the, the, this is dw news coming to live from berlin. moscow says it's battling a ukrainian sabotaged group that in pill control, traded of border region. ukraine rejects the navigations, insisting the russian partisans opposed to the kremlin or behind the buttons in belgrade. also coming up beverly and hospital treats patients caught up in a possible 40 something or 2 russian journalists targeted for their criticism of the kremlin and an outpouring of support for a brazilian football or targeted by racist abuse for sale. switch us all the lights

of the christ, the redeemer stopped you in solidarity with real madrid player. and this is junior who says he was targeted by races, chance hate crime investigation is now underway. inspect the hello, i'm terry martin. thanks for joining us. russian officials have a ques, ukraine of melting, a sabotage attack on russian territory. the governor of the belgrade border region says a counterterrorism operation is still ongoing. the local headquarters of the interior ministry and the f. s. b, security service in the area were reportedly targeted, key of has denied any connection to the attack, insisting that disgruntled russians revolting against the kremlin, are responsible. so russia's state media sees this postage shows the of the mass of

fighting in the belgrade bring gym. officials claim that in to see for the tax houses and administrative buildings were damaged and the towns as far as sold and private room, they blamed ukrainian armed forces and seed. many residents had leased the area either in buses or their own vehicles to push up the good weekend. so close to me. there were 8 people injured. according to the information from the ministry of health and the ministry of defense. there are no civilian casualties. to once again, the situation is tents and remains so the cause a counter terrorist operation was declared discrete. many restrictions are in place . the system, but the funny thing broke out about 5 kilometers from russia's border with ukraine . while ukraine has been preparing for a counter offensive for months, heaved denied any connection to the attack. video is posted by the russian opposition groups, the liberty of russia legion,

and the russian volunteer corpse indicated they may be responsible. in time to put an end to the dictatorship, spicy. but thank you to all those who support us, who sign explanations are not basically boards. that's amazing explosives, last year support their mind was every day of our final goal, the red square, and they seem to be brave and don't be afraid because we are coming back home, which is russia will be free shame. so the more but to see if we get sort both minute to try to print and then see the violence and to distract attention from bus moved, which russian forces claimed to have captured after more than 9 months of fighting . the more, let's speak today, they'll be as much as building a n t a. which is, what more can you tell us about the funding reported in russia's belgrade region? there's a clear yet who was behind the attacks so 2 groups have claimed dresser responsibility

. these are 2 groups of uh, russian volunteers will fighting on the side if you crane there is a bit of, let's say, not really confusing, but um, secrecy around whether these groups or how closely these groups are linked to the ukrainian village. re a request that we file to the ukrainian village. we came back with the onset that this was concerning secrets and that i could not answer anything. uh so no clear dismissing there. um, but and for the people here in ukraine it seems pretty clear that there is some connection. i mean, they entered from ukrainian territory and they used quite a bit of heavy equipment. so it's, it would be a bit interesting that if uh, ukraine would not know that uh, some sabotage groups were operating on its territory and running over its borders. however, people in ukraine responding to these reports coming out of belgrade mathias

there's a lot of lee. yeah. let me quote one example, the, it's a put a yak, the advise it to the ukranian president has said that ukraine has absolutely nothing to do with this. and that everybody knows that people can buy tags in any russian military shop. that's of course a reference to to the events, 2014 on crime. yeah. when would you deny that is so which is where these green men who were capturing the island. and he said that uh, uniforms could be bought, bought in any, in any military shop. so lots of, uh, paralyzed z, a people calling on uh, international media to call these uh, subaltern pro ukrainian or russian separatist. uh uh, in uh, in reference to how people have quoted the these uh, groups in the done by the region who from a ukrainian perspective uh, were old and were organized with russian proxies. but what, what ways,

quotes separately too, so lots of, uh, yeah, shot and friday here on these events. but he has stay with us while we take a look at what's happening in box mood. ukrainian officials say their troops are still holding parts of the eastern city. days after russia claimed to complete control, the head of the buckner group said so his forces will leave buck boot and expects them to be replaced by regular russian troops. whoever controls bach moods is in charge of a waste land. after 9 months of bloody street fighting and endless bombing, the east in ukrainian city has been turned into a mass graveyard. even the self proclaimed victors don't plan on staying after claiming to have taken buckboard on saturday, the head of rushes, wagner mercenary group, said his man would soon lease with an order your message. you have any precautions said the russian defense ministry would have to replace his private soldiers by

june. first. if there was enough personnel, he said rushes. thousands of generals could take the place. it's the latest insult, fired off by pretty goshen at russia's military leadership, unintentional power struggle against the backdrop of a very real war. tens of thousands of soldiers are estimated to have died on all sides in the fights of a bach moved little infrastructure of value appears to remain west in military. analysts say the battle of buck, mood has tied up the resources of both armies for months. now that the main fighting there appears to be over. conflict is expected to flare up elsewhere along the front line. we'll go back to our correspondence. he is putting a n t o mathias. what's the latest word on what's happening now in boston? it's very difficult to assess the situation. um uh, many sources the ukrainian side,

but also some of the international observes confirmed that fighting is still going on, but it's a quarter. the question is where exactly it seems to be really on the fringes. and at the moment, it's unclear whether these heights are still on city territory, or whether they're really already on the edge outside of the cities. suggest to the board is ukraine has been controlling just a tiny bit of baltimore lately. and that's the bit that we have been talking about mostly in the past few days since pretty goes and has said that, um um and uh, some footage suggests that they've really moved on to the edge of the city whether they are having positions there or whether they use with just mobile groups that were able to go there and then had been driven back. all that is very difficult to assess at the moment, but we're not talking about, you know, a fight for the control spot from what we're just fighting. a talking about a fight the by the russians for full control and by the ukrainians for having

a foothold for keeping the russian forces engaged in fighting to which he has. thank you very much, shar corresponding mathias spelling a n t. meanwhile, police here in germany are investigating suspected poisoning of 2 russian journalist who attended a conference here in berlin. the women were treated as the cities, charlie tay hospital. they were in the german capital for an event organized by kremlin critic me here for the coffee is still unconfirmed. what caused their symptoms? russia has carried out boys and attacks against criminal and opponents in recent years. are political correspondence. simon young has more details of this story yet originated on a russian language website against boe, which is not a criminal in supporting sites. it's, that's the site. now. they reported that these 2 women had attended this conference

in the berlin, organized by opposition. figuring this out, co ski and they subsequently reported a symptoms that could point to towards a poisoning. one of the women has been identified as a natalia all know, she is the director over at n g o cold uh, the free russia foundation that she said she fell down well, but she subsequently travelled on to prague. she said she had known this and sharp pain and strange symptoms, and she then returned to us where she's based. now the other woman is a russian journalist and she has since posted on social media to say that. so she confirms that she's been having treatment at the secretary hospital in berlin. a basically said she's got nothing to do with anything that happened at that conference. and she's also cooled on people to, you know,

refrain from speculation. so i think what we can say is a story where a lot of the details are still unclear. so you looked at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. the driver of a truck, the crash near the white house, has been detained. u. s. secret service say that while the truck did not contain anything dangerous, the collision may have been intentional. the vehicle struck security barriers on a public park next to the white house grounds. on monday, the police in the south american country of deanna say that a deadly fire out of school dormitory may have been started intentionally. the blaze broke out on a sunday night at a government boarding school for girls that serves remote mostly indigenous villages. 19 students were killed in the fire, and 2 girls remain in critical condition. fortunately is, officials say police are preparing to search a reservoir. 50 kilometers from the resort were british toddler, madeline,

mccann went missing in 2007. the search was apparently requested by german authorities last year, a german national was formerly made a suspect. we're sales president, louisa nazi a little of the sale that has made a statement in support of real madrid. striker minnes use junior after he faced racist abuse in a spanish league game. on sunday. there has been an outpouring of solidarity with the football or in his native brazil in rio de janeiro, the lighting of the iconic christ, the redeemer statue was turned off for an hour in protest. it's not the 1st time the brazil ford has been racially bused in space, 10 plus flat and the 2nd half between round madrid and valencia when an animated finish heroes jr. a pointed out of fan and the stands for the constant. rachel abuse yourself or during the game, the brazilian set. this wasn't the 1st time and spanish football federation

president louis ruby, alice admitted on monday that spain has a problem with racism. a means okay, and so lot of these, you know, if only one family, this one, nasty person, this one group of nasty people insult someone for the sexual conditions you for the skin color or for the religion. then we really do have a serious problem. the problem we need to, as a junior said after the game that a competition that once belonged to starz like ronaldo and messy know, belongs to racist. the head of the lake salvia to boston, criticize the play of insulting spanish football, adding more fuel to the fire madrid coach called onto loyalty was upholds by this treatment. regardless of what happened here has happened before, but not quite to that extent. like that, as it's unacceptable,

the spanish league has a problem lead us by you know, like unit in probably more. yes, resilient president lou let us silva also expressed is support to words. we do see us in a press conference on the sidelines of 37 summits, really for a, for the mid that, that he was verbally abused and was called a monkey as well says a little width. it's not possible almost in the middle of the 21st century that we have racism getting stronger in many soccer stadiums in europe available for so if items are starting to do football, like you know, well madrid have now officially launched a criminal complaint with prosecutors stating that the abuse constitutes a hate crime. a private space exploration carrying saudi arabia's 1st female astronaut has done to the international space station. brianna bar. now we have breast cancer in stem rep cell research or is the 1st saudi woman to fly to specs?

joining her all the mission had for a saudi fighter pilot, an american business man there led by a retired financial option and lived in space. she's just adding to that total on this mission. you're watching the, the news from berlin coming up next. we've got the business for you. stephen beardsley will be here with more details on methodist record break and you want terry martin, thanks for watching the journalism. listen, overcome and divisions. for the d. w. global media on 2023 in germany and online the.