back together bits of the soviet empire that gorbachev lost her saying that business relationship between russia and germany put under real stress because russia has now shutdown gas supplies from a major pipeline to europe for the next three days. moscow has already significantly reduced the amount of gas it supplies through nord stream one, which comes into the continent via germany. a kremlin spokesman blamed western sanctions against russia which he claimed prevented normal repair work. european leaders fear the kremlin could extend the suspension to try to drive up energy prices, which have soared since the invasion of ukraine. i spoke to our berlin correspondent damien mcguiness about germany s reaction. over the last few months, germany has done a lot to fill up its gas reserves. so until quite recently, things were looking quite bad here when it came to getting through the winter because of course, germany relies a lot on gas. before the full invasion
of war, for our life, for ourfreedom, we. we witnessed, again and again, what we were confident about in the past but not all of you are noticing. it s as if you re behind a wall, not the berlin wall, but in the middle between freedom and non freedom. and this wall is getting stronger and stronger with every bomb dropped on our land, with every decision which is not taken. 0ur berlin correspondent damien mcguiness was listening to president zelensky s speech. he gave me this analysis. as soon as president zelensky appeared on the screen there was a standing ovation, mps applauded for a couple of minutes. after he left, again, a standing ovation. it was interesting because the speech was similar to other speeches, lots of historical
largely stalled on all fronts. it adds. and it also notes. as we ve been hearing, president zelensky has spoken to the german parliament by video link, a day after he addressed the us congress in the same way. you can see here the standing ovation. in an emotional address, he compared the invasion of ukraine to a new berlin wall that was dividing europe. he said the now cancelled russian german gas pipeline nord stream 2 had been cement for that wall, and that now german hesitation for ukrainian eu membership was another brick helping to build it. he called for european countries to do more to help. let s speak to our correspondent in berlin, damien mcguinness. just tell us more about the reaction to president zelensky s gas. yes. just tell us more about the reaction to president zelensky s gas. yes, as ou saw to president zelensky s gas. yes, as you saw there. to president zelensky s gas. yes, as you saw there, standing to president zelensky s gas. yes, as you saw there, standing
germany is making its contribution here and we continue to do so. but i would also like to be very clear and would like to say that nato will not intervene militarily in this war. 0laf scholz and jens stoltenberg wrapping up that meeting a short time ago. damien, thank you very much. there s a human toll being paid in russia too, with thousands of soldiers being sent to ukraine to fight in president putin s war. 0ur russia editor steve rosenberg has been to one military funeral in the west of the country. singing in russia, they are grieving, too. mikhail was killed in action in ukraine. angelika is his widow. how many russian soldiers have been killed in what the kremlin still refuses to call a war?
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