sent this report from kyiv. this is what liberation by the russians looks like. popasna in the donbas region. 0nce 20,000 people lived here. now it is almost deserted. natalia is one of the few who remains. translation: l was. sleeping here last night. i just have to fix the window somehow. the wind is still bad, cold at night. she had seen the destruction of this invasion first hand. two people back then were dead. they were sitting outside to cook and a projectile came flying. eight people were wounded at once. someone was standing with the cattle, somebody was cooking for the neighbours, and then eight got wounded. popasna is the town where russian forces broke through ukrainian lines and began their slow but relentless attempt to encircle and destroy thousands of ukrainian fighters.
this is what liberation by the russians looks like. popasna in the donbas region. 0nce 20,000 people lived here. now it is almost deserted. natalia is one of the few who remains. translation: iwas- sleeping here last night. i just have to fix the window somehow. the wind is still bad, cold at night. she had seen the destruction of this invasion first hand. two people back then were dead. they were sitting outside to cook and a projectile came flying. eight people were wounded at once. someone was standing with the cattle, somebody was cooking for the neighbours, and then eight got wounded. popasna is the town where russian forces broke through ukrainian lines and began their slow but relentless attempt to encircle and destroy
of western sanctions. meanwhile, the fighting continues centred on donbas. russian backed separatist leaders in eastern ukraine say they ve captured the town of lyman, a town on the road to the ukrainian city of slovyansk, which is a key russian target as moscow tries to take full control of the donbas. there s no way of verifying the claim. ukraine s president, volodymyr zelensky, has accused moscow of being intent on reducing cities in the east to ashes and that the russian offensive could leave the donbas region uninhabitable. 0ur correspondent, joe inwood, sent this report from kyiv. this is what liberation by the russians looks like. popasna in the donbas region. 0nce 20,000 people lived here. 0nce, 20,000 people lived here. now, it is almost deserted. natalia is one of the few who remains. translation: iwas- sleeping here last night. i just have to fix the window somehow. the wind is still bad,
cold at night. she had seen the destruction of this invasion first hand. she has seen the destruction of this invasion first hand. two people back then were dead. they were sitting outside to cook and a projectile came flying. eight people were wounded at once. someone was standing with the cattle, somebody was cooking for the neighbours, and then eight got wounded. popasna is the town where russian forces broke through ukrainian lines and began their slow but relentless attempt to encircle and destroy thousands of ukrainian fighters. when he started this invasion, one of the main reasons given by president putin was to stop what he said was a genocide taking place in the donbas, carried out by ukraine. now, there never was any evidence of that. but now president zelensky says a genocide is taking place, but it s being carried out by russia. translation: the current offensive of the occupiers i in donbas will make the region uninhabited.
they ve captured the town of lyman, as russian forces persist with their offensive in the donbas region. lyman is on the road to the ukrainian city of slovyansk, which is a key russian target as moscow tries to take full control of the donbas. there s no way of verifying the claim. in his nightly address, ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky said moscow seemed intent on reducing cities in the east to ashes and that the russian offensive could leave the donbas region uninhabited. 0ur correspondent, joe inwood, sent this report from kyiv. this is what liberation by the russians looks like. popasna in the donbas region. 0nce 20,000 people lived here. now it is almost deserted. natalia is one of the few who remains. translation: iwas- sleeping here last night. i just have to fix the window somehow. the wind is still bad, cold at night.