a little in pull tava, victims had almost no time to take cover as to ballistic missiles arrived within minutes of being launched. for example, let him years landscapes again, pleading with western allies for air defense systems and missiles immediately as residents born those last, i'm clear, richardson in berlin. you are watching the day a the, the, the air rates alert started. and in just a minute, there were 2 explosions there, but mine blast injuries crashes, and the combination of injuries and defending systems and me. so if i needed a new cradle, it would be an alternate warehouse somewhere. the people, every day of delay means on more lives,

not also on the day, mongolia refuses a chance to arrest of what them are approaching on an international warrant. instead, rolling out the red carpet for the russian presidents visits that are going to start with this is yet another example of another correct in the system based on international law. it 8 o'clock. but the question is how this affects the rest of the world order new mustang for sound? for me, it seems dangerous. hello, i'm clear. richardson, welcome. one of the deadliest strikes to hit ukraine since russia's full scale invasion hits a city some 300 kilometers east of kiff to ballistic missiles blasted into a ukrainian military college building and a hospital in pull tava, killing dozens and injury. hundreds more. ukraine's president will let him years a lensky has vowed to hold russia responsible. and countries, including the united states in germany,

have condemned the attack. a number of buildings were destroyed, with many people trapped under the russell. after the strikes presidents lensky repeated his plea to western allies, to lift restrictions on military support for ukraine, which seems to be g. once like lions, we urge everyone in the world who has the power to stop. so this is tara, a defense systems and missiles needed in ukraine notes in a warehouse some way long range strikes that can defend against the russian tara needed now, and not sometime later, every day of delay means more lives lost. and as i said, when of course, bonded into of caroline or symbol, i says that that we might well come up at a meeting in germany later this week for landscape presidents. alaska has been mentioning this for the past year. is that in a month they need to as a defense of systems, patry is a this is one of the main requests he makes in every interview. during his last

interview, when he mentioned this topic, he said that you create needs at least 25 patio systems and to keep the country safe, where we know that this friday there will be that meeting. and then i'm side again of the major partners and the rep in a union on how to support ukraine. i'm probably this will be a topic again. let's see. as the western countries are ready to deliver more patriot systems to ukraine. of an attack in full java happened at the same time that ukraine is conducting on offensive in the russian region. of course, last month ukraine began carving out a section of territory, which the landscape says they will not give up. he says it's part of a victory plan. he will submit to western allies during a visit to washington. is that of the russian city of sue, just now under ukrainian control part of the territory. a concord starting on august 6th, in a surprise operation that it claims took more than 1200 square kilometers in the course region. just before you crane went on the offensive president followed him

is a landscape, spoke to french media about possible peace talks. touching on the topic of territorial concessions, the ukraine will never give up its territories because this would be an attack on the constitution. he said. decisions on ukrainian territorial integrity cannot be made by the president, but by the ukrainian people. the landscape peace plan backed by the west calls for russia to pull all of its troops out of your train as a precondition for any talks. it also wants trials for war crimes and reparation payments for its part. russia demands that ukraine surrender for regents that moscow says it amex and claims as russian territory. and ukraine would have to officially renounce its desire to join nato of an impasse. so could you cranes incursion be a way to change the calculus of peace? although seizing russian territory and the curse region is an embarrassment to put

and still it's less than 110th of one percent of russia's land mass. whereas russia controls about 20 percent of ukraine's territory. and it's still advancing in the east. in addition to the land that's taken, however, ukraine has also captured hundreds of young conscript soldiers. savanski refers to russian prisoners as you cranes exchanged fund. and so lensky spoke specifically of the november p summit and ukraine's plans the temple. yeah, that's what it comes. confirmation connected to the 2nd summit. yes, because it was one of the points of the plan victory of ukraine delano but am, although great. meanwhile, the kremlin has been playing down the incursion, saying it has failed to stop russia's drive to break through an eastern ukraine. you, people, especially in the curse region, are going through difficult times, but the main task that the enemies set for themselves to stop are offensive and the don't basketball didn't achieve it ultimately with nationalist opening. and then by

say, we didn't start yet. therefore, i'm sure that this provocation will fail as needed. firstly, i think after that there will be a desire really to move to piece talk slower, not in words, but an actions and resolve these issues by peaceful means. in the age of a person. you have any mysterious thing, it's not clear if keeps gamble to take russian territory will pay off in peace talks this fall, or provoked putting to take even more severe measures as he tries to win the war at it. now like to extend a warm welcome to alexander share, but a ukrainian diplomat who works as ambassador to austria from 2014 to 2021 who joins us now from key. if it's difficult to start anywhere else other than in poll tava, i'd like to begin by asking your reaction to the russian strike there. oh it's unfortunate lose the really 2 of you, great for the last 5 years for rustic and choose wherever they want and strike

wherever the warranty whether it's a children's hospital or college or, or the shopping center. and so we cannot use the provide provided by with the me styles even to strike the it's a very surreal kinds of war. and we definitely need to this freedom to really strike where it's hard for us the most in the military against the military target. unfortunately, until now we don't sell this loans plus of course it's still don't have the taurus so me. so from germany, which we do expect right now, just to be clear on how we were thinking about this. do you think that the slightest attack by russia, do you view this as a reaction to ukraine's incursion into the course region?

wherever someone says something like this, i just by i'm speechless because your brain has been invaded, killed to raped, tortured so they had to go straight to switzerland house years. and now in the 3rd year of this war, we finally grew up towards the russian territory. and told us, um, the people on the west say, well this is the resolution for which is the full book we, we did what we did because for 2 and a half years, this absolutely insane, barbaric war was brought to our territory. finally, we are responding in guns uh, at least uh as a source of rapid smoking kind because we don't freight, we don't do much of, we will even give you those to the children's hospitals. but yes, we in the territory, and this will take them a while to the rates. so this is a, not in any way to suggest that this was a deserved or fair response,

but my question would be if, if you see such deadly strikes in response, weather tactics like going into course are worth it. if you're going, if it's going to come at the cost of so many ukrainian lights, it's more than the response please to repeating this line from russian group again . but it's not for me as well. we have been killed, we've helped, well. ringback the lot was through media dreams and black for 2 years, all of a sudden we answer their territory and it's the response to some of the response to support of the strip of the keels or john color for 2 and a half years versus simpler. likes more to that, we use answered find really, i'm sorry, decor slope was, is just a small, very small. so just be a logical, a very long overdue step on the record. and as you've mentioned, zaleski again says at this moment really shows why he needs more air defense

systems and missiles and fewer restrictions on the weapons that ukraine already does have. why do you think at this stage in the war he is still needing to make these, please? because we have to believe for everything with our wisdom, how large because we need some things, certain list of the springs to defend ourselves and to win this war. and each time we have to, we leave with our allies for some reason, are doing more work. well maybe i know because the, with the social security portion because because of the color just of the with something good of a problem, you covered this on the but please do it, sir, because there is no other way buffalo going to win the war or for the full of years to lose and your experience as a diplomat,

do you think there is something the less he could do beyond reading don't pointing to the mounting casualties in order to make this case to western leaders. so there is this insane. so you should have gone through the biggest country in the world that is with this role, with the mazda taurus room for 2 and a half years. what can we do? we can do only defending ourselves and find back. maybe if you, if the western leaders have some ideas, how to or how to restore one to the how to read back, which is now please share with us. but we, we do as much as we can ma'am, to, i think we are doing our soldiers. so military and miracles and including him, people deserve. and the reason i'm not reproach for you know, or acting like we did so i can course go list it was a courageous. all right,

sounds very much what we're just step as lansky is planning a trip to washington sometime in the future. do you think that should now be his immediate priority? well, we'll know what to do just for your order to be. yes. so the, um, the, the additional systems. uh, thank god for jo hungry i think today, uh, the glitch or at least so it gets understand the 6 more iris, the system's a little bit for one to grant. this is amazing and we want the same drumming for that. but also finally, we cannot find this war was one of those. and then behind the we have to strike the air feels we have to strike the military bases. it cannot go on like this is just as a citizen, i'm saying the drastic and re wherever they want and we can only so within 550

kilometers ranges from oh, hold on. well, thank you so much for joining us today. on dw news that is alexandra sherpa, a former u crated ambassador to austria. we very much appreciate your time as well . ukraine and the european union have criticized mongolia for hosting russia's president vladimir putin, just by being a member of the international criminal court. mongolia did not arrest bruton on a warrant for alleged war crimes. the court itself has no power to enforce the order for red carpet. welcome for vladimir putin in the mongolian capital, ignoring international calls to arrest the russian leader, mongolia as president of nog. horton shook, who invited bruton. instead pledge to strengthen ties with russia.

one of those mongolia is committed to expanding and developing its cooperation with neighboring russia within the framework of an independent open and multi pill of foreign policy. that value is piece of the democracy for more than 3 decades. mongolia has built friendly relations with other nations, including the united states in germany. but it is still heavily dependent on its neighbor, russia, especially even though it's a name is russia, is one of them own go to is main foreign economic partners. i'm going to use, i did remain in the 1st 7 months of this. yes, tre ton of has increased by over 21 percent and it will. but it's in a small group of protesters gathered to voice their opposition to the visit it as persons 1st to member country. if the international criminal court since that issued a warrant for his arrest last year, the court accuse this pretense of being responsible for the abductions of ukrainian

children. as a member of the i, c. c, mongolia is obliged to arrest pollution, but the court itself cannot enforce this. mongolia, as an action has sparked international concern. that again is probably this is yet another example of another correct in the system based on international law, it 8 o'clock. but the question is how this affects the rest of the world order new mustang profound. for me, it seems dangerous unethical. we, this is totally unacceptable. and like the way nivia has expressed its resentments, owing to the representatives of the men goalie and government, more or less to be to see it. despite the mounting criticism, mongolia, land walk between china and russia and reliant on moscow for energy, believes it has to maintain ties with russia to survive. and the w service, that's an ascii,

joins me from rico where dw is been operating since russian authorities close down our mosque out bureau. i helped set the scene for us here. why did put in go to mongolia in the 1st place? both russia, it is of course, some sort of provocation, a propaganda move and determined that the intention here could be that could be to show that pushing is not isolated in even the countries that are parties to the rooms that you the welcoming him and what russia actually wants to show here was this move, we can maybe read the telegram channel of mid term in the video, who is the chairman of the security council of russia. he called the international court of uh, criminal court, then the, the room statute, legally void and quote, allows the piece of paper. so russian propaganda is using this situation to show that the i, c, c. a rulings don't matter,

which as they think would also mean that which is not their work criminal, and he's not really actually responsible for the unlawful deportation of children from occupied ukrainian territories. but one goal, it is a member of the international criminal court from their perspective. why do you think they did not arrest him? to yeah, 1st of all, we know from, from the president of south africa that the trimmed and threatened this country with the declaration of war itself, south africa, were to and to arrest button. and this is a, i guess, the least the that's not my goal. it and i'll go it needs now and uh, what's also worth mentioning is the prime minister of mongolia and sad western sanctions against russia and the negative impact on his country. and the, the damage sure ranges from complications in paying the russian companies to the loss of revenues of the, from airlines that used to fly over the country. and talking about what my goal

esick would get out of this meeting. so before, before his visit to mongolia, blood and importance gave an interview to anne, go a newspaper, and she said, a mongolia will have the right to use cheap gas from a pipeline. that's a, that's going to run from russia to china through the territory old mongolia. and previously, mongolia only wanted to play a transit role in the role in this project. but the now, it seems that the country is interested in buying cheap gas from russia. thank you . so much for that update that is dw service. i turn off ski, it's breaking up the boys club in brussels. well, the 1st woman to leave the you commission president or so a fond line is pushing for gender parity. she wants an equal number of men and

women in her team of commissioners, but seems to have fallen short as she begins her 2nd term. she had asked all of the use member countries to nominate both a man and a woman for her to choose from. as she fills various top drops, but since countries don't legally have to do that, well, many of them haven't done it. i mean, it's underlying it now look set to have fewer women leaders in her commission in her 2nd term. then she did in her 1st, above the majority necessary majority. this time it's 41. and to talk more about this, we have uh dw brussels correspondent, rosie birch are here with me in the studio for a change. get to see you at here in berlin, rosie. let's start with my 1st big question at our members. they've actually going to comply with this. but what's nuclear? this is o n a, a one is, is talking about in brussels, decided because so far is being present. residing nope, to this request from are some of underlining the context here is we had blog quite, you repeat elections earlier this year. i'm not triggers a big changing of the guard in brussels and know it's time for the european

commission to start. it seems like, well that's the institution that is in the driving seat for o e u loss i. what comes next in terms of best? if you guys are sort of underlined trying to fill those jobs and it becomes a real joyful for influence because officially, once a year, if the commissioner is in office, the no longer represent their member state. but you can fax, these 27 national governments are vying to get the most powerful jobs they've so far given a raft of reasons or something like 6 cases of why most have not put forward a women some say look, this is just uh they had it wasn't before, or they're highlighting the person they think is the most of the right from the job that they look for. however, it's important, know if there are some others that he said here, for example, sometimes member states or even c as trying to nominate someone they want to kind of banish as a political arrival. so all sorts of things go into these decisions. you can just imagine the politics going on behind the scenes here. but how important is it really, who actually holds these top jobs?

well, the important thing is that some jobs are more powerful than others. and that's why you get this kind of condition of a, of a child support here. so for example, if your trade commissioner, you are absolutely in the driving seat for brokering trade their deals for the entire year. and if you're a little, if your opinion tried to diversify away from china, that means it needs to straighten your trade deals, trade commission, it would be in the driving seat for that. the person who is responsible for technology would be looking at writing the rules for how to regulate artificial intelligence in the future. that kind of rules might start in the e you've, it tends to trickle tied to the rest of the world. culture that with, for example, education, you has basically no low making power there. it's entirely in the hands of member states. so if you are in and you government, that's a job you might want to avoid if you're trying to really make sure you have inputs in brussels today. are you talking for the top job? i guess some are saying that you know, the top the box, the top 3 jobs they are going to be held by women already, isn't that enough? why go all the way to make sure that there's full gender parity as wonderland trying to do? yeah, that's obviously an argument i've heard in some precinct rooms,

pine close doors and some beautiful not saying look, we have not this time, right. more women in dumb but some of the most high profile jobs that are sort of underlined herself, but also the present. the therapy parliament and the person who is responsible for foreign policy in the u. uh, that's a suggestion to say, look, if we have some of the influence concentrated at the top is it's so important to have 5050 here. the argument against that that we're hearing from some campaigner is, is, is really so difficult to find a woman, a highly qualified woman to put on your ticket for members are just not going far enough. apparently, apparently a has been for 100 line, at least you think she has a chance of actually making this happen with them so far, her request was very clear and it has not been answered, but it is absolutely not a done deal. this is all done behind closed doors, and you can bet that right now she's trying to move a maneuver this a bit. so for example, she could suggest to some national girlfriends, governments, they might get a more sub jobs. he is more powerful if you would put

a woman forward that something but of this like happens entirely behind closed doors and then all of her college. that's the kind of like a cabinet. so these commissioners are a bit like national ministers, bagels therapy, parliament to be voted approved or not. so in some case, some way to kind of let the parliamentarians do a bit of a dirty work for her. they might try and flex the political muscles and say, no, we're not approving this person or not personally, we don't think they're highly qualified enough. so it's not, it's on the or we don't know where it's going to loans yet in terms of who are in these top jobs. so a little bit of a good cop bad cop routine there. i'm seriously at the national level when they are choosing people for these jobs. is it, is it the same across countries or how do they decide which man and woman? ideally, one of each has underlined once they're going to put forward. so there is no rule book on this, and that's what makes it so interesting to see who comes from where. so for example, earth level and light is german. so in weight, germany doesn't really have a token despite here, right? she is, her position is secure, sometimes it's part of

a coalition deal that's caught between different parties, international government, sometimes it might be something which has been decided long ago. sometimes it's a minister who is highly qualified for a certain job. for example, if they know they would like the trade show, if they might put forward a minister who's been responsible for economy in the past, it's up to member states. sometimes it might be by a government who is going about to face re election and likely to fail there. so really there's that can also come into it in terms of who's going to be your space in brussels for the next 5 years, even though they've said they're not officially representative the member states, they become part of the european commission. that's the use executive. so aside from the fact that there's a tremendous smoke going on behind the scenes in brussels, when you look at this push for gender parity, what do you think this shows to europe and the rest of the world? clear? i cover a lot of big political summits and what you often get in these events is a big family photo. so all the leaders of the prime minister,

counsellors and so on will stands in the light. and it's striking to me every time it's mostly men. yes. and you might see a pop of, of color to move in, in the wearing the suit or address that you said. oh right. so there she is tucked in there. the european commission, which is again, normally to by the member states was a different story not facing direct election. so going away from what we've seen before. so i'm a commission which has fewer women in future might be seen by some as a really bad look. that being said, are some of on july herself, is often seen as one of the most powerful women in the world because she and she'll stay and post. well, thank you so much. that's rosie bar charts. and that is the day. thank you so much for joining us. you can follow us on social media as dw near the,

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