cooking with wood and just trying to survive, says alexei. ukrainians have their differences, but the war has brought people together in adversity. volunteers provide anything those escaping mariupol need for their onward journeys, knowing full well that their town could be next. wyre davies, bbc news, zaporizhzhia. in russia, the country s most prominent opposition figure, alexei navalny, has been given a nine year prison sentence after being found guilty of fraud and contempt of court. charges which are widely considered to be fabricated. mr navalny is already in prison. he was detained when he returned to russia last year, after surviving being poisoned, something he blamed on president putin and those who serve him in the kremlin. 0ur russia editor steve rosenberg has more details. the images are grainy,
and the perils of theirjourney out. around 300,000 people are still thought to be trapped inside the besieged city, much of which has been destroyed by the russian bombardment. it was a bombardment that almost took the life of two month old volodymyr, when a shell landed near their apartment, his father instinctively threw himself over the baby. dad alexei was hit by shrapnel and glass. his son, born only a month before the war, bears no injuries. after that we lived in the shelter cooking with wood and just trying to survive, says alexei. ukrainians have their differences, but the war has brought people together in adversity. volunteers provide anything those escaping mariupol need for their onward journeys, knowing full well there town could be next. wyre davies, bbc news, zaporizhzhia. 0ur correspondent ben brown joins us
from ages 2 to 75. 0vercome with emotion, babushka , or grandmother, anna, says, it s all too much for me at my age. some of those arriving today gave us videos, a snapshot of the nightmare in which they ve been living and the perils of their journey out. around 300,000 people are still thought to be trapped inside the besieged city, much of which has been destroyed by the russian bombardment. from the sky in particular, russia is causing real damage to mariupol s civilian and industrial infrastructure. it was a bombardment that almost took the life of two month old volodymyr. when a shell landed near their apartment, his father instinctively threw himself over the baby. dad alexei was hit by shrapnel and glass. his son, born only a month before the war, bears no injuries.
of two month old volodymyr. when a shell landed near their apartment, his father instinctively threw himself over the baby. dad alexei was hit by shrapnel and glass. his son, born only a month before the war, bears no injuries. after that we lived in the shelter, cooking with wood and just trying to survive, says alexei. ukrainians have their differences, but the war has brought people together in adversity. volunteers provide anything those escaping mariupol need for their onward journeys, knowing full well that their town could be next. wyre davies, bbc news, zaporizhzhia. as we ve been hearing, much of the focus of the current fighting is in the south of the country, where cities of key strategic importance lie along the coastline. 0ur security correspondent, gordon corera, has this assessment of russia s military tactics, almost one month on from the invasion.
when a shell landed near their apartment, his father instinctively threw himself over the baby. dad alexei was hit by shrapnel and glass. his son, born only a month before the war, bears no injuries. after that, we lived in the shelter cooking with wood and just trying to survive, says alexei. ukrainians have their differences, but the war has brought people together in adversity. volunteers provide anything those escaping mariupol need for their onward journeys, knowing full well that their town could be next. wyre davies, bbc news, zaporizhzhia. well, as the conflict goes on, how is the propanganda war being fought by both sides? emily harding is a senior fellow at the centre for strategic and international studies think tank in washington. i put it to her that it appears the ukrainian government is outperforming in the media.