into what he called dead cities . it comes as russia s ambassador to the united nations walked out of a meeting of the security council after the eu s charles michel blamed the invasion of ukraine for causing a globalfood crisis. 0ur correspondentjoe inwood has this report from kyiv. jelena has been left with her life, but little else. don t walk there, the roof could fall, her rescuer says. the 81 year old s house was hit in a suspected russian missile artillery strike. translation: you see | yourself what happened. what else can i say? i have been left homeless in my old age. she lives in the village of druzhkivka, just under 50 miles from the cities of lysychansk and severodonetsk, the current focus of russia s forces. and this is what could await her town if the russian invasion continues. under almost constant bombardment, president zelensky says they have
under ukrainian control. president volodymyr zelenskyy says even though ukrainian forces were outnumbered in the region they have quote every chance of reclaiming the city, adding our heroes are not giving up their positions. he also said intense fighting had made severodonetsk and a neighboring town quote dead cities. new video shows the attack on the capital of kyiv over the weekend. the video released yesterday on the messaging app telegram shows a massive explosion at a train car repair plant in the city. it is not yet clear who released the clip. one person was injured when russian missiles hit kyiv on sunday. this was the first time the russians have shelled that city in more than a month. joining us now live from odesa, ukraine, is nbc news correspondent ellison barber. good morning. thanks for joining us today. we talked yesterday about what a key city odesa is. one of the last ports still under ukrainian control there and strategically vital if the russians were able to ta
reaction in the coming minutes. studio: thank you very much. three police officers in the us state of arizona have been put on leave after they stood by and watched a homeless man drowning. newly released bodycam footage and transcripts show the man getting into a lake last month, and said to police he was going to drown. none of the officers on the scene intervened to save him, with one heard saying, i m notjumping in afteryou. mr bickings soon slipped underwater and was later declared dead. ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky says fighting has taken to the streets of the front line eastern city of sievierodonetsk while admitting that russian forces have the numerical advantage. mr zelensky said russia s bombardment of the city as well as neighbouring luhansk had turned them into what he described as dead cities . but he s insisted his
recreational drugs. when they re at home, but now these three british volunteers are in ukraine helping to rescue the helpless. heavy fighting is continuing in the eastern donbas region of ukraine. the city of severodontesk is facing heavy shelling. its mayor says ukrainians are doing everything to hold their position, but they re outnumbered. russian forces appear to control most of the city. neighbouring lysychansk has also been heavily bombarded. they re the region s last urban centres in the donbas trying to resist a russian offensive. president zelensky has called them dead cities . translation: the situation in the east is difficult. - in severodonetsk, we are holding out, but there are more of them and they are stronger. out, but there are more of them our kyiv correspondent james waterhouse says it s