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

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

dw nick connelly reports and from the region where he met farmers trying to ease a global supply crisis. ukraine is bringing in the harvest, spite months of war, despite shortages of everything, from fuel to workers. here in this part of southern ukraine, we deal to down 40 percent on last year. that still millions of tons. this is we, that half a 1000000000 people around the world mauritania to china, or waiting for lina. because this is all grown for people abroad in the ukraine can't and doesn't consume all this food, but no one's buying right now. the trade is, might be willing to take it off our hands for storage. and the, we only get paid once it goes to the customers. this is harvest is now pulling up unsold, and ukraine's granaries on top of last year's crop should have been shipped in the early months of this year. just when war broke out. your grades cashed off, farmers are often themselves will, they'll even be able to afford to plot next year's crop. if the ports to reopen, giving them a chance to sell what they have and pay for new seeds and fertilizer with seaports . like

bible on the buildings hit in russian air strikes, the death toll there has risen to at least 24 dw nick connelly is in kiff and i asked him if the attacks on civilian infrastructure could be viewed as a deliberate strategy by russia. well that's certainly what the government hearing care of is saying, they are convinced that this part of russian stress is to try and so panic and chaos behind the front lines to get on re ukrainians to pressure their government to come to some kind of deal with the russians, and i think right now the intentions are less important than the facts and the round of those are that russia certainly not changing its tactics. they are certainly taking these are civilian casualties in their stride for the course. we've seen time and time again over recent weeks, attacks on civilian targets that the russians explained as attacks on western weapons heading to ukraine on military targets. whether this is just because they don't have the kind of high tech weapons that would allow them to hit targets or kind of more specifically more accurately, or whether this is policy. i thi

we also have dw correspondent, nick connelly for us in the ukrainian capital. keith, i earlier asked him what people there make of this green agreement. ok, there's a lot of skepticism henkie of about the mechanics. how this is going to work in practice or to the time where we've seen fighting actually increased between russian ukrainian for so land. the idea that suddenly peace essentially on the water on the black sea is gonna be possible. that is something that not many people can imagine for now how it's going to work. this will seal to fear that if the access to port like a desa is opened, if those c 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 don bass, 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 countries who are very dependent on that ukranian grain.

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

so dw correspondent, nick connelly. he made contact with 2 of the city's residence and they told him about living under russian occupation. now, musician, at the beginning, we all thought the occupation would be over in a week. it was only a few months in that we finally understood that the russians were here to stay. it's still very similar to what it. ready was in the 54 as i was a little window, a red flag the hanging. ready those look very soviet lazy, all my friends have left. the other generation is gone. only the pensioners have stayed here. there's so many people in need of a mountain. now these people are not able to get the money that they have on their gums. a lot of people. ready are trying to get the russian, so those 10000 rouble did this a b q together, right? so i think that they give this a normal by condition. there are some i only heard about the plans for a referendum to join russia from the ukranian press with that no one's talking about it here for home. it also why and daily and on, and before it

knock on effects for the global community, t w's nick connelly for us there in the ukrainian capital, kia, thank you so much. you have to date now and dw news of next day, as a documentary about german political prisoners in turkey. do stay with us if you can for that in the meantime, to host more on the web site t w dot com. i'm c r kelly and berlin. thanks for watching interest. the global economy our portfolio d w. business beyond. here's a closer look at the project.