ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. ukraine needs ammunition and it needs it fast. that is the word in brussels as european union leaders gather for a summit. they are expected to approve a quick delivery deal agreed to earlier in the week. also coming up on that found a bottle with a paper inside, written in russian that said to ukrainian soldiers are buried here, dw meets families of ukrainian soldiers who are trying to find their missing loved

ones. ah, hello, i'm claire richardson. thank you so much for joining us. in the coming hours, the new leaders are set to endorse a plan to ramp up the supply of artillery shells to peeve their gathering for a summit in brussels, united nations, secretary general antonia quoterush, also joining the proceedings in person, while ukrainian president volunteers the lens. he will address the meeting via video link. a number of other topics will be covered at the summit, including migration and the economic impact of the war in ukraine. lee, you has agreed to send, keep a 1000000 rounds of ammunition within the next 12 months. brussels corresponded rosie burkhard told us whether today's summit or consider further military support . will you leaders here in the we'll do,

we'll be giving clear of rezoning rubber stamp to this plan to jointly procure ammunition for ukraine. something t of says it needs and fast and we've heard it from the estonian prime minister kaya collis. she is the woman who is behind this plant. she says she's delighted that it's been managed to be agreed within the space of 5 weeks, which of course is quite a long time on the battlefield. what is the timeline of european union law making? well, it's quite speedy. so she says she's delighted when she was asked. will this be enough? she said, well, it depends how long this war loss. and of course, we have had dire warnings. for example, from the nato secretary general against oldenburg saying european countries should prepare for the long haul. here, e u nation, say they will stay by ukraine site for as long as it takes. and this new plan is about delivering on that promise. and we're also expecting ukrainian president vul event voting lensky to address the summit of the video link. what you expect we might hear from him. claire, what i expect is what zalinski often says,

needs addresses lease leaders in brussels. and that is one key word, speed, speed on delivery, weapons, speedo, delivering on promises and speed own sanctions. remember, the european union has already slopped 10 rounds of sanctions on moscow over its invasion of ukraine. that includes, for example, an embargo on russian coal and about imports of most russian oil kia would of course, like to see the screws tightened further on moscow's ability to keep financing its war, but from the stony prime minister who i just mentioned. we've also heard that she would like an emphasis at these talks on preventing circumvention of sanctions. she says the priority should be closing loop holes in the existing restrictions as it was also talk for a moment about china and its support for russia. she'd been paying it has just gone to moscow holding talks with bruton calling him a dear friend. how concerned are you leaders about what appeared to be deepening ties there?

bolt china really is the elephant in the room at this meeting. it's not officially on the agenda, but of course i think we all know the diplomatic event of this week is not a summit, but of course was those landmark talks between she should ping and russian president vladimir putin know, looking at what does appear to be as you said deepening ties were having some degree of caution and concern for me. you leaders, you studied prime minister brushed it off on her way into these talk to said i'm not concerned. on the other hand, we heard from lot of his prime minister cuz she had his courage. he said, this should prompt you to reflect long and hard, deeply on how 8 wants to approach relations with beijing. he says, the best way is a united approach, which we haven't so far seen from e u. leaders. sometimes china can be a controversial issue when it comes to foreign policy in this european union. no, let's not forget. beijing says 8 wants peace and he's working for peace. but of course, brussels and beijing have very different ideas on how to get there. china has criticized the european union for sending arms to ukraine. it says that it's sort

of fueling the fire of this war. where as on the european union side, there's a much more of a degree of suspicion there because china hutch, despite saying it wants peace, it is not imposed sanctions on moscow. and of course, it hasn't actually explicitly criticized moscow for this full scale invasion on the country we've seen in the past few days, signs of deepening and quite friendly ties. thank you so much for that update. that's d w correspondent, rosie for church and brussels. let's go to cave now where i'm very pleased to welcome your java. he's president landscape top foreign policy advisor and the deputy head of the president's office. thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us on d. w. today. as we've just heard, we have a landmark moment to day with the green light, a joint plan to supply our country with a 1000000 rounds of artillery ammunition. how helpful do you think this will be for ukraine's war effort? yeah, this is a real important initiative which was initiated by a prime minister this tanya will central to her personally,

until the government and to the countries of the you all to support it's easy. it is a mission is what is better needed now, you know, to start the counter offensive on the ground. you remember was successfully had the conference of several territories in the, in the end of previous years. so this year, you know, we have to stop it, but it just started would need enough artillery shells enough. our movie doesn't dance, and that will provide that was when you talk about a counter offensive, we've heard the commander who brains ground for the same today. it is army would very soon take advantage of russian fatigue in back loot. is that where you were referring to eva crane and counter offensive and oh, would definitely will not reveal where we will start the counter offensive. but if you ask me about the bus moved to area but moved, there is important for you. great, because this is our territory. this is our land will not give away any single each

of ukrainian territory, but definitely a, let's not ease the ta school that grocer and list not you know or reveal the plans . will you bring him down to where is that ammunition than most badly needed in ukraine, while the would need amusing badly on all the territories. i mean, you even heard a huge old about the number over to sales we use on the daily basis. but dresser uses like 5 or 10 times more we want and we have to be fair now. so now when defend in like the bottles, but does yes, when you go to the shows, you know, to start the younger offensive in many areas, which i don't you have liberators. and we have this promise from the you. but yet all of your western partners pledge as whether it's tanks or ammunition or other equipment, they do seem to have one thing in common in that the delivery takes a long time. what kind of impact does that have?

this unfortunate issue and there are many reasons for these. sometimes the supply chains are quite a wide, so you know, a week sometimes it takes brokers. yes. what is the speed with the delivery? because we have received many promises and your amendment the beginning of this open war. there was no talk about the system. there was no devout wasn't appleton. now we have on from us now we started to deliveries with metal tags. so yes, we needed to quickly we needed by the end of the small, so the bigger module to start the counter offensive. ok, so i call for that delivery by the end of this month. i do want to turn to get your view on how deepening ties between russia and china are going to affect this war we've seen put in turning to beijing seeking support. are you worried about increasing chinese involvement on the kremlin side also in the war? you know, i would not call this visit of she just being a little successful in definitely when my come to a successful presence,

she because the much of the talk was about the development of economic dice between china and russia for the increase in the supply will russia energy resources to do china, cheap energy resources. so as far as the present, she's concerned. the success is not live. he's why didn't, i think didn't even achieve half of what he was play. so we don't have any information about, you know, chinese delivery of weapons to russia. we don't have any statements about, you know, union between china and russia in work. yes. you great. so i think the chinese leadership in just people, chinese people are wise enough not to take sides of ross or in the school. and we were expecting that chinese presentation paying after returning from that trip to russia would call president zalinski on the phone. are you still expecting that that call is going to happen? no, i don't have any official information on that, but really my president was telling earlier and this is still true that he's ready

to talk to president she in order to give you on what is going on and you great. what kind of communication have you had with the chinese side, and what do you expect to hear from them? a foreign minister regularly talks to a, she is a lead for mr. china and mr. garcia, closer to the previous one, is there was no talk adviser in the, in the parking lot, and mr. v. so there's a good diplomatic talk, but definitely the talk between the leaders would be the most reliable source for us, for chinese authorities to get to position what is really going on. as far as the russian aggression, i guess crime is concerned. and i really want to get a sense of ukraine's position here regarding deepening ties between russia and china. what would the president, the landscape message be to she well,

definitely the president landscape will deliver his message personally to a president she, i will not concentrate, you know, a lot of speculations, whether the will be or not will give you another example at the time of visit to prison, she to, to moscow from east of japan was getting to you a country which is present in the g 7. and he was really ready and eager to talk about the military situation and your grain. but the further restoration of your grants. so less than what is going on unfortunately, and we need to invoke as many countries as possible to have different overcomes, right? so what about china's proposals for negotiating an end to this war? can china become a trusted mediator between your country and russia? if you mean the document which was announced to several weeks ago, it's kind of the plan. it's kind of understanding of the situation and it's not really good that the decisions guy was only so the quality could work. but he had

some, some proposals on this in this, in this, in this document i'm going to send in, i mean, the integrity of the conference. that's what's important we bring. let's talk about restoring integrity of ukraine, or why nuclear charities or nuclear blick man? what does russia go in doing against all the world? so let's talk. the only thing is to talk ok. now last month, your president vladimir zalinski said 2023 will be the year of our victory. do you think that that still stands? that's absolutely still force of the provide you did this video delivery of a new nation and the killer system and battle things. and fight a judge taking place. it's absolutely possible because there's a field and current and professionals on the armed forces. what we need is the unity of europe over the entire world, around to grant, in terms of the intent of sanctions in terms of european integration of your brain,

you're talking today about this on it's very important to go in with the european boss of your brain during your brain with the you. so if everything this is in place we'll, we'll definitely want to thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us today. that was your advisor to ukrainian president for letting you know. so we really appreciate you taking the time thank i do want to get straight over to our correspondent nick connelly now also joining us from the ukrainian capital keith to hear his response. nick, what did you think of yours? all kinds of remarks, particularly regarding talks with she of china. i think claire, you heard from that provincial advisor? oh, oh, to an attempt to be considered tree at all. cost seems really weighing up his words . not trying to, ruffling any feathers. you remember? couple months ago you had lots of ukrainian top figures being pretty outspoken in their demands for support for weapons, notably, ukraine's ambassador germany under the minnock was someone who was

a kind of tabloid favorite. and i think they've realized that that can be counterproductive, especially with china. that's kind of sissy on the fence right now. is supporting russia to an extent is allowing rush to sell its energy will be that a big discount, but hasn't really thrown its military might behind russia yet. and provided ammunition, other supplies on a large scale says the real desire there to make sure that stays as it is and doesn't increase the kind of scale of the support that the same goes for the you. that's now finally getting around to a bi ammunition for ukraine, but there was all see that call to haste. i think it's important just to kind of think about the fact that we've had recently a statement from the boss of one of germany's talk, alms manufacturers. climate. i was saying that this year he expects the only 2 thirds of his capacities will be actually operational to producing ammunition because the government contracts just aren't ready. the bureaucratic machine isn't able even after a year war, to make sure those contracts come out fast enough to give him the certainty he needs to set those are those conveyor belts running and get that i mentioned to you

. great. so lots of questions and a real worry henkie of the people in brussels in berlin. just simply don't get quite how urgent this is and just are willing to move with the speed is needed. and if i also want to ask you about another point that we touched on in that interview there, we know that senior ukrainian general has said rush as month long assaults on the besieged city of buck mote is losing steam and counter offensive. may be coming soon. how likely do you think that is, would ukraine really openly advertise plans like that? was certainly i'm always a little worried, a little concerned to follow a line like that. it does seem a little too obvious. and if you think back to last year when there was constant talk, in the summer of 2022 of imminent ukrainian attempts to regain parasol. and that didn't happen for quite some time. and the initial attacks on russian citizens were in the east. hundreds of jumped away from verizon. there's always a sense that this is part of the kind of psychological and kind of information war, but certainly there is pressure on ukraine to show some results. i was

a real fear here that if you client isn't able to win back seen from lots of territory, that the willingness in the west keep on supplying ukraine with weapons and money is going to wayne. so literally just feeling a lot of pressure, but i don't think if that contact happens, it will be anywhere nearby moot. i think that is a diversionary tactic, a place to kind of hold you russian forces to force them to kind of commit resources. and most of the pundits here think, but a ukrainian contract will happen for the south close to will to see of as of but now after all, we are only guessing here. i think that is the ukraine strategy. just keep of on guessing it to try and catch the russians of god. thank you so much for your insight that our correspondent nick connelly and keith. meanwhile, keith says up to $13000.00 ukranian troops have been killed since the start of rushes invasion. and the true number can only be guessed at in the chaos of war. many deaths can't even be properly documented. as bodies can't be recovered. the soldiers registered as missing leave behind loved ones who are desperate for news.

and still unable to grieve. a battle ground turned to place of morning by 3 luna. she really was among those who died defending the keep suburbs here and motion lancer, the monument is exactly in this trench. that's why offense did with would look like that's the 1st thing i did to your book. it was here that my brother died. who said that all some oh to was a villain. me brought buffalo and his mother, larissa have created this memorial to remember him and others. however, finding out what happened was a painfully slow process. pavlo received an s. m s that his brother had died. no further details. i missed him. you should call a follow on him. we spoke, we sat for him for 2 months. we communicated with various services that might have

some information on. and we found him tivitz oil defense, which is okay to take cold. literally that found a bottle with a pipe inside my richard in russian that said who to ukrainian soldiers are buried here, long crowns given weights off. like them, other families often must search for missing loved ones themselves. almost everywhere and was soon you come across silent witnesses of the war. people's homes and cars destroyed lives, lost the battle for keep ended almost a year ago. and in the case of war, many went missing those defending the city as well as civilians like those living in the occupied outskirts and who authorities to this day for struggling to fight for what a prior to little bit music, audible noble, what people are returning from abode returning from the west of ukraine while who had been absent for a long period of time since the occupations and providing us with new information

for you. both prisoners of wool also testify, but mostly the security service of ukraine works that they also gave information about where, how and under what circumstances people were killed and very difficult over the but civilians like pavlo and larissa, unless you really don't want to depend just on the authorities, they started an initiative to help find missing persons more easily. today they meet with anatolia, some panko, a parliament member in a keep school. the air raid sirens just went off. he wants to see how the government can support those of the key. oh, oh, thanks to pavlov and his mother and everyone who looks at them, we found i have us who were missing. now we know where they died last month. i'm with 56 people so far. but to improve the process, they want to create a centralized database where information from the military, governments and families is automatically pulled

a step forward. even if war time security means not everything can be shared fucking enough. okay. yeah, while there is a well, there are certain dates that we cannot divulge. it won't work very well. we understand that when we, when the base of the more expanded to mo, noticed, closed, and relatives will be able to find them missing, loved ones, foster. he needs more with dishes, it is we are blue, sky cookies, niggley every other week. pablo and larissa come to the former fighting trenches. they say they can feel boundaries presence here and they want to help others to have that to. so let's bring you up to speed now with some other world news headline. israel has ratified a wall limiting the ways in which a prime minister can be removed. office is one of several controversial new laws

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a major demi globe what a crisis did exist out there. mean a julie has witnessed the crisis herself seeing melting places and eric regions during her journey. now she hopes that the world won't turn a blind eye to an issue, that in the end will affect everyone everywhere. while the fun beethoven died nearly 2 centuries ago at just 56 years old, after creating some of the most influential works in classical music, biographers a long sought to explain the german composer's chronic health problems, including his deafness and severe stomach elements. now an international team of scientists may have lost some clues, after extracting dna from strains of his hair. o people have studied his music, his letters, now nearly 200 years after his death, an international team of scientists is studying his hair,

hoping it was shed light on what made luc from beethoven sic, get out of a bit wilderness, a sort of his illness is at times, severely limited his creative work tell us the sanction from and for physicians, it's always been a mystery as to what was really behind it. no specter was was. and so it's just a huge opportunity when you get a new source like this and lawyer fella because you can really get new insides oil . i can't mysa become the tests revealed that be to when had a genetic predisposition to liver disease and he betide his b months before his death. these factors, along with his chronic drinking, were probably enough to cause the liver failure that is widely believed to have killed him. at the age of 56. so far, the scientists are unable to explain his hearing loss or his stomach issues. the mystery of beethoven's fragile health has always been

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