ah, ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. the world condemns apparent atrocities by russian forces in ukraine, lawyers investigating possible war crimes have found hundreds of dead civilians. and there's evidence of torture and abuse. germany's leader says western allies will impose more sanctions on russia in response. also in the show, missiles strike to strategic port of odessa. russia says it targeted critical infrastructure, but ukrainians fear that moscow is planning to step up if bombardment and

a bowl challenge to hungary is hartline, prime minister, victor, or bon rival opposition parties unite in an attempt to force out the veteran leader is the tightest election race in more than a decade ah, a marion evans steam, thanks for joining us. western leaders have condemned a parent atrocities committed by russian forces in ukraine. the ukrainian government says its troops have now regained control of the entire area around the capital key of bud ukrainian soldiers moving back into previously occupied towns and villages have uncovered hundreds of civilian deaths with many of the victims having been brutalized. ukraine's president vladimir zalinski has accused russia of genocide. lawyers investigating possible war crimes have found more than 400 bodies

. moscow has denied the allegations a warning to our viewers. our next report contains images that some may find disturbing. the devry of war, a graveyard of tanks stanzas, evidence of russia's southern retreat and ukraine's determination to defend the area around keith. but the letter of russian hardware isn't the only sign of conflict, buildings of scorched and destroyed entire neighborhoods. devastated and alongside that, the grim reminders of the very human cost of conflict bodies lie on the streets suggesting indiscriminate killing an evidence of possible war crimes. even in death, the bodies have been afforded little dignity. ukrainian soldiers fair russian forces might have hidden explosives in the corpses as they left. it was something ukrainian precedent flawed amidst lensky included in this warning message. many

sakina, the occupiers withdrawl, is revealing a catastrophic situation. and there is still so much danger. do not doubt this asteroid could continue, and they are setting booby traps everywhere in houses, even in the bodies of those killed. there are many trap wires and other dangerous. amid the trauma, though, is a sense of relief that the russians have left with residence, coming together, sharing meals, and a sense of victory after weeks of living in constant fear. you with your family, all it will be so everything will be wonderful. yeah, for the new laundry constant shelling for more than a month when everything was gone, the water was gone. light gas, everything was gone at once. then the internet was gone, so then the phone communications went down. we found ourselves cut off from the whole world to go, so there's only 5 ships you a mirror. but the death and destruction all around show the huge price paid in the past weeks. every body, every corpse is a friend or neighbor,

a mother or brother. miss there is he worked in landscaping. will you please honest person, a smart man who loved to work and they simply shamelessly uninformed knowledge, crushed him to death with a russian tank probably equally residence here? no, this retreat does not indicate an end to the war. ukraine is preparing for what may come next as russia re groups its forces for attacks in other parts of the country . joining us now on the line is our correspondent ne connelly. he has made his way to the north eastern key of region where ukrainian forces say they've retaken territory from a retreating russian troops. nick and can you just tell us where you are and what are you seeing and hearing? so i've spent the day about 100 kilometers, know each of kids in the border region, which is in some villages that we've taken by you quite new forces. just

a matter of days ago, they basically being taken by the russian troops within a matter of days after it was february. and since then they've been cut off without power, without gas, without the phone connection, or very rare ability to make calls. they basically been doing it again a vacuum, not knowing what was going on outside people at that time, in that hiding from the russian seats outside be so people return now interesting data. how did find that? how did you get all that properties stolen carried else by the restraints in the russians? that's what they believe. huge crate to the fire insured ukrainian poses. and there's also shown pictures on mobile phones and bodies of civilians. we've been around around in recent days. we can see them with our own eyes, but still people that are missing on accounted for lots of questions among people

who are that why these people are and it's a fund magenta like well we of course have been seeing this horrific footage of that civilians lying on the streets of the city of boot champ, what more do you know about the situation there? so this is tracy, which those are towns that are a whole lot closer to kids. today, they're only about 20 downtown kids. kind of some of the young families buying apartment complexes and they've also be taking the recent days. but i think the re teaching of both use a lot less complete than we need to up to forces pockets of russian forces. so. so one thing that yesterday that was going to check on you came by was supposed to be hiding out in the park to try to get out toward where the main russian force and now all of those buildings will be observed. we've seen those pictures and

we're trying to work out tried to verify those images, tried to talk to people who come out of butcher. but the issue is that the authorities are not letting us in yet gentle attorney expected in the main to be allowed in the today's time. because all those mines and civil genders have been to that weak difficult situation to try and check and verify certain. just something that. ready causing a lot of stress lowering pregnancy thought hadn't seen images of this kind of damage in this kind of civilian lives in the early a week of the war that people dying in variable because of obsolete and basically kind of until the shelling of visits where is the kind of tell them killing the church, and that's something that people haven't got and that's causing a whole lot of a lot of consternation among people who now the 2nd book he w. nick connelly. nick,

thank you so much for your reporting. we can now speak to ashleen reedy, she's a senior senior legal advisor at human rights watch. welcome to the w. so we just heard from our correspondent about the reports of civilian killings. in boucher ukraine's president. vladimir zalinski has said that to russia's actions amount to genocide. is he right? i think it's far too early at this stage to to talk about genocide. it's the not off the table, but genocide is a very specific crime with a very high threshold about the intent to destroy in hold or parse a civilian population. and you know what your correspondent and what others are witnessing him is this certainly what crimes, potential crimes against humanity where we're seeing, you know, civilians killed, killed in summary, execution format, and the investigation. these are recently areas which at least

a financial planning forces. and inside a lot of them helping not accessible for a couple of days even while they were being being reclaimed by ukrainian forces. so it's, it's very early days to start, you know, talking about the, the full scope of what my, what crimes may may not be committed. but as you said yourself, what we're seeing on the ground is, is really what i think. and, and, you know, we have investigators on the ground as well. just spoken to, to witnesses also recounted, you know, terrible experiences themselves, which would also constitute, will crime so, so it will make it right. so you mentioned the members of your organization have been collecting evidence in fact and rights watch has just published a report documenting these laws of war violations by russian forces in ukraine.

can you tell us a bit about what those findings were? yes, certainly. i mean, one of the findings was a summary execution of a civilian in boucher, which is one of the areas that is currently very prominent in immediate coverage. but the cases that we documented come from from different areas both from around kias near keith. your chance keith, and they are very disturbing. they are more summary executions in one case of 6 men, there is a really horrible document, a case of a woman who is repeatedly raped and by a soldier in a, in a school building. busy where she had been sheltering, and then we've been hearing other stories of, you know, potential losing and, and pillaging. but the summary executions on the, the right. but i think that the 2 that's done it for us as some of the most, you know, graphic accounts of what would clearly be war crimes that we've heard from people now coming, who have been in areas which of the underwriter, person,

occupation. we can't say how wide spread they are and certainly the cases we have are from different areas. but it's quite clear that that, that civilians, that they're having walk arms committed against civilians. and the task of investigators going forward is going to be decide how many and what kind of a scale they kurt on and ultimately, you know, who's responsible at the lower end of the chain and, and of the change of command responsibility. where would the commanders, when the sodas, with caring out, and these kinds of crimes and who buys responsibility? and yet, even if there is clear and carefully documented evidence of war crimes in ukraine, can any of the perpetrators ever be brought to justice? i mean, they certainly countless, we know they, the international crew court has an investigation already opened down. we know they have jurisdiction in ukraine. we know that russia doesn't necessarily cooperate,

but you know, very often people don't. and yet people end up in a and up in court, it happened to slab it on the loss of which in this therapy in bosnia, bolton's. busy war president, turn over of our sheer flora president from sudan is sitting in jail and he has genocide charges pending in the hague. and he may well be transferred. another one of his militia ally is his child starting at this week for private and dar for so it is entirely possible that when cases are opened, whether that's at the international criminal course or whether it's in a national court because there are a lot of national investigations going on, that those who are responsible i will be brought to justice. we might not see it in the immediate aftermath. but as i said, we seen in dar 4 we've seen in other places that as several years after crime is committed, there's still ample opportunity for people to ultimately say justice ashleen reedy senior legal advisor and human rights watch. thank you so very much. thank you. i

am focus on german chancellor, olaf shoulds has also reacted to the reports of atrocities in ukraine. he said western allies will impose more sanctions on russia in the coming days. the trial to the president, putin endorsement off in by colon president putin and on russia really to finally agreed to receive these phi. often the system becomes a horrible, senseless war that cannot be justified by anything to restaurant in the creek last quarter. endless suffering and benefits, no one on them. most would have to stop the in coordination with our allies and we will decide on further measures in the coming days. president putting on, i know president putin and as enablers, will suffer the consequences of vita him and we will continue to supply weapons to ukraine, so that you can defend itself against the russian invasion. while missiles have struck the strategic port of odessa home to ukraine's navy on the southern coast

until now and as i had mostly avoided russian attacks, it so far been spare the intense bombing that's devastated. the city of mario bull, further to the east. russia says it's later strikes, targeted an oil plant and fuel depos, but ukrainians fear that moscow is planning to step up the bombardment bomb strike . he crane's main port city of odessa, turning the torn sky orange waking residence up to a new phase of russia's war in ukraine. and 8 worker film. the bombings on his phone. i woke up approximately 4 or 4 30 am because our house was a bit shaking lately. so naples was very big noise also dis rocha, buck, rocket dogs. and this guy was read the, you know,

and the small goals hoodie over adams. don't want a big explosion to boot, like if an airplane crash switch, because i have never seen something like that news through with the call. we should and we need to close the sky because we don't want this to happen again. i'm not the be the critical renewable new niosh. as local people watched plumes of smoke clim over the city, the authorities there said russia had hit critical infrastructure, but there were no reports of oil processing plant and fuel death pose near a desa. it said the facilities supply fuel to ukraine's troops in coastal towns further east. a desert emergency crews have not yet had to deal with heavy russian bombardments like the eastern port of mario pole. but you.