all right, well let's bring an dw corresponded nick conley, who's in key force. nick, good to see you. m so evil can only be defeated on the battlefield. how does he plan on achieving that goal? considering that the ukrainian arm is at running out of weapons. this is definitely about playing for time until those crucial western deliveries finally, make themselves felt on the front lines. lots of stuff promised from the u. s. from germany from the u. k. and it is finally arriving, question of training for ukrainian troops to make sure they can actually use it effectively. but there is a sense here in key of that ukraine is able to hold up with on these front lines. but 2000 clumps. the front lines between russian troops and ukrainian troops, and that if they can slow the russian advance in place, like several of the nets, which basically weeks now the russians have been trying to take and failing only, but managing to pick up a couple of streets by the day of the week, even then by the time those weapons, rita, they'll be able to turn the tide in that time is actua

after weeks of st . battles. moralists cross over to dw nick conley. standing by force and ukrainian capital. kip. nick, how are people in key of coping after the latest attack on the capital? things definitely a shock. this was the 1st attack for weeks and the 1st for much longer than that that really hit a residential area. so close the downtown about 2 clumped is where i am standing now. i heard the last of the blasts and definitely you had messages on your phone for people around city. everyone who kind of tried to commit themselves that they could live some kind of normal life, couple 100 kilometers behind the front lines. now brought back to the reality of war very quickly. and also this of the, showed at how on precise the weapons of the missile systems are that russia is using. there is a factory where in the past the some weapons tense she were produced. i think no one really believes that there was anything going on there right now, given the logistic situation. ukraine, given the vulnerability that everyone knows they have here. but this hit residential air is kindergarten.

dw, correspond at nick conley is in central ukraine in the town of crop init, sky, nick, the fighting seems to be coming to a head in eastern ukraine, particularly seville bennett's. what a thing stand there now? well, definitely this battle for soda than that has been going on for weeks and many times before you've had metrics, but saying that now is the time now the last 2 days of ukrainian control of several of the nets and then we've seen reverses, unfortunately, ukrainians taking a bit more of the town center, moving out from the kind of industrial outskirts where they've been pushed back to . but it does seem that now this is the end, almost the end for ukrainian control on that bank of the river. and this was ukraine's last biggest outpost on the northern bank of the civically, the nets river, crucial defensive feature there. and with the news, the russians have blown up as we bringing here in ukraine today to bridges leaving any one connection across the river of c, supplying those ukrainian forces on the other bank will be increasingly difficult if not impossible. and it look

our correspondent nick conley is in keith, and he told us more about the area. the cover is a 5th of ukraine, that president zalinski asserts is now under russian control. bo includes crimea and the areas in east and on best that russia controlled before february 24th before the beginning of this war. but they have made quite significant turturro gains in the south, had sworn in that land bridge, linking russian annex crimea with russia. and then also in the north near, had give in dawn, best actually strange enough that there has been less in the way, comparatively, or movement on for lunch. so this is the region where ukraine has been defending itself against russ proxy for 8 years. and where the defenses are the best developed and the strongest. and we've seen extraordinarily heavy fighting around several dozen ask in recent days we heard from zelinski today that ukrainian losses are at about a 100 soldiers a day with about $4500.00 additional casualty. in terms of wounded heavily, severely wounded. so these are very, very significant losses. and right now uk

consequences at the un for the destruction and death here in crevice. chuck our correspondent, nick conley is in ukraine. he's on the scene in a crime and shock. we're that missile strike took place sir. nick, the ukrainian government has released a video that it says shows the moment of impact when the missiles struck them all. what more can you tell us about that video? that video which seemingly comes from a security camera shows a missile hitting in the foreground. you see some industrial equipment stored. we haven't be able to get there yet. we're hoping to get there in the next few hours to see the direction from which it was filmed. to make sure that fits the geography here, but certainly if you talk to people here on the ground locals, they point to the patent destruction behind me of this shopping mall. one side basically fully collapsed. they say that the impact, whereas l aside burnt out, the russian version is that a fire spread from the factory behind the small and that it's, you know, spread to the, to the mall by mistake through destination, maybe of some of those weapons. t

i think doubly correspondent nick conley. in goliath. well let's look at the progress of this war from the failed attempt to take keep to the grinding slog of the battle in the dawn bass. they w reporter joel dull roy has been looking at russia's changing military goals. well, during the 3 and a half months of russia's invasion of ukraine, the front line has shifted dramatically. russia's initial attempt focused on the capital of keys and the 2nd biggest city of khaki have. but the ukrainian military surprised their world with a defined resistance pushing the underprepared russians back. after leaving here, they focus most of the units on the south and east and focus their efforts. instead on taking full control of the don bass region. the port city of mario poll also became a major flash point. ukrainian troops held out there longer than anyone expected, under terrible conditions, but finally surrendered in may who after months of strong ukrainian resistance western military analysts say that russia is now regaining some traction rushes

and we can cross over to the craning capital cave, where he deli, nick conley is standing by. neck. tell us how big of a blow is this retreat from severe red onions? this is obviously a big deal. definitely. this is the top news here in ukraine, but it's sort of expected. and ukraine government has prepared public opinion and world opinion even for this 4 weeks now and distress you will, along as basically been to make the russians pay as high price possible for the smallest possible gains. similar to what we saw in mario pl. really make them fight for every street for every meter of ground. and hope that basically they exhaust themselves in the situation where obviously they still have huge superiority in terms of the weapons available. and we've heard different figures. ukrainian government figures talking about 10 times more artillery in the russian or the russian side than on the ukrainian side. so ukraine really having to choose its battles carefully and to use what little equipment it has as cleverly as possible. now they've made the decision to withdraw from sort of nets cons

well, the job is nick conley is covering this story in keys, and i asked him how zalinski might believe russia could be stuffed on the battlefield with ukraine running short of ammunition for its forces. this is definitely about playing for time until those crucial western deliveries. finally, make themselves felt on the front lines. lots of stuff promised from the u. s. from germany from the u. k. and it is finally arriving. question of training for ukrainian troops. make sure they can actually use it effectively. but there is a sense here in key of that ukraine is able to hold up on these front lines, about 2000 clumps, the front lines between russian troops and ukrainian troops. and that if they can slow the russian advance to place activity, the net, which basic for weeks now the russians have been trying to take and failing only, but managing to pick up a couple of streets by the day or the week, even then by the time those weapons, rita, there be able to turn the tide in that time is actually in their favor that russia will exhaust itself. that's that, that the, the mood here that

and it argues nick conley is in the ukranian capital. here for a little earlier, i asked him if russia is winning the battle in the don bus? i think on the local level 17, this is a chance. yes. this is going in the way that the russians had hoped will be much more slowly and with much greater losses than they had expected. but i think if you kind of zoom out and look at the bigger picture, dumbass, they still only control about half of the done yet region. yes, they control most the lo hunter region that makes up the dumbass. but they took most of that in the 1st few weeks when ukraine basically was fighting a war on several fronts the same time. so they've not made much progress in the best part of a few months. you remember mario pl fell to the russians in may. so basically it's the 1st big city 70 it's that has fallen to russian hands now in. yeah, a month in terms of list a chance. guess there is a, with the risk that people leave it too late, that they don't follow those warnings until they can hear the fighting, basically around t

russian forces around the strategically important city. eastern city of lucy's chat, while the w's nick conley is in kia. he told us how people reacted to sundays rocket attack on the city. i think definitely a shock. this was the 1st attack full weeks and the 1st for much longer than that, that really hit a residential area. so close the downtown about to clumps is where i am standing now. i heard the last of the blasts. i'm definitely you had messages on your phone for people around city. everyone who'd kind of tried to commit themselves that they could live some kind of normal life, couple of 100 kilometers behind the front lines. now brought back to the reality of war very quickly. and also this was, he showed how on precise the weapons of the missile systems, all that russia is using. there is a factory where in the past the some weapons did she were produced. i think no one really believes that there was anything going on there. right. now given the logistic situation, ukraine, given the vulnerability that everyone knows they have here, but this heat to residential areas, kindergarten, q

nick conley visited a farmer on the front lines near me. call life birdsong and tractors not the only sounds on india even of is 4000 hector's artillery far in the distance, never really stops. but in a d and her team, a preoccupied with other things, the quarter 1000000 look at the suite. it's under fed. it's under love to that, i think but that wasn't for want of trying on ideas, but for most of the crew slowly growing season, she couldn't even get to have fields they were was own fighting is now at least 25 kilometers away. far enough from the d n. her team to get back to feeding the world the glare of the missile fly over our heads towards mc alive over there. we're in the fields catches fire really easily with all the dry straw. if you do get a direct hit, you could lose hector's to the flames. in a matter of minutes, this unexploded russian missile had dug its way a meter into the ground. to some the ordinance of the russians left behind them. no st. landmines and countless shells. they also took a lot with them from chainsaws to food

dw nick conley reports from the front lines in the southern mich alive region where ukrainian forces are making some advances. despite a shortage of equipment, russia may be making gains in the dawn best, but it's a different story here. 600 kilometers to the southwestern mich alive. ukraine is pushing russian forces out of villages like these. closing in on the russian occupied city of hudson b, ukrainian commanders where their advanced comrade of steam be stopped or even reversed. after more than a 100 days of relentless fighting, their supplies, weapons, and ammunition, running dangerously low healdsburg. we meet victor and his crew some way behind the front lines. when will broke out and they were all working abroad. all of them decided to give up their lives in safety, in poland and germany, to return home to fight. victor found the little had changed since his time is a recruit and the soviet army decades earlier. well, there are 13 can 1st the so this how it is just old. it's way past his prime little don't you? we be making the most of it. but what can you expect from a weapo

thanks, rick, at the w, corresponded nick conley in mc alive. going back to those 3 soldiers who have been sentenced to death. one of them is moroccan natural, brought him as a dune, asked his friend mo, as a hans to that. why bry, him decided to join ukraine's military? well, the problem is, but she didn't find a job. he was a university, but so he was feeling useless. so he wanted to do something useful, and also he told me he wanted to get some military experience. and others court says he's a mercenary. what do you think is a that's his not a mercenary. i have all the copies of his documents, all those contracts signed names, but they are meant for ukraine. so he's not a mercenary. he is, you know, like the, the folder of the ukraine and army. and i have all the documents verifying, but and confirming that he signed that contract in november of 2021. well, the sentencing of those 3 men is certain to raise concerns about the fate of other captured foreign fighters. as early as the 27th of february, ukraine announced the formation of a foreign