ah ah ah, this is dw news alive from berlin, ukraine's president demands russia be brought to justice president the lens he calls on the you went to take urgent action to stop the war. after images of a civilian massacre shocked the walls. also coming up residents of a portrait, tell d. w of the horrors they endured during full weeks of occupation by russian horses living in fear that they could be the next to die. and satellite images from butcher show russian troops left the dead lying in the streets for weeks to speak

to the new york times about their work to debunk moscow's claims that the bodies only appeared after russians. retreat ah hello em claire richardson. thank you so much for joining us. ukrainian president volunteers. lensky has called for urgent action from the united nations over alleged russian war crimes. he addressed a meeting of the un security council after evidence emerged of what appeared to be a deliberate mass killing of civilians by russian troops in the city of boucher outside the ukrainian capital. as the landscape sharply criticized the security council for failing to take action to end russia's aggression. as a permanent member of the council, russia has the power to veto any binding resolution. only a day after returning from boucher ukrainian president de lensky addressed the

killings in front of the u. n. lee, so the russian military search for and purposely killed any one who served our country. they shot and killed women outside their houses when they just tried to call someone who was alive, they killed entire families, adults and children. and they try to burn the bodies slowly the, your la zalinski said russia must be held accountable for its actions in ukraine. he questioned the inability of the security council to punish russia due to moscow's veto power, the ro yoga. but we are dealing with a state that is turning the un security council veto into the right to die. this undermines the whole architecture of global security. it allows them to go unpunished, so they are destroying everything they can. now when it was factual, the ukranian president called on the united nations to act immediately stressing that what happened to him, boucher is only one example of russian atrocities. and i asked richard

painter, professor of law at the university of minnesota. whether there was an avenue by which russia could be stripped of its un security council. vito, i don't believe that that's going to happen in the united nations, and we have a permanent that membership of the security council for russia, as well as the united states and, and it's china, france in great britain, and it's going to be impossible, i think, to remove russia from that role, and yet there are many other avenues for addressing russian aggression. there's nato, there is the european union, there's economic pressure that needs to be brought on russia. and it, this may have to happen for an extended period of time because russia needs to be told they're just non negotiable, that they leave every inch of ukrainian territory. and that they make recompense for these agree just war crimes. and i believe the vladimir bolton and other

russian leaders should face the international criminal court over what has happened here. this is going to be a long term struggle um for democracy and western europe needs to focus on making sure that it is energy independent and is not dependent on russian gas generating clean energy. that's going to be very important because we're, you are in this for the long haul and we cannot be dependent on russia for energy. we cannot have russia engaging in this type of conduct, the serious war crimes with impunity. if the un security council fails to meaningfully intervene here, what does this mean for international law on the whole? well, we've seen this before with the security council being unable to take a snap against the soviet aggression. in the 19 forties and fifties and sixties,

the invasion of hungry, the invasion of czechoslovakia. we've seen this before, and yet if of the democracies of the world remain resolute in protecting the democracy against this type of aggression over the long term democracy, it can thrive authoritarianism. can be pushed back, but we must be determined to do that. the un security council was not going to solve this problem for us. russia has a permanent veto, and they will use the stop any type of action and security council. we have other means we must use those other means to push back against russian aggression and war crimes that we're seeing today. and you crank professor richard painter from the university minister. i want to thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us today. until the news. thank you. dr. for weeks under russian

occupation, the world is only now finding out what happened in the town of butcher graphic evidence of killings and torture has emerge since russian troops were treated bodies lying in the streets and piled up in mass graves. those who have survived are telling their stories. he w. nick connelly visited butcher to hear 1st hand what life was like with the russian armies. first attempt to take boucher was over no matter of hours and it ended like this. soon enough. they were back and back to stay. for a month, the shelling the shooting barely stopped. those outside us included could only guess what life in boucher was really like. baba, hollow cushion, they the bang from the explosions went on every day. we didn't know where they were coming from. there were bright flashes of light and the distance midway had the bullets whizzing past. only dolly, most of the time, people had barely dead to leave their homes in their sellers. when they did was

often with deadly consequences. my yes, as strong as it you live. my sister asked her husband to bring her food. the place she was hiding. that was march the 4th to push that he didn't make it. will they shot him just before he got to the house is wooden co. good, well, had to put so many people died. there was so many bodies just on the street. some had lost their legs, their faces went blue, they were out there that long, overwhelmingly, this woman's son in law's body was only recovered oft ukrainian troops had retaken . gotcha, almost a month after he was killed of the victims were recovered by their neighbors. even while the russian military controlled the town and brought here to this church, showed locals told us that more than a 100 civilians, men and women of all ages lie provisionally buried in this pit. some just in the clothes they were found in others, wrapped in blankets, plastic nearby, we went to local men who helped to organize the barrels in the churchyard.

literally woke, people lived their lives, knowing they were being watched through the sites of russian soldiers, guns. when they would just shoot at people walking the streets, also, they killed a lot of people because they were so afraid, squarely afraid that any one of us could be ukrainian soldier laws, watch, ready to kill them. filled up a game mostly with the danger, was not just out on the streets this thursday in the morning with the i met a group of families who was stuck in their cellar for a week im, score was received. the russians had told them to go down there with their families with the school or were to proceed that they would give them food and water. it should be would be in the middle of the market. instead, they threw 2 grenades in that sort of cruelty. when they came out, the men who were 35 to 40 years old, they could barely speak delivery. they didn't even have the energy any more to be afraid. lumala soon got this is reports mass graves coming

from ever more places previously on the original control. the fear, the boot might soon prove to be false when nicely to trusty. russia, for its part has denied accusations that its troops committed war crimes in butcher . it claims the bodies found on butcher's streets only appeared after its forces withdrew from the town. but visual evidence contradicts that narrative. the new york times has published satellite images which show a street in boucher. his 1st image you're looking at is from february 28th. that's before russian troops took control of the town. and this image here is from mid march. the russian military occupied boucher, this outlines the bodies of civilians which have been there for weeks. i'm joined now by malik. he brown from the new york times visual investigations team. thank you so much for taking the time to speak to us. how did your team reach this conclusion that the bodies had actually been there for 3 weeks? la russia was still in control of boucher thanks. we began

by examining the images of horrifying images of bodies in the street, in basements behind office blocks, under trees, and, and other locations across boucher, once screening officials and during the school is access the town. after was russia, which through just this past weekend, we began by focusing really on the, on the bodies that were scattered across the open grounds. the streets. because russia was very quick not to launch an investigation, to this point, to deny any responsibility for us. and said that either it was a hoax, or these bodies had period there after they had left. and we looked at satellite imagery, we have access. the visual investigations team care has access to satellite imagery divided by plan us labs and max. our technologies will not charge imagery over

several weeks in march to see if we could identify any changes on the streets. and indeed, there were dark objects that appeared on the streets at the precise positions along the road for the bodies were found weeks later. and so we contacted macs or they were able to provide even higher definition imagery on clearer days that showed the bodies remaining there for over 3 weeks. they didn't move. and so the orientation of the bodies was the same. and we could even see that the shading of the close of some victims on the street as well matched supplementary with the ground. that was captured weeks later. you've been able to confirm that timeline. russia, meanwhile, has said the death in a boot, you have been staged by ukraine for the benefit of the western media. what other evidence have you analyzed to debunk that kremlin narrative? well, the satellite images themselves are pretty conclusive. you know, they,

they are taken from march 9th right through march. those body bodies don't move and as i said, they must physicians today. and actually in the past hour we've just published a video that we analyze today. again, take in early march, that same intersection jablonsky histories of a cyclists moving along the street, turning the corner and to infantry fighting vehicles open fire. one of them appears to direct fire at cyclist and you see a plume of smoke rising from the place that they just walked into. we zoomed in on that footage and you can see again the tire of the cyclist and video firms. again, just this past weekend, 3 weeks later shows a person wearing the same clothes, lying beside a bicycle in the precise position appears to match the, the person who was fired up by the, or the, the armored vehicles in already march. this is even further evidence

of rushing forces, committing atrocities in boucher while they were in control of this very same street, this very same area where for a half a mile further along, i many other bodies are phones. now we don't know what the story is for each body. you know, there appears to be an impact crater. aside some of them. another body has arms bound behind their back. it's hard to say for sure what happened to all of them, but we can see with certainty that russia was stationed in that area at the time that those killings happens. all right, thank you very much for sharing the conclusions of your investigation. i'm lucky. brown with the new york times. thank you for joining us on w. news was bring up to speed now with some of the other headlines related to the ukraine war u. s. secretary of state and named lincoln is in brussels on wednesday. but he'll discuss ukraine conflict with nato and g 7. ministers. before leaving washington,

he told reporters russia's actions in approach at were a deliberate campaign to kill torture and rape. he said the world must hold those responsible for boucher accountable allegations of russian war crimes in ukraine have prompted the you to propose an import van on russian coal as part of a new sanctions package. the package would ban russian coal imports valued at $4000000000.00 euros per year and would be the 1st e u sanctions targeting rushes, lucrative energy industry. the when says more than 11000000 rats, ukrainians have fled their home since the war began. that's more than a quarter of the population under secretary general for humanitarian affairs. martin griffith said it more than 4000000 people have left the country while the others are internally displaced. in a donor conference in berlin has pledged almost 660000000 euros to moldova. one of

your poorest countries, it's to help it cope with ukrainian refugees. participants also agreed to help resettle 12000 ukrainians from moldova around 400. a 1000 have fled to the country since war broke out. and she is update at this hour, doc film is coming up next after a short breaks of busy tuned for that price is good to use is the thought they will gray you ah.