books, my things, everything is damaged. the unit move from home to home, removing a rocket from a front room and a section of an unexploded bomb from the driveway. the city is less than 20 miles from the front line and has been heavily shelled since the beginning of the war. this children s hospital was hit a little over three weeks ago. translation: at the moment, j we ve got used to the situation, and it is scary. you don t know what comes tomorrow, what comes within an hour, what may happen to your relatives, to your patients. in the premature babies ward, care continues. the windows have been blocked and the unit have relocated into the centre of the building. translation: we can t - evacuate children who need artificial ventilation. we can t close the department, because there are other children who may need our help. dotted around the city, people queue to refill their bottles at tankers or at natural springs. mykolaiv has been without running water since the supply was cut off
so what s been happening is the remnants of some of the battalion tactical groups are withdrawing into places like belarus and reforming with one groupjoining another to come up with. i think they ve recreated something like 23 now, out of about 120, and they ve redeployed all the way to the east of the donbas. on paper, that looks good for them, but bear in mind these troops were pretty exhausted anyway, had lost a lot of equipment and if you combine more than one group you don t have the same ethos, you don t have the same leadership, and leadership s a big issue right now. and the command and control gets difficult as well. some of these groupings have got people from the southern, central and eastern military districts. interesting. i want to focus on the civilians because my colleague ben brown earlier in kyiv listed quite distressing details which i won t repeat now, but about more discoveries about the way civilians have suffered in this war in ukraine so far. what is it. is t
of the war. this children s hospital was hit a little over three weeks ago. translation: at the moment, j we ve got used to the situation, and it is scary. you don t know what comes tomorrow, what comes within an hour, what may happen to your relatives, to your patients. in the premature babies ward, care continues. the windows have been blocked and the unit have relocated into the centre of the building. translation: we can t - evacuate children who need artificial ventilation. we can t close the department, because there are other children who may need our help. dotted around the city, people queue to refill their bottles at tankers or at natural springs. mykolaiv has been without running water since the supply was cut off after russian shelling more than two weeks ago. now, even the fire brigade have to find new ways to refill. here, it s our bathroom. no water too. grandmother tatiana has decided to stay in the city despite the constant shelling and lack of water.
army have released pictures today showing what is says are strikes on russian reinforcements to the area around the city of izyum, a key battleground in the kharkiv region. meanwhile, less than 20 miles from the southern front lines is the city of mykolaiv. 0n the black sea coast, it stands between the russian army and 0desa. shelled nearly daily, it s been without running water for over two weeks. caroline davies has been speaking to those who live on a city on the edge of the war. birdsong in mykolaiv. spring has arrived, but there s little sign of a new beginning. we re in the south of the city at the moment with the bomb disposal unit. they re following up on reports that they ve had of multiple rockets have landed, and then checking to see if they can make the area safe. through a suburban front yard into what remains of valery s sitting room. a rocket hit his home two days ago. translation: there was a strong explosion and when a rocket - fell here, there was a massive shock wave
because interestingly, intelligence just before the invasion was that this invasion was going to happen and we should take it seriously and that proved to be right, but we hadn t heard those calls that loudly in the years or decades leading up to that. i think it s fair to say that we had our mind on other things at those times the counterterrorist war, etc. and maybe we did take our eyes off the russians. if there s one good thing to come out of this it s that nato has recalibrated what it s actually there for. it has actually started to look back to deterrence policies, that sort of thing, but it s also mobilising in a very coherent way now to bolster its flanks. the family of a retired british geologist say he s at risk of facing the death penalty after being accused of trying to smuggle artefacts out of iraq.