site that's d w dot com. ah, is the russian military gaining the upper hand an eastern ukraine or ukrainian force is holding the line and beginning to push back russian troops? well, we simply do not know ukrainian forces say that we should brace for an eminent counter attack against the russians in the south of the country. but those same military officials admit that it will be weeks before their soldiers have weapons, powerful enough to push the russians into reverse. and maybe to lift the fog from this war. i'm bri, gotham, berlin. this is the day. ah, this is an evil that can only be defeated on the battlefield. we go to themes. if during the special military operation,

we're proud that our font is act with courage, professionalism, good luck, real heroes. there's been more fruitless. so in the done bus, by 3 days, the missiles have been flying back and forth here. i mean, we will continue to develop and strengthen our armed forces. we will continue to support ukraine with weapons for as long as ukraine needs our support. also coming up the vicious of civil war in northern ethiopia with new reports of mass killings and ethnic violence. tonight, a dw special report from the conflict. so as you can see, the destruction is systematic. every house on this road has been damaged, but to grind fighters went from door to door, looted and damaged everything they could find. went to our viewers watching a p b s in the united states into all of you around the world. welcome. we begin the day with a warning to civilians in russian occupied eastern ukraine. get out while you can,

bombs and bloodshed are on the way. you is. military is preparing an attack to win back territory that is still occupied by russia. the messaging for civilians is frightening. and it's meant to be that way, but military analysts say the warnings could be an over abundance of caution. mixed with some wishful thinking. ukrainian forces are not able to launch a major attack because they are still waiting for weapons. delivery will take weeks were told. in the meantime, russian troops are expected to inch their way forward with no lead up in the fighting. consider the words of the governor from the eastern region of lou hunts. everything that can burn is on fire. around 95 percent of that region is now under russian control. several don't ask is a focus of the attacks amid fierce fighting ukrainian forces say they have held

a chemical plant in the city were about 500 civilians. a fault to be sheltered. the lo hunter, governor, has also warned that russia is preparing an even bigger offensive in the region. a western countries have been delivering increasingly heavy weapons to ukraine to help it fight back against russian aggression. and those deliveries include heavy field artillery multiple rocket launcher systems have also been promised among other equipment that germany is providing 7 high tech mobile artillery units to ukraine. ukrainian defense ministry says those have now arrived in foreign part of the country's arsenal. it's no surprise, no news. germany has faced criticism for perceived foot, dragging over cindy weapons to ukraine. german chancellor, olaf sholtes again today, underlined berlin's commitment to supporting you crate. whilst lance on russia's relentless war of aggression against ukraine is

a fundamental blow to peace in europe. and that blatant breach of international law, this internet is non forecast. it represents an apocalypse evil in europe, around the world, and on book and attending point for all of us and it's site vendor films, other integral ukraine belongs among us. it belongs to the european family kind of falls, a milestone on this pre conditional european path is the status of an accession candidate. the member states will be discussing this in the next few days. but germany is in favor of a positive decision in favor of ukraine, and i will push for a unified position at the european council dockman. and it's quite clear that we will continue to support ukraine event. we will continue to support ukraine with weapons for as long as ukraine needs our support. we do, you know, on the understood. so been my 1st gift tonight to knows both worlds of ukrainian diplomacy and ukrainian big business alexander share, but is a former ambassador to austria from ukraine and is currently chief advisor to the

ceo of nato. gus that's ukraine's state energy company. he's also the author of ukraine versus darkness. that's a collection of essays based on the 2 and a half decades that he spent as a career diplomat and speech writer for ukrainian leaders. mr shepherd, good to have you on the program to night. let me ask you this question on gas if ukraine wants to prevent russia from earning money on gas exports, why is it ukraine preventing russian gas from transiting across ukrainian territory? or is that the case? thank you for having me. huh. well, the answer is very simple. because so we know that 2 companies like germany, austria still need the guess become when his policy and the company's position. and

the positional matthew menu, our co workers, quite frankly, is clear russian guess. so this will be, i guess, in our home and poland, barbara, but we don't want to be the one who just come through. i will, we need to, we need to, johnny was and other countries to do it on themselves on their own. and i think they're approaching the right decision introducing guess embargo. and then of course ukraine will play along in let me ask you to mr. chevy. just to clarify, for our viewers, am, is ukraine still receiving transit fees from russia when that a gas or oil crosses its territory? i mean, are you making money for real surrealism farms? yes. if correct. so we are both doing our contractual obligations.

a country between russia and the european union, they're not taking and buying a russian guess since 2015 has been, but we are friends in the russian guess. that's correct. we know that ukraine is paying a huge price for its its sovereignty, and it's, it's freedom right now. casualties in the fighting are, are huge. is the military aid? is it getting through? so, i mean, sufficiently mean, are you convinced that western countries are committed to helping ukraine when this war when meliss apartments in the west, sir, we are confident that they understand the nature of this war, that we are fighting for our freedom. and we have no other way but to keep fighting

because we know what will happen once this talk to will didn't know your grand lube and all you bring your language. there will be no are freedom. there was actually a rather remarkable article published in moscow. and spatial this war, it was titled what we should do with ukraine. and then he sent very clearly a general size of ukrainians in spoke about a grand collective guilt and collective banishment that the deserves for at least one generation. so we have no other way, but to find what i like our foreign minister said, even if we don't get the weapons, we'll fight with space. well, a, an article in the new york times today, reports that us officials are briefing that the weapons ukraine has received or is receiving will help it to hold on to its territory. do you agree with that?

i mean, is that enough for your country in terms of, of ending this conflict satisfactorily? oh, b, a lendlease program on the part of the united states is open ended. so reasonable, clear limits to want to bring her needs are receiving will receive. i hope we indeed will receive whatever it takes. we know that what was already read form is a lot and it can make a huge difference on the front line. the problem is it hasn't, for the most part, it hasn't come yet from the united states. from many european countries, including unfortunately, john, although up to date was a huge new sensor. and finally, a arrived in germany until that the thing from the whole heart when

asked you about perceptions of russia, i'm french president emmanuel macro. he has been reminding people, particularly last week that ukraine will have to negotiate with russia in the end. is there a rift between the ukrainian perceptions of russia and how western countries such as france see russia? well, i think everybody said, changing their perception of russia after this war, everybody who had any kind of cross into russia, russia, now it's the force of civility, has to rethink and reconsider the way you saw russia. you saw russia in the last couple of days. so ah, on the greatest part i can say a sum of all that it was an annual gression are roughly this for many,

many grains. so it's, it will never forget whatever good was connecting our 2 countries until nation. it has been destroyed in this 3 months of this barbara, almost flora, barbaric war. but you're wrong, right? so i will have to you, she only really good shape. one with a little the boy negotiate the legacy on. wow. if you in the war there might take a while and what's your take on what we continue to hear from some german law makers and policy makers, that europe, germany should not push vladimir putin too far because we still want to be able to negotiate with him when this war is over,

are they guilty of giving an aggressive russia a future free pass? absolutes them, they are new to their guilty over allow him good to grow and to become this monster guilty. i'm not listening to what ukraine was saying for years about players. they are guilty. we're selling the soul of europe to this monster in moscow and embracing him while he was planning this war. and they're saying right now that we should be careful about the emotions of this insane as cynical evil person in moscow than once again, be a guilty big deal to be either foolish or greedy or are not courageous enough. and despite all that,

mister share with the european union is expected this week to grant ukraine candidacy status to one day become a member of the e. u. i mean, given that this process is likely to take years, sometimes it can take decades. why is this official recognition? why is it so important for your country? because this war is about freedom for freedom. oh, to be $1.00 to $1.00, to be and to one to be was europe. we want to be like europe. we want to be a success. like euro and just to be recognize, just to have this all wish official recognized by the european union knowing how this from europe was wrong. that when just wants to go, just it means the law is the right symbol at the right moment to the right concrete,

the right nation. i know that you had worked with ukrainian leaders since independence 31 years ago. how would you describe president leukemia, zalinski his leadership at the current time? i mean, he is a wartime president. no, we're mostly proud of him like her. like her graham american journalist. oh let his love that song said, zalinski is a hero when you are here, said the joker. she tweeted in jokingly, but indeed president lansky the hero ho many, many people for many ukrainians like myself will not forget the day of february 24th. when we went up to beth hearing these lands russian plains, why, or t, and not knowing her to which kind of really to wake up tomorrow and then waking up

the next day and seen president zalinski a sending this message, hello ukrainians. i'm here. i said, i don't need right, i need them all. and that was the moment when you started really, really go in research, liz: under shiver. we've covered a lot of territory tonight, but there's still much more to talk about. we hope that you can join us again here on the day. thank you. thank you. ah, wishes foreign ministry have some in the european union's ambassador to russian over what moscow calls a book blockade on goods transiting through lithuania to the russian exclaim of clinic gra. that the way nia halted the rail transit of goods including construction material, metals, and co, after a new package of e u sanctions against russia came into force late last week. and as you see right

there, coline grad is wedged between nato members, lithuania and poland. a for more now i'm joined by a correspondent konstantin anger. he is in lithuania, constantine. it's good to see you again. this enclave of coline grub. it's russian territory, and it's as a border with the waning. this is where russia and nato meet head on. what's your sense is moscow signaling to the world that it is willing to let the situation escalate into something more than a diplomatic rel. well, i think is usually likes the world to think it's so crazy that everyone has to rush and pacifies. but i suppose that in such circumstances that will be a little suicidal mission. cleaning route is, as you rightly said, places natal directly voters, only 2 countries, both native members, poland,

and the 20th. and frankly speaking, it is a very important military base for that is also very fertile because of its geographic location. i, i think that are actually the, the, the transit of that it blocked out according to the you direct it, which state from the sanctions. not because russia is this, this kind of transit that has nothing to do. for example, military shipments that continue to go violate, went into the canadian route. it has to do with basically for example, something like steel and ferris metals that are banned from transiting you territory. so i think that it is on the one hand at traditional kremlin bravado. but all the other hand, i'm sure that people in the graham and know it is this piece of land on the baltic, sea coast cleaning rock is in

a very precarious situation. so it is essentially completely surrounded by nature. yeah, you know, a year ago many people thought that a russian threat to invade ukraine was also bravado. and we know where we are tonight. what about the way, how concerned are people there that the situation could escalade into a ukraine to point out? well brings conversely, yes, no one told the going to invade, but also no one thought that this invasion going to go haywire. so i think we've gone to the 20th, it is a completely different game. most leadership understands that this is nato territory and spoke for nothing that we have confirmation yet again from joe biden, that america is going to fight. and he's going to, it's going to basically live up to its expectations of collective defense on the 3 these people. in lithuania, brent warded ever since 2014,

ever since the expiration of the premier people here consider, we need to be a frog blind state. that's what they say here, including officials. but all the other have spoken to some people who in governance, and they told me today that they think that this particular dust of moscow irritation and rage is more propaganda than fact actually, apart from actual military action against the brakes. there is not much that the government can do to atlanta. there are giving us excellence analysis on what is going on surrounding the enclave of killing drug costs. and he thank you. thank you, ah, went to east africa, where the death toll from the massacre in ethiopians or m a region has risen to at least 260 if the latest atrocity in ethiopia of nearly 2 year old civil war. the began in the northern he gray region. government forces are fighting the t gray

people's liberation, fought their d. w correspondence. mario mueller visited one town on the border of the t great region, shattered by ethnic by deserted and destroyed in december last year to grand fight. as loyal to the te gray people's liberation front or t p l. f. attack the border town of alba and bear left their mark. a ballet used to have a mixed population of ethnic to grants and afar. in the days leading up to the tip, a laugh. attack witnesses tellers. fighting had already broken out along ethnic lines between afar residence a far militia and local to grounds, causing many to leave. as you can see, the destruction is systematic. every house on this road has been damaged. the ground fighting went from door to door, looted and damaged everything they could find was to he has seen the mayor of bella has since returned together with armed men and attend to reinstate some sense of

security on the cylinder cabanas at 8 o'clock in the shelling was relentless, smoke like rain, more than 225 people died in watermelon. they killed the elderly in their homes and others while they were escaping. comedy, followed them as a shortness was those, and killed them on the lima to migrate. they also read several women, he says the t p l f and the government declared a ceasefire. it's fragile, but it's been in for since march in late april t p l, a fight as withdrew from our balla and other territories in the fall region, little allowing 8 convoys into the t gray region. but a palace may r t i s n says the t p a laugh never really left a father less than a long way say we're fully withdrawn from a thought level, but they haven't really fully left of level the hill that you see there are there up there now don't scale come back once. they have received enough food aid as

warranty, they had enough of it. they will use it that a war jojo looked at a nearby cemetery. we meet mohammed to sane. a local health official who has helped very close to 60 bodies. among them were several children, he tells us. but alan capital, i have a heavy heart and glares manager. i am lost for words by them made this has left a scar in my life. if l and i'll never forget this over to mother's home, but it's not just lives that have been lost. local infrastructure lies in ruins as well. it out. it's vocal that they destroyed the hospital and everything that's useful. the x ray machine, the cam lab and the laboratory i was, they took everything and they broke the rest of the reason and thought the fighting has caused a rift between the 2 communities. both now accused each other of massacres, destruction, and looting. we found signs of t p laugh actions, but to grind witnesses also made claims of a far militia aggressions. they say they targeted and killed several to grand

residence before transporting several 1000 to the regional capital samira. the head of the u. n. h c r. 's field office in samarra confirmed that around 8000 people have been held at a government run camp meant to accommodate about 1500 people. this on a national and international standards that are not. that's that, that she'll be living candy living human conditions. he says, among those detained are about 1200 children, many suffering from malnourishment. we tried to gain access to the camp, but were denied by local authorities who also refused to grant us interviews. we did, however, manage to hear from one of the people in the camp. he sent us these pictures. he told us via fawn that people are suffering from diseases like scabies, diarrhea, and pneumonia. that there is not enough food and no medical care. he says 70 people, including 5 children,

have diet since december due to lack of medicines and food. no one knows when the border towns residence will return or if they will ever get to call a balla their home again. an unprecedented auction. the money youre marked for an unexpected group. russian journalist dmitri neural donated whose nobel peace prize metal and the top bid more than a $100000000.00 will go to children. refugees from ukraine, boy down below revere voice. it was a special kind of auction. i shouted by this man, the me to him right off russian discipline journalist, a nobel peace prize winner. on the block, the nobel prize metal he was awarded just last year. he's pledged to proceed to children affected by russia's invasion, ukraine, a movie, reductive because of houston. we felt a sense of helplessness at our newspaper,

actually because the what started people were dying and my country was involved in all of this. if i'm with just with my hosted on our country am and we didn't know what to do, that sense of helplessness that we felt on the 24th of february onwards. it's familiar to many mclaughlin in the face of moscow. increasingly draconian press laws were out of suspended publication of his novi. i guess that unused paper now he's found another way to make a difference by helping children traumatized by the conflict with what can we do? so the future is not ruined and swept away like that demolished cities. i. i have a ah, over a $100000000.00 either does even matter what it is over a $100000000.00. been ladies and gentlemen done. oh the amount raised exceeded expectations and turned the

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