurances from the alliance while they wait for their membership to be approved? gay nato is principle of an attack against one member is an attack against or is only applicable to members. so in that interim period are when they do apply for a for their membership. and we know that that period can take up to months, while all the 30 members get it ratified in their parliaments. they don't qualify for that collective defense that nato would offer a member. so it is up to an individual member states to offer security guarantees to the 2 countries. and we know, for example, that the united kingdom, the united states, have done so in the run up to these announcements, offering security guarantees. and officially, britain said he couldn't conceive the idea of one of these countries coming under attack and, and britain not doing anything about it. so all indications are that they will get some kind of security guarantees from individual members, especially in light of recent developments. moscow threatening retaliation. the deputy foreign minister this morning saying russia will simply not put up with this

. and this was expected to the swedish defense minister said they expected moscow would react and would retaliate. and they're expecting as cyber attacks. for example, this information campaigns targeted at ethnic russian communities in their countries . now you form ministers are also meeting in brussels. are right now trying to reach an agreement on an oil embargo on russia. how's that going? well, it doesn't look like that's going very well at the ears, the top diplomat who's hearing this meeting. joseph browl told reporters this morning going into that meeting that it didn't look like they do. that will come to an agreement. it comes down to a group of countries led by hungry who are blocking the oil embargo. that is a big component of the 6 package of sanctions that the european union is trying to push through. countries like hungry havoc in the czech republic, for example, and landlocked. they say that they're only pipelines of oil are from russia, and they're worried about their security. but i can tell you that across the

atlantic, there is already some frustration that the european union isn't moving on this and in the block as well. for instance, the lithuanian from mr. this morning saying that the block was being held hostage by a few member states had been given the option to extend until 2024, but even that's not good enough with was the mother. thank you. no thought moon has provided spectacular views over the weekend as to astronomical events took place at the same time, stargazers across europe witnessed a full lunar eclipse as the earth passed directly between the sun and the moon. turning it a shade of dark red. the event also coincided with a super moon, which is when the moon appears larger, as it passes close to us and the americas, the eclipse fell at night treating people to the full spectacle. the lunar event was visible across much of the world, australia, one of the few countries not able to see the phenomenon. and that's it from me and the new steam fun. i'll have an update for you at the top of the hour. don't go

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