bbc correspondents say the blasts could be heard from two storeys underground in their bunker. kyiv remains in ukrainian control, but the southern port of kherson has become the first major city to be taken. the mayor said russian troops had forced their way into the city council building and he urged them not to shoot at civilians, saying there were no ukrainian forces in the city. meanwhile, there have been large explosions overnight in the capital, kyiv, heavy shelling in the country s second city, kharkiv, and hundreds of people are feared dead in the port city of mariupol, following hours of sustained shelling. uk military intelligence says the huge russian convoy that s about 30 kilometres from the heart of kyiv has been held up by local resistance, mechanical problems, and congestion. the un says a million refugees have now left ukraine since the russian invasion began. most have gone to neighbouring countries.
uk and us sources say the huge russian convoy that s about 30 kilometres from the heart of kyiv is still held up by local resistance, mechanical problems, and congestion. the un says a million refugees have now left ukraine since the russian invasion began. an investigation into possible war crimes in ukraine has begun by the international criminal court in the hague. and the international paralympic committee has said russian and belarusian athletes will be banned from the winter paralympics that start in beijing on friday. so let s take a look at the current situation in ukraine. so far, these areas in red are those which are largely controlled by russian forces. president zelensky insisted ukrainians would not give up defending their country. translation: we did not give anything to them, the up the defence of odesa, they won t to destroy our odesa, but they will see only the bottom
especially on the south, eastern and northern fronts of this country, but they have been plagued with mechanical problems, with logistical problems, and they haven t advanced on the cities as they had hoped to, but they re still battering these place, as you mentioned earlier, a mall in kyiv was hit by shell, possibly seven or eight people and they are using the same tactics in kyiv as they had in mariupol encircling the city and if they re not advancing on land, they may try to flatten the city by air with shells causing an even greater humanitarian disaster but the ukrainians have been fighting tooth and nail. they have shown incredible resolve and resilience, and they re in no mood to give up any of their cities, especially
collection that i ve ever lived in. i think that it is something that unless you know rome just know about. the bins are overflowing, there is a hopeless bin collection service year. and when i spoke to the a couple of weeks ago who is blamed for the terrible buildup of rubbish, dash mac mayor, she said the inherited 13 years of rubbish disputes and there are known to be disputes and there are known to be disputes the city and the region over the collection but the terrible decay of rome and the potholes on the roads and the buildup of rubbish and the fact that wild boar drawn through the rush s and more than 20 buses have got fire because a mechanical problems, that adds to the problems in the capital at
droundi grounding car go airlines after one of its airplanes went into the water off hawaii. are a what is really interesting here, we re learning that the faa was already investigating this company called rhodes aviation for months. it is the company that operated trans air flight 810 that went down off the coast of hawaii back on july 2. what is so interesting here, the faa yanked the company s ability to fly after it said that it found maintenance discrepancies. and also the pilots of that trans air flight, important to note, did report mechanical problems before going down. they said that they were having problems with both of the 737 200s engines. pete muntean, thank you so much. positive covid cases related to the olympic games as some athlete completes drop out over concerns of getting sick. we ll have the latest live from tokyo next.