and the palestinians. and a day of tragedy in pakistan, with dozens killed in two separate transport accidents. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. we start the show in ukraine, where it s being reported that a missile hit a residential building in country s second largest city kharkiv. that s according to local officials. this image has been filed by the reuters news agency. it s a developing story and there s no word yet about any casualties. but as soon we do get any more information, will bring it to you. this follows intense fighting in the key southern city of kherson, which has come underfire once again from russian troops. three people have been killed there and six others injured in the intense shelling. the attack came from russian troops stationed on the opposite bank of the dnipro river. local officials say multiple launch rocket systems, artillery, mortars and tank shells were used. damage was reported to a regional hospital, a sc
in two separate transport accidents in pakistan. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. broadcasting to viewers in the uk we start the show in ukraine, where in the past hour it s being reported that a missile hit a residential building in the country s second largest city, kharkiv. that s according to local officials. this image has been filed by the reuters news agency. and just to say that it is a developing story. there s no word yet about any casualties. and according to local officials, emergency personnel have been sent to the scene. this follows intense fighting in the key southern city of kherson, which has come under fire once again from russian troops. three people have been killed there and six others injured in the intense shelling. the attack came from russian troops stationed on the opposite bank of the dnipro river. local officials say multipl
but today, his team mates talk of his dedication. translation: he did so much with his short life. he brought back so many dead people. and we must carry on with that work, because there are families still waiting for the dead to come home. so many of those unclaimed bodies are here in the northern donbas a blasted landscape, littered with russian corpses. but the kremlin s forces are learning from their mistakes and slowly seizing more ground. russia are learning every day and they change their strategy, and it s very hard for us, and i think we need to learn fast. faster? than russia, yeah. in the meantime, denys s coffin is brought to his home town cemetery.
russian forces continue to bombard the ukrainian region of kherson after a day of attacks which has left at least three people dead. the chairman of britain s governing conservative party has been sacked following an investigation into his tax affairs. let s return to ukraine now, because among those killed in the east of the country last week was denys sossnenko. he died while carrying out the dangerous task of retrieving the bodies of civilians and soldiers. he was buried by friends and family this weekend. my colleague andrew harding has more now on his story and i just want to warn you, you might find some of andrew s report distressing. fresh snow and a funeral in the donbas this morning. this time, for a man who was not quite a soldier and not quite a civilian either. 21 year old denys was a body collector. his mother is led
towards his open coffin. last year, we met denys, standing in the background here. he was with his team of volunteers, close to the front lines. a grim and dangerousjob. scouring ukraine s battlefields forabandoned bodies, ukrainian and russian soldiers alike. and now, he s being buried, a few days after driving over an anti tank mine. he always told us, i have to do this work. if not me, then who?” , says his mother, lyudmyla. she sobs last october, another bbc team caught up with denys, collecting more russian bodies, after checking they weren t booby trapped, as they often are. denys spoke then of the horrors of the work, of picking the dead up limb by limb.