restored. the commanders the ukrainian commanders inside the plant have been filing video diaries saying they re successfully pushing back at the russian forces. we ve heard in the last hour from an adviser to president zelenskyy saying they managed to repel the forces out of the plant. so, they re still successfully fighting despite the odds, despite the extreme conditions there. this intense bombardment. huge bombs have been dropped on this plant. despite the fact there are hundreds of civilians inside. earlier in the week there was a successful evacuation of civilians, over 100 women and children made it out with the help of the united nations and the red cross. they described some of the desperate conditions inside. translator: we counted the minutes between each bombing, five minutes, ten minutes, this survivor says, we expected to daini minute. reporter: reporter: now, president zelenskyy says they successfully
people are displaced internally throughout ukraine. last month, anastasia created video diaries of her trip from kyiv, showing us the reality of living through the war. here s just a snippet from her stories back then. last night was probably the most terrifying night of my life. kharkiv was terribly bombarded last night. air strikes all over the city. dozens of builililngngngng dest. city buildings where people live. well, i spoke to her again,
allover these clusters of infections that would go unnoticed in cities in most parts of the world. here are proving a test of china s zero covid strategy. there is as woman posting video diaries, she went on a blind date with a guy and the neighborhood got shut around her and she s stuck there ever since. that encapsulates of the worries for the people here is of the spread of the virus and more of how easily restrictions can get trigger here. you need a negative covid test to leave beijing and to come back. if you happen to go unlucky enough to go to a place of two or three cases, you run in the risk of being stuck there. thousands of officials who are
as warren ukraine continues, millions of people are still fleeing the country to safety. millions of ukrainians are also staying behind the fight the russian forces, or struggling to find a safe route out. we were seeing video diaries from some children that are still in the country. these children live in center ukraine, which is escaped intense bombing. they do long distance, online learning in the morning, in the rest of their day is spent volunteering to help the military. they make things that camouflage nets. it s changed my life. i m scared for my parents and friends. i really want to go to school to see my friends again, go for a walk on the weekends and enjoy my life. i want to do something useful for the military, so we could win the war. staying at home and doing
fire and tanks in the area. 380 shellings from rocket artillery recorded. a few weeks ago on this show you met a woman who is keeping a war diary in kharkiv. she s still out there documenting. watch. maria avdeeva from kharkiv, ukraine. i m today in the kindergarten hit by russian rockets several days ago. this is the sleeping room where children were sleeping. and it was on fire because the russian rocket hit this exact room right here on this wall. the nearby residential houses are also heavily destroyed. maria avdeeva is a disinformation and security expert and a kharkiv resident, and she joins me now. maria, thank you. your video diaries have been just amazing. so thank you so much for doing that, the way you re documenting