to do with their enemy, and that a fire caused an explosion that would eventually cause it to capsize while being towed to port. meanwhile, shelling continues across the country, with president putin s forces intensifying activities in the east. in kharkiv, ukrainian health officials say five people were killed and 13 injured after russian forces shelled buildings in the centre of the city. translation: you know| when a dog hears a bang, it starts to tremble all over even if the noise is far away? i m like that now. everything every part of me is trembling. authorities in mykolaiv say shelling has been unyielding. rockets fell one after the other as ukrainian forces tried to block russia s attempts to advance on nearby odessa. translation: we are doing. everything to ensure defence. we re in constant contact with partners. we are grateful to those who really help with everything they can. but those who have the weapons
and ammunition we need and delay their provision must know that the fate of this battle also depends on them, the fate of the people who can be saved. explosions. the country s leadership is bracing itself for more attacks today, but talks have already started on what happens when the shelling stops. ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky has spoken to the head of the international monetary fund it s expected the country will ask the imf and g7 countries for $50 billion to help it rebuild. but the reality is, no reconstruction work is possible until the conflict ends. sean dilley, bbc news. with me now is our correspondent anna foster. she is in the ukrainian capital, kyiv. but i want to begin with lviv, where you have also spent time. we talked about the relative safety of that city. it s a place where lots
numbers remain high. meanwhile, police in scotland are assessing a complaint about the first minister, nicola sturgeon, not wearing a face covering. video footage on social media appears to show ms sturgeon without a mask inside a barber s, despite it being a legal requirement until today. the snp said she realised within a few seconds, and put herface covering on. the authorities in the chinese city of shanghai have reported the first covid deaths since 2020. official figures show three people died on sunday. all had underlying health conditions. the city is under a tough new lockdown, with residents complaining of being unable to secure food, while some have been ejected from their homes to create quarantine centres. our china correspondent stephen mcdonell has the latest. well, obviously the question of what causes death is a complicated one and in this case, officials are saying that all three people who died from covid
right across ukraine. meanwhile, our correspondent sean dilley reports now on the encirclement of the southeastern city of mariupol. mariupol has not yet fallen technically. ukrainian troops who had until recently defended the now occupied streets are held up in the city s vast azovstal steelworks, despite an ultimatum by president putin s forces to surrender no later than yesterday. russian troops know that ukrainians are waiting inside, ready to welcome them with guerrilla tactics in their last stand for the strategic port city. as the rockets continue to fall across the country, a parallel information war rages. this unverified picture of the russian black sea flagship the moskva which sank on thursday was posted online. ukraine claimed they struck it with two neptune missiles. russia insisted it had nothing
by air strikes and shelling. five people have reportedly been killed and 13 injured in shelling of the city of kharkiv while in mykolaiv, near the port of odesa, the governor reports continuous rocket attacks. of the shattered city of mariupol, ukraine s foreign minister has said: the situation is dire militarily and heartbreaking. it doesn t exist any more . the remainder of the ukrainian army and large groups of civilians decided to raze the city to the ground at any cost. our correspondent danjohnson is in lviv and gave us this update about the missile strikes. this morning, it does look like there has been a strike on lviv. we re not able to swing our camera around to show you at the moment. the ukrainian officials ask us not to do that in the immediate aftermath of an attack, butjust off camera, there are plumes of smoke now coming from the city s skyline and from this rooftop position, i actually heard the jets