welcome to newsday. reporting live from singapore, i m karishma vaswani. the headlines. ukraine says russia has launched its large scale offensive in the east of the country. president zelensky says the battle for the donbas region has begun. we have a special report from inside the donbas region. in the city of lviv, in the west, seven people die, as parts of the country previously unscathed come under fire. ukrainians believe this is a reminderfrom russia that it still has firepower and is prepared to use it. the chinese city of shanghai, which has been under lockdown for more than three weeks, has reported its first official covid deaths in two years. and the ukrainian athletes
saying that russia has launched the second phase of its invasion of ukraine. shelling coming from the donbas. president zelensky says the battle has begun for the donbas today. there are attacks all across ukraine today including in the western city of lviv which is been largely, relatively spared. seven people killed there today. according to ukraine there were eight civilians died across the country in this new round of shelling including four who were trying to flee a small town which has been taken by russia today. it s another grim reminder that this war is very, very much
reminder that this country, all of it and all its people, are still at war and still under threat. danjohnson, bbc news, lviv. joining me now is denys ganzha, who is a ukrainian youth delegate to the un and founder of an ngo public diplomacy platform, currently supporting volunteer hubs across ukraine. it s great to get you on the programme. thank you for your time. it must be so busy doing the work you re doing. listening to my colleague s report, this idea that the entire country is still engaged in what is an increasingly hostile offensive. i know you ve been in kyiv and are currently in kharkiv. what s the mood there right now? first of all, i would like to say that freedom does not come for free, and this is what most of the ukrainian people understand. the
the task is, but that on the other side of it are communities who are isolated with no shops, and this is the only route that will make it possible for them to get to hospitals or even shops, so it s a matter of deciding between letting the people from either side to stop or doing what they can to help them. a reminder of our top headlines. the ukrainian president, volodymyr zelensky, says the expected large scale russian offensive in the east of the country has begun. at least seven people are killed in ukraine s western city of lviv, as russia intensifies its air raids across the country. in china, the authorities in shanghai have reported the first covid deaths since 2020. official figures show three people died on sunday. all had underlying health conditions. lockdowns remain in place across parts of the city, four weeks after they were first introduced. and some residents are understood to have been taken to
at the times scotland, and the broadcaster and writer, jemma forte. tomorrow s front pages, starting with. the mirror leads on boris johnson s walk of shame , as he is the first british prime minister to address parliament having broke the law. the top story on the guardian claims that number ten has been suspected of being targeted by pegasus spyware a software that can turn a phone into a remote listening device. the times highlights president zelensky declaring that the next phase of the war has begun following open fire in regions of donetsk and luhansk in eastern ukraine. the i also reports on the ongoing war in ukraine, its headline that nowhere is safe showing pictures of the western city lviv being bombarded.