in the city of sumy, thousands of civilians are escaping to relative safety after the russians agreed to a humanitarian route. some 7,000 people were evacuated from the city on tuesday, including hundreds of international students who were taken to safety in two convoys of buses and cars. 0ur eastern europe correspondent sarah rainsford is in poltava, where people have been arriving from sumy. they ve not eaten like this for two weeks. because these children have been hiding beneath ground, as their city above was bombed and shelled by russian troops. this morning, they made it to safety. their care home evacuated from the front line. the director tells me the air strikes were the scariest. as we speak, a door bangs somewhere and shejumps. translation: it s not normal. it s so far from normal. at the start, we didn t tell the youngest children
we pray that all is well within. we pray that all is well with him. he refused to be evacuated. with every day that passes, this looks increasingly like a war on civilians, on their homes, their lives, their freedom. and many already fear this could lead to it, and many already fear this could lead, sooner or later, to a wider european war. orla guerin, bbc news, irpin. in the north east of ukraine, in the city of sumy, thousands of civilians are escaping to relative safety after the russians agreed to a humanitarian route. some 7,000 people were evacuated from the city on tuesday, including hundreds of international students who were taken to safety in two convoys of buses and cars. 0ur eastern europe correspondent sarah rainsford is in poltava, where people have been arriving from sumy. they ve not eaten like this for two weeks.
been some rather quiet in the capital city of kyiv the rest of the country significant attempts to get feel safety because putin and his forces continue to assault various cities. the humanitarian corridors you speak about, they have failed time and time again over the last few days. one was successful yesterday in the city of sumy. today they are trying again. meant to be a seas fire in a ce. the worse place, the ones most concerned about mariupol that port city, 200,000 people remain stuck in there. remain underground without food, water, heating, medicine, in a dire situation and people there are desperately trying to get them out. red cross saying those passages in and out ohave been mined. president zelenskyy ever-present speaking to world leaders and british parliaments and evoking yesterday both the spirit of the winston churchill and the spirit of world war ii. listen.
for whatever s next. civilians are turning out for weapons training. lesson over, the guns are returned. these are not would be front line soldiers, at least not yet. i believe that during these times, we just learn to be ready. that is what i think. we just learn because, like, we can be scary after that, when it is ending. but right now, we just need to do ourjob and what we can right now. everyone i ve met here says they re ready to resist. the russians so far have moved slowly. the capital s respite might not last much longer. jeremy bowen, bbc news, kyiv. after days of being shelled, some residents in the city of sumy in the
video out of the city of sumy. ukrainian troops destroying a russian military vehicle after 21 people were killed in an attack on that city monday. this appears to be a shoulder-fired missile involved there. and in a city of mykolaiv, tires line the streets as the city prepares for a potential onslaught of russian troops. makeshift barriers that the mayor asked people to put out. cnn is covering every inch of this war here in the region as well as back in the u.s. our team of correspondents standing by to bring you the latest. cnn international security editor nick paton walsh is near odesa, just returned from the city of mykolaiv. it has been one of the hardest hit in recent days. i m curious what you witnessed there. reporter: yeah, concern i think is we saw evidence of this yesterday, the russian forces continually trying to blunder their way have in fact gone over the north of the city, down towards the river, perhaps