the kremlin said they only hit military targets, not civilian ones. this was yuri sak, an adviser to the ukraine s defence ministry, responding to that. that s ridiculous, every time the kremlin moves their lips they re lying, and the world knows this by now so there is no trust to anything they said. and this just underscores that these are not normal people with whom negotiations are possible. these are terrorists who have to be either destroyed on the battlefield, which is what the ukrainian army is successfully doing. during the last 2a hours, we have destroyed 930 occupiers on the battlefield, so they either have to be destroyed or the other alternative is to surrender and stand trial. of course we will achieve justice and we will bring to account for these atrocities everybody who is behind them, including the top leadership of the kremlin. our correspondent andrew harding has the latest from the scene in kramatorsk. i m in the centre of kramatorsk, where the missiles
today, these attacks are normalised. thank you very much forjoining us, thank you. the polish president has made a visit to kyiv where he said that mercenaries from the wagner group could pose a danger to poland. he said of 8000 wegner mercenaries there. 0ur correspondent in warsaw, sarah ransford has details on the continued fallout from the weekend s short lived rebellion in russia. if the wagner group was relocated from russia to belarus, which of course is a big step closer towards a country like poland and to the baltic states. the president here has been talking about that being a security threat, the government is talking about increasing security at the belarusian border. the president was saying, what s the reason for
hello and welcome to bbc news. the russian foreign minister, sergey lavrov, says more than one million people have been evacuated from ukraine to russia since the invasion began. ukraine has previously accused russia of taking people across the border against their will. russia also confirmed responsiblity for thursday s attack on kyiv, but said they were targeting a missile manufacturing plant. sarah sara h ra nsford sarah ra nsford sent sarah ransford sent this report and a warning it contains images you may find distressing. rainsford. vera gyrych was carried from the wreckage of her home in a body bag. she d been found buried beneath rubble after a russian missile strike on central kyiv. vera was 55, a journalist for the american broadcaster radio liberty. it says it s shocked and outraged by the meaningless manner of her death.
this is newsday on the bbc. our headlines: on the frontline in ukraine, north west of the capital kyiv, its soldiers are digging in with russian forces nowjust a few kilometres away. are today s shells, thousands of ukrainians and international students from the city of sumy in the north east of the country have able to escape after a russian ceasefire was put in place. sarah ransford is in october, where people have been arriving from sumy. it must have felt like the longest ride of their lives. 12 hours to escape a besieged city, driven the long route round to avoid the fighting. many were medical students from india, just relieved to flee sumy after days under russian fire. but anna is ukrainian.