do you know how many civilians have been killed or injured? they have killed people every hour because there is a danger that people are hit by missiles and artillery shells and there are heavy losses among the peaceful population of the city of kharkiv and it is just indescribable. do you know what missiles are being used, and are the citizens and the military in ukraine able to fight back at all in kharkiv? regarding the missiles, the aircraft launched several missiles on kharkiv, cruise missiles by multiple rocket
pentagon, where the defense department spokesman is set to take the podium in the next 30 minutes. this will be his first briefing after the u.s. refused an offer from poland, who had offered to give some of their fighter jets to the u.s. to then supply to ukraine. in fact, the pentagon, the white house and the state department have all been put on the defensive this afternoon about the move to deny ukraine these critical weapons. on capitol hill, a massive aid package to ukraine on track to pass today, now appears to be derailed, at least temporarily. house speaker nancy pelosi sending it back to the rules committee to take out covid relief money. we re expecting to hear from the speaker on this topic in this hour. while in ukraine, new images of a russian air strike that destroyed a children s hospital in the eastern port city of mariupol. president zelenskyy is claiming children are under that wreckage. and in another sign of the russian military, attacking civilians, new satellite
for a number of years. it s unclear whether the ukrainian president got that information from this is inl inn imminent. because of the pressure militarily along the black seacoast, this is sort of the furthest west end port city that there might be this place being the ultimate goal for russia, some sort of military operation in the offing here. an amphibious landing has been discussed repeatedly. it doesn t appear at this stage to be imminent like that s happening here. it d be very hard to tell, but we are seeing along the coast a lot of back and forth, certainly kherson and the furthest eastern port city along that black seacoast, there have been a lot of civil disobedience protests after that was the first city russia took a few days ago, and we saw yesterday ourselves over the weekend and heard of this morning continued clashes around a key city called mick lie. that s right in the center of the black seacoast area we re talking about. now, this morning there were reports of shell
the capital to all of ukraine, so we will thank you very much on behalf of bbc news and i will hand you back to the studio in london. to the studio in london. please do sta safe to the studio in london. please do stay safe and to the studio in london. please do stay safe and we to the studio in london. please do stay safe and we need to the studio in london. please do stay safe and we need to - to the studio in london. please do stay safe and we need to let - to the studio in london. please do stay safe and we need to let you l to the studio in london. please do | stay safe and we need to let you go to get underground hopefully to safety there. kharkiv has been hit by sustained russian rocket fire and air strikes with damage to buildings including the city council. the authorities there say more than twenty people have been killed in the past 24 hours, and there are reports of fighting in the streets involving russian paratroopers. the mayor of kharkiv is igor terekhov. he told
fighting allies like you guys. we are just fighting for, as my brother said, democracy fighting for, as my brother said, democracy and our choice, so we have made democracy and our choice, so we have made the democracy and our choice, so we have made the choice where you grain want to go made the choice where you grain want to go. terrible events happened in the past to go. terrible events happened in the past six days, horrible events, horrible the past six days, horrible events, horrible. civilians, men and women dying horrible. civilians, men and women dying and horrible. civilians, men and women dying. and actually i am proud of our men dying. and actually i am proud of our men and women they are ready to defend our men and women they are ready to defend the our men and women they are ready to defend the country for their future, for the defend the country for their future, for the future of their children. it is actually for the future of their children.