on the the for business day w. here's, i'm so glad you're welcome to ask the w, the show where your questions take center stage. today we're taking your questions and comments regarding the situation of ukraine and t w's coverage. it's easy to get in touch. just go to youtube dot com forward slash the w, and use will see the show that live q and a the will in ukraine. click on that and you can put your questions and comments in the chat. today's guest is dw, correspond to nick. commonly you'll recognize nick from his reporting from ukraine, sometimes from the capital key, often from the front line. welcome, nick. let's start with the surprise visit about the german following, mrs. k. if

a full the trip send space will started on the way to babble, got travel dab i tried to overnight from poland, unannounced, of course, for security reasons. and the trip supposedly a show of gem support for you, the training counter offensive against the russian occupation. a jeremy of course, being one of the keys biggest financial back as after the us. so what sort of signal is the german foreign minister trying to send? i think is about carrots and sticks. on the one hand, she was posing more money, more humanitarian aid. i think behind closed doors, that was kind of risky. talk about those tourist german long range cruise missiles of that. so in ukraine just pretty once from the german side. but it was a criticism of failure to really make progress on reforms in terms of corruption that has been proven and also been doing a lot of kind of controls leaving the country. and she was pretty direct in her criticism that there's a real sense that ukraine is kind of part of the european family. there is the expect station that it will join to you sooner rather later. so it was the kind of

difficulty of criticism. it was kind of accepting the fact that this is the country, it will soon need to be ready to be a member of the. okay, thanks a lot to nick nick connelly, i guess for the next half hour or so well off and running. this is ask the w on your credit report that a cs. take your comments and questions on the will in ukraine. go to youtube dot com forward slash the w news. click on the life q and a of the will in ukraine on just pop your comments into the chat box. and while you're doing that, i'm to give you an idea of the depth and breadth of next reporting from ukraine. they put together a selection of highlights from some of these most impactful pieces that not only capture the essence of the will, but also the spirits and resilience of ukrainian p. the springs turns wet, snow to mud, keeping up right is even harder than it looks as far as might seem empty, but it's actually full of so just hold on the look out. so to keep on was it down because in the directions of just a matter of a few 100 me to a yvonne and his friend are in a fluid position. without leaves on the trees,

it feels be exposed. this is the village of east questionnaire. what's left of it? one of a handful of places, ukraine forces of re taken in recent weeks from life is so dangerous. here is one of the few places. no one's coming back to being out in the open. visible drones is risky. the. the base mitre van would start the but then well, no way these men are fighting a painstaking battle, one village at a time that lives already quite a tree on the line. it's time to move this pretty over cost

russian drugs and seeing us, but it makes it a bit more difficult and gives us bit more time to, to, to people in these positions. and in theory r o c, a target for russian strikes the u within the soviet era grad rook. it out to the re system is far from cutting edge technology. with a range of 40 kilometers. can file over the heads of the korean infantry. i've been trained to the head and hold, refreshing the tax that makes these units a price target for the russian army. so this is what deems 7th grad look of this will help us let me set up with the work suites of exclusive. but the only point slow grad was like a piece of swiss cheese at the end, where this is the loads of holes from front of them. what was the of the coolest, kept on going to the chassis, conked out to what was it and that you will not them the hey, the grants, a little problem, lack of immunization. ukraine is used up decades, would have stokes, in a year, given its allies and now scattering. europe can be on some of these do well,

most of the employees who just the other week, we used up all our munitions. we had nothing. we couldn't do anything for 4 days, is based on what the us mail carrier is normally used to bring out the wounded. it knocks its passengers around so much. so just joke. many of the wounded because you injuries on their way to safety vision and lots of ship it and where here 247 wilcox waiting for. cool down. i'll just go where basically you cannot get inside this just in the other. we run the risk of being killed, doing our job to meet what nothing else should items we have here to casualties more than a dozen wounded near us just yesterday. i'm well up, buddy. i'll talk to him. everyone's notes. i'll shut it up. i've see uh everyone you've met here. so function what rules civilians are, show me 0. we've all being cooled up ship. i did was a service of the most officious of professional soldiers for enough little issue

shows the 01 at the and we've got some good records. so, but what you can ask the w today, taking your questions on the wall in you fighting with dw corresponding knit comic 1st question. and then when will we us that take serious steps to prepare for peace tools? that's from truth seeker, nick, do you think? i think on the us side is talked about the fact that they are trying to help you grain get to a position where peace talks could happen at a level that is in some way they will see you crime. i think they've never kind of closed off the possibility of dukes, but they have pointed to very steps the rest of the taken, including all these pseudo elections and notified ukraine versus the me trying to dig in and know kind of in your indication that rushers any way going to respect to ukraine's territorial sovereignty. i think it's important this kind of a semblance of being open to negotiation. that's why we had, for instance, those african presence coming both the key of ends to russia,

new and what's to be seen to be close to these thoughts. but right now, realistically, that just isn't on either side of the sense that either you grand or so it's going to lose. and as such, we need to make kind of painful compromises. it's interesting is impressive in the question, is the idea that the united states is driving this one way or another that they all the main people to be taken into consideration. but certainly it was the kind of along the russians are pushing that basic you have is a puppet, and that's everything is decided in washington. as to be said though, without us and european support of the ukraine would be in a much more difficult position in terms of just finding the shelves to keep on firing. but i think there isn't any willingness in ukraine to compton is any kind of kind of russian style deal when you look at the social g and even kind of in private conversation in people who aren't particularly maybe kinds of that governmental particularly we have seen on the military, pri, this will, you will, you know, because that's people believe that this would achieve anything because what they say is we given the russians. now we let them by till for another piece of tar tree

. and then in 5 years, continued on, the whole thing will continue. so there's no sense that this would actually achieve anything that anything sort of taking directions out of all the brands searching would put it into this. okay. youtube dot com forward slash the w at news is how to get in touch with us. let's have a look at the next question for uh about ukraine, corresponding economy. what is the status of the cache bridge? is it open? again? that's from the martha knox. haley or the kind of big picture is yes, it is, although remind us of, of where a the cache bridge has wide significance. so this is the bridge connecting ukrainian crimea. it's been altered by bar since 2014 with the russian mainland. this was the kind of pet project development pretends she was about a money spent in that kind of open with big fan fair with fruits and driving across the bridge. and it's crucial. nobody psychologically, the symbols kind of rushed to control premier bills of logistics a, bring in weapons to russian soldiers fighting in southern ukraine. without that

bridge basically is going to be a whole lot more difficult for us to supply. that guy we saw last year when they left capsule, but basically they laughed because they couldn't get in the shelves and couldn't get in supplies to keep on fighting. so this is crucial. we've had lots of ukrainian attempts to attack that bridge. there was a truck bomb the being drones and routine you. we see more drones heading that way and the bridge being closed for a short periods of time. it is, operational will be in a kind of reduced amount of that damage that was done by some of the drones has meant that the capacity is being reduced, but it is still functioning and it is still basically ukraine's number one target. indic comedy is out. i guess on youtube dot com forward slash dw use, i clicked on the feedback and put your comments or questions in the comment box. so let's, i'm tech and next question. what we ukrainian forces, ability to progress completely stopped by the coming weather change, or do the tactics weapons change? well, there's always been talk all the kind of fighting season being basically till the

end of september, maybe mid october before the kind of cold weather the rain comes in in the month basically makes it impossible for heavy military kits to make progress. so he said that last year we saw the ukrainians. we take cups on early november, even so still 2 months to go. it's pretty unceasingly room or some across europe right now. so we can't read kind of give any clear prognosis that but i think there was a sense that the grains aren't going to give up. they aren't going to say, okay, we're going to call today now for the next 6 months saying if the russians in neutrons to begin to put more mind fields in to dig in as protect those positions that they've built up since last year. and i think the beginning, saving just taking a kind of look at what was happening last year. it was executive, same criticism of ukraine. slow progress last year. this thing is kind of cumulative. you don't see much progress for a long time until basically, the logistics come so difficult the russians and collapse and have to leave. you didn't see kind of, you know, a village a week being taken basically nothing much happened from lots of time. and then

suddenly, the russians at basically overnight had to retreat of a pretty large area. so i think the same thing could still happen the stuff the hoping to have. because this has been a lot of talk of this idea of it that russia is just rush. it doesn't have to win this war, it just has to not get kicked out and be that long enough for ukraine's west and back is to get bored or fed up or indeed for that to be a change at the top in the united states. and that's certainly a fee in key in that and your us ministration might be less willing to invest money and kind of different magic capital in all of this, i think the europeans all now stepping up previously they've got a 1st year of this war. european help, se pales next to what the us is providing that has now cool top. even the movie sphere we've seen from, from the u. k. providing christmas, all of the us housing for instance, jimmy still waiting for the us to take that step before it joins. i'm. so there is a sense that you are paying support. that's independent of the administration in washington is becoming more important and could fill some of the gap. but obviously this is a fair, i think, is also not to be underestimated the price of this for russia. we've seen it shoots

numbers of casualties. now, the russian side, real fear in russia, of quote, taking and move along, people in the big european kind of capital cities of russia in pittsburgh and moscow they've so far basically tried to take people from the kind of rural areas who don't have that kind of ability to close the past, if you then relatives a wounded or was killed. i think this is causing a pretty huge stress financially. also preparing for the coming. okay. that's like, uh, next question. youtube dot com forward slice that dw news as we talk to you kind correspondent and calmly under what circumstances are. could you cried press past? the current front lines is the west helping as much as it can in this respect without risking a nuclear incident. not from alex k h. i think the nucleus right has been something the russians have tried to use since the beginning. and as we understand the chinese being pretty clear in that communication, we must go that they do not see this is an acceptable development. basically, those threats of being pulled out and on very credible unless we see maybe

a tax on russia's internationally recognized territory. so i think that doesn't really work anymore. i mean, there has been speculation, people like, you know, most square impressed by those threats to that he was talking directed by an approaching. and maybe he, it limited you guys access to the stalling global internet because he was scared of some kind of big configuration to. but i think, you know, right now the west detective kind of trying to contain this as a kind of ukrainian russian company rather than a bigger nato rush. the company is working with seeing that the equipment, headings, ukraine, is always provided with the proviso that it's only used against bits of occupied you printing and touching up against pressure bropa. you kind of having to use this and trying to sound kind of know how it's on kits to attack most go to attack other targets in russia. i think for now there's no real sense that this is kind of more dangerous, but it wasn't terms of a kind of escalation, but also no real offensive of ukraine making. see they pushing significantly passed

through russian lines. and as i mean, it has been pushed through the minefield. i mean, this is obviously a very slow, slow, painstaking effort. and if, in a democratic country like ukraine, you can't just basically send 1000 people to the, to the depth of the russians did investment. you're obviously going to have to do this most slowly and will carefully. i'm just gonna take some time. but we have seen some of those 1st russian defense lines being broken. and there's a real hoping you credit now that they will be able to basically, to kind of create chaos behind the rest of the lines by attacking where some positions from the russians don't. was that kind of hinterland? more equipment being provided more christmas opposite. what allows ukraine to destroy bridges, not just to catch bridge, but also the logistics hubs. fuel depot. so there is a hope that this might, you know, still pull off something. but i think the idea that some have one counter offensive . and the whole thing is, i think that was only ever something that was believed in maybe kind of western media. when politicians are trying to kind of get that domestic public to kind of relax and think, okay, this isn't going to be a 5 year contract. you know, just just a bit more little bit of a i think i want to keep seriously thought that this is going to be over by the end

of this year. okay, thanks for that. so nick, nicole, it is august right. ukraine revolt to take your questions and youtube dot com forward slash at the www. bestbuy. com. next question. any mobile now? okay, this sort of speed i could, i could go to youtube service, write it down and bring it back to you. okay. while we're waiting for that, oh no, that it's at. do you for c ukrainian elections taking place next year? is yes. who's like me to compete with? and so let's get that same testing question when, when a is, is next year when you clean the elections? i showed you. yep. so that's the case. but so far, no one really has kind of believe that this is actually going to be on the called. so many reasons, right? you call to people who are refugees in europe. you called people who are displaced inside the country. so, you know, trying to work out that kind of look for roles. who should vote where it's going to

be a nightmare. you've got a 1000000 people fighting how they going to take part, how they going to vote those go for the money as an excuse. you spoke about $5000000.00 being depressed tag of conducting national elections and also the physical points about researching those kind of internal political divisions that are being basically covered over. and basically there's been a kind of unspoken sense and ukraine. but even people who done supports lensky all going to basically keep out kinda aggressive day to day politics and try and work together to keep the word for going. so there's lots of reasons why not we have heard from us with us, as opposed to make is us partitions who are visiting a key of they said, you know, democracy comes for everything else. yes, it's difficult. yes, it's cumbersome but you've got to do this. i don't know quite how much traction that hasn't washington right now. those are speculation that may be lensky would want to kind of capitalize on his liter, the nation kind of will time commander in chief role right now before people really count the price and kind of count the cost of this rule. as soon as the fighting has ended, but i don't really see it happening for now, but yeah,

ukraine is the place where you constantly surprised. so maybe it will happen often, but no, no official in the announcement i as you have lots of question marks and no real kind of confirmation on the way. okay, interesting question. thanks for that. let's take out the next question that i had it is out. what is a mistake for ukraine to use styling for by fulfilled communications into like the lights of musk revelation, such a t s h. so close the anal, investigate, see what you were saying that the mind providing a ukraine with its internet to communication satellite. was that a mistake? i think they didn't have any other option. so it wasn't like they had a choice, but obviously this is a kind of unique situation where you've got a private individual who has such a huge, a ability to influence the debate capabilities of the grain. oh me. so he was accused the claims by his biographer, to have deactivated style ink in crimea to prevent a ukrainian attack on the russian fleet, the because he was supposedly scared of russian escalation. he has

a set that's not the case. he said it wasn't activated. he just didn't meet the granting request to activate, so he didn't give something additional robin deactivating that already existed. but certainly i think there's basically no other civilian who has that much leverage over ukraine. right now, i need to explore leaving the u. s. government doesn't really seem anyone's challenging in public. the fact that he's supposedly have these uh, one to one to 2015. i mean it's pretty extraordinary much anyone else doing that, getting away with it. okay. and they probably, are you crying before us? is our guest taking your questions? we'll go straight to the next one and it is a see, i said that more and hook that expectation here it is. how strong of the ideological convictions of the russian army are. they cynically collecting a check. are they true believers? are they interested in politics? this is an interesting story about how much of the picture, the russian people and the russian soldiers are actually guessing. i think for some support say that, you know, we don't have access to the russian trenches,

the russian front line positions that are like most voice and media and thoughts related kicked out of russia. so, and we only can go on what we see in social media. we see lots of people, especially volunteers and the rest. and so i just kind of picture of the critics often on what they would consider patrons. it could critique solutions, going and saying, we need to fight more. we need to take was ukraine. and so with that is limited, but it does seem to be lots different expressions. there are people who want to restore soviets kind of serve influence and they don't believe ukraine is an interesting independent country as the people who are in it for the money. the wages being often especially the beginning of the war, especially to the wagner group, would just unbelievable. first more russian provincial areas. they were being offered salaries, the 3456 times more than anything they could have a hope to. and i'm just letting you know people who were going for that reason and listen in these. they were, it was issued pals from people of their lives. families were paying off their mortgages getting cause these were a very significant sums of money. and i think that is something that is relevant, multiple sources. ok, facts about that, nick, let's go straight to the next step question here. this of how many russian soldiers

have surrendered, who have surrendered and still in captivity to enter the things that really give clear figures about this or about casualty if it goes from their own side. so this is all very difficult to quantify. we'll see the russians have no interest in kind of being clear about this to their own public kind of see there was huge ethical issues connected to reporting and filming, and interviewing people who are in captivity. that's what we didn't do it. and i think there was a sense that the, basically the exchange is happy, more frequent and more rapid than anyone expected. so i go to your grading from 17 people with language captivity feet a year or 2 longer. and now it seems like most people do only spend a couple of months before being exchanged. so there is a kind of hope that they will be exchanged back. so this is a regular process. it is surprising, april, that kind of for us to 1st day of the fighting and the kind of students of life these exchanges continue even we saw the as of come on does now this is this ukrainian regiment particularly hated by the criminal and it's news outlets and

even they go out within a month for months for all the new. so that's a pretty striking ok as it's straight to the next question. then as we talk to dw, said nick, commonly about the war in ukraine, and it is tuck a, the key to a get political compromise in the great deal. i think it was, i mean, i think the grand deal as it existed for the 1st the of the was basically a thanks to talk to you. thanks to add ons mediation. but i think the russians have decided that they don't getting enough out of it. and that they can basically get away with stopping renee, you know, this deal pulling out here. we have very interesting attraction when you have those african presence visiting russia and letting me preach and saying, well again, i'm not in just in the grand deal. the grading grade is going to be stuck, but i'll gift you for smaller volumes of grade and you have to hit somebody is guessing we don't want gift. we don't want handouts, we want to buy grand as normal in special price. you go let the credit going out bridging, obviously you just ignoring that. um, but it kind of extraordinary,

it does feel like say 5, it basically was ukraine has been vacated now, not just the agriculture exports, but also the metals. anything else has been basically closed off, while russia ships, oil, its own grain, its own fertilizers, actually profiting from raising right, right. in green prices because of that ukraine and competition being blocked off. somehow it's kind of just community is kind accepted that the really cool restaurant on because that that's, that's a double advantage. not only is you try not making money from exposing grain or whatever, but that sends the price up and rusher is happy to explore. i know i know to you that there's also been examples of russian, steven grain from a bunch of great and selling it has its own grain from examples like cully is, i guess today youtube dot com, forward slash a d w, and use a click on the show event i q and a will in ukraine and your comments and questions that go in the comments box. do you think the un peacekeeping forces are an option for the future in your classroom? you'll have us come maybe. well,

it was talk of the peacekeepers before 22. you can don't pass conflicts that have been rumbling on since 2014 to try and basically kind of take because it was still people losing their lives on that kind of weekly basis then. so that was to kind of trying to kind of fix the line with peacekeepers and they could never agree on the terms that couldn't degree on which countries would take part and how they would be supplied with weapons. would they be able to shoot, would they just be the terms of, i think realistically, right now, does it just to help the conflict with to own me instead of just to high tech and to well results for anyone really to be willing to send in the peacekeepers, you know, with a helmet and maybe a gun, a rifle. i think it's just too early for that kind of step, especially with the members, if they've proven security council opposing science. exactly. so i think that is something that people have hoped would be an option, but i think it's unfortunately just too early for that. and right now it is too dangerous situation on my next question then to nick commonly here it is. we don't hear much about this operation nuclear power plants. now, what's the situation the symptom?

eric gunderson. still, i agree cause your biggest incapacitation with multiple rectors within me. a few doesn't come to the of the front line. it's constantly losing power because the power lines bringing coming in, which needed to basically cool the fuel. they caught somebody being interrupted being destroyed. and that is that kind of mad rush while the generate is still up and running. this don't have diesel to cool this nuclear fuel to then bringing new connections, restore the connections so that basically this can be kept safe. and again, everyone's got used to it. they're all inspections. it doesn't inspections, but basically russian demands a lot of adults warning. so basically they can anything, if the brings making allegation basically they, they can move everything around by the time these next get that and then surprise price inspectors come in and say, oh well we haven't found anything to agree just that. so it's not really a very effective inspections regime and i went to a town that just opposite the power station, the other side of the part of the basically called defend itself. it's called the being attacked by russian units near the power station. and they call it 5 back for

fear of attacking during power station. so it is a very dangerous situation. and one that, again, every once in a has kind of just got used to this next question. then as we have talked to ukraine, corresponding to nick connelly, i will ukraine pay back all this military data, especially because of the very few working age citizens. i think that's something no one is really talking about right now. i think that is something that is just kinda postpone into one's mind still deserve it. it's kind of trying to assess the costs in terms of lives, in terms of financial damage, in terms of debt for the government that is just kind of so far beyond people's day to day kind of existence. but certainly there is hoping ukraine, that a russian assets that have been frozen will eventually be given will be basic, confiscated and hands of degrading sides. they're very significant legal problems about that is real fear in the west of that good. the road confidence in the western banking system, but suddenly there's a hope that russian assets will go towards paying what is new. it's huge, costs ukraine in this company. and this is data accrued. how, because of the cost that the weapons and all the rest of it that's gifted mix some,

some, some, some gifted some is for money, but you know, in return for loans that are kind of very long time and maybe at pretty low interest rate. so this makes most of it is a gift, but those that you credit is having to go to a markets and find any shells and bullets it can. so basically it's a kind of mask. i'm a little bit like at the beginning of because we've been demick and any supply they can find on ebay is it? well, you know, is basically good enough and often this talk of substandard quality stuff being promised, not delivered because there hasn't been a conflict on this scale for decades. so this stuff is either in storage or it's just being produced at speed. and the 2nd next question, nick mccully is, i guess, take your questions about ukraine of russian tactics change from the initial approach of sending waves of poorly trained soldiers to identify ukrainian positions natural. patrick richard, certainly i, you probably remember those images from the 1st 2 weeks of the war with that's huge column of russian at alma, the vehicles trying to get to kiff and just one long kind of road leading through

some pretty empty agricultural areas. dozens comes along, kicked off by the cranes bit by bit. i think the last thing they underestimate to the ukrainians, they thought they would be in cuban 3 days. and they said, so they are more cautious the using more drones, the beginning, the ukrainians have an advantage. they were using more drones in the russians, behind spots a. they all still less flexible in your opinions. there is a very hierarchical system come on is on the ground, have a lot less leeway than the credit is due to reacts to things happening and extraordinarily, they still apparently have very, very bad works to keys radio systems. so these things are listening into a lot of what they're saying. ok, thank you so much for that. and they thanks for sharing your insights and for being our 1st guest on this 1st edition of our ask dw, thanks a lot. before we go, uh, just let me bring you up to speed on the last quake in morocco. more than 2400 people are now known to have been killed in the country's biggest earthquake for

more than a century. rescue is still searching for survivors in the high atlas mountain, southwest of monica, much of the craig zone is inclined to reach areas of the full extent of a disaster is not yet no. so being a waste from that uni says i told us what survivors that need most of the me, i don't see the situation as always, in these cases, it's very daughter for children and families on them down those costs. first and foremost is there's q and, and a emissions, but the government is leaving. now. i think that's the 1st, the response to that should happen. and this isn't happening. and i'm starting to get the 1st 30 to 2 hours on very, very physical. so i think that's what we are now, and then as we see the numbers, the total is really rising by the hour, unfortunately, as expected to keep rising. so it's read a dire situation, needs will continue to advance from housing to water and sanitation facilities

of food and nutrition services for children. of course, the education system is impacted with schools, offices being impacted by their plate, so their needs will continue to rise as we go. and that's where we, as any says, i think the international community is really to, to, to come and support. and ask me that of course, that more on that at the top of the hour, across the day here on the w. if i so much for being with us on this 1st ask dw, i sent us that question. so thanks for taking thoughts and helping to make it a platform for genuine dialogue and understand. stay tuned as up next we have the w use a different direction of managing. does it get you get all the latest news and information around the clock on the thing? on the w dot com. good news

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