[000:00:00;00] ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin. russia targets the train station used by civilian evacuee. at least 39 people are killed and more than a 100 injured. as rockets hit the station in crime, a task in east a new crime. also coming up warnings of more atrocities committed by russian forces against civilians in northern ukraine. we hear the stories from those who survived

in that recently liberated town of follow the anchor and russian owned of works in limbo. moscow was demanding the return of cultural treasures on loan to foreign museums or customs. officials say that would violate western sanction. ah, i'm glad of us. welcome to the program and we begin with breaking news out of eastern ukraine where at least 39 people have been killed and dozens more wounded after russian missiles here to train station in the city of crime, a task in the donates region. the station was being used to evacuate women, children, and the elderly to say for parts of the country. officials say thousands of people were at the station. at the time of the attack, the head of the regional administration posted these images on social media, showing dead bodies outside the station. the kremlin has denied any involvement in

the attack. let's a brand, toby frick her. he's a uni serve spokesman, who joins us from a short and west in ukraine. mr for you'll unicef team was in chrome at all today when you talk happened. could you tell us more about that? yeah, that's right. thank starting the new stuff on today. so we had a team in climate, so scott, at the time, and i just been on the phone to them, actually. they were actually offloading some supplies for the hospitals that they submitted medical equipment, some hygiene items, and they were handing those over to the local administration. when the sound of the bangs happened, and clearly everyone realize something serious was happening at that time. like the new situation ran out to respond. and that was the situation. so that happened just just a little bit earlier. so it won't do you know about the train station. how busy is it usually? so credentials, train station is a very busy session and in fact it has been for a long time. i've been there

a number of times when i've been working in easton ukraine, and it gets very busy. i'm particularly now as people were fleeing that one ask area. as we know, there was the governor had, had put out a request to people to leave women and children, to head for safety. and women and children have been arriving all over the country even here in this field where i am now. there's a, it's a massive area for in sunny, displaced people and there's many, many children who come here for the relative safety that it provides. so how would you now describe the general situation in the chroma? talk and the of the area around it. a situation from what i said, it's not at least 2 children have been killed and that's likely to be many, many more. so it's really horrific and, you know, you said we've been trying with providing supplies like i said, medical equipment. so hospitals i was actually in sample reach, which is in the southeast of ukraine, just

a few days back. and we have provided medical equipment, surgical license to a hospital there. we went to the intensive care unit where a number of children being cared for children who had tried to get out there is where those very heavy fighting. but i'm thought she had been hit by bullets for your flat twice in the afternoon. do you and all the un agencies or receive cooperation from a russian forces? well, yeah, you said you and, and, and other agencies and partners were working, trying to get access to the most vulnerable children, wherever they are. and that can be marble. it can be across the, across the country where the heck fighting is the heaviest and clearly access to my whole access to other areas as an extremely difficult. but we have been able to move supplies around like us to now we've, we've had supplies in boucher and chinese as well. very recently deleted. so we are getting around but, but clearly some of the most vulnerable children are still stuck. they need safe passage out. toby frick other units,

her spokesman in also to and western ukraine. thank you very much. the attack on the train station in chrome, a toss has strong, strong condemnations with western leaders saying there's only proves the need for tougher sanctions and actions against moscow in a tweet you commission president, also a funded line called the missile attack. despicable saying she's uphold one of the loss of life and would personally offer condolences to president the landscape from the line is meeting with ukrainian leaders in the capital key of today to show that you support ukrainian authorities are bracing for if more gruesome discoveries in the wake of the russian troop withdrawal from the north. there is a mounting evidence that civilians were killed, raped, and tortured with hundreds of victims in the town of boucher alone. but ukrainian president vladimir zalinski says the situation in borrowed, younger at 70 kilometers north. west of keith is much more horrific. i'll

corresponded alexander of an arm and was just there and filed this report. they have began clearing the rabble, but any hope of finding survivors here is long gone. for the anchor lay on the main root of the russian offensive on key of the scale of the destruction is so massive that even emergency workers seem shock. this sham about you is why live it by now? we see with our eyes what the russians did to a peaceful 10. there were no military bases here. missed them, they shot people dead, bombed high rise block. so frida, i don't understand why really bad the over here give issue. when russian planes dropped their bombs on the town in early march, these apartment buildings were demolished. local authorities feared that up to $200.00 civilians were killed. their bodies still buried under the rubble. but we believe in one of the blocks we meet alexander,

he is back to salvage some items from his ruined apartment with you. when the russian bombardment started, he managed to flee together with his family. oh, horrible, it's better than it. but like, i'm still rain, same clothes i had on. when i left at least i want to take some things with me. his growth will. this used to be his children's room. his life. i don't really know what to say. smith don't have words left there. bastard scro, putin in his whole government. if see, can you prove you to florida with a few blocks away a distribution center for humanitarian aid among the residents lining up nina and her family. they lived through a lot during the russian occupation of their home town, including hunger and constant fear. for dawn, after that they were pointing that guns at my daughter and the kids. i went down on my knees and screamed begging them not to rape. my daughter,

you know what can happen still is neither from a boy many, he told a similar story. lena says she is still shaking when she thinks about the weeks under russian occupation. but she will know some clubs and we have to thank her soldiers. they're so brave, they are so brave that they freed up already. okay. look, what they did to my tan. berardi anchor was once beautiful and green residence told us, now it lies in ruins. the town is free, but it has paid a high price for its freedom. when are joined by d. w. a correspondent, alexandra for nomine, who is in the cave at the moment i saw the present lens. he said that atrocities, atrocities committed in the now free town of bird younger are even greater than in

butcher. you visited both places. so what's your impression? well i think that in those towns of course in boucher and brought the anchor russian soldier sent accuse of terrible war crimes in boucher witnesses, spoke of for summary executions of civilians killed at will. and so when we visited the town of butcher, we saw the bodies of sick civilians who were according to your creed and authorities shot dead 1st and then set on fire. in broad yonkers situation seems to be a bit different. are still we are talking here as well, about a ledge to war crimes. are there more huge parts of this? of this town were destroyed by russian as strikes 10 high rise houses were, as we saw, and the report completely demolished and of course, killing civilians and targeting civilian infrastructure is considered

a war crime as well. no. so look at the political situation. the u commission president was left on the line and the blocks top diplomat shows up or out both arrived and keith to day to meet president zalinski. this just a symbolic gesture is this important? well, i think it is important and of course as symbolic gesture at the same time and according to european commission, president was a funder lion. this visit is meant to underlying europe, sir, unwavering support for ukraine. she will be meeting with the queen and president, they will talk about additional financial humanitarian health for ukraine. they probably also talk about sanctions. however, we have to say that we have seen prominent visitor as he and keith in the past weeks. and some people say that so fund alliance visit may come a bit late. and 2 of the people that i've been speaking with, he and key have told me that they are frustrated and a bit disappointed with their,

the european response to the war so far that they would wish to, to have more support from the european union. now in the meantime, the war of course continues in other parts of the country. where's the fighting? concentrated right now. well, we know that the russian army has shifted its focus to the east and the south of ukraine. and that ukrainian, or officials say that they do expect a major offensive, they're soon they do expected the russian army to try to take her full control of that on net scan, low hands, co region and to capture the city of mar, you pull that has been under siege for so many weeks now, and there is also, there are reports about fighting going on in michel i of for instance. so are the authorities here and here are expected expecting an ad major a russian

offensive in the east and south of the country soon was been suggested that this war could drag on 4 months or even years how the ukrainians, ordinary ukrainians. see that prospects? well, i have to be honest, here i spoke with many of them and almost all of them told me they don't believe that the war would be over soon. so they are preparing kids to continue. at the same time, they are exhausted, they are tired, and they are losing their faith and believe in the international community. because they are saying they would like to see more support. there are more weapons of course, to be able to defend their country. and also, as they say to fight for european values are correspondent i some of phenomena they're reporting funky. thank you. alex summer with russian forces retreating from northern ukraine and regrouping in these more details i emerging

about how people survived their time on the russian bombardment. now that fighting in some cities has stopped. many of those emerging from bunkers and sellers have found their homes destroyed. in the meantime, they have adapted to life under ground. abandoned weapons, devastated buildings. the russian soldiers might have withdrawn from chair need have but they have left an indelible mark on the town and on the minds of the people, as homes were attacked and destroyed, the people here took shelter together in places like this, sharing the relative safety of underground spaces, but now that the bombing had stopped summer, finding it hard to leave the places that saved their lives, some have nowhere else to go. others feel unsafe, going back like eula and her 8 year old daughter. not only shows the listless of now, there are approximately 60 people here, mostly people who lost their homes, and people whose houses are not livable. at some point,

there were up to 600 people. they were sleeping all over the place at that time. with this bullet, boston, the bullhorn in the besieged town of maria paul bunker living has become a way of life. 12 year old masha and her sister valeria have done to come out into the courtyard. they spend most of their time in the shelter. i. before i was afraid of everything of the slightest noise, but little by little you get used to it. a few weeks ago they tried to leave by car in the middle of a battle, but had to turn back after a few meters. another shelter had been fatally hit. yeah, i mean, we are on our way the children and grandparents in the back. i was in the front of them with them. so when we turned in front of the theater, was that about something exploded in front of us and the windshield was blown out

with us. now they have been living on the ground for several weeks with little light and 12 other people. there are a few home comforts, but masha longs for her old life. personal to them, i just want to go home and go back to school to my activities, to live like i used to nice. while millions of displaced ukrainians have fled to europe for safety. those left behind have little choice, but to shelter from the storms of conflict. as i will of not some of the other headlines of the war and ukraine, the united nations general assembly is suspending russia from its human rights council over the war in ukraine. it's only the 2nd time a member state has been suspended from the council. moscow has condemned the decision as politically motivated and illegal. a nobel prize winning russian journalist has been attacked on

a train with red paint in an apparent protest over his newspapers, critical coverage of the war. dmitri murat office, editor in chief of the liberal. no via gazette. last week. it said it was suspending operations in russia of the receiving official warnings. nato members have pledged to sent more military and humanitarian aid to ukraine after its foreign ministers made an impassioned plea for help ahead of an inspector expected russian assault in the east. he says, ukraine urgently needs more weapons to fight off any fresh attack criminal spokesperson. dmitri pasco has acknowledged that russia has sustained, quote, significant losses of troops in ukraine. in an interview with sky news. he called it a huge tragedy for russia. it's a rare admission by russian officials of military losses, but pest. gov said that russia still hopes to reach its goals in the coming days.

russia's defense ministry reports that between one and 2000 russian soldiers have been killed. but independent estimates put the number much closer to 10000. now let's get more of the strategic situation on the ground there. from a frank, a leg which he's a 4 military intelligence officer with the british army and now senior lecturer in strategy and law. now, the kremlin acknowledging substantial losses for the 1st time. how do you read that? well, in legal proceedings, we have this saying which is confessed and deny, which means that if you've been caught out, you must confess, to some extent, a russian units. many of them particularly better units have been absolutely eviscerated, particularly the battles in the north. so what's going on now is i trying to pull out those savage units and reconstitute the better ones in the east. by the way, the 10000 figure i think is probably quite low, will probably look you to figure

a bit higher than that. but anyway, you can multiply by 3, the number of wounded and effective as well. not only that killed it's wounded, ineffective. so looking about between 10 to 20 percent russian casualties so far, a very significant amount of damage. that is a very high number of today's strike on a railway station there. do you think this could be a sign that russia stepping up, its campaign of terrorizing ukrainian civilians was to call over said it was a deliberate attack. there's no 2 ways about that. there's no other way to read it . it seems to me that its purpose in so far as that one can be divined, was to stop, stop the refugee flows and it has to be met the mechanisms of this, a quite deliberate in order for a ballistic missile to be assigned to a target. there's got a lot of work to be done to decide what target that should be. so be under no doubt . there's no question here of collateral damage. this was a deliberate strike on a target. can only be

a civilian target in the circumstances. know it. ukraine is expecting a fierce battle in the eastern regions. now, what's your assessment of both sides? well, the cleaning problem is that they have a salient, which means it means an area of their forces which of bucks into russian into russian territory. and traditionally, that's very difficult to defend, and they're exposed to having that cut off. now clearly, now obviously they're very, very cognizant that they know that's going to happen. and that's why we're seeing the fighting that we say now around israel in that sort of northern part in the salient. but those lines have been drawn now for quite some time and haven't really moved over the last 7 years. now the implication of that is that the ukrainians are going to be very well prepared for the russians. that means for them very big problems in trying to achieve a break through. usually you would expect to have

a 3 to 131 overbearing numbers on your opponents in an attack situation seems very clear to me and most unless the russians don't have that. so what they're going to be relying on, i suspect, is some sort of operational surprise. now the nature of that, clearly by definition, we don't know, but they're going to have to pull something special out to be able to break those ukranian lines. now let's talk about a help for ukraine from the west and another more sophisticated weapon system that the west ascending like drawing drones and loitering munitions like switch blade for example. you think they can effectively help counter rushes, numerical superiority. well go, they've done to some extent in the defensive the problem the ukrainians have. is that what the west passing of this idea between defensive and electric offensive weapons is entirely false. all weapons in situation, fast moving maneuver, warfare can be used either in the defense. so the offense,

what ukrainians need to do is counter attack and for that they need a preponderance of ahmed vehicles, which they probably haven't got an amount that they need and they need to get them fairly quickly over the next 6 weeks or so. i would suggest, so what we need to do is to stop talking about what we're going to give them and give that kit. it's ready. it's available. the polls have already back fill that, that stocks i suspect they're ready to give their tanks over and ask for the fighters. you know what, let's get over that. give them the cover they need and require and equally importantly, to replace the casualties have taken in their defense systems. the mr. systems which can also come from nato as well. now, this could end up being a very protracted campaign. russia still has resources, manpower. what can the west do to help you crank, keep up the resistance and how long do you think this was going to take? i think it's going to be going to be. i think it's going to be a long while. i think it's likely to be decided on the battlefield. you credit don't seem to have

a problem with the numbers of soldiers. the issue will be attrition. this will become a war of attrition. and the prevailing side will be the side that can not only sustain its material force and the structures to hold those together. and that's a problem to the russians. but also there's a moral component. and the moral component over the last 6 weeks has been absolutely decisive for the, for the ukrainians, defending their homeland. they've got high me around, they got good training that got good doctrine and all of those things the russians lack at the moment. but, but of course, what we have to bear in mind is that russian political determination seems to be undimmed. and that's going to back up the russian offensive for a long time to come friday, which their electron strategy and law and a former british military member. thank you very much. my scout. that's a take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. 2

people have been killed after gunman open fire in the israeli city of tel aviv several others were wounded in the shooting as a bar in a popular night life district. security forces later shot dead the attack in a gun battle. the chinese city of shanghai is testing its residents. are mass for coven 19 for a 3rd consecutive day after announcing a recall 221000 new cove. it $900.00 cases. the cities 26000000 inhabitants were made on lock down with residence, complaining of shortages of food and basic necessities. landslide is killed at least 10 people in north west columbia after torrential rains, modern boulders, very the mining camp in the mountains. several people are still missing. nearby town was evacuated. you are senate has confirmed tunzia brown, jackson as a supreme court justice. she'll be the 1st black woman to serve on the country's

highest court. president biden caught her confirmation, the historic momentary for our nation nomination. and i finland is investigating a case of sanctions violations after artworks bound for russia were confiscated. their customs officials say they seize 3 shipments containing paintings, sculptures and antiquities. the art had allegedly been on loan to foreign museums and was being returned to russia via finland. 42000000 euros. that's the insurance value of russian art works. impounded during transit, 3 finland. among them. a titian epic casso, and a carry. annie. they were intercepted at finland's valley, my border crossing with russia. the works from collections in st. petersburg and moscow had been online to museums in italy and japan. in early march after the

invasion of ukraine, russian museums requested their return earlier than agreed, perhaps in anticipation of sanctions. days later, the e prohibited the sale, export and transfer to russia of luxury goods, including artworks. this left the foreign museums in a quandary, a spokesperson for finland's foreign ministry, said the impounded works would be properly looked after until further notice model of the so the situation is temporary, was the russian museum still only artwork. so the foreign ministry is clarifying the issue with the european commission. it must be noted that the contents of sanctions unchangeable bra finish official say they're investigating can individuals for breaching sanctions by transporting the works. russia has threatened penalties for the delay in the artworks return. the question of whether art on loan should be included in sanctions, is controversial. recently,

france agreed to return $200.00 paintings to russia from an exhibition in paris, despite calls for that confiscation it was in d. w. news on he has a reminder of our main story today. at least 39 people, including 4 children, have been killed in a russian as strike on a train station in the eastern ukrainian city of chroma tools. thousands of civilians were at the station at the time of the attack, attempting to flee to save the parts of the country. coming up next indeed of your news. asia. japan eases pandemic related entry restrictions after 2 years of shots borders and high summer temperatures. sweep india, even though it's only early spring plus taiwanese puppets go on sale us and if

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