olga malchevska from the bbc ukrainian servicejoins me now. olga, tell me what people on the ground have been telling you. the situation ground have been telling you. tie: situation there is ground have been telling you. ti2 situation there is quite difficult. it is a place of the fiercest fighting which is going on in eastern ukraine. i was speaking for the press officer, and what he said is comparing to what was going on before, all the troops were located towards bakhmut. it seems they have relocated them all to soledar, and the fiercest fighting is there. first of all, let s see how big of a town. there used to be around 10,000 inhabitants before the active war. compared with bakhmut, it used to be around 70,000 people. comparing to that city, we understand that
civilians , irina says. mariupol is a russian speaking city, everyone has relatives in russia and russia is killing its own people. i m glad putin opened my eyes as to who i really am, says vadim. we are ukrainians. let s go live to lviv in ukraine and my colleague zhanna bexpiatchuk from the bbc ukrainian servicejoins me now. can we talk first of all about the impact of the significant number of people who have now either been displaced by the fighting or have chosen to move within ukraine or are leaving the country altogether? quite a lot of those people must be ending up in lviv, even if it is on their way out of the country. yes. their way out of the country. yes, exactl . their way out of the country. yes, exactly- i m their way out of the country. yes, exactly. i m staying their way out of the country. yes, exactly. i m staying in their way out of the country. yes, exactly. i m staying in the - their way out of the country. 133 exactly. i m staying in the region of we