thank you for speaking to us today. how concerned are you about the food shortages that we have heard many people are suffering from in ukraine? . ., ., , ., ., ukraine? the humanitarian situation is uuite ukraine? the humanitarian situation is quite dire ukraine? the humanitarian situation is quite dire and ukraine? the humanitarian situation is quite dire and it ukraine? the humanitarian situation is quite dire and it is ukraine? the humanitarian situation is quite dire and it is getting - is quite dire and it is getting worse with this day of fighting. since the onset of this crisis almost 7 million people had been internally displaced and formally never left the country. more and more people have been caught in besieged areas. they are out of options, they re running out of money and are struggling find food particularly in areas which are witnessed intense fighting such as kyiv and mariupol. i teams are provided assistance to elderly women and women living with disabilitie
we were warned russian forces might still be in the forests on the outskirts. they occupied about a fifth of irpin and have left their mark. but ukrainian troops have driven them out and reclaimed the ruins. the damage here gives a sense of how fierce the fighting has been. this was a key battleground and ukraine s victory here was critical. if the russians had been able to push through here, they would have been on the way to kyiv. the capital is just a short drive down the road. where is the child who cherished this toy? and where are the families who were shelled, day and night? most had to flee, but irpin withstood the assault and has been given the honorary title hero city of ukraine. the troops here are savouring
a bbc team has gained access to a highway outside kyiv where russian troops have been pushed out. a stretch of the e 40 highway was where shocking images from the early days of the war emerged showing russian troops firing on civilians trying to escape. jeremy bowen and his team reached the scene of the attack, and found evidence that raises the possibility that war crimes may have occurred. a warning, this report lasts for around five minutes and has graphic and distressing images throughout. on a stretch of road that runs between two villages with names that translate as dream and sweetheart is all the savagery and waste of war. ukrainian forces had just recaptured it, their troops moving in after a heavy bombardment from their artillery. this was only a few hours after the russian retreat.
this is bbc news. the headlines: in the aftermath of intense fighting in ukraine, the bbc has uncovered evidence of civilian killings that could amount to war cimes. meanwhile, russian forces near kyiv have been forced to pull back from positions they held at the start of the invasion five weeks ago. a convoy of buses carrying residents of the besieged southern ukrainian city of mariupol has reached the relative safety of the nearby city of zaporyzhzhia. the convoy travelled from the occupied port of berd yansk with about 2000 people, who had managed to make their own way out of mariupol. for the first time, workers at an amazon warehouse in the us have voted to set up a trade union. staff at the site in new york started to campaign for a union two years ago. the online retailer has always fiercely opposed
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