the father says starts april 16th w ah, [000:00:00;00] ah, this is w news live from berlin. more evidence comes to light of the devastation left behind by russian troops after their withdrawal from northern ukraine. the small town of the people thought intense fighting between russian and ukrainian forces, and he, w, corresponded near connelly, spoke to residents about their ordeal under russian occupation and

a blond hospital and mary all poor. and you've grant on world health day and appeal from the united nations to staff attacks on health facilities. ah, i'm abby, coil ass, and welcome to the program. world leaders have condemned the apparent war. crimes committed by russian forces in ukraine. evidence is mounting of civilian killings, rape and torture. authorities are still trying to identify hundreds of victims of atrocities in the town of boucher outside the capital. keep and as russian troops withdraw from the north of the country, locals are coming out of hiding and taking stock after nearly a month under russian occupation. d. w. net connolly visited the small town of the cave, which found itself in the middle of intense fighting between russia and ukraine and forces. since late february,

he spoke to resident struggling to make sense of what happened to them. this is we give a small town. it's just emerging from a month and a russian occupation month in which it was on the front lines between russian and ukrainian forces. toys was sometimes just the words people, or children is as much as many residents of this ukrainian town could think of. a plea to the russian troops to leave them and their families alone, as they hid in their homes. the figure, let's have him new people in this village spent 27 days without water on the 27 days without bread. he grew up. when you are a demon his wife held out for 3 weeks until the shelling became too much to bear. and they were finally able to leave for a neighbouring village of them up when they got back of the cranium military had retaken the town, their home would be ransacked by retreating russian troops. and they've got it. everything carried everything out, all that laughter, the walls and the sofa, a sucker. he only yield,

they've taken all the electronics. i don't even know where they put it all over the months they were here, the russians really changed for the worse coming in. i'm just disgusted at the thought that they were moving around and eating in my house. at least they didn't sleep here. with the full doesn't look dollars to put the liberal goodness while they just destroyed things for the sake of it, him that he'll never believe in it. but the impact on this community goes far beyond limited homes, locals to this, they were kidnapped and detained in sellers for days on end. accused by the russians of helping the ukrainian military, several residents is still missing. fear killed, a priest arrives the neighboring village when supplies for those who have lost almost everything. yeah. but it's not food or money that the locals are asking for . that us, who am i and what does it will put the people here need tranquilizers. many of them have lost everything that was said he spent

a lifetime saving for wallace was this is their houses. thought the cars, it's all gone into. so from, from your book shows is the damp seller where she, her husband and her neighbors spent some of the coldest nights the, you know, the truth goodness. and i agree with linda. we weren't just hearing the shelling, we could feel it. everything was shaking when all we could do is pray that it wouldn't hit us. we just kept praying supplies like these kipling woven has been going during the week sandra occupation or the shop stood shut, leaving home would have meant running a gauntlet or was it up? yes. go to where the time you've been up and down these steps a few times you lose the will to do anything else. to both tells us she and every one she knows is exhausted. her what you can always waiting for something they can't quite define. unable to ever let go much them, he said we didn't use to understand what it was that people and on boss have been going through all these years stuck in their sellers. the last month has taught us

what war is, is name certificate. for now, the russian army has been pushed back more than a 100 kilometers. the fear they might return suddenly, as they appeared, was never far away. our next guest is alexandra murphy choke from cave. she's a human rights lawyer and the head of non profit organization. the center for civil liberties mismatched the joke. thank you for being with us. now the image is out of boucher have been simply horrific. there is much more that we're not seeing as russian troops withdraw from various areas around the capitol. what are you hearing about? what's happening in those areas we sent over mobile groups to work on the areas and even before the sea to some settlements liberated to begin testimony from people who like to escape from this area. because trust them deliberately isolated didn't don't provide opportunity of poor people to advocate and my assessment is there to receive

a systematic and large scale nature or for international crimes which is committed there. and frankly speaking, i am, i'm, i'm afraid, watch out for you to understand your school teaching with their 40000 people. you've received such kind of a system in which i've been in the water than what the hell is awaits us in a minute. but i think that's the big question now, because we know very little about what's unfolding and mary opal and the russians have been bombarding the port city for weeks, relentlessly. ukraine officials there say that troops are now burning bodies to get rid of the evidence of their crimes. and we are sure through sufficient statement, and it's very hard to, to check you to be curious. people are kept here in the basement result, which connection is out. what truth is our food to be like 3 city, but we try to keep it for a minute for the whole or where manage to escape from the c t. and now when you pro,

in the priority year, so we also gather a testimonial and they told us horrible thinks about what happens in their nature. can i ask you what kind of horrible things they've been telling you? say tell bet. how is the 3 loans were killed by russian troops? is that they suffer it from from a shortage of food or water. they try to bury relatives in the common grief and during this triumph and other people were there. so it's really, it's really horrible. and the most to programmatic is that still more than 100000 people, i might as well ukrainian official says, and the russian don't provide permission for any safety. when you pull your doors to, to say this land people and injured people,

and we oscar international community to raise their voice because this teacher is totally the toys and people have to be safe. what more do you want from the international community, with regards to all the human rights violations that you're seeing? what do you want the west to do to help you crane you've, we speak. not only about mario point about how to generally manage the situation with the war which russia started against ukraine. a, we must admit that we need several things to be done. the thorough thinks we need weapons. we need to be to cover, but you need to you to defeat ukrainian civilians and ukrainian see to the example of butcher away short the whole world set. russia troops killed unarmed, so we need weapons. we need fighter jets, we need air defense systems. we need to turn when use other client or for military techniques. second row,

huge debate about with this 5 baggage of functions. some people told us that there are glass or functions is called food. some people attempt to tell as this glass of function is caused empty, but the right question is whether this glass of function cut and no action in order to stop within the ukraine. but then which means that it's not happens. so that's not enough. alexandra maci choke. thank you very much for your time and sharing those horrific stories with the world. thank you. thank you. grands are searching through the rubble and the liberated town of war, the anchor hoping to find the bodies of their loved ones. for a young guy is just 70 kilometers north west of keith. and it was one of the 1st towns hit by russian shelley. after the invasion began. local authorities have estimated that 200 civilians have been killed. w correspond alexandra phenomena standing by in the ukrainian capital, alexander, ukrainian,

or authority say 26 bodies have been discovered. what did you witness when you are in board younger? well, i have to say that the scale of destruction and bird younger that we saw to day was shocking to all members of our team. it was shocking to see high rise houses completely demolished by russian artillery fire and bombardments there. and so we have to say it was also very heartbreaking to speak with the residents they that had to leave under russian occupation. one woman told me that the russian soldiers stormed her parents house and her mom was a, was told to give the soldiers everything that she had everything of value. and she just speck them, not to kill her. i also spoke with the family there and they told me that russian soldiers came to their house and pointed their machine guns, guns at them,

and the mother she went to her knees, begging them not to rape her daughter. so really hot breaking stories and, and a large, huge scale of destruction there. dahlia correspondent, alexander phenomena they're reporting from the korean capital. let's get some other updates on the war in ukraine. the un general assembly has voted to suspend russia from its human rights council. due to the country's invasion of ukraine, it's only the 2nd time a nation has been suspended from the council. moscow was calling the decision politically motivated and illegal crumbling spokesperson dmitri pash. gov says that russia has sustained, quote, significant losses of troops and ukraine, calling it a huge tragedy for russia. the country's defense ministry claims between one and 2000 russian soldiers have been killed. but independent estimates put the number closer to 10000 since invading ukraine,

russian forces have attacked more than 100 medical facilities. and the world health organization says more hospitals and health care facilities have been attacked around the world this year than ever before. ah, the moment a bomb exploded in the city of mary awful and this is what was hit the maternity and children's hospital since the start of russia's invasion, more than 90 health facilities, including hospitals like this one in the city of him have been attacked role according to the world health organization group would be looking for some more than once at the start of the wool. the main hospital in the town of villanova

was hit. days later, it was attacked again and then again while dozens of civilians were hiding inside, trying to escape. the shelling among them was andree key. and you know, head of the hospitals, trauma center who was there with his wife and children. the experience still haunts him. a shilling lasted about 20 to 25 minutes with you was clear and the kids just moved it to my children and i didn't make it to the basement. we spent all this time in the corridor of the hospital. we experienced all the shelling 1st hand. what she'd given us pavlo called ton yoke is ukraine's pho,

my deputy health minister. he now runs an organization that's trying to document each and every hospital attack. or our main and primary goal is to help our economy and help their national community to hold accountable. those people who would do those to what a crisis and this is what really makes our team really, really motivated because they feel that they're doing something very important for this more but as the whole 10 use. so to do the attacks, posts of prosecutions seem a long way off here, some of the other stories were falling for you this hour. at least 2 people have been killed. an attack and television. police say a gunman, open fire, and a restaurant district in the city center. a motive is not yet known, but it follows

a spate of similar incidents in recent weeks. the u. s. senate has confirmed katana brown jackson as a supreme court justice. she'll be the 1st black woman to serve on the country's highest fort president biden called her confirmation, a historic moment for our nation by the extraordinary honor of this moment. this is dw news. my colleague steven beardley is coming up next to the old business update . adequate awesome, thanks for being with i got some hot tips for your bucket list. i magic corner hotspot for food and some great cultural immortals to boot w travel. all we go to be your own health