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The children. i asked her how they reacted to the situation. our youngest children thought it was all a game at first, and we let them pretend, they sells us. our older children understood what was happening and they were afraid. video released by ukrainian police shows the kids being hastily evacuated from the building. obviously it is very dark here. im not sure if you can see, this is actually a childrens playground. if you turn over here, you can see this is a crater and the local authoritie...

Building. its very dark here. im not sure that you can see. this is a childrens playground. if you just turn over here, you can see this is a crater and the local authorities are telling us that this is where the other shell hit. our time on the ground is restricted. fighting usually begins after dark here. as we finish up a live shock, our ukrainian minders grow nervous. yes, i hear it. john, please excuse me but our ukrainian military minders are asking us to move because of that shelling so w...

400 miles toward the front lines in the east of the country. it is already dark by the time we land. well only have a short time on the ground but they are determined to show us the aftermath of heavy shelling earlier in the day. this kindergarten is less than three miles from the so-called line of contact, the front line. witnesses in the area said around 8:00 or 9:00 this morning they started to hear shelling. it was loud enough they could hear the whistle of the shells going by. two of them l...

Especially for older people, trying to pick their way out across rubble and concrete, having to balance on bits of wood. ukrainian troops are trying to help them make their way forward. some are coming with their children. most are coming with a few small things they can carry. theyve been under bombardment in irpin for days and theyre not safe now. even as they try to leave, the shelling has been continuing. explosion for many civilians in the town, that shelling hit home, like anastasia, whose...

Would look like, violations i should say, it would go like this and then like that with today. there is a massive uptick in the number of major cease-fire violations. you said, this war has been going on for eight years but the front lines have largely been frozen. other than a few violations here and there for the most part its been relatively quiet. to see a kindergarten where roughly 20 children were there, they happened not to be in that room but were there in the building and it was by the ...

But what this really goes to illustrate, i think, is the fact that this conflict where the front lines have mostly been frozen for some years now, and you might see something like three or four major cease-fire violations in one day and they would be taking place in the night. well, today the ukrainian military said they saw more than 30 cease-fire violations, major cease-fire violations in one day including during the daytime, while we were on the ground doing a live shot with john king, there ...

The situation and the way the russians have been shelling residential areas across the country, so many people havent survived. this is interesting, come have a look. its the childrens bedroom. you can see over here, look, the bunk beds, the roof thats fallen down onto the top of them when that shell hit. and of course in the evacuation, the kids have left all their toys up here. it just shows you that no matter where you are in this country with russia attacking, tanks and cities across it, liv...

Front lines in the east of the country. it is already dark by the time we land. we only have a short time on the ground, but they are determined to show us the aftermath of heavy shelling earlier in the day. this kindergarten is less than three miles from the so-called line of contact, the front line. and witnesses in this area said that around 8:00 or 9:00 this morning, they started to hear shelling. it was loud enough they could hear the whistle of the shells going by and two of them landed he...

Would look like, violations, i should say, would go like this and then like that with today. i mean there was a massive uptick in the number of major ceasefire violations and you said, this war has been going on eight years but those frontlines largely been frozen and other than a few violations here and there, for the most part, its been relatively quiet. to see a kindergarten where roughly 20 children were there, happened not to be in that room, but they were there in the building and it was b...

Bunkbeds, the roof that has fallen down on to the top of them when that shell hit. and, of course, in the panic, and in the evacuation, the kids have left all their toys up here. just shows you that no matter where you are, in this country, with russia attacking, tanks and cities across it, lives have been shattered. this is a close friend of the family who were nearly killed in their beds here. godfather to the three children, escaped with their lives. now he has one request, he tells me, for t...