executions of prisoners and other kinds of abuse of the population that was at least briefly under russian occupation in ukraine. and so that s what the world is focusing on now. but this is in addition to the ongoing indiscriminate bombardment of certain cities that the russians are trying to take. and in your report today, ken, human rights watch documents the case of a 31-year-old ukrainian woman in kharkiv who says she was repeatedly raped by a russian soldier. to be clear, rape is a war crime, is it not? absolutely. there is no question about that. and so in this case, the woman was sheltering in a school. this soldier basically came to her at at knife point repeatedly raped her. now, that s one case. what we re seeing with the videos coming out of bucha and other cities in northern ukraine, kind of around the kyiv area, is actually summary executions. the world is focused on these videos showing a series of bodies, perhaps as many as 20 bodies in the street.
received concrete evidence of very direct war crimes. that is to say summary executions of prisoners and other kinds of abuse of the population that was at least briefly under russian occupation in ukraine. and so that s what the world is focusing on now. but this is in addition to the ongoing indiscriminate bombardment of certain cities that the russians are trying to take. and in your report today, ken, human rights watch documents the case of a 31-year-old ukrainian woman in kharkiv who says she was repeatedly raped by a russian soldier. to be clear, rape is a war crime, is it not? absolutely. there is no question about that. and so in this case, the woman was sheltering in a school. this soldier basically came to her at at knife point repeatedly raped her. now, that s one case. what we re seeing with the videos coming out of bucha and other cities in northern ukraine, kind of around the kyiv area, is actually summary executions.
was greeted with horror by america s allies. they fear that if vladimir putin thinks regime change is nato s ambition, the chance of a negotiated peace will be lost. on the russian side this week, careful, deliberate calibrated talk talk of a decision to radically, by a large margin, reduce military activity in the kyiv area. more of that in a minute. let us start with the news that has bubbled around affecting germany, but other european countries as well over the last couple of days. was there or wasn t there a threat by putin to switch off the gas if he did not get paid in rubles? for the time being, it does not look like he will switch off the gas, but it s really important to understand it s not only germany, it s pretty much the whole of europe especially central europe, eastern europe and some countries that are almost 100% dependent on russian gas deliveries. for germany, of course, being the economic powerhouse in europe, it s very important
out of places like bucha. just unbelievable atrocities being committed. then, of course, when retreat began after those negotiations midweek on wednesday this past week, they said that they were not going to be targeting, escalating things in the kyiv area, but yet they shelled heavily. so at every turn, the ukrainians do not trust russians because they ve done exactly the opposite of what they said they would do, and it s really driven home the larger point, howie, that this is a war now that has no rules. russia s playing by no rules, and anyone is at risk of being indiscriminately killed. howard: given the risk, given the tragic loss of two of our fox colleagues, how does this war differ from others you ve covered when it comes to staying safe? reporter: that s a great question. it s unlike anyone has covered in the last 20 years whether it be from iraq to hear in ukraine because there s no u.s. military here. you are truly on your own playing, as i just mentioned, in
we truly understand what has happened here. battle for kyiv is over. and the -yard line requestens have won a ukrainians have won a decisive victory against russia s main effort. we can confirm from satellite coverage that the limited counterattacks ukrainians were doing have succeeded. but the russians have made a decision to retrograde and withdraw completely from the kyiv area, and that is ongoing. and chernihiv also there s at least a partial withdrawal going on, and it may be a complete withdrawal as we have seen in kyiv. and look at, this is very significant. russia came in here with a much-advertised, profession professional military as good as any in the world, and they attacked the capital i city of ukraine. and they did that with combined arms, ground forces supported by heavy artillery and also supported by some of the most