[000:00:00;00] ah ah, this is dw news life from berlin. more russian atrocities come to light outside key if ukrainian authorities say they've recovered 900 bodies following the withdrawal of occupying forces. most victims were civilians, they say, shot dead by russian troops. also coming up as russia threatens a further escalation of the war, and the 7 people are killed and dozens more injured and shelling and 2nd city har

keith and why ukraine's new postage stamp has become an instant collector's item victim the moment that's become a symbol of anti russian defiance. ah a mommy and he says, welcome to the program, the scale of russian atrocities in liberated areas around the ukrainian capital key of is coming into focus. authority say they've recovered the bodies of more than 900 civilians following the withdrawal of russian forces. their police say most victims were shot dead. more bodies are being found every day under rubble and in mass graves. these men should be preparing for the jewish holiday of pass over, but instead of celebrating freedom from slavery their morning, one of their own. the rabbi overseeing this funeral on friday, said russian forces gun, the man down in boucher,

a suburb of ukraine's capital keith. they killed him, vicki of the shop, him. no, let him. at least 900 civilian bodies had been recovered from the cave region. according to police there. more than a 3rd had been found in boucher, the scene of some of the wars worst brutality. investigators are looking into possible war crimes. alexander memory of lost his entire family along with much of his leg when russian troops and boucher shelled the car they were driving. ne blanket. they fired at an ordinary car. they weren't interested in where we were going and why. the shelling just started. they didn't care what and god is their judge. yeah, he will punish them for this. over night, russian forces killed at least 2 more civilians and attacks across the country, according to ukrainian officials. that follows a strike on a factory near keith,

which may have produced the missiles that both ukrainian and u. s. defense officials say were responsible for sinking rushes musk for warship on thursday. russia says it will keep up at the tax and the key area, as it warns against western arms shipments. but fighting is mostly moving east. ukraine's president vladimir zalinski said his troops were trying to break the siege of maria pole where thousands of civilians have likely died from weeks of russian bombardment. more humanitarian corridors had been announced to try to get people out of maria, pole, and other areas under heavy shelling. 52 days since rushes invasion. zalinski gave cnn ukraine's casualty list. 3000 soldiers killed. another 10000 wounded. he put russian troop fatalities at 20000. the numbers are impossible to confirm. but scenes of death around ukraine look only to multiply as this unpredictable

conflict presses on. as well as the expected russian offensive and eastern ukraine. moscow is threatening to escalate missile attacks on the capital key of from there, dw correspondent rebecca readers reports. oh hi. i mean i, you know, as you can see behind me, there are people starting to kind of come back out on the streets. i'm standing on one of the main thoroughfares that cuts through the city and we've seen a lot of pedestrian, some shots opening and even some restaurants around town. so people trying to kind of get on with their lives as best that they can under the difficult circumstances . on the way up here i, i came from western ukraine the other day and i saw to lots of people returning to the capital on the train. as you're reporting metalli clinico advising against that, saying it's still not safe here. and ukraine is preparing for more attacks on the capital from russia. the russia have threatened retaliation for other various

attacks on them and including one on a warship in the black sea. and we've seen a couple of those tax in the city in the last 36 hours yesterday, munitions factory, about 15 kilometers from where i'm standing, was targeted. and in the early hours of this morning, it was reported as you also just said in that report that another munitions factory on the west or west bank of the city was also a attack. and unfortunately one person was killed in that attack. so we're definitely starting to see some, you know, care of becoming yet again a target that you also traveled to deja were. seems that new gruesome discoveries are made every day. could you tell us what you saw there? who butcher really bore the brunt of some of the worst atrocities we've seen in those occupied cities around kia as the russians retreated at, but really to see,

to see the devastation and hear those stories. first hand is really something else . i, i must say we were there yesterday and people were showing us into their homes that had been taken over by russians was completely destroyed, completely trashed. one man took me out in the back where he dug a makeshift gray is for his m wife's cousin. there's an air raid siren just going off now, in fact, so goes to show that, you know, the key of is definitely still in the line of fire. you could say i'm but, but in butcher, you know, those scenes where the man was showing me this makeshift grave. that body has now been examined as most of the others have also, they were actually taking him to have a proper funeral yesterday. so some truly horrific, same there, and the trauma is going to just leave on in those people's memories for a very long time to come. well, rebecca, we can hear those sirens behind you where you are in the capital key of take some

shelter now. but thanks for joining ukrainian troops have been digging in across eastern regions in anticipation of a new russian offensive. military experts are predicting the assault will be the biggest and most brutal so far. meanwhile, 7 civilians have been killed and at least 30 wounded by shelling in the city of cartesian, a know to our viewers. some of the images you're about to see may be disturbing. nina shift jenko is crying for her dead son. you presume that you haven't taken away? she begs him to open his eyes. in the boy's grandmother arrives, the paramedic tries to soothe her grief with it was the rock had like this when the killed the 15 year old and dozens more civilians and fried his attack. in the signs of the shelling litter this residential area,

the injured law in the streets where they fell like with that in creek coon was also injured in the attack. because if the cluster bombs exploded in the air about a 100 meters above our heads, we just fell to go points to spill alina, and her daughter's also just narrowly escaped death. to die. i knew there was an explosion. i tried to run it. it fell near me. i ran shot, it fell near me again. this, but shrapnel is flying and cracking. some woman. god bless her, covered me with her body. oh, it's okay. don't cry. it's fine. don't cry! my little one. ah, no dish to alexandrovna also lost her son, sergey when shrapnel from a russian rocket sprayed through a window in her apartment as the body count right,

shock and sorrow turn to frustration and anger. story the what is your, what? what did this guide you to the russians look a little do love to do, and what did a 12 year old boy do? a story he was brought away dead. did he do anything bad to them? like up to the what about the children who were injured here and women and look at what about my friend who his killed. what did they did that was you and with whom should we make peace with these monsters publish thought, amiably. but his harkey was located just 40 kilometers from russia and a 160 kilometers from the separatists. regions in the east. the prospect of peace for this strategically important citizen. so looks highly unlikely. oh, what are your for your muscle down? here are some of the other developments in the worn ukraine. the russian government is, barring the british prime minister boris johnson and several other u. k. officials from russia. the foreign ministry says it will be adding more names

to the band list. the block is in retaliation for british sanctions over the war. russia has also added 9 more prominent kremlin critics to italy of so called foreign agents. those now include documentary filmmaker, uri dud, political scientists, kathrina schulman, and journalists, romando, bro, hot of moscow. as stepping up a crackdown on descent brush has told us to stop supplying weapons to ukraine. in a diplomatic note, delivered this week. moscow warned washington its nato allies could face quote, unpredictable consequences. they continued to arm ukraine. now the german government says it's sending a 1000000000 euros worth of military aid to ukraine. the funds are part of a 2000000000 euro increase in defense spending. half is going to the european piece facility as an organization which buys weapons for ukraine. chancellor, olaf shoulds has faced criticism for being slow to send munitions. many germans

also oppose the deliveries and have been taking part in protests dw political correspondent benjamin oliver's gruber, was at one of the so called easter marches. here in berlin. it's an old tradition here in germany. these protests is calling full peace and against war a move. and that was pretty big in the sixty's and in the eighty's. and of course, it's now taking center stage again with the war in ukraine. but there's also criticism, especially to these protest these people that you can see here behind me, because they're not naming russia. they're saying that both parts of russia and also nato should not try to fool this conflict any further. this has led to discussion, criticism also from within the government vice chance level. the topic sat that pacifism and it was known over the years, and also during the cold war is the distant a dream. and the people should name, who is the aggressor in this case. that is russia and of vladimir putin. the discussion here in germany is on going with many demanding the government to do 2

things on one side and embargo of oil and gas from russia. and also to sent heavy weapons to ukraine to defend itself against the russian aggression did of these benjamin others, gruber and berlin. it was a moment of defiance that went viral. ukrainian border guard not so politely, refusing to surrender snake island to russian warship using some very colorful language. now new posted stamped to picks the guard in the ship. the mascara, ukraine claims to have sunk the vessel and the stamp has become a collector's item ah, an air of defiance. ukrainians are queuing up to buy a stamp that they now believed to picked to russian defeat blue. this is the symbol of ukraine's victory, which has yet to come. the recently released stout, portrays the moment when a ukrainian soldier toward the moskva ship to go f itself. when the russian forces

on board tried to capture ukraine's snake island in the black sea. it's released feel somewhat prophetic to ukrainians. now as the very ship depicted here is the one that came under fire this week. president vladimir zalinski unveiled the design on his instagram page with the message. the russian war ship always has only one direction. russian is expected to plan to surrender until the through this. i think you ask away so popular because is the symbol way brains with the war with this russian setback is something that instills hope in the people of ukraine. hope that their country will survive. here is a round up of some of the other news making headlines around the world. south african rescue teams are searching for survivors of floods and durbin and the

surrounding region to death toll of nearly 400 people is still rising. the government has declared a state of emergency and pledged $68000000.00 in relief aid relatives of people missing and landslides in the philippines have urged authorities not to call off the search despite concerns over the safety of rescuers. more than 150 people have been killed in eastern lay to province. heavy rains from tropical storm meggy triggered the slides. hundreds of climate change activists have forced the closure of a square in central paris extinction. rebellion protesters criticize the environmental programs. put forward by both candidates in france is presidential election. vote is on april 24th. china's largest city shanghai has reported a record number of covered 19 cases despite a strict lockdown in force since the end of march, or the regions are also seeing further restrictions as authorities follow

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