and are calling on fellow russians around the world to condemn putin s actions. ayshea buksh has more. denis was born in moscow and now works in publishing in london. he has relatives in both russia and ukraine and is desperately worried about his family who are in kyiv. my cousin s wife, she said that we were starting to panic. they are hiding somewhere in the basement. we were starting to panic because the tanks are in the city. there is fighting in the city. they don t have any food, they don t have any money, there s nothing they can do. the war needs to stop. i need people to be more proactive, if they have russian culture within them, they need to be more proactive about stopping the war. sonia came from russia to study and now works in the music industry. she s also incredibly anxious about what is happening. horrible emotions right now. it is shame, it s grief. and it s anger, and powerlessness.
they are under constant threat. translation: in the first days of the war, - we counted the victims in tens. today, we count them in hundreds. soon, we ll count them in thousands. they won t even give us a chance to count the wounded and the dead because the shelling has not stopped for six days. this is what people here fear strikes from the sky. despite moscow s promises, the russian air force have hit houses, schools, and hospitals, not only military targets. putin s prized target is the capital, kyiv, though, the scars of war already visible. 0n the outskirts, troops and volunteers are in position, and defences are being rapidly erected, like these anti tank hedgehogs. the resistance remains defiant. charlotte gallagher, bbc news, lviv.
with colleagues in need of help. you d be hard pushed to find anywhere much further from conflict than this office block in west london, but behind me, in a conference room, thousands of doctors thousands of miles away in ukraine are connecting online with a crash course in conflict surgery. bombing of buildings that contain. david nott has been running courses like this for years. one thing he knows better than nearly anyone nothing prepares a doctorfor war. war surgery is something completely different, because you need to have a mindset about war. you need to have a mindset to know exactly what to do with patients when they come in when they ve had fragmentation wounds, when they have had blast injuries, when they have had severe gunshot wounds, high velocity, low velocity. it s a completely different ball game. for the doctors in ukraine who came on the call, the next few days and weeks seem very bleak.
lilya s little brother olexi has a brain tumour and is weak from the journey. he had three operations and then he had chemotherapy, but he didn t complete therapy because the war started. the next morning, they wait for triage. the days to get here perilous for some. well, this isjust a desperately sad situation. children who are safe from the war but now plunged back into danger with their illness. rushing to resume treatment that s been broken off. this is a conflict that is killing, uprooting and now threatening the most vulnerable. the one doctor is overwhelmed. she checks 12 year old andrei, whose soft tissue cancer has spread to his lungs.
there is a very strict and stringent process when anyone is granted a peerage. i don t know the facts of the case i wasn t involved in it but i do know that it was applied very rigorously in this case. downing street said all individuals nominated for a peerage were done so in recognition of their contribution to society, and all peerages were vetted by the house of lords appointments commission. earlier this week, lord lebedev added his voice to the condemnation of the attack on ukraine. in his paper, the evening standard, he issued a personal appeal to vladimir putin to stop the war. helen catt, bbc news. the home office in the uk has said around 50 visas had been given the green light under the ukraine family scheme as of 10am. some 5,535 online applications have been completed and submitted online and 2,368 people had booked a visa appointment to submit their application and biometric information, the government said. the home secretary priti patel responded to criticism by t