o peak wolf this week on d w ah, ah, this is the w slide from berlin. germany pledges new weapons for ukraine. char, so all of shaw says berlin will provide keith with modern anti aircraft missiles and radar systems in its war against russia. speaking in parliament, sholtes defends his government policies from opposition, criticism that it is not doing in the u. s. also announces new weapons for ukraine . president biden now says the u. s. will sent keith more advanced rocket systems

after ukraine gives assurances, it will not use the myself to strike targets inside russia. and aspiring may to applicants in sweden and finland, seek to overcome turkeys objections to them joining the alliance love talk to sweden's defense minister about his country's membership. ah, i'm glad others welcome to the program. germany's chancellor, all of shots has announced the delivery of modern air defense systems to ukraine, and his speech dominated by economic and security concerns addressed to parliament comes 3 months off. the shoals describe the war in ukraine as a turning point in a german foreign and security policy. which answer also saw to deflect of some

criticism that his government is not doing enough, stated that berlin has supplied weapons since the beginning of the war. he denounced what he called russia's imperialist onslaught, and promised to continue supporting ukraine as long as it is necessary. need a few years and in contract. charter shots also took aim at russian president vladimir putin saying that his war in europe must fail. doctrinal putin must not achieve his cold, though he must not tile and really get through with his brutal military onslaught to try to conquer a part or the entire country. visits imperialism of a high, which we're not going to accept in europe. did of his chief political editor electives no, joins us now from the german parliament. wes sholtes spoke earlier mil announcement made that to sent modern air defense a systems to ukraine. is that a big surprise?

it isn't really, we're expecting more to be in the pipeline. and what we had understood recently though, was that and really jeremy had exhausted its own capabilities to send weapons. that seems to be shifting somewhat to with their being much more of an intention to send heavy weapons fast. so now this is a defense system, also new radar system. and there's training cur, currently being conducted here in germany on 12. how it says dutch and german ones that are very modern weapons indeed. and still the accusation from the opposition, but also to now say that germany is not acting fast enough, is not ascending enough weapons. at the same time, germany has it would have sold, citing us present, joe biden. and who just made it very clear that yes, the us will send a defensive weapons, but nothing that could reach into russia. so clearly a red line that,

that none of the western eyes western allies wants to overstep. now good was update on the latest of the arms deliveries in general. there was a big debate for months. but still, there seems to be a bit of a lack of clarity. he is in some of that is really deliberate and we are not going to get exact and times lead loan locations of when weapons are delivered ala salts saying, look, they are arriving. and there are these chain swaps, for instance, with the check republic, which is sending russian built tanks, germany sending a german belt once in exchange, also an announcement yesterday that the same will be done with grease and which will also supply russian built tanks and receiving dom ones in return, and they're just simply is no concrete information of arrivals, but all sorts did go through a list of a rounds of ammunition that have arrived. other supplies,

and other defensive itself propelled weapons. so he's adamant that yes, equipment is arriving. but the big game changer seems to be the expectation from the opposition isn't there yet? it's expected that these 12, how it says which can actually correspond with each other and use be used strategically, will make a huge difference when they arrive over the coming weeks. can't get more specific than that because we don't get that information. now, you mentioned earlier, the janitor as a short has been under fire for months over his handling all the ukraine crisis and the dithering about weapons deliveries. this announcement of the new air defense system is that a reaction to all this pressure on him? i don't think so. i think m is what he is and getting better at is actually communicating more openly and more precisely because he is in the midst of a communication from crisis and his lord,

a trans atlantic and coordination. so clearly whatever he announces is always part of a west and response because he also stresses that germany will not be going it alone on any of the weapons deliveries. mikaela cooper, that of use chief political as a thank you. sheila of united states has also announced new military aid for ukraine a day after saying the u. s. would not provide keith with any weapons that could be used to strike russian territory. president joe biden said he agreed to send medium range rockets after receiving assurances from you cry or ukraine. writing of the new york times president biden said, if russia does not pay a heavy price for its actions, it will send a message to other would be aggressors that they too could seize territory and subjugate other countries. meanwhile, russian forces continue their gradual advance in the dawn bus region of eastern new cray. the sound of artillery echoes across the dawn bass. russian

forces in sunny fields shelling already shattered towns and cities before moving troops in for combat. meeting with slovakia as president ukrainian president followed him as the lansky said, getting artillery from allies would make a crucial difference. nath williams glutted in the east. it's difficult for us because of the lack of appropriate weapons with if our mission to reclaim the region when it leads to tens of thousands of our people dying monthly. yeah, we will wait for the appropriate weapons to save as many of our people as we can. not the weapons are what we'll reclaim the territory. the we changed the yawn williams, the sucking pieces. russia is pushing to seize the entire eastern region of don bass, which has already been partially in the hands of pro russian separatists since 2014 severe done yet. has seen widespread destruction. similar to what happened in the

port city of mario pole. but ukrainian forces have had some small successes elsewhere in the east. more than a 1000 civilians were evacuated from russian control towns around hockey. in the ma cinema there's no power but didn't have no phone service, no water, the echo, it's hard with gun. i can't contact my children like my oldest daughter. so there's no work and no money for senior citizens in occupation regime is being established and they've introduced the rubel. prices have changed the force people to sign agreement saying they'll cooperate yet me an idea. i hope i believe that i will return home to where i'm from and that it will be a part of ukraine up with that because i don't want to live under occupation. i just don't want to refer you to as the russian onslaught grinds on,

the exit is continues. people fleeing the east with whatever they can carry, leaving behind homes, reduced to rubble and bodies buried hastily before leaving our correspondent rebecca route. as in the you crime capital, keith, she had more for us on the situation on the front lines of conflict. again, as was largely expected, russian troops have advanced in that city of several donnette that the last ukrainian stronghold in the law hands region at the mer, the sorry, the governor of la hans now saying that russian forces have captured nearly all of that city there. most of it is under russian control. now it's definitely too difficult to get in humanitarian assistance to any of the civilians left there. it's believed around. 13000 people do remain in that city of around about a 100000 people. and they largely living underground as russia continues to shell,

the city. and they've been told to stay underground as well. because a russia has also indiscriminately bombed a chemical factory in the city and plumes of smoke of toxic smoke have been seen rising above that city. very dangerous for any one there. so they've been told to remain under ground, the russian looking like they now control most of that city up to the river that separates it with assist, assist the city of chance. rebecca, to stay reporting. now the nordic countries of sweden and finland are pushing forward on the landmark bits to join the nato military alliance for sweden. joining they took would mean giving up more than 2 centuries of neutrality. public opinion in favor of joining nato grew to around 50 percent after russia's invasion of ukraine. but nato expansion is being opposed by natal member country turkey president. i subscribe adam as a choose sweden of supporting opposition groups, but turkey labels terrorists,

and is angered over sweden's embargo on arms sales to turkey. or 30 natal members must approve expansion bits. the issue is expected to dominate discussion. so the nato summit at the end of june, i'm joined by sweetness defense minister peter hope, chris from stock on welcome to d. w. you said publicly last year that he would quote, never allow sweden to join nato as long as you would defense minister. why the u turn now? the situation before the 24th of february or so on situation on the situation after the russian attack against ukraine. wilson is an order. we have a situation where we have a real war in our neighborhood, and that, that changed the situation fundamentally. and we have also decided all of the security analyses to go to nato membership together. we've seen lunch. so it was

one situation before. and it's one equation of now turkey is threatening to block your session. do you think you'll be able to persuade president ad one to lift his veto or we have a dialogue with her and also with different families inside nate. and also we, the secretary or on the issue is to solve the problem. the acura says both sweden and finland harbor, kurdish activists and people linked to the bulan movement, who it considers terrorists? is that true? or we have okay, or do we have people with curtis back from that us we received a point of view that they are equal as others need. since in the sweetest society the problem we now have with we will try to so we have

a diplomatic dialogue about that. so are you prepared to make concessions to turkey by extra dieting or spelling activists? we are, we have the dialogue and we will pull months that approve the whole problem is this whole sweetness over many years. i like many other countries covered defense budget until recently. and now it's had to spend big on re argument how prepared is sweet and actually for worst case scenario. your description is wrong because we thought did we, did the fans proceed to tell us the 15 between to tell us the 40 and 2025. increase a bargain with 847804. and added to the if we haven't decided to put 2 more, 2 more sweeter 1000000000 crowns included, defense for the available to decided to go up to to $0.04 of the g. p. and

connected to the on for to set we can do with that 2020 is your identity as a neutral peaceful number. line nation. now complete the last piece is the wrong description because or well you is saying, well us at other countries in europe for example, your money. and we tried to create peace and we tried to play the food solutions, but we are not now you will see to development around us. we must also make conclusions from, from that situation. and now we have the 1st big war in our neighborhood since the 2nd world war. so there is a fundamental change and it's 100 percent russell responsibility. this way, this defense minister peter hope, chris there. thank you very much. thank you. and that it view was recorded

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