health, smart nature, one of the most insightful discoveries in the history of mankind. more life starts may 28th on d, w. ah ah, this is the w news coming to you live from berlin. ukraine warrants the fight against russian portions in the east is going badly. president lensky says the offensive could make the don bass region uninhabitable. towns and cities lie in ruins, as russian forces advance aiming to encircle. ukrainian troops. also coming up,

investigators in ukraine get down to the task of prosecuting alleged russian war crimes. walden, $13000.00 cases, could eventually come before the court at texas police under pressure over the elementary school massacre. as grieving families join calls for stricter gun controls, there are questions over how long it took the emergency team to respond. ah . l o m terry martin, thanks for joining us. ukraine is warning that rushes edging closer to surrounding ukrainian troops in the eastern don boss reach. russian forces are launching attacks on dozens of towns and the provinces of lou hans kent on. yet the advance could be a turning point in moscow's efforts to consolidate control in the east ukrainian president blood musa landscape. calling for more support from western allies for

civilians under fire. it's increasingly difficult to find refuge from the piping mind. right? this is what life and cleans east looks like. now. residence of the city of lucy, chance desperate to escape the constant shelling shelter here in this basement. one of the many here urgently need medical supplies, but traveling to get them is too risky. well, not only a kid, so my father suffered a stroke, and there are many others in these houses who need medication. about 7 decremental ukraine says the fighting in the east is fiercer than ever, but nearly all of the loo hans district underbrush and control. some of the other sites of scrub the situation remains difficult and is getting worse, listing him properly. the enemy is using all its power and means to capture our

territory and surround our troops in the fighting has reached its maximum intensity to date. mister william, mister hallmarks among the infant 7 wisdom, moscow has set of fights on gaining control of the dunbar. ukraine's industrial hot land russian tubes attempting to encircle ukrainian forces by seizing t highways in the region. finishing the current offensive by russia in the dawn bus could make the region uninhabitable. putting pressure on russia is literally a matter of saving lives. and every day of delay weakness, debates or proposals to pacify the aggressor at the expense of the victim means more ukrainians killed white g grange. ukraine says 50 towns and the region came under shelling, poster, which killed at least 9 people. filled up with duction troops gaining ground, justin's hill, see no escape in sight. earlier i spoke to our correspondent rebecca richards,

who is in chia, i asked her how ukraine is doing in his efforts to stop russia advancing in the east. well, you had a little bit there and that report, terry not, not very well at the moment. this is a really defining moment in this conflict and, and ukraine now admitting that they are losing the upper hand in the don't bass region, the governor of law hans saying that new crime controls only 5 percent of that area . now. i with russians advancing. that was last week that was 10 percent. so you can see that they really are moving forward. they are advancing in the ukrainians. a really outnumbered by people and weapons, most of all. and they're just not able to stop them advancing. the russians are trying to encircle troops around in la hans around that city. sarah, have several done yet. it's been spoken about a lot in this part of the conflicts, and they are actually succeeding. they are surrounding that city by on 3 sides now . and they, ukraine is really struggling to hold them back. russia now controls

a substantial part of eastern and southern ukraine, much more territory than what the separatist fell before the invasion began. we know rebecca, what life is like for ukrainians living in those newly occupied regions? well, pretty dia, by all accounts, you had some, some accounts there in that report. i mean, what we've been hearing is that people are largely having to live under ground. and people for weeks now have had very no, almost no utilities, no electricity's, no communication. and that fast running out of supplies, medicines, i mean, it's hot enough if able bodied people living there in the region. but all the more hard for those people, as you heard in that report, people have had strokes or who might be not able bodied. i mean, this is a really dire situation. they're struggling to get food. and we were hearing a couple of days ago that aid was still able to get into some parts of lou hans. but as the russians advanced and met and cut off those roadways,

that's becoming harder and harder and life will get harder for the people living there. in his latest video address, president zalinski accused the west of quote, playing around with russia instead of putting pressure on the kremlin. how worried is the government in chia that its western partners will let ukraine del well i think at this point quite worried terry. i mean that, you know, zalinski has been calling for weapons throughout this entire conflict. and he then was, you know, getting the response that he needed from the western community, particularly the u. s. and he seemed to be quite happy with what was being offered . but now, as we're seeing, the finding intensify that they're just out numbers, he's saying that, you know, it's all very well that he's pledged these weapons, but now can you please deliver them? and in fact, we need more. i mean, they suddenly made things like multiple rocket launches and these sort of big weapons because they just really outnumbered. i mean in some areas we're hearing that for every rocket lot from the ukrainian side, you've got 10 to 20 coming back and the other direction. so they really outnumbered

as it was, he definitely worried that he's going to be left out in the cold here really needing more support from the is national community, very critical of nato and quite critical of the you as well. rebecca, thank you very much. that was our correspondent, rebecca ritters there in chia to captured russian soldiers who pleaded guilty at the 2nd war crimes trial to be held in ukraine. they're facing up to 12 years in prison for allegedly shelling civilian infrastructure. the case is just one of thousands that ukrainian authorities are investigating and fresh evidence war crimes is found nearly every day. this report from dw much tonda contains images that could upset some viewers. deep inside the forest lies in anonymous grief. whoever chose this place didn't want anyone to find it. 2 months after the end of the russian occupation here, the body of a ukrainian man was on earth. his passport found here by the police say,

the death of the 56 year old civilian is linked to the russian aggression. nothing unusual these days the horde them. oh, we found many of them and we were fine mom because a lot of people are missing. a lot of people died so a lot of people who are buried are much a lot. the rules are coping the victims. daughter is on the scene. she tells us her father went missing on the 18th of march during the russian occupation. it's neither solutions. i only know he walked out of his house and didn't return more. i think he went to feed the dog of the neighbor who had left. i didn't know where else he would have gone with a lot of sticky. we miss the been so far clues are limited as to what happened to her father. his passport shows red stains on it, possibly blood boucher hostile mill hairpin. these towns have become synonymous with russian war crimes were than the 1000 people were killed in boucher

alone. a neighboring her pin. the cemetery has changed in appearance with hundreds of freshly dug graves. to day streets in the area are lined with destroyed houses and shops. all over town, reminders of horrific acts of violence like these cars attacked with weapons of war . saw the vehicle to see here are civilian vehicles that were used by people from butcher to try to flee from the russians and flee from the fighting. just like this vehicle over here, as we learned, it was struck in the back while trying to exit the town. it was hit by heavy machine gun fire and the bullets traveled through the entire car, hitting in the back. next thing at the fronts and killing at least one person inside, one of more than 3000 war crimes that are now being investigated and the key of region alone, an arduous task. but authorities are making some games. we know we have already fixed that 300 persons from russia on the in key region that were mentioned here in

our church. and we're not sure that they were from special forces from russian federation. they came here. we have their names, their names, also even their families the default, but with them being out of reach of ukrainian authorities. what are the prospects of bringing these men to justice? but it's where they couldn't visit any country where they have a possibility to be arrested. so anyway, you know that if somewhere at 0 come international court and international police officers and maybe all this, i know them and arrested. so we hope that they will find the punishment because they are guilty. so far, fewer than 50 alleged russian war criminals remain ukrainian custody of his legs. mother stories making headlines around the world today. the g 7 group of industrial nations as meeting in berlin. one central point of discussion is the

phasing out of coal and moving to renewable energy sources. the meeting is also led to some bilateral partnerships and cooperation to tackle climate change and finland has confirmed its 1st case of monkey pumps. global health officials have sounded warnings over the rising number of infections in europe in north america where the virus usually is not found. monkey pox is endemic in west and central africa. and the palestinian authority says the l g 0 reporter, serene. aba clay was killed deliberately by an israeli soldier, the journalists death 2 weeks ago during and it was really operation in the west bank cause international. alfred palestinian leadership rejected israel's request for a joint investigation and a train carrying a dozen fuel tankers derailed. after being hit by a truck in the u. s. state of pennsylvania to train operators and the truck driver

were injured. it's not yet clear what caused the collision. police in texas are facing criticism over how long it took them to respond to an elementary school shooting that killed 19 children and 2 teachers officers shot dead the attacker nearly an hour after he began the rampage. the massacre in you, biology has re ignited the debate over gun control in the united states. d. w. stuff on siemens reports. you well, the texas surrounded by corn farms and cattle ranchers just about 85 kilometers from the u. s. border with mexico. the small town in the south of the lone star state has become a household name for most americans. recently for all the wrong reasons. a few days ago the world was turned on its head for this type of community. when an 18 year old gunman stormed into rob elementary school,

telling 19 students and 2 teachers i heard say really hurts or where are her. we never thought this would happen. here is just a little small town. everybody is pain streaking fields paralyzed and is in the state of emotional shock. even her children can feel the pain. yeah. lisa says lacy, me crying, they asked me, why do i cry? and i go because i don't know what i would do without them. and i know it hurts to see other parents what they're going through. it literally does it hurt and i, man, i can't sleep. i can sleep at night knowing that those children went to school thinking that they were safe after almost no communication to the public in to the media, the police. finally, days after the massacre and rob elementary school came out with more information about the timeline about what had happened here. the teenage shooter enters the elementary school through an unlocked door guns blazing. 4 minutes later, local police departments are inside. make an entry. the hear gunfire they take

rouse, they move back, get cover. the officers been down called for help and help arrives, but only late, too late, many se, approximately an hour later. you have border patrol. tactical teams arrive. they may get your to kill the suspect. despite the many unanswered questions, the parents and loved ones of those who died still half despite the grief and pain they and the whole town feuds right now, many here speak up demanding tighter gun control measures mellows out to be more stricter is too easy. here to get a gun, i was a poor background checks, and lisa longer process take for them to get the rifles or any any pistols. it's too easy here to get a gun. just across the street from another makeshift memorial for the victims of america's latest mass shooting. this school years,

top 10 performing high school students are property displayed in front of city hall, almost as if nothing had happened at all in you've all the texas you're watching dw news, just remind her the top story we're following for you this. our russian forces have advanced further and they're offensive in eastern ukraine. keith says its troops are under attack from 3 sides, and could be encircled. president lensky is calling for more action from western alex. i'm terry martin for me and all of us here at the debate. thanks for watching . mm.