but at least four civilians were killed in an explosion. and many buildings were damaged. this is not destruction on the scale of ukraine, where thousands of civilians have been killed since russia invaded, but there is anger here. we should have fired a missile right back at kyiv , vadim says. that would have made them think. i asked knarik if this had happened before. what in the city centre?! of course not , she says. we need to take harsher measures. i ve been wondering why is it that so many people here don tjoin the dots? they don t make the connection between russia invading ukraine and their lives here becoming less safe. i think it s partly because the russian state media does
but there is anger here. we should have fired a missile right back at kyiv , vadim says. that would have made them think. i asked this lady if this had happened before. what, in the city centre? of course not , she says. we need to take harsher measures. i ve been wondering why is it that so many people here don tjoin the dots? they don t make the connection between russia invading ukraine and their lives here becoming less safe. i think it s partly because the russian state media does all it can to prevent those dots from being joined in people s minds, but also many russians simply don t want to believe that their country started this, that russia is the aggressor. choir singing.
russian artillery. ukrainian officials say they ve been losing 200 men each day and 90% of the buildings inside that city has been destroyed. around the country, a number of volunteers who can t fight on the front lines are doing what they can. a number of senior citizens, as well as parents of young children are sewing camouflage nets. those nets used to hide artillery and soldiers. here is one official. because they want to help army. because they want to be useful. because they want to protect the country. we spoke to a number of them who were there at the camouflage net sewing center. one of them like vadim, 17 years old, he was sitting quietly and we asked him why? if my work saves the life of
assaulted, really from four sides. and according to ukrainian officials, russians are using a scorched earth approach in their confrontation in that city. so far, they have been up able to breach the city s defenses. if they are, in fact, successful in taking southern donetsk, and that is a big if, that will mean they will be occupying essentially the whole of the luhansk region, giving them a further advantage building on their success in mariupol. just this morning, a russian soldier was sentenced to life in prison for war crimes. reporter: that s right. the 21-year-old russian soldier vadim was accused and fled guilty to killing a 62-year-old unarmed russian civilian outside the city of sumy. he says that he was ordered by some other soldiers that he was traveling with to shoot and kill