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her husband is still in ukraine. katya and petro are back in london and still raising money to buy medicine to send to ukraine. natasha is still in dnipro. and denys hasjoined the territorial defence forces, in mykolaiv. his wife and daughters made it safely out of ukraine. hello. for those of you who have extended your easter break into this week, there is some good weather news, in that there'll be a lot of dry weather around. admittedly, there will be some showers, more especially
our correspondent tom bateman is in dnipro, where wounded civilians are being evacuated from the frontline, by train. i want to warn you, his report does contain some distressing images. president putin calls his goal the liberation of this country's east. he's showing the world what that means in mariupol. street battles have intensified for days. the city's defenders are holed up in a giant steelworks, now told by moscow's forces to surrender or die. but ukraine says they'll fight to the end. mariupol�*s fate could seal the next stage of the war as it moves to the east. and those from the hardest—hit areas are running out of time to escape. in dnipro, even some of the wounded are being evacuated west. katya's mum was killed in last week's missile strike on a train station in kramatorsk.
he's showing the world what that means in mariupol. street battles have intensified for days. the city's defenders are holed up in a giant steelworks, now told by moscow's forces to surrender or die. but ukraine says they'll fight to the end. mariupol�*s fate could seal the next stage of the war as it moves to the east. and those from the hardest—hit areas are running out of time to escape. in dnipro, even some of the wounded are being evacuated west. katya's mum was killed in last week's missile strike on a train station in kramatorsk. "what i saw was like a nightmare," she tells me, "with blood everywhere. "i somehow got to a bench, and police officers helped me. "they put me in a car and took me to hospital." where people once stood
images. president putin calls his goal the "liberation" of this country's east. he's showing the world what that means in mariupol. street battles have intensified for days. the city's defenders are holed up in a giant steelworks, now told by moscow's forces to surrender or die. but ukraine says they'll fight to the end. mariupol�*s fate could seal the next stage of the war as it moves to the east. and those from the hardest—hit areas are running out of time to escape. in dnipro, even some of the wounded are being evacuated west. katya's mum was killed in last week's missile strike on a train station in kramatorsk. "what i saw was like a nightmare," she tells me, "with blood everywhere. "i somehow got to a bench,
his goal the liberation of this country's east. he's showing the world what that means in mariupol. street battles have intensified for days. the city's defenders are holed up in a giant steelworks, now told by moscow's forces to surrender or die. but ukraine says they'll fight to the end. mariupol�*s fate could seal the next stage of the war as it moves to the east. and those from the hardest—hit areas are running out of time to escape. in dnipro, even some of the wounded are being evacuated west. katya's mum was killed in last week's missile strike on a train station in kramatorsk. "what i saw was like a nightmare," she tells me, "with blood everywhere. "i somehow got to a bench and police officers helped me. "they put me in a car and took me to hospital." where people once stood
i'm reading the news and ifeel worse and worse but anyway we cannot give up. it must be terrifying for you? i cannot explain what i feel now. putin's war has created an exodus from ukraine. since the beginning of the invasion more than 4 million people have left. and by mid—march thousands are crossing into romania every day. at this border in the tiny town of suret. they are met with a wall of kindness from the romanian emergency services. and from hundreds of volunteers like katya. she is from southeast ukraine. her mum still lives there.
which was release by the far-right azov battalion, fighting with the ukrainians, seems to show one of their fighters climbing a wall and throwing an explosive towards that red van, marked with the letter "z." a symbol for russian troops. it's unclear when this video was filmed. holding mariupol critical for ukraine. these forces are all that's standing in the way of russia's attempt to create a land bridge between occupied crimea and the eastern donbas region. tonight, the first images of russia's doomed flagship, the moskva, which ukraine said it struck with two missiles. this dramatic new video circulating online, shows it on fire and listing in the black sea. it later sank. and across this country, llkatyche. katya is 14 years old. shrapnel tore into her hip and wrist when a shell landed in her garden near zaporizhzhia. her grandmother alexandra rushed her to the hospital. "many of my friends houses were destroyed, damaged," she says. "we live in a big village and lots of destruction there."
katya's mum was killed in last week's missile strike on a train station in kramatorsk. "what i saw was like a nightmare," she tells me, "with blood everywhere." "i somehow got to a bench, and police officers helped me. "they put me in a car and took me to hospital." where people once stood as colleagues or friends, the platform's now a place for the victims of war. tanya grieves for her eldest daughter, marina, killed in a crash in their rush to escape. "i'm scared for my children," says tanya. "we didn't want to leave, and i'm very sorry for the price i had to pay for leaving my own home." and now they travel with the trauma of this invasion, in soviet—era carriages, fleeing russia's advance. many men have stayed behind,
fighting has also continued in other areas of the east — officials in kharkiv say five people have died in shelling in the city. 0ur correspondent tom bateman is in dnipro where wounded civilians are being evacuated away from the front line, by train. i want to warn you — his report does contain some distressing images. president putin calls his goal the liberation of this country's east. he's showing the world what that means in mariupol. street battles have intensified for days. the city's defenders are holed up in a giant steelworks, now told by moscow's forces to surrender or die. but ukraine says they'll fight to the end. mariupol�*s fate could seal the next stage of the war as it moves to the east. and those from the hardest—hit areas are running out of time to escape. in dnipro, even some of the wounded are being evacuated west. katya's mum was killed in last week's missile strike on a train station in kramatorsk.
away from the frontline, by train. i want to warn you — his report does contain some distressing images. president putin calls his goal the liberation of this country's east. he's showing the world what that means in mariupol. street battles have intensified for days. the city's defenders are holed up in a giant steelworks, now told by moscow's forces to surrender or die. but ukraine says they'll fight to the end. mariupol�*s fate could seal the next stage of the war as it moves to the east. and those from the hardest—hit areas are running out of time to escape. in dnipro, even some of the wounded are being evacuated west. katya's mum was killed in last week's missile strike on a train station in