i spoke to president zelenskyy about the hopes for a diplomatic solution to this when i met him in his bunker here in kyiv yesterday and he didn t have many. he said, look, we are trying to get a ceasefire. we are trying to get the russians to stop this conflict, and only once the fighting has actually stopped can we believe we re not wasting our time. he said we ll wait to see. they ve sent a delegation to meet the russian delegation as well. not sure when the talks will start, possibly tomorrow, to have a second round to see if any diplomatic compromise can be reached to bring this fighting to an end. ferocious attacks taking place, as you mentioned, in various parts of the country,kharkiv, in mariupol in the south, elsewhere, even in kyiv. yesterday those dramatic strikes on the central tv tower with five people killed. the casualty toll across the country now has been revealed to
come. they will also hope that they will not see any more of those russian missiles raining down o their city, although that s seems something of a forlorn fo right now, given that they keep doing this pretty much every da from the air while ground troop are stuck on the outskirts of the capital city. we ve seen the russians going after civilian targets last 24 hours, terrible bombing of a theater in the southern city of mariupol, which is ukrainian officials say was filled with civilians including many children simply trying to protect themselves. that also say that they have pu markings outside the building, writing on the ground children to try to ward off a fresh air stripe. that clearly did not work. basically ever reiko people are asked me how does this end. what is the status of the peace talks.
ukraine from inside country are from outside the country. a lot of activity here. the next inflection point according to analysts could be the city of mariupol and it is bad situation. this stripe dry kerry s russian controlled all the way around the city. there you see the four right here from being struck from the air. that bombardment we ve seen has really continued day after day. we see these red dots here. it s just constant and we ve seen a lot of buildings hit including you heard about that theater with hundreds of civilians. we don t have a casualty figure from that as of yet. this is the maternity children hospital we showed you last wee that was hit. the biggest issue here for analysts is that the water shutoff on the food a shot off and the electricity a shot off. essentially the russian forces
the. and rational seems to do too well to control ukraine and nee to destroy first. that s why we are seeing this blanket bombing of so many sittings cities and what we ve seen most recently in this awful bombing of a theater in mariupol in the south, which ukrainian official of us for full of people including children simply sheltering from the fresh air raids. it s also seen awful pictures coming out of chernihiv in the north, to the north of kyiv where at least ten people were slaughtered appear late according to a tweet from the u embassy by soldiers who simply lined up and shot them and the civilians providing up to get bread. so this clearly is as much now war against civilians in ukrain as it is a war against the ukraine and military. heartbreaking. but as the ukrainian action tha