i imagine the impact you and your friends going to have together we can end global hunger. please download the app. oh this is d w. news live from berlin marking a grim anniversary and ukraine one year since the start of brushes, invasion. ah, since air raids, alert, founded for the opening salvo, russia thought it would be quick work,

but it soon found the ukrainian military, a formidable foe, dw, looks back at the brush old war on you trained and ahead. so coming up a call for peace from the united nation, the un general assembly votes overwhelming me for an immediate and complete withdrawal of russian forces from ukraine. some big countries abstained from the vote, will tell you who want to plucks the european commission issues a staff wide band on tick tock. staff will have to delete the chinese app from their work phones over security concerns. tick tock calls the ban. misguided ah, i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program. ukrainians are marking one year to the day since russian president vladimir putin launched

a full scale invasion of their country. it was about 5 in the morning when putin's military fired off the 1st in a series of missile attacks targeting locations around keith as well as the cities of car. he's close to the russian border. they plan to take the entire country in days. but one year on a grinding war of attrition has said in a long, a 1000 kilometer front line. let's take a look now at how moscow's initial plan faltered and what the next steps might look like. as it ramps up a new offensive. one year ago, russia attacked ukraine from 3 sides in the north. armored units came over the border from russia's ally, belarus. there were air and land attacks from russia itself in the east and from the south forces flowed from russian occupy crimea. russia's navy also attacked from the black c o ukrainian soon showed that the russians had

underestimated them. a massive column of russian tanks, heading towards ki if was stopped in its tracks. the battle for keir was lost and it was clear that wouldn't be the quick victory. the moscow that many expected, by april russian troops had retreated from the north. they regrouped to focus their efforts on the east and the south. the strategic se and port city of maria apple had been surrounded since the early days of the war. and in may, it finally fell to russian forces. the city that had been home to 450000 people, lay in ruins. but russian victories remain. few and far between in september, ukraine's military surprised russia with a lightning offensive that took back the city of hark, if, as well as hundreds of square kilometers of territory, ukraine then proceeded to liberate the city of cas on 2 in a major humiliation for the russian army russian,

true or i'll was said to be low. meanwhile, ukraine was benefiting from an increasing flow of high tech western weapons, including the high mars multiple rocket launcher. this allowed key of forces to hit far behind enemy lines, cutting off supply routes and hitting ammunition depos. since re taking har give and her son, the front line has been mainly stable with russia focused on capturing the city of bass malt. this is part of an effort to take the entirety of the done yet no hands provinces, one of russia's original stated goals. so what's next? russia has pulled hundreds of thousands of new conscripts into the fight. but the latest offensive pushing along the front line and the dumbass has so far yielded no major gains for russia. what? meanwhile, ukraine is also gearing up for a counter offensive, and is expecting deliveries of dozens of advance battle tanks from germany,

colon written and the u. s ukrainian soldiers are also getting training from nato on sophisticated military maneuvers that could help them punch through the russian lines and take back more territory. how far they can go is another question. it's clear that keith can only keep fighting as long as the weapons keep flowing from its western allies and corresponded funny for charles standing by with a view from keith. funny. how does the atmosphere to day compared to one year ago? i remember one year ago people really were passive packing up scared, trying to leave and ukrainian military vehicles, rule and rolling here through the city today. i see a lot of people actually just had to work and traffic is building up because people, a lot of people actually have moved back to the capital. and when you talk to them about to day, many of them don't really want to be reminded of this anniversary because they're

being reminded constantly every single day. but a blot shad that plays out in so many parts of ukraine. people are nervous today, but it's not like it was a year ago, or people really in chaos and in panic. just trying to get out of the capital. but at the same time, of course, if there's anything positive that people can take away from that fatal day february 24th 2022 is the fact that rashi us attempt to take over key of to take over the government here basically, and control this entire country failed, not only here and keith and the region during the north, but also in many parts of hockey region. and also ukraine was able to liberate hair, so city, which by the way to date was the only regional capital that russia was able to temporarily control during the past year. so people as they wake up and go to work right now. yes, they are nervous, but at the same time, they just want to go on with their lives, hoping that this war is going to and then there is not going to be

a 2nd anniversary coming up. but meantime, ukraine says that it thinks that russia is preparing a new offensive. are people expecting it now? we just returned from a frontline town on there. people obviously are living through that offensive already did. they are urging everyone who is able to deliver weapons, but also to deliver piece to, to do that. so the atmosphere along the front lines is of course, much different than in the capital ray i am right now. yes, people are nervous because they just simply do not know what it is going to be. maybe an air strike or any air offensive by russia to mark this very grim day. they're hoping that's not going to happen, but at the same time as i say, to have to live with this uncertainty every single day. and so often. in fact, during this past year, you've heard this word defiant that ukrainians are very defiant in these they are, they also very resilient. but with one year of this war, aging,

all the also very tired and simply traumatized there. really hope that the war is going to be brought to an end, even though obviously nobody knows. and we have just heard in that report how the dynamics are just going to develop as ukraine enters the 2nd year of this brutal war. and funny to day, in the past weeks we've been saying high profile visits from world leaders and overwhelming show support from the un general assembly. billions more and aid fledged by the united states and others. how does all of this international good will affect people that you speak with on the ground? they definitely see this is a ray of hope, not just in the light of the fact that they want to believe that that military age, but also humanitarian aid is not going to a cease to sell because they say here, if that stops that, also probably ukraine is going to stop to exist as we know it. now,

at the same time, of course, they really won the as this war age is on. whether there's going to be some sort of an apathy setting in, in the mines publicly across europe, but also many parts of the world. what people are, ordinary citizens are struggling with inflation struggling with, in fact, various governments who are using a different narrative on what's happening in ukraine, which is because of sanctions of they are, there is an increase of prices, energy prices, et cetera. so they're really hope that the interest in what's happening here is not going to vain and, and, and, and vanish in some sort. but they really hope that these all the symbolic remarks by president biden, for example, by you the doors. but also as we have play a scene play out in new york yesterday, the you had general assembly that all of these symbolic steps actually go to translate into our islands to make sure that even though life is probably never going to be the weight was before 24th of february asked year, but at least that there is going to be peace, rebuilding both physically but also mentally here for the people that of ukraine

funding for char and keith. thank you. immediate, complete, and unconditional withdrawal from the territory of ukraine. that is what the world demands from russia. that's the wording of a resolution that was passed earlier, resoundingly by the united nations general assembly. the u. n. took the rare step of calling an emergency special session to vote on the 10 point plan to end the fighting. just ahead of the 1st anniversary of russia's invasion, draft is illusion. e slash yes, 11 slash ella 7 is adopted. the message to moscow from the majority of the world's nations cease hostilities with ukraine and withdraw your military immediately slash the resolution drafted by ukraine games was passed by a 141 of the u. n's $192.00 member nations ocean on the eve of the wars one year

anniversary, less hail. the result is not binding heaven, but it shows the wide support ukraine has around the world. we are satisfied with the outcome and the message is clear. it doesn't matter what russia thrice and how it attempts to undermine the international order and the coalition in support of ukraine, student tauriel, integrity, it fails. one time after another is as follows. only 6 nations joined russia in voting against the resolution, which also calls for investigations into serious crimes committed in the course of the war. russia's ambassador had little comment. he called the resolution useless on twitter and said it would only prolong the quote, ukrainian tragedy. china, whose foreign minister pledged a deeper partnership with russia just a day before the vote, abstained. along with 31 other country, he says g,

beijing's ambassador said his country supports the territorial integrity of all nations. ha ha, but opposes arming ukraine. woodville means it's also g doctor, the stance. true criticisms and from several of keith's allies, woman including berlin. i've heard also to day some of you had said that by arming ukraine, we are adding fuel to the fire. but the truth is, if russia stops fighting this war, and if ukraine stops fighting ukraine and binding or not the resolution as a sign of russia's isolation one year into its war on its neighbour. but moscow hasn't given any indication that it's willing to stop. and let's get more now. we are joined by nicole rembert. she is a political scientist specializing in foreign and defense policy. she's also

a fellow at the german council on foreign relations as we've just seen there. the un resolution calling for russia to leave ukraine is not legally binding. why does it matter? where it sends a very strong signal to the world, because the way the members of the u. n. voltage this year, it's not any different from the way they voted a year ago. so it shows an overwhelming support for ukraine. and this is more than just shows an attitude when it comes to the violation of the country. and it's a border china abstained from the vote as it's done in the past. but in the hours after the resolution was passed, beijing released a much anticipated 12 point piece proposal to end the fighting in ukraine. what is your reaction to that plan? how is it being seen trying to place an interesting role here in,

in providing a 12 point plan. the content of the plan was known before because many of the of the issues in the plan has been, i think you're late communicated by china already. so we didn't see anything new here and we didn't see it from the nation off the wall. but again, it shows that china place an interesting role and one to be seen as a mediator in the conflict. nicole robert from the german council on foreign relations. thank you so much for providing that perspective. we appreciate it. the european commission has told its staff to remove chinese video sharing app tick tock from their work issued smartphones. the move comes amid growing cybersecurity fairs in europe and the last about misuse of data by chinese apps. tick tock describes the ban as misguided tick tock has over

a 1000000000 active monthly uses. but for now, any one employ by the european commission will not be among them. at least not on phones used for work. a spokesperson for the european executive arm said the move was in line with internal policies. regarding communication devices. also the measure aims to protect her the commission against cyber security threats and excellence which may be exploited for cyber attacks against the corporate environment of the commission. tick tock, which is owned by the chinese tech company bite dance, said in a statement. we are disappointed with this decision, which we believe to be misguided and based on fundamental misconceptions. the w's chief technology correspondent, say the move is reflective of a wider debate over the social media platform. comes here as we're seeing, debate over whether or not.