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At ukraines borders with the european union people keep on leaving. this group crossed today into romania. the united nations said 6.5 million people are displaced inside the country. president putins liberation war has now driven a quarter of all ukrainians from their homes. jonah fisher, bbc news, lviv. just worth my repeating how hard it is to get reliable information from mariupol. we cant get there. and even ukrainian emergency services and find it incredibly difficult to try to get in as w...

We receive requests from them to be evacuated — it may come directly from orphanage directors or caregivers or somebody in contact with them, and once we receive those requests we call them directly and find out exactly where they are. some of them are very far east behind russian lines and its difficult or impossible to reach them but some of them are about to be swallowed up by advancing russian troops, so once we get that call, we vet it, we get in contact with them and use our network or p...

Destroyed. my father-in-law and dog survived due to him sleeping in the cellar overnight. now hes on the way to the rest of the family. how are your friends and family doing now? >> well, theyve relocated to a village pretty far away and theyre trying to get themselves comfortable. i think the last update, theyre trying to build a stone oven to keep the place up. so im told hes in pretty decent spirits. so im honestly, im just glad beyond belief that they, that nothing disastrous happened to the...

Citys main train stations where they are welcomed by an army of polish volunteers who give them everything they can, clothes, food, hot tea, even free sim cards to put into their phones with a polish number so they can call their loved ones to tell them that they have managed to survive that treacherous, dangerous journey across a country marred by death and destruction, and they arrived here. and among the many people we spoke to this morning, we visited this train station was a woman who trave...

I mean, sitting in the cellar and even she havent left the cellar since the beginning of the war. just staying inside, unfortunately. and the last day i saw my father and he begged me, please, guys, leave. leave somewhere. i dont know where. just escape this. escape this. and he was crying. >> reporter: dmitri and his wife and daughter piled into a car with friends and spent 15 hours driving through russian front lines to escape the siege of mariupol. their parents refused to leave. >> i dont kn...

Half of a head, and the last one was killed. with my own eyes, three people killed and making a grave for them. >> reporter: making a grave? >> yes. digging, yes. >> reporter: finally all too much. >> the last day i saw my father, because my mother was completely destroyed mentally. like a complete depression sitting in the cellar and hadnt left the cellar since the war just staying inside. unfortunately. the last day i saw my father and he begged me, please, guys. leave. leave somewhere. i dont...

Had a baby, hasnt she? in terms of the days she was in mariupol, where was she hiding? in a childhood friends. they started in the apartment they lived in but it was on the easternmost district in mariupol. they knew they would have to move towards the centre of the city. then they had to move further to the house of my friends and basically they were all hiding in the cellar of a house. there were 13 of them. tell me about her escape. the mayor of mariupol was making the point that although 30,...

The bombs and the artillery? yes, yes. its also very loud, especially at night. explosions. loud and deadly. the russians are trying to blast a path through this city in order to seize the whole black sea coast. but mykolaiv is proving obstinate. sirens wail. ok, wejust heard some artillery in the distance and then an air raid siren so we are going to suit up. you too. in a cellar, volunteers follow the example set by millions of ukrainians nationwide, forming a diy army. its plates for body arm...

May have missed it today.. adding to your monologue, j joe biden today gave a 14 minute address and just in 14 minutes he said he had covidin he doesnt. he referred to kamala harris as the firstha lady. shes not. then he referred to doug imhoff, her husband as the second lady. hes not. then he referred to then he forgot the name of his u.n. ambassador at a time when weree ukraine is is u being pummeled scorched earth, as you say, for his u.n. ambassador. theyve forgotten the state in which his e...

Trapped in their homes surrounded by russian soldiers who wont let them leave. i have one such pen pal, a prisoner of circumstances whose name and location must be kept secret. but shes been sharing her feelings and emotions. she writes, quote, days begin when you hear not your alarm clock but five explosions from missile attacks on an airport ammunition depot when the normally enticed aroma of coffee and pancakes with honey is replaced by a smell of burning gunpowder and dust from the cellar wh...