[000:00:00;00] ah ah, this is dw news coming to live from berlin. the united states in europe are resting up sanctions on russia as evidence mounts of atrocities in the ukrainian town of poacher. residents tell d w of the horrors they endured during 4 weeks of occupation by russian forces living in fear that they could be next to die. also coming up and i witness account of the bombardment of murray. you pull from a doctor who managed to escape the besieged city police. when the world sees what

happened in maryville, it will be butcher multiplied 515-105-1000 ukraine's president demands russia be brought to justice. he makes his plea to the un security council where russia has vito power to block action against the war. ah. hello m terry martin. good to have you with us. ukraine's military says, russian forces are now focusing on an aggressive operation to seize, complete control of the eastern don bus region. hallway rushes, failure to take kiff and its withdrawal from northern. there is a round the capitol ukrainian president laudermill zalinski warned that russian forces are preparing for another assault on the city of hot heath. the eastern city

of crime tossed spared much of the fighting until now has been hit by russians shelling thousands of residents are trying to flee west after 4 weeks under russian occupation. the world is now gradually finding out the scale of the horrors inflicted on the town of boucher grim evidence of killings and torture has emerged since russian troops retreated bodies lying in the streets and piled up in mass graves. those who survived are telling their stories. dw, nick conley visited, boucher to hear 1st hand what residence experienced there. some viewers may find images in this report. disturbing the russian armies 1st attempt to take boucher was over in a matter of hours and it ended like this. soon enough they were back and back to stay. for a month, the shelling and the shooting barely stopped. those outside us included could only guess what life in boucher was really like. baba,

hollow cousin dang the bank from the explosions went on every day. we didn't know where they were coming from. there were bright flashes of light in the distance. we had the bullets whizzing past, but only dolly, most of the time, people who barely dare to leave their homes ness sellers when they did was often with deadly consequences. my yes is threat, as actually my sister asked her husband to bring her food to 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 will deal cool. 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 churchyard. 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 or plastic nearby, we met local men who helped to organize the burials in the churchyard literally woke, people lived their lives, knowing they were being watched through the sites of russian soldiers, guns, number they would just shoot at people walking the streets. 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, them only with the i met a group of families who was stuck in their cellar for a week. im scar, which was the, the russians had told them to go down there with their families at the school or with a policy that they would give them food and water. it shouldn't be, would be a name. can all of you had a not that 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 the loser. they didn't even have the energy anymore to be afraid. lumala sooner got this is reports of mass graves coming from ever more places previously on the russian army control. the fear, the preacher might soon prove to be false. one isolated the trusty from keith. i'm joined now by our correspondent nick connie, who filed that report. nic, what's the situation in kia now that russia has pulled its troops back from the suburbs? ah, well here in key if we are definitely hearing less, no way of artillery fire less in the way of air raids, a sirens of the kind that we basically had every couple of hours for the last few weeks to defeat. there is a real sense that the fighting is further away, but there's no final sense that this is totally over. there are reports coming in

of isolated russian units that it basically left behind by the russian retreat and some of them hiding out in forests around the kind of cities like boucher where they were in control for weeks at a time. i said, reports coming in of ukraine checkpoints being attacked by those russian forces that are now trying to make their way north to bellows to withdraw. so and no real says this is somehow organized or fully and what kind of a free of russian troops i'm but now of see the focus is on looking at what has happened trying to find the dead trying to find the victims or of such killings and also to have take stock to take minds away their looks of booby traps, lots of a mines in towns like boucher and a long road. so a real fear when people hear that, even though the direct risk of being killed in fight even ukrainian, russian forces is he, he lower, they're still big risks to civilians and no real chance of a return to ordinary life. in the next couple of days,

a weeks have the the parent atrocity is uncovered in boucher and elsewhere around kia. are they impacting ukraine's approach to peace negotiations with rationing? well, on one hand, you definitely hear a hardening of time, for most people lets people who thought they couldn't be more shocked, or somehow more moved than by what they'd seen in mary poll forest pictures. coming out, my ripple there of slee ukraine controls she sent to so this was artillery fire civilians, rather than a full military control, as was case in butcher where we had those killings of civilians, shootings. so a real hardening of tone, lots of ukrainian military people saying that this is no longer the time to take russian prisoners basically that there will be no, no, no waiting to take prisoners that anyone basically any russian so they see will be shot on the other hand present lensky, saying that he is still open to negotiations with russia without him approaching that. that is the only way to reduce civilian losses in ukraine. however,

little he might want to as personal level engage with rosley does. that is, as you to do so, but the question is, will they even talk to him? hold on this conflict, podium zalinski has said that he's open to talks and all that time, he's basically been ignored by vladimir putin who said basically says the only person he wants talk to joe biden. nick, thank you very much. are corresponding to nick connelly there in keith the besieged ukrainian city of mario poll has been under constant russian bombardments since the beginning of the war. more than half the population has pled while up to a 170000. others remain trapped without food, water, or electricity. dw correspondent rebecca ritter's met one doctor who spent 25 days and nights helping the injured until she too took the chance to flee through almost full weeks of war and the most unspeakable conditions. anna,

a neurologist worked and lived in the mary hugh paul city hospital. now in the relative safety of live. she tells me of her ordeal. it just my just show during the heaviest, bombardments we had around 50 patients an hour arriving a day. the hospital was so overcrowded and the windows doors and roof wall destroyed stead. not long after it got even worse, the russians cut the water supply is, but alice knew we would gather snow, rain water, use the water from inside the boilers and disinfect it. so many patients were dying, she tells me they were forced to put the corpses outside in bags, asked her to have all the worst thing was when the relatives would come to look for their loved ones on him, they had to open all the bags, the bitter cold, they're saving grace, as it prevented the worst of the stench. they show by chill out what i saw. i think that even the most perverted minds wouldn't be able to imagine. it's an outage. nay, bit as the night of the 20th of march,

i named this night the genocide allotted me up as wally. this was the night when the bombings just wouldn't stop political, an issue hollow. every time we heard a bomb coming. mitchells i was lying and thinking i would cover my head like that and think this one will be the one that gets us last wire and moment comes directly and it's hard to comprehend a moment when you want it all to be over there in a good way that she survived a blitzer looking or in a bad way. don't you die to rosa and you don't care how you die, just as long as it's all over among us to both connect to moose. and soon it would be she and a few of her colleagues took their chance to escape. were ye holy? we were driving and then in the distance we saw our flag of blue and yellow flag and ukrainian troops. the booklet brought tumble. one of them gave me

a hug and it's weird, but i asked him, can i be a ukrainian here? is it safe daughter? and he said yes, you're at home. bridged. no, for the doctor. dormer said alive, but dead inside. she tells me as she faces a life haunted by what she's witnessed. gully is it when the world sees what happens in mary, you pull it will be butcher multiplied 515100, which are by 1000 to modernity. such is while the stories related to the ukraine war, the un says more than 11000000 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 griff, the said more than 4000000 people have left the country. while the others are internally displaced. a donor conference in berlin has pledged all 660000000 euros

to moldova, and of europe's poorest countries is to help it cope with ukrainian refugees. artists prince also agreed to help resettle 12000 ukrainians from moldova around 400000. have fled to the country since war broke out. and organizers of the wimbleton tennis championships have announced to they are consulting with the british government about banning russian players from the summers tournament world . number 2 done a med that if would be among the players affected. russian teams have generally been banned from world sport, but individuals have until now been able to continue play the e u and the u. s. are set to impose tough new sanctions on moscow in response to the atrocities in butcher. washington is expected to ban all new investments in russia as well as target further members of proteins, inner circle, and the country's banking system. meanwhile, e law makers are meeting to discuss

a 5th round of sanctions. we're looking at live pictures here. there's sanctions include blocking russian ships and trucks from entering the e as well as a ban on russian coal. the 1st time is taken aim at the russian energy industry. russia has surpassed iran and north korea as the most sanctioned country in the world. what get, let's get more now from the w corresponded. barbara basal who is in stroudsburg covering that meeting of the parliament. barbara, the you, parliament is meeting there today. what city position on the war in ukraine therapy in parliament, of course mirrors the political opinions in the different member states. and so you have countries and you have parliamentarians who are very, very enthusiast. they can very sort of determined about tightening sanctions. they

are calling form war even and you have other countries who are nowhere to judge what is happening in ukraine. but generally, overall, the large majority here, of course, is decrying and lemme, and lamenting the war crimes that are being observed in ukraine. the problem is also called for international investigation in or in investigations in order to fix the details in order to find the culprit. and in order to have the tribunals maybe during the war or at least after the war has, has ended. that is one of the aspects here on the agenda. but also they are talking about how this more effects europe. because this is remote, the deepest is sort of shaken off your pain as security structure that it has ever seen in its existence. this will, of course, also effect is economic development. and so there are

a lot of separate issues constantly for instance, on u. p. or near being defense, which is sort of gave me a lot of oxygen through dissertation in ukraine that they have to be talking about . and you can see, of course, the difference in opinion in some member states. but the huge majority here is the very determinedly trying. ready to oppose the war and trying to sort of tighten the, the screws around the sanctions on let me put you yesterday, barbara, the u commission proposed further sanctions against russia, including a ban on imports of coal from russia or you member states. barbara inclined to support them or we have heard some bleating yesterday from austria, for instance, was that? yeah, we're not quite ready to do that. do i it, we shouldn't have sanctions that hurt us more than they were forges regime. but it

seems that this might be the lowest common denominator in getting it getting sort of in entrance into leaving russian energy exports because there is a large group of parliamentarians here. the whole conservative group are supported by a lot of the liberals and the greens, for instance, and social democrats. so really majority who say we want more and they propose that immediate stop not only of cold but also of oil. and that would be the, the real point that would be the, the, the, the point where they could really hurt of lighting of hutchins on the, on the fit much let me put you on the money's on the financial side. because oil exports are his biggest part of the money that he gets from western energy import exports. and so that means they could really sort of,

they could really have a, a strong expression off their will and of their, of their political determination. but it looks like that many member states are not ready to follow and not ready to do that yet. and so sanctions might, at the end of her to day come out as a whimper rather than as bang. barbara, thank you very much for now. our correspondent barbara basil there in strossberg. meanwhile, here in germany, the debate continues about russian energy imports and weapons for ukraine. our political correspond, nina hossa is on that story. nina. germany is under pressure from its allies to radically reduce energy imports from russia. how far is willing to go? well, foreign minister and alina babcock has said that she supports of his sanctions package, that would contain the beginning of a phase out of all of russia's fossil fuel deliveries to the e. u. and obviously we've just heard that they would start with coal and, and to be honest,

germany has already reduced its dependency that oil would follow in and next package, probably if they really did agree to put oil in there, that would be a massive thing. but i doubt that, and gas, there is the fear that a sudden exit from russian gas would harm the german economy in a way that it and other countries like austria would be home more than russia would . so that's not going to be possible quite as fast. and by the way, that german approach does seem to have the approval of the new u. s. ambassador to germany, amy gutmann said this week, and i quote that i see germany's doing everything. it can sort of humming itself more than it hums. mister putin. jeez, also praise gemini for trying to become less dependent and said that it's working more rapidly than anybody thought was possible. what about weapons? nina? very controversial weapons for ukraine is germany ready to deliver more? well, we'll have such the gem chancellor will be questioned by the members of the german

parliament later today. and we will be hearing quite a few critical questions from the representatives of both the extreme left and the extreme right. because those parties are against weapons deliveries for different reasons. but overall, there is consensus within the government and also the largest opposition group. the conservatives that germany should deliver everything it can. now it, is it touchy issue because the german government typically does not reveal just what types of weapons they're sending or have sent. and they argue, they just don't want letting me put into no foreign minister. and alina battle, she has dismiss criticism of germany being too reluctant or too slow. she says, there are not many of the countries that have delivered as much. now, whether it's precisely what you craig wants, that something you would have to ask the ukrainians. but and alina, because also said that because of the atrocities in bush said, the german government is now looking into delivering things to ukraine that they hadn't considered before. nina, thank you very much. our political correspond,

nina has other ukrainian president blood musa lensky, has called for urgent action from the united nations over alleged russian war crimes. he addressed the un security council sharply criticizing its inability to take action to and brushes 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 to lensky addressed the killings in front of the u. n. e. so the russian military search for him purposely killed any one who served our country. they shot and killed women outside their houses when they just tried to call some one who was alive, they killed entire families, adults and children. and they tried to burn the bodies saline eula. so lensky said russia must be held accountable for its actions in ukraine. he questioned the

inability of the security council to punish russia due to must coast 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 you best bet, show 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. earlier we spoke to mud undine, us say professor of lot also university. we asked him for his assessment on the role of the security council in the ukraine complex. we don't have will government . the security council is the best we have that cannot act without all the permanent 5 members of the security council agreeing. or at least

not the i think that we have to take any opportunity to reforming the meeting is strengthened the united nations and indeed the security council. however, it's not very likely that countries which to day won't action against russia, that they would accept that they themselves should be subjected to any override. and that's the problem in the international law. you can't just decide something for those who you want to punish or for your enemies. you then have to take on how to litigations and i think that is very difficult. course will continue up to date you on the war in ukraine. meanwhile, here are some other stories we're following for you this hour. these really governments ruling coalition has lost its majority in parliament, afters chairperson resigned. unexpectedly. the move is a major blow for premonition of tele bennett. news government will now only be able

to pass legislation with support from opposition. lawmakers. a car has crashed into the gate of the russian embassy in the romanian capital book, arrest the vehicle, burst into flames, and killed the driver, but did not enter the embassy compound, sought clear if the crash was an accident or delivery and the u. s. britain in australia say they will work together via a recently created security alliance to develop hypersonic weapons. the move comes amid growing concerns about china's military assertiveness. hypersonic missiles are too fast to be stopped by current defense systems. the scale of human suffering caused by russia's war against ukraine is becoming ever clearer, but as millions of people are driven out of their homes and displaced by the invasion, many have been forced to leave their hats behind. t w's max tonda metabolic tear, who's trying to help animal owners and their pets playing across the polish

ukrainian border. olenka and saba are full of life warning to war torn ukraine. the puppies have found a temporary home in poland. here at the animal shelter and caught up, it's a severe prop looks after animals that have been saved since the invasion began to merge. and i am only voluntary offer. okay. we know ukraine volunteers will help us in getting the dogs out of ukraine. grenette. i think they usually bring down to the border where we pick them up and we are man, some owners were forced to leave their animals behind. she tells us, but most here come from shelters in cities under attack. at other one, yes, the rescuing animals in ukraine right now is dangerous for them for the other. you know, to will. i know that 2 people die trying to feed the animals in disease. i also had that people trying to feed the dogs in the abandoned shelters in ukraine, have been shot some of the solar further east and the polish and cream border.

roughly one and 12 people arriving here brings a pet like elena and her 3 kids have just arrived from keith. they simply couldn't leave behind their dog pacifica. i'm when you, my scar will. she was the leads as fast as a little bit. and not that he, a bubble of she was constantly alert and she is a delicate animal that he stayed call last cover. she was very thirsty too. she clung for a little much water in beat, wasting the journey was hard on the family. but the pop seems to have taken it well . however, many pets suffer from the hydration, hunger, and frostbite along the way. back at the shelter, here we met gandalf. another recent arrival he was badly injured child events decided to amputate his leg. now gan off is doing well, but cases like his could become more frequent. there's, there's actually been them cut out the animals will be coming in an increasingly bad shape because of their situation in ukraine. the gland that the cover glove.

but we also expect that those animals won't be the ones that were important to the owners, spectacular slave as they might be in where se hungry, ill traumatized. we expect anything ah, was of amish. a floss cable problem. more than a 100 cats and dogs from ukraine have been brought in here by volunteers. they need to be vaccinated, shipped and documented, as well as undergo at to we currently. the 1st ukrainian pets are now ready to be adopted. and sylvia prom and her team will continue to help evacuate and try to find a home for all of their 4 legged refugees you are watching. did up the news . just a reminder of the top stories were following for you this, our ukrainian president below me as the landscape tells the united nations that rushes invasion of his country is undermining global security. the u. s. in europe

are planning new sanctions to try and further isolate moscow. and those sanctions follow grim evidence of killings and torture. and the town of boucher emerging after the the russian retreat. residents tell d w how they endured for weeks. so occupation, living in fear that they can be the next to die. thanks for watching. ah.

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