overnight, now upsettingly familiar crackle of gunfire for many in ukraine. the reality of life in a country at war sounding throughout the night. this is the quietest we ve seen the centre of kyiv, and this is being replicated in cities across the country. ukraine s defense has been both surprising and extraordinary, but it is still the underdog and russia is still making gains. at the largest pediatric center in ukraine, staff are used to battling disease. now they have to adjust to war. doctors say they have enough supplies, but the world health organization warns if the situation gets worse, oxygen supplies could run out. outside, ill children wait with their worried mothers to be transferred to poland for cancer treatment no longer available here. this boy is facing a risky journey with his mother.
considering a package of $10 billion of humanitarian aid to his country and he made this pledge to about 280 lawmakers, we are told, from both party, democrat and republican and mr zelensky made the call for additional air power, fighterjets additional air power, fighter jets and additional air power, fighterjets and drones. they have plenty, he said, of stinger missiles. what they need now is this fighterjets, soviet era fighter jets which soviet era fighterjets which ukrainian soviet era fighter jets which ukrainian forces are trained to fly. where will they come from? most probably from poland, it would appear, because that is the country with most of these objects and it is possible that the us could replace them. certainly lawmakers made the point today that they would do everything they could to facilitate the issuing of those planes to ukraine but two other requests from volodymyr zelensky almost certainly likely to fall on deaf ears for the
one more russian missile strike brings terror to the streets of kyiv. the target kyiv s tv tower. emergency services say five people were killed. and more firepower is closing in. more uncertainty for a city already under intense strain. aerial photography reveals a convoy around 40 miles long headed for the capital. whether people have been taking shelter below ground or taking up weapons above it, they will have all seen the pictures from other locations in this vast country of what is happening. volunteers from all walks of life continue to come forward to defend their country, not entirely sure of what they re signing up for. igor, a lawyer, now mans a lookout post. yeah, so a week ago, i was representing my cases
i ll be frank, i m scared, but i can see another way to escape, so we have to do this. every day, sirens sound the ukrainians run underground underground or for shelter car parks, basements and bunkers become home to millions across the country. sarah rainsford saw first hand the reality of conditions people face. this bomb shelter, this bunker was built beneath a factory in the soviet union. it was supposed to be used in the event of a nuclear attack, and now it s being used in modern day ukraine to keep people safe. when the sirens wail again. there has been no attack on dnipro yet, but suddenly the danger feels close. alina and yuri spent last night here.
around 200,000 people are desperate to leave mariupol in the south of the country, but their exit to safety has been stalled. if and when russian forces take the city, they will effectively cut ukraine off from the black sea. our eastern europe correspondent, sarah rainsford, is in the town of zaporizhzhia, whose nucler power plant was targeted by russian troops earlier this week, and where evacuees from mariupol are being taken. this enormous pile of clothing, worn clothes here, has been brought by the people of zaporizhzhia to this collection point because they were told that they were expecting a huge flow of families to come here from mariupol in the south, where there s been really heavy fighting for days now, so they ve brought blankets, they brought bedding. hot dinners have been prepared by local businesspeople. they ve brought fresh fruit and vegetables, too all of it for the large number of families they were expecting to arrive here, but that humanitarian corridor