the, the pieces dw news line from berlin, ukraine sans reinforcements to hearken, key of attempts to strengthen its positions as russia claims gains in the region, with the surprise of sensitive promising mass evacuations. also coming up switzerland's nemo list the prize at the eurovision song contest and sweden winning with their song, the code about their journey as a non binary person, the mariana evans,

dean. it's good to have you with us. ukraine says it's sending reinforcements to strengthen his positions near. hark, if that's after a surprise. russian ground offensive prompted mass evacuations. there russia said, saturday, it had captured at 5 villages and the region. hundreds of civilians are thought to have fled from the nearby town of of chance, which is reportedly under russian fire. russian shilling have fet homes, i believe, and took down a full shot. that evidence here are picked one by one by the rescue teams. from an unsteady legs for them, the water has come to close. once again. both sean sports occupied progression troops after the full scale invasion in february 2022. it was liberated that september and have been sporadically should since been of these days and

nights something terrible is going on. may god protect us. you lie down and think whether they will kill you now or in an hour or 3. many are leaving, not knowing when and if they will return to their homes, smoke and roaming at the last memories that taking with them the village. we drove through 4 shots in the town, satisfied. i can't look at this without tears. everything is shaking. that's empty. we didn't sleep these 2 nights at all. russian 4 fifths had been slowly. but that is the precious thing that ukrainian defenses. you can see if it's fighting back, but it's submitted to sent, stipulated for the supplies from a long delayed american. a package are only beginning to trick goes to the front lines. is ukraine weights for more ammunition at the age from its allies?

president zalinski has responded to the threat posed by russia's new offensive. he's called for a steely result from his armed forces and is deploying reinforcements to the emerging new front. shields and not sure what else is must achieve maximum results to destroy the enemy everywhere. today, with reports from a commander in chief alexander to a scale of 4 months, we are strengthening all positions, especially in the region by deploying additional forces. the artillery is operating exactly as planned on the budget. but let's bring in marina muran from the war studies department at kings college london. welcome, rena. so we're hearing that you're creating presidents lensky announcing he's sending reinforcements to har cave. what does that tell us about what's happening on the ground there? to good morning marianne. so from the reports, what we're seeing right now is that the russians are trying to create the circle

the castle around both chums. however, we have to bear in mind that we still cannot talk about a large scale offensive. and hark is because at the moment the russians are using minimal force meaning about ground force. it is uh 5 battalion. so about 5000 people. so it is not clear what is going to happen. however, if that trigger, perhaps the response that the russians were hoping for, namely, is a fact that the ukrainian command has sent reinforcements and the choice. so the great increment is difficult because they have to get people from other directions and send them to higher keith, possibly neglect thing, also very important locations. yes, and in addition to sending reinforcements, as we saw on that report, thousands of people have been evacuated from the heart of area. so is ukraine treating this as a new front in the war?

yes, potentially, ukraine is treating it as a new font ends or a furious that the russians might also try an incursion in the swimming old list. however, we don't know what is going to happen because, um, we also have mazda directions. we still have cha, cpr. we have supper risha, we also have to remember that the russians, how the breakthrough in of the car, which was an important line of defense, fully ukrainian armed forces on was a full of what you're wrapped in it. it could be possible that the russians will be trying to develop 0 offensive and the direction of crossover and the across. so that is also an important logistical point. and meaning that if you create incense all the reinforcements to hierarchy and possibly swimming, or there just stop the russians and the tracks there. these important directions will be lost and the id or for the russian forces would be sent to cop the font

into to cross the logistics and communications for the ukranian armed forces for the groupings. ok of has long been asking for additional support and now we have this delayed american, a package only now starting to reach the front lines. so is this going to help ukraine gain ground, or is it going to be a case of too little too late? like the 1st question we have to ask ourselves is, is the kind of aids that ukraine has been receiving from the united states? is that what they actually need to defend against the russian offensive? so they have received already, app accounts, the but the app accounts in themselves do not enable the creating and forces to properly defend and what they need or armored vehicles. they need artillery systems they need, or tillery munition and air defenses. and all of those are missing again, we have heard reports that there was some delays. so with artillery and munitions

coming from the czech republic, and these would be in ukraine by june. so the ukraine is getting this and bit towards this aid. it doesn't know which directions to prioritize arise. so the problem here is the kind of free that is coming and where to send it, as well as the ongoing problem was a ukrainian armed forces was a shortage of manpower. and i'm afraid all these factors combined contribute to this very unpleasant situation for the queen, armed forces and trumps officer or the principal corporate abilities right now. that was maureen moran from the worst studies department at kings college london. marina. thank you for your insights. thank you. for having me let's get a check now, some of the other stories making use this. our israel has launched more strikes and gauze on after expanding its evacuation order for rough off. it said some

$300000.00 people have already floods the area and the one is warning of an epic disaster. if israel pursues an outright invasion of the crowded city, israel says ralph, who is the last refuge of hum us, which launch the tober 7th terrorist attacks. people in northern afghanistan have been burying their dad after devastating flooding. the world health organization says a number of people killed has now passed 330. the w h o's at the floss had left many more homeless and with severely disruptive transportation, water supplies and sewage systems, switzerland nemo has won the eurovision song contest becoming the 1st non binary contestant to take home the prize. the annual contest as built as a seal good celebration of europe's diversity and organizers and says the event is non political. but this year's contest was mired and politically charged

controversy. for weeks, thousands of pro palestinian demonstrators had marched through the streets of the host city. now, lo and sweden, against israel's participation public, and after a nail biting final, nemo took home the top price after performing the code of household tract and rates. the journey of self discovery in finding one's place in the world. the king live promising continues to send for peace. nemo is your vision's 1st. we know who identifies as known binary, they hope the victory can blaze a trail for others having to cope with prejudice or discrimination.

this was one of the most clear represent patients. we seem at your vision, which is like amazing, i want to shut out all the other clear artist this year like, give it up, give it up for at least use contest was overshadowed by protest and drama that keeps the music celebration into chaos. just hours before the grand finale to golf dots, contender used klein was disqualified because of the back stage incident that came off to days of protests on the streets of host city melma, calling for israel to be excluded over its military campaign in gaza. once a time, we refuse to have russia because it has a war against a friend. yeah. and today we have is right and says,

i have park receives painful ease rose eaten goal on finished 5th and was partially booed during high performance. there was also boeing when the points of these railey jury were presented. organizes say the event is known police equal vc. it was as political as at the end of the day. but even so, the music and the classic you were a vision plan shown through and to talk more about the revision san contest i'm joined in the studio, but my colleague, rosalie angles from dw culture rose, we really get to see. so i know that last night you actually predicted that nemo was going to win. so what do you think made this performer? the favorite of not just the jury, but also the audience and also yours. yeah, yeah. so i'm happy to say that my favorite one. i think when it comes down to is that nemo had a very interesting mix between

a highly emotional song. but it was also very, very catchy. and then that paired with the song being both pop music but also rap and also elements of opera. it is very unique and even for your vision standards, and this was definitely reflected in the boats. so out of to $25.00 national juries which rend each performer based on a low cost origin. ality and stage presence. $22.00 gave the maximum number of boats to nemo, and then the other 50 percent of the votes come from the public where there were rent and number 5. interesting. and then what were the reactions to this outcome? just generally in the press or like in the form media. yeah, so i think as with any competition, there were mixed reactions. nemo did receive a lot of praise online. i saw a lot of people saying that it was

a very powerful performance. and of course, we also know that a lot of your, your vision fans are part of the eligibility community. so being represented in that way by a non binary performer, was definitely seen as a huge win. but then there were also a few fans were disappointed, especially those who supported baby lasagna gracious and contested, which was the fan favorite. um and there you can see again the discrepancy between the public mode and the jury vote. and the same actually happened with the is rarely performer. so there was also a little bit of disappointment there. they got, they came in seconds with the public mode, but then they came in 12th west, the jury boats. so there's always a bit of a discrepancy there. yeah, i mean, we mentioned it already. you know, the organizers of eurovision, always stress of this event is supposed to be non political and supposed to be about the music. it's supposed to be about unity. but of course,

we saw just over the last several weeks that they didn't quite succeed in keeping it completely non political. what was your take on all of this? yeah, i think it's true that last night's event was definitely more political than usual for adults with us watching at home. we could hear a bit of screwing when to is rarely performer came on. and then also when the points were awarded by israel. and so i would say that the spice, the organizers, best efforts to keep the event on a purely cultural event and keep it and political there was a lot of politics actually happening on stage some of the performers, when they were in the spotlight, they actually took the moment to make some statements in speaking out for peace and unity, which is something we don't usually see of your vision. but it was definitely an extravaganza, as it is every year rosalie angles. when did you believe culture? thank you so much for your insights to and that's the latest on the w news. this our up next doc sales book at the trauma of war,

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