ah, ah ah, this is d w. news coming to you live from berlin. russia is accused of war crimes around here as gruesome evidence and merchants, which i'm a soccer, is the most outrageous authority atrocity of the 21st century. ukraine says the bodies of more than $400.00 civilians have been found showing signs of abuse and torture. also coming up condemnation from the west has been swift despite russian denials responsibility. germany's chancellor sholtes

and other western leaders to boise horror at the reports of civilian murders in ukraine and threatened moscow with tougher sanction. 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 bid civilians in the streets, a butcher, some bound and shot at close range has sparked outrage. several you countries are pushing for tougher sanctions against russia. with some leaders calling the killings. war crimes, a warning to our viewers. this next report does contain disturbing images of ukrainian forces recapture territory to the north of keith. the horrors of what happened is britian. troops occupied aries around the capitol. continue to emerge.

civilians with their hands tight shots, a close range. dozens of the bodies have been found. it must graves which i'm a soccer, is the most outrageous. a sorry atrocity. oh, the 21st century. and by saying we, we all, you referred to butcher, but we should not forget about other towns and villages. seen the g of region, which are also became the crime scene for us. an army ukraine's prosecutor general says more than 400 bodies have been found in towns surrounding keith. governor president vladimir lensky, said, russian forces must be held responsible when you make the good 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 la mas 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 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 dw correspondent nick conley is in ukrainian capital k of he gave us this update on the situation in. gotcha. well it's very difficult to try to reconstruct this because there was no access to butcher as long as the russians were there. and even now it's severely 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 there. so it's those seemingly some preparations going on there at we have the stories from eye witnesses talking about people going missing, people being killed and you hear about a russian forces looking for people who are involved in the territorial forces as well. looking for civilians and accusing civilians of being at participating in that military activity against them. and you hear just of

a climate of fear. people who that is. he 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 ukrainians. extraordinary, a shock and disbelief kind of turning into anger. now, seeing these images civilians with their alms tide killed. i think people thought here that they'd seen it all of the teen image, the marable of a civilians basically surrounded for weeks at a time and base. the indiscriminate shelling being used against residential districts, those images marble, a marble of people having to bury their loved ones in that gardens. but there was no way no more, no infrastructure to deal with those civilian victims. but here seemingly a whole new quality of violence and of targeted killing of civilians. and i think people here on out 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 without needs. compassion, we need weapons, and we need sanctions. he w nicolai. they're speaking to me a little earlier from keith. well, german chancellor la shalt, has reacted to the reports atrocities in ukraine. he says, western allies will impose more sanctions on russia. in the next few days. the thought of the president putin on horse, not off in by colon president, putin and on russia failing to finally agree to these fire assistant. this was a horrible, senseless war that cannot be justified by anything to reckon fainting, that creek that hath created endless suffering. and benefits, no 1 am lost and would hast to stop the and coordination of our allies and we will decide on further measures in the coming days. president putting on i non president, putin and his enablers, will suffer the consequences vita hidden. and we will continue to supply weapons to

ukraine, the key, so that you can defend itself against the russian invasion. a spring indian chief political editor, mikaela kirchner, mckayla chancellor sholtes though, says her new measures are being prepared to, in response to russia's aggression in ukraine. what kind of measures is he talking about? well, certainly not an energy embargo am. i've just come from press conference of his vice chancellor. the also energy minister will buy topic in the building behind me . and germany still draws a line when it comes to stopping energy imports, particularly those vital gas imports with a high dependency of the entire european union, but particularly also of germany on those supplies. and that was the question of was that was put to what heartache by myself as well. how does a boucher, how do these potential war crimes, these shocking images change their thinking on that 5th package of sanctions that was already indicated last week. and the response that i got here this morning is

that yes, there will be more sweeping and sanctions that more can be done, but no details have been given. so for far with a great emphasis that those should be very detailed. also, when it comes to targeting individuals, but also em in the banking sector, the flow of cash. because the perception here is at that those sanctions are indeed working as seen by the response of dieting. we're putting over this gas exports are where germany in other customers are still able to pay in euro's and dollars. and through a banking transfer within gas from bank that then arise and roubles in moscow. so that seemed to be more of a p r stunt by vladimir putin. but the criticism, of course, is there that there's not enough decisiveness picky when it comes on is energy import mckenna in that address that, that we heard there just now from chancellor of pot shawls. he also mentioned that

arms deliveries to ukraine from germany would continue. what is germany actually delivering to ukraine at this point? well, jeremy doesn't like to make that public at this moment in time. it seems to be more supplies from former g d r weapons that are actually there. that's an actually equipment that the military is able to supply directly. we've also seen surface to air missiles that delivered and at the same time, a lot of cajun is some what that means in detail. i also put that question tickle by topic, because after all the trade ministry is in charge of lice a thing, any weapons exports directly from what german weapons produces. and what are said that to him, he stands for unlimited licensing of those exports. now we are still to learn what that will mean in detail. but what we do know is that things like armored vehicles stand ready to be exported by german weapons exporters. and the question is whether

that will now happen enough of the vital next days. certainly, the ambassador of ukraine in germany says that is all too slow and as not enough coming through. but there's an expectation that there would be announcement pretty much imminent over the next coming days. mikaela. thank you very much. archie, political editor, mckayla kutner. as russia post troops away from ukraine's north, new explosions are being reported in the strategic blatchley port of odessa. this follows weekend air strikes that rushes has targeted an oil plant and fuel depos are used to supply ukrainian forces. residents fear this might be the beginning of a larger assault on the city. bomb strike crane's main port city of odessa. turning the dawn sky orange waking residence up to

a new phase of russia's war 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 lately animals was very big noise. also disrupt that, rugged at 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 switch 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. and i'm not the be the critical thing, you know, but i knew 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 ships

and planes 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 mary 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. and of course, we'll continue to bring you up to date on the latest developments in ukraine. but meanwhile, let's catch up on a few other stories making headlines today. authorities in sacramento, california are searching for at least 2 people after a deadly shooting early sunday morning. police are asking the public to share

videos and other evidence that could lead to their capture. 6 people were killed and a dozen wounded in the shooting, which happened near the downtown area. hungary is nationalist prime minister victor or bon has won a 4th consecutive turman office, his 5th overall or runs for it as hard. he fought off an alliance of opposition parties in sundays election and looks set to retain its majority in parliament. critics say or on the policies are eroding democracy and surveys populace. president, alexander boucher, has won a 2nd term in office, securing around 60 percent of the boat in his victory speech, which is said serbia would retain its friendship with russia and remain neutral over the war in ukraine. the balkan country is not imposed any sanctions on russia with the school or will maneuver the grammys got a dose of reality this year when ukrainian president vladimir zalinski appeared in a pre taped speech, amid the ongoing invasion of his country by russia. making

a powerful speech in english to the audience at the music award ceremony in the u. s. city of las vegas. so lansky spoke about the power of music in dark times, equating war with sonnets. we defend our freedom to leave, to la sound on our land. we are fighting russia, which brings horrible silence with its bumps the dead silence filled his hands, william music till it today to tell our story. tell the truth about the war on his social matters on t. v. support us in any way can any but not silence. and then we'll come to lindsey's speech. was followed by john legend performing his new song free with ukrainian exiles. oh, only day. highly jody. i lose me

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