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they are advancing the most. it has seized its first city kherson and it has encircled mariupol where residents say they are trapped by the shelling. so as we were saying russian has zeroed in on southern ukraine. several cities have been targeted for strategic reasons. controlling the south cuts ukraine off from the sea and creates a direct link between russia and crimea, which it annexed in 2014. you can see from they re advancing from crimea. these are the latest pictures from mariupol it s had hours of sustained shelling hundreds are feared to have died. it s still under ukrainian control but encircled by russian troops. electricity, water and heat supplies have been cut. authorities say: they are hindering food supplies, blocking us like in leningrad, the deadly nazi siege of st petersburg formerly leningrad in world war two. they add they re constantly shelling the city, preventing us from evacuating the injured, and women and children.
it s the same story of destruction in southern ukraine. large parts of the port city of mariupol are being shelled. russian forces are slowly overwhelming the people here. and resistance, though noble, is futile in the city of kherson. conquered by russian tanks, the first major urban area to fall in this war. but there s no bigger prize than the capital, kyiv. an explosion overnight rocks the railway station. debris from a russian cruise missile shot out of the sky. it s unclear how many were injured. by day, the capital is being abandoned. these cars have been dumped outside the railway station as thousands flee. it is pretty much deserted here.
translation: iwould never renounce my conviction that| russians and ukrainians are one people despite part of the residents of ukraine having been brainwashed by the nazi nationalist propaganda. sergei lavrov he s russia s foreign minister has been speaking in moscow. he repeated the kremlin line that ukraine s aspiration to join nato is a threat to russia s security, and thatjustified the invasion. and he had this message. translation: they are listening | to us but they are not hearing us, and they are trying to force on us their own understanding of how europe should live henceforth. to be honest, the following comparisons come to mind for me. at one time, both napoleon and hitler set the task of subjugating europe. now the americans have taken over. on the russian government s position on its invasion of ukraine, here sjenny hill in moscow. the people around mr putin continue to justify this war,
although of course they do not call it a war. no one here is allowed to call it a war with several justifications. the first is that they say ukraine needs to be, in their words, denazified. the second is that nato and its expansion represents a threat to russia. the third we have heard them saying is that ukraine wants to get its hands on nuclear weapons and that is something russia will not tolerate. so again we heard mr lavrov repeating the accusations against the west and that the expansion of nato is something which russia cannot agree to. as vladimir putin s war leaves russia increasingly isolated, let s take a look what life is like for the russian people at the moment. here s our moscow correspondent steve rosenberg. an echo of moscow, they are still