a political correspond thomas barrow, thanks for joining us. will ukraine is preparing for another night and a bombardment from russian artillery? there's been little respite in 3 days of fighting. as the granny military resists, russian assaults. authorities are urging citizens to defend the capital key and the army says it repelled an assault on a military base to the south. president vladimir lensky says his forces are still holding keith. russia has launched. meanwhile, a barrage of cruise missiles and rockets. ah, an early morning, mrs. strike on a residential block in key of here's the moment of impact from inside one of the apartment where russia says it's only targeting military facilities. ukrainian officials call this a cynical attack on civilian infrastructure. no debts have yet been reported. but for some, it was very close or was only when we go was a direct hit into the living room. we were lucky to escape because we were in the kitchen. my wife and our older child had their legs broken watch. the younger one was taken somewhere b

thomas barrow, thanks for doris or germany, as you turn on, restricting rushes access to the global payment system. swift page the way for sanctions from the european union, ukrainian president vladimir lensky said that would have a huge impact on russia. nation diploma. the battle, our diplomats fought around the cloak to get all the countries of europe to agree on a very strong and fair decision to cut russia off from the international into bank system. my and we also have this important victory. emily, these are billions and billions of losses for russia. concrete price to pay for this vile invasion of our country as well. we ukraine is preparing for another night under bombardment from russian artillery. there's been little respite in 3 days of fighting, as the ukrainian military resists russian assaults. authorities are urging citizens to defend the capital give, and the army says it repelled an assault on a military base to the south. president vladimir soleski says his forces are still holding heave despite russia launching a barrage of cruise missiles and rockets. ah, an early morni

thomas barrow, our political correspondent joins me now in the studio. told us, thanks for coming in. tell us what has been happening here. first of all, in, in germany in response to the events that are unfolding in ukraine. well, we already heard what all of shorts. the german chancellor said in response to this latest situation. but in general, what the german government has been doing in the last few days, the last few weeks as they prepare for this has been a to waive strategy on the one hand. making sure that in any way as possible channels of communication are open to talk to.

thomas barrow are political corresponded thanks for now. and let's gets more reaction to russia's attack on ukraine by this is joe biden. the u. s. president had tweeting a short time ago that russia alone is responsible for the death and destruction that this attack will bring. and he says the united states and its allies and partners will respond in a united and decisive way. the world will hold russia accountable. he says, the european union's commission, president ursula on the line says we strongly condemned russia's unjustified attack on ukraine in these dark hours. our thoughts are with ukraine and the innocent women, men and children as they faced this unprovoked attack and fear for their lives. she says, we will hold the kremlin accountable. and this from british prime minister, boars, johnson, i am appalled by the heretic events in ukraine and i have spoken to present lensky to discuss next steps. president putin has chosen the path of bloodshed and destruction by launching this unprovoked attack on ukraine, u. k. and our allies w

are watching dw nurse, i'm terry martin with me in the studio is our political correspondent, thomas barrow. he's been following these events from the beginning. of course sir thomas bring us up to date, others so much happening at one time. it's very difficult to get an idea of exactly what is happening. where are we? exactly. so it is certainly a developing situation with very unclear elements as well. we're still trying, for example, to verify some of the images that are coming in from the eastern part of ukraine. we're also following, obviously closely the reactions that are coming from the west from european union lead us from leaders also in other parts of the world. and we're trying to and understand what reaction might come in concrete steps. so in this developing situation, it's always important to stress what we know so far and what is happening and what also might develop. we heard, for example, from la phone de lion, the president of the european commission that europe will implement very strict sanctions on russia. hashes sanctions as she described as well as joseph arrayed for

workers unions, and religious and environmental organizations. tupa, they doubly correspond to thomas barrow was there. he sentenced this assessment. tens of thousands of people gathered to day right here in the center of berlin for a peace demonstration in support of ukraine and against vladimir putins actions. there were older people, grandmothers, concerned about the current situation. also, families with younger children asking for politicians to do more to help children. it was also a very international approach, as with people from around the world showing their support. many people here were also asking the german government to do more, and many told us that they were happy that the german government had decided to reverse it. longstanding decision and is now willing to send defensive weapons to ukraine. it wasn't a w news. let's recap, the latest developments in the invasion on ukraine and russia and ukraine of the great to hold peace talks, allegations are due to make on ukraine's border with feller bruce vladimir putin. meanwhile, as put rushes nuclear forces on alert. he's blaming