nick, thank you very much. sha dw, nick connelly. they're in kia, sri lanka, is preston and go to buy a raj. epoxy says he will officially step down on wednesday nights, according to an announcement from the prime minister's office. but protesters in colombo are skeptical. they say they will carry on occupying the homes of the president and prime minister until the 2 leaders leave office. both men have said they will step down over violent turmoil sparked by a deepening economic crisis. a new all party government is said to take over negotiations or underway, but it's not clear how long the rival factions might take to reach an agreement more. let's bring in senior editor for the news magazine, him all south asian in colombo, moreland, r e, a. singer, thanks for being with us. marlyn. now she liked his economy has collapsed the president and prime minister or being forced out by angry protestors who if any one is in charge right now. thank you for home me. so right now, since that hasn't been any official designations, the president

earlier i asked nick connelly our correspondent in care of weather ukrainian forces. heading back in the south was a sign of the counter offensive that civilians had been told to prepare for it during the preparation to the counter offensive. we've seen ukraine using the new american delivered weapons rockets artillery systems. hi, mars's the name to attack russian. logistics helps russian weapons de opposed to basic deprive russia of that huge advantage. it's been having and taking advantage of in recent weeks, months just having $7.00 to $10.00 times more to re systems their disposal at least us those the figures that the ukrainians have been talking of. so basically trying to stop the russian positions in had san region which are already a lot less well equipped than the rest of the east of the country. ahead of then trying to make some ground and push forward and really stop making progress and taking more territory for the 1st time in, in a couple months. and as that fighting continues, neck of the united nations has released new numbers on the human toll of the war. and i just

you have your corresponding connelly there. and keith, thanks very much. ukraine has asked turkey to detain a russian flag ship. that key of says carrying stolen ukrainian grain. the cargo ship to actually is currently anchored off the turkish black sea port of cross crane says it sailed from the cranium. port of burdens which is currently under russian control, gave, has accused russia of stealing wheat and other grain from ukrainian territories occupied by russian forces. during jones, as did we correspond, istanbul asked him about what's known about this cargo ship. well the, the ship is currently a anchor just off the turkish coast in the touch port of kara. so that's about a 180 kilometers from east amble. where there is the or is the the basra straits where the ship would have to pass through to go on to world markets. now according to reuters news agency, the ukranian justice ministry center, a document to or on cro, where a call for the ship to be stopped. he said it is carrying a legally are taken grain from ukraine fr

nick connelly joins me from cave. nick now that the news of his crane deal has had time to spread and to sink in this morning. what are you craniums making of it? ok, this a lot of skepticism here and give about the mechanics. how this is going to work in practice or set a time where we've seen fighting actually increase between russian ukrainian force or land. the idea that suddenly piece essentially on the water on the black season to be possible, that is something that not many people can imagine for now how it's going to work. there's also a lot of fear that if the access to ports like a desa is opened, if those see mines removed, that russia might take advantage of that and try and attack those cities. we've heard from russian foreign mr. lover of in recent days, that russia's war aims and not going to be limited to dumbass that essentially all of ukraine still as moscow sees it, a target. but obviously there's a lot of consciousness of the sequence for the wider world of this that this is about hunger in lots of

is left facing the possibility of russian terror. striking at any moment. debra corresponding to connelly's innkeeper, i asked him about the latest attacks what from the glove we're hearing from the thirty's there or 14 wounded and in total, more than $250.00 people in hospital with injuries, they've sustained the russian text in the past few days. and weeks, the basic most important takeaways, even though this thing pretty tight lipped about the detail is that as ukraine tries to advance their trust take advantage. the fact that rushers focusing its efforts on the dumbass, russia is now starting to respond more aggressively. and that's also hitting a glove city of hundreds of thousands of people. and overnight missiles strikes, artillery strikes are becoming unfortunately basically daily occurrence there. and we're seeing the numbers of injured and wounded even casualties go up quite significantly. so mc glove is now a new hot spot on the map of ukraine and who's on the report as we've been hearing elsewhere. russian missiles are striking civilian infrastructure a long way from front lines

our correspondent nick connelly there in keith now you k were british prime minister boys. johnson is under renewed pressure to resign after to senior ministers and several others quit siding, a lack of confidence in his leadership. johnson was expected to pay questions in parliament today over whether he lied about his knowledge of sexual assault allegations against the senior, conservative party figure. it's only been weeks since johnson survived a vote of confidence among conservative lawmakers. forrest johnson on his way to deal with yet another crisis. this 1 may be the most serious challenge to his leadership. yet shortly after this cabinet meeting, 2 of his senior ministers resigned. chance levy she soon ac scene here to the right of the prime minister holds the 2nd most important government position after the prime minister himself recovery. he treated the public right. he expect government to be conducted properly, competently and seriously. i believe these standards are worth fighting for in that as why am resigning? health minister sergeant jarvis echoed his word

nick connelly and key. thank you. as always for reporting the tensions and with russia have caused gas prices across europe to spiral. now german chancellor, all our shoals has agreed to bail out the country's biggest gas importer. it is a delicate balancing act for his government trying to shield consumers from rising prices, while protecting gas companies from going bankrupt. gas prices are already at record highs in germany, whether from autumn, gas suppliers will be allowed to raise prices yet again. chancellor shaw said the increase would be around $0.02 per kilowatt hour, which would mean an extra $2.00 to $300.00 euro's a year for an average family. but schoultz promise support you will never walk along. the 2nd minds um the, we'll get through these tough times together. that's the most important thing that moves. nobody will be left alone with their challenges and problem lesson to protect consumers from soaring energy prices. shouts, announce heating subsidies for people on low incomes. a reform of the social

the w correspondent, nick connelly in gifts. thank you. all ukraine has asked her, he did the tain, a russian flag ship that he had says is carrying stolen, ukrainian grain, the target ship civic. sali is currently anchored off the turkish black sea port of cut a soup. a crime says it sailed from the county and port of betty dance, which is currently under russian control. give is accused brush of stealing grain from ukrainian territories occupied by russian forces. turkey says it's investigating the matter many ukrainian teenagers had fled to germany. they currently attending special classes to help them get used to live here. but after the holiday, some want to start in normal classes with german children, even though many are still studying their normal ukrainian syllabus online and outside of school, acting as unofficial translators for they parents. oh, music class is also an opportunity to relax a little these children from ukraine fled the country when war broke out, some of them with their families, some alone. they've been attendi

eric nick connelly is date of li correspondence in cube. i asked him earlier about russian client, they're not deliberately targeting civilians or whether they're just missing their intended targets. well, obviously the ukrainians are convinced that this is as you just heard, that from present lensky, tara, this is a deliberate attempt to create panic behind the front lines to force ukrainians to basically put pressure on their democratically elected government to make some kind of concessions to the russians and to end the civilian losses. and i think the russians still claim that these are all military targets in the or least nearby. and it's interesting that the russian state meter is kind of not paying too much sense to. these isn't trying to hard to talk about what they were supposedly targeting. i'm trying to kind of get away from the story and changed the narrative to something else. there is a sense that they are increasingly where the, how badly displaying internationally and how badly this is doing in terms of their perception, at

that was nick connelly in the training capital chief. meanwhile, hungarian prime minister victor or ben has repeated his criticism of the european union strategy on ukraine speaking at a rally in romania, the right wing politicians had sanctions imposed on moscow had backfired. and mohammed e u countries more than they were russia. he also accused the e with trying to impose its values on hungry. and that it is that on a kid hungry, his prime minister was the keynote speaker, this gathering of ethnic, hungarians and romania, his speech stoked dreams of a greater hungry. and he declared outright that his aim is a liberal democracy. he also rallied against the eas block on funds to his country for breaching the principle of the rule of law, or been also stressed. the difference between hungry and other members states laugh a little cold chick that is my 3rd avenue area. the funny does mar, budgetary models, predict growth, all. but the problem is that europe, on where most of europe, at least we'll see negative growth margin, ac bam, bees on you. and that would lead to political instabili

they w correspondent, nick connelly and give thanks so much the current has asked a turkey to detain, a russian flag ship that gib says is carrying stolen, ukrainian grain. the cargo ship, he beg, shelly, is currently anchored of the turkish black sea port of colossal ukraine says, sailed from the ukrainian port of berry dance, which is count the underbrush. control here has accused russia a stealing weight and other grains from ukrainian territories occupied by russian forces. or earlier, i asked correspondent dorian jones in a stumble, what we really know about the ship's journey so far. well, it's unclear where this ship has come up because according to the, this international monitoring site that monitors all ships, transponders is ships. transponder only was switched on when it approached a turkish waters. so it's unclear where it came from. ukrainian bassa there in turkey vessel, bowden, i insisted it came from this kremlin occupied ukrainian ports of, of berry dank square. russian officials were interviewed her last month and said that they were ready to export grain from this

the doubly correspondent nick connelly is in the ukranian capital key of nick russian missiles of struck civilian infrastructure a long way from the front line in the past few days. key of where you are. cremeans shook and odessa. russia says they're not deliberately targeting civilians, but that has been invariably the outcome. what is apply here? well, oversee the ukrainians are convinced that this is as you just heard there from present lensky, tara, this is a deliberate attempt to create panic behind the front lines to force ukrainians to basically put pressure on their democratically elected government to make some kind of concessions to the russians and to end the civilian losses. and i think the russians still claim that these are all military targets that were list nearby. and it's interesting that the russian state meter is kind of not paying too much sense to. these isn't trying to hard to talk about what they were supposedly targeting and tried to kind of get away from the story and changed the narrative to something else. there is a sense that they are increasingly where the,

w correspondent, nick connelly is following the story for us from kiev earlier. i asked him, what we should make of this breakthrough given ukraine's mistrust of russia. well exactly, that is the crucial issue that trust is not there. we've seen time time again, a deals to accurate civilians, other deals or between the sides to talking about a presence of war and of the kind of the bodies of casualties of war. all those deals have fallen through time time again. so the question about whether ukraine rush can work together now. lots of question marks there. lots of doubts. i think this is definitely about the blame game. but both sides in this conflict know that this is an issue that has caught it edge people around the world that people are really feeling the impact of this conflict in their daily shopping in their, in their, their food bill. and so they're all trying to play game, they're all showing willingness to engage. but whether ukraine really is willing to take those minds away to basically make such like a desa and mc alive fundable to russian attacks fr

she could little, that's burgundy, there is no connelly and t f nigger, another devastating russian attack. what more do we now was for now the details are pretty scarce, but i think the most important takeaways that this was an attack, basically in the morning rush hour just before 8 o'clock local time. and that's been a pattern of the last few days. same in vinegar, sir, yesterday, and in last few weeks we've seen tax on shopping center and other civilian targets outside of the nighttime, which is normally the most dangerous in terms of artillery and missile attacks of the, during the night there's a curfew, and not many people about so seemingly no attempt on the part of the russians now to try and minimize civilian casualties in these attacks. and the ukraine government is adamant. this is a tactic on purpose to try and so panic. it is this attack that we're talking about now. it comes a day after at least $23.00 people were killed by russian shelling on the central city of veneta. hundreds of kilometers away from the front lines. our nic tell us the ukrainian president condemned the a

nick connelly. m t f. thank you so much. his a look at some other stories making his social media platform. twitter is suing billionaire iran mosque in an effort to force him to buy the company mosque is attempting to back out of an agreement to acquire twitter for $44000000000.00 in its lawsuit. twitter accused mosque of ruining the company's stock value and disrupting operations. a french court has jailed a former senior a want an official for 20 years after finding him guilty of complicity, genocide, low wrong. ok, buttah is the highest ranking we're wanting to face trial in france. over the 1994 massacres, the 78 year old was found to have taken part in planning mass killings. the u. s. has says that it has killed the leader of the syrian branch of the so called lomax state in h. rone strike, mar, i'll, i'll go, was hit near gin date in direst in northwestern syria. while riding a motorcycle, the pentagon says that a senior i s official seriously injured. the funeral, a former japanese prime minister sions, obey, has tak

did of is there. connelly is standing by and keith with the latest nic, ukrainian foreign minister, the mutual labor says you can't just 2 steps away from this deal with moscow. that's quite a change in june from someone who says he doesn't trust the russians. i think this is quite optimistic talk and i fear that unfortunate ease talks like lots of round negotiations for them are not going to end up with any result in time soon. think right now this is about both sides. russian ukraine needing to show the world and outside partners who have me at waiting for this grain, waiting impatiently for prices to full, to show that they are open to dialogue. that is what this talks with it talks about . but in terms of the actual nitty gritty, in terms of the detail that would see ukraine in a position to take those minds away to open the access the ports without being afraid that russia would take advantage of that to try attacks. it's like a desa. i haven't seen any significant change there. and i think if there had been speculation that are the turkey, maybe france would provide security guara

here's our correspondent connelly and key on what the russian withdraw from snake island will mean for ukraine's green exports. well, 1st of all, i think hearing you correctly, no one really believes that russian claim that they were this was a good will just it simply was feeling the heat from lots of western weapons, anti, or, and to ship missiles that were preventing russians for re supplies they call and, and those rocket launchers, high miles from the u. s that were enabling the cranes to hit the island from its own coasts. as for the grain exports, unfortunate. and he does a lot because the main problem are still the mines, which there are lots in the northwestern part of black sea. and basically, as it is no private ship own is going to send their ships anywhere near ukrainian ports, even if the ukrainians began taking those mines away. and they're not gonna do that because they just don't trust russia to not take advantage of that situation and send in lots of ships trying take those cities on you can go. so it basically means russia has fewer shouts of trying to take even more

did our youth make connelly in kia? thank you. now within russia, expressing an anti war stance can lead to serious consequences including intimidation in the workplace. some public servants have lost their job. d, w correspondent, dare you re, re chateau, spoke to one russian teacher from moscow, who has refused to be silenced, despite pressure from management. just if you lost corrections before the summer holidays that you are not to have anchor hopes that she'll still have her job to come back to when the new school year starts. that young us onto you was dance, has alienated her from this school management, which left the quote building slowly, but surely i'm being put under pressure even over trivial things. murphy, for example, here a student scribbled something i have course, did you notice it? but i was still reprimanded by the director for allegedly not fulfilling my duties . i was told i should have invited the student's parents to the school to discuss it, just because of these doodles that up. well, when russia launch

nick connelly. he joins me tonight from achieve nick. so we've got several civilians killed in. hark, give at least 18 inches of yard. this is beginning to look like a deliberate strategy by russian forces isn't that's definitely the line here and kia from the government. they are saying that this is an attempt by russia to try to break ukraine's resolve to pressure on the civilian population. to so chaos said that those same civilians would then put pressure on their government to come to some kind of deal with russia. given that russia is struggling to make much noise progress and certainly much less progress than it is thought given it's huge security in terms of weapons and financial resources. i think the kind of a intention behind all this is a question for later, for potential war crimes. investigators why russia is doing this. there's been talk that some of this could be because russia simply run out of the kind of precision weapons that would allow it to go specifically for military targets. and then there's of see at the, the e

as rushes forces advance laguna or correspondent nick connelly, he is in keep following events for is nick, we know that russian forces have control of half of that critical don't bass region that they say that they want to take. what's the latest now on the offensive to take? the remaining half was real fair hearing here that russia is on something of a role after weeks spent taking 70000. yes. can huge losses. they took certain that's his citizenship. it's just a matter of days of the sense that they could really be pushing home that advantage that than you strategy of focusing their efforts on a pretty small section. the front lines moving away from trying to do too much what they did in the early months. this war that failed so spectacular. that's now really bringing fruits that russia is outstanding and out manning basically ukraine in this conflict, and that for now ukraine doesn't have the resources isn't getting the western support that it's been asking for. and that ukraine's western partners simply don't really understand the scale and the intensity of this war. and that all

thanks about 8, nick hudson connelly reporting from keith and climate change. and the conflict in ukraine are threatening global st. security . and as particularly affecting parts of africa, where a record number of people are facing hunger, our food supply problems are pushing farmers there to change their methods. a w correspondent, blaze young, traveled to the village of that d bundari in cameroon. to meet with a business man and a farmer who is promoting smart agriculture is in green houses 10 years ago, rule on form on their return to come home from the us to start greenhouse for me, is a method of every quarter door remains new income, a rude. loaner has more than 100 view house forms across the country. jeroen, he got his clothes that i eat scarce in the market. oh, are traditionally available all in certain seasons. we grow based on what the market demands we grow belt up as because prior to doing both up as they were actually been imported. so we've actually been able to substitute the petition of bell peppers into the country. one of the things we've

i asked her correspond nick connelly, what he makes of this change in june from keith. i think this is quite optimistic. talk and i fear that unfortunate these talks like lots of rounds negotiated for them on not gonna end up with any result any time soon. thing right now, this is about both sides, russian, ukraine needing to show the world and outside partners who are me waiting for this grain waiting impatiently for prices to fool to show that they are open to dialogue . that is what this talks with these talks about. but in terms of the actual nitty gritty, in terms of the detail that would see ukraine in a position to take those minds away to open the access the ports without being afraid that russia would take advantage of that to try and attack such like a desa i haven't seen any significant change there. and i think there had been speculation that i the turkey, maybe france would provide security guarantees, would even send naval vessels to the region to protect those convoys of grain ships . we haven't seen any progress on that. so for now, i think there's littl

w nay. connelly who is joining us from care of and, and nick, were also just getting reports of another devastating russian attack in the southern city of nikolai, of what more do we now? well, sir, this was at about 8 in the morning local time. or 2 universities seemingly hit, we don't have any numbers yet about casualties. but this fits the pattern that we've seen in recent days from vanessa and before of attacks during the day when you had the potential for damage and destruction to civilians is at its highest previously. lots of those rocket attacks had been during the night time. one of the supers of the curfew people were all at home and michel, i there is pretty close the front lines the ukrainians trying to make progress and push russian forces back in the headphone region. so this really is a frontline city, a big city of hundreds of thousands people where the civilian authorities have time time again called on people to leave if they can. but up to recently, it was estimated about half population was still there. the thought seemingly that they had got used to the new normal.

well, the ws nick connelly is in the ukrainian capital reporting for us. and i asked them whether it was true that russia military seem to be targeting civilians deliberately. well, that's definitely what the ukraine government is sure of. that's the line. they're pushing. they say this an attempt by russia to so chaos and panic behind the front lines to get ukraine civilians to put pressure on their own lawmakers. they're in government to come to some kind of deal with russia, given that the russians are making particularly impressive progress through normal military combat. and the russians as ever, have claimed these were strikes against ukrainian military targets and west the weapons in particular being sent to ukraine. i think the kind of intention behind these russians strikes is less important than the reality that time and time again, civilians are being hit and that the russians haven't made any change to their strategy since that devastating tech on the shopping center in central ukraine. but 10 days ago they are keeping on doing this and basical

nick, nick connelly and keith of the united nations estimates the civilian death toll in this war to be around $5000.00 at all on soldiers is even higher. of course government estimates put that at around $200.00 a day. some of the injured have been taken to hospitals in other european countries, dw, met to some of them, and the german city of action. even on shank got out alive. he was by you warned it defending key if against russian troops muslim resist of melissa melissa. we discovered them in a forest. now we immediately began fighting a lot though we were lucky that day, but because our unit left the battle with only 2 wounded, his lawful me and another lad had wobbled on it. so yeah, boy is sheldon floats from shanker, receive 2 bullet wounds and the shrapnel wound to his legs. he's one of the 1st ukrainian soldiers to be treated in germany, says the russian attack began a low no final to medical care. the patient received and ukraine was excellent, but he needed further operations. so of course, to do that, we needed a large team and the appropriate infrastructure, which is p

what did of is nick connelly has more on how the deal is being received in give when theory with a lot of enthusiasm. but there is a huge amount skepticism that russia will stick to its side of the deal. basically, what he's trying to do is to basically bring about peace on the water on the black sea wall. the war heats up on land, especially in the south of ukraine. you those ports that's near where you crane wants to go into counter attack and where it's expected. we'll see a lot more fighting the weeks to come. so a lot of skepticism and a lot of question marks, but as to how those 2 things are going to be busy detached from another. and you know how it's going to work in practice? how turkey in other foreign countries are going to guarantee ukraine safety. if it does take away those mines and open access to its main port cities that are in themselves, prime targets for rushes expansions and we heard from russian for mr. sega lover of in recent days, that don bass is basically not enough russia that ukraine still has to expect attacks and more russian offensives across all of its te

parliament chamber, but it will likely take years to clear all the hurdles for e u. membership dw nick connelly spoke to us earlier about the targeting of civilian infrastructure. we asked him if moscow was trying to break the morale of the people in ukraine. that's certainly the way it's being red here and key if that is certainly what most people use me here, especially in government circles, would tell you. i think the intention added level is perhaps less important than the results we've seen now in the past week, civilians lose their lives on a huge scale and come and shook in odessa today. but also in the mac ally of close, it's a front lines. and it's abundantly clear that russia is not willing to stop hitting targets or going for targets that it claims a military targets. even if there is a significant risk of civilian, lots of life at the rockets they're using now are increasingly old and less precise . some of the rockets use the past week are ones that came in service in the seventy's that are have a huge range up to 5000 kilometers, some of them, but are notorious for hitting the wr

so d, w correspondent, nick connelly made contact with 2 of the cities residents, and they told him about life and occupation. a new system at the beginning, we are thought the occupation would be over in a week. really. it was only a few months in that we finally understood that the russians were here to stay. it looks very similar to what it. ready was in 19, maybe 5 into 4 as i was a little will year and on a red flag her haney and those look very saw your plane with all my friends have left with the other generation is gone. only the pensioners have stayed here. there's so many people in need of a mountain of snow. these people are not able to get the money that they have on their guns. a lot of beauty, elder people are trying to get in there. awesome. so boston 1000 rule did this a b q to get there. so i think build a new system and it wasn't her uncle rommel by conditional given the rest. i only heard about the plans for a referendum to join russia from the ukrainian press. with that, no one's talking about it here for home. so why and daily and on, and before it got fully milder ve

to take a kind of controlled retreats to avoid losing lots of personal they w correspondent, nick connelly and give thanks so much ukraine has asked turkey did detain a rush and flagged ship that he ab says is carrying stolen ukrainian grain. the cargo sheet she makes jolly is currently anchored of the turkish black sea port of colossal euchre and says it sailed from the cranium. port of betty dance, which is currently under russian control. he has accused rush of stealing grain from ukrainian territories occupied by russian forces or corresponding during jones, joins us for more. from istanbul, dorian equal wants turkey to detain this russian flagged ship. what's what we know about the ship's journey? well, it's unclear where this show ship has come up because according to the, this international monitoring site that monitors all ships, transponders is ships, transponder only was switched on when it approached a turkish waters. so it's unclear where it came from. ukrainian bassa there in turkey vessel bottom, i insisted it came from this kremlin occupied ukrainian port of, of berry dank s

steve, your corresponding connelly, they're in keys. thanks very much. ukraine is asked turkey to detain a russian flagged ship that keeps as his carrying stolen ukrainian grain. the cargo ship she bent joey is currently anchored off the turkish black c port of carrasco. ukraine says it sailed from the ukrainian port. a bare nest, which is currently under russian control. give is accusing russia of stealing wheat and other grain from ukrainian territories occupied by russian forces. let's take this one apart with corresponded dorian jones, who's joining me now from is danville dorian. what 1st of all, what more can you tell us about the ship? well the, the ship is currently um i could just off to turkish coast to and the tech support of course. so that's about a 180 kilometers from istanbul, where there is the is the, the basra straits where the ship will have to pass through to go on to world markets. now according to reuters news agency, the ukranian justice ministry center, a document to on cro, where a call for the ship to be stoppe

nick connelly in here. take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world today. thousands of firefighters have been battling wildfires in portugal amid a worsening heat wave. dozens of aircraft have been supporting ground crews with help, also coming from neighboring spain. nearly all of portugal was classified last month as being in either extreme or severe drought. a wildfire in yosemite national park in california has more than doubled in size and is threatening the largest growth of giant sequoia tree firefighters have been working in difficult terrain to contain the blaze. residence and campers have been evacuated from the affected areas of the sprawling park. macau, the world's biggest gambling hub, has shut all its casinos for at least a week. as the chinese autonomous regions struggles to contain his worst ever corona virus outbreak, residents have been ordered to stay at home, thousands or in horn t as marco follows, china's 0 covered policy. sri lunches president to go to buy a r

the devil is correspondent nick connelly is in the crimean capital cave. we asked him if the report of the attack on odessa could scuttle the grand deal. well, it definitely gives weight to the voicing crane that were very, very skeptical about this deal. all along who said there is basically no basis for trusting russia, that truck russia will meet the commitments given in turkey. that russia will attempt to take advantage of the fact that the c mines being removed in front of a desert. and we'll use that to try and take more turchin ukrainian did rush from mr. sagan, lab in recent days, it said that russia is not satisfied with dumbass, that basically the whole of ukraine is still one of russia's targets. i think this agreement might still be working on paper and yet there is more work ahead in terms of saying that coordination center has stumble to coordinate these ships going in and out. but right now, it's very difficult to see how any commercial ship owner can even get insurance, or would be willing to send their property, their ship into ports, like

nick connelly went to the border region. nation if to see for himself here, when you cranes board with bruce, who never really alone. we're not through not sure that drones, one of ours blown actually it is but that's not a given. it was a russian drone attack from across the border. the started the war for these ukrainian border gods on february 24th. they tried to keep russian forces on the bellow, recite by blowing up the bridge. but the russians came all the same and stayed for nearly a month. and the russians left in april. the shooting round. here is lot. you been restricted to exercises on both sides of the border fear now, many ukrainians that russia's exercises in belarus could suddenly turn into real warfare just like they did in february. russian forces have never left belarus. instead, their so called exercises keep getting extended. ukrainian leaders long said their presence was just a distraction or a bluff rather than a real threat. but recently, russian troop numbers of the board have risen in the tone from bell russian leda, alexander lucas shanker, has grown ever more

something that would stretch key of the force is considerably the though you know. connelly went to the border region near char nia to see for himself here when you cranes bored with boilers, you never really alone. not for the drones. one of ours don't actually. it is but that's not a given. it was a russian drone attack from across the border, the stop the war from these ukrainian border guards on friday, the 24th. they tried to keep russian forces on the blue side, but blowing up the bridge of the russians came all the same and stayed for nearly a month since the russians left in april. the shooting route here is locked. you been restricted to exercises on both sides of the border fear now, many ukrainians is that russia's exercises and bellows could suddenly turn into real warfare. just like they did in february. russian forces have never left bellows. instead, their so called exercises keep getting extended. ukrainian leaders long said their presence was just a distraction or a bluff rather than a real threat. but recently rushed troop numbers of the board have risen in the tone fr

the connelly nic ukrainian forces this week retreated from the wants to the more western region of done yet is ukraine in a better position to defend itself. certainly in part, the front lines that ukraine has defend have become a bit shorter, a bit easier to manage, but the overall picture is not an optimistic one for ukraine. right now. listen, the short term. we've seen russia darling up, it's effort theft, concentrating all its efforts on dawn bass and doing a lot better than i did in the early months of this war. and believe it out gunning and out, manning, ukraine. and we saw russia spend basically weeks trying to get some of the nets, and then the city of us a chance fell within a matter of days, there's real worry here. but on the upside, at least from key point of view, there are increasing signs that, that those it offensive have cost russia very deal in terms of manpower in terms of resources. and they are potentially going and outgoing some kind of short term breaks. i'm kind of low trying to regroup their forces, so not really clear yet how intersection we're going to be. b

as russia's forces advance dw corresponded nick connelly is in key for us with the latest on the offensive in the don bass region. what is real, see here in care of that? russia is on something of a role after weeks spent taking several than yes. can huge losses they took so in that case sir, sissy of las chancellor, matter of days of the sense that they could really pushing home that advantage that then your strategy of focusing their efforts on a pretty small section, the front lines moving away from trying to do too much what they did in the early months of this war that failed so spectacular. that's now really bringing fruits that russia is out gunning and out. manning, basically ukraine in this conflict, and that for now ukraine doesn't have the resources isn't getting the western support that it's been asking for. and that ukraine's western partner simply don't really understand the scale and the intensity of this war. and that all these deliveries are just going to be too little, too late. the only kind of little shimmer of hope. our reports are the last few days from moscow that so

he of his correspondent nick connelly's indian training capitol. keep earlier i asked him about the reported attack and if it could scuttle the deal . well, there was obviously a lot of skepticism here running into the signing of that deal in turkey yesterday . obviously, the government, keen to show willingness to engage if it were to work of c, this would have lots of advantages for you. creating transformers who've been sitting on 2 years worth of crops, now unable to get any ready cash to pay for next year's crop to pay for seeds and fertilizers. but all these doubts about whether russia would take advantage of access to odessa being reopened minds being taken away. those rules told ass is definitely a lot of people here saying i told you so the russians are just not to be trusted. i think the basic dilemma here is that this deal was trying to create peace on the sea or in the black sea at the time to same time as war on land was carrying on. and the south of ukraine is a region that is seeing intensifying, fighting overseas. you've had so not