you know, we are, your is actually on fire made for mines. heavy fighting continues in easton, ukraine withdrawn and missile attacks on may just cities at infrastructure. russia's president putin is leading his war of aggression. no matter the cost, the war is bringing death and destruction to ukraine, but it is also changing polish structures in europe toland on the ball.

mentioned there because there's no independent journalist on the ground there in russian occupied easton, ukraine. but we've seen some images on social media, of some ruins of me are so obvious, fresh destruction on some buildings, and now the local roster commissioner authorities claim that they were actually civilian staying there. that something has been disputed by the ukrainian side, but it seems to kind of fit the broader picture of ukraine's stress she of attacking the place where these russian soldiers, a russian mercenaries are staying behind for lines. this is not a 1000000 miles away from back. move the city in east new crane dumbass the to seeing the worst of the fighting, where rushers seemingly desperate to clock up any kind of victory. however small a can after months of setbacks, months of being pushed back by ukraine in the image is coming out of that part of the country are devastating. just kind of luna landscapes, huge craters everywhere from shelling. very few civilians left staying there and the ones that are basically hunkering down in their cell is not really leaving their

don't ask because a roger is trying to compensate for the defeated had just a few months ago in easton ukraine and in southern ukraine. in the regions like harkey and her song, so russia just trying to copy each success as of june where you just are successful attack and occupy several ukrainian towns there. and as the winter is coming, it's very cold. and i mean, you sneeze are being used very, very fast. ukraine needs more ammunition and more heavy weapons rama as you just said, winter is approaching and it's clear that ukraine, of course, or need further help the u. s. a aside, one could see that eastern european nations are the most important supporters right now is their view on this war, the view from the east, further east? is it more accurate than the western view? well, it's proven to be more accurate, certainly in terms of, you know, they, them, in particular pearlin, but other countries to warning about russian, russia about the danger posed by russia. and i sort of until recently dismissing it a little bit as you know, panic and to polls being over sensitive, they were proven. abso

russian statements in these chamber if somebody writing your face tells you that i know quote, easton ukraine had good reason to join russia and of quote or, and even more delusional. quote, rushers, intervention in ukraine is legal, under international law and of quote, who in their right mind would refer to the author of these statements as an authoritative source in these global watchdog of international law and order. of course, there is freedom of speech in this country, including fro for alumni or for otherwise respectable university. before, for good sake, even in a city where cannabis is now legal, there is no need to fill this chamber with the smoke of conspiracy spam. russia, again, attempts to legitimize his search flagrant violations of the un charter by using the council as a platform for circulating his propaganda narratives. it is a very simple algorithm. but moscow has explored since soviet times. but as you said yourself, mister kabbalists, you are an american and you can say what you want. of course you can. but why in the world to waste all the time? neither american taxpay

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and that's how they can also go terribly. watch it now on you too. heavy fighting continues in easton, ukraine withdrawn and missile attacks on major cities at infrastructure. russia's president putin is leading his war of aggression, no matter the cost the moors bringing death and destruction to ukraine, but it is also changing power structures. in europe toland and the baltic states are gaining traction in the un nato. many eastern europeans. i take responsibility and display leadership, while western europe appears to dither. we ask the war a new crime is eastern europe leading the continents response with hello and welcome to to the point. let me introduce today's pat. that's splunk hoffman. eastern europe corresponded at d, w, and there's a vendor lena, fun blade old belin, corresponded and bureau chief for the economist magazine. and joining us from bond and other dw colleague roman, gone to rank hope from all russia desk. and i'd like to start with you a roman looking at the front lines right now. what kind of help does you cry ukraine need right now? well, it hasn't changed. you can st

and that meant the latest that there ain't keith ein easton ukraine. right, so um we heard that overnight. so the ukrainian forces have repelled them further. russian attacks in the south eastern region in the, in the eastern region, and particularly in the a blood hockey for on yes and lawns can we just returned from the donates region? i'm from it from a visit there. are there still some intense fighting going on? i'm especially around the town of buck with that the russian forces are trying to take a there's incredible fighting going on of heavy use of artillery, a heavy use of russian mobilized forces. we talked to some fighters, there from that ukrainian national guard were telling us that the russians at the moment are sending everything they got into the town or into the, into the frontline, around the town of, of backwards to a to take this a strategically for them an important city, so there's lot of suffering going on the at, amongst, amongst the soldiers, but not just there of this. the civilians are to impacted. we happened to be at the sig

might be an outcome of the trip kinds of talk a so that the latest there in cave and indeed in easton ukraine. right, so just a couple of days ago on the night from sunday to monday, hearing key if we saw another attack with iranian made cunning got drones on ever since. and the following days. situation regarding the power outages regarding the outages of centralized heating. i seem to have become more difficult. russia is at targeting the civilian infrastructure as you know. and right now if you walked a series of key if at night and the streets are only eliminated by the few cars that are still going by pedestrians with their their flashlights, you have 2030 floor buildings that are completely pitched black in the dark. so give at night really seems like a ghost type town in some parts. and if you look further east on there, still some fierce fighting going on along the front line on the russians have been for weeks and months trying to take the town of buck wood. there's intense fighting going on, russians and ukrainians are engaging and trench warfare and artillery doors. we visited the

, for example, has passed certain resolutions, recognizing the annexation of certain areas of easton ukraine to russia. all these have to be serious and i don't think that it will change over time. i overnight, i don't think that it will happen overnight. it will probably need several 7 years . but in order to achieve that, both countries and what people have to re establish trust and confidence against one another. do you think it's just the between ukraine and russia? i mean, are we calling a spade a spade here? because i'm sure you know that from the russian perspective, the russians see themselves in the war with the west, north, with ukraine, but with the west. that is the reason why i have referred to the speech president putting in 2007 at the me executive conference, probably a peasant put in at that time and made a very interesting a remark about the growing possible danger or the perception that he is vision and have a family and that explicitly a gave andrew has read lines. it was probably the former, so edited the red line for president put an end to russia. and that could of cou

just prolonging in the conflict that's all in our fighting, continues to rage in back moot in easton ukraine cranium forces of held their ground in territory that russia could use to advance on other cities. presidents zalinski has that he was moscow turning the city into burnt ruins. tens of thousands of people have been displaced by flooding in malaysia. the days of heavy monsoon re the northern states of kelantan and that i'm gonna have been worst hit emergency services say at least 5 people have been killed. hospital or the chinese city of shanghai says half the population of 25000000 could be infected with coping 19 by the end of next week. china seeing a surgeon cases after the government began easing restrictions this month, falling a wave of protests, shanghai, daisy hospital. as told its staff to prepare for a tragic battle. the taliban never portly, arrested 5 women for protesting against the closure of afghan universities to female students. the education ministry says the ban was imposed because women had not followed its interpretation of these law mc dress code. girls are alrea

ah, i'm moving on and the mayor of separatist healthdesk and easton, ukraine says there's been the heaviest shelling in the city. the years. the pro russia administration says 40 rockets launched by ukrainian forces of hippa city. the mayor of car keys says that russia has launched more strives on energy facilities there. the attacks have left millions in ukraine without regular access to power water or heat while they face sub 0 temperatures. now, the international criminal court has upheld the conviction of a former uganda rebel commander. dominic on one had appealed against his 25 year jail sentence for war crimes. last year, judges at the hague, found him guilty of $61.00 offences, including rape, murder, and sexual enslavement. over a 100000 people were killed by his rebel group. the alleret in northern uganda, and the early 2 thousands. while toby cabman, as a human rights lawyer, had guernica 37 chambers who specializes in war crimes and the international criminal court. he joins us now from london. toby, i want to stop by asking you about the kind of precedent, this kind of case and

a highlander satisfaction with these attacks today is ukraine's armed forces day. president lensky used it to travel to the front line in easton vignettes region. and when he was there, he bowed to push russian forces out of all of ukraine's territory. can we see this as a sort of a deliberate display of confidence and defiance would probably did not come as a surprise to many that the president and then she would make an appearance today, an armed forces day. and she was there a days after or just right after the liberation of class on of, of is u. m a. so m b, he likes to send this message, likes to boost the morale of the troops and to show the people that he's there. i'm even said to day that next year at the armed forces day there would be in lieu hans in the guest and certainly awesome crimea. so we can see his railing the trucks, his boosting. the morale had a very difficult winter, or a mac fender reporting can came. thanks so much. the russian forces are continuing their shelling of the city of hudson and southern ukraine. it was liberated a month ago to the joy of many residents that endured 8 months under russian oc

ukraine. but until now, russia has had very little infrastructure to pump gas eastwood's. now putin has announced the development of what he said would become the largest gas field in easton, siberia, plus the infrastructure to export the gas. really that the implementation of projects such as the co victor field, the power of siberia to the far eastern route will make it possible to increase gas supplies to the east to 48000000000 cubic meters 520-2588 1000000000 by 2030 stood but that still not even close to what the west was buying from russia before the wash particular put in claims. the new guests field in the east coast region has recoverable reserves of 1.8 trillion cubic meters. that would make it around the 15th biggest in the world. the head of gas prom alexa, mila says that the co victor field is ready for operation and would soon begin pumping gas eastwood's. russia is desperate to get the project on line as quickly as possible to replenish dwindling walk offers. but the projected timeline to build the infrastructure shows that regardless of the outcome of the war, the kremlin expects, russia will be cut off from western markets for a long time to come. earlier