services oh, be our guest at frankfurt airport city, managed by fred bought. ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, more russian attacks in eastern ukraine. the governor of lou hank says everything that can burn is already on fire. as russian missiles, rain down ukraine is still waiting for more heavy weapons from the west. and a diplomatic crisis, escalades between russia and lithuania,

moscow demands that the nato member lift a rail blockade on sanction goods to clinton, grad, or face serious consequences. ah, i'm nick spicer, welcome to the program. and we begin with a battle for ukraine's eastern industrial heartland. russia as making advances in the don bass ukraine's, his russian forces had captured several more settlements. and now control almost all ado lou haskell region. some heavy weapons have now arrived from germany, but ukraine says they are just a drop in the ocean of what is needed to push the russians back. everything that can be done is on fire. that's how the governor of ukraine's blue hands region described the situation here. russia is intensifying attacks in ukraine's

east ukrainian defenders. inch of yellow de netscape still holding out in the besieged as ot chemical plant. their last stronghold in the city. hundreds of civilians are sheltering their and their russian troops withdrew from her cave last month. the shelling has started once again. this footed shows what was once an educational building, now in ruins. oh was blue and there were no armed forces. all representatives of territorial defense in all the national guard and in this building when it was hit ok. so this strike was solely directed as a place of city infrastructure. in order to intimidate the civilian population. also holds me go that intimidation takes the form of words as well as weapons. without directly mentioning ukraine, russian president vladimir putin announced that a new nuclear capable ballistic missile system,

known as sam matt would be ready for deployment by the end of the year. new when you was moses, in addition to the new weapons, already tested on the battlefield, where the troops began to receive s 500, a missile defense systems. so unlike any other, the heavy intercontinental ballistic missiles, sar, matt was successfully tested. if it's that on what it is planned, that the 1st complex will appear on combat duty at the end of the year. you would utilize, oh, ukraine hopes that a boost to its military arsenal in the form of long awaited how it says from germany may help it pushed back against the russian assault. but keith says it's received only a fraction of what it needs, but it will not long after they were delivered. this was russia's response footage, released by russia's defense ministry, which they say shows the destruction of how it says sent by the u. s. and a u. but ukraine's morale and will to defend itself is proving

much harder to destroy. and for more on this, let's bring in nick connelly. r d. w, corresponded in keith at nick heavy weapons, have finally arrived in ukraine from germany. how much do they change the situation? obviously they are very welcome right now. anything that can be sent to those front lines in the hands region, the dumbass will be welcome, but this has been a very long time coming as we've all been following the last few weeks and months and heard that report. and indeed, the question is about the scale right now, just to give you a sense of how modest these deliveries are, the u. s. has already supplied over a 100 how it's as of the m 777 type. and in slovakia, country 5000000 people 15 times smaller by population than germany, is also sending 8 houses of its own production. so these are not massive deliveries . lots of the more high tech weaponry that germany has promised are only scheduled

to be sent to ukraine. basically by the late summer or early autumn, so really they're not in any kind of horizon that can really make a difference to ukrainian forces. now, and i think the biggest emotion, the biggest response that you get from people here in ukraine right now is of surprise. most people basically had given up and were pretty convinced that these deliveries would just stay on paper and never really be seen on frontline tyranny. crane ok, well now that they're happening and other web western countries continue their deliveries to ukraine. is there any chance that they'll change the situation around soviet, or the nest and the fighting in the east in general? you know, in time to tip the balance, i think it might be bit late for the city of said over the next city that's basically being on the verge of being taken by russian forces for weeks now. and it doesn't. and indeed, seen that russian forces are advancing towards the navy, st. lucie shouts from the south. so from 2 sides now. so it's pretty come too late for that city. but i think that has been the ukraine strategy all along to turn the

cities into a 2nd. marable, as it were, to turn this to a pyrrhic victory for the russians, forcing them to spend huge amounts of time, energy, and manpower on capturing the cities that overall don't have that huge ass cheeks difficult to basically play for time. ukraine is convinced that times working in its favor, that if it can just force russia to basically slow its advance and to lose the most number of people, it can then long term ukraine will get that support, probably not from germany, but from the u. s. a for recent european countries, european countries who are more proactive on delivery weapons and that it can then turn the tide once rushes based exhausted itself on the battlefield. katy w. nick connelly reporting from keith. thanks so much. and for more on this i'm joined now by fabulous put jay who is the chief executive officer at hospice in global a political consultancy. he joins us from brussels. thank you for joining us. just have a quick question about western good morning,

western weapons finally starting to arrive. the president zalinski is saying it's too little too late and he's right. well, clearly it is too little too slow in the sense that you crane these does not have what you text to be able to resist and even want to push back on the russian law attrition. so what we can do is hope that the allies are going to amplify and accelerate the pace of delivery of critical weapons. so that over the summer, the ukrainian forces can recover some sort of parity with their russian adversaries and even be able to push back on some of the territory again. and as we heard in the report earlier, president vladimir putin of russia announced a new hypersonic inter continental missile system that will be deployable by the end of the year. does that change things, or is it just saber rattling to think?

said rightly but he should have been estimated. we have had that since the beginning of this war where let me put this in gauge and some significant nuclear pretty. i'm the just to collation and signaling and wise clearly he's not talking about using them right now. i think the fight that he's using the rhetoric of nuclear weapons. this is should be a source for worry for the, for the nato allies. and we can only hope that next week in my dream, when the lead does, we meet at the nato summit. they will send back some very clear message, especially you will have no road whatsoever, this coffee or any other company. and if they were to be used, they will obviously be target quentin for everybody. you mentioned nato, the year, the former head of policy planning at the alliance. how afraid are you that the

sanctions that are starting a heard western economies will somehow make fragile the unity that the west has shown on ukraine? is there a risk there days or race, but that's why we have elected leaders to be able to be courageous and also explained to the population. why that is going to cost because there's always a cost with sanctions to cost is worth it. and i think it's very important that when the standard sanctions are the long game, they don't show results, especially on russia, obviously, immediately. but they do short some, some impact on our economies almost immediately. and that's a symmetry that we can stand, can be difficult for many consumers and voters to understand. but it's very important that their leaders expertise clearly, you know that for us to hold on the, on the long term. because this is what can really make

a difference between a team or letting him get away with it. ok to have this part say thank you so much. thank you very much. a diplomatic dispute between russia and lithuania is escalating. it's after the baltic state block, the rail transit of sanction goods, through its territory to the russian, ex clave of kalynne and grad lithuania, says it's just following you guidelines now. moscow threatening what it calls, serious consequences found from russia to russia. this train is bringing goods from russia's heartland to its ex clave of kellen. in grad. colleen and grad is separated from the rest of russia by 2 countries, lithuania and belarus. but while bell versus letting all russian trains transit its territory through a near started blocking all trains carrying sanctioned goods lightly sunnier doing

innocent. it's our european sanctions that are sudden working from the 17th of june . co metal cement would building materials and high tech goods are among the items on the sections list. they account for up to 50 percent of all goods found for killing in grad. moscow is called the partial trans, at banner hostile blockade and is threatening nato member lithuania, museum militia, really afraid traffic between the kellen and grad region, and the rest of russia's territory is not fully restored. in the next few days, russia retains its right to take measures to defend its national interests. way, not only continuous of russia insist that international freight transportation agreements must be respected and is accusing lithuania, violating the human rights of its citizens. and colin and grad the eu. has rejected moscow's criticism and his in turn accusing the russian government of exploiting

the partial trans at ban for its own ends. bob worchol, what did they could've expected this? the russian side knew for well that sanctions will limit the transport of goods and are now using this as a weapon. and in information war, passenger trains from russia continued to pass through lithuania without any problems. however, travellers are not allowed to get off the train, like here at a station in vilnius. in order to get around the blockade, russia now wants to use c roots as an alternative. in the meantime, fears are growing that moscow could try to further escalate the stand off. let's take a quick look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. corporate response. the public safety chief of texas has told a state senate hearing that the police response to the val day school shooting was a quote abject failure. last month, a teenage gunman killed 19 school children,

and 2 teachers. police waited over one hour before storming the classrooms. organizers at germany's document the art show have covered and removed an artwork. after criticism that it contained anti semitic imagery, large banner was exhibited in a central square in the city of castle document. it is considered one of the world's premier showcases for contemporary art. you biotech, telling the story of american rock and roll singer elvis presley. it's movie theaters this week. presley scandalized the nation with his suggestive dance moves in 1957 and became an overnight sensation. let's take a look at what's in store. i currently austin, butler is elvis, the young actor went to great lengths to get his put try. all right. so was just being a sponge in a reading every book that i could get my lawn watching everything and every image that i possibly could find treating like

a detective. and then also working with number of different vocal coaches on singing and working on that because voice are so important with tom hanks. praise presley's controversial manager, colonel, tom parker, now, i don't know, not in the music, but i could see in that girl. so he was a taste of it and he could have eaten by he was my destiny. i have to say you could not take your eyes off austin, but no matter what the scene was, whether he is up on stage performing, singing full on full pill that close to the best dedication was impressive right off. the movie covers the milestones and the sink is life leading up to his tragic early death, but fails to dig deep. it's a visual face in the familiar bass, dorman, directorial style review as loved it and hated it. now,

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