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movies have returned to the coast of the island of saint home with many success stories, fashion of biodiversity. single stores may 20th on d w. hm. ah, this week on wild stories, lithuania, siena of a russian attack. germany the battle to save little defeat. but we begin in ukraine for weeks, the city of china heath was besieged by russian troops. now putin soldiers have gone stating behind death and destruction. the city

of journey him after weeks of siege and have his shelling by russian forces. we meet svetlana and valentino sapient coin a local hospital with they survived, but were both injured in a nurse strike that hit their house for the ballistic wounded. so my lord took less than a 2nd. loosely sweet. we just heard a whistle your creek, boom. lea shemelle, i screamed get down and covered my son. feeling like little savoy. even school valentin still has surgeries ahead of him. svetlana is doing a little bit better. she shows me picture up their house before and after the attack this done up on why did they attack us over? i don't know, we didn't do anything bad, where civilians are still the quinn, islam. the hospital itself was not spirit either. balked and russia load,

the hat of the trauma center here, tells us after russian strike his team struggled to keep going with you all before we worked without water and electricity willingly put headlamps on. it took care of those seeking medical assistance and also it was very hard on me, but we stayed here and did what was necessary. raleigh williams, social wellness and the situation worse than when russian forces completely encircled the city. residents tell us some of them were killed by russian troops. others died because they could not reach the hospital. due to heavy shelling in the local morgue, edward slept please using refrigerated trucks for the bodies that still needs to be identified or pick up by relatives. the dubois through the will you co, many people left the country to escape the fighting, that they are not in ukraine for them and cannot get back to bury their relatives escape from walnut. so that's why there are still many bodies here heard of her the

right here was that would be those who come here to claim their loved ones are overwhelmed by grief. like egos, family, he was a husband, a father, a brother, shut debt by russian soldiers who rented summerbrook, he was the best buy there. he could have, i was so proud of him. and now something this terrible has happened to us. death and destruction is all that is left after the withdrawal of russian forces from germany heath. and what those who survived your most is that the russian army might return ah, reports of re pearl. so mounting from ukraine, there are many indications that russia is systematically using sexual violence as a weapon of war. an example from boucher

this is carina you show over. she was about to turn 23 when russian soldiers marched into her town. future on the outskirts of cave. carina had plans. she was managing the local sushi bar, but was saving money to study at university. this is the last place where sure carina was seen alive the stairs outside her flat. it was march 10th. after this, everything becomes unclear. this is where one man thinks he saw russian soldiers kill her, but he can't be sure if the woman was corrina was some one else. this with the with and i was you put her here. you said you like this. another for head was bent back . then he took her in his arms and carried her over there. then another soldier shot tom, was it? zak wouldn't you will. you will believe this is where police told corinne his parents, they found the body. they said it looked like she'd been raped, but this is what the police said that she was badly tortured because he shot her ex

. my girl wanted to live so much. oh, that's always there was even applied before in his to her to stop the bleeding oh, good ago. but oh, then with a shot in the hell, they killed her softball. neil b forensic scientists examining the hundreds of bodies, the russians left behind. so many of the women have been right. organizations across the country support those who survive. if shaw, melissa, rocky, leave it on us. as of the 12 cases we are working on 11 our cases of gang rape. isley add up in all of these cases, women's reported that the occupiers were drunk or had taken drugs off on business with us on the oh no, i'm enough of it. schnauzer in india,

ukraine's commissioner for human rights tells me the she and number of coals makes them think russians are using rape as a weapon. but the most good. ha. okay. when a russian soldier rapes a ukranian woman, a girl wild boy, an elderly woman. oh, it keeps saying things like this. this will happen to every nazi hor, god, or we will rape until you can't give birth g ukrainians. back of when you, these are signs of genocide of the ukraine on people of mark, you know, did not say though, green's, grandma told them the korean, his parents, the only certainty they have is their loss and their fury making age. we then, you know, we hate the russians, which i'm ashamed to speak russian. i will learn ukrainian, or they buried corrina here and billet circa near the morgue. 2 weeks after her 23rd birthday. since the war started in ukraine, many people in lithuania have feared a russian invasion. in particular,

there's been growing concern about the su. well, key gap, lithuania is only land link with its nato partners. bollywood slash gauss. gus is straining for the worst case scenario. is a member of the lithuanian rifleman union, a state backed paramilitary group that has been growing ever since russia annex. it's grand mia? in 2014. i. oh, so it's propaganda. old. on russian stayed propaganda targeted lithuania for us. it meant we could be the next ones with especially if you live here in the saw called while g gap, lithuanian only length connection with its western natal pod mouse. this stretch of land is crucial for the transport of goods and military equipment. the sir walter gap is just 65. you will meet us wide. it's located exactly here between the

russian exclaim of callian grot on the one site, and thrushes l. a bela rows on the, on the site. in lithuania, many fia that russia might try to cut this land breached of the west. tensions with moscow have been rising. lithuania has been a member of nato since 2004. but since the start was avoid ukraine, politicians and normal citizens have grown more determined. i would say we owe you more drugs, which should defend your freedom and so on. it's like understanding are for, for his, the fundamental things we have to a few here have to prepare ourselves. that's why we need, ah, more natal presence in our region as a very credible that, that of deterrence against russia is. this is also the aim of an unusual art exhibition in the capital videos. this strain from moscow stops

twice a day here on its way to the russian exclaim of calling and grat. russian passengers are not allowed to get off, but they are confronted with photos of war outside to their windows. when po loosely kolscott is not training for battle. he takes off his rifle, mammy uniform to work as a lawyer, that early global. so i have russian clients that i keep in touch with, i don't feel any personal hatred towards them, but rather towards the russian state and russian state propaganda was the lincoln. many here would agree with him. lithuanians have been called to between a constant state of vigilance and resilience. but with the onset, all the boy, you're crazy people living in the so while to gap, i look into the future with even more concern. little

davida suffers from a life threatening illness. just recently he and his family fled ukraine. now german doctors are fighting for his life. vetoed on our chic escape, the war in ukraine by fleeing to germany. now her main worry is keeping her 10 month old son, david's a life he needs breathing equipment to stop his lungs. collapsing. davina suffers from spinal muscular atrophy. a rare degenerative disease causing gradual loss of function without treatment, babies with the condition usually die by the age of 2. when you that a yeah, cool. like i can sleep at nights even when does he does the sleep all the living. i keep checking on him, i pray to god and more that he wants stuff breathing. why?

and sometimes it seems like he is not breathing. that the going if it's a genetic disease where you can simply loose your child in a moment. veto lift your crane with the eats and her older son at young who was 7. just as the 1st shots were being fired, like you are, the, when i saw the fear in our jumps eyes i am new, we had to flee back home. and ukraine veto was able to race $11000.00 euros a month for david's treatment through crowd funding. here in germany, volunteers including jojo in san rena, help her to obtain the drugs and german health insurance covers what's needed now.

in the longer term davita will need gene therapy, costing to 1000000 euros. it's not clear whether that will be covered when does ella gene? so i just have to hope we can get the treatment for david or to could i know that he would live yet. i don't know whether he would be able to set up a walk, but i know he would live. having fled the wall with the children and coping with of its illness liter cannot be certain she will ever return to ukraine. that she remains resolute. your mom of jackson, i am firstly, the mother of 2 sons. walks in order to give young and i cannot be we key fob with, but in woodson, gar my and i have to stay strong. ah

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