knowledge grows through sherry, download it now, feel free. ah ah, verses dw news live from berlin, ukraine prepare as a major operation to retake occupied territory. ukrainian units are readying to push back against russian forces in the southern house on reaching the account or offensive could market turning point for control of the black sea coast blast traffic jams as ships phase long wait to export, ukrainian grain farmers. a new brand south are struggling to get their wheat out to

the world. and me and my execute for democracy activists who act challenged last year's military cool rights group say they were murdered and call for an international for international action against the regime. ah, i'm go ahead of us walk up to the program. the ukrainian military says it is preparing a counter offensive in the southern her son region, or that is now occupied by russian forces. president vladimir zalinski has vowed to take back the region which would increase its access to the black sea, but ukrainian troops are still outgunned by russian forces and say they urgently need more advanced weapons from the west. the ravages of war have left this village uninhabited, except for

a few stray pets and these ukrainian fighters as they wait for the order to begin. ukraine's promised pushback towards the strategically and symbolically important city of capstone. currently, under russian control, this village is just kilometers from harrison, but on the ukrainian controlled side of the front line, the signs of devastation are everywhere in what's left of this settlement in his nightly address president followed him as a lensky vow to take back hampson and said ukrainian troops were already making headway there, but the him was covered at 1st of all, we can say now that in the hands on region, the occupiers tried to gain a foothold. lay collaborators made various brazen statements. but how did it help them, or the armed forces of ukraine are advancing, step by step in the region, look like to publish these fighters, see it as their duty to future generations of ukrainians to resist russian occupation. hassan my whistle and so thoughtful,

we will liberate harrison. that's for sure. must go long's early. we won't give it away to the russians. that's why we're here. we won't say that our children won't have to fight any more. they will you all so that we can resolve this war issue now and forever liam of us up at panera's. some of these men fear they will be hopelessly outgunned by the enemy. william dominique without module or clarity. we really don't have enough artillery here. to cinnapool, if we fire 8 times that they muster, they fire back 48 times. for now, they have superiority in artillery unless we're working with us who was drill. you can explore, fortunately from when you go through and both ukrainian officials and western analysts fear the imminent battle for harrison could be the start of the bloodiest phase of the war. so far. your crane says it will push ahead with efforts to export its grain despite a russian missile attack on the port of odessa. at the weekend,

russia claims i was targeting a military vessel and arms supplied by western countries. saturday's attack came hours after a deal was struck between russia and ukraine to allow the resumption of ukrainian grain exports. the dealers in attempts to alleviate a global supply crisis did abuse. nick connelly has been to southern ukraine where he met the people trying to get ukraine's food out to the world. ukraine is bringing in the harvest, spite months of war, spite shortages of everything, fuel to work. here in this part of southern ukraine, we deal to down 40 percent on last year. that still millions of tons. this is we, that half a 1000000000 people around the world. mauritania to china are waiting for lina, because this is all grown for people abroad in the ukraine. can't and doesn't consume all this food, but no one's buying right now. the trade is, might be willing to take it off our hands for storage. and the we only get paid

once it goes to the customers. this is harvest is now pulling up and sold. ukraine's granaries on top of last year's crop should have been shipped in the early months of this year. just when war broke out, your grains cashed, our farmers are asking themselves will they'll even be able to afford to plant next year's crop. if the ports to reopen, giving them a chance to sell what they have and pay for new seats and fertilizer with seaports like a desk shut, ukraine is trying to redirect a flood through a narrow stream and the crops out by truck and river budge, rather than the huge freighters normally used the land journey is gone for a matter of hours to weeks for the trucks back up for miles around, waiting to unload the hopelessly overstretched river ports. the drivers can only guess how long will be camping out for us like that. then yeah, well last time we were here for 3 weeks with the body does turn out if that's only 20 trucks worth of grain that with him like that. so the door and there are

thousands of us. he had of that vice, much in a barely makes a difference wife that much in that. so the traffic jam continues out on the black sea. wherever 100 ships wait, their turn to end the river. danube river ports can only handle small boats, meaning lots and needed. all the romanian coast guard can do is watch and try to manage the sudden influx. i have never seen. such men ships here who are doing about over $100.00 plus ships waiting to increase the capacity of this route is, is not in the ball romanian country. because i go to that the main problem is the capacity of the, of the ukrainian boards. this is the problem, want to see that some of these vessels will take their cargo direct to customers in egypt or turkey. other smaller ships stay close to home, you taking their loads to remain his main, c, ported consanzo for the grain is collected before being loaded on to bigger ships.

but the bottlenecks don't and here romania is busy shipping its own harvest on the little speck bastard does have was barely making a difference. ukraine's farmers a finding to that cost the alternative routes out only add up to trickle government keep estimates. exports are still only a quarter of pre war levels. that's why present lensky has been so keen to strike a deal to reopen odessa. but many here are deeply skeptical that piece of sea is possible. all war continues on land filled up with them. there's no point opening the poets is that means letting the russians in by the back door feel leveled, we'd rather go on as we are tightening our bells and helping each other out a little anything to avoid being occupied. when martha mcculler has good reason to be worried up recent days till person officials, once again made it clear they plan to grab yet more ukrainian territory. that's bringing out a timothy mill of on off. he is an economic advisor to the administration of president zalinski and also for agriculture minister. now president of the cave

school of economics. welcome to the w. last week after the deal was struck to ostensibly and the blockade of ukrainian pause. you said this is a major win for ukraine. it is great to see diplomacy. i work during the war, but the next day opposed to the attack in odessa, as a reminder to everyone who believes that it's possible to negotiate with russia. no deal is possible. are you learning the same lesson over and over, bud negotiating with russia and put in what's new here is that that comes immediately after the deal been signed because usually at the playbook. and i've seen that you're like, i'm in the government isn't why her as well was to step on while and just before the deal. and so then when the deal is stronger than the kind of lay off for a couple of weeks, sometimes for a couple of months and then come back to the lobby here, the attack immediately after the deal. so there are 2 reasons for that in mind. you

why it's actually a sign of domestic issues that the russian government has to demonstrate that the deal is not to be for your brain that they will continue. and the other one is to increase the. busy or sipping gray, basically my scaring garbage companies. so i think yes with lauren and andy nar. busy is learning that russia is not to be trusted, but unfortunately this is all labor day here was there are jewelry and we have to next for brain. now, what does it mean to you? crime if millions of tons of ukrainian grain is not allow passage for the black sea for to present those experts before the war adjusts the agriculture and we are a small one over the economy. so expert is critically important for disability.

tens of billions of doors. bentley needed right now in ukraine. 2 thirds of all expert was going through until supports we have been able to increase some of the capacity. you have to. busy so in the new premium, but it's still limited. so you, we are able to bring it back to full capacity to be able to expert to stockpile or green, maybe in the next 4 months. but if we can identify, might be a loss for hulu, and it also means that all farmers will not plant grain in the fall. now you are farmers, of course, very concerned about this by what about the rest of the world? what does it mean for the rest of the world? northern africa, middle east, and some of the asian congress rely on. busy your brain for food security. ukraine is the leader. one of the leaders in the white brains include in warren sunflower.

we know some honors. that basically means food security issues and political in the buick. especially martin. this is bad all around. now i know you have the ear of president a zalinski. let me switch gears now and ask you about the re, his recent sacking of both the head of ukraine security service and his prosecutor . you have said these moves are a sign of strength. why during the war it's very difficult to recycle the cabinet or let alone do any changes. busy enforcement agencies because you're basically doing 90 percent operational issues and only 10 percent of strategy. busy busy appointments and the fact that the government and the president, the lens, he can do changes and appointments, the just that they have operational band. this is a great sign that they've gone over. wow. then be on those over. well, that's why i'm saying i was friends. ok, but as the president himself said,

they were fired and par for allegedly treasured prisoners, acts by dozens of their employees working against ukraine. for russia, that sounds bad is the security apparatus in ukraine massively infiltrated it has historically been infiltrated. now, you know, i don't have the numbers, but i would say no single digits or maybe even less than that, but it doesn't for team, you know, you will be leaders, leadership with our practice, rush and passports. so, you know, in the change, additional factors that you were in wartime, you really need different kinds of leaders. and some people who were. 1 behalf of the agencies or different ministries they demonstrate and they stepped off of the other day. busy medic timothy mill of on of adviser to

president zelinski, thank you very much for your time. thank you. am baton to be a man our. the military government has executed 4 political prisoners, including a prominent law maker and a well known democracy, activists before men have challenged last year's military coup among those killed were p o r t o, a member of the elected ruling party. and a veteran activist, charming, you better known as cold, jimmy military accused all for men of being involved in terrorist killings. the executions have been condemned by observers included the united nations and the united states. many more political prisoners are facing similar charge. an earlier w spoke with, i'm in taunton exiled, a journalist from me, a ma, who told us how the news of the executions is going down in myanmar society. the military hasn't been quite a lot of resistance from people within the country,

including many of its own officials as well as soldiers police, and those who work for the military being the target of assassination campaigns, as well as active conflict in many areas of the country get it out there over a 100 people right now on death row and sentence to bill taylor. many believe that this is a tactic to try to install and still more fear in the population. but it's quite unlikely that this is going to be successful. that although there's quite a lot of anger in the country over 2100 people have already been killed by the military. and so many are unlikely to be count by these recent actions. i'm in time that reporting. you actually there be a news. here's a reminder of the top story we're following for you at this hour, ukraine's military says it is preparing an attempt to retake the southern part of sun region now occupied by russian forces. confir fence if good marked

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