ah ah ah, this is dw news coming to live from berlin. the united states in europe are ratcheting 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, sit pull it. when the world sees what happens in mary,

you call it will be butcher multiplied 515-105-1000. 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 following russia's failure to take kip and its withdrawal from northern areas around the capitol. ukrainian president vladimir zalinski warned that russian forces are preparing for another assault on the city of hockey for the eastern city of crime, a task which was spared much of the fighting until now has been hit by russians. shelley crane will try again on wednesday to evacuate civilians from besieged cities through the 11 human humanitarian corridors. 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. the w's alexandra phenomena visited boucher to hear firsthand what residence experienced. some viewers will find some of the images in this report disturbing. on the road to boucher burnt out tanks and car wreck ski the foreboding of the horrors. the small town has lived through in a center of butcher residents came together like every day hoping for humanitarian health to life. food is scarce. here they say many seem deeply traumatized while a demeanor and his mother told me they saw their friends and neighbors detained and

killed by rational forces. couldn't you signal which was they took him a march 7 and as it turned out he was shot him dead. a day later took a donya to closely. we found his body only after they retreated, whom we not leave it that they were yellows without his body, with his fingers broken their policy and a shot to the head. if they prefer it in the hollow, i used the kicker to our old people were buried in the back yard still or in the forest dumbly. souza cornelia! here in butcher, russian soldier, stand accused of terrible war crimes. witnesses speak of summary executions of civilians killed at will. the ukrainian government is urging international experts to come to woodshop to investigate the allegations. they hoped that what happened here will be a turning point in the international response to the war. at the ever and of butcher forensic scientists arrived at the spec yards to pick up

the bodies of sick civilians discovered their recently authority say they were not held by a drawn bore messiah, but shall dat, and then set on fire ye. unlike only be score his me shoot in a war. holy soldiers kill soldiers. janna out watching it to the hotel. they've been trained dog and are ready to die for their beliefs and ideals. idiology bottled, whoops, where'd all through a killing civilians. how's it pro fish are yet? i've almost you not embrace within 3 color but show fema there and governments dismiss the allegations as stage anti ration propaganda. but the evidence is mounting even though a full investigation could take time. time consuming is also the clearing of minds and booby traps placed in the town. ukrainians. troops told us in bookshop when you miss, there was, as you can see yourself, there are many different types of military hardware here that can explode and threaten the lives of civilian solar. so we're working on any issues which are

still has a long way to go before alive can get anywhere near back to normal. short while ago i spoke with our correspondent nick connelly who is in keith about the situation there. now the russian troops have withdrawn from the suburbs 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 are basically left behind by the russian retreat. yet 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

sets. this is somehow organized or fully and what kind of a free of russian troops i'm button out of seed. the focus is on looking at what has happened trying to find the dead trying to find the victims are of such killings and also to have take stock to take minds away. there are lots of booby traps, lots of her minds 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 g crane russian forces, se he lower their still big risks to civilians and no real chance of a return to ordinary life. in the next couple days, a weeks have the the parent atrocities uncovered in boucher and elsewhere around care. are they impacting ukraine's approach to peace negotiations with russia? nick? 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 paul, or least, the pictures coming out. my ripple there of slee ukraine controls this t center. so this was artillery fire at civilians rather than a full military control, as was case in boucher where we had those killings of civilians and shootings. so a real hardening of tone, lots of ukrainian military people say that this is no longer the time to take russian prisoners basically that there will be no, no, no way to, to take prisoners that anyone basically any russian so they see will be shot on other hand present to 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 that however little he might want to as a personal level engage with rosley does. that is, as you to do so, but the question is, will they even talk to him, hold from his conflict to podium, zalinski has said that he's open to talks. and all that time, he's basically ignored by vladimir putin who said, basically says the only person he wants talk to is joe button. nick,

thank you very much. our corresponding to nick connelly. they're in keith. the besieged, ukrainian city of murray. a pole has been under constant russian bombardment since the beginning of the war. more than half the population has fled while up to a 170000. others remain tramped without food, water or electricity. dw correspondent rebecca readers 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 in our 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. yup. as wally this was the night when the bombings just wouldn't stop political, an issue hollow every time we heard a bomb coming in mitchells i was lying and thinking. i would cover my head like that and think this one will be the one that gets us lost. just

a 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. and you die to rosa and you don't care how you die. just as long as it's all over among us to both can that so much and soon it would be she and a few of her colleagues took their chance to escape. were we wholly, we were driving and then in the distance we saw our flag of blue and yellow flag and ukrainian troops. public goodly proper 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 as 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. call it 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 that our correspondent rebecca ritters, who file their report joins me now from livid. rebecca, this war is leaving so many people traumatized, including the doctor you spoke with. are they able to get any help dealing with the psychological impact of what they've been during, terry? it's hard to comprehend how people, particularly people like anna, have witnessed and experience. some of the worst of this war are going to be able to carry on. in its aftermath, it's by no means over. so they're going to be plenty more stories like this, or alive or dead inside is how she, exp, excuse described her feelings in her state of mind at the moment. now you express,

extrapolate that across all the people who've seen and witnessed this stuff. we're talking about a nation who are going to be traumatized from this war. there are organisations here and g o set up to try and help with the psychological aspects of the trauma. but obviously they, that is sad to say a secondary factor because the immediate factor of time to re how's these people to have them registered for government assistance or when they're no longer allowed to earn able rather to earn money. it takes precedence. so the psychological aspect element will come 2nd to that. now anna herself said that she hadn't yet received any psychological support. we're actually going to try and help set her up with an organization because they're not necessarily, it's not an official process yet. they're there to so many other immediate factors, but it is something that is going to be these organizations are going to be working very hard in the weeks and months ahead. years. in fact, harry, you're in la,

viv rebecca, in western ukraine. what's the situation there? right now, is it still considered relatively safe? it is a relative, is the word there, terry? i mean, you can probably see behind me, i'm in the main square. there are people walking around. i mean, in many respects, it feels like a relatively normal city, despite the fact that everybody has not a single person in this country. he's not been touched by this conflict. it's been a little over a week since the last explosions here at that that targeted the oil depots. and then until last night, when about 70 kilometers to the north west in an area called erotic cave, some administrative offices were targeted. we. it was too far for us to be able to hear anything from here, but the sirens were wearing just goes to show how close the conflict can be and though the city is,

is relatively safe day to day. just how close the conflict still is. rebecca, thank you very much, shar corresponded rebecca ritter's there in livi, ukraine's president philadelphia zalinski has called for urgent action from the united nations over alleged russian war crimes. he addressed a meeting of the un security council after visiting boucher on monday, 2 months. zalinski sharply criticized security council for its inability to stand up to russia's aggression. as a permanent member of the council, russia has the power to veto any binding resolution, making the body powerless to act against its war on ukraine. from distinction. here are a few other stories related to the ukraine war. the un says more than 11000000 ukrainians had 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 more than 4000000 people have left the country while the

others are internally displaced. a donor conference in berlin has pledged almost 660000000 euros for old dover, one of europe, same poorest countries which borders ukraine. it's to help it cope with ukrainian refugees. participants also agreed to help resettle 12000 ukrainians from moldova around 400000, fled to the country since war broke out. the e u and the u. s. are set to impose tough new sanctions on moscow in response to the atrocities in butch of washington is expected to ban all new investments in russia, as well as target further members of puddings, inner circle, and the country's banking system. meanwhile, you lawmakers are set to vote on the 5th round of sanctions, including blocking russian ships and trucks from entering the e. u, as well as a battle russian coal. european commission president was left on the lion warned moscow and embargo on oil imports could soon follow. russia has surpassed, he ran,

and north korea now as the most sanctioned country in the world would get let's get more now from dw corresponded barbados, who is in stroudsburg covering that meeting of the parliament. barbara the you parliament is meeting there today. what sits position on the war in ukraine? the european 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 enthusiastic and very sort of determined about tightening sanctions. they are calling form war even, and you have other countries who know what to judge, what is happening in ukraine. but general, the overall, the large majority here, of course, is decrying and the mentoring the war crimes that are being observed in ukraine.

the parliament also called for international investigation in or in investigations in order to fix the details in order to find the culprits. 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 war effects europe. because this is the most, the deepest is sort of the shake up off your p security structure that it has ever seen in its existence. this will of course, also effect it's economic development. and so there are a lot of separate issues, particularly for instance on your own european defense which is sort of gaining and not as oxygen as through this situation 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 to oppose the war and trying to sort of tighten the, the screws around the sanctions on. let me put you yesterday for, for the e commission proposed further sanctions against russia, including a ban on imports of coal from russia. are you a member states barbara inclined to support that? or we have heard some bleating yesterday from austria, for instance, who said, yeah, we're not quite ready to do that. do i? if we shouldn't have sanctions that hurt us more than they heard fuji's 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, they propose that immediate stop, not only of colo but also of oil. and that would be the, the real point that would be the, the, the, the point where they could really heard of lighting, of who chince 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 of 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 today come out as a whimper rather than as bang. barbara,

thank you very much for now. our course on it. barbara basil there in strossberg are political correspondent, lena hossa is on that story. nina. germany is under pressure from its allies to radically reduce energy imports from russia. how far is it willing to go? well, foreign minister molina 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 that, that would be a massive thing. but i doubt that and gas there is the fear that a sudden exit from russian gas would hound 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. she's also praised only 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 left shots. the gems chancellor will be questioned by the members of the german parliament later today. and we will be here in 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 vladimir putin to no foreign minister. and alina battle, she has dismiss criticism of germany being too reluctant to slow. she says, there are not many of the countries that have to live as much. now, whether it's precisely what you craig wants, that something you would have to ask the ukrainians. but alina, because also said that because of the atrocities in which 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, nita has other and will continue to bring you the latest on the war in ukraine throughout the day. meanwhile, let's catch up on some of the stories were following for you today. the is really government's ruling coalition, has lost its majority in parliament after its chairperson resigned. unexpectedly. the move is a major blow for prime minister natalie bennett, whose government will now only be able to pass legislation with support from

opposition longer. a car has crushed into the gate of the russian embassy in the romanian capital. bucharest vehicle burst into flames and killed the driver, but did not enter the embassy compound so clear the crash was an accident, deliberate and the u. s. britain and australia say they will work together via a recently created security alliance to develop hyper sonic weapons. the move comes amid growing concerns about china's military assertiveness. our sonic missiles are too fast. we stop 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 pets. behind. d, w max tonda met a volunteer who is trying to help animal letters and their pets flying across the police, 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 soviet crop. 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 them 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. no to will. i know that 2 people die trying to feed the animals in disease ios. i had that people trying to feed the dogs in the abandoned shelters in ukraine, have been shot. so the solar, further east at the polish cranium 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 going you, my scar will. she was the leads us tells us a little bit and not that he, a bubble of she was constantly alert and she's a delicate animal, but he stayed kola, gone. she was very thirsty too. she clung flow 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 loans 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, plenty of amish afflict, giggle. 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 recording. 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're watching dw news from berlin, just to remind of our top story today. ukrainian president, bellagio zalinski tells the united nations that russia's invasion of his country is undermining global security. u. s. and europe are planning new sanctions to try and further isolate moscow. coming up next, we've got eco,

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