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welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i m karishma vaswani. the headlines. the west steps up economic pressure on russia, as russian forces continue to shell civilian areas in ukraine. on the front line, north west of the capital kyiv, ukrainian soldiers are digging in, with russian forces circling the city. there is a tangible fear in this place that that russian offensive which has been stalled may be ready to regain momentum. the russians are not very far from here. america bans imports of russian oil and gas, as britain and the eu also target moscow s energy exports.
you see around you evidence that the people of the city and the military are preparing every day? we tried to no out in are preparing every day? we tried to go out in the are preparing every day? we tried to go out in the city. are preparing every day? we tried to go out in the city, sirens go out in the city, sirens permitting, and the base changes every day. you go down a road one day with one checkpoint, and the next day, it will have three. every intersection, there are piles of tyres, soldiers around buildings, and they have those anti tank barriers that are called hedgehogs, thrusting into the air. the further you get from the centre of the city, the stronger the defence, and we do know that there is heavy fighting on the outskirts of the city, about ten miles of here. 15 20 and another as ukrainian forces try to stop the advance of russian forces. that s
was at poltava train station, southwest of kharkiv, as hundreds of people evacutated out of the town sumy. these are some of the almost 600 sentience students who have been evacuated from sumy tonight. they are now rushing to get on the trains. these are evacuations trains that will take them west and eventually beyond that out of this country. people are tinyjust how anxious they are, very worried, living underfire and sumy anxious they are, very worried, living under fire and sumy itself all of that time, trapped in the city, unable to get out until the safe corridor was operated. for the first time, civilians had been evacuated from the ukrainian city they are being besieged by russian troops. it s pretty chaotic scenes here, people are very worried. these are sentience students, but they re also thousands of ukrainian civilians have been evacuated on that convoy of buses that has brought them here in south from
ready to regain momentum. the russians are not very far from here. there s a sense of something about to happen. we ll report from moscow on the anti war sentiment there after a new law made it a criminal offence to spread what the authorities deem to be fake news around the russian armed forces. and we ll take a look at the uk s response to refugees fleeing the war, and steps it s taking to help them. after four days of as many failed attempts, civilians are being evacuated from areas under attack in ukraine. ukrainian officials say humanitarian corridors opened to allow civilians to leave two cities which have come under severe bombardment now appear to be largely holding. people have been leaving the north eastern city of sumy and the town of irpin on the outskirts of kyiv in convoys