death and displacement have come to everybody s doorstep. but there are many here who are determined to hold on. john sparks, sky news, kharkiv. a ukrainian mp originally from mariupol says that russia is trying to starve the besieged city. the mp joins us now on the program. dmitri, great to have you with us today, and i do hope you re staying safe and well. and as i understand it, you are a member of parliament for kyiv but from mariupol originally. you must be absolutely disappointed with the home town. it is hard to see. everything i knew has been destroyed. my university. my neighborhood. everything. years of my life. and not just my feeling, and i
Then you haven t been paying attention, because this is the russian attack play book, perfected in over ten years of war in syria. we know that russia bombs hospitals. so here at the city s hospital number four, they keep the wounded in hallways away from the windows. miss valentina has been hit by shrapnel. i have a poem for you , she says. translation: these stupid russian shrapnel pieces - i will carry all my life. but as long as my heart still beats, i will still live and love. and so too, will eight year old dmitri, now that this has been removed from his skull. this is the war that russia has fought before and is fighting again. we don t know the rest of ukraine s fate, but kharkiv has already shown what s coming next. translation: defenders, we will ride together. - we will win this war and all our heroic people will
So here at the city s hospital number four, they keep the wounded in hallways away from the windows. miss valentina has been hit by shrapnel. i have a poem for you , she says. translation: these stupid russian shrapnel pieces i will carry all my life. but as long as my heart still beats, i will still live and love. and so too, will eight year old dmitri, now that this has been removed from his skull. this is the war that russia has fought before and is fighting again. we don t know the rest of ukraine s fate, but kharkiv has already shown what s coming next. translation: defenders, we will ride together. - we will win this war and all our heroic people will gather to rebuild our beloved ukraine. quentin sommerville, bbc news, kharkiv, in eastern ukraine.
the last couple weeks have been like hell. reporter: dmitri, his wife and their daughter escaped mariupol on thursday. they endured weeks of russian bombardment from artillery and air strikes. each was 20 minutes. you can listen. it was like targeted, targeted. reporter: tonya kept a journal. march 2, day 7 of the war. nothing has changed, she writes. no electricity or heat. and there is no running water as well. they lived in a basement. when they emerged, tonya took photos and videos of their apartment building pock marked with bullet holes. unexploded shells in residential streets. desperate people looting a bomb-damaged store for food. it s rotten. there is no water to drink.
Afghan s last minute decision to ban girls from education. now, one of russia s most feared diplomats has told sky news that moscow could press the nuclear button if nato provokes it. dmitri was talking to the u.s. correspond from inside russia s offices of the united nations in new york. this is one of the few places left in new york where this man would still be welcomed. it s here, the russian mission to the u.n., where the diplomats write their speeches, where they work out how on earth to defend the indefensible. vladimir putin s personal spokesperson said that russia retains the right to use nuclear weapons, and to defend the country. why is that if russia is provoked by
So here at the city s hospital number four, they keep the wounded in hallways, away from the windows. ms valentina has been hit by shrapnel. i have a poem for you, she says. translation: these stupid russian shrapnel pieces, - i will carry all my life, but as long as my heart still beats, i will still live and love. so too will eight year old dmitri, now that this has been removed from his skull. this is the war that russia has fought before, and is fighting again. we don t know the rest of ukraine s fate, but kharkiv has already shown what is coming next. translation: defend us, we will ride together, - we will win this war, and all our heroic people will gather to rebuild our beloved ukraine.
Children s entertainment business into a makeshift shelter. a place to house dozens of ukrainians who just fled the besieged port city of mariupol. the last couple weeks have been hell. reporter: dmitri, his wife tonya and their daughter escaped mariupol on thursday. they endured weeks of russian bombardment from artillery and air strikes. each 15, 20 minutes, you can listen to the plane. reporter: tonya kept a journal. march 2nd, day 7 of the war. nothing has changed, she writes. no electricity or heat and there is no running water as well. they lived in the basement, and when they emerged, tonya took photos and videos of their apartment building, pock marked with bullet holes. unexploded shells in residential streets. desperate people looting a
I don t know if it got as high as vladimir putin, where they seriously entertained the prospect of keeping the american astronaut up there. it had people wondering, didn t it? it did. thanks for having me on, neil. it s good to hear anton s voice. i was you said you couldn t hear the bombs from space, but you could see them. i saw bombs going off in eastern ukraine. it was a very terrible moment, actually, to be in space on this great mission and looking town at people being killed down at people being killed. but i didn t ever think, they were not going to leave mark and i up there. dmitri, the head of the russian space program, is prone to bluster, to say the least. [laughter] neil: something you re not, terry. i m just curious, this is one