War Reach Odesa News Today

Worse, two friends traveled from cornwall to the ukraine-polish border who help translate for those affected. charlotte hobson and gavin knight are russian-speaking translators helping ukrainian refugees arrive in poland. very pleased to say that gavin and charlotte join us on the program. guys, lovely to have you on and what a fantastic story. charlotte, youre closer to me on the screen so i will come to you first. what on earth gave you the idea for this one? >> well, ive been working with rus...

The war. we have to stop the war. we have to stop the killing of people, children. right now, by the way, 19 people right now in hospital, four from this attack, four of them are children, one people die. >> what is your message to putin? >> he is unhealthy. its not reason to talk to him. he do it -- to do it like that is, is my hometown, is my home country, he is not a healthy man. he is unhealthy. there is no reason to talk to him. he is unhealthy. hes huge danger not for ukraine, he is huge d...

We have this information war which is raging much -- much -- on a much greater scale than the battle -- than on the battlefield and i will not be surprised at anything because who wins the information war? the one who wins the war. >> well, i also spoke to the armed forces minister james heappey who certainly didnt hold back on his response after the ambassadors denial of any russian involvement. >> i dont know how the russian ambassador sleeps at night because, you know, he sits there -- he sta...

The area was wailing around and warning people to find shelter a lot of people ignored t got on with what they had to do, some people have done an enormous amount of preparation should this war reach odesa. we went down in a subway and spoke to a family that had been evacuated from mykolalv. theres sort of two schools of thought, one is that the threat is on the horizon, we know that there are russian navy war ships out there in the black sea, they are part of a plan no doubt to take this city, ...

Ambassador sleeps at night. more on that in just a moment. it is friday the 18th of march. a series of missiles strike the western ukrainian city of lviv. the mayor there says an aircraft maintenance plant has been destroyed. fake news? russias ambassador to the u.n. tells sky vladimir putins forces did not bomb a ukrainian theater where civilians were sheltering. >> we have this information war which is raging much, much -- on a much greater scale than the -- than the battle -- than ott bat...

Medical facilities had been targeted. and things like understanding, for example, that if there is chlorine gas it is very, very dense and can be thrown into bunkers where people are and just to drive people to come outside so that they can be shot. and the doctors we spoke to were very, very concerned that this would happen because what theyre seeing with regards to siege and starvation, theyre worried very much so that chemical weapons will come next. >> tell us a little bit about the struggle...

The others start coming in and start actually making the military effort on the ground, but that time is measured not in minutes but in human lives and ukrainian lives at the moment, but that will -- you hear -- i heard that you banned russia today but surely before that and by analyzing some russian media sources you can clearly see that putin is not going to stop at ukraine. his head journalists are talking about actually going further and creating a big ban in europe with the invasion of the ...