lviv, which is on the other side of ukraine, on the western side, almost near the polish border is embassies cal perry. so, you have been there now for a few days. you have heard the sirens, indicating there is danger in the city. what have you seen in terms of people coming into live, from other parts of ukraine, people leaving lviv four point, and what is going on right now in lviv or you are right now? what is going certainly, we a steady increase of folks coming to this city. although in the area that i am in lviv, you would not know there is a war unless you were told there was. but, if you are just a mile from her to the train station, the war is apparent. you see it in the train stations, people trying to flee towards the polish border. some folks will try to find places here in this city, we basically spoke to a student run group talking about clearing out some dormitory space for refugees here. the other folks, mentioning to the polish border. it s quickly becoming a choke p
entire apartment blocks destroyed. i don t understand how you can shell peaceful people. we never wished harm on anyone. we have relatives in russia. they just want to erase ukraine from the face of the earth. it s that fear that is fuelling a sense of desperation. the minute they announce the next train, going west, you can see everybody is scrambling to get on it. down below the platform is packed. people remain calm. they rush in to help an exhausted elderly woman who has fallen on the track. close to departure time, confusion sets in. another train arrives. people run across the track hoping to catch it. finally the train to lviv arrives. pushing and shoving. people jostle for space. let the women and children go first. one man shouts. another weeps as he hugs his
others will go on to lviv. with the war into its fourth week, ukrainians are fearful of potential russian saboteurs on their soil. and some suspicious people are even asking strangers to show their papers on the street to prove who they are. but in a country where many people speak russian, have ties to russia, it s not always obvious to tell if they are friend or foe. scott mcclain has that story. reporter: days after the invasion began this lviv office was set up to help ukrainians fleeing war. but not everyone who comes here is welcome. shortly after we arrived the man we re filming draws suspicion from staff. they tell us he has links to russia. police are called. documents are checked. questions are asked. more than an hour passes. the man tells us his only link to russia was a 5-year-old passport stamp. they let him go. even here in lviv, a city that is far removed from the front lines, we ve had the police
but now, it has become a staging post for people fleeing the violence who want their pets to be safe and sound. we are making them secure for secure travel, and we are going to try and take as many animals as we can out, back to latvia, back to europe, back to safety. no such safety for this jaguar or sabrina, a black panther, they live in the luhansk region of ukraine. you can question the rights or wrongs of keeping animals like these as pets, but their owner, a doctor, won t leave them behind. translation: | decided | am not. going anywhere without my children. i am not going anywhere. if there is a possibility to leave with my children, only then will i leave. and if i die, i die. back in lviv, natalia and her husband say they will stay in ukraine. as for charlie, the hope is, once the war ends, they will all be reunited. tim allman, bbc news.
and if i die, i die. back in lviv, natalia and her husband say they will stay in ukraine. as for charlie, the hope is, once the war ends, they will all be reunited. tim allman, bbc news. the latest casualty figures from the war in ukraine, the united nations human rights office has verified that 1335 civilian casualties in ukraine, including a74 that 1335 civilian casualties in ukraine, including 474 killed, 861 injured since the start of the invasion, but it is saying that that civilian toll is incomplete because they haven t had all reports cooperated. the previous tefl death toll for civilian tools. the