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Books, my things, everything is damaged. the unit move from home to home, removing a rocket from a front room and a section of an unexploded bomb from the driveway. the city is less than 20 miles from the front line and has been heavily shelled since the beginning of the war. this childrens hospital was hit a little over three weeks ago. translation: at the moment, j weve got used to the situation, and it is scary. you dont know what comes tomorrow, what comes within an hour, what may happen to ...

So whats been happening is the remnants of some of the battalion tactical groups are withdrawing into places like belarus and reforming with one groupjoining another to come up with... i think theyve recreated something like 23 now, out of about 120, and theyve redeployed all the way to the east of the donbas. on paper, that looks good for them, but bear in mind these troops were pretty exhausted anyway, had lost a lot of equipment and if you combine more than one group you dont have the same et...

Of the war. this childrens hospital was hit a little over three weeks ago. translation: at the moment, j weve got used to the situation, and it is scary. you dont know what comes tomorrow, what comes within an hour, what may happen to your relatives, to your patients. in the premature babies ward, care continues. the windows have been blocked and the unit have relocated into the centre of the building. translation: we cant - evacuate children who need artificial ventilation. we cant close the de...

Army have released pictures today showing what is says are strikes on russian reinforcements to the area around the city of izyum, a key battleground in the kharkiv region. meanwhile, less than 20 miles from the southern front lines is the city of mykolaiv. 0n the black sea coast, it stands between the russian army and 0desa. shelled nearly daily, its been without running water for over two weeks. caroline davies has been speaking to those who live on a city on the edge of the war. birdsong in m...

Because interestingly, intelligence just before the invasion was that this invasion was going to happen and we should take it seriously and that proved to be right, but we hadnt heard those calls that loudly in the years or decades leading up to that. i think its fair to say that we had our mind on other things at those times — the counterterrorist war, etc. and maybe we did take our eyes off the russians. if theres one good thing to come out of this its that nato has recalibrated what its act...

There will be a little bit of both actually, but it is absolutely the way the russians do business. so deliver atrocities is designed to do two things, to break the will of the people of ukraine, which theyre clearly not doing right now because its all about that moral component, the will to fight, but its also about preventing any insurgency or sabotage, that sort of thing — making people absolutely terrified. so its very deliberate. as you say, its horrific. just lastly, on a wider, more phi...

But theres some very practical issues that comes with as well, and one of the big ones of those is on mass mobilisation. so the troops hes got are about 50—50 conscripts and professional mix. now, the conscripts, although theyre not supposed to be in ukraine right now, we know very strong evidence that they have been. but declaring war would allow him legally to use conscripts. it would also allow him to recruit more people, whether thats reservists, whether thats pulling up more people or eve...

The pandemic. we should add that both sainsbury�*s and tesco do ask or encourage people who develop symptoms to stay at home. more now on the situation in ukraine — and although russia hasnt oficially declared war on ukraine yet, fears are growing it may be about to do so. sean corbett is a former air vice—marshal with the raf. hes been explaining what change a formal declaration of war would bring to the ongoing conflict. its quite significant actually if he does do it. i mean, just the a...