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welcome to the programme. the focus is on the city near kherson, in a region unlawfully annexed by russia last week. ukraine s president volodymyr zelenskyy says his troops making rapid advance against russian forces and in his nightly video address asserted in the past week alone dozens of settlements had been recaptured from the russian military in the south and the east. 0ver military in the south and the east. over the weekend ukraine retook the strategic eastern town which the russians had been using as a logistics base but both sides pay a heavy price for the fighting there. i ll sing a international correspondent 0rla guerin sent the report which includes distressing images.
pro russian graffiti is daubed around town, including the cyrillic letters for the soviet union. lena and her ten year old son are out looking for water, and hoping their ordeal is over. the hardest thing was surviving the bombing , she tells me. the shells were exploding. we prayed as we stayed down in the cellar. we didn t eat regularly and we couldn t even make tea. deprived of school, her son has learned lessons of war. well, war is very bad , he tells me, because people are dying, so the population is being reduced. and how do you feel now? my heart is more
at peace , he says. back at the edge of town, ukrainian forces head for new battles. they know they need to move fast. soon, freezing winter weather could slow their advance. 0rla guerin, bbc news, lyman. now to one of the most severe humanitarian crises anywhere in the world. we have an extended report from somalia were hundreds of thousands of people, many trapped by conflict, are facing extreme hunger and death. after the worst drought in a0 years. 0ur reporter last reported in 2011 in which a quarter of a million people died. he sent this report from a city at the heart of the crisis.