and we're going to take an hour to reach out to and nick conley, our correspondents in ukraine, who is in the town there. and nick, what have you seen? well, where i am just now in the country next to the 10 story pop and i feel one the left on when the learn out college destroyed georgia went to electric co cause this is bridget town district. before we finish this with other kids, young companies are moving to lots construction and now that is all around the shrapnel bits of artillery shells. wooden crate ammunition, lots of dogs running the street without their owners and lots of people just in deep, deep shock. we just come from one of the biggest grace which is next to the church again this time and the local. that was the place that they brought the body of people who been short on the streets and tried to at least give them some temporary burial. that way. it's very difficult site. it's a deep, deep, lazy. what is some were buried in sheets and blankets, others in plastic sex and some have there was nothing and you see other bits of what is coming out of the bottom of it. and a

the clear dw correspondent nick conley is in ukrainian capital k of he gave us this update on the situation in. gotcha. well it's very difficult to try to reconstruct this because there was no access to butcher as long as the russians were there. and even now it's severely limited, but we have heard reports today from a satellite company that some of these alleged mass graves were already being excavated at days and weeks before the russians left. gotcha there. so it's those seemingly some preparations going on there at we have the stories from eye witnesses talking about people going missing, people being killed and you hear about a russian forces looking for people who are involved in the territorial forces as well. looking for civilians and accusing civilians of being at participating in that military activity against them. and you hear just of a climate of fear. people who that is. he cut off from the outside world for weeks at a time, and often with very little in the way of connection with of a connection ability to find out what was going on outside, and generally now, among ordinary

control of the sea, of as of coastline and connected forces in crane south and east dw correspondent nick conley is in ukraine's 2nd largest city car cave. and i asked him about the situation that was he can see her give his basically a shadow of it for myself, it's 5 pm here and it's totally empty. just a few passes by occasionally visible on the streets behind me, the regional government headquarters that was destroyed in a russian missile attack right at the beginning of this war. and the russian soldiers are still very close within a few dozen kilometers where i'm standing now. so unlucky of where it feels like some kind of cheese returning and where those russian troops have withdrawn quite significantly in recent weeks. you very much still on the front lines. basically every couple of minutes you can hear some artillery in the, in the background. so difficult to really work out where that is, but it just, you know, really bring home quite how close war is here and now still people staying here. not everyone has got out. but there is lots of speculation about where the russia will now truck

soon prove to be far from an isolated a trusty. short while ago i spoke with our correspondent nick conley, whose in key ab about the situation there. now that russian troops have withdrawn from the suburbs here in key. if we are definitely hearing less, no way of artillery fire less in the way of air raid sirens of the kind that we basically had every couple of hours for the last few weeks to defeat. there is a real sense that the fighting is further away, but there's no final sense that this is totally over. there are reports coming in of isolated russian units that it basically left behind by the russian retreat and some of them hiding out in forests around the kind of cities like boucher where they were in control for weeks at a time. i said, reports coming in of ukraine checkpoints being attacked by those russian forces that are now trying to make their way north to bellows to withdraw. so and no real sets. this is somehow organized or fully and what kind of dairy free of russian troops i'm but now of see the focus is on looking at what has happened trying to find the dead trying to f

nick conley joins me now from the ukrainian capital care. good morning, nick. we just heard the ukrainian foreign minister accusing russia there of committing atrocities in boucher. what can you tell us about what happened there? well, it's very difficult to try to reconstruct this because there was no access to butcher as long as the russians were there. and even now it's severely limited. but we have heard reports today from a satellite company that some of these alleged mass graves were already being excavated at days and weeks before the russians left her future. so had those seemingly some preparations going on there. we have the stories from eye witnesses talking about people going missing, people being killed. as you hear about, a russian forces looking for people who are involved in the territorial forces as well. looking for civilians and accusing civilians of being at participating in that military activity. gates them and you hear just of a climate of fear, people who are there because he cut off from the outside world for weeks at a time. and often

nick conley visited the small town of bitches, which was in the middle of intense fighting between russian and ukrainian forces. from late february, he spoke to resident, struggling to make sense of what happened to them. this is we give a small town. it's just emerging from a month and a russian occupation month in which it was on the front lines she, russian and ukrainian forces. toys was sometimes just the woods, people were children. it's as much as many residents of this ukrainian town could think of. a plea to the russian troops to leave them and their families alone, as they hid in their homes, will decide you live with him. new people in this village spent 27 days without water on the 27th days without bread. he grew up. when you had a demon his wife held out for 3 weeks until the shelling became too much to bear. and they were finally able to leave for a neighbouring village of them up when they got back of the premium military retake in the town. the home would be ransacked by retreating russian troops. a, they've got it. everything carried everything out. all that's laughter, th

dw, nick conley visited, boucher to hear 1st hand what residence experienced there. some viewers may find images in this report. disturbing the russian armies 1st attempt to take boucher was over in a matter of hours and it ended like this. soon enough they were back and back to stay. for a month, the shelling and the shooting barely stopped. those outside us included could only guess what life in boucher was really like. baba, hollow cousin dang the bank from the explosions went on every day. we didn't know where they were coming from. there were bright flashes of light in the distance. we had the bullets whizzing past, but only dolly, most of the time, people who barely dare to leave their homes ness sellers when they did was often with deadly consequences. my yes is threat, as actually my sister asked her husband to bring her food to the place. she was hiding. that was march the 4th to push that he didn't make it. will they shot him just before he got to the house is will deal cool. good, well, had to put so many people died. there was so many bodies just on the s

nick, thank you so much. our correspondent conley, they're in, keith. european union commission president ursula on a lion is to meet president zalinski in t f. in a show of solidarity from the block. the blocks top diplomat as joseph burrell, also attend the meeting under lions new sanctions on russia, including a battle importing coal vodka and timber were backed by the u member states. this week. the new coal band is estimated to be worth $4000000000.00 euros a year. but that is just a fraction of what is spent on russian oil and gas, and the ban isn't due to be implemented until august. our brussels correspond christine manuel is covering this story. christine, you, christian, president, toner, light and foreign policy chief, joseph burrell, are on their way to meet presidents lensky innkeeper. tell us about the significance of this trip. terry, it's, it's a gesture off solidarity i. it is the repeated affirmation to the ukrainians, that the european union stands with ukraine that will do whatever i can to support ukraine and def

nix conley filed that report and now joins us from the ukrainian capital. steve, nick, you have been to several town surrounding keith in the wake of the russian withdrawal . and you've interviewed numerous eye witnesses of what have you pieced together about how russian forces are fighting this war? i think the overarching impression is one of chaos. in that town we just saw in the report, the locals told us that most of the russian soldiers didn't know one another. they were from various different regiments, various different pots, the russian army, and after encountering a much stiffer resistance from the ukrainians, than they expected. they'd suffered heavy losses and had re groups in a celtic fashion, often enough, seemingly not knowing who their commands should be, not knowing where their food is meant to come from. not knowing what the plans were with any kind of advance warning, a sense that the russian command is keeping its own soldiers very poorly informed. they're just busy living in a bubble. often without any mobile phone connection. they've had their own