a correspondent, un philip schultz, went to the carrier to get eye witness accounts of the russians each. it's hard to believe that there is still human life among all the destruction basil and his wife natalia. where at home, when russian troops took over mackarath in late february when morning. so just came to their house and accused basil of taking pictures. they tied him up and left him outside in his 2 shed, hulu normally, but it was very cold and particular at night the worst was that i had no idea what happened to my wife drives for them. but one day a soldier came and brought me my special medicine. this was the moment when i understood that my wife was still alive for a little while. everywhere it's a similar picture. neighbors of a sealant natalia tell us that in this neighbourhood alone, russian soldiers killed 53 people. a 17 year old girl was allegedly raped for weeks, their family had to hide in this small basement room. always fearing that they could be the next target. it's hard to imagine a place with more destruction and with more human suffering than here in my carries

as correspondent, young philip schultz reports the road to safety leads deep beneath odessa. more than 20 meters below the port city is a 2500 kilometer long tunnel system. nobody knows this underground labyrinth, better than engineer roman mouser and his friend alexander. when the 1st to rocket said odessa, the pair began converging the tunnels into shelters almost every night. dozens of families seek refuge here during air, rage alerts. we are really deep underground and we dont he has explosions on the surface. the whole house is shattering the windows shattering as to where his carry and he had children behaves him very calm. the tunnel system is actually an old curry where limestone was minds more than 100 years ago. since then, they've provided a retreat for gangsters and soviet troops during the 2nd world war, the channels were used as a hide out for resistance fighters. their messages are still on the walls to day dated 1941. this catacombs were used by partisans to fight against nazi and nowadays we also use this cat, the comp in this war is new war. and i think in s

earlier i spoke with the w, corresponded dan philips schultz and asked him if an increased russian offensive now seems inevitable. most ukrainians think that this offensive can't be avoided anymore, and that it will cause new reggie movements for sure. the russians seem to have added up to 40000 troops and concentrate them in the don bus region. many observers say the plan is probably to encircle the ukrainian troops. there's so many people expect very bloody fighting in the coming days or weeks. the weather in the region has been quite bad. this could also mean that there might be a delay of the attack because it's harder to, to operate off roads. but i fear it's more a question of when the major attack will starts and not it will come and yet in, in the areas around ki, vacated by russian troops. we're seeing more and more evidence of the killing of civilians. you've been to some of the error areas where these things have been taking place. what did you see? yeah, exactly. we visited mockery the small town and the key of region recently and the are of the destruction, the human suffering t

did of you corresponded young philip schultz is standing by a young fellow. we understand you commission present or so fonder line has just arrived in the capital cave. what's the significance of this visit? i think the significance is quite high. the ukranian see it as a strong message of support from the side of the u. bay. appreciate especially that so on the line and for traveling by themselves, by train to here. and so that's also the, you are ready to reopen the office as they are. of course, they hope that it's more than in symbolic acts. but looking at the agenda, it seems to be quite concrete, humanitarian topics, and a lot of logistics support. but of course, the question of both stronger things and regarding, i guess, and i will also be very high on the agenda from the ukrainian side and an phillip we opened our coverage with the deadly a train attack in there, chrome, a tourist. i'm the russians in the meantime, or moscow, i should say, have has denied responsibility for the attacking barometers and blames ukrainian fighters. what has the response