ukraine. hitting more than a dozen cities. ukrainian military is fighting back hard. but is slowly losing ground. nato warned ukrainian is using up ammunition faster than western allies can provide it. we entered this town, where some have had enough. i thought it would get better, but no i don t, he says. he boards a bus for a safer village. others here waited too long. vera left her basement shelter to find food two hours ago. a russian artillery shell killed her. we just heard a big explosion. she has a son, 14 years old, she says. how long can we bare all of this? the mayor an his team arrive with aid. he tells us he s encouraging people to get out now. then, that s incoming, he says, we re leaving. he s saying that the incoming is getting a little too close,
when i heard the siren in the afternoon, it sounded just like another siren in kyiv, which has become a part of daily life. and i wouldn t say that people, you know, ran to the shelters or traffic stopped, or parents removed children from playgrounds if they were there. but soon it became obvious that it s a massive attack. our colleague from the bbc ukrainian service. anna kyrii lives in kyiv, and told the bbc earlier that she d heard numerous explosions. i feel worried about my sons, because my younger- one now is at school. they are with all their classmates in a basement shelter, and continually with their teacher. and my older son now. in my flat in this house, which is very close to an area where an explosion was. - as you ve just heard,
apartment corridor to try to shelter. basically shortly after we spoke, after we visited kyiv, we came back to the apartment, we left the shelter and we decided to stay in the apartment despite the aerate siren s. so we right now are at home, children are sleeping in their room i sleep on the floor with the rain up between them, between their beds. but we do not hide in the shelter anymore, yes what we do is stay in the corridor, between using the so-called rule of tool walls. honestly i do not think it will help a lot, because we see when there is missiles falling sometime several forceful down. but it gives an illusion of safety. that decision to leave the shelter, because you had been staying in this basement shelter really a basement long after many people had returned
missiles fall on apartments sometimes, several floors fall down. but it gives the illusion of safety. that decision to leave the shelter because you had been staying in this basement shelter really a basement long after many people had returned to their homes. can you just talk about that must have been a very hard decision for you to finally decide, well, i m going to sleep at home. i mean, my neighbors, they are friends who stayed all the time in the west of ukraine. their friends started to come back. and we were probably the last family to sleep overnight in the bomb shelter. so, i decided to overcome my fear and come back home. the air strike that hit a shopping mall 11 people so far that we know have been
so they are coming, but we will resist. as you can see, people keep calm, but of course everybody everybody s very much worried. very much worried. and, you know, we ukrainians, we will protect our capital till the last blood. nobody knows exactly what will happen tonight, how things will play out, and what this city will look like in the morning. there are rumors president zelenskyy may flee kyiv. that night, about six miles from olena s basement shelter, the president makes a video to rally the nation and assure people he s staying. [ speaking foreign language ]