oslo pride parade after a deadly shooting at a gay nightclub, which police are treating as an act of islamist terrorism. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. in a breakthrough for president putin, russian forces have taken control of severodonetsk. the city occupies a key location in the east of ukraine. kyiv pulled out forces after ferocious russian attacks. weeks of heavy shelling have reduced the city to ruins. our ukraine correspondent joe inwood has the latest from the capital kyiv. it s a significant moment. reflect on the fact that this is the biggest city to fall since mariupol, this is the place we have been talking about for many weeks now. but in many ways its fall had become inevitable. the ukrainians said they were withdrawing, they now, since yesterday, it turns out that they have actually been pulling out for a few days but doing it without telling people, for obvious security reasons. what they say is they are now going to pull b
well, we think there were 10,000 people still in the city. the honest truth is we don t know. the only option for them, if they want to leave severodonetsk, and it is a city in ruins, there probably won t be much for them to stay therefore, is now to go into russian territory. it may well be that some of them are ok with that. this is a mixed picture here. it isn t a homogenous population. some people are sympathetic towards russia. there are others, the ones who are sheltering in this chemical plant called azot, we don t know of their fate at all, really, they could have left with the troops, they could still be there, we don t have that information, but there will be a humanitarian cost to this, especially for the people of this city. so, given russia has now succeeded in one of its key military goals, do we know where russia s focus will be next? we should say this is one part of a key military goal. their key military goal at the moment is taking the donbas region. what they have d