ah, ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. after 50 days under attack, ukraine claims a major victory at sea. the sinking of a russian guided missile cruiser. russia admit its black sea flag ship the moss but did sink while being towed to port after explosions on board. but ukraine says it's miss isles took out the vessel. also coming up. they asked, what are you digging here? he said it's a grey for my dog, and i told him it's all so you are brave. no. and they just shot more reports of

atrocities committed by retreating. russian troops are report or meet survivors in the destroyed town of mockery. near keith and german police. say they foiled a plot to kidnap a government minister. the alleging the health minister was on a target list of a group of domestic terrorist because of his strict corona virus control measures. ah, i'm nick spicer. welcome to the program. it's now more than 50 days since russia launched his invasion of ukraine in his nightly video address. president low to mid lensky praised the ukrainian people for surviving so long under relentless attack. ukraine is also claiming a victory in his efforts to repel russian forces at sea. russia's military has confirmed that its main warship in the black sea,

the moscow song well being towed back to port in stormy weather. moscow says the ship suffered a fire, an explosion. ukraine, however, is taking credit, saying the damage was caused by its missiles hitting the vessel on wednesday off the port of odessa. the loss of the war ship is a setback for russia and a symbolic victory for ukraine, which zalinski picked up on in his address. bunch of nimble need to give you, i've seen people who aren't politicians do more in these 50 days than some statesman who claim to be leaders in the wall. and that leads us to use to because of these people have shown that russian aviation can be be sin. even the russia has spent tens of billions of dollars on systems to protect exec craft at the pick up because i'm, these people have sharing the russian ships can only go he but to the bottom. not know for more on this. let's bring in roman gunter and co of d w. russia. i remember we just heard the reaction from zalinski. how is moscow

presenting things? well, so far moscow has reacted was, lies because in russia there are no ukrainian claims that the moscow was hit by your grand rockets for 2 days. so i've just read the report in russian media reports in russian media. and for example, a major radio station in moscow, he's just saying that the ukraine and officials did not react or didn't say anything to the, to this, which is a lie, of course. and we have no reaction from russia. top officials. we have only a statement from the russian military that there was a fire on board and the ship has sunk because of the storm. so on the other hand, on russian stay t b, we hear some, some discussions about heating back as a reaction to the thinking of that ship about hitting back hard. and finally, calling this special operation as the ration of fishes called what this war column

is a war. so some official from 7 supple in an in the occupied crimea. and this is where the home base is on the rush. and lexie fleet has said it was a huge loss for the russian navy. well, tell me a little bit more and how significant is this loss militarily? and maybe psychologically i would say the psychological effect of this is even bigger than the military fact, because the mosque was, was a parade cruise. and it was, it was a crew that were president putin liked to, to be filmed. it was a crew that took part in all parade. it was an old ship, an old war ship, and it has been repaired several times. it's missiles, one of the newest ones, but still it had a major role in this operation. it was according to kind of officials giving cover

from the air for the russian military, taking part in the oppression in the south of u cray. so it's, it's a very huge loss for the russian army and the big victory for the ukrainian army, because ukrainians have tried to hit russian ships. they managed to hit one in the city of the dogs and just to 2 weeks ago, but to hit the russian flagship of the black sea fleet. this is something which is a surprise, even for ukrainians. and just a final question that was a guided missile cruiser, which could fire rockets into ukraine. does russia have the wherewithal to continue that type of attack? other guided missiles, is it, is it, is it able to continue the work of the, at the mosque in other ways? yes, it can. there are other ships which have more than types of cruise missiles. and moscow was not, was not the newest one isn't just said, so we can expect a continuation of that. but now after this, in the sinking of the moscow,

i think our action will be much more careful whether she go ships go. because we've heard that russian has pulled back all the sheets away from the ukrainian cost coast. and this is of course, a victory for ukraine. ok, roman control of d. w. rush. thank you. and let's bring in our correspondent yan philip shoulds, who's in the western ukrainian city of v for an update on the situation. yeah, and we're hearing reports about explosions in key the capital this morning. what, what can you tell us? yeah, this is also what i hear from colleagues in kia for several explosions were heard throughout the night. but they'll also reports that so the air defense systems of the ukrainians were quite successful. and so probably no major destruction was cause that been unusual in many era alarms, through all its ukraine,

past hours, and also year in the western parts ukrainians that i spent the night with a shelter said that they think it could also be a retail yard retaliatory checks for the, you know, for the sinking of the russian flexion. ok, and we're going to come back to in just a moment before viewers. reminder of what life is like in the country. well, many regions in ukraine continue to come under russian fire. ukraine is a reopened 9 humanitarian corridors ahead of unexpected large scale assault by russia's military. ukraine's government had previously closed the escape routes for a day, saying russia had violated an agreement to allow safe passage more than 2500 people used the roads to reach safety on thursday, including hundreds who escaped, the besieged city of mariel. k, we're coming back to, you know,

yen evacuations as we were just saying are continuing in the east ahead of that offensive expected offensive is is it seen as inevitable now most ukrainians think that that's offensive can't be avoided anymore and that it will call you wretched the movement for sure, the russian seem to have added up to 40000 troops and concentrate them in the don bus region. many observers say the plan is probably to circle the ukrainian troops. there's so many people expect very bloody fighting. in the coming days a week, the weather and the region has been quite bad. so this could also mean that that might be a delay off the check because it's harder to, to operate off roads. but i fear it's more a question of when the major tech will will start and not if it will come

and yet in the areas around ki, vacated by russian troops. we're seeing more and more evidence of the killing of civilians. you've been to some of the areas where these things have been taking place. what did you see? yeah, exactly. we visited my car in the small town in the region recently and the are the destruction, the human suffering that we saw. there are incredible, really the may are at least 100 searches civilians were killed from what we call the i would say at least half of the city is completely destroyed. and the story is that the local residence told us how that's a witness. a lot of killings incredibly cruel. let's. let's have a look at the reports.

it's hard to believe that there is still a human life among all the destruction basil and his wife natalia. where at home, when russian troops took over mackarath in late february when morning. so just came to their house and accused basil of taking pictures. they tied him up and left him outside in his to shed hulu normally. but it was very cold and particular at night the worst was that i had no idea what's happened to my wife ranger than bubble. one day a soldier came and brought me my special medicine li. this was the moment when i understood that my wife was still alive for a little while everywhere. it's a similar picture. neighbors of a sealant natalia tell us that in this neighbourhood alone, russian soldiers killed 53 people. a 17 year old girl was allegedly raped for weeks, their family had to hide in this small basement room. always fearing that they could be the next target. it's hard to imagine

a place with more distraction and with more human suffering than here in my carries . the town of butcher has become a worldwide symbol of rush as war crimes. but it becomes more and more apparent that there are many more but just all across ukraine. ego worked as a teacher in my car if before the war started. now he walks through the town, distributing donated medicine often he only finds and he ruins. 90 percent of my car if residents have left or been killed. egos, friends seems to live in this house. he doesn't know what has become of miss ellis bookkeeper. we used to have the calm and peaceful life here. this family was just renovating their house. they were constructing little some market projects in their bag, establish, get it, but you are over there. you see the kindergarten with that. what happened to all of it says no social, nearby, eager has more success. he finds an elderly man who still lives amongst all the destruction. he has hardly left the house since the attacks began. russian soldiers

shot one of his neighbors on the street. yes, they asked, what are you digging here? he said it's a grey for my dog. then they told him, it's all so you are grave now and they just shot him. 3 weeks ago, my carrier was liberated by the ukrainian army. since then, many volunteers have come to her with the clean up work. but the gruesome memories of the survivors will probably stay with them forever. that was yen phillips shawls reporting from a carriage. here in germany, police have arrested several members of a far right group on suspicion of plotting violent attacks. prosecutor said the group was planning to kidnap the government's health minister carl lauterbach, who has advocated tougher corona virus control measures. the alleged extremists also disgust blowing up power stations to incite civil unrest. laplant to bring down democracy was said to have been hatched on telegram. prosecutor c,

far right extremist, wanted to trigger power outages and civil warlike conditions. it didn't stop. there isn't for boxes to plot. the plan behind this was to kit, not the federal minister of health, profess allow to back to kill his passion or security and accept this as collateral damage on us to showcase the health minister, priest police, and said he was unfazed, man eigen are. this will not affect my own work. i'll continue as before. he is here lout aback, who has supported tough cove. 19 measures has been a regular targets of protesters. he said the plot showed that such opposition had been co opted by far right elements. if he had a 1001, this is about the forces, the intent to destabilize the state and democracy as well. they're obviously taking advantage of the corporate 19 protest. it is a small minority in society,

but highly dangerous. we have to keep an eye on that and the via authority said the suspects were affiliated with cove 19 protest groups and the rights burger movement which denies the existence of the modern german state. thus for been the one to the unifying and foremost element of the grouping is hatred against our democracy and its government officials, aunt durham, ricky rules for am foreclosure in more than 20 nationwide rage, please confiscated firearms, ammunition cash and gold bars. you're watching dw news. here's a reminder of our main stories. russia's defense ministry says its main warship in the black seat. the moskva has sunk while being towed back to port. it's stormy weather, hours earlier ukraine said 2 of its missiles had hit the ship, causing an explosion and fire, all $500.00 crew aboard the vessel were evacuated. this is

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