ivan, or something. can you tell us more about what he s told you about his life in prison and what he s enduring? well, you know, a good example is the heat was completely turned off in february to the prison. and they re in a place where it s, you know, sub zero temperatures. so, they went for a couple of months there living day and night in below freezing temperatures. you know, warming up not even to 30 degrees. and a good example about the food, he told us that, for example, you know, sometimes they re served soups like borscht, which has beet root in it. and now the beet root is taken out before they re served the soup. they re basically being served warm beet water as soup. it s that sort of deprivation that s going on. and he has to live with that day after day. it s one of the reasons why when we can send food to him via the u.s. embassy, it s so important, because it s keeping him alive.
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yulia is 25 and came to the uk on her own through the homes for ukraine scheme. sirens wail. i do miss home. i ve been home. i went in september last year to visit home for five days. when there, it was not good for my mental health at all. it s like there is a life before and after. there is nothing in between and life as we knew it ended on the 24th. your dream s to make a restaurant in the uk? maybe in uk, maybe in ukraine. if you do the ukrainian restaurant, i will come all the time and play the music for you and eat borscht. ok! it s not clear how or when the war will end, but whatever the outcome, these guys are determined that their country and culture are not forgotten. callum tulley, bbc news.
okay. this is borscht. beautiful. you know what? in all the years i have been doing journalism, i ve always found that people who are the most generous are generally the people who have the least to give. she is a retired nurse, staying to care for her 88-year-old father, who is blind and diabetic. sometimes in life, you have no choice. now please, eat your borscht. thank you. it s delicious. i finished. reporter: they re keeping their spirits up, but the people here are reaching a breaking point. russian troops are less than three miles away, and they re closing in. lester? richard, thank you for sharing that family s story. in 60 seconds, tragedy at a high school. video of a 14-year-old girl being attacked, spread on social media. and her family says
this morning, recovery efforts are under way across ukraine after what officials say was the massive new round of attacks on energy facilities and critical infrastructure. kyiv s mayor says ten missiles over the city were shot down. while at least eight people were injured on a new strike in kharkiv. in all, up to 35 missiles were fired at the critical kharkiv and zaporizhzhia regions. and all of ukraine has been under an air raid alert. the strikes come after weeks of warnings that russia was planning a new offensive ahead of the one-year mark of the war. and after president zelenskyy pleaded for more advanced weaponry and support this week, it visits to the uk, france and belgium, nbc s chief foreign correspondent richard engel is in eastern ukraine. here is some of his most recent reporting. reporter: the generosity of people here is amazing. they are not letting me leave until i have some of their borscht. i don t want to take their food, they don t have very much but they are in