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This is bbc news. welcome if youre watching here in the uk or around the globe. im yalda hakim. our top stories... russia expands its attacks in ukraine as three more cities are targeted. in dnipro, officials say a shoe factory and kindergarten were struck. russia says it hit military airfields, including in the northwest the city of lutsk. ukraine say the attack killed two. life on the front line for ukrainian forces, fighting to defend the countrys second largest city kharkiv. and if these tac...

Seen in comparison to other cities where we have seen tens of thousands of people trying to get to safety. so in dnipro, people are pretty shaken by what happened overnight. our kyiv correspondent james waterhousejoins me now. we james waterhouse joins me now. just hearing theri was we just hearing there from sarah who was saying that the people in dnipro thought it was safe, there were many people going there. but in fact nowhere in ukraine is safe right now. ., ., ~ now. you are right. i think...

From lviv in ukraine, where russian forces appear to be widening their assault on the country, on this, day 16 of the war. overnight, president zelensky rejected claims by russia that ukraine was developing chemical weapons. so, what is the state of the russian advance? heres the latest data showing the positions of russian forces, getting ever closer to the capital kyiv. overnight strikes took place at military airfields in lutsk and ivano—frankivsk, and on the city of dnipro. the uks ministr...

Of this morning. the air raid sirens went off at about 4:30am this morning here in dnipro. they rang out for more than three hours, which is extremely unusual. we have been hearing sirens every single day since this war began and people have got used to scrambling to their basements and to their bunkers, if they have them. but until now, there hasnt been any actual danger to the city because we understand that has been missiles and things flying over and the air raid sirens just detecting that. ...

You have ivano—frankivsk in the west, you have lutsk in the north—west. there are 2.5 million people who find themselves as refugees, and counting, in this war. the majority of them have been moving west towards where you are in lviv mostly, before going on to borders with neighbouring countries like moldova, romania and poland. and this will be causing a lot of worry to people, seeing the now targeting of cities in that area in this way. the claim from moscow is that it this way. the claim ...

I think it has really changed the calculus a little for people in dnipro itself, because this is a very important industrial city in ukraine, it is full of factories. it also includes a missile factory, it is a place that is heavily fortified already. it has been heavily fortified since the beginning of the war, but it has been considered as something of a safe haven. we have seen many people fleeing to it from other cities in the south and in the east and north of here. especially this part of ...