just coming through. i can see some of the women and their children waving as they cross the border finally. but six months apart, then six days of travel to be reunited. danil had been scared he wouldn t see his mum again, but alla made it. the stories of their exhausting, traumatic trip spill out, between the welcome hugs. but alla tells me it was all worth it to see her son again. danil just says the reunion was brilliant. this is a war that s created all sorts of victims. brought all sorts of pain. but it is the fate of ukraine s children that s got vladimir putin indicted as a suspected war criminal. sarah rainsford, bbc news, in northern ukraine.
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can make the threat and get them to the front line fast. forget all those training stops or anything even resembling that. all of this reporting comes in the context of what putin seems to be doing, which is pushing right now a new offensive near kharkiv where ukraine where able to drive the russians out a few months ago. cnn s tim lister and team are now reporting that this man, a former chechen commander wanted for alleged war crimes in ukraine, is now leading russia s earthquake relief effort in turkey. it s not a joke. according to ukraine s security service, danil was behind the occupation of a ukrainian psychiatric hospital in march. on his orders almost 500 people were taken hostage including more than a hundred bed-ridden patients. the hospital was then turned into a firing position for russians. now that s the guy leading russia s relief efforts in turkey. and it comes as the kremlin is upping threats against the entire world tonight, warning of military and political
It has been almost 10 years since a Garden Route father was illegally detained for 491 days at the notorious Black Beach Prison in Equatorial Guinea, where he witnessed the rape of young women and wanton violence and was subjected to inhumane treatment.
are banned by more than 100 countries because of the harm they cause civilians. but neither russia nor ukraine has signed up to the international treaty prohibiting them. viktoriia zhuhan reports on how patients and medics in chernihiv have learned how to survive them. translation: there was a pop in the sky, and a puff of white smoke appeared. everything around began to explode. oleksandr and his family were running out of supplies. their city, chernihiv in north ukraine, had been under siege by the russian for three weeks. seconds after they left home, they were hit. translation: the first thing i thought was that my - leg had been torn off. i had a crazy pain. i called out to ask my son, danil, are you in one piece? this family was among dozens of victims of a cluster attack in a residential area