[000:00:00;00] ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. past mario paul fallen russian. president putin claims the city has been liberated with ukraine, says its troops continued to resist the invaders. satellite images appear to show mass graves near murray or bolt. your frame accuses rush of varying up to 9000 civilians. also coming up the war of the airwaves, how ukrainian hackers are intercepting the russians radio traffic and what they are

learning about the invaders. ah, i'm good. how else has welcome to the program? rushes president vladimir putin se claimed to her victory over mario paul has been rejected by us president joe biden. he says there is no evidence that the ukrainian port city has completely fallen. it comes as new satellite images appear to show mass graves near mario port, ukrainian officials, half accused russia of bearing up to $90000.00 civilians, step in an effort to conceal the slaughter taking place in this city. maria paused, last remaining hold out as the as of star steel plant, where some 2 thousands ukrainian soldiers and 1000 civilians are believed to behold up. now his look at the complex that has become

a symbol of ukrainian resistance. the huge is of style steel plant, seen here and footage from russian state television. ukrainian forces are holding out inside. mario pull has witnessed nearly 2 months of heavy fighting with much of the strategic port in ruins. president putin has claimed a victory in the city. and told his defense minister to seal off this last stronghold, bigler groom my considered the proposed storming of the industrial area, pointless by order to aborted emotionally. there is no need to climb into these catacombs and crawl under ground through these industrial facilities block off this industrial area is obligatory to so that not even a fly can get through. we never said in washington, u. s. president joe biden dismissed putins claims that will not happen. it's questionable whether he goes control murray. one thing for sure. we know about

murray. he should allow your monitoring corners to let people on that steel mill and other places are buried under rumble. to get out. ukrainian authorities have also edged moscow to open humanitarian curry doors to allow those sheltering in the heavily bombarded as of so plant to flee. these pictures were filmed by the far right nationalist, ukrainian group. as of battalion defending the plant, the footage shows some of the hundreds of civilians said to be sheltering in the bunkers below the steel works. but previous efforts to organize evacuations from mario pole have had little success. some $100000.00 residents are thought to be still living among the ruins. but the dead may lie elsewhere. mary poles, mayor has accused russian forces of hiding the true death toll. by burying bodies

of mary jo po, residence in a neighboring town. us satellite company, mac saw released photos which it says show new mass graves in man hush. west of merrier poll attempts to break or cease fire ahead of the orthodox easter festival . this weekend failed. as iris e m v. unfortunately, russia rejected a proposal to establish an easter ceasefire daughter. this demonstrates very well how the leaders of that state actually feed about the faithful, about one of the most joyful and important religious holidays. but we maintain hope hope luis was pretty, i am and i do let you in on with. but from the as off style, steel plant hopes for peace seemed far away. the blockaded ukrainian fighters say they do not plan to surrender and best growing concerned that those traps inside could stove dw correspondent rebecca,

as is in chief of for us rebecca. both sides are now arguing about whether maria ball has fallen or not. what do we know? will this is a war gearhart neither side, wanting to concede to fate until they absolutely have to. as we know, a russian president vladimir putin ease claiming victory over mary, who paul, by the ukrainians don't. graham vladimir putin really does need a victory to take home to the russian people on day 58 of this war o. special operation as it is referred to back in russia. um, and this is perhaps the victory that he's looking for. the ukranian sang marybell still hasn't completely fallen because there are still fight as those 2000 fighters from the as of battalion and the set 36th marine battalion at hiding out in that as of steel plant as you've just reported. and also some civilians under there as well . their welfare very worried about my, the ukrainian side. and so you know,

that tit for tat will go on until rusher is able to take that as of steel plant, which is expected to happen at some said yesterday. we know that they changed tactics on how they were going to try and do that. president putin ordering the halting of a bump, the bombardment of that steel plant instead trying to blockade the area so that not even quote, a fly should be able to pass out of there. so remains to be seen when just how long it will take russia to completely complete their mission there and take all of mary you pull over to this stage, ukraine holding out. and also there are new reports here of suspected mass graves near murray bull visible on a satellite images. what can you tell us about that? yes, shocking rapport, sir, in marry you paul, of some 20000 people potentially killed. of course, that number could be a lot higher. the mayor has said, given that figure of 20000. and he's also said that russians are going around

trying to hide the evidence, collecting bodies, and taking them to a nearby symmetry and dumping them in mass graves. we're also hearing reports of mobile crematorium, so literally burning the evidence. ah, they're very hard to verify that information, obviously as access into mary paul is almost completely impossible in fact. but we have seen those max, our satellite images, as you just heard in that report the do appear to show those mass graves out in that area near the cemetery. given what we've seen on the outskirts here, keith is the russian soldiers retreated other mass graves. other hiding all dead bodies, it is definitely plausible and likely now there were hopes for cease fire over the orthodox east of this coming weekend. oh likely, do you think betters well that time has already passed that cease fire already dead in the war to get hot air was

a cold put out by un secretary general antonio terrace. shay he called for 4 days. he's far over the orthodox holiday. ah. that was rejected by russia. they said it was in an insincere request that they've continued fighting. you heard their president's identity coming out to say that really shows how these people, as he calls them, referring to the russians, feel about the faith and the fate of the ukrainians. as thursday was yesterday no cease, fire is, is taking place so that a hope dead in the water. rebecca, which is that reporting from t. thank you very much. good. now let's go straight to constantine. i got to w, corresponded and russia expert joins us from the lithuanian capital. vilnius constantine, president putin has claimed victory invariable. what's his motivation for declaring victory at this early stage? well, whether you call this day early or late,

depends on how you hold their question. will go many people will say that's probably. ready it's not going with planned it, but you know, what i think is the significance of that is not up to 10 will then claim question probably probably closer to the day, which is, 9th of main, russian, which was made by fulton to the state of the in the whole canada, i think, by the day he will claim that a land bridge between the occupied russian occupied crimea and well, the mainland russian federation has been established. the crimea will say, and basically a very important part of the operation is over. that's again, my suspicion it of course, it all depends on whether there are you credit in. for example, d block model which could basically throw

a spattering the words on mr. whether there is resistance. in other words, as long as rebecca said earlier, there are 2000 fighters and civilians still hold up a change focus and look at russia for a moment. in the early days of the war, we saw mass protest across russia that appears to have vanished. what happened as everyone now support the war? well, they were not mos, frankly speaking. they were frequent and across russia, which was quite interesting because the country is very diverse and very much growing, especially in the province as to the television propaganda of the crime. it, i think by know, 1st and foremost of all these produce have been suppressed a huge find a the doom, a rush through a series of measures that basically punish any criticism of the so called spectrum

operation. audition. the operation there are still produce we see people putting and i was figures, people going on. i've been basically creating like single man, single tickets in front of the administration building in different towns and cities. but of course, i think the whole idea of this operation was also to bring the country and put it into the kind of submission mode and get help. let's not forget people are leaving russia. there are tens of thousands of people that live over the last 8 weeks. and these are people that i think are politically minded. these are the people who could have protection progress, that a lot of them are elsewhere to w correspondence concepts in ag of that. thank you very much. constantly it's not just tanks and artillery that are used by ukraine to fight back russia's

invasion. that's also war being fought over the airwaves. ukrainian computer specialists and radio operators of managed to jam russian communications or intercept them. and in the process they've been able to reveal some shocking details of the was this man known as viking, is one of ukraine's most experienced amateur radio operators. he's also a member of radio resistance, a group that interferes with the russian military's radio transmissions. they're fighting in the war of radio waves of it's either one of them all damage or radios, actually forbidden in war time. but our intelligence services quickly realized that radio resistance can help in this war liking shows us how members of the groups searched through long and short waves for the conversation channels that russian soldiers used to communicate, decoding, intercepting, and jamming them is the goal. yeah,

i mean he is an example, a driver of the russian army personnel carrier since he's coordinates, according to ukraine security services. this conversation took place between a russian soldier and his wife. he asked her permission to rape ukrainian with another. do you allow me to? yeah, this is shawn. yes, i allow it. she says, according to this protection on the bullet gene code that we haven't even identified the 2 of them both little boards of we know their names of their social media profiles and for march the us to so we know everything about that and you can leverage cuz even the date they moved to crimea from russia will say much to martha shameka ukrainians like viking of fighting tooth and nail to defend their country. his comrade, known by his code named raymond, has risen to cult status. he takes radia jamming a step further. what, speaking directly to russian soldiers,

often insulting them. ah, this is van file line fight, learn to fire radios, this russian soldier rich jams to call stopping reinforcements from coming. and then since this, i don't know. so i yeah. now you see ukrainian intelligence work is serious business. you said love and respect her enemy. oh my god, at the end of the battle. and then as, as lady resistance interfere with the signal so that the trident of the ukrainian flag appears on the screen. this is what the war of radio waves looks like. it was c d, w. and his a reminder of our top story, u. s. president jo by us rejected the russian president vladimir putin claim of victory over the ukrainian city of mario pl. it comes as satellite images that it

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