touch with family because remember these are mothers who are on their own. they ve left them husbands behind. their husbands. they re trying to work out what s happening in ukraine and clinging onto that hope that things may improve in that they can go one day. dan hope that things may improve in that they can go one day. they can go one day. dan johnson re ”ortin they can go one day. dan johnson reporting from they can go one day. dan johnson reporting from the they can go one day. dan johnson reporting from the border - they can go one day. dan johnson reporting from the border of - they can go one day. dan johnson i reporting from the border of poland. i should just sign the last few seconds the air raid warnings have sounded here as they have done earlier in the day. the safest thing to do is to hand back to you in london. james, stay safe there, in ukraine, as we hear those aerated sirens. we now have a presenter back at base, back in london as and when our team here tho
of humanitarian corridors from the besieged city of mariupol will open up and accuses russia of blocking supplies. the russian defence minister says 16,000 fighters from the middle east have volunteered to fight with the russian army in ukraine. on friday, president putin backed the plan. concerns grow about the protection of ukraine s nuclear power plants as shelling and air raids threaten their safety. and it s now estimated more than two and a half million people have left ukraine to escape the war. welcome to bbc news. a huge armoured column of russian troops appears to be slowly closing in on the ukrainian capital, kyiv. air raid warnings have sounded there, and also in many other cities across ukraine as moscow
with my now, a processer of the kyiv academy in ukraine. you ve lived in ukraine 20 years and fled ukraine with your family. you wrote about ukraine s war with russia. thanks for your time. what do you want to share with us? let s begin there. well, i m again down in my basement in my house south of kyiv with the air raid warnings tonight again. i m more optimistic than your previous reporter with respect to the 24 to 96 hours of kyiv being completely surrounded. i think the ukrainians are doing exceptionally well. we asked for a no fly zone, pleaded for air defenses and it s not happened and as a result of that, we re seeing absolute devastation in places like mariupol and throughout the
barely an hour later, the ferry fills with refugees. irina and her mother natalia are among them. many are from 0desa, but there are also some from mykolaiv, a city further east still blocking any russian advance along the coast. in romania, the ukrainians get a warm welcome. she was crying, that she thinks that we will never see each other again. i will feel happy when i return to ukraine. i will be happy. as the sun sets, another ferry embarks from the romanian shore to bring more ukrainians across. nick thorpe, bbc news, in izakcha in the danube delta. here in the west of ukraine it is night and we await further potential air raid warnings. across the
defense and security spending, doubled it. and introduced the longest increase for two decades. so if the government is ready to boost defense, then it will continue to have labour support. great to have you on the program. thank you. and now, to a rescue mission which illustrates ukraine s defiance. yesterday in the city of kharkiv, a missile struck a government building. but there might be someone in the rubble. and so they ignored air raid warnings all to try to find one man. reporter: the city of kharkiv looks battered and bruised. every street and every neighborhood has been touched by war. but there are some districts here that have been blown to