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and her husband are being held on an immigration charge. and coming up this hour. the 17 year old solo pilot who s broken two world records. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. 25 people, including two children, are now known to have died in a russian airstrike in eastern ukraine, according to authorities in kyiv. the ukrainian president, volodmyr zelensky, said that a railway station was hit and several houses and cars were destroyed, in a series of attacks in the dnipropetrovsk region. 31 people were also wounded. the strikes came exactly six months after moscow s invasion began. our correspondent hugo bachega has this update from kyiv. search and rescue operations are now over in the town of chaplyne, in the east of the country, following those russian attacks. a train station was hit, and pictures from the scene show destroyed passenger trains, cars. several houses were also hit. this attack happened yesterday, as ukraine marked indep ....
worlds away from the fighting and the dying. vladimir putin would prefer that we pay less attention to it all tonight. instead, because of just how important it is, that is where we begin the broadcast, reminding you again, showing you again the moments of savage brutality and the moments of hope over the past six months. translator: we are all here. our military are here. citizens and society are here. we are all here defending our independence, our state, and it will remain so. glory to our defenders. glory to our women defenders. glory to ukraine. that, of course, is president volodymyr zelenskyy just hours into the invasion, not fleeing the country or evacuating to lviv or eastern poland as many expected and some had urged. standing firm as perhaps too few allies and adversaries alike expected. today the former actor and comedian spoke to the u.n. security council over the objections of the russian delegation, which tried to demand he appear in person. he began ....
ukraine is still independent, and has fought russian invaders to a standstill. at the cost, which is almost unimaginable, or was until february 24th six months ago. it changed so much for ukraine, europe, superpower relations, and the nato alliance. for people living worlds away of the fighting, vladimir putin would prefer we pay less attention to it all tonight. instead, because of just how important it is, that is where we begin the broadcast. reminding you again, showing you again, the moments of savage brutality, and the moments of hope over the past six months. we are all here, our military are here, citizens in society are here. we are all here defending our independence. our state, and it will remain so. glory to our defenders, glory to our women, glory to ukraine. that is volodymyr zelenskyy just hours into the invasion. not fleeing the country or evacuating to lviv, or eastern poland as some had expected. standing firm, as alleys today, the former actor a ....
Siege and city, but also managed to drive russian forces away from kyiv and kharkiv. this video from east of kyiv, showing a ukrainian fighter using an old soviet-era rpg, reloading and rushing back to a clearly exposed position to take another shot. since then, u.s. and western arms have helped them drive the invasion in the east, to a virtual stop. as of today, the u.s. has sent 13. 5 billion dollars in military assistance to ukraine, 12. 9 billion of it since the war began. other nato countries have also helped, including germany, who broke a decades old practice of not supplying arms. they re all sharing the burden of inflation and shortages due to the war. today, ukraine marked independence day with a display of captured and it damaged russian tanks in kyiv, and mourns the loss of more civilian lives. at least 22 as we are reporting today. sam kiley is there for us tonight. sam? anderson, this is the day that marks the independence day ....
Has this update from kyiv. search and rescue operations are now over in the town of chaplyne, in the east of the country, following those russian attacks. a train station was hit, and pictures from the scene show destroyed passenger trains, cars. several houses were also hit. this attack happened yesterday, as ukraine marked independence day. the country was on high alert because of fears that russia could use the occasion to launch attacks across the country. we also had reports of shelling in the city of kharkiv, in the east. also in the towns of mykolaiv and nikopol, in the south of the country. these towns have been under constant russian attacks in recent weeks. here in kyiv, celebrations yesterday were cancelled. there is a ban on public events, as a security measure. also, yesterday was the day that marked half a year since the start of this russian invasion. the conflict seems to be at a deadlock and there is no prospect of peace talks starting ....