ukraine shows signs of genocide. i talked about this with the un secretary general. russia is on the path of evil. secretary general. russia is on the path of evil- path of evil. here in the heart of k iv we path of evil. here in the heart of kyiv we are path of evil. here in the heart of kyiv we are hearing path of evil. here in the heart of kyiv we are hearing the - path of evil. here in the heart of l kyiv we are hearing the explosions get louder as the russians draw ever nearer. seizing this european capital while the world looks on as for now president putin s prime objective and everyone living here simply has no idea just how much force he is prepared to use to do that and just how many people could die. this is now an age of wartime leaders. a moment when former ukrainian prime minister is post online tutorials instructing their people on how to make petrol bombs to defend themselves. and this is how children in the capital play today, in an underground world mirroring the
begun. let s get another perspective. joining us now, after leaving his home in kyiv, is andriy tymoshenko, the president of the oxford alumni association, and you 0xford alumni association, and you are in your car, thank you very much forjoining us, tell us what you have been seeing on the road. we are in the situation have been seeing on the road. we are in the situation for have been seeing on the road. we are in the situation for quite have been seeing on the road. we are in the situation for quite some - in the situation for quite some time, so most families had contingency plans, wanting to take their families contingency plans, wanting to take theirfamilies outside contingency plans, wanting to take their families outside of big cities, so there are big queues at gas stations and next to stores, but i think it is more of confident resolve than panic. people are just following their plans. fiend resolve than panic. people are ust following their plansi following their pla
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experience. the ukrainian foreign minister says 25,000 guns have been handed over to territorial defence members in the kyiv region alone. civilians answering the call to defend their country. across kyiv, 25,000 machine guns has been given out to ordinary ukrainians to fight the russian army. some of these men has been handed their weapons for the first time. this is one of them, a member of parliament, who says it is everyone s duty to fight. translation: is everyone s duty to fight. translation: , ., ., , ., translation: everyone able to defend the country has translation: everyone able to defend the country has to translation: everyone able to defend the country has to take translation: everyone able to defend the country has to take up translation: everyone able to defend the country has to take up arms. i i the country has to take up arms. i am glad that members of the parliament managed to impose martial law. afterwards, they lined up for guns. as far as i know, over 10
we need digital warriors. we need you europeans to come to our country also to help us. i was not really frightened, i was frightened just in first few hours of the invasion but then the need to act took over so we gathered a lot of people and told everyone that there is a train next day that you can go. it was free to use, you could just come to it. we went to kyiv, i slept one night in kyiv, under severe bombardment, so it is really now hard but we are really resistant and we are protecting the whole of western civilisation from russia. hundreds of thousands of refugees are flooding towards ukraine s borders, particularly to the west. poland said this morning that at least 150 people have crossed from ukraine since the russian invasion began on thursday. a short while ago, our europe correspondent marc levin spoke to us from south eastern poland close to the border with