in south standing shopping and dining offers, enjoy alice services. oh, be all a guest at frankfurt airport city, managed by from lot lou. ah ah, this is debbie news live from berlin. the european union agrees to ban russian oil, at least in part. after months of division, a you member states reach a compromise that will allow some oil to keep flowing. still, e leaders are hailing it as a hit to financing brushes. war in the ukraine,

and russian forces pushed deeper into the ukrainian city. a severe dun asked. authorities fear the city could follow maria, pole, and fail in falling to the russian onslaught after weeks of relentless bombard. ah, i might look rough welcome to the program. the european union has agreed to a partial ban on russian oil. you council president shaw michelle? announce the news late monday night in brussels. shall said the band would immediately cover more than 2 thirds of oil imports from russia. the deal is the result of tough negotiations among member states as part of a 6th round of sanctions against russia. hungary was one of the loudest of several countries resisting the ban, given that countries dependence on russian oil and lester. right over to terry

shelter in brussels has the latest. so terry, tell us about what we know on this development. that's right, e u leaders, the european commission president and the european council president have just come out and announced that that members have agreed to sanction. what ursula of underline says is up to 90 percent of russian oil by the end of this year. and that means that if they were there, there have been some extensions given to certain countries, and this will only cover part of russian oil imports into the european union. but this was something that leaders certainly did not think that they could come to an agreement on tonight that this has been up and down for the last month. and they were certainly very proud as they walked out to night and announced this at least partial agreement to ban russian oil imports. you describe that turbulence fair? what was the hold up and getting to the agreement we're seeing tonight? well, as you mentioned,

a hungary has been unwilling to block. it's russian oil imports which come through a pipeline. and that's because it's completely dependent on russia as a supplier. so what the agreement has reached tonight, and i must say, we have not yet seen the legal text, but this is what was on the table. as of the last draft is that only seaborne imports of russian oil would be affected now in order to spare the impact on hungry on to a lesser extent, slovakia and the czech republic as well. who also had some objections to this, and that is why you're sort of underlying says it is only up to 90 percent of russian oil that will be impacted at this present time. but they do say that they will also be returning to looking for a band on pipeline imports. and that of course, will affect hungry, but they hope that by giving the hungarian government more time to find alternative suppliers, they will also be able to bring budapest into the fold later on this year. so no oil from see bound oil. yes. to still taking in oil from pipelines. what does that

mean for the impact that this kind of boy todd is going to have or may have on russia? well, it's not just the boycott. there are other measures in this 6 package of sanctions that we should also mention, and one of them is cutting off of the largest russian bank spear bank from the swift messaging services. and that, of course, it cuts off a lot of the activities that this bank can do with the rest of the world. and there have been other bands also on russia's ability to do business because it is now largely constrained to using roubles. so it is not just the ban on russian oil, they have already phased out. coal and gas is definitely on the table. so the point in all of these measures taken together is to cut off moscow's ability to finance the war on ukraine, which of course is, is hugely expensive. and they hope that in this way, if they can't change vladimir putin's mind about his, his attack on ukraine, the chief can change his ability to continue with the force that he's using. now

terry shells are corresponding there for us in brussels. thanks very much for the latest russian forces have entered the city of vera. don't ask an eastern ukraine. chief says its troops are battling to hold their positions, street by street for days of intense shelling. now russia is pushing to seize the entire eastern region of danbury, which has already been partially in separate his hands since 2014 grinning president vladimir zalinski says severe adonis has seen widespread destruction. akin to what already happened in the eastern port city of maria, pull a city under siege. severe donetta has been battered by intense shelling for weeks. now russian forces have entered the city and fears a growing that it may share. mary polls fate. thousands of civilians, a thought to still be in the city, the largest in the loo, hunt, screeching,

still held by ukraine. according to the mare, the relentless bombardment has left it impossible to keep track of casualties. with russia, bringing its overwhelming advantage in artillery to bear in its assault on the dumbass, ukraine is pleading with its allies to provide it with more advanced long range weapon systems. the u. s. was reportedly considering the move, but president biden has now thrown that into doubt. a rock with the rock. but while ukraine's allies debate, russia continues to concentrate its fire power in the don bass. with some of the fighting has reached its maximum intensity with russian troops firing along the entire line of contact and trying to fire artillery deep into our defenses. at the same time,

the assault is continuing in several directions. they can call them up to him to the now at least ukrainian forces continue to fight on in the face of the russian onslaught. did of your correspond him at his bellinger is in cave and gave us this update on russian gains in the danverse. yeah, so we have history per return from a 10 day trip there. and during that time we really seen the situation getting worse and worse. the city of it or the network is or almost inaccessible for days. now, we know that thousands of people are trapped there. the, there's only one bridge operating and this bridges is constantly shells and the, the russians are now advancing. it's probably something that was expected because they have really put a lot of fire power onto a conquering the city. they have really concentrated troops. they have been selling

the city indiscriminately, and most of the buildings are destroyed. we would, there is sister city. we sit just on the other side of the river this chance can we were there a few days ago and you could see that all over the city of see that or the next is a little bit higher there. so you could look over everywhere. there was smoke and this is the tactics they are using now. it's a scorched earth tactics. they raise everything with artillery. they have a lot of artillery, they have a lot of ammunition, and then they march in it's the question is whether this will give them really a strategic gain. that's another question, but it looks like they are attaining their goal is when they really concentrate their firepower, this way that they raise the city and then they march. and as you heard from the t s, he was 10 days in that eastern region of ukraine. and while there he visited one village at on the front line residence, their fear,

they may soon be forced to flee. the russian events need the leak seen if it weren't for the frontline. just 15 kilometers from here. said he read then call came to the village of yvonne appeal 8 years ago. the entropy nor fled done yet the city where he ran the retail business. watch him. what is that to do in a village? i cannot do nothing. i'm not used to working for others. i'm an entrepreneur for 3 and sir he is an involuntary social dropout in his home town. dot net sky was known as a ukrainian activist. when pro ration separatist took power, he fled here just behind the front line. he taught himself online how to run a font now, war has returned more forceful than ever. a bomb had just a few 100 meters from his house. movies call went up. this was a place where soldiers stayed on the vehicle. they moved into the place,

then they were bombed by a plane. listen, i think they were nice neighbors who the enemy off. nice in quotation marks, war. nobody knew they will. erica said he is convinced that some in the village still harbor sympathies for russia. as for him, he does not hide his resentment for the state next door. he fought for 2 years at the front line. now fear and violence are back. hello, sir. he has already evacuated his wife to west in ukraine. all but it, melissa, this is la. imagine a shell hitting the farm though i, i have to protect myself and the animal as the 3rd was appalling. those up was a negotiated version. for moments, then they would be, my wife was a little,

it's less worry this way. it's so much easier to look off to oneself than others that the law po lifted soon, shiver luba for now he wants to carry on with business as long as he can before the war. he used to send cheese packages across ukraine, but as fighting intensifies postal services have shut down. he left over with co paula. our income fell by more than 60 percent, but the cost has changed little that up and moved loser by the nevertheless, his business has been sped, the worst 8 employees come to work every day. and goats also give birth in wartime. with a mill, i was a pessimist. i wouldn't have opened a farm here. of course if we were occupied i wouldn't stay lee,

but that will not happen. and if so, he still has a uniform in his wardrobe. now let's turn to some other stories making news right now. yes, present, joe biden has marked memorial day by planting a tree outside the white house with families of fallen service members. earlier, biden laid a wreath of the tomb of the unknown soldier in arlington. national cemetery in his memorial day address fight and said democracy is worth dying for the bodies of 21 victims of a plane crash in nepal, have been flown to the capital, can undo small aircraft carrying 22 people went missing and route from the taurus ta ta cora to johnson in the himalayas. official say recovery efforts were delayed because of difficulty moving metal debris. i suspected climate activist has been detained at the move gallery in paris after allegedly trying to

vandalize the mona lisa disguised as an elderly woman in a wheel chair, tried to break the glass, protecting the famous portrait before smearing it with cake. the oldest known survivor of a nazi concentration camp has died at the age of 108 or as poor resisted fascism as a young man who has sent his several nazi death camps. he later wrote about his experiences the knots, my last hoot, hope camp in eastern france where the nazis imprisoned, 52000 people, mostly for resistance activities, just over half survived among them, boris poor. decades later, he wrote of his experiences in a memoir called necropolis. but other that garage in 2018 pa who are told an interviewer i deal with the past because i'm interested in the future at our little, he explained that the past was bad and shouldn't be repeated this,

that if it needed them, power was a little boy when italian dictator benito, mussolini annexed his hometown of triest and banned the regions, minorities, levine, community from speaking its own language. since eileen with it. but if we had no language practically, no nationality, we were worse off than slaves. visually jelly powers resistance to fascism landed him in 5 nazi concentration camps over a period of 15 months, which he later chronicled in his native language. so levine in power is works, have been translated into at least a dozen other languages and earned him top honors from slovenia and countries across europe. he died at his home in italy, aged 108 catch a reminder of the top story we're following for you. european union leaders have agreed to a partial ban on russian oil. do you council president shaw?

michelle said the band would immediately cover more than 2 thirds of oil imports from russia. hungry was the loudest of several countries resisting a complete band, given its dependence on russian. or it's all we have for new for you from now from dw news of next 50 you business with daniel winterson. stay tuned for that. and of course you get the latest for d, w dot com and on social media at g w. news that's twitter and instagram, of course, we'll have much more few soonest recruiting on that coiled boycott way blue cross with the question of whether the next crisis will come. but only when and how the media will deal with it. how can we stay focused on what is in.