it's just me, in the middle, oh ah, ah, this is d w. news coming to you live from berlin. russia is accused of war crimes around chia as gruesome evidence emergence, which i'm a soccer, is the most outrageous authority atrocity all the 21st century. ukraine says the bodies of more than $400.00 civilians have been found showing signs of abuse and torture. to west condemns the killings and

threatens even harsher sanctions in response. also coming up airstrikes raw the strategic southwestern part of odessa destroying an oil refinery used by the ukrainian military presidents. lensky warrens, russian troops are regrouping, preparing more powerful stripes in the city. ah, hello, i'm terry martin. thanks for joining us. russian forces are being accused of committing mass atrocities before retreating from areas near the ukrainian capital. kia footage of scores of dead civilians in the streets, a butcher, some bound and shot at close range have sparked outrage. several e u countries are pushing for tougher sanctions against russia, with some leaders calling the killings. war crimes, a warning to our viewers. this next report contains disturbing images as ukrainian

forces recapture territory to the north of keith. the horrors of what happened is britian. troops occupied aries around the capital. continue to emerge. the civilians with their hands tied shots a close range. dozens of the bodies had been found in mass graves. vulture massacre is the most outrageous. a sorry atrocity oh, the 21st century. and by saying we, we all, you referred the 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 bodies having found in towns surrounding keith, who got a president vladimir lensky, said,

russian forces must be held responsible when you wake the go 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. as le mars emily, russia has rejected the claims calling. what happened in boucher yet and the provocation leather ukrainian government but local describe killings by the russians. he so 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. ticklish. a beauty as global condemnation grows,

so does the destruction from russia's wall as the incalculable suffering of any sense civilians becomes devastating. the clear our correspond. nick conway joins me now from the ukrainian capital care. good morning, nick. we just heard the ukrainian foreign minister accusing russia. they're committing atrocities in butcher. what can you tell us about what happened there? well, it's very difficult to try to reconstruct this policy. there was no access to butcher as long as the russians were there, and even now it's really limited. but we have heard reports today from a satellite company that some of these alleged mass graves were already being excavated at days and weeks before the russians left. gotcha, so those seemingly some preparations going on there. we have stories from eye witnesses talking about people going missing, people being killed. and you hear about

a russian forces looking for people who were involved in the territorial forces as well. looking for civilians and accusing civilians of being participating in that military activity against them. ma'am, you hear just of a climate of fear. people who are there busy cut off from the outside world for weeks at a time, and often with very little in the way of connection with of a connection ability to find out what was going on outside. and generally now, among ordinary craniums, extraordinary, a shock and disbelief kind of turning into anger. now, seeing these images civilians with their alms tied killed. i think people thought here that they'd seen it all of the teen the image, the marable of a civilians basically surrounded for weeks at a time. and basically indiscriminate shelling being used against residential districts, those images marble of mar, pull of people having to bury their loved ones in that gardens. but there was no way no marks, no infrastructure to deal with those civilian victims. but here seemingly a whole new quality of violence and of talk to killing of civilians. and i think

people here now just kind of digesting that. and also there is the hope now and part of the ukrainian government that that will finally force western european countries. and the u. s. to do more to provide more weapons to up sanctions gates, russia. you hear something time and time again. here in ukraine sits. they say to you, we don't need sympathy, we don't need empathy, we don't need compassion, we need weapons, and we need sanctions. nick, i understand you've been to several areas around key of where ukrainian troops and free taken territory from retreating. russian forces. tell us what you've seen there. yesterday we were about a 100150 comments north east of key if said the east bank through whitney pro. these were a small village in town that had been retaken by ukrainian forces within the last couple of days. and these towns had been under russian occupations for the best part of a month. the russians got there very quickly, the beginning, this war in late february, and for the most part,

locals told us they were hiding out and home for that month, sitting in that sellers trying to keep out of the eyes of the russian forces. there . they said the rush of voices were confused and often very badly supplied that these russian forces had basically regrouped their lots of different units that had been at the same load of damage from ukrainian forces. taking those towns and often seemingly without much in the way of their own food supplies, having to ask or steal food from locals. houses which we were shown that had been left empty by fleeing locals and had been robbed. t v's any cal electronics, other furniture, just taken out in full, and people just telling us of sitting in their sellers for, for hours at a time. not really knowing where the artillery fire was. they come from. we saw lots of craters everywhere where the intense are terrified between the rushes. ukrainians had basically happened all around this village. lots of burnt out. russian tanks, russian armored vehicles. and more importantly, perhaps people telling you about those that were missing. lots of people on

accounted for. we didn't see bodies on the streets as everyone has seen. eliza mentioned, butcher, but lots people still unaccounted for and a real kind of sense of dread that in the days, weeks come, they can find out. they can find people who they assume have lost their lives, who had been taken by those russian forces who are under the kind of pretext of looking for ukrainian forces. the confusion and territorial forces fighters had gone house to house and had applied senior pressure to that population there in these villages that basically if the most bought thought that the war would pass them by, but actually found themselves the center of some pretty horrific fighting. and pretty horrific conditions under that were so patient it, thank you very much for now. our correspond nick connelly, they're in kia as russia, fulls troops away from ukraine's north, new explosions are being recorded in the strategic black sea port of odessa. this follows weekend air strikes that russia says targeted an oil plant and fuel depos

used to supply ukrainian forces. residents fear this might be the beginning of a larger assault on the city. bombed strike cranes 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 bombings on his phone. i woke up approximately at 4 or 4 30 am because our house was a bit shaking and legless animals was very big noise. also disrupt that rugged dogs and this guy was read the you know, and the small goals. adams, don't want to take explosion to be like if an airplane crash was pushed because i have never seen something like that. she knew through the co issue, and we need to close the sky because we don't want this to happen again. the be the

critical renewable news now 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 casualties. rushes defense ministry said it's ship and plains had bombed and oil processing plant. and fuel death pose near a desa, it said the facilities supply fuel to ukraine's troops in coastal towns for the east a death 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. joining us now from odessa is laurence sheets. he was a correspond in moscow and now has the consulting group you're asian international analytics. thanks for being with us. lawrence. we understand that explosions were heard again this morning in odessa. what more can you tell us? well, there were explosions over night, but they seemed to be at least 50 kilometers from the city. not unusual. drew also area tyran tonight retain about when our ago the port area was hit, as you are corresponding, a very aptly described with rockets. these are very large caliber rockets were dropped and launched from hundreds of kilometers away. and it really did shake the ground for kilometers around as if you were in the smaller earthquake. i live in a house in an apartment building,

dating to the 18 eighty's and everything was shaking and things rattling around. and so on. course it's, it looks people and going out after the explosion, several after hours after i would say that 80 percent of the usual traffic was not on the streets. people just play it safe basically. and we don't have any reports of new explosion. the city this morning, but we have heard are occasional things on the outskirts, but those could be many kilometers away. were about 60 kilometers from what we would call the front line ordinarily where there is a russian press. ok, what a, how are people in the city reacting to these attacks? well, this is a city with a very, into the individual culture. it's a story. the jewish city. it was until $941.00 in george, the jewish city. people have their own way of dealing with things here. it's a very, very multi ethnic. it's a melting pot known for stories and,

and people, mostly those who are out are going about their business. so i wouldn't be surprised to dave. things returned more or less general. if you were to go downtown, which is true kilometers from where i am, i'm closer to the port where people don't want to be because of a tax on the port area. things can seem quite normal with public transport, functioning restaurants, so on and so forth. the port cannot be understood. this is not only the last really important ukraine, which isn't functioning, because we're russian blockade. it handles 70 percent of the ukranian treat, import export. ukraine being one of the biggest export of green in the world. having blockaded it. it has implications for the entire world. right. lawrence, thank you very much for that update that was lawrence sheets in odessa. thank you, sir. else catch up on some other stories,

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