as the attacks on ukraine intensify, how do the children cope growing up underfire? at 12 years old, lera has been learning to walk again, after the blast that shattered one of her legs and burned the other very badly. passing over the holes left by shrapnel... ..lera points out where she and herfriend, kseniya, came that morning to sell bracelets they'd made themselves. she didn't hear the air—raid siren. missile whooshes. the russian missile smashed right into the heart of chernihiv. it was a hot holiday weekend and the streets were crowded. seven people were killed that day, including a child, and dozens were injured. but the missile exploded just metres away from here... ..its shards slicing into buildings and people all around. when russian troops invaded ukraine in 2022, they never took chernihiv — but they did occupy much of this northern region. the ruins are a reminder of the weeks when the city was under siege and under constant fire. the russians were eventually forced to retreat, and life slowly returned to the streets. then, last august, the city theatre hosted a drone exhibition... ..and russia attacked. when you look at the destruction here, the damage to this theatre, it really drives home, yet again, just how dangerous life is in ukraine. and the fact that whatever russia is aiming at, when it fires its missiles at city centres like this, so often it is civilians and children who are injured and killed. 500km east is kharkiv, very close to the russian border. in 2022, russian troops almost surrounded this city, too, pounding it with shells and missiles — but they never took it. the district of saltivka was closest to russian positions. its apartment blocks were battered for weeks. so, anya and her children are the only people living in this entire building in this... ..middle of this complete destruction. she said she's just going to come down and open the door to take me up. 0bviously, there's no lift, and they're on the third floor here. the family escaped at the height of the fighting, but they moved back last year because, despite everything, this is home. they've had a new wall put in. the old one had a giant crack after a missile hit the building two floors up. and in the kitchen, anya shows me holes made by shrapnel. angelina is eight, and remembers finding the flat in ruins. it was during all this that angelina's family fled saltivka, looking for safety. but after a few days, they decided to head back to the basement of their home, and hope for the fighting to stop. in early march, the giant block of flats next door was destroyed by a missile — and angelina was terrified. the far side of the country is another world. many ukrainians fled to ivano—frankivsk after the full—scale invasion. russian missiles do reach here — but you get a lot more warning. but daniel can't escape the war completely, even here. he's come to collect a special delivery from his dad back in kharkiv. daniel and his mum left the city before the war, but his father stayed and was drafted into the army. mm... it's a nice present. my dad sent me compass and markers. the two now chat online whenever they can. daniel's dad doesn't want us to show his face. but he's teaching his son to draw, remotely. a family separated by war, keeping things normal when nothing around them is. air-raid siren. when the siren wails here in the west, there's no rush for the bunker. instead, daniel's mum checks an app on her phone. so, erm... it's not dangerous for our region now. the threat is far away from here... ..in the east, like daniel's dad. lera still loves making jewellery, especially now she's stuck at home, as her leg heals from multiple operations. she's not been to school for months, and she's bored and frustrated, so focusing on something like this is a help. lera lives with her sister, irina, who worries she may be bottling up her feelings, and wonders whether that might all spill out one day. for lera, this war has been doubly cruel. a few months before she was hurt, her brother died fighting on the front line. sasha was 27. lera and her brother were close — but she's barely talked of him since he died. sasha volunteered for the front line. he went missing in action afterjust five months. recording plays. it's the first time lera has heard her brother's voice since he was killed. mm—hm. lera's loss is daniel's greatest fear. he's now throwing himself into all sorts of things. distraction for a boy uprooted. his mum works hard, too, to channel his energy into something positive. he was very upset, and now it's much better. i tried to find things he loved before, to continue doing these things here. it works. daniel struggled to settle here at first. he thinks other children don't get what he's going through. at the very start of the war, daniel and his mum fled even further west, joining a giant wave of refugees to europe. they came back, partly because kateryna is a child psychologist, and she saw a huge need for her skills. how serious is the damage, the psychological damage that this war has done to children? do you think that there's enough help for all the children who need it? angelina's whole neighbourhood is in tatters. this was daniel's home, too. his family don't think it's safe to return yet — but angelina's had no alternative. but russian forces never stopped attacking kharkiv, and are getting closer again. siren. angelina sings. angelina dreams of being a singer one day. if vladimir putin hadn't invaded, she'd be here by now — at her neighbourhood school. but the russians don't seem to care what they hit. angelina sings. angelina's old kindergarten is in ruins, too. it was shut for safety, like all schools in kharkiv, at the start of the war. angelina barely remembers it here. before the invasion, there was covid. that's years of playing alone. isolation is a big issue for ukraine's children. millions are now studying online, like angelina, if they're studying at all. so her mum tries to take her out as much as possible. only in kharkiv, that often means staying underground for safety. angelina now goes to a special class at a metro station. they call it animal therapy — and she loves it. children laugh. it's notjust the dog. it's the chance to mix with other children and to let off steam like any eight—year—old. it's clear angelina misses company, most of all. physically, lera is healing. the worst pain has passed. now she's coming to these group therapy sessions. some of the children have lived under occupation, others underfire. they've all known fear and anxiety, like lera has. lera's been a long time alone with herfears and her frustrations. now she feels ready to step back into the world again. daniel's been working on his self—confidence, too. he's good at this. he's small for his age, and he got badly bullied at his new school, so now he's at fight class. the trainer, sasha, believes in building up the boys�* resilience... ..and sharing their worries, too, if they need to. can you tell me what it feels like when you're wrestling? like, you're in a film and you do some, uh... . .super scenes. you feel like a superhero? yeah. back east, daniel's hometown of kharkiv is a nervous place again. covered in the scars of the first russian assault, it's braced for another. not far from here, russian troops have crossed the border again. vladimir putin says they're not planning to take kharkiv — but ukraine has learned never to trust him. when the sun goes down over saltivka, the lights don't come on any more. russia has been destroying power plants across this country. angelina has adapted to the blackouts. some of the pain of this war is visible... ..like lera's limp, or the faces of the soldiers who died defending her city. but some of the battles here are internal. it's the strength all ukraine's children need to draw on in a war that's already taken so much from them, and where the danger is still all around. hello there. it was a pretty decent saturday for much of the north of the uk. we saw highs of 22 degrees, the warmest spots of scotland and northern ireland. but it was cool, cloudy and breezy for eastern england. for sunday, it's a reverse of fortunes. it's the south and east of the country which will see the best of the warmth and the sunshine. further north and west, it will turn cloudier. that's because around this area of high pressure, we'll see this cloud and a weather front starting to work into the north—west of the uk. so it's a chilly but a bright start for many areas, early cloud clearing away from the south—east. the winds turn lighter here, too. lots of sunshine into the afternoon, a bit hazy in places. but the cloud continues to build across scotland and northern ireland through the day, with even a bit of rain arriving across western scotland as well and the breeze picking up here too. so feeling cooler — 1a degrees for the western isles. a bit warmer for eastern scotland, which holds on to the sunshine for longest, but up to 22 or 23 degrees across the east and south—east of england. now, as we head through sunday night, that weather front with the clouds spills its way southward. so it'll turn cloudy for many areas, with some spits and spots of rain, mainly across northern and western hills. because there's more cloud around, more cloud cover means it won't be quite as cool. so i think a milder night to come for most. then into next week, we see some changes. monday starts off on a fine note with plenty of sunshine, but it will turn cooler from tuesday onwards, with sunshine and showers. most of the showers will be across the north of the uk. so we've got this weather front straddling the country through monday, slowly sinking southwards. it will introduce quite a lot of cloud initially to scotland and then into england and wales. skies will brighten up for northern ireland too. there may be the odd spits and spots of light rain. but it brightens up for scotland. maybe a few showers in the far north later on, where it'll turn breezier. lighter winds further south. so quite a mixed picture, i think. generally, though, given some sunny spells, temperatures will reach highs of 20, maybe 21 degrees. still cooler in the north—west of scotland. and that's the sign of things to come. much cooler air spills southwards across the whole country as we move through tuesday and wednesday and we'll see showers being pushed into northern areas. some of these showers may have a wintry element to them over the tops of the scottish mountains. most of the showers across the north of the uk. further south, in that strong earlyjune sunshine, temperatures will rise up to 20 or 21 degrees, but nights will be chilly. live from london. this is bbc news. south african parties get ready for coalition talks as the ruling anc loses its majority for the first time in 30 years. in the uk, the electoral campaign goes on, with labour pledging to reduce legal migration and tories promising to build 100 new gp surgeries. two key far—right figures in israel's government are threatening to leave their posts if benjamin netanyahu agrees to the us peace proposal. a chinese spacecraft has landed on the far side of the moon. we'll talk more about it with a former nasa astronaut. hello, i'm anna foster. south african parties are preparing for coalition talks as the african national congress lost its outright majority for the first time since the end of apartheid 30 years ago. the official tally will be announced on sunday but preliminary results show the anc at around a0%. it is still the largest party but will have to share power in order to continue governing. the bbc�*s africa correspondent barbara plett usher reports.
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