the missile also damage nearby apartment buildings and shops. among the dead were two 14 year old twins yulia and anna aksenchenko. president zelensky said the attack showed russia deserved defeat. arnaud de decker is a journalist who was at the restaurant just before it was hit. he described what he saw. i was in the lounge eating a pizza and drinking a nonalcoholic beer. i paid and left and ten minutes later, i heard a very loud explosion, first one and then moments later a second one, and i immediately understood it was the lounge that was hit. i went to the place and it was an absolute disaster. the restaurant was totally gone, people wounded in the street and rescue workers were trying to help the people from underneath the rubble. it was absolutely a disaster. that was a journalist describing what he saw at the restaurant. our correspondent andrew harding has the latest from the scene in kramatorsk. i m in the centre of kramatorsk where the missiles hit and the bl
around 60 people were injured, some around 60 people were injured, some of them critically. the missile also damage nearby apartment buildings and shops. among the dead were two 14 year old twins yulia and anna aksenchenko. president zelensky said the attack showed russia deserved defeat. arnaud de decker is a journalist who was at the restaurant just before it was hit. he described what he saw. i was in the lounge eating a pizza and drinking a nonalcoholic beer. i paid and left and ten minutes later, i heard a very loud explosion, first one and then moments later a second one, and i immediately understood it was the lounge that was hit. i went to the place and it was an absolute disaster. the restaurant was totally gone, people wounded in the street and rescue workers were trying to help the people from underneath the rubble. it was absolutely a disaster. the kremlin said they only hit military targets, not civilian ones. this was yuri sak, an adviser to the ukrain
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the struggle to take back what is theirs has begun in earnest. this was russian held ground two weeks ago, and for this brigade, the journey to the front takes longer now. here in the east and the south, there is still a long way to go. ukraine is on the offensive. russia fought hard to keep the ground and this brigade fought harder. step by step it was russian mines. this is all russian equipment and uniforms? yes, equipment. rations, everything. we travel to another front and another ukrainian breakthrough. the men of the 68th brigade fought russian marines for three days to take this village. here is very difficult, very difficult because this is the main difference, the main area of activity for russian soldiers. what we can see here is there has been fighting house to house and room by room, very close? yes, very difficult. andrei is already giving orders for the next attack. it is imminent. translation: listen, it is very important, i you need to listen to people, you n
we ll hear from an expert about the remarkable discovery. first, though, a bbc investigation suggests at least 25,000 russian soldiers have been killed in ukraine, four times higher than the figure acknowledged by moscow. the research also suggests many of the casualties are now older fighters, with little or no training. significant numbers have been recruited from prisons. 0ur correspondent 0lga ivshina has this special report. these are the war graves russia doesn t want to talk about. since december, the bbc has located seven new cemeteries dotted across russia and occupied ukraine. they re filled with the graves of poorly trained fighters. many were prisoners recruited by the notorious wagner mercenary group. and the cemeteries are growing rapidly. this one is about 20 times bigger than it was six months ago. since the start of the war, we have been verifying photos of graves and social media posts with the independent russian website mediazona and volunteers inside the