and starts april 16th. oh d w ah ah, this is dana news live for 11 russia accused of war crimes. around cave in crane says the bodies of more than $400.00 civilians have been found some showing signs of abuse and torture. the west condemns. the killings and ways fresh sanctions and response, also coming up airstrikes, rocks the strategic form of odessa. russia claims to target only critical infrastructure, but residents fear moscow will step up. it's bombardment of the city and hunger.

res nationalist prime minister wins reelection with a landslide. when victor all by has secured a 4th term in office, ukraine's president had condemned or bond for failing to distance themselves from russia, despite the war. ah, uncle, furnish welcome. as the fog of war lifts an image of horror emerges, russian forces are accused of committing mass atrocities before retreating from areas near the ukrainian capital cave footage of scores of dead civilians in the streets of the city of boucher have sparked worldwide outrage. several in countries are pushing for tougher sanctions against russia, with some leaders calling the killings war crimes. i want to warn you. this next report contains disturbing images of ukrainian forces recapture territory to

the north of chief. the horrors of what happened is russian troops occupied airways around the capitol. continue to emerge. all civilians with their hands tied, shot a close range. dozens of the bodies had been found in mass graves. vulture massacre is the most outrageous. a sorry atrocity of the 21st century. and by saying we, we all, you referred to butcher, but we should not forget about other towns and villages in the g of region, which are also became the crime scene for russian army. ukraine's prosecutor general says more than $400.00 bodies have been found in towns surrounding keith,

governor president vladimir lensky, said, russian forces must be held responsible when you make the go. as soon as i call on all our citizens and friends of ukraine in the world, who can join his work and help establish justice to do so. the world has already seen many war crimes at different times on different continents lately, but it is time to do everything possible to make the war crimes of the russian military, the last manifestation of such evil on earth. the call was law. as emily, russia has rejected the claims calling what happened in boucher yet and the provocation by the ukrainian government. but local describe killings by the russians issue. he went to get some wood when all of a sudden the rush and started shooting. they hit him a bit above the heel, crashing the bone, and he fell down. felicity as global condemnation grows,

so does the destruction from russia's war as the incalculable suffering of innocent civilians becomes devastating. the clear how corresponding economy is in cave and told as how the reports of atrocities near the capital have been received. and you'd re, well observed those images that of in 1st and foremost shocks people across ukraine who, even though maybe they thought they'd seen it all from mary. poland. those images of people living under intense shelling for weeks and weeks running out of elect to one rail food without electricity without any else. i think they weren't really prepared for those images. people. her shot with their arms are bound behind their backs. that kind of seemingly m specific attempts to target civilians or yeah, and basically reprisals of that kind. that was not something that most people here were expecting to see. and a lot of anger,

a lot of shock from ukraine's you speak to, it's pretty difficult to go and try verify that with your own eyes. for now, most jolissa being kept out away expecting to be able to see butcher in a few days time. i think it's interesting to note that it seems that even though the cranes have re taken control, these towns that are only 30 kilometers from where i am now in downtown key. if there is still a lot of fear of russian units that have basically got lost during that retreat, that hiding out in the woods reports unconfirmed reports for us. also mine saying that m numerous ukrainian casualties have happened the last few days when those units have been left. the forests trying to reconnect with the russian forces, heading back northwards, better is getting out of ukraine. so no sense that the situation somehow over that somehow people can go back to their homes, boucher and kind of take stock of what's happened, a real, a very prominent sense of danger and then all the booby traps in the minds. this is situation that is far from over and as ukrainian capital here give that still doesn't feel like it's out out of the worst. this. as nick connelly reporting from

keith on sunday, russian all struck the strategic block c port of odessa home to ukraine's navy. until now, odessa had mostly avoided russian attacks. moscow says it's latest strikes, targeted an oil plant and fuel depos used to supply ukrainian forces. but residents fear that might only be the beginning of a larger assault on the city. bomb strike ukraine's main port city of odessa. turning the dawn sky orange waking residence up to a new phase of rushes wore in ukraine and aid worker filmed the bombing on his phone. i woke up approximately at 4 or 4 30 am because our house was a bit shaking and lately so animals was very big, nice. also disregard,

but real good. that dogs and this guy was read the you know, and the small goals. adams, don't want a big explosion to be like if an airplane crash switch could go somewhere. 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 financial news night shop. as local people watched plumes of smoke loom over the city, the authorities that said russia had hit critical infrastructure, but there were no reports of casualties. russia's defense ministry said it's ship and plains, had bombed an oil processing plant and fuel depos, near a desa. it set the facilities supply fuel to ukraine's troops in coastal towns. 3rd, the east a desk or emergency crews have not yet had to deal with heavy russian bombardment. like the eastern port of

mario pole. but ukraine's president landscape says that russian troops are regrouping and preparing what he calls powerful strikes and the death this residents are left wondering, just how long they can stay here is a quick look at some other stories related to the war we've been following for you today, the ukranian president appeared and a video message aired at the grammy awards ceremony. the landscape contrasts at music to the silence of ukraine's ruined cities and urged artists to speak out against russia's war cranium. musicians also performed at the event. lou, the baltic states of estonia, latvia and lithuania, have stopped in ports of russian gas. lithuania is calling on easy countries to do the same. germany and other european nations are still buying fossil fuels from

russian suppliers, which i've been excluded from ease sanctions. ukraine says and has taken back control of the decommissioned chernobyl nuclear plant. the site of the world's worst nuclear accident had been under russian occupation for weeks. but russian forces withdrew from the contaminated exclusion zone last week, with some apparently suffering from radiation poisoning russian soldiers at the chen, a beetle nuclear power plant. they took over the building on february, the 24th right at the start of russia's invasion. did the troops really know much about the place that government had sent them? apparently the young soldiers were clueless about the 1986 nuclear disaster, despite large numbers of deaths by radiation and heavy contamination. that's wrong, that's vadim. pope adams view morton. in moscow. he's ukraine's chief engineer at genevieve, and despite the risk of speaking to us, he agrees to an interview. he says his co workers,

who were helped by russian troops for almost 4 weeks, told him that the russian soldiers might have mistaken the protective shell around the failed reactor for an assembly hall. and we'll know protective clothing. you need to do it every day, thought the respirators were there to protect them from cove it and didn't understand that you had to put them on to prevent inhaling radioactive dust. so when you decide to get the o ukrainian tv station report that in the so called red forest, near the plant, which is highly contaminated, russian soldiers are reported to have dug trenches, and consequently will have received a considerably larger dose of radiation. physicists, sebastian fluke file, who has been to china, beach several times, considers the actions very dangerous, long con, for low miles or do you might be able to do it even if you're not allowed to without dropping dead immediately. but if you're digging in this area,

you must realize you're going to stir up some really highly radioactive particles who sees a particular to do this? the director of the international atomic energy agency, raphael grossey plans to visit genevieve soon. we heard about the possibility of some personnel being contaminated, but we don't have any confirmation about that vadim pool, but didn't, however, says his coworkers say that a few days ago, 3 buffers picked up russian soldiers from channel b, the during the night all summer vomiting they had nosebleeds, they were in bad shape. they had clear signs of radiation. sickness was still, you know, many various ukrainian media showing pictures of the buses which have in the meantime made it to gold metal in bella, luce, the soldiers being examined at an established radiation institute. british newspaper. the telegraph is reporting that one soldier has already died following

his deployment in china bill going on to hungry now were nationalists, prime minister victor. all one has won a large majority and sundays parliamentary election. that means he will serve a 4th term in office. all guns fetus party is on forced to win more than 2 thirds of the seats and parliament. the incumbents successfully saw a challenge from an alliance of opposition parties who united against him. he is faced accusations of eroding democracy in hungry throughout his 12 years as prime minister and has collapsed with the european union over the rule of law standards. after initially condemning russia's attack on ukraine or been, has kept hungary neutral in its stance over the war. the w funny for shar, is in the capitol, budapest, and told us more she's a very close friend of vladimir putin promised civic to oberon is also very strong economic ties with rochelle. probably one of the reasons also that he really put they are very my torn when the war broke out, quoting is

a military action that hungary condemns, but he never personally attacked a bloody mer put in him as the leader. basically of this aggression against, against a ukraine, whether this was the main factor i promised to victor, all one has scored so well, those 5 and the final results are not in yet is a question. it will be answered by observe as by analysts certainly didn't hurt him . he was actually playing this multi perspective narrative trying to cater to those who actually are conditioned to support him because he has close ties with russia. but he was also trying to cater to those who actually would like to hear him say something like what he did that he's going to be piece by hungary not negotiating zalinski and not joining the war that he thinks would would, would likely happen if i had the opposition one. having said that, in some way, the ukranian situation, the war in the neighboring country, played a factor here in this election. just how much this is up to analysts,

to decide deadliest funny fisher and catching up to speed now on some other stories making headlines today. sir b as populous president, alexander, which has won a 2nd term in office, securing around 60 percent of the vote. in his victory speech will change said survey. i want to retain his friendship with russia and remain neutral over the warrant in ukraine. the balkan country has not imposed any sanctions on russia. brucely pulled, the hong kong chief executive carry allows us, she will not run for a 2nd term when her tenure comes to an end in june. during her 5 years in office land has overseen major changes that have limited democracy and broad hong kong under tighter control. by beijing, her replacement will be picks next month and the entire cabinet is for long as government has resigned after the controversial introduction of a state of emergency. protests have been taking place in the capital, colombo,

over the government's handling of the worst economic crisis and decades. only embattled president john john poxel and his brother, a prime minister. no, remain in office watching dw st. you now for faith matters and we'll have more headlines for you at the top of the hour. remember, you can always get all the latest news on our website. that's d, w dot com. me and the entire team here in our berlin news room. thank you. so much for your company today we've got some hot tips for your bucket list, a magic corner hotspot with some great cultural, laborious to boot w travel. we go about just another day.