is a world heritage site known for its unique wildlife. local media say the passengers included two children. earlier, i spoke to our correspondent in kyiv anna foster and asked her how unusual mr zelensky s press conference was. it was unusual, martine, because it is the first thing he has done of this type for weeks now. he has given one or two interviews, but always from that very secure bunker he has been holed up in. russia made it very clear there was a threat to his life. so see him underground, at a metro station, where people so to see him underground, at a metro station, where people have been sheltering from the start of this invasion, seeing him answering questions from assembled journalists was a moment, it did feel like kyiv had moved on. he talked about, as you re hearing
was a three month old baby girl. odesa sits on ukraine s southern coast. while much of the fighting has focused in the east of the country, odesa had started to reduce its curfew and remove some of its street defences. this has come as a shock to many people here in odesa. the city has been relatively quiet over the course of the last few weeks and many people hoped that could mean the start of some form of normal life. this shows that things can change in a moment. tomorrow is orthodox easter sunday, but few feel they will find peace while the threat from russia hangs over the country. caroline davies, bbc news, odesa. ukraine s president volodymyr zelenskiy has been giving a news conference, from a subway in kyiv. he said he was still willing to meet with vladamir putin but not if ukraine s remaining forces in the besieged city of mariupol were killed. he urged russia to resolve the war through diplomacy. translation: i would like to stop, to finalise the war. there is the diplom
filling in their visa applications, because we thought it was urgent. five weeks later, i m still waiting to find out whether or not the family is going to come over. worse than that, what we ve now found out is that the mother has been accepted, but her children are under consideration. one of them is five years old. what is there to consider? i just don t understand. so, we ve effectively got one family. the adults have been approved, the children still haven t, and obviously they need to travel here as a family. yes. what are they saying to you? what is their situation in ukraine at the moment? they are being so patient and kind but they are under such stress. the mother told me just the other day she s in lviv now, they already evacuated from kyiv and what they found is that actually they ve got bomb, missile raids going on all the time. they ve had bombs go off near their homes, and the mother is just saying, i don t want my children growing up with this. nobody should be
ukraine s president volodymyr zelenskiy has been giving a news conference, from a subway in kyiv. he said he was still willing to meet with vladamir putin but not if ukraine s remaining forces in the besieged city of mariupol were killed. he urged russia to resolve the war through diplomacy. translation: i would like to stop, to finalise the war. there is the diplomatic way, and there is the military way. so any healthy and sane person always chooses diplomatic way because he or she knows that even if it s hard, it may stop the losses of thousands, of tens of thousands and with such neighbours, hundreds of thousands, and maybe even millions of victims. victims, losses of people, we don t want that. and any leader, whether he wants that or not, he doesn t have the right to deny subjectively, because it would be a subjective decision to deny the diplomatic way.
there, wanting to have a meeting with vladimir putin. he also revealed that the us secretary of state, antony blinken, and the defence secretary, lloyd austin, will visit kyiv tomorrow. unusual to reveal that before the event, but it would be the latest in a string of high profile visits to this capital. it just shows you how things are slowly starting to come to life. i just want to show you, while we are talking, this building behind me, so familiar now. these beautiful golden domes of saint michael s monastery have at night, been completely dark so far, ever since the start of the war. and it is greek orthodox easter, russian orthodox easter tomorrow, so for the first time, the lights are back on. you can see that building in the background, there is still a curfew, it should be busy, worshippers all evening long, but it is just the first is no sign of normality returning here. and then the issue of odesa where,