ah, ah, russian forces are making slow but steady progress towards season. the key city of severity nets can ukraine's east for they are facing fierce resistance from ukrainian forces who relinquish some ground, but holding their line. meanwhile, the european union discusses its 6th round daffy russian sanctions. including an embargo on oil imports. there the line isn't so strong. i'm fil gale. and this is the day. ah, it's never been easy. it's the same now with the 6 package. broad economic sanctions, including oil, including gas, to start moscow of funds. and now we have got the idea of

embargo and sanctions on oil does. this only works if everyone sees and serves as part of a community law that no agreement the whole. it's still better than nothing. if you're being, you know, mean 90 percent are behind the oil embargo, it's important to the site. i know that we have to stop the funding of russian machines. also on the day, a surprise result from the 1st round of presidential elections in columbia where the candidate with the most votes is a former leftist gorilla fighter. lucky, i mean it's a relatively simple choice, lot less cause of either leave things as they are in columbia. while in new york, which in my opinion is more corruption, more violence, things, more hunger, math or, or we can change colombia, columbia. welcome to the day

a russian force is of entered the outskirts of the eastern ukrainian city of savannah. done yet scarce ukraine says its troops are battling to hold their positions after days of intense shelling. samaritan su, so threatened by russia's post to capture the whole of the don bass industrial region. president lansky says almost all of us, it is infrastructure has been destroyed and most buildings damaged. the fear is that severity and ask will a follow mary up or by falling into russian hands? will this be a copy of matter you pull? as the russian army intensifies its assault in the loo, hantz region, the town of soviet internet's looks like it's moscow's newest target. the devastation, intense shelling has already destroyed critical infrastructure and russian troops are now advancing into the city. the largest still held by ukrainian forces in the region. thousands of civilians are believed to still be in the city. and the

governor of lou hanson said the continent shelling makes it impossible to count casualties. the push confirms russian forces objective to capture the entire dumbass region, which the kremlin is calling an unconditional priority. the fighting has made evacuating besieged towns across the don baths dangerous. but aid groups are working to rescue the sick and injured. don't go most of them of wounded people who ah, advocate in uh from the hospital sir, or in eastern regents the tumult safe anymore. and to leave, upgrade them to their hospitals in our western grain, and leave that novel and a song or 2 for that of them and to give them proper medical care. amid the russian onslaught, keith is counting its victories. on sunday precedence lensky visited the war ravaged city of ha,

keith recently reclaimed by ukrainian fighters. it was zalinski, his 1st trip to the embattled east since the invasion. and he took the time to meet and decorate the front line troops were all going hello, which missouri orders one. i want to thank each of you for your service. you reached your lives for all of us and for our state. thank you for defending the independence of our country. take care of yourselves glory to ukraine hills long. long with moscow tightening its grip on the east. new battle lines are now being drawn. that i shall, will look at the battles on the ground in ukraine and in the political sphere in brussels as you tries to wrangle hungary into line with majority thinking on russian sanctions 1st sent to justin crump. he's the c e o of the security analysis company. civilly, he joins us from the u. k. welcome to d w. so by all account,

russian artillery is just flattening everything in sight. does this sound like an army intent on actually occupying this territory if it captures it? unfortunately, yes, it does. so if you remember a course of the pictures of maria pole and the devastation cause that i think the same question asked by many observers times they call post means capture the city level of destruction. well, they are and this goes far beyond, i think, capture in terms of resources or capture to take the city and occupy them. we didn't have it since the way they would have been before the conflict. really. it's become what has always been a matter of pride, prestige, and national identity for the russians. i think the occupation of territory on the ground with a new crane, the russian senior leadership, certainly convinced is russian should be russian, is their primary concern. heads to focus on the bus at this time. and despite the

untold suffering being cause in the cities, i think the russian point of view, the eventual patient is the end goal. right? so take it at all costs and what sort of costs are involved in this? because we know that the ukraine is suffering casualties. russia must be to be, this is how damaging is this for them? russia's really obviously changed both strategy and its tactics throughout the course. of the conflict when the 4th month now of the complex and russia, i think fixing on smaller and smaller areas deploying more and more power to achieve its ends. and actually that has been useful for us and that it has reduced their overall rate of loss compared to the earlier days of operations where they largely took more risk. that's changing a little bit at the moment. the, remember the river crossings that taken place a few weeks ago,

you probably saw the footage of those tanks spread out along the river. banks destroyed during this very risky river crossing. and actually the timing of attacking, surprised on that now head on without cutting it off, which i think conventional wisdom. what it's just, it's that the russians would have sought to do 1st is at least much larger, close the ring to the west of the city. it does imply a degree of urgency and potential site, carelessness of lives, so continuing in order to achieve certain goals. and that might well be because they couldn't cross the river previously, but the plan says they should be captured by the next now. so they've gone ahead and calculated that the i missed you, credit supply lines is significant enough that they got a chance to, to take it in the head on salt at this point. and so while, as it happens, well, we have western countries promising millions in terms of aid and supplies. how much is actually reaching ukraine has actually gotten there yet? and what sort of effect is it happen? is it having equipment certainly has got in. we've seen new donation equipment

and action in ukraine, sticky notes, but the m triple 7 houses to toad artillery pieces that have been used. and these are started to give ukraine an edge in terms of range of that artillery, but they still lack numbers compared to russia. and that's why ukraine keeps asking for more support. this time we've gone through a pattern where your crime is asking for more support. the on went through a phase and saying that she were happy with what we're guessing. thank you. and is now back to saying that she really needs more help. and i think rushes is support for ukraine will diminish over time. is western nations confront other problems like stagflation, like energy problems, like costa living crises. and the, this is part of the stress ukraine. that was, he says, to get the supplies it needs to maintain its defense against russia. so that's now we're looking at very closely to see how this

a bose. there is no game changing piece of equipment. everything ukraine gets helps it strike back more effectively against russia and effectively follow that pattern of doing as much damage as possible for every meter that the russia can gain. just making moscow pay a very high price for it. that's where the ukraine strategy at this point. that's very clear. thank you so much for joining us. security analyst just in crump, from sibling thank ah, to fighting are on the ground. they're in ukraine and squabbling in brussels as european leaders try to agree at embargo on russian oil. the to day talks have been complicated by opposition from hungary, which is heavily dependent on russian oil. you leaders expected to propose a compromise that would allow it to continue to receive oil by pipeline with sanctions only blocking shipments by sea. ukrainian present volume is the density

appeal to the e. u to act decisively. and that is to my problem. it is the quarrels in europe must end of even these internal disputes only encourage russia to put more and more pressure on europe. these will be the 6 sanctions package must be agreed to us that it must be effective and include oil. i get my bottles, russia must be made to feel the consequences of what it's doing to ukraine and to the whole of europe that there. sure uh, we will do green. he brought to see you, robert, or andre parham anchor is an assistant professor of finance and business economics of the university of southern california is also part of the global collective economists for ukraine. he joins us from carry in italy, welcome. i'm a senior estimate that you are paying a rush or something like $285000000.00 a day for its oil. is it practicable to reduce this to 0? well, what we have seen today during, during this time it is that the sessions that are being discussed are only

appliance or the tanker tanker shipments and not full shipments. and we have to think, we have to think not only about the volume, but about the prices as well because there is a global impact on oil prices. the discussion assumptions on the expectation of sanctions. and even if we do to decrease the amount of muscle oil that ross, i have been to europe, the price of the euro, the uniform pay may still be relatively high. so i think a practice practical approach would be to reduce oil should muster 0 and a physical to do that. europe is not as dependent on oil as it is dependent on ross and gas. and routes are just for term use, pretty feasible to substitute the oil ships from russia, with oil shipped from the rest of the world. and how much is the use dealing over this issue itself, affecting fuel prices?

this, this is the show that i mentioned before. so the very fact that there was uncertainty about tax cons, create uncertainty in the market for oil, which pushes up price or so well. and in fact, if we look at the revenue, so russia and after the war, the revenues have not the revenue so not fall in at all. so russia still ers, pretty much at least as much money as it used to me before the war started. ok, so that's fuel, let's also talk about food. will hear from the use high representative for foreign affairs, joseph brown, and then come back to we cannot create, i'm going to world, that's what i would think he's doing is avoiding lamenting policy, destroy ristocki pi go. we'd do something with the country. we have to say something because he's a big tragedy is going to be very damaging for a lot of countries around the world under paul hm. and co russia says it will help

avoid a global food crisis by creating export to college. those are out of ukraine if sanctions lifted. does that sound like a good deal? well, it's not surprising that ross ice trying to use any bargaining ships that pass and it doesn't have as many. i think the irony of the situation is that the countries that will be hurt by the absence of, as for some grains from, from ukraine to russia, are the countries that did not impose sanctions on russia. in the 1st place. i'm talking about countries in the middle east and north africa and i think the question is whether you want to do, i want to do something to help those countries. and of course it would hurt for general interest in countries to travel of sanctions. and the situation like this may, may,

may cause the european union to proceed more regularly with unfortunately. so the space talks in brussels are about the 5th round of sanctions. we are at an unprecedented level of sanctions. how much effect of actually having on russia and its economy well, so the 2 biggest sanctions that any country could impose in russia are essential, some oil, and even more on gas. and we see some progress on oil. we don't see much progress on gas. and unfortunately, some likely we'll see a lot of progress and gas because europe is so much dependent on it. now, when talking about the tax substantial, we should distinguish short term from the long term. we see some type of sanction on the rational economy right now. the effect is very moderate, but i think it may intensify in the long run as the long run aside. so we're just

running trade links are realized. however, again, the fax will be more direct unless there are serious samples on oil along the lines that are discussed at the a, b or b in union council this week. and even more if we talk, you will start thinking about the actual so guess. right? so, so these really are the ones that everyone needs to pay attention to. thank you so much for explaining that to to us andrew, pa, hancock from the university of southern california. thanks for having me. oh, that's a columbia. why the leftist satisfies gustavo petro has won the 1st round of voting and the countries presidential election for montgomery and man of bugger ta campaigned on a platform of tackling poverty and crime in the face of populist independent candidates, rodolfo and on this and then run off vote next month. hello ambiance,

a clamoring for change. gustavo, federal discounting on it to make history, the former rebel came out on top in the 1st round of presidential elections. bringing him one step closer to becoming columbia's 1st left his leader in what is traditionally a conservative country on feel soci, i trust colombian, society in its will to change channels in the end. there are only 2 options will at the, i mean it's a relatively simple choice without less cost of either leave things as they are in columbia, while in europe, in which, in my opinion is more corruption. you're more violence feelings, more hunger math or, or we can change colombia, columbia federal is a former member of the m 19 gorilla movement. and a former mayor of bo gotta like in his presidential campaign,

he has vowed profound economic and social change. a petro presidency would be historic in more ways than one his running mate. francie r marquez is hoping to become columbia's 1st ever black female vice president. but honestly, they're probably any good for us is a black community. it is a great recognition to see a black person there. black people have always been enslaved. we have always been at the bottom and to have the opportunity to be there and represent us as black people felt as with pride. montrose collision fell short of the 50 percent needed for an hour great victory. he will now see is populous millionaire rudolfo hernandez. in the 2nd round of voting, the man dug columbia. donald trump emerged as a surprise taken place candidate no matter who wins the run off on june

19 changes coming one way or the other. as shown, dw correspondent, johan ramirez in columbia, and the capital budget are welcome johan. so this is an intriguing run off. we have both contenders, left and right, both anti establishment figures. what, why is colombia turned away from its mainstream conservative leaders? because the political parties have been unable to offer solutions to the colombians . i mean for dec as they have been in power and they have been unable to carve vials, drug traffic in e security, poverty inequality. and that was flagrant last year, when, in the midst of the pandemic in the midst of the lug down the, brought the country into a deep economic crisis. the government of now outgoing president,

even duke of proposed a tax reform in order to increase taxes to the middle class. it provoked a wave of protest that led to clashes month of clashes between them them, that they're most writers. and as the, the state security forces, but it was the proof that the political elite was completely disconnected from the needs of the citizens. and now they are paying the price of this, this connection because yesterday, colonial said enough is enough. you the political class, you had your time to solve our problems and you didn't, and that's why they are now out of the race for the 2nd round. okay, and so we have both candidates promising a change. so it just took us briefly through the, the sort of change the country can expect, depending on who wins in june. we have 2 different regions of the country. on one hand, gustavo petro, a former gary, a fighter left, is the candidate who promises more social policies,

who promises i grants to poor people, and is threatening the presence of the state in rural areas. on the other hand, we have a rather fernanda, 77 years old, a business man, very rich businessman, who made a lot of money in the construction business. ah, he's an outsider. he has very little political experience. that's why many people compare ra fernandez with donald trump. many people call him the columbia, donald trump. he is more oriented in relaunching the economy, building back confidence with private, national and for ayn investment, i, his main flag is of fighting against corruption. so in to words, those are the 2 visions that will face off in the 2nd round. assume yourself, petro is a member of a gorilla group, but one storm the supreme court. and despite this, he still receive 40 percent of the vote. or what does it tell us about colombia is attitude to its former and indeed active gorilla armies. columbus suffered

they civil war, the last said more than 50 or so. in this country, every one is vague them of the conflict. when you talk to colombians, every one has a brother, a family member, brother, or father or mother, a friend who was killed during the war. so very few people justify violence. every one rejects that, the war rejects the gorillas. however, as you said, gustavo, petro got 40 per cent of super to last night. they think that he has been very clever in, in cleaning up his past and cleaning up his reputation to overcome the stigma. been a, a former going to fight her as well as other a stigma. for example, he has been in politics for 30 years. he was, he was even, may, you're off boggled that the capital city. and even though he presents himself, i saw a renewal of the political class here in columbia. so he has been very clever in cleaning up his reputation and his past. so what i'm trying to say is that this 40

percent of support that he got yesterday. i don't think this is 40 percent of columbia support li, former gary, a fighter, i think that it, this is more about the very successful political campaign there has managed to clean up and to rewrite their past uh, style bedroom. thank you for that. your hand. i was, we'll speak again. i did a really corresponding to your hunt, ramirez in bogota. ah, ah, an attempt by china to secure a sweeping security and trade deal with 10 south pacifica islands remains elusive. chinese foreign minister, a wang ye had hoped to sign an agreement during the stop in fiji as part of his diplomatic tour of the region. he came away from a virtual meeting with his south pacific counterpart without a deal, and urging them not to be too anxious about his country's aims in the region. he promised to clear their oh um john,

after the meeting of china will release its own position paper on our positions, propositions, and co operation proposals with pacific island countries. so vanda, and going forward, we will continue to have ongoing, an in depth discussions and consultations to shape more consensus on cooperation. tricia public juncture rory metcalf is head of the national security college of the australian national university. in cambra. he has more on why china has been unable to get v security and economic deals in the pacific over the life. well, this is a significant moment in china is attempt to dominate the pacific. and i think china his overreach. so i think we're saying a convergence of several factors in the past few days. the, the overreach, the hubris, if you, like, all china and foreign minister, while you seem to,

to, to read many countries into a many dimensional agreement, security, economics, culture, development, fisheries, etc. and of course, there was gonna be obligation. so i think what's happening now is that the nice business that china is bringing to the region and the cracks, the divisions of the beginning show. because the small countries cannot reach consensus on dealing with china. therefore, they will put on the shelf. but the other piece of puzzle i think, is the way that the new australian government has been showing real leadership and real engagement with pacific country. not telling them to refuse or ignore china, but to remind them that the choices that by making about the development for a long time. and if they had been to read the fine that they need to. and in addition, when you are striving governments like the government as

a much more progressive foreign policy and the last one and the pool killing pacific pacific, all countries, what they need to hear from astray on climate change, which is obviously an issue for them. so any way, as for a medco from the national security college at the austrian national university in cobra, and that was buffet as ever the conversation continues online. you find this up on twitter at d, w. use or at ok. thanks for watching. have a good day, ah ah

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