this is the day in depth look at current news. events was analyzed by experts and critical thinkers. not just another new show. this is the weekdays on d, w ah ah ah, this is dw slide from berlin, explosions, half rob keith and the other ukranian city. emergency services are reporting death and injury to parents. president says russia

is targeting the country's energy infrastructure at its people. also on the program . some analysts say the attack, so a lot of pollutants retaliation for this weekend's attack on a bridge linking russia with premier ah, i'm glad else as well come to the program. and you're joining us as ukraine has again come under heavy fire. several explosions have rock cities across the country, including the capital, keith, granny authorities say russia $575.00 missiles also targeting cities far away from the front lines of the war, such as levine, turner, bill, man, litski, and zeta. mayor. critical infrastructure has reportedly been hit and people are being warned to take shelter. president vladimir lensky has accused russia wanting to quote, why pass from the face of the earth, the bloss come

a day off to moscow. blanche you for an attack on a key bridge between russia and occupied crimea. all correspondence funny for char can join us now from a key of funny tell us what happened and what you witnessed this morning. i was basically starting my day to really sunny october monday morning when i heard these explosions 1st i didn't know whether actually it's an explosion because it sounded like something else, but certainly the 2nd and the 3rd one was a huge bang. so what we did going to the scene as soon as we could and what we found there was a lot of debris. our cars are that way, black because of the a shelling that happened there, a huge crater in the middle of the street. it's a road by the way, one of the main roads here that people use when they go to work, actually it's one of those rows that we have been frequently using as well in the past. so being there we,

we are shocked ourselves. seeing they're seeing are all the emergency units trying to calm through what they see, they are trying to help a people and as we, we are there at the scenery and we're trying to talk to our witnesses at that for more explosions happen. so we also had to leave the scene and look for shelter. right now, we're able to actually report again on camera and talk to you on camera again. because the air raid siren that was on for hours is off. does it mean that everything is calm and safe? certainly not. in fact, of the ukrainian officials or, or warning people to stay in those shelters as long as possible today, because nobody really knows how these days going to unfold. now what's known about these attacks, what is know so far, according to your ukrainian information, that more than e t, mrs. strikes hit towns across ukraine, and about half of them apparently have been intercepted that you're talking here

about numbers. and if you look at the side, especially where we are or this morning, really just a block away from we are staying in this hotel. you see again, this fear is short and also this panic in the eyes of people. something that i remember from the beginning of the war when we were here on february 24th more, almost like a discovery of people backed up with yoga mats. try to go to a nearby shelter, which is the metro station for most of the people. as far as the numbers are concerned, there's conflicting information just how many casualties they are when it comes to key of city. the latest that you've heard about 5 people who have been killed and at least 15 injured, but it's expected that this number is going to be corrected upwards, simply by looking at, at the destruction there at that main road and, and, and what is to come as a result when he comes to the number of injured people. and as i say, this is only key of city. there have been explosions in many parts of ukraine today . good. have you heard anything from the other parts of ukraine?

the other cities that have been it as have you been just on the phone with our sources in levy, but also honey sky, which is in the center if you crave, i live is on the western part of ukraine. they are describing they have no running water, no electricity, no access to internet. and these actually reflects, well ukraine's president's events. he has been seeing that one target is civilians as a, as an act of terrorism, really. and another target is critical infrastructure, energy assistance. basically, every thing that can turn people into chaos and panic, not knowing what to do, and this is all happening right away at a time, get hard when a lot of people are coming back to ukraine. if in fact i've been traveling on this overnight train from poland to ukraine last night, and there were so many mothers with the children, a longing to go back to keep sit in other pos, a few crane because this simply missed their home. so all of this is happening at a time where, especially people who live in bigger cities far away from the front lines,

felt quite safe and, and, and according to the government, this is exactly what now a russia is trying to turn this feeling and rather say that russia is on the control of how this war is going to develop and people are concerned. it's going to be worse fun for each other. reporting from keith. thank you. funny. now, president fulton will meet with his security council. the coming asked to discuss events unfolding in ukraine among them saturdays attack on a key bridge linking russia and crimea. officials say 3 people died in that explosion which severely damaged the premium until us only directly with russia. the crossing is an important supplier route. russian forces fighting right in the used ukraine of carrying out what he called a terrorist attack and promised retribution for more and now joined by military. and was frank a lead, which he's

a visiting fellow at the keith transatlantic dialogue center and former military intelligence officer frank. tell us more about these attacks across ukraine. do you think there are retaliation for the bridge explosion? yes, certainly. and also the style is also signature. of the new russian commander who took over well, it was announced just 2 days ago may have been before the general sort of a king who has a history of this kind of brutal and indiscriminate behavior against no competence . and i suspect his philosophy is that we can terrorize the people of you create a lot of what we've been doing already. that is found to be counter productive as history demonstrates many times now, can russia respond more widely now, given the major setbacks on the battlefield? yes, i certainly can, if they've got it, they've got the precision guided missiles to do that. there's been some doubt over

the last few months as to how big there are still remains a fight about nearly between 4 and 5000 of them. and there was some idea that there was saving some, again, as a case in nato intervention to may, may not be doing that. but the key thing here is the kind of target sort of talking when you use a precision guided miss. i like a clever cruise missile or something like that, against against a park shanker park, for example, in carroll trying to get a glass bridge and failing that indicates the kind of approach icon to take going forward, which is taxed on critical infrastructure. i don't civilian morale, this is just the start of that frame. is it easy to intercept these miss house? not at all, particularly those 2 kinds of major ordinance going in here. the 1st are cruise missiles which fly low and very fast, and they can, you can intercept and ukraine is didn't set about half of those 5 today. the other

kind of ballistic missiles, i'm not sure how many of them used to it very difficult. it's not possible with what ukrainians have now to shoot down. so the be a considerable movement now, and i think it will be favorably received to develop a much more effective and robust air defense system using western assets from germany, france, and especially the us. and that's certainly what we should be thinking about going forward. now the attack a crimea bridge, putting a pin dad on you crying and called it a terror act of terrorism. what do you make of this? well, terrorism is an easy way to fling around its rhetoric that is, and has been used in many contexts over the last 20 years to justify all kinds of actions. and that's what it is. it's rhetoric to be used by both sides to similar effect. in this case, one suspects of putin is developing that story, that narrative, that information warfare weapon to be able to justify the actions that like you can

take, including the actions today. again, civilian, don't competent targets as this campaign goes forward by way of retaliation with sort of a kid now in charge of some kind of hope that it might have strategic effect in undermining the morale new credit. it will fail. military analysts, frankly, which they're joining us from oxford, england. thank you very much, frank. thank you. here in germany, the russian rocket attacks have renewed calls for progress and delivering an air defense system requested by ukraine. chancellor shows that read in june to send the iris t system defense minister christina lambert, i also said berlin would quickly deliver the 1st for i was the systems during a visit to lithuania. at the weekend, lambert condemned russian with solid drawn attacks on the premium population.

we're going back to ukraine. kira roodick joins us now. she's a member of ukrainian parliament, leader of the opposition voice, a party kiera. what message do you think russia wants to send with these fresh strikes? the message is at despair. when the crimea bridge was destroyed and it was illegally built, military object was used to deliver. they deliver rockets and supplies from russian army. they decided to attack a ukrainian infrastructure to ruin infrastructure and to kill ukrainians whenever the art. this is a message that is intended to internal auditory in russia, where put in a saying that no attack on the rush, i will go unpunished. but it also shows that there is nothing else that he can do. and for us in ukraine, we only stay stronger. and it only allows us to say,

give us more weapons, give us protection so we can stop brushing. this house give us an ability to defend ourselves because you see what is going on today. put in and put ins. rocket attacked that can a children's playground. is it like? is it something that even supposed to be happening in 21st century? and in 8 months, in this war, we have been begging for our life to close the sky, or give us the ability to close this price. and as of right now, the fact that we are still unable to protect ourselves from the attack from the ear is, is just like a pity and shame and an ability for us to, to screen for help. please give us that jet, please give us an air force protection. please give us more by front so we can defend ourselves. we can protect our life. less of our children. it cure. how worried are you about even more serious escalation by the kremlin right now?

we of course, are worried to of the nuclear at that in this is what you are. but what is they'll turn out to be, what does the plan then? should we just like to say, okay, put in, you can have whatever you want and rolled back. we already paid a huge price, a blood dries for our ability to exist for ability to have a sovereign country and we are going to continue fighting for it. we are not going to retreat. and as of right now, i do not see from the world leaders, any other plan that the planet to frame has to stand up to a bully, to fight a bully, to protect ourselves. gotcha everybody saying all the piece is possible. like, look today, these idea of possible regarding 75 broke it. it just brings me straight to what i wanted to ask you next. do you see any, any kind of window for de escalation or even talk right now? the question remains the theme. who or what are the organizations or world leaders

that will ensure that tweeting will heap his part of the bargain? and before we have that, we have no drastic, we can, we can not rush to russia. we know that there were done is not even worth the paper that the agreement will be written on. and this is why before we have the security guarantees, there is no talks. and honestly, yeah, i think everything, the logical person understands the truth is on his mission to restore a russian empire. and he will continue on this mission no matter what he promised to pull. you see what, how they are acting in energy, how they're acting in the economy, how they are acting in all their, their agreement, where they just don't keep it when it's not good for them. so why should we know, why should we be the victims of for russian aggression and the russian ability to a, to lie where it is useful to them? no, this is not what we are going to do. we are going to fight because we are sovereign

country, we didn't do anything wrong. and what is happening right now is absolutely wrong. heroic that member of the ukrainian parliament. thank you very much for joining us . you ended up in years and he has reminded off the top story we have been following for use several ukrainian cities, including the capital p, have been hit by russian missile strong brand and official, sad. he's 8 people in the capital have been killed. president, florida, ms. lansky has accused russia of wanting to quote, wife us from the face off the and that said to from me avenue, seem fun. our business is op. next with steve. it's the or i might and the pillar of stick in society, a symbol of arbitrary rule.