my access to the violence that richard is witnessing himself is to see it on the faces of the people traveling through here. this city, lviv, is a passageway through here, and numbers fleeing are going to be low compared to the internally displaced people. i spoke to a woman that left kharkiv a few days ago and she was in a car with her husband and 8-year-old son, and they had to drive through kyiv on their way here. it s more than 600 miles. here s a little bit of her story, katy. yes, we were standing in traffic and we could hear the sirens and we could hear the shelling and everything, and that was after the night when we actually saw shelling and you saw the explosions in kyiv. we also have a child, so for five hours we 2 kilometers
richard from kyiv moments ago. now i have a guest who is in ukraine. do you have any idea what is happening there? it s incredibly painful for me to see the footage that you have shown, because i have seen these places with my own eyes, my city in kyiv, and hearing all the explosions and then i saw, like, people crying. yes, unfortunately many people are forced to leave. i could never imagine that, as a refugee it would be applicable from ukraine, but unfortunately many ukrainians are becoming refugees. it s becoming incredibly painful. talking about negotiations today, of course, that s very
support facility in this area. the ukrainians have not acknowledged whether they have hit the depot. i can neither confirm nor reject the claim that ukraine was involved in this, simply because i do not possess all the military information. reporter: the strike comes as russian forces have been suffering setbacks in their invasion of ukraine after failing to storm kyiv. russians say they want to focus their offensive on the east of the country which includes kharkiv, where authorities report a major uptick in shelling in recent days. all of this as talks between russia and ukraine to try and end the fighting continue. but moscow now saying vladimir putin has been briefed on the chopper attack and it could have a negative impact on the talks. of course this is not something that can be perceived as creating comfortable conditions
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said that Russia was preparing to storm Kyiv, DPA reported. A bulletin published earlier this morning said