Of ukraine, but it also means that the russians for russians priority is to now regroup instead of launch new attacks because of the costs they ve sustained. i m joined now by 0leg savchuk in dnipro. he managed to escaped from the besieged city of mariupol with his family earlier this week. what was life like in mariupol? it was horrible. i can never imagine in my city these kind of things can happen. starting from the third day of war, we moved from the high street to the port district of our grandparents to group together and right after the stay everything started to get worse and worse. for example, the first day without
But now everything is ruined and i don t know when we will stay in my house in safety. i don t know when i can come back to ukraine. the ferry docks and a dozen or so people disembark. barely an hour later, the ferry fills with refugees. irina and her mother, natalya, among them. many are from 0desa, but there are also some from mykolaiv, the city further east still blocking any russian advance along the coast. they came by boat, by train, by car to the water crossing, their thoughts as they reach safety themselves between one world at war and another at peace are with those they have left behind in ukraine. in romania, the ukrainians get a warm welcome.
And the thing is, the worst thing is that putin is not fighting with building. of course, it makes no sense to, you know, hit residential building. it makes no sense to hit schools and kindergartens. russian occupation army has started to fight against civilians. they are not people. they are not soldiers. they behave themselves like, i don t know, like animals, like devils. over two million people alone have crossed from ukraine into poland. 0n the border itself, there s a big operation helping those coming across, involving hundreds of european volunteers. two of the good samaritans are ciro 0rsini, a renowned london based restauranteur who s teamed up with his former employee yaroslave gordiento to help ukrainian refugees at the polish border. they ve been speaking to my colleague samantha simmonds. when we heard about the war here, especially i had three restaurants in ukraine myself. 0ne one was in kyiv and one was in
Shattered lives. 0pera houses and theatres across europe have offered to help fleeing or stranded ballet dancers affected by the war in ukraine. in warsaw, the polish national ballet has offered shelter to about 30 ukrainian dancers. the bbc visited one of their rehearsals.
Our continuing coverage of the war 0ur continuing coverage of the war in ukraine is coming up. it has been a glorious weekend so far with all four nations recording its warmest day of the year so far but the top temperature was 20.2 celsius in kinlochewe. a beautiful day in the highlands without a cloud in the sky but today we may see a bit more in the way of fairweather cloud and it mayjust be a bit cooler with a maximum of 13 or 14 degrees. two areas of cloud i need to draw your attention to, one to the south west and affecting parts of south wales and this cloud across the low countries which may drift towards the coastline of east anglia as we go through the late afternoon. it may well produce one or two isolated showers. generally a bit more fairweather cloud to the east of the pennines and the best sunshine