they have paid a very heavy price for the fighting in ukraine. translation: i was at home with the kids. . in the morning, i went to the kitchen, and i saw a bomb coming towards my window. it was all so quick. i didn t realise what was happening. ijust saw it flying towards me. olena s house was completely destroyed over a week ago. the family lived in the dnipropetrovsk region in the east of ukraine when their home came under attack. translation: | just fell - to my knees, grabbed the kids and pulled them underneath me to protect them from the shrapnel flying into our faces. olena and her two boys were left so badly hurt that she recalls very little of the impact of the bomb or the efforts to get her to safety just that a team of volunteers brought them across the country to lviv. then a doctor who trained in poland managed to get them to a specialist eye surgeon in lublin. this is where professor rejdak s
by ukrainian forces, who say they now control all territory around kyiv. elsehere, russia has carried out a series of missile strikes on the black sea port of odesa. anna foster has sent this report, and a warning that it does contain distressing material. a morning sky blackened and burning. ukraine s port city of odesa is the latest target of russian fire. now the focus of the fighting is moving south and east, and as troops move away from places like kyiv, fresh devastation is revealed. the ukrainian government says it is back in control of that whole region but it has come at a cost. people are still arriving here in lviv all the time, but it is now from places that have proved so difficult to get away from, places like kharkiv, irpin and bucha, where we are now
respond to what it calls a massacre. for those who escaped and made it here to safety, a new chapter begins, but the memories and the fear will be slow to fade. anna foster, bbc news, lviv. our correspondent in lviv, anna foster, has also sent us this update. well, we re starting to see, as you saw there, these new pictures, new video, the first independent people, the first journalists, to actually see what is happening in those areas where russian troops have retreated. you might remember, back at the start of the week, we had those peace talks in istanbul, and russia said they would pull away from places like the capital, kyiv, and the northern town of chernihiv. and some of the pictures that have come out in the last 2a hours or so are harrowing. we see pictures in one case in the town of bucha of one length of street with around 20 civilian
blackened and burning. ukraine s port city of odesa is the latest target of russian fire. now the focus of the fighting is moving south and east, and as troops move away from places like kyiv, fresh devastation is revealed. the ukrainian government says it is back in control of that whole region but it s come at a cost. people are still arriving here in lviv all the time, but it is now from places that have proved so difficult to get away from, places like kharkiv, irpin and bucha, where we are now only starting to hear and see how horrific the effects of the russian occupation have been. ruslan fled here from bucha. how do you feel towards the people who did this in your town? at the moment it is hard to call these people human, he told me. they shelled and killed civilians. andrii just arrived from kharkiv,
on the front line. what happened to your leg? i m shot, 20 shots. i showed him the images from bucha. they were painfully familiar. kharkiv, the same. in these pictures there are bodies. in the kharkiv suburbs, there are only parts of bodies legs, arms, heads. ukraine has asked the world to respond to what it calls a massacre. for those who escaped and made it here to safety, a new chapter begins, but the memories and the fear will be slow to fade. anna foster, bbc news, lviv. the mayor of odesa, gennadiy truchanov, has spoken to the bbc about the explosions which hit the ukrainian port city.