presenting future's past starts april 14th on d. w. ah, [000:00:00;00] ah, this is d w. news coming to you live from berlin, ukraine's president accuses russia covering, trying to cover up war crimes melting evidence. i mention intentional and indiscriminate killings of civilians and towns around kiya. as prompted, growing international anger, president salenti visited butcher and will address the un security council later today. he expects evidence of more mass killings to emerge. the school is which

needs of these are war crimes and will be recognized by the world as genocide which when it was not when you were here and can see what happened for yourselves feel good voice. and moldova, one of europe's poorest countries appeals for help in hosting ukrainian refugees. germany's government is trying to raise funds to help the 100000 women and children seeking shelter there from the war in ukraine. ah, hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us ukrainian president, florida musa lensky, has called the killings of civilians in the town of butcher war crimes and genocide . there is mounting international anger over images of mass graves and bodies showing signs of torture. russia denies the accusations and says it will present evidence to the un security council that its forces have not been involved in atrocities

a warning. now our next report contains images. some of our viewers will find disturbing on the streets of beecher. it looks as though russian troops have only just been driven out. many bodies of civilians have only just been recovered. the ukrainian interior ministry invited journalists from around the world to come and document what took place here. moscow has caught these scenes a stage managed anti russian provocation. ukrainian president vladimir zalinski is here to get a 1st hand view. he is visibly emotional when he describes women who were raped in front of their children, entire families executed. he says his country must keep on fighting, but also negotiate yellow rad. sure. i am convinced that we will achieve peace on ukrainian territory from would ukraine cannot live in a constant state of war because this is europe,

and this is the 21st century. he will be the one was blood spots was to reach the interior ministry tanks, us on buses through check point after check point past the burned out remains of civilian vehicles. it's a dangerous trip. our guide says he is expecting new attacks from russia soon. in the village of mathematician authorities take us to a site where 4 bodies were found. among them children gone. yamil for my family is lying over there. we are in that hole. i don't know why they were killed. they were loving. no good people. we were a few of them were rumors were globally wandering away. shortly afterwards volunteers exhumed the bodies and take them away. you could give this come, have tortured, beaten, and murdered an entire family. they will be brought to justice that we will find

all of those who carried out this terrible crime needs launch and there are hundreds of bodies and very little time to give the victims a proper burial. these are also images from future mass graves. this woman buried her husband in her own back yard. she says she just once piece was out of bed. you implore you, please do something. i'm talking to you as the ukrainian wife, the mother of 2 children and a grandmother. you got the presidents and, and ski future is representative of what he calls the genocide rusher is committing all across ukraine. he says, the world must bear witness to it. d. w. corresponding to connelly was in butch on monday and is now back in tears. nick, good morning. tell us what you saw in boucher i saw

a city that spacy had been destroyed before it could be finished to a very young suburb of kia, full of new high rise apartments, most of which are basically left without any windows, half blown up. and destroyed, burnt out russian tanks on the streets, ammunition crates, kind of just everywhere, bits of shrapnel, you get a sense of quite how intensive that fighting was over basically a month, a locals telling you that they basically were too scared to leave their homes, was sitting either at home or in their cells for most of that time and then stories . i wouldn't accounts of those who did go out to did venture out often to try look for food and seeing basic the st. strewn with bodies. and they were telling me that basically the russian soldiers were so that they met, at least were so shocked by the level of resistance they had faced in ukraine. something they hadn't expected that they basically saw all the civilians around them as potential targets as potential threats to their lives. and so they felt like they were walking on the streets basically being watched through the sight of

sniper rifles, wherever they went. and we went to the mass grave next, the church that some people might have seen. images of m seems like the locals, doug, that trench to recover bodies from the streets that have been long there sometimes for days and weeks. and they would just lay as pallet's bodies. some were buried in the clothes that they were wearing when they were killed. others covered in blankets and then the top layer covered in, in kind of black plastic sacking. they seemed to have done their best try and re constitute who these people are to recover any idea that world was on these people when they died so that they can now try to attempt to contact the relatives and to work out who it is that's buried in these graves, we were also in a cellar, a cellar of a children summer camp, where several people were executed. the bodies had been recovered by the authorities, but we went there, but they had been photographed in earlier days by people. i know personally. and you could to see how traces of blood and, and bullet sets, it's

a very disorienting place to be, especially given the most of us journalists, we were just about 2025, clumped down the road here in the center of care for most that time we could hear the shooting, we could hear the artillery in the distance, but we couldn't get there now. first time we've actually been on the ground seat for ourselves. nick russia has denied committing atrocities in boucher and says that the killings were staged by ukrainians. now you spoke a witnesses in boucher. what did they tell you? so they talk about people basically being killed on their way just to try and find some bread to go find some food. people just disappearing randomly. ever on trying at that time to basically keep tabs on each other if they were leaving the homes and then trying to go search for their relatives if they failed to come back at the agree time. i, in terms of those claims coming out of moscow, i haven't seen anything any explanation on their part. how this is meant to

happened. they've called it a provocation, but they haven't explained how these people died. they haven't ventured to as far as i've seen any explanation that perhaps in the ukrainians it would have killed their own people to create this, these images great. this consternation of this anger towards the actions, the russian army here to me until 3 cranes. it seems like a distraction tactic, that kind of thing that we saw off to the malaysian boeing m 8. 17 was knocked out of the sky, was down in the summer of 2014, where lots of various explanations were advanced and then dropped the match of weeks. and i think the main kind of target, the main reason for those kinds of statements of bases to distract and to confuse, in the hope that people would lose interest and not, you know, keep their attention focused on these things. in the end, we saw that that insisted investigation was able to identify the people responsible for firing that boot missile that brought that plane down, killing hundreds of civilians. it took years, but they got there in the end. and

a lot of people i spoke to america hoping that that's was going to happen here. there's already a lot of information being gathered and people being asked to tell the stories to the horses. nick, thank you very much for your reporting. that was our correspondent, nick connelly in kia, old over is appealing for helping coping with the large numbers of refugees coming from ukraine. some 100000 people have fled to the small country, which is one of europe's poorest. to help load over raise money for refugee aid and increased energy costs. berlin is hosting a donor conference and the german government has just announced the 50000000 euro loan for the country. he debbie's political correspond nina hasa had the chance to speak to moldova as prime minister, natalia gabrey. lita here in berlin, ahead of that conference, she asked her what she and her country need most from the international community you know outside of ukraine. moldova is the most, the affected country,

and it doesn't even have a security umbrella. and herb, you know, we're not talking only about the societal effort to host the refugees, but the economic and social consequences of the war on our borders. ok, so trade has been disrupted about 15 percent of our trade was with the crane and russia and bellows. the odessa port was a very important logistics port. and we also have an impact on remittances received by the country. so under these circumstances, you know, we have the same problems that many european countries have. so we have for extraordinary costs for energy, we have very high inflation, so inflation already reached 18 percent in moldova. and together with this decline in trade and ah growth, we are basically looking at the need for

a great fiscal effort. so with 1st are our 1st needs are in fact grants to support the budget deficit we have been indebted or because of cobit and we are reaching our debt sustainability level. so we are requesting budget support in the form of grants, but also, you know, we have to accelerate. and our reforms in key areas where energy efficiency insecurity, competitiveness of our small and medium enterprises and reorientation of trades are we have are important to measures, to build resilience in cybersecurity fighting this information. and we need some support for our social resilience for our borders. so we came with a list of projects that are becoming priority in light of the crisis. now your country is watching what is on in ukraine very, very closely. also because if your special situation in the country where trans

nestor is, of course, one of the regions where the russian army has been stationed a for decades now, just are worried. are you that vladimir putin, my target you next? ah, we are, of course, are concerned and we remain very vigilant. we currently do not see any specific plans or movements that would lead to the conclusion of an intent to engage the russian troops station in the separatist trustees to the region or in the war. but of course, the situation is highly uncertain or so under the circumstances. as i mentioned already would really need to build up our capacities very quickly to control the border, to control arms or to, ah, heavener, exchange a sort of an affective exchange of information with our partner. so we're, you know,

we have to remain vigilant and to do everything possible to mitigate the consequences of this work. now you have applied for e u membership, just in light of, of what is going on, all send trans nestea m. how confident are you that this can be more than is symbolic step for your european partners? of course her, you know, this, her request to join the european union is a natural next step for us because we had the association agreements and we've been implementing reforms under that agreements. the free trade agreements with a u. m. and or the mold of and people in their last presidential and parliamentary elections. i expressed to their strong will for an european type of development for anti corruption building good governance. and this to chance ensuring rule of law and reforming the justice sector. we've always known that this

is not something that can be done overnight and that a lot of work has to be done for our homework to be to be complete. but the perspective, especially in these hard times, are actually a very important a signal for the people of our region. it's a signal that, ah, you know, if you work, if you do the reforms, if you do your homework, then you would be welcomed in the family of you countries. and you know, we are very determined to stay part of the free world. and are, you know, will do everything possible internally to ensure that we are getting close and closer to the european you are watching d. w. news. just reminder, the top story we're following for you this, our ukranian president, a lot of muse lensky has visited the city of pu john outside kiev,

where hundreds of bodies were discovered after russian forces retreating. cholenski as accusing russia of genocide and war crimes. the you and the u. s. policy. the investigation and further sanctions on russia are watching the news up next to its close up following one woman's escape from ukraine. at the start of the conflict. i'm charity marching from me and all of us here. dw, thanks for watching. ah. interest in the global economy? our portfolio d w. business beyond here the closer look at the project, our mission to analyze the flight for market dominance. good is step ahead