have been captured by russian troops. the city has endured days of shelling. president zelensky has said russian and ukrainian negotiating teams have started discussing what he called concrete topics rather than exchanging ultimatums . meanwhile, the french president emmanuel macron and germany s olaf scholz have held talks with president putin. ourfirst report tonight is from jeremy bowen, on the outskirts of kyiv. pictures of russian forces, time and place indeterminate, emerge from their side. among their potential targets here in kyiv, no one knows their precise orders, but they re assuming an attack is coming. on the ukrainian side, they re trying to make checkpoints into real obstacles. the professionals are a few miles closer to the russians. the soldiers here are all volunteers. they are still expected to fight, even with only a few days training.
the eastern outskirts of the beseiged city of mariupol have been captured by russian troops. the city has endured days of shelling. president zelensky has said russian and ukrainian negotiating teams have started discussing what he called concrete topics rather than exchanging ultimatums . meanwhile, the french president emmanuel macron and germany s olaf scholz have held talks with president putin. ourfirst report tonight is from jeremy bowen, on the outskirts of kyiv. pictures of russian forces, time and place indeterminate, emerge from their side. among their potential targets here in kyiv, no one knows their precise orders, but they re assuming an attack is coming. on the ukrainian side, they re trying to make checkpoints into real obstacles. the professionals are a few miles closer to the russians.
while the ukrainian military say the eastern outskirts of the beseiged city of mariupol have been captured by russian troops. the city has endured days of shelling. president zelensky has said russian and ukrainian negotiating teams have started discussing what he called concrete topics rather than exchanging ultimatums . meanwhile, the french president emmanuel macron and germany s olaf scholz have held talks with president putin. we ll have more on that shortly but our first report tonight is from jeremy bowen, on the outskirts of kyiv. pictures of russian forces, time and place indeterminate, emerge from their side. among their potential targets here in kyiv, no one knows their precise orders, but they re assuming an attack is coming. on the ukrainian side, they re trying to make checkpoints into real obstacles. the professionals are a few miles
this morning near kyiv. the latest information about russian positions is shown here in red. outside the capital, the cities of chernihiv, sumy, and kharkiv continue to be shelled. while the ukrainian military say the eastern outskirts of the beseiged city of mariupol have been captured by russian troops. the city has endured days of shelling. president zelensky has said russian and ukrainian negotiating teams have started discussing what he called concrete topics rather than exchanging ultimatums . meanwhile, the french president emmanuel macron and germany s olaf scholz have held talks with president putin. ourfirst report tonight is from jeremy bowen, on the outskirts of kyiv. pictures of russian forces, time and place indeterminate, emerge from their side. among their potential targets here in kyiv,
hello and welcome to bbc news. russia s invasion force has advanced towards several ukrainian cities, with more intense fighting reported in the northern outskirts of the capital, kyiv. several explosions could be heard as the city s defenders faced a new russian artillery barrage around the contested town of irpin. air raid sirens went off for a second consecutive early morning in the western city of lviv. the cities of chernihiv, sumy, and kharkiv continue to be shelled, while the ukrainian military says the eastern outskirts of the beseiged city of mariupol have been captured by russian troops. our first report is from jeremy bowen on the outskirts of kyiv. pictures of russian forces, time and place indeterminate, emerge from their side.