secretary general nature official yesterday set up in case of the russian nuclear attack on ukraine. nature or nato allies were almost certain to respond physically. could you explain that to us, what would that mean? would that mean respond with force? it will have severe consequences if russia use nuclear weapons, any kind of you, nuclear weapons against the ukraine. ah, on the, this is something, russia, nose or something. and nathan ne dollars have communicated in different ways to russia and a, and that we will not go into exactly how we will respond. but of course, and useful for them. and they changed the nature of the conflict. a to walla walla . i mean that they're very important line has been crossed it even any use over smaller nuclear weapon will be at that it seizures thing. a fundamentally

changing the nature of the war in ukraine on of course, that will have consequences on russia. knowles, there will be a consequence of admin form from your friends here in the middle. thank you. paul mcclay with politico. russia has attacked civilian targets in ukraine from the start of the war. it's really ramped up this week. do you think these attacks are deliberate and do they constitute war crimes? we have seen it throughout the whole war attacks on a civilians. we have seen the horrific it attacks on the, on a city in infrastructure on hospitals, on the, on, on, on the residential areas. and we have seen a high number of civilian casualties. and of course, any deliberate attack on civilians constitute the war crime vessels. the reason why it is so important to an owl support the ongoing investigations nato allies are provide the support ukraine,

so they can collect facts and make available all the documentation which is necessary. and then this is important to ensure that those who are responsible are held accountable for war crimes committed in king was regional. and michael's wall street journal. i'm winter is going to make war fighting hard for both sides. i does ukraine have enough support in the particular equipment it needs from nato members and from the contact group to continue pushing it's reason offensive throughout the winter. thank you. of the main lester trauma meetings in brussels. so today and yesterday in the natal defense ministerial meeting and the, and the you said contact group was to mobilize more support for ukraine. and not least in light of the fact that the winter's coming. so there has been a lot of focus on when to call being on the on equipment or to enable them to also

operate throughout the winter generators, tents and the, and all the things which are extremely important to enable the ukrainian forces to operate. also throughout the winter, then i think it will, i will leave it to the ukraine and commanders to comment exact on how they will operate. but our task is to enable them to also be able to conduct her a meaningful operations, sir, throughout the winter and continued to supply them with everything from fuel, wind to clothing, tents, and to advance the weapon systems, air defense. her arm of vehicles are an advanced or artillery. he will now go to army form ukraine gentlemen with glasses. if good afternoon, gabriella, i am in form a what we'll need to do to help to protect your grain sticklers, infrastructure, and the military to our with love. the war late would step up at walter, nathan, $8.00 and partners on our done for several months. we have all the,

did the live it and pests had them that support ukraine on this has helped ukrainians to make against their made the last weeks in the, in the war against the, the, invading a russian forces. of course, the victories we have seen in cod cave and in a song that they belong to the brave ukrainian soldiers. but to support that name on it, allies on partners have provided, has enabled them to make these gains and, and, and we will continue and deliver even more ammunition and weapons and also, and also of course, air defense systems and wanted to protect it, forces the critical infrastructure but also to protect the as civilians. i trust that the ukraine in commanders know how to best utilize the different air to set it up in systems we are delivering. but you have to understand that just the last few days, we have an announcements and deliveries from countries select. united states. germany

just announced to the actually they lived very advanced, a defense a system spain announced a and you an, a delivery of a, of hawker at defense launchers to day. and then on france has announced a m more and defense to ukraine as also the netherlands. and many other com to suggest over the last few days, we have seen that when they mobilized, when you call and they don't allow us to do more, they're actually doing more. and that's making a huge difference. and, and that was also the main topic we had discussed with the defense means that is that gov and of course he, colson, will still do more. i call on the allies, we all khalilah analysis. i'll dig deeper into their stocks to be able to provide more support to korean at the same time and the d through a deep into existing nato stalks. the more important is that also are able to ramp

up production. so that has been the other main is shoulder meeting. so today is how to ensure that our industry are producing more quantity by utilizing existing the production capacity more and more shift some more weaken amorro just utilized existing and investments more. but then there are, there also was obvious, need to invest more to expand the production capacity. so we are prepared for the long haul, both to be able to replenish our own stocks, ro on the turns on the fence, but also to enable us to continue to support ukraine. 80 because of them they didn't. blackman thank you, can have it arkell from cost of our, our, please our can you give us more details on what you discussed on western balkans, especially with regards still corporation with european union 1st of all of the western vulcans, it's a region in europe where the european union nato are working very closely together

. and of course we work together in the, in boston to go of not where an innate to supports that you lead operational fe. we all that work hard for an extension of the young man that for the operation on the nato headquarters in saudi i was working closely with the e u, a personnel on the you, if offices on those operational t i invoice needs to go over. all nate though, of course, has a long history and in the western wilkins we helped to end to brutal wards, 1st one in boston. so of and then because of all a we have our presence that came from mission impossible. alice are committed to, to continue to contribute forces to were made some new nouns, meds from some countries to step up support for our k for mission. and we have seen increase tensions in, in kosovo, not least 3rd elected to this license plate asia. and again, we see how nato troops, the k for troops support the efforts of the yield,

the promotes to make progress on the e, facilitated a nobel gl dialogue. so and then of course you have many members in the western balkan region. and they thought, actually recently actually a resume and have 2 new members from, from the region, a montenegro and the and north must muffin must all know and demonstrate in naples or is opened on that go further strengthening our relationship with that region. this is d w news. if you're just joining us. we've been following a live news conference saw at nato headquarters in brussels. the nato secretary general against oldenburg, has been briefing reporters over the past 20 minutes. we've heard him say that russia's nuclear rhetoric has become reckless, dangerous, and irresponsible. and he says that the world stands with ukraine at this. what he described as the most serious escalation in ukraine since the war began in february

. our correspond in brussels. terry shoulds has been following this news conference and join just now terry, your main take away from your instruct, burkes or comments you know, terry, the most interesting thing for me wasn't anything that the secretary general said it was that so many of the questions from journalists focused on the nuclear question, nato has said time, and again that despite the increased rhetoric from moscow, it does not see any sign that russian president vladimir putin is actually intending to use his nuclear weapons. but is still clear that there is a huge amount of concern about this based on, on the questions from the press. now, what happened today here at nato headquarters is that the nuclear planning group, which is a top secret meeting, were never allowed to know anything, even about the agenda and nor about the discussions there took place here. and we know that in that, in that meeting, they discussed possible responses again, which no allies will share with us. i'm and they also discussed the fact that next week, nato is going to go ahead head and hold an annual,

a nuclear readiness exercise called steadfast noon. there's been a lot of questions to nato, about whether it thought about calling off that, that exercises so that russia couldn't say it was. it was something provocative. and nato said they don't see any reason to do that. in fact, they seem more reason to be prepared just in case with a very unpredictable kremlin. so that's the biggest take away i took away from, from this news conference wrapping up this, this today meeting. you mentioned the exercise, the nuclear exercise that nato is going to be holding again. it holds up every year and it doesn't want to not hold it this year. so as not to be appear to be backing down. this is happening while russia apparently is planning nuclear exercises of its own terry. there was a question about concerns around that. whether mixed signals could get mixed up about misinterpreting what russia is doing. what did the unspoken back have to say about the you know, this is something that nato is always concerned about and the whole world should be

concerned about that somebody reads a signal wrong. and as, as we know from reading history of there have been cases in the past where things could have gone much differently. i had anyone acted hastily and that's what they're mostly concerned about that, that russian, president, putin. of course, i'm act irresponsibly and, and recklessly. so what nato is saying is that, you know, this, this exercise that it's holding is simply to keep the status quo, to keep everything calm, simply to make sure that if the worst were to happen, all allies know what to do. and if they can only hope that that moscow is, is going to have a steady hand on its exercise as well, but nobody knows for sure. and that's why so many of these questions are coming. that's why everyone is so worried. terry, thank you so much for now. our correspond, terry shows they're in brussels will i'm sure be talking to you next hour as well. and this is dw news coming to you live from berlin. just reminder of our top story, nato has issued

a sharp warning to russia not to use nuclear weapons in ukraine. secondary general young stroke, mac says there would be severe consequences if vladimir putin carries off his threat to use such weapons. and russia has launched an air offensive on ukraine for a 4th straight day in the key of region. drones reportedly targeted critical infrastructure and in the southern city of go live, russian shelling struck a 5 story apartment building. you're watching the w news. we'll be back in just a couple of minutes with more on terry martin. thanks. warranty. ah, with

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a ah ah, this is dw is coming to live from berlin. fresh russian strikes on ukraine, hit the capital keith. the southern city of nikolai also comes under fire. rescue workers pull a boy from the rubble of an apartment building nato issues with the sharp warning to russia not to use nuclear weapons in ukraine.