[000:00:00;00] ah, ah ah, this is dw news lie from berlin. ukraine says russian forces are advancing in the keys city of soviet or the net. but the former president tells ukraine that you, that d w that ukraine will win the war. where like, soldiers is keeping it at the near. and we never petra shanker says,

ukraine desperately needs more weapons to push back the russian assault and on. but also coming up. the us announce is another $1000000000.00 and military aid for ukraine with nato allies expected to agree even more. but is it to a little too late for ukraine and more accounts of russian of war crimes and ukraine of correspondent visits a town that spent a month under russian occupation and tears from locals, who said they were tortured ah, a marion evans dean, thanks for joining us the battle is grinding on for the key ukrainian city of city or the next original governor says russian forces are advancing for weeks in the city has been the focus of russia's offensive and the eastern don bus region.

ukrainian troops are now almost entirely surrounded. many of them are hold up in the cities as not chemical plant, and ukraine says, hundreds of civilians are sheltering with them. ukraine is pleading for more long, raged weapons to counter the russian offensive. well, earlier i spoke to former ukrainian president petro shanker, who was in office from 2014 to 2019. he told us that he believes ukraine will stop russia from taking all of the don bus region here many times the signal from russia that they capture all you claimed in 3 days, which is not happening, neither with a $333.00 or 3 months. and now pushing problem is to occupy, don't boss at least before 9 of me before day of process 12 of june. this is not happening. situation is extremely difficult. and the concentration of troops there

is enormous. but our heroic soldiers is keeping say that i've been, you, have we, keeping the adults are not as old but as a lot chemical plan and we never surrender. and i just want to remind you, yes, a 1014, and i was elected as a president pry me. i was like, if i don't months was ok, pride. and it was ukraine. and me as a supreme commander in chief deliberate body open did about it. and then all of the okay, if i don't, but i'm absolutely confident that it's exactly happened this time. well, ukraine, of course, has been asking nato countries for more weapons in it's fight against a russian. why do you think those weapons deliveries are falling short? of all you should understand that they were delivering over the weapons in the shortest way to the peace. because now we have at 10 times,

russia has more to larry weapons, more holding them ukrainian soldiers, and even him bes, balance ukraine, make a counter attack. and ukraine surprised the world by stopping the so called 2nd biggest army in the world, which is not true. and that's why for the piece we need 3 pings, weapons, weapons, and weapons. and the 1st weapons he is the tanks of its anti aircraft, me files. jeff fi to 2nd references embargo and sanction. and 3rd weapons is a to deport denies russia. and today's extremely important day, because in brussels we have a contact group meeting, 3rd meeting, reaches named after be ready play must now german ramstein and

the we definitely a waiting, not only from the our american partners, but from german partners from either me to member states significant increase the effective weapons for the game changer because kenny imagined that the future of europe, huge of the world, is depending from 1000 personal carrier, 500 tanks, 100 just 5 to or 300 multi multiplan system. and this is exactly what we are waiting to be equipped our soldiers because we don't need major soldiers on the cranial soil. we help please help us to save europe, help us to do your job. and this is my appeal to the german government b folder to folder with us. and this is the vital for the future of europe. that was the former ukrainian president petra shank,

speaking to us earlier. the united states is pledging the largest package of arm support to ukraine since russia's invasion began. you as president joe biden announce an additional $1000000000.00 and military aid to bolster ukraine's self defense. speaking in brussels, you as secretary of state re la harmony, you as defense, secretary lloyd austin called on other countries to also intensify their support. austin says the war has reached a pivotal moment that this contact group has provided. that's the meeting, includes nato members, as well as dozens of additional countries known as the ukrainian contact group. lloyd spoke a short while ago. let's listen to what he had to say. just contact group 1st came together. nearly 3 months ago. we built tremendous momentum for donations and delivery of notorious justice. and after this, this afternoon, discussions were not just going to maintain that momentum. we're gonna move even

faster and push even harder. will deepen our coordination and cooperation and we'll be bolster ukraine's armed forces to help them repel russian aggression now and in the future. for more, let's bring in our brussels correspondent terry shoulds. hello to terry's. so we just heard the u. s. defense minister lloyd austin, speaking there sounding brother, confident and stressing that there is going to be more coordinated support for ukraine. do other western allies share this outlook? secretary austin's confidence comes from the fact that this is just the 3rd meeting of this contact group. and he and the other sitting around the table have managed to coupled together many more offers for ukraine. you heard it secretary austin detail, some of those new contributions here. and, you know, besides the 30 nato allies, some 20 other countries are part of this group. so that certainly is wide spread

global support for the effort in ukraine, and it's certainly shows that not just western countries, but other countries around the world are certainly supportive of ukraine's efforts . as we just mentioned, the u. s. has announced another $1000000000.00 worth of military aid. terry, what is the most important component of this ain't well, if we take it from ukraine's requests, they certainly have wanted more multiple launch rocket systems and they're going to be getting some of those systems that they were announced today. and the united states has been talking about sending this and other heavy weapons as nato secretary general young stilton berg, also called for today, you know, the ukrainians have the problem. now that in the beginning of the war, they were sent much of this soviet era equipment. but often ammunition is not made for these weapons anymore. so they're running out of ammunition for the systems that they were sent. so now new more modern equipment is being sent to ukraine and

they need to be trained to use it. so this transition to more modern equipment is happening right now, but gather ukrainians are saying, look, we're, we're running out of ammo and we need more. we simply need more bullets, we need more rockets, we need more missiles. and that's one of the efforts that certainly was undertaken today in this contact group was how do we transition ukraine and train it on these new more modern weapons. right. and the us defense secretary austin, also talked about the commitments of other states. what stood out for you. certainly what stood out, i think, not just for me, but for many people here at nato, was that he specifically mentioned germany in a positive tone. and that's because of these multiple launch rocket systems, which i mentioned today, it was announced that there would be 10 of these systems now heading to ukraine for provided by the united states. 3 provided by the united kingdom and 3 provided by germany. now there were some controversy because germany had initially said it

would be sending 4 of these systems. but when you look at the germans, a typically in terms of being reluctant to send weapons to ukraine, they're, they're holding up pretty well. they're in good company today with this, this contribution of 3 systems. at the same time, ukrainian, president zalinski has asked for 300 of these multiple launch rocket system. so you see that in ukraine's eyes. it certainly is nowhere near enough. all right, that was our correspondence in brussels, terry shoals, thank you so much. terry. we'll ukrainian forces have managed to push back russian troops from several areas in places like boucher european. but i, duncan, evidence of atrocities have been found. authorities are now investigating more than $15000.00 suspected cases of war crimes thrust and nets is a town in northern ukraine that spent a month under russian occupation. he w. rebecca readers went there and spoke to

a residence who shared harrowing stories the trust and yet train station all. what's left of it for more than a month, russian troops used it as their headquarters. it was from here, all excited, tells me that they carried out some of their crimes. whenever the wall is here, the russians were based like that, where we're going home shelter, thoughts where we're going with them on at santa an auto mechanic says the russians came in the night and pulled him straight out of bed. some talisman he says were killed on the spot, but he and a handful of others were brought down here into the station's basement. federal uncle rose. i was sitting right in his corner. i was beaten here for a miss ball was painted by another guys blood. his head was smashed with the boots of a gun, and his hands were tied behind his back. he tried to get up and left the blood marks in football. so thought bruce,

for groom. that man survived for this video shows his body and maybe his mind were badly scarred in the fate of some fellow prisoners is unknown. burglary but po, coordinated with a colonel of ukrainian army, was brought to you. they beat him badly and interrogated him. they took him somewhere and he never came back with his. we don't know where he is looking for him. you shall see. of course, what happened to alexander and his fellow captives, these alleged war crimes. they happened here under ground where no one could hear their cries or the blows of the russian soldiers. but not all the crimes that took place in this city happened under ground. some happened right up here in broad daylight. the laws of war prohibit attacks on civilians and torture, as well as attacks on hospitals. who did. there was a direct hit from a tank. they were positioned there and they were shooting at us, not billable,

and have shifts over the hospitals. director says the russians knew what they were doing rather than my of the early players thing. yeah. we have no explanation for those that there was a big hospital sign. we had a big white flag with a red cross really. but it would, it didn't matter to them at all. no millennia goes, nurturing a doctor shifts over, says the 2 nights before the russians left trusty nets were the worst. the hospital was pounded without. stop. the patients and doctors were forced to take refuge on the ground. brooklyn adroitly, which had done you little, she remembers that a baby was born. the sick and wounded continued to receive treatment. many people pride that boy for both. i think there is a god in his world. there is justice. kindness will prevail some day. we will never forgive them for this. for our tears, for the little children we carried out in our arms, these women with tears in their eyes. the grandmothers who cried head,

you have to pay for everything in this life and they will pay to that's what it dr . shifts over says there's no way or time to extract vengeance. only time to rebuild. but the people of trust in nets will never forget. now let's take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world. the world health organization has said that europe remains the epicenter of the monkey pox outbreak . the w h o will hold a meeting next week to decide if to classify the infection as a public health emergency. more than 1500 cases have been confirmed in 25 countries across europe. a 10 year old boy has been rescued from a well in central india. 5 days after he fell down the 18 meter hole in his village . it took response units over 100 hours to complete the rescue. and the boy was being fed oxygen through a tube during the operation. he is, however, expected to make

a full recovery. ah m as the latest on dw news, this our up next doc film takes a look at the long standing an unofficial war between israel. iran and the u. s. a . marina evans team from me and the entire news team here in berlin. thanks so much . ah ah, 175 years ago. the young start up entrepreneur at a specific goal. 1 build the article instruments in the world ah, size i wish has become